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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 7

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 ceramic shallow bowl filled with cauliflower puree with garlic and spices and roasted cauliflower and cilantro on top.

Cauliflower Purée with Garlic and Spices

1 hr

A white platter with four pork chops with applesauce in a jar on the side and fried sage leaves sprinkled over the pork chops.

Pork Chops with Applesauce

30 mins

Several seared grilled scallops on a cast-iron griddle on a grill.

Grilled Scallops

35 mins

Shrimp and chorizo plated in a white bowl, topped with parsley and lemon zest, with grilled lemon halves beside the dish.

Shrimp with Chorizo

30 mins

A bowl inside another bowl filled with Thai chicken salad with peanut dressing on the side.

Thai-Inspired Peanut Dressing

5 mins

Two halves of a tuna salad sandwich stacked on top of each other with some sliced pickles on the side on a white oval plate.

Tuna Salad Sandwich

15 mins

A glass bowl partially filled with creamy Italian salad dressing with a spoon resting inside.

Creamy Italian Salad Dressing

10 mins

A bowl of purslane salad topped with yogurt and oil and a lemon wedge on the side, with a bowl of marinated tomatoes beside it.

Purslane Salad

5 mins

A bowl filled with sambal eggplant, garnished with cilantro, with a black spoon on the side.

Sambal Eggplant

20 mins

A blue bowl filled with buttermilk ranch dressing with a spoon resting in it.

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

5 mins

A pot of stovetop mac and cheese on a wooden board with a rubber spatula resting inside.

Stovetop Mac and Cheese

30 mins

A piece of bread crumb coated chicken on a patterned plate with broccoli and a fork and two lemon halves on the side.

Bread Crumb Coated Chicken

50 mins

Two bowls of polenta with greens, topped with grated Parmesan and crispy bread crumbs.

Polenta with Greens

45 mins

A white oval platter of pan-fried chicken tenders.

Pan-Fried Chicken Tenders

45 mins

A rectangular dish of easy chicken enchiladas with a spatula resting in the dish and a couple enchiladas on a grey plate beside it.

Easy Chicken Enchiladas

1 hr 15 mins

A grilled ham and cheese sandwich on a wooden cutting board.

Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich

15 mins

Two pieces of butter basted fish with garlic and thyme in a skillet with butter foaming around them.

Butter Basted Fish with Garlic and Thyme

20 mins

Two Philly cheesesteak sandwiches cut in half on a foil wrapper with a glass of beer in the background.

Philly Cheesesteak

1 hr

Three plates topped with spicy lamb meatballs, chickpeas, and arugula with three forks and two knives on the side.

Spicy Lamb Meatballs

45 mins

A piece of baked fish on a plate with butter sauce, a lemon wedge, and some asparagus spears.

Butter Baked Fish

15 mins

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