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Home | Recipes | Weeknight Winners® | Page 9

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 decorative metal serving bowl filled with fried rice with leftovers and a bowl of jalapeño garlic vinegar on the side

Easy Fried Rice (with Leftover Rice)

20 mins

A chicken burrito bowl with grilled chicken, quinoa, lettuce, cheese, corn, beans, guacamole, and purple corn chips

Chicken Burrito Bowl

1 hr

A white enamel wok filled with sake-steamed clams, broth, and scallions.

Sake Steamed Clams

1 hr 30 mins

Roasted broccoli with soy sauce scattered on a baking sheet.

Roasted Broccoli with Soy Sauce

40 mins

Two mugs of Hungarian cauliflower soup with two spoons beside them.

Hungarian Cauliflower Soup ~ Karfiolleves

45 mins

A white bowl filled with Moroccan meatballs with a spoon resting inside and some small orange wedges on the side.

Moroccan Meatballs ~ Kefta Tagine

1 hr 5 mins

A white bowl filled with pasta soup with potatoes and pancetta on a linen cloth with a spoon resting on the edge of the bowl.

Pasta Soup with Potatoes and Pancetta

45 mins

Potatoes with Mexican chorizo tucked inside tortillas with a glass of beer on the side.

Potatoes With Mexican Chorizo

50 mins

A wok filled with kung pao chicken with two chopsticks on the edge

Kung Pao Chicken with Peanuts

25 mins

Two hands holding a paper container of tater tots sprinkled with Parmesan cheese

Parmesan Tater Tots

45 mins

Colorful curried roasted carrots scattered on a rimmed sheet pan.

Curried Roasted Carrots

30 mins

Twice baked bacon-Cheddar potatoes, cut in half and stuffed with Cheddar cheese, bacon bits, sour cream, and chives.

Twice-Baked Potatoes With Bacon and Cheddar

1 hr 30 mins

Two fillets of flounder in a lemon butter sauce in a skillet topped with chopped parsley

Flounder with Lemon Butter Sauce

15 mins

A large pot of Ina Garten's easy tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich being cut into croutons beside it.

Ina Garten’s Easy Tomato Soup

45 mins

A white bowl filled filled with a healthy gado gado salad

Healthy Gado Gado Salad

50 mins

Two pan seared chicken breasts in a stainless steel skillet with a pair of tongs resting on one of the chicken breasts.

Pan Seared Chicken Breast

25 mins

Two golden pan-fried pork chops in a cast-iron skillet.

Pan-Fried Pork Chops

30 mins

An oval dish filled with slow cooker chicken with garlic and potatoes and sprigs of rosemary with a fork nestled inside.

Slow Cooker Chicken With Garlic and Potatoes

4 hrs 45 mins

A parchment-lined baking sheet with four baked cod fillet on top of roasted potatoes slices and topped with lemon slices.

Roasted Cod with Potatoes and Lemon

40 mins

A white bowl filled with Provençale fish soup with a spoon resting inside.

Provençale Fish Soup

1 hr 5 mins

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