Quick and Healthy Sandwich Fillings

These quick and healthy sandwich fillings recipes are easy to make and bursting with taste. They provide a substantial lunchtime snack and are ideal as a light evening meal or supper.

Quick and Healthy Sandwich Fillings

When time is tight, it’s tempting to turn to the chilled cabinet and reach for a ready-made snack. But with money becoming increasingly tight and issues around the environmental disadvantages of plastic food packaging, people are increasingly rediscovering the benefits of making their own sandwiches. Producing home-made sandwiches can be fun, and it is easier to cater to allergies, likes, dislikes, and strange filling combinations.

Four easy to make sandwich filling recipes, guaranteed to brighten up any lunch-box or evening snack tray, are detailed below. Each recipe should make enough filling for two rounds of sandwiches or to fill two half baguettes.

Cheese, Spring Onion, Tuna, and Black Pepper Sandwich Filling

Ingredients

50g Hard Cheese (cheddar is ideal), grated
2 Spring Onions, roughly chopped
1 Medium tin of Tuna
Freshly ground Black Pepper to season
1 Tablespoon of Mayonnaise, if required

Method

1. Place the Tuna, spring onions, and cheese into a mixing bowl.
2. Mix well with a fork – if mayonnaise is required, add it at this point and mix until all the ingredients are well combined.
3. Add freshly ground black pepper to taste.
4. Once the ingredients are well combined, divide the mixture between 2 slices of bread or baguettes.

Cottage Cheese, Celery and Spring Onion Sandwich Filling

Ingredients

1 Standard sized tub of Cottage Cheese
2 Sticks of Celery washed and roughly chopped
2 Spring Onions, roughly chopped
Freshly ground Salt and Black Pepper

Method

1. Spoon the cottage cheese into a mixing bowl.
2. Add the celery and spring onions and mix well.
3. Add the freshly ground salt and black pepper to taste.
4. When the ingredients are well combined, divide the mixture between 2 slices of bread or baguettes.

Egg, Tomato and Black Pepper Sandwich Filling

Ingredients

2 Eggs, hard-boiled
2 Ripe Tomatoes
Freshly Ground Salt and Pepper, to taste
A drizzle of Virgin Olive Oil
Fresh Basil Leaves

Method

1. Shell the hard-boiled eggs.
2. Slice the eggs and arrange onto the bread or inside the baguettes.
3. Slice the tomatoes and place them on top of the egg.
4. Tear the basil leaves over the top of the egg and tomato and drizzle with olive oil.
5. Add freshly ground salt and pepper.

Roast Beef, Mustard and Beetroot Sandwich Filling

Ingredients

4 Slices of Roast Beef
1 Teaspoon of Mustard
4 Slices of cooked beetroot

Method

1. Arrange the roast beef slices on to the bread or inside the baguettes.
2. Smear mustard on top of the roast beef.
3. Arrange the beetroot slices on top of the beef.

For variety, try using seedy bread or baguettes, cornbread, or wholemeal pitta bread. All of these will add color, texture, and nutrients to these tasty fillings. Each recipe can, of course, be personalized as much as required, that’s the fun of making your own.