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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 6

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 bowl of bright green cilantro chutney on a blood wooden table with a flower napkin, cilantro leaves, half a lime, and a knife.

Cilantro Peanut Chutney

20 mins

A blue and white dish filled with sauced chicken and julienned ginger, topped with a red chile.

Ginger Chicken

1 hr 15 mins

A roasting pan filled with balsamic roasted potatoes and red onions and garlic

Balsamic Roasted Potatoes

1 hr 10 mins

Three white plates with blackened red snapper, black rice, yogurt sauce, and sauteed spinach.

Blackened Red Snapper

1 hr

Sliced skirt steak on a wooden board with tortillas, lime wedges, cilantro, jalapeno, and pickled red onion.

Grilled Skirt Steak Tacos

2 hrs 30 mins

A white bowl full of buctini pasta, covered with grated cheese and parsley.

Pasta with Anchovies and Onions

20 mins

A metal sheet pan filled with lemon ginger chicken legs and thighs with shallots and lemon slices.

Lemon Ginger Chicken

7 hrs 10 mins

A patterned plate topped with chicken thighs with spicy peach sauce on a table with a bottle and glass of wine, flowers, cutlery, and a napkin.

Chicken Thighs with Spicy Peach Sauce

45 mins

Four pork chops with strawberry balsamic glaze on top arranged on a white oval platter with serving utensils and a bowl of strawberry glaze on the side.

Pork Chops with Strawberry Balsamic Glaze

30 mins

A skillet filled with spaghetti with zucchini, lemon, and basil, with a fork resting in it and a bowl of Parmesan on the side.

Zucchini Pasta with Lemon and Basil

30 mins

A bowl filled with spaghetti with scallops.

Spaghetti with Scallops

25 mins

A serving dish and bowl both filled with baked pasta with shrimp, feta, and tomatoes, with a fork on the side.

Baked Feta Pasta with Shrimp

1 hr

A California breakfast quesadilla, cut into eight wedges on a plate with a bottle of hot sauce on the side.

California Breakfast Quesadilla

45 mins

A white bowl of Portuguese clams with vinho verde in a olive oil and garlic sauce, garnished with cilantro.

Portuguese Clams with Vinho Verde ~ Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato

45 mins

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

Ina Garten’s Mashed Potatoes with Lemon

40 mins

Three grilled lobster tails on an oval platter, garnished with chopped parsley.

Grilled Lobster

20 mins

A person using metal chopsticks to scoop up spaghetti al limone amalfitano from a bowl.

Spaghetti al Limone Amalfitano

30 mins

Two pieces of grilled lemongrass chicken on top of rice with scallion garnish on a blue plate.

Grilled Lemongrass Chicken

45 mins

A white pizza with broccolini, fontina, and sausage cut into slices on a piece of parchment with a knife on top and a bottle of oil on the side.

White Pizza with Broccolini, Fontina, and Sausage

50 mins

A spatchcocked roast chicken in a metal roasting pan with a half lemon and some fresh parsley.

Spatchcock Roast Chicken

1 hr 20 mins

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