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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners®

Weeknight Winners®

These recipes aren’t all 30-or-fewer-minute meals, although many of them take no time at all. But these are all recipes that REAL home cooks make with REAL ingredients. None of those dump ‘n stir ditties that use 90% packaged ingredients with unpronounceable ingredients. They’re just as quick but infinitely more satisfying.

A metal skillet filled with easy skillet lasagna and garnished with basil leaves.
A close-up of a tray of Macedonian spiced chicken with pieces of chicken and onion slices.

Macedonian Spiced Chicken

1 hr 50 mins

Close-up of chicken piccata meatballs over grilled bread with charred lemon and glossy lemon-butter sauce.

Chicken Piccata Meatballs

40 mins

Classic shrimp scampi on a white plate with large pink shrimp in garlic butter sauce, garnished with parsley. A silver fork rests on the side, with a lemon half nearby and golden sauce pooling at the bottom for dipping.

Classic Shrimp Scampi

20 mins

A fork holding a single garlic butter steak bite with a platter of steak bites nearby.

Garlic Butter Steak Bites

25 mins

A skillet with three chicken thighs on top of a mixture of leeks, rosemary, and cannellini beans.

Rosemary Chicken and Beans in a Creamy Cider Broth

1 hr 30 mins

A portion of gnocchi with gorgonzola cream sauce sprinkled with chopped hazelnuts on a black plate.

Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream Sauce

25 mins

A platter of meatball Stroganoff over buttered noodles.

Meatball Stroganoff

1 hr

An overhead view of a skillet of shrimp pasta and two servings on plates nearby.

Garlic-Butter Shrimp Pasta

30 mins

A metal skillet filled with sausage pappardelle with grated Parmesan on top.

Jamie Oliver’s Sausage Pappardelle

25 mins

A pot of spaghetti and meat sauce with tongs in it and two bowls of spaghetti and meat sauce with forks.

One-Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

30 mins

A pink bowl filled with fried Shanghai noodles, crispy pork belly, and kale, with chopsticks resting on the side.

Shanghai Fried Noodles

20 mins

Glazed shrimp on top of rice and garnished with scallions, with a gold spoon scooping some from the bowl.

Sticky Honey Garlic Shrimp

25 mins

Five chicken breast pieces with grill marks on a platter, topped with halved cherry tomatoes, scallions, and cilantro.

Spicy Honey Lime Chicken

1 hr 30 mins

A white and brown plate filled with beef and leek stir fry, topped with peanuts.

Buttery Beef and Peanut Stir-Fry

50 mins

Three plates topped with pistachio-crusted chicken cutlets, arugula salad, and lemon wedges, with forks and knives on the side.

Air Fryer Pistachio-Crusted Chicken Cutlets

23 mins

A red bowl filled with creamy sun-dried tomato and spinach pasta with a red cloth napkin on the side.

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta

30 mins

A pink bowl filled with lemon garlic shrimp pasta with a fork resting inside.

Lemon Garlic Shrimp Pasta

30 mins

Two Parmesan-crusted grilled cheese with jalapeños on a white cutting board, one cut in half, with a knife lying beside them.

Parmesan-Crusted Grilled Cheese with Jalapeños

25 mins

A blue and white bowl filled with San Francisco-style Vietnamese garlic noodles with a pair of chopsticks resting on the side of the bowl.

San Francisco-Style Vietnamese Garlic Noodles

30 mins

Six fillets of quick baked fish with bread crumbs and herbs on top on an oval platter.

Quick Baked Fish with Bread Crumbs and Herbs

20 mins

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