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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.
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

Sliced skirt steak topped with salsa with a bowl of salsa and charred lime halves on the side.

Seared Skirt Steak with Salsa

50 mins

An enamel bowl filled with mashed potatoes, topped with black pepper and lemon zest.

Ina Garten’s Mashed Potatoes with Lemon

40 mins

An open-faced egg salad sandwich topped with minced chives on a white plate with a bowl of salad and a dish of salt and pepper nearby.

Egg Salad Without Mayo

45 mins

An oval platter filled with cubed roasted potatoes, garnished with fresh dill.

Roasted Potatoes with Dill

1 hr 5 mins

An apple and celery salad in a creamy dressing, garnished with mint leaves in a yellow scalloped bowl.

Apple and Celery Salad

15 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 person drizzling sauce over a steak au poivre on a white plate with sweet potato fries.

Steak au Poivre (Julia Child’s Recipe)

25 mins

Three breaded chicken thighs on a plate with slices of roasted lemon.

Breaded Oven Fried Chicken Thighs

35 mins

A platter of meatball Stroganoff over buttered noodles.

Meatball Stroganoff

1 hr

An oval platter of veal piccata--veal cutlets, lemon sauce, sliced lemons, capers, and chopped parsley.

Veal Piccata

35 mins

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

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