5 Super Quick Recipes, Requiring Only Assembly, for Unplanned Occasions

After having a tiring day at work or with home making, you plan to take some rest in the evening with a relaxing tea. And suddenly your phone rings. Someone on the other side of the phone tells you that they are visiting you this evening and will be at your home in JUST 30 minutes. What ! What to cook now? How to please guests? Panic !

Does this situation sound familiar to you?

Don't Worry! Here's the list of few dishes that will take no time to prepare and yet will wow your visitors

1. Kiwi Refreshing Drink

Let's start with a welcome drink. This is one of my favorite and takes just 10 minutes of preparation time. All you need for this dish is sugar, salt, Lime, kiwi, ice and water. This is prepared in 2 steps

1. Decorate the Glass: Coat the glass top with lime water just to make it wet. Now dip the top of the glass in the salt and finely grated sugar mix. This will not only give an amazing, restaurant quality, decoration on top of the glass, but will also imbibe delicious flavor to the drink
2. Prepare the drink: Grate few kiwis (One kiwi per glass). Add some finely grated sugar to balance the sourness of kiwis. Now add crushed ice and finally some water. Pour this mix into the decorated glass

And Boom! A drink to blow away the mind of your guests in just no time

2. Dressed Cookies

I love this name! Yet another simple recipe. You don't have to literally follow the steps, you can take the inspiration and be creative to prepare in your own style. It will require TAC cookies (sour cream and spring onion flavored) or any other of your choice, Feta cheese (it is a must have at home), White Onion, Lettuce, Green Chutney, Tomato Ketchup. Very basic ingredients right. You can choose veggies of your own choice.  So here's how I do it:

1. Preparation: In a bowl cut few lettuce. Then mix it with egg. You don't want to bathe the veggies completely in the egg. It should be just enough to wet them. Now saute this mix on high heat for about 2 minutes
2. Decoration: Now let's paint the empty canvas
• Spread over the Feta cheese on the cookie. Feta cheese is salty, so you won't need any other seasoning
• Put a slice of white onion
• Add another layer - the lettuce prepared in the step 1
• Give this dish some color and tang with the tomato Ketchup and the Green chutney. I gave a twist to the green chutney in my dish. I also added the Avocado along with coriander and mint which gave a beautiful light green color and cheesy texture to my chutney.

A simple yet beautiful dish prepared in minutes

3. Strawberry Spanish Bread

Now this one is a no brainier at all. Super quick recipe, involves no cooking, just the assembly of ingredients. But the flavors will explode in your mouth. It is my unique recipe that will tingle your sweet, salty and sour taste buds at the same time. You just need 4 ingredients - Spanish bread, Feta Cheese, chopped Strawberries and Whipped cream. I always keep a bottle of ready-made whipped cream at home for the times like this and also because I love it. So follow these simple steps:

1. Cut the Spanish bread into 2 halves. This bread is sweet so will give the sweetness to the dish
2. Spread the Feta cheese from crust to crust. This salty cheese will balance the sweetness of the bread.
3. Sprinkle chopped strawberries to add the punch of sourness.
4. And finally decorate with the whipped cream.

That's it, Done! How quick is that. I love doing experiments at home, and this is one of those. And I loved it so much that I make it at-least thrice in a week now.

4. Spicy Chocolate Bread

I want to eat it right now, it is that yummy. And again a recipe that will take only 5 minutes to assemble. As I said earlier, you can take inspiration from here and be creative to come up with your own recipe. Do share your results with me as well, will really love it. So here's what you will need to make this - chocolate bread, sour cream, Green part of spring onions (scallions), Diced tomatoes and yummy Aaloo Bhujia. Follow these easy steps

1. Spread the sour cream over the chocolate bread. This will give a unique tangy chocolate flavor to the bread. 
2. Then decorate the bread with the tomatoes, Scallions and Aaloo Bhujia. 

You just can't beat this combination. And you get praised for bringing unique flavors to the table.

5. Quick Ice cream Dessert

Nothing beats this dessert in the taste, look and the speed. Be creative with whatever you find in your food pantry. I used chocolate brownie, blackberries, vanilla ice cream and chocolate wafer rolls and here's how I prepared it

1. Prepare the base with the chocolate brownie
2. Put the vanilla ice cream on top of the brownie
3. Decorate the ice cream with the ready made chocolate syrup or the home prepared melted chocolate. I prefer to melt the chocolate myself because it gives me opportunity to control the sweetness.
4. And a final touch with the chocolate waffle roll.

No rocket science and you have a dessert with wa wa woom.

Hope you and your guests like these simple recipes. If you try any of these do write me back to share your feedback. And let me know if you need any further help with any recipe, I will be more than happy to reply back.