Weeknight Meals

The secret to stir-fry success? Have all your ingredients prepped and ready to go, as this dish takes just minutes to come together in the pan.

This hearty vegetarian Ethopian dish from chef Fanta Prada gets its gingery, garlicky kick from awaze, a versatile hot pepper seasoning with a myriad of variations.

No flipping required for this deliciously satisfying dish of one large-format crispy potato pancake topped with dressed greens and eggs.

Normally we’d cook meat or fish with the rice so the flavors mingle, but because shrimp cook so fast, we like to pan-fry them and toss with the rice at the very end. 

Think of this elegant warm chicken salad as the grown-up version of the deli-case stuff, starring dates, olives, and almonds.

The key is to add the basil at the very end instead of blending everything all at once.

Silky and comforting yet light and spring-y, this tortellini and spinach soup is the perfect winter-to-spring meal.

So easy you'll never buy hummus again.

This Hong Kong staple is the ultimate one-pot comfort food.

Spiced with Hungarian paprika, dill, and thyme, this comforting soup is just what you need when winter seems to go on forever, and ever, and ever…

Rich, spiced, and full of coconutty goodness and zingy lime, this version of the traditional Indonesian dish uses bone-in chicken thighs to cut the cooking time to just under an hour.

Don’t rush the cooking process on this one. Moderate heat allows the cheese inside to fully melt without burning the outsides.

When we crave beef but don’t want a capital-S steak, we opt for a smaller cut (hello, short ribs!), then pile on lots of meaty mushrooms.

This recipe covers pretty much all of our working-from-home lunch criteria: it’s cheesy, packed with greens and protein, and topped with hot sauce.

Chef Melissa Miranda’s adobo is oven-roasted, leading to tender meat on the bottom of the pot as well as crispy skin on the top.

Creole seasoning is the key to adding a spice cabinet’s worth of flavor in just a few shakes in this one-pot dinner.

You may be surprised at how quickly this broth builds flavor, with massive depth from golden onions, tomatoes, soy sauce, and just a tiny bit of butter for a silky finish.

Pasta cooks directly in its sauce in this genius vegetarian dish that stars lentils and deeply browned mushrooms.

A nut-free riff on Egyptian dukkah lends heat, sweetness, and crunch to these tender coconut-braised carrots.

Use whatever sturdy greens you have on hand to create this simple but satisfying side.