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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 21

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 cast-iron skillet half-filled with tomato and goat cheese cobbler and a spoon resting in the skillet.

Tomato and Goat Cheese Cobbler

3 hrs

A wooden bowl filled with lentil soup with kale, topped with parsley and sour cream.

Lentil Soup with Kale

3 hrs 30 mins

A skillet filled with chicken drumsticks braised in wine with a wooden spoon and wine cork lying beside the skillet.

Chicken Drumsticks Braised In Wine

1 hr

Four chicken enchiladas in a nonstick skillet, topped with scallions.

Skillet Chicken Enchiladas

1 hr 15 mins

6 Squash Blossom Quesadillas gently laying on a white serving platter.

Squash Blossom Quesadillas

25 mins

A white plate white 2 pieces of fish, one sliced and one whole with crisp skin attached. Garnished with slices of lemon, lime, and parsley.

Pan-Seared Fish Fillet

15 mins

A round blue plate topped with rainbow chard salad, candied nuts, and creamy dressing.

Rainbow Chard Salad

30 mins

Baked nectarines with Port in a cast-iron casserole dish, three nectarines topped with whipped cream and grated nutmeg.

Baked Nectarines With Port

40 mins

A woman holding a wooden tray with 3 breakfast burgers topped with eggs.

Breakfast Burger

45 mins

A person slicing a dry-rubbed tri tip on a wooden board.

Dry-Rubbed Tri-Tip

4 hrs

A blue background with a white bowl filled with sliced peaches, tomatoes, red onions, basil, and chunks of bread.

Tomato and Peach Panzanella

1 hr

A black platter with several grilled chicken tacos with fruit salsa, a few cherry tomatoes, and a wooden board with cut chicken, halved plums, and queso fresco.

Grilled Chicken Tacos with Fruit Salsa

6 hrs

An oval dish filled with Baharat spiced chicken pieces and a bowl of couscous and plate of couscous and chicken on the side.

Baharat Roast Chicken

2 hrs 10 mins

A person assembling a taco with a plate of tofu adobo, a bowl of green sauce, and a bowl of rice with peas on the table.

Tofu Adobo

4 hrs

Three pulled pork grilled cheese sandwiches stacked on top of each other and secured with a wooden skewer.

Pulled Pork Grilled Cheese

10 mins

Two white bowls filled with chickpea and cavatelli soup on white napkin with spoons.

Chickpea and Cavatelli Soup

45 mins

A plate and a bowl of asparagus risotto with a fork resting beside the bowl.

Asparagus Risotto

40 mins

Two ancho fish tacos in a metal dish with lime wedges and chipotle mayo on the side.

Ancho Fish Tacos

40 mins

Four fillets of baked fish with almonds, lemon, and bread crumbs on a rimmed baking sheet.

Baked Fish with Lemon Bread Crumbs

30 mins

Broiled Tofu on aluminim foil-lined sheet pan.

Broiled Tofu

45 mins

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