Quick Meals
Egg Fried Rice
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Category
All 1409 recipes
Quick Meals recipes
Thirty minutes or less, start to plate, with nothing skipped. 67 tested recipes, ranked by what readers cook most.
Quick Meals recipes — all 67 recipes
Quick Meals
Skillet Grilled Cheese
Mayonnaise on the outside instead of butter, two cheeses for flavour and melt, and eight minutes over patient…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Four ingredients, twelve minutes, and one of the great late-night dishes of the world. The whole thing turns on how…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Beef and Broccoli
The most useful stir-fry in the repertoire: velveted beef, crisp-tender broccoli and a savoury oyster sauce gravy…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chicken Teriyaki
Real teriyaki is a technique, not a bottled sauce: chicken pan-fried until the skin crackles, then glazed in a…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
The dish every Chinese household cooks and no restaurant bothers to: eggs scrambled soft, tomatoes cooked down to a…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pasta Puttanesca
Tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and chilli — a sauce built entirely from the store cupboard in the time the…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chicken Lo Mein
Soft egg noodles tossed rather than fried, coated in a glossy soy and oyster sauce with chicken and crisp…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pesto alla Genovese
Genoese pesto made the traditional way, with basil bruised rather than blitzed, so the sauce stays emerald green…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chicken Chow Mein
Springy egg noodles tossed with chicken and vegetables in a savoury brown sauce, with a few noodles crisped against…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Cacio e Pepe
Two ingredients, one technique, endless opportunity to get it wrong. This cacio e pepe recipe uses a Pecorino slurry…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Yakisoba
Wheat noodles fried on a griddle with cabbage, pork and a thick fruity brown sauce, finished with aonori, bonito…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Oyakodon
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Tteokbokki
Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce until it clings. Korea's favourite street snack, and it…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Gyudon
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Fried Sweet Plantain
Very ripe plantain sliced on the diagonal and fried until the sugars caramelise into a dark crust around a soft…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Penne all'Arrabbiata
Angry pasta, and rightly so: garlic bloomed slowly in olive oil, dried chilli, and tomatoes cooked hard enough to…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Tuna Melt
Tuna mayonnaise under melted cheese on griddled bread, in the diner tradition. The tuna is dressed with celery and…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Cheese Quesadillas
A properly made quesadilla is about the cheese pull and the crisp, blistered tortilla — nothing more. Ten minutes…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Corn Dogs
Hot dogs on sticks dipped in a sweet cornmeal batter and deep fried until the coating is crisp and hollow-sounding…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pork Shogayaki
Thin pork loin fried fast and finished in a ginger, soy and mirin sauce that reduces to a glaze in under a minute…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pasta alla Gricia
The ancestor of both carbonara and amatriciana: guanciale, pecorino and black pepper, with no egg and no tomato…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Bifana
Thin pork steaks marinated in white wine, garlic and paprika, cooked fast in the marinade and piled into a crusty…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Welsh Rarebit
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Completo Italiano
A hot dog buried under diced tomato, mashed avocado and a mountain of mayonnaise. Chile's national street food, and…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Kaya Toast
Charcoal-toasted white bread with a slab of cold butter and coconut-pandan jam, eaten with soft-boiled eggs seasoned…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Uitsmijter
Three fried eggs laid over ham and cheese on buttered bread — the Dutch lunch counter standard, named for the…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Æggekage
A thick Danish egg cake cooked slowly in one pan and finished under the grill, topped with crisp bacon, tomatoes and…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Ful Medames
Slow-cooked fava beans crushed with garlic, lemon, cumin and a great deal of olive oil — Egypt eats it for…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chakalaka
A South African relish of onions, peppers, carrot and beans cooked hard with curry powder and chilli — served with…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Malawach
Yemenite-Jewish laminated flatbread fried in a dry pan until the layers separate and blister, served with grated…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Croque Madame
Ham and Gruyère between buttered bread, blanketed in béchamel, grilled until it bubbles, and crowned with a fried egg.
