Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. Today, I'm going to be sharing with you five 10 minute
family meals. These are all perfect for those nights when you get in late and you're like,
"Oh my gosh, I need to get something on the table." They're also tried and tested. They're
delicious, healthy, and can be adapted for vegetarians as well. So I hope you really
enjoy this video. And I've done five because I thought this would be the perfect weekly
meal plan for your Monday to Friday meals if you're having a busy week, which I think
I've definitely been feeling it now that we're back into the school routine. So hope you
really enjoy this video and it gives you some meal inspiration. And if you do like videos
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a big like so that I know that you guys like this content. So with all that said, let's
get into our meals. So the first recipe that I wanted to share
with you is English muffin pizzas. I have shown this before on my channel and Instagram
as well, but it is such a good one and it actually takes less than 10 minutes. This
is the perfect recipe that I make when we get in late from swimming lessons and I just
need to get some food on the table really quickly. So all you do is toast the English
muffins, and then once they're a little bit toasted, spread some tomato puree on top.
I probably put a tablespoon of tomato puree on each one because my boys really love the
sauce. Then I just add on some grated mozzarella, I just buy it pre-grated, which means it's
even easier to do. And then you can also add any toppings that your children would like.
So you could put things like red pepper, cooked chicken, sweet corn, whatever they like. Tonight,
I'm just doing pepperoni. And then you just stick those under the grill for a few minutes
until they're all golden brown and bubbling, and then I just serve these with raw vegetables
or salad. So while they're under the grill, I'll just cut up some red pepper, some cucumber,
some carrots, and it is literally that simple. The next family recipe that I wanted to share
with you is pesto gnocchi with peas. Pesto pasta is such a great one for kids anyway.
I know so many moms love that staple dinner, but this is just slightly different by using
gnocchi instead of pasta. So this gnocchi only takes two minutes in boiling water to
make, and the peas take three minutes. So I just boil them all up in one pot together.
Then I'll just strain them and then stick them back into the pot. And then I'll just
stir in some pesto. I pretty much just eyeball it, but that was like a heaped teaspoon of
pesto. Then I'm adding in a tablespoon of creme fresh. Creme fresh is such a great hack
for pasta anyway, it's a great sauce that's not offensive for kids, also Philadelphia
cream cheese works really well for this as well. And that is literally it. You've got
your gnocchi pesto peas, and that is probably another one that takes less than 10 minutes.
The next recipe that I wanted to share with you is a rice and chicken dish, which is almost
like a very quick paella. So for this you'll want some fine green beans and I just trimmed
them and cut them in half. And then I'm also chopping up some parsley as well to go in
this dish. And then I'm also going to chop up some chicken and I chop it in quite small
pieces because it's bite size for the kids then, but also it cooks even faster when it's
nice and small like this. So then I'm just going to put the chicken into our frying pan
with a little bit of olive oil. And then I also am using some garlic paste. I love using
garlic paste because it is the quickest way to get some garlic flavor into it without
having to like chop up a garlic clove. Then I'm also going to add in the fine green beans
with the chicken. And then I cheat with this microwaveable rice. You just stick this into
the microwave for two minutes. And then once that is done heating through, I'll add that
to the chicken and the green beans. Then I'm also making up some chicken stock,
but I'm only going to use about 100 ml of that in this dish, just to give it a little
bit of a sauciness to it. So now I'm just adding in the whole bag of the microwaveable
rice. I'm also adding in a teaspoon of smoked paprika. But, of course, if this is something
your children wouldn't like, if they would rather it really plain, you can leave this
out and adapt the recipe. Then I'm adding in about 100 ml of the chicken stock just
to give it a little bit more sauce to it. And then I'm going to squeeze in a lemon and
then add the parsley in as well. And that is it. This is a dish that the boys really
like, but also Matt really likes it as well. And whenever we have leftovers, we just stick
it in the fridge and have it for lunch. And it's just a really quick, wholesome family
meal. Another really quick dinner that I love to
make for the boys is simply an omelet. I know that it's such an easy idea, but it's so quick,
it's also packed full of protein and you can add any toppings that you want. You can pack
it full of veg if you want, and you can use up random things in your fridge like mushrooms
or whatever you have. So for today's omelet, I'm putting in some tomato, parsley, some
ham, and of course there's always cheese in our omelets, so I've just greeted that up
as well. Then I'm going to put three eggs into a bowl and then whisk that together.
This size omelet would probably be enough for my two older children. And I love to serve
our omelets with chips or fries or bread on the side. I'm also going to season the eggs
with a little bit of salt, but you can also add pepper as well. And then a little bit
of milk too. So now in our frying pan, I'm just going to
heat up a little bit of butter, add in the egg mixture. And then after a few moments,
I'm then going to put all the toppings in it as well. So just evenly laying that out.
This doesn't take very long at all. And then once I'm pretty sure that the bottom is cooked,
what you can do if you don't want to flip your omelet is you can then take it and just
stick it under the grill. And then that will cook the top part of your omelets. And it
just means that your omelet stays looking really nice and really yummy with all the
toppings there. And it's almost a little bit more like a pizza then. So I'm going to cut
it up with a pizza cutter and serve it with the boys. And as I said, you can do sides
with this, but it is such a quick one. And the last recipe that I wanted to share
with you today is halloumi wraps. These are so delicious and I just thought it would be
a really good one to share with you because tacos or fajitas or wraps are such a good,
quick family meal that is really, really yummy. So for the halloumi, I've just cut it up into
slices. I'm adding a little bit of olive oil and smoked paprika, and then I'm going to
stick that under the grill for four to five minutes. So while that is under the grill
cooking, I'm then going to make a little salsa, almost, to go in the wraps as well. So I'm
just cutting up some cherry tomatoes, squeezing in some lime, and then I'm also going to add
a little bit of salt. And then I'm taking some creme fresh, and then I am mixing in
some spicy Chipotle paste. You don't have to put the Chipotle paste in. We just really
like it. It's actually not that spicy either. And then I'm also going to cut up some baby
gem lettuce. And then before you know it, the halloumi is looking nice and brown and
delicious. And then all you have to do is assemble your wraps. So I would probably just
put in two or three pieces of halloumi with, obviously, the lettuce and then the sauce
and the salsa. And Matt and I would probably have two of these, whereas the kids might
have one of these. And they love wraps. Maybe some of them would not have the tomato or
maybe one of them wouldn't have the lettuce, but wraps in general are also a really good
dinner because I feel like you can hide a lot in a wrap from a child and sometimes out
of sight, out of mind. But yeah, it's a really tasty one and it's also a vegetarian one as
well. Okay, so that is it for this video. I think
that some of those recipes were actually quicker than 10 minutes to make. So I hope you really
enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments if you guys have any staple dinners that take
less than 10 minutes and I'll see you in my next one. Bye, guys.