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Home | Recipes | Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes | Page 7

Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes

Looking for quick and easy recipes that require only a handful of ingredients? Our collection of easy 5 ingredient recipes are sure to impress! Whether you’re looking for a simple dessert or a vegan main course, we’ve got you covered.

These recipes are perfect for busy weeknights, and they’re so easy that even novice cooks can master them. With simple recipes, including peppery cheese straws, a classic one-pot spaghetti with meat sauce, and a delicious icebox cake made with condensed milk and whipped cream, you are sure to find new staples for your arsenal.

A white plate with prosciutto-wrapped chicken with asparagus on the site
A sliced steak chimichurri with a gravy boat filled with chimichurri on the side.

Steak Chimichurri

2 hrs 50 mins

A glass jar half filled with apple cranberry sauce, with a second jar of applesauce in the background.

Apple Cranberry Sauce

1 hr

A bowl of spaghetti all'Aglio e Olio topped with olive oil and flakes of Parmesan cheese.

Spaghetti all’Aglio e Olio

20 mins

A ball of burrata for burrata with grilled bread sitting in a few tablespoons of oil in a white bowl.

Burrata with Grilled Bread

15 mins

An overhead view of a glass of blueberry kale smoothie with a straw and some blueberries and kale scattered around the glass.

Blueberry Kale Smoothie

5 mins

A cook demonstrating how to grill asparagus with several rafts of asparagus spears connected with wooden skewers.

How to Grill Asparagus

20 mins

A diner-style dispenser half-filled with blueberry syrup.

Blueberry Syrup

25 mins

A thin circle of stretched pizza dough being tossed in the air.

Jim Lahey’s Pizza Dough

18 hrs

Two glasses of bacon bourbon with strips of cooked bacon in each glass and a bottle of bourbon in the background.

Bacon-Infused Bourbon

12 hrs

Halved slices of sourdough stacked on top of each other on a white and grey marble surface.

Sourdough Bread

12 hrs 30 mins

A salt-baked red snapper with all the flesh removed from the bones and a broken salt crust and knife beside the fish skeleton.

Salt-Baked Red Snapper ~ Lubina a la Sel

1 hr

Three scoops of mango gelato in a bowl with a silver spoon and a whole mango beside it.

Mango Gelato

4 hrs

A cooked leftover pasta frittata on a round metal pan.

Leftover Pasta Frittata

25 mins

A whole spatchcocked grilled roasted chicken on a round wooden board with dishes of salt and peppercorns on the side.

Grilled Roasted Chicken

2 hrs 45 mins

Homemade Greek yogurt being strained through cheesecloth into a white bowl with a spoon and a small bowl of honey beside it.

Homemade Greek Yogurt

12 hrs

Strips of homemade red wine pasta on a wooden surface.

Homemade Red Wine Pasta

1 hr 45 mins

A glass spice jar filled with cinnamon sugar, lying on its side with some cinnamon sugar poured out.

How to Make Cinnamon Sugar

5 mins

A grated carrot salad piled on a wooden cutting board with two lemon wedges.

Grated Carrot Salad

10 mins

Half of a homemade KIND bar with a piece broken off.

Homemade KIND Bars

35 mins

Two stacks of cornmeal griddle cakes on a patterned plate.

Cornmeal Griddle Cakes

20 mins

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