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Flammkuchen
Alsatian tarte flambée: a cracker-thin base with no yeast, spread with crème fraîche and covered with onion and…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Zapiekanka
A halved baguette covered in fried mushrooms and cheese, grilled until melting, and finished with a stripe of…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Honey Garlic Chicken
Chicken thighs seared hard and glazed in a four-ingredient sauce that reduces to a lacquer in the time it takes to…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chicken Quesadilla
A properly built quesadilla: cheese against the tortilla on both sides so it welds shut, filling in a thin layer…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Shrimp Scampi
Prawns, garlic, white wine, lemon and a great deal of butter, over linguine, in twenty minutes. The prawns come out…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Eight minutes from the fridge to the table. Prawns seared in a screaming pan, then finished in garlic butter with…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Garlic Butter Steak Bites
Cubes of sirloin seared hard in a smoking pan, then tossed off the heat in garlic butter. Ten minutes from fridge to…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Tuna and Caper Pasta
Store-cupboard pasta that tastes like it took an hour: tuna in oil, capers, chilli and lemon, emulsified with pasta…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Sesame Peanut Noodles
Cold noodles in a peanut, sesame and black vinegar sauce, thinned with hot noodle water so it coats instead of…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Quick Chickpea Curry
A tin of chickpeas, a tin of tomatoes and a proper spice base, done in half an hour. The onions do not get twenty…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Grilled Halloumi Wrap
Halloumi griddled until it squeaks and blisters, wrapped with a lemony slaw and a garlic yoghurt. Twenty minutes…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Sardines on Toast
Tinned sardines mashed with lemon, chilli and parsley on charred sourdough. Fifteen minutes, about two pounds a…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Black Pepper Beef
Velveted beef seared hard with peppers and onion in a sauce built on a great deal of coarsely cracked black pepper…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Smashed Chickpea Sandwich
Chickpeas crushed with tahini, lemon and capers into something with the texture of a tuna mayo but none of the fish…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Garlic Mushroom Toast
Mushrooms cooked hard in a dry pan until they squeak and brown before any fat goes in, then finished with garlic…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Chilli Prawn Tacos
Prawns seared 90 seconds a side in a chilli and lime rub, with a crunchy cabbage slaw and a chipotle crema…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Scallion Oil Noodles
Shanghai’s cong you ban mian: spring onions fried slowly in oil until they are dark and brittle, the oil they leave…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Arayes
Pitta stuffed with raw spiced lamb and grilled until the bread crisps and the fat from the meat soaks into it…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Kebda Eskandarani
Alexandrian liver: beef liver cut into strips and cooked in seconds with chilli, garlic and cumin. The whole dish…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Ojja
Eggs broken into a fierce harissa and tomato sauce with merguez and left barely set. Fifteen minutes, one pan, and…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Rognons à la Moutarde
Lamb kidneys seared hard and finished in a mustard cream sauce. Fifteen minutes, and the kidneys must leave the pan…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Foie de Veau Lyonnaise
Calf liver with onions cooked slowly to sweetness and a splash of vinegar at the end. Lyon does it best and does not…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Boudin Noir aux Pommes
Black pudding fried with apples cooked down in butter. Sweet against iron, and about as good as twenty minutes of…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Omelette aux Fines Herbes
A French omelette: pale, rolled, and barely set inside. Two minutes of cooking and about a decade of getting it right.
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Scaloppine al Limone
Veal in a lemon and butter sauce that comes together in the pan in about ninety seconds. Fifteen minutes from cold…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Kimchi Fried Rice
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Pesto Pasta
Basil pounded with pine nuts and cheese, loosened with pasta water and tossed off the heat. Twenty-two minutes.
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Vegetable Stir-Fry
Whatever is in the fridge, cut evenly and cooked hard for four minutes in a sauce that clings. Twenty-five minutes…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bread buttered on the outside, cheese in the middle, cooked slowly until the crust is deep gold and the inside has…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet
Quick Meals
Ground Beef Tacos
Minced beef cooked with real spices rather than a sachet, in corn tortillas with whatever you have. Twenty-five…
Not yet ratedThis recipe has no ratings yet