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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 13

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 grilled sausage sandwich with strips of grilled zucchini, red onion, and a herb mayo on a silver plate with a knife resting beside it.

Grilled Sausage Sandwich

35 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

A white bowl with some Memphis BBQ mop sauce and a spoon in it with a bottle of sauce on the side.

Memphis BBQ Mop Sauce

35 mins

A bacon Swiss burger topped with lettuce, tomato, and dill pickle chips.

Bacon Swiss Burger

1 hr

A cooked leftover pasta frittata on a round metal pan.

Leftover Pasta Frittata

25 mins

Bowl of cashew chicken with chunks of stir-fried chicken, carrots, sugar snap peas, celery, cashews.

Cashew Chicken

30 mins

A white plate filled with shrimp and leek pasta on a multi-colored woven placemat.

Shrimp and Leek Pasta

30 mins

Several open glass bottles of barbecue sauces, including a vinegar barbecue sauce.

Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

10 mins

A skillet filled with spicy scrambled eggs with a wooden spoon inside.

Spicy Scrambled Eggs ~ Ande Bhurji

30 mins

Szechuan spice-rubbed pork loin covered with ground Szechuan peppercorns, condiments on the side

Szechuan Spice-Rubbed Pork

1 hr 15 mins

A white cake stand of a pile of one-pot cocoa brownies, a glass of milk, on a white table

One-Pot Cocoa Brownies

55 mins

Three pieces of mkate wa ufuta (Zanzibar sesame bread) with some sesame seeds sprinkled around it.

Zanzibar Sesame Bread ~ Mkate Wa Ufuta

1 hr 30 mins

A cookie sheet with six breakfast cookies with oats, banana, figs, and peanut butter.

Breakfast Cookies

1 hr

A patterned bowl filled with turkey meatballs with angel hair pasta, and a piece of bread and glass of white wine next to the bowl.

Turkey Meatballs with Angel Hair Pasta

1 hr

An oval plate with four pieces of Southern fried chicken wings.

Southern Fried Chicken Wings

1 hr

A serving of Portuguese sawdust pudding layered in a martini glass.

Serradura ~ Portuguese Sawdust Pudding

1 d 30 mins

Four spice-rubbed grilled pork chops on a baking sheet with a pair of metal tongs

Spice-Rubbed Grilled Pork Chops

25 mins

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

Grated Carrot Salad

10 mins

An asparagus and arugula salad topped with Parmesan on a teardrop-shaped plate.

Asparagus and Arugula Salad

25 mins

Chicken pieces in a sauce of vinegar, garlic, rosemary in a white plate, knife and fork on the side.

Vinegar-Glossed Chicken

1 hr 5 mins

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