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Creamy Spinach Gnocchi
Julia's Album by Julia
Shelf-stable gnocchi cooked straight in the sauce, with no pot of boiling water anywhere. The fastest real dinner here.
For the vegetarian option, use vegetable broth instead of the chicken broth in the recipe.
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Menemen (Turkish Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes)
Foolproof Living by Aysegul Sanford
Looser and softer than shakshuka: the eggs get folded through the tomatoes rather than sitting on top of them, and it is quicker.
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One Skillet Salmon with Lemon Orzo
Serving Dumplings by Anna Chwistek
The salmon sears first and finishes on top of the orzo, so the juices end up in the pasta instead of down the drain.
The salmon makes this the priciest dish on the page.
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Shakshuka
Tori Avey
Eggs poached straight in a spiced tomato sauce. Cheap, meat-free, and it works at any hour of the day.
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One Pot Chicken and Rice
Budget Bytes by Beth Moncel
The chicken browns, then the onion and rice cook in the same fat and the broth goes in over the top. Not much money for something that tastes deliberate.
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Filipino Chicken Adobo
Whisper of Yum by Jeri Mobley-Arias
Soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and bay leaves reduced down around chicken. Barely any prep, and almost all of it unattended.
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One-Pan Ditalini and Peas
Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman
Frozen peas, small pasta and cream in one pan. The thing you make when you have nothing in and twenty minutes to spend.
Vegetarian if you leave out the salami, which the recipe already treats as optional.
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Creamy Tomato Orzo
Peas and Crayons by Jenn Laughlin
The orzo cooks in the tomato sauce and thickens it on the way, so it turns creamy without much cream in it.
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Weeknight Black Bean Chili
Budget Bytes by Beth Moncel
Half a pound of beef stretched over six servings with canned beans, and genuinely finished inside half an hour.
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Easy One-Pot Thai Chicken Noodle Soup
Flavour and Savour by Elaine
Green curry paste and coconut milk do the work, and the noodles soften in the broth itself so there is nothing to drain.
Needs fish sauce, Thai green curry paste and canned coconut milk. All three keep for months.
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One Pot Cajun Beef Pasta
RecipeTin Eats by Nagi Maunsell
The grated vegetables vanish into the sauce, so a pound of beef feeds seven or eight people and nobody comments on it.
You will want a box grater for the vegetables.
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Minestrone Soup
Love and Lemons by Jeanine Donofrio
The pasta cooks in the soup, which is the whole point: no colander, no second pot, and a better broth for it.
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Creamy Coconut Chickpea Curry
Jessica in the Kitchen by Jessica Hylton
Two cans and a handful of spices, turned into something that tastes like it simmered all afternoon.
Wants garam masala and full-fat canned coconut milk.
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One-Pot Vegan Chili Mac
Rainbow Plant Life by Nisha Vora
Chili and macaroni cooked in the same pot, where the starch off the pasta does the job dairy usually does.
Uses tempeh. The recipe offers beans instead.
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Hearty Lentil Soup
The Simple Veganista by Julie
Dried lentils, a few vegetables and stock. About as cheap as dinner gets, and better on the second day.
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One Pot Mujadara
Bowl of Delicious by Elizabeth Lindemann
Lentils, rice and onions, and not a great deal else. One of the cheapest genuinely good meals on this page, as long as you let the onions take their time.
The long time is the caramelizing, and it is the part worth not rushing.
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