Our 14 New Lunch Recipes You’ll Want to Make Now
With ingredients like potatoes, beets and kale, the flavors of fall are front and center in these new lunch recipes. Whether you’re looking for a quick sandwich to pack in the morning or have time to whip up a soup or bowl of cereal, these lunches are perfect for welcoming fall. Recipes like our Mini Crustless Quiches with Kale, Mushrooms & Feta and Chickpea-Cabbage Chopped Salad are healthy and delicious lunches.
Chickpea & Sweet Potato Grain Bowls
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Christina Brockman
This sweet potato and chickpea bowl will make your stomach happy! This nutritious bowl is rich in dietary fiber and antioxidants, which support a healthy digestive system. Millet, an ancient gluten-free grain, contains fiber and important nutrients that aid digestion and help the colon; A delicious liquid made from yogurt provides probiotic power.
Mini Crustless Quiches with Kale, Mushrooms and Feta
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Food Stylist: Margaret Monroe Dickey, Prop Stylist: Priscilla Montiel
These crustless quiches with kale, mushrooms, and feta cheese are a delicious option for a light lunch served with a side salad. While we love this flavor, they are easy to make and allow you to change the vegetables or cheese to suit your taste.
Chopped Cabbage Chickpea Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Christina Brockman
This chickpea-cabbage salad features carrots and cucumbers, making for a quartet of ingredients that start with the letter “C”! This chopped salad contains fiber and prebiotic chickpeas, which promote a healthy gut. Green cabbage keeps the color nice and fresh, although red cabbage does.
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Photographer: Robby Lozano, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Styling: Lindsey Lower
Roasting the vegetables in the oven before mixing intensifies their flavor, resulting in a very rich and delicious fall soup. We love the sweet and nutty flavor of butternut squash, but any winter squash with a similar texture, such as acorn, honey or kabocha squash, can be used in its place.
Stuffed White Chili with Potatoes and Beans
Photographer Victor Protasio, Food Stylist Sally McKay, Prop Stylist Hannah Greenwood
A bowl of sour white chili and potatoes is the perfect comfort food to warm you from the inside out. This delicious plant-based dish combines white beans with the subtle sweetness of potatoes in a rich, creamy broth. A can of chopped green chives adds warmth. If you like your cheese on the mild side, choose mild green chiles.
Roasted Broccoli and Kimchi Rice Bowl
Photographer: Robby Lozano, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Styling: Christina Brockman
This well-rounded kimchi rice bowl is full of fiber and probiotic foods like kimchi and yogurt to support a healthy gut. Prebiotic foods like edamame and garlic add flavor and other gut health benefits. Gochugaru is a Korean chili powder with a smoky flavor and mild heat. You can use a mixture of crushed red pepper and paprika instead.
Ham & Spinach Quiche
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Prop Stylist: Phoebe Hauser
Ham and spinach quiche is perfect for any meal, from brunch to dinner and everything in between. This quiche skips the surface, making it super easy to put together in a short amount of time. Substitute Cheddar cheese for Gruyère or use Swiss chard instead of spinach for a slightly different spinach.
Baked Potato and Beet Sandwiches
Photography: Rachel Marek, Food Stylist: Lauren McAnelly, Prop stylist: Gabriel Greco
These delicious sandwiches are packed with veggies—including roasted beets and sweet potatoes, lemony arugula, and pickled onions—for a satisfying lunch.
Pre-made cabbage salad
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Hannah Greenwood, Food Stylist: Sally McKay
This make-ahead cabbage salad is the perfect dish that gets better with time. As it sits, the flavors meld together, with crisp and soft cabbage, with nutty farro adding a delicious dressing. It’s the perfect choice for meal prep or entertaining, as it not only lasts well but also improves over time, making your life easier and providing delicious meals.
Roasted Vegetable Soup
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Christina Brockman
This roasted vegetable soup uses a delicious variety of vegetables, supports gut health with natural ingredients like potatoes, leeks, and peas, and you get the probiotic power of white miso. . While we love veggies in this recipe, feel free to get creative by adding winter squash or other root vegetables.
Grilled Cabbage Cheese
Artist: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Lydia Pursell, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall
This warm Cabbage Grilled Cheese features melted cheese, tender cabbage, and delicious sweet apple slices. This sandwich is an easy lunch or dinner winner served with a green salad. A light layer of mayonnaise on the outside of the bread is a great way to grill the grilled cheese to a golden brown without relying on butter. We love Savoy cabbage that is soft, sweet, but this recipe will work with red or green cabbage.
Roasted Squash and Lentil Kale Salad
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Christina Brockman
This squash lentil salad packs 14 grams of fiber and is high in kale, a powerful prebiotic that helps set the stage for a healthy gut. This salad can be put together in a Mason jar so you can prepare it the night before for a healthy, grab-and-go lunch the next day.
Roasted Cauliflower and Ricotta Pitas
Photographer: Morgan Hunt Glaze, Prop Stylist: Priscilla Montiel, Food Stylist: Julian Hensarling
Bites of spicy cauliflower sit atop a light and nutty crust covered in whipped ricotta in this delicious open-faced sandwich. Cauliflower bites are seasoned with shawarma seasoning, a complex blend of Middle Eastern spices that can include cumin, coriander, paprika, turmeric and more. These cauliflower bites go well with the second layer of pita bread, but you can make cauliflower bites separately and use them as a side dish or dessert.
Buffalo Cauliflower Cereal Bowl
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Jennifer Wendorf, Prop Stylist: Lindsey Lower
This Buffalo Cauliflower Bowl is a delicious and healthy alternative to traditional Buffalo wings, with lots of healthy fiber and plant-based protein. It has a variety of fresh and colorful vegetables on a bed of pre-cooked brown rice to keep the meal quick. Feel free to swap out the rice for other grains.
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