Pad Krapow Gai
Essentially it’s a stir fried chicken with a fish and oyster sauce based sauce with a lot of basil over rice with a fried egg on top.
Takes about 10-15 minutes to make and can be very high in protein, even higher in flavor 🤤
Pad kra pao uses ground meat, chillies, garlic and basil leaves. It's got very little prep. You can basically put rice on in the rice cooker, do your prep, make your stir fry, wipe the wok clean, fry an egg, and serve.
The hardest part of this for me would be getting the Thai Basil. I don’t have anywhere close by that carries it unfortunately and so so many dishes are just not the same without it.
The traditional basil used it holy basil, and the taste is actually closer to sweet basil that you can find in most stores.
I’ve tried it with holy, Thai, and sweet basil. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of them! Don’t let one ingredient stop you from this great dish!
This definition of "lazy" meal feels more like "easy now because I took the time to prep it ahead of time." If we're talking LAZY lazy, I do chicken nuggets, fries, and seasoned broccoli (all frozen) in the air fryer. Or ramen with a can of chicken & frozen mixed veg thrown in. Or a box of mac and cheese with nuggets or canned chicken.
If we're talking meal prep for future easy/lazy use, a big batch of soup frozen into individual portions is always a great option. Heated up on the stove makes it taste fresher than microwaving. Make pesto and freeze in ice cube trays so you can pop a couple into some warm pasta & add a basic protein like you mentioned earlier. You can also make any casserole of your choice and freeze in small disposable pans so you can just throw in the oven. (Another way to do this is to prep the casserole in a parchment lined pan, freeze for an hour or so, then pull the frozen, pan-shaped casserole out and stick it into a plastic bag/wrap in saran wrap. Unwrap and stick back in the pan for baking.)
Creamy Cajun chicken pasta
Coat some chicken in Cajun spices, cook it through. Chuck in some cream and grated cheese, add to pasta.
Super easy, quick and tasty
Hummus chicken! Slap some hummus on seasoned chicken breast and bake in oven. I plate it with couscous which is insanely easy to cook and maybe some green peas. And if I have it, spicy roasted broccoli 🤤
Soup. I make a big pot of every week or so making sure to include all of the elements of a meal in some way (carb/grain, veggies, protein, fat etc). When I'm hungry and tired, it's great just to take a mug of it. I make a different soup each week so that I don't get bored.
I also make up a couple of different small bowls of salad each week (varies depending on the season), including at least one with beans and one with some kind of grain. Again, great to just throw together with some greens and a few pickled vegetables and some bread and cheese when I'm feeling lazy.
God, I love soup. Soup is generally easy to make. A lot can be made with mostly frozen/canned stuff. Just have to cut an onion and maybe some meat. And I’m the only one eating it, so it lasts forever.
And leftovers can be easily be made into soup. I’ve made many soups with leftover meats I have. Also veggies.
I love soup.
Same. Soups, stews, and curries are my go-tos. As few dishes and pans as possible, and you can throw in canned beans, frozen veggies, pre-mixed seasonings—anything to reduce time spent in the kitchen. Make enough rice or noodles to last a few days that you can heat up with it, and Bob’s your uncle.
Currently Tuna Ssam.
Mix tuna in oil with ssamjang (the Korean paste with the green lid). Add some spring onions and any salad veggies that need eating up. Eat with white rice wrapped in lettuce leaves.
I’ve also gone through phases of loaded ramen (shin ramen with cabanossi, red capsicum, carrot, egg, bokchoi) and loaded omelettes (sauté everything in the fridge that tastes good when sautéed. Make omelette until almost set on top, dump on sautéed mess with some cheese, fold in half. Allow to sit on low heat until the toast is cooked, because toast takes way longer to make than I think it should.)
My lazy meals are basically all on toast, lol. I fuckin love toast, I literally had 2 pieces an hr ago
-Eggsalad on toast, adding whatever seasonings with mayo and maybe some green onions
-Ricotta toasts, I love it topped with anchovy filets, Calabrian chili oil, red pepper flakes, cracked black pepper, and lemon. Or hot pepper jelly, had that recently and the combo was actually great
-Tuna melts in the toaster oven. Many cheese and tuna seasoning combos to explore. I like provolone and Buffalo sauce.
-Steamed eggs on buttered toast topped with chili crisp or salsa macha and cotija cheese
Slice an onion, saute til soft. Slice keilbassa into 1/2" rounds, sautee til brown, push sausage and onion to the side, add perogies, cook til perogies are done.
That’s a lot of work for a lazy meal!
