These 10 picks for no-cook summer meals are cool, refreshing, healthy, and satisfyingly easy to make. Get ready to spend more time in the hammock (with one of these delish snacks) and a lot less time in a hot kitchen.
In the South, you can’t have a garden party—or any summer get-together, for that matter—without sweet tea. This is a sweet-tea-based cocktail with a kick of white whiskey.
This easy, healthy summer rolls recipe usurps the traditional Vietnamese fillings for rice paper rolls by opting for colorful and crunchy vegetables in place of vermicelli noodles, pork, and shrimp.
This tomato watermelon feta salad combines a couple of your summer musts in a single and simple format that’s portable enough for lunch on the go or picnics when made in a jar or can simply be tossed together in a bowl and reveled in it at home.
Tabbouleh is a Lebanese herb salad made with bulgur, not a bulgur salad with herbs, as it often seems to be made. It’s served as a meze in the Middle East and has migrated to America, where it is now regularly sold prepackaged in supermarkets. The taste of a true tabbouleh should not be of wheat but of herbs.
This cantaloupe soup and prosciutto-mozzarella sandwiches is a quick no-cook meal made with simply pureed melon along with baguette of cold cuts and cheese.
This easy gazpacho is a chilled summer soup made with tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, and onion blitzed in the blender and seasoned with hot sauce. Simple, fresh, and healthy.
Tuna salad with white beans is an elegantly simple dish that can be prepped in minutes. Full of protein and healthy fat, it will leave you satisfied but not sluggish.
Here’s how to make your own homemade larabars with almonds, dates, and all your fave variations—including chocolate, coconut, cashew, cookie dough, lemon, and apple pie. They’re paleo, whole30, cheap, easy, gluten-free, and awesome.
This simple mango frozen yogurt, made with mangoes, vanilla yogurt, and honey, tastes almost like ice cream. It’s an easy, creamy, tangy summer dessert that takes all of 10 minutes to make. No ice cream maker needed.
This chocolate salami is an easy, traditional Portuguese no-bake dessert made with butter, confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, tea cookies, and Port wine. It can be customized with your favorite nuts or dried fruits, and is made ahead of time, so it’s ideal for entertaining.
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