Who says back to student says tight budget for some ... But eating homemade dishes is not necessarily more expensive: Laurent Mariotte gives his advice for cooking in a small space, without an oven, and without breaking the bank. 

Can you cook when you have a small budget, little space and utensils?

The question arises at each start of the student year, and particularly this year, when many young people have had to give up traditional summer jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Don't panic: Laurent Mariotte offers you three simple and inexpensive recipes, to be made without an oven. 

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Egg Shakshuka

It's a very simple dish that comes from the Maghreb.

You sauté onions with peppers - it's still the season, in olive oil.

You put the spices you want you have in your student kitchen.

You brown it, it sings in the pan and then we add tomatoes.

At the very end, after 20 minutes of cooking, what do we do?

We break eggs on the surface of it all, in the big pan, and it makes a really unique dish, with protein and fiber.

You can also add parsley if you have some.

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Chicken pizza

Yes, you read that right, chicken pizza!

Or even cheaper, turkey.

You go to your butcher, you buy a turkey cutlet and you ask him to flatten very fine, to reach 3 mm approximately.

If he doesn't want to do it, you do it by going home, putting it between two sheets of cling film, and flattening it with the butt of the pan.

You will then sear it one minute per side, to obtain a large pizza dough shape, in the pan, with very hot olive oil.

You put on top of a small salad with raw zucchini, peeled, and fennel.

Finally, you season with olive oil and lemon. 

A pear flognarde

Advice to students: end the markets!

This is where there are specials: you can recover fruits that are a little damaged, for example.

If you have pears, you can make a pan-fried dessert, a bit like a clafoutis.

It's called a flognarde and it's very, very good.

The recipe is very simple: pears cut into quarters, browned with butter, a little sugar and a pancake batter on top - eggs, milk, flour and a little sugar.