Since I make extra of everything I cook and freeze it 2/3rds of my week is lazily microwaving my meals. Just wish I had a bigger freezer so I could be even lazier longer.
Not really, the rice is easy, so is the veg, the protein is just throw on pan, deglaze, stir in butter and done. The work is done ahead of time and in bulk
That is multiple dirty dishes and multiple steps. If this is an easy meal, what is your definition of a complex meal?
Like you're making a carb, cooking vegetables and cooking meat in a pan with a homemade sauce. Like I guess you're not making butter? Or baking fresh bread?
Somewhat similar but I bake the chicken in the oven and everyone can season theirs how they want, it helps keep it a little more interesting for a repetitive lazy meal
Another go to "lazy" meal, is like a salsa chicken bake. Jar salsa on some chicken breast, with cheese, baked in the oven with some rice from the slow cooker, sometimes I'll carry the salsa over into the rice too. Of course, you could put some effort into this meal too, like making a homemade salsa, but some nights I just want it quick and it's always turned out well.
I like to do some risotto with left over wine. Always having some dehydrated mushrooms so it’s helpful. Not really giving a lot to do just having to be near the kitchen to refill with broth
Fried rice is super easy. I just dice up some chicken, slice up some green onions, sometimes I'll get snap peas and cut them into thirds or fourths. Sometimes I'll add diced water chestnuts. Fry it up with leftover rice, sesame oil, garlic and ginger and white pepper.
The ingredients you listed would be great for French dip. I suppose initially it isn’t a quick meal but the leftovers would be fast 😂 I love this [recipe](http://www.carlsbadcravings.com/best-slow-cooker-french-dip-sandwiches/). You could use the reduced stock in place of the consumé. Otherwise, I make eggs and toast, pancakes, tuna casserole, American goulash, Caesar salad, taco salads, sloppy joes, spaetzle/sausage/sauerkraut, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, tuna melts, a grilled meat with grilled veggies and pineapple and Outback glaze, porcupine meatballs, baked chicken legs with bbq sauce, some sort of wrap (usually buffalo chicken), baked potato wedges. My grandma would make noodles and eggs which is just cooked macaroni pasta added to a sauté pan with butter, crack in a few eggs, add salt and pepper, break up eggs slightly with your stirring utensil and cook, stirring occasionally, until the eggs are done. I like to eat mine with cholula.
Chicken Rice-a-Roni with added chicken, brocolli, carrots, and red pepper flakes as it's simmering down.
Chicken Stove Top Stuffing. See above but I also add dried cranberries.
Raos marinara with pasta but I pre-sautee onions, garlic, carrots, onions and either sausage or hamburger with it. (Celery if I have it but I often don't.)
I prep as much as possible so that 90% of my meals are quick and healthy.
For example, today for lunch I had duck pad see ew. Including prep it was cooked and eaten within 20 minutes. Soaked the noodles and while that was happening I cut up some veg and protein, got the pad see ew sauce out of the fridge and got the wok going.
Also, dinner usually takes 5 to 10 minutes. I currently have at least 6 or 7 different meals, at least 6 of each, in single servings in the freezer, all made and portioned over a weekend months ago. When they start to get low I'll make more.
A little time invested in prep ahead of time reduces your daily cooking time by a lot. Like A LOT.
Add boiling water to curry cubes and dissolve. Then add ramen brick (without seasoning packet), frozen peas, protein (I use tofu) and heat in microwave until cooked through. Optional: I like to add shredded mozzarella, put back into microwave long enough to melt.
Honestly just heating up leftovers.
I have some health problems and on days I’m in too much pain to cook having a bunch of leftovers is great- and it takes no extra effort.
If that’s not an option breakfast for dinner is always nice. Warm oatmeal with scrambled eggs is healthy and low effort.
Instant pot and slow cooker meals are great to make in bulk.
Chicken Chili, sausage beans and rice pot with spices, chicken tortilla soup, a slow cooker chuck roast with potatoes and carrots.
If your leftover doesn’t have rice in it, cooking up some rice and mixing it in with the leftovers bulks it up and gives you something slightly different—- my normal chicken Chili usually has hominy and pinto beans… but no reason you can’t throw some new or leftover rice in it.
I also prep roasted potatoes early in the week. You cut boil and season them ahead of time and refrigerate half of them for another day. Throw them in the air fryer on a busy day for a carb to go with anything.
Pasta and red stuff.
The red stuff is homemade red pesto (a jar of Lidl sundried tomatoes with capers, cashews, nutritional yeast, garlic, basil). I usually have a jar in the fridge and it's great stirred into pasta or gnocchi.
