Recipes from The Instant Cook

The Instant Cook by Donna Hay

Donna Hay is swiftly becoming the source American cooks go to when they ask themselves, “What should we have for dinner tonight?” She has garnered a passionate global following for her fresh and modern approach to food — bringing out clean, sparkling flavors with simple techniques and streamlined instructions. In The Instant Cook, she offers more than a compendium of flexible recipes; it is an elegantly simple philosophy of cooking, and of eating.

White bowl of sliced parmesan-crusted chicken, lettuce, and red and yellow cherry tomatoes

Parmesan-Crusted Chicken

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When it’s half past when you’d wanted to eat and you’re too exhausted to think, turn to this kid-friendly, adult-approved fix.

Four mini apple tarts made from apple slices in puff pastry shells on a plate.

Cheater’s Apple Tarts

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You’re going to feel like a cheat when you serve these obscenely simple tarts to guests. Shhhh. Your secret’s safe with us.