What’s your quick hot meal?

Some of these are what I do if I'm feeling energetic!!
Favourite easy meal (apart from pizza) is Fish fingers,thick crinkly oven chips, both no work at all, and baked beans. Must be particular brands.

Cook any left over veg with a handful of any pasta.
While that's cooking make a cheese sauce. Drain veg and pasta, stir in cheese sauce. You can also stir in any left over ham etc. If you are feeling energetic than grate cheese over the top and grill.
Nice healthy/tasty meal done in 20 minutes.

Pan fried sea bass fillets, with a rocket and cherry tomato salad and a ciabatta roll. Ready in minutes, completely delicious.

I could not think what to make last night.
A rather tired aubergine roasted, I used up a small cauliflower fried in turmeric.

Could not be bothered to do potatoes so I grated two crusts of wholemeal bread, stirred in some parsley and grated cheese and put the remains of a small block of feta cheese on top and baked it .
It was remarkably good. What my late mother in law would have called knocked up rough.

Ooh yes, tiredoldwoman especially as I now have Toast-bags, which make it so much easier.

cheese on toast !

Always fish in the freezer so I throw a bit of milk in a frying pan, cook the fish, add chopped, fresh silver beet or spinach, thicken milk with a bit of cornflour and add fresh parsley.

That's enough for me without carbs but another quick meal I like is a handful of frozen veg thrown into boiling veg stock with a bit of risoni.

Two eggs beaten. Chopped spinach added to a bit of butter and sauteed, then scramble the eggs in it.

Baked potato and cottage cheese if I feel like a carb meal (not often) with a knob of butter.

Fried egg in a warm croissant. Or grilled bacon and fresh tomato in one.

Mini pita bread filled with lettuce, cucumber, spring onion and tomato and a boiled (cold) egg.

Bowl of Rice Krispies and a banana

I do not like pizza, poached, fried eggs or beans. One of my favourite dishes which takes 4 minutes if that is microwavable scrambled egg with cheese and 2 slices of toast. Spag bol is also easy as is a stir fry like tanith's. Half the time I am minus some of the ingredients but to date, I have never starved.

I have an Instant Pot (electric pressure cooker), so a quick hot meal is not a problem. One of my go-to meals is sausage, pasta and beans. I sauté a chopped onion with the sausages in the IP, then add pasta and stock, together with any flavourings, herbs etc. Set to high pressure for 5 minutes, and stir in a tin of baked beans once the pressure is released. So quick and so tasty!

Beans and/or eggs on toast. Otherwise a quick hot meal comes from Marks and Spencer and goes in the microwave.

Or stirfry - thrown together in the wok!

Last night I just could not think what we could have for dinner - then a pack of beef strips, onion, garlic, throw in a stock cube, water, tomato puree, Worcester sauce, greek yogurt and paprika produced beef stroganoff in a short time.
Served with boil in the bag rice.

Otherwise, sausage mash and beans or salmon, jacket potato and broccoli.

Some brilliant ideas here, and Tanith, I have either a beef or chicken stir-fry in the week and add grated ginger. Towards the end I throw in a portion of rice noodles which only take minutes to cook. It really looks like a Chinese !
I like quick and easy but nourishing and tasty too. Most of the time I'm doing time-consuming dinners just for myself so these ideas are just the job.

A tin of chopped tomatoes, add some fresh thyme and a little chopped onion, heat through in microwave. Cook some pasta for 10 mins. Open a tin of tuna and sir through the pasta along with the sauce, top with any grated cheese.
Garlic slices a must and they take less time to cook.

Glad I'm not alone Humpty and others! I think baked beans are quite nutritious.

Urmstongran, I may try your idea for my non veggie DH, but not with a very hot sauce. I love things that look impressive but are actually easy.

This is not hot, but it's one of my most satisfying quick meals, which I even take with me if travelling or for a meal at work. Just a muesli and jumbo oats mix with some dried fruit, seeds and nuts, and linseed. Add chopped apple, blueberries, grapes, any other fruit and several dollops of Greek yoghurt. Delicious, quite healthy and satisfying.

Salmon and roast veg. Pop all in one dish.sprinkle with a bit of oil salt and paprika.pop in the oven. I then use the leftover with cous cous and eat cold.mmmmmmmn absolutely delicious.

Microwave potato, tin of pink or red salmon on top with butter, lovely!

Waitrose steak and kidney pudding.

Red/Green Thia curry sauce mix (all the ingredients in the bag (coconut milk/thia mix etc) from Aldi then just buy bag of prawns , slosh in pan (around 5 mins) microwavable rice and bingo. (dd made it for tea tonight)

They both sound so quick & easy shysal and Mamissimo I shall definitely try both. Thank you. I only need about 3 more ‘no messing’ hot meals and I hardly ever need to stand chopping, peeling and stirring in the kitchen ever again!

Lambs kidneys sautéed in red wine with peas....10 mins max if I use nuclear rice ?

Mine too humptydumpty

I had this yesterday. Chicken mini fillets or boneless thighs and chopped mushrooms cooked in the oven with a can of condensed mushroom soup.
If time is short I like eggs or cheese on toast.

Ham, Egg and Chips, usually have home cooked ham in the fridge.

Sausage, mash and peas with onion gravy under 30 mins from fridge/freezer to plate.

Gosh I was ashamed when I read all these ideas - mine would have been beans on toast!!