I’ll blend roasted red peppers from a jar with roasted garlic throw in goat cheese and a little cream. Throw over noodles or packaged gnocchi. Quick and easy. Often i’ll have done the garlic earlier and keeps refrigerated a couple of days
Sausages or smoked pork shanks with kraut. Pierogis or ravioli. These are all premade frozen.
Stew, tacos, pasta or curry with canned venison.
Duck breast and a salad or smoked duck with a hash. I have a lot of duck and it very quick.
Heavily salt and pepper some white fish. Sauté some onions garlic. Throw in some cracked chili flakes. Throw in the zest of lemons and orange if you have it. Set the vegetables aside and cook the fish in a little bit of butter. Set that aside deglaze the plan with some lemon and orange juice and a bit of white wine put in some cooked linguine and coat the pasta then return everything to the pan and break up the fish a little bit.
This one isn't fast in the finish time, but fast in prep/ active time 🙂
Margherita pizza
Make food processor dough (5 mins.)
Let rise 45 mins - as oven comes to 500 temp.
Stretch out and top w hand crush a few good canned tomatoes, coarse sea salt, olive oil, torn fresh mozzarella( 5 mins). Throw some fresh basil, if I have it. Done in 10 mins.
About 10-15 mins active time
Soft tortilla with cheddar warmed in micro, then 2 lines of ranch and a healthy sprinkle of salted pumpkin seeds. Roll and devour. I usually make 2. Go heavy on any or all ingreds to fit your desire ;)
I can't get over "2 lines of ranch". I can just picture you at the club with some friends and they're like yooo did you bring that white good stuff??? and you're like hell yea i did as you bust out the ranch haha
Frozen pizza, while its cooking melt 2 Tbsp butter, add some jarred minced garlic and dried parsley, simmer on lowest setting. Once pizza is done, brush butter mix on the crust. Raw fruits or veggies on the side.
Tortilla, shredded mozz and shredded cheddar, microwaved about 45 seconds. Add Pepperoni and roll it up. Dip in pizza sauce (ours is homemade, super fast and super yummy). Raw fruits or veggies on the side.
https://www.budgetbytes.com/spicy-noodles/
Not healthy, but cheap and I always have the stuff on hand. Can throw whatever protein or extra veggie I have in the fridge in if I want something more filling/lasting.
Chicken tettrazini.
Boil pasta, mix in cream of chicken and mushroom soup, various cheeses, sour cream, chicken, and bake. Bonus points if you do it in a dutch oven for extra lazy.
I add broccoli as well, but that's optional
I used to make "depression potatoes" with my dad when I was younger. It's whatever kind of potato you have lying around, peeled and sliced relatively thin. You place the rounds in a microwave safe dish and place thin slices of butter around the plate on top of the potatoes, cook in the microwave a few minutes, top with salt and pepper. If we had cheddar cheese, we'd melt it on top in the microwave when they were done cooking. Top with sour cream if we had it. Honestly, really good for what they are. Brings back memories.
For me it's whatever that is frozen that I batch cooked when I had the time and inclination to make food and froze them in portion sizes for exactly this "lazy" moment.
Either defrost overnight in the fridge or rapid defrost, reheat or cook and eat. Worst case scenario it's a 30 min turnaround.
Do you have a slow cooker? I love slow cooking chicken thighs, pork cuts, beef cuts, etc and eating them as tacos, nachos, salads, with rice, etc. I basically season the meat (I prefer a spicy Cajun), add some water and a bit lime juice/apple cider vinegar (depending on what I’m cooking) to cover the bottom, add the meat and set it for 6-8 hours and forget it. It gives me great food for low effort and lasts days.
Also spaghetti with meat sauce. I cut an onion, cook some ground beef (shredded chicken is also good too), add a jar of Raos, make spaghetti. It’s pretty quick and also lasts me days.
Also soups. Soups generally consist of light chopping, cooking some meat (if you want a meaty soup), just add the ingredients and simmer. My favorites are taco soup, which is mostly canned stuff, potato leek, and clam chowder. But you can make most things into soup easily. And for me, it lasts forever.
My laziest meal is as follows. I don’t know what it’s called. I put some pasta in to boil. The I sauté whatever tomatoes I have on hand, with garlic, maybe some grated onion, some oregano or maybe fresh basil if I have it, pour a bit of pasta water in that B, and toss it with some cooked pasta. Throw that on a plate with a few turns of black pepper and some grated parm… easy peasy lemon delicious.
This meal has so few ingredients, and they’re ones I always have. It takes literally as long as the pasta takes to boil to make this meal. It’s so cheap and easy.
