20 Recipes That Make Abundant Leftovers

A yellow Dutch oven filled with white bean and chicken chili, topped with pieces of bacon.

White Bean and Chicken Chili1/20

Stop your scoffing. This may not be conventional chili, but it's no sissy imposter. It's just a little subtler, soupier, and smokier.

A glass baking dish with four chicken enchiladas topped with cheese, sliced scallions, and cilantro leaves.

Chicken Enchiladas ~ Black Bean Enchiladas2/20

Enchiladas that are offer something to please everyone, whether vegetarians or carnivores, including a simple yet spectacular green chile sauce.

A rack of slow cooker ribs on a cutting board with four single ribs cut off

Slow Cooker Ribs3/20

All the scintillating, fall-off-the-bone magnificence of smoked ribs. None of the standing outside in the snow or sleet to tend your grill or smoker.

A cast iron skillet filled with baked macaroni and cheese

Baked Macaroni and Cheese4/20

This toss-it-together-and-shove-it-in-the-oven casserole is exactly what macaroni and cheese ought to be—easy, cheesy, crumb-topped, and knee-wobblingly indulgent.

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

Potatoes With Mexican Chorizo5/20

Easy, authentic, and awesome any time of day, whether accompanied by steaming hot coffee in the morning or cold cerveza any (other) time of day. One of our recipes folks rave about most.

Carnitas ~ Mexican Braised Pork6/20

This Mexican carnitas recipe is authentic braised and fried pork that makes for conversation-stopping, fall-apart-tender awesomeness.

A metal casserole dish filled with a cooked lasagna Bolognese, with three forks and a stack of plates beside it.

Lasagne Bolognese7/20

Think you know lasagne? As Giuliano Hazan explains, what you know may be sadly mistaken. His recipe will fix that.

Jamie Oliver's Sunday roast carved and displayed on a wooden cutting board.

Jamie Oliver’s Sunday Roast8/20

An exceptionally tender roast and crisp-as-can-be roasted potatoes that will make any meal memorable beyond words.

A whole salmon with roasted dill sauce and lemon halves on a metal baking tray.

Roasted Salmon with Dill Sauce9/20

Stunning in its simplicity, this whole roast salmon makes for a pretty--and pretty impressive--presentation, to say nothing of its super suppleness.

A person assembling a pork taco in a corn tortilla with a bowl of roast pork, a bowl of salsa, and a dish of sliced radishes on the table.

Pork Tacos10/20

Almost as good as cramming tacos from a street cart in your piehole late at night with pork juice dripping from your elbow.

A partially sliced barbecue beef brisket on a cutting board with spice rub, hot sauce, and pickle slices scattered around it.

Barbecue Beef Brisket11/20

Meat. Fire. Smoke. It's been a holy trinity since man first put meat to heat. Understandably so.

Two white bowls filled with red posole with pieces of tortilla and lime wedges on the side.

Red Chicken Posole12/20

In Nahuatl, pozole means "make a big batch of this on the weekend and reheat during the week after soccer practice." (Not really.)

White bowl of dark beef chili with chocolate on a black slab

Easy Cincinnati Chili13/20

Regardless of whether you're from Cincinnati or have ever experienced Cincinnati chili, you've gotta try this recipe. Trust us.

Tray of roast chicken pieces with pancetta, olives, and garlic cloves

Roast Chicken with Pancetta and Olives14/20

"One of the best chicken recipes ever!" "Crisp-skinned." "Juicy." "Aromatic." "Easy." "Gorgeous." "Heavenly." That's what we're hearing from folks who've tried it.

A white bowl filled with lentil soup and topped with fried chiles, greek yogurt, and cilantro

Moroccan Lentil Soup15/20

"Amazing." "Wonderful." "Warm satisfaction." "Won the make-it-again award." "Easy." "Quick." That's what we're hearing about this luxuriously satiating soup.

A Dutch oven and a porcelain bowl filled with choucroute garnie, made with pork, sausage, and sauerkraut, with two glasses of wine on the side.

Choucroute Garnie16/20

Served in every beer hall in eastern France, choucroute garnie is essentially a gussied up hot dog and sauerkraut. To which we say, oui!

Three classic beef meatballs piled on pasta in a white and green bowl an finished with Parmesan.

Classic Beef Meatballs17/20

Know that little ditty about how some poor hungry soul's meatballs were lost when somebody sneezed? It always makes us sad.

Braised Chicken with Tomatillos18/20

Slightly tart and eminently easy, this tomatillo sauce makes ample so you can stash some in the fridge for later. Cook once, eat twice.

A white bowl filled with lemon and thyme risotto and topped with a sprig of thyme and some lemon zest

Lemon and Thyme Risotto19/20

A lilt of lemon and hints of thyme dance throughout this simple risotto. The best they've ever tasted.

A person assembling a slow cooker barbacoa taco with a pot of shredded barbacoa meat, a small dish of onions, a bottle of hot sauce, and some cilantro around the taco plate.

Slow Cooker Barbacoa Tacos20/20

With barely any effort, you can turn out terrific taco-ready barbacoa—that's uber tender shredded meat infused with a hint of heat.