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Home โ€บ Recipe Skill Levels โ€บ Easy

Easy

What it means: Simple, stress-free, and reliable.

  • Ingredients: 8โ€“10 or fewer, mostly pantry staples.
  • Techniques: Basic skills (sautรฉ, boil, bake, stir). No special equipment beyond a skillet, sheet pan, or slow cooker.
  • Time:ย 30 minutes or less active cooking, or โ€œdump and goโ€ like a crockpot or air fryer.

Side Dishes

Tuscan Melting Cabbage

1 hour 30 minutes

Dinner

One-Pan Irish Chicken

1 hour 45 minutes

Dinner

Crack Chicken Orzo

1 hour 15 minutes

Bread

Cheddar Bay Biscuit Bread

50 minutes

Dinner

Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta

20 minutes

Beverages

Copycat Starbucks Pink Drink

5 minutes

Dinner

Crack Chicken Tacos

40 minutes

Desserts

Starbucks Copycat Chocolate Pistachio Loaf

1 hour 20 minutes

Easy

Crockpot Chicken Marsala

4 hours 35 minutes

Dinner

One Pan Cheeseburger Rice

30 minutes

Candy

3 Ingredient Cool Whip Candy

1 hour 34 minutes

Dinner

Cajun Spaghetti (Louisiana Spaghetti)

40 minutes

Dinner

Chicken Schnitzel

25 minutes

Dinner

Marcella Hazan’s 3 Ingredient Tomato Sauce

50 minutes

Enchiladas

Lazy Enchiladas (4 Ingredients)

25 minutes

Dinner

Amazing Pepper Steak Stir Fry

20 minutes

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