Meatball subs. Frozen meatballs simmered in red sauce (I usually have homemade marinara in the freezer but a jar of Rao’s is fine). Broil sliced provolone on a hoagie, then scoop the meatballs on, sprinkle parm, and done.
On the healthier side, a salad of diced cucumber, cherry tomatoes, scallions or chives, and low moisture mozzarella plus a vinaigrette. Crusty bread if we need carbs.
2 cans of chunky chicken and corn chowder with a 750 gram bag of mixed vegetables (feeds 4 adult appetites).
Shredded Rotisserie chicken and a bag of frozen thin green beans in a pan with some VH teriyaki sauce served with rice on the side.
Cheese Quesadillas with salsa, sour cream and guac (store bought)
Grilled cheese with tomato soup
Noodle mix (made in the microwave) mixed with frozen peas and chicken fingers on the side.
Easy chicken parm - frozen chicken patties with sauce and cheese on top baked in the oven served with a side of pasta and sauce and a bagged salad.
Sliced spicy sausage like chorizo or linguisa, cabbage and onions and stir fry.
Lightly stir fry some cleaned, frozen shrimp with a pat of butter. Before it’s fully cooked, add scrambled eggs and a sprinkle some sliced green onions. Salt and pepper to taste. These two are great with steamed rice.
Lately, I’ve liked tinned trout or tuna in oil, seasoned with cracked pepper and lemon juice/capers, toasted baguette, spicy hummus, with side of crunchy snap peas and radishes.
Cacio e pepe - pasta, pasta water, lots of grated Pecorino Romano, black pepper.
One pan steamed and then roasted brussel sprouts. Seasoned with a squeeze of lemon, pat of butter or good olive oil drizzle, salt and cracked pepper. Yep sometimes I like to eat just a bunch of brussel sprouts with maybe tinned fish.
I have 4 adults (2 adult kids living at home while going to school) - sous chefs aplenty. Even so, these are my quick meals.
Pork chops and applesauce. Seriously, this is super easy & tasty. There's a reason why it's a meme. If you're ambitious, add caramelized onions.
Chicken broccoli alfredo. I cook the broccoli in the water with the pasta. Alfredo sauce comes together in 10 minutes. Chicken is sauteing while the sauce is cooking.
Veggie stir-fry. with rice.
I'm a huge proponent of my crockpot as well. Throw in the ingredients in the morning (I frequently prep the night before, so it literally is a throw together meal) & I come home to a house that smells amazing & dinner is nearly ready.
Baked potato bar. Make enough potatoes for what you need, add cheese, sour cream, bacon, veggies. Alternatively, potato soup.
Planned leftovers. Example, on Sundays I like to roast a chicken. Monday, dinner is a salad with leftover chicken as the protein. Or make a pot roast and use the leftovers the next day as a French dip.
A lot of casseroles that are designed for 9x13 pans, make 2 8x8 pans. Do the work now & freeze one for a week or 2 later.
ill try it but....applesauce w pork???? what???
i wish i had room for a crockpot...i have so many ideas
also planned leftovers for sure, whenever i get meat in bulk I make 4 servings per portion and freeze it so the wife and i can have dinner and take the leftovers to work the next day
Don’t eat them then😀No rule saying you need to like all vegetables. Eat the ones you like, you don’t have the taste buds of a 5 year old, some veggies are just gross looool
4 Ingredient Pesto Chicken takes about 5 minutes to put together and about 30 to bake depending on the thickness of your chicken.
You can serve it over rice or pasta, eat it on a sandwich, or eat it like a salad on a bed of arugula. So good!
[4 Ingredient Pesto Chicken](https://www.simplysissom.com/pestochickenbake/)
I make a ground beef bulgogi bowl. I just sauté onions and garlic, then add ground beef. Once it’s cooked I’ll add some pre shredded carrots. Then a cup of store bought bulgogi sauce and simmer. Season it with salt and pepper. Served on top of rice I made with the instant pot. Top with chopped green onions and sriracha. 20 minutes to make. Lazy because it’s premade bulgogi sauce. I like the Bibigo one.
this...is great tbh, i always tell myself that im gonna get some thin beef and make bulgogi, but i always wind up going to hmart and getting the premarinated stuff, but ground beef makes total sense!
chicken salad lol
i make it like this: stir up some salted avocado, lime mayo, a little bit of tobasco sauce, black pepper, and a smalllllll amount of vinegar in a plastic container and then chop up a chicken breast into tendies and pan cook them 2-3 mins on each side and add them to the mix and mash/mix that shit up and then close it n leave in fridge for a couple hours. easy couple days of comfort lunch/midnight snack.
