Here are 20 simple recipes to get you started.
Instead, just keep cooking.
Like any new skill, its all about practice.
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Good recipes help, too.
Lemon Pepper Chicken Breasts
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It seems fancy, but it’s easypromise.
Pan-fry flour-dredged chicken breasts in olive oil and butter.
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Add the chicken back to let it soak up some of the sauce’s flavor.
Serve it with the remaining sauce drizzled over.
Top it with anything you like, from grated Parmesan to buttery croutons.
Alison Bickle
Take the pan from the oven to the table and add a green salad and crusty bread.
Spoon the mixture onto the salmon.
Bake for 12 minutes.
It doesn’t get much easier than this to create a healthy main dish.
Mince (cut into tiny pieces) onion, carrot, garlic, green onion, and celery.
Saute them on the stovetop and then add ground turkey until it’s cooked through.
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Sprinkle with parsley and enjoy.
Quick, easy, and pizza(ish).
What else could you want?
Nick Evans
If you’re an adult eating this favorite from your youth, perhaps a bottle of Chianti?
Serve with a simple salad of mixed greens, and brinner (breakfast for dinner) is ready.
Serve it with a crusty baguette to swipe through all those tasty pan juices.
Aaron Hutcherson
Unstuffed Peppers
12.
This is a simple spin on a classic Italian meat sauce.
Serve the sauce over any pasta shape you like with a side ofsteamed broccoli.
Elise Bauer
Shrimp with Snow Peas
Shrimp is one of the quickest to cook in the seafood case.
Its also easy to tell when its done since the color changes dramatically from grey to pink.
This recipe includes fresh ginger, which adds great flavor.
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Check outthis tutorialfor how to prepare ginger.
Serve the shrimp over rice.
You cancook your ownor dont be afraid to take a shortcut with store-bought pre-cooked rice.
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Its usually found in the frozen foods section.
Buy pre-cut broccoli at the market if you want to minimize prep time.
Quick and Easy Pan-Fried Flank Steak
Its handy to have a foolproof steak recipe in your back pocket.
Coco Morante
This one is done with flank steak, a thin, flavorful cut of meat that cooks quickly.
Serve it withclassic baked potatoesand a simple salad on the side.
you’re able to use the leftover steakor cook a steakfor this salad.
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Dress with a quick Dijon vinaigrette and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.
Classic Tuna Melt
Looking for a light dinner?
Use any bread, but may we suggest slices of a French or Italian loaf?
Sally Vargas
Elise Bauer
Elise Bauer
The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck
Elise Bauer
Elise Bauer
Simply Recipes / Alison Bickel
Sally Vargas
Simply Recipes / Nick Evans
