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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.

Dinner

Hawaiian Pork Chops

40 minutes

Dinner

Creamy Bacon Mushroom Thyme Chicken

50 minutes

Side Dishes

Amish Pasta Salad

1 hour 30 minutes

Quick Bread

Glazed Orange Loaf

1 hour 10 minutes

Dinner

4 Ingredient Mushroom Beef

6 hours 5 minutes

Dinner

Baked Olive Garden Chicken

1 hour

Bread

Slow Cooker Focaccia

3 hours 35 minutes

Breakfast

Asparagus Quiche

1 hour

Dinner

Marry Me Steak Bites

35 minutes

Dinner

No Fold Blanket Dumplings

20 minutes

Dinner

Crack Chicken Salad

10 minutes

Dinner

Air Fryer Fried Rice

18 minutes

Dinner

Grilled Honey Lime Cilantro Chicken Thighs

15 minutes

Dinner

Mexican Street Corn Chicken Casserole

50 minutes

Dinner

New Orleans BBQ Shrimp

15 minutes

Desserts

No-Bake Strawberry Cream Pie

4 hours 30 minutes

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