During the week, dinner often ends up being an after thought, and it can be hard to find good recipes online. They usually need to be tweaked and adjusted to your personal taste. Plus, some of them have long lists of ingredients that require you to go buy a big bottle of something that you will probably never use again. Here are five easy recipes that you can make even on your busiest days.
Monday: Chicken and potatoes
Ingredients
Defrosted chicken breast
Bread crumbs
1 Tablespoon of Butter
Two eggs (for traditional breaded chicken) OR Buffalo Sauce (for a buffalo flavor)
1 Potato
Salt
Pepper
Crushed red peppers
Italian seasoning
Garlic seasoning
Parmesan cheese
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Clean and cube the potato. Coat the cubes with olive oil.
Set them on a baking sheet wrapped with tin foil. Season the potato with salt, pepper, Italian seasoning crushed red pepper, and garlic powder.
Put the baking sheet in the oven for 40 minutes. Take the potato cubes out and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Put them back in the oven for 5 minutes.
While the potato cubes are cooking, mix the butter and eggs or buffalo sauce in a small bowl. Put the bread crumbs in a separate small bowl.
Cut the chicken.
Dip the chicken in the bowl with butter and eggs or sauce. Then coat the chicken in bread crumbs.
After the potato cubes are done, close the tin foil around them to trap the heat, turn the oven down to 400 degrees, and bake the chicken for 25 minutes.
Tuesday: Spaghetti
Ingredients
Your favorite pasta sauce
Box of spaghetti noodles
Ground beef
Crushed red pepper
Garlic seasoning
Minced onion
Italian seasoning
Instructions
Fill a pot with water and bring it to a boil. Then break the spaghetti noodles in half and place them in the pot with salt. Boil the noodles for around 9 minutes and then strain them.
While the noodles are boiling, brown the ground beef in a pan. Season the beef with crushed red pepper, garlic seasoning, minced onion, and Italian seasoning.
Add the pasta sauce into a sauce pan to warm it and add the beef to it.
Once the pasta is done and strained, add the sauce with meat to it and serve.
Wednesday: Tacos
This is the simplest recipe and can be adjusted to your tastes easily.
Ingredients
Taco seasoning
Crushed red pepper
Ground beef
Salt
Shredded Mexican cheese blend
Taco sauce or hot sauce
Lettuce
Red, yellow, and/or green peppers
Tortillas
Instructions
Begin to brown the ground beef. Sprinkle on taco seasoning, crushed red pepper, salt, and onion seasoning. Once the beef is cooked, add it to a tortilla and top it with cheese, taco sauce/hot sauce, lettuce, and peppers.
Thursday: Crock pot BBQ
I found this recipe from Family Fresh Meals, tried it out, and loved it. Here is the link to the website: https://www.familyfreshmeals.com/2014/06/best-crockpot-bbq-chicken.html
Ingredients
Chicken
1 cup of BBQ Sauce
1/4 cup of Zesty Italian dressing
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Put the chicken in the crock pot.
Mix the BBQ sauce, Italian dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce in a medium bowl. Pour it on the chicken and cook for three to four hours on high.
After cooking, shred the chicken with a fork and cook for 10 more minutes.
Friday: Upgraded Ham and Cheese
I adapted this recipe in order to make it easier from the website High Heels and Grills. Here is a link to the original recipe: https://www.highheelsandgrills.com/baked-ham-and-cheese-rollups/
Ingredients
French bread
Ham
Your favorite cheese
1/2 cup Melted butter
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
1 1/2 tablespoon yellow mustard
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Slice a piece of French braid and place it open-faced on a baking sheet. Add ham and cheese to it.
Mix melted butter, poppy seeds, yellow mustard, and Worcestershire sauce in a bowl.
Drizzle this sauce mixture on top of the open-face of the sandwich.
Warm in the oven until the cheese melts.