15 Favorite Pantry Meals
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Pantry cooking is the name of the game right now. With a bag of lentils or beans, a box of pasta, or a package of ramen noodles on hand along with some fresh produce (or not!), a satisfying meal can materialize in no time (or a long time!).
Here are 15 of my favorite pantry-ish ready meals. Some require fresh produce — cabbage, kale, carrots, onions, spinach — some don’t. Several are super fast, namely the Sichuan noodles, the ramen, and the black lentils; several are not: vegetarian chili, sheet pan mac n’ cheese, and slow-cooker gigante beans. But each is delicious and comforting in its own way.
I hope you find something you like.
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Lightning Fast Sichuan Noodles
Black Lentils with Spinach and Labneh
One-Pot Ginger-Scallion Ramen Noodles
Curried Lentils with Kale and Coconut Milk
The New Basics Pasta Puttanesca
Cal Peternell’s Black Bean Soup
Farro Risotto with Kale and Feta
Oven-Roasted Polenta with Poached Eggs
Gena Hamshaw’s Kimchi Fried Rice
Slow-Cooker Gigante Beans with Tomatoes & Parmesan
Marcella Hazan’s Stewy White Beans
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4 Comments on “15 Favorite Pantry Meals”
Your site is my go to place to get inspiration every time I need an answer to that age old question: “What do I make for dinner???”
Definitely been putting it to good use over the past couple of weeks, as my ingredients list has been waning!
Excited to try some of the recipes you have listed here.
Lisa
So nice to hear this, Lisa. Thank you 🙂 🙂 🙂 Hope you find some new recipes you love ????
Our family’s favorite pantry staple recipe of yours is the hamburger helper!
So great to hear this, Katie! That’s such a sleeper around here … maybe I need to give the post some sprucing up. Thanks for writing ??