A Week of Simple Pantry Dinners to Make with What You Have

This week I’m leaning exhausting on the pantry for super-versatile dinners which are simple to adapt utilizing the components that I’ve available. I’m a powerful believer in retaining a well-stocked pantry, and this is the reason. When there’s an assortment of beans, canned items, pasta, grains, flour, and condiments available, you’ve acquired the makings for an enormous number of dinners. You simply must get artistic typically.

Right here’s what I’m cooking within the week forward and the way I’m making my pantry work for me.

The great thing about getting this salad on the desk for dinner is that it doesn’t require a crisper-full of contemporary veggies or a ton of chopping. You’ll begin with some leafy greens (the recipe requires arugula and radicchio, however go forward and use no matter salad greens you will have useful), whereas artichoke hearts, olives, chickpeas, and roasted pink peppers make up the majority of the salad. All pantry items are truthful sport right here, although. Attempt white beans rather than chickpeas if that’s what you will have, and toss in sun-dried tomatoes, cooked grains, or canned tuna or salmon.

Get the recipe: Four-Can Pantry Salad

A bottle of Caesar dressing, a pack of rooster breasts, and a few Parm are all it’s essential deliver this dinner to life. When you have boneless thighs as an alternative of breasts, they’ll work too, and in a pinch Italian dressing will be swapped for Caesar. Spherical out dinner with egg noodles, rice, or some crusty bread.

Get the recipe: 3-Ingredient Baked Caesar Chicken

I really like this pasta for a midweek meal as a result of it’s fast, simple, comforting, and a departure from a jar of marinara. You’ll want a pair lemons, cream, Parm, and ideally a protracted, strandy pasta (though no matter is within the pantry will get the job achieved; I plan to make use of bucatini).

Get the recipe: Pasta al Limone

These veggie fritters are the number-one purpose I preserve a bag of chickpea flour within the pantry. This model, made with broccoli, is lifeless easy and endlessly adaptable. I prefer to prime the fritters with yogurt and a fried egg, however you may additionally use hummus or another dip.

Get the recipe: 2-Ingredient Broccoli Fritters

I’m ending the week with one thing saucy and tacky. Whereas I really like constructing these melts on sourdough and utilizing a combo of chickpeas, child spinach, and provolone, there’s a lot leeway with the components right here. Any form of hearty bread (and even English muffins!) will work, and the identical goes for the leafy greens, cheese, and seasonings.

Get the recipe: Cheesy Chickpea Melts

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