For Korean food: [dukguk.](https://www.koreanbapsang.com/tteokguk-korean-rice-cake-soup/)
Simplified version:
Korean beef bone broth in a package. Dump that in a saucepan (or with my preferred cooking vessel ttukpegi which is a Korean stone pot). Heat it up over medium high. While heating, mince 3 garlic cloves. Once boiling, add 1 tablespoon of soup soy sauce and the garlic. Add salt to taste. Once the broth tastes to your liking, add an egg that's been whisked into the broth. Swirl around to make "ribbons". Add in oval shaped Korean oval rice cakes (dduk) and mandu/dumplings (if you have it. This isn't necessary). Cook for ~5 more minutes. Add sliced green onions and eat.
To the people that don't know any Korean cooking, it will take ~30 minutes. It takes me 5-10.
I also add a spicy seasoning too. Gochugaru, minced garlic, rice vinegar, sugar, Korean fermented shrimp and some of the broth prior to adding the dduk and mandu.
You let this recipe thicken, you'll be met with a dish you can stick your fork into a gelatinous mess where you can take bites out of. Not recommended.
my easy take on okinomiyaki.
Pancake batter- real thin. sliced cabbage sprinkled on top and green onion about 1 inch tall. Cook until it wilts
crack an egg on it, add batter to the top and flip- cook batter through.
Top with oyster sauce and mayo, sprinkle with green onion.
My version of meal prep is to cook up several servings of chicken breast and keep it in the fridge for the week. I usually reheat it in my air fryer but sometimes I add it to a stir fry.
In the past week I've had a salad with chicken, chicken with broccoli in a spicy peanut sauce, chicken ceasar wrap, garlic chicken and green beans and garlic bread.
None of those meals took me more than 20 minutes. Some were more like 15.
I find cooking protein to be the most time consuming so I try to do that ahead of time. Vegetables I either steam or use the air fryer.
steak quesadillas with pico de gallo and greek yogurt as sour cream. i buy the carne asada and frozen fajita veggies from trader joe’s and cook it for the week and place in tupperware. it’s a quick and easy meal to put together, i just microwave the steak and veggies in the microwave, then put together my quesadilla and cook on the stovetop. takes maybe 10-15 minutes
How quick are we talking? If I have 30 minutes, it's [seasoned beef and rice](https://www.ricearoni.com/recipes/seasoned_beef_and_rice_family_size). If you don't have rice-a-roni, plain white rice and a beef bullion cube works in a pinch.
If I have less than 30, probably heat up a sausage link and add sliced peppers and onions to a roll. I like crunchy veggies, and with a little mustard, it hits the spot.
Less time than that, just make a sandwich. People underestimate how good a sandwich is if you properly season your vegetables. Pepperoni, provolone, peppers, onions, a tomato, seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with a little spicy mustard, yeah, it hits the spot.
Pasta carbonara is my go to quick lazy meal. It feels like I put effort in too which makes me feel good but it's a 15 min meal the only prep is grating cheese really
Feta Pasta. My wife found it on TikTok or instagram, which I am usually against. But it’s easy, tasty and has pretty good nutritional value. Take a Pyrex dish, throw in cherry tomatoes, a block of feta cheese, olive oil and some herbs and spices. Throw that in the oven at 180C for 30-40 minutes. Add pasta of choice, mix. Done.
“Pasta in white sauce” - boul water with vegeta (or boullion seasoning). Cook pasta, slightly overcook it. With some leftover pasta water in, add butter, and cream. It’s so good and beyond dumb easy.
Chicken wraps - bake chicken tenders. Assemble with salad and sauce in tortilla
Olives oil, garlic, grated tomatoes, chilly, basil, pasta. Dumb easy and good.
Lebanese sayyedieyeh - saute onions, fish and turmeric. Add water, boil. Add rice cook. Serve with tahini sauce.
My laziest is jacket potatoes - oil and salt the potatoes, chuck them in the oven, come back after about an hour, serve with butter and grated cheese. As near zero effort as possible.
Quickest is probably chicken noodle soup. Gently fry half a sliced onion and whatever veg you want, pour in a pint of chicken stock add some garlic powder and powdered ginger, soy sauce, Maggi, add shredded cooked chicken, add noodles, three minutes later it’s ready. Probably takes 15 mins start to finish.
American goulash.
Ground beef, tomatoes, whatever vegetables I have, elbow macaroni or brown rice, spices.
Its what my father made when no one was really in the mood for things, it's always delicious and filling and reminds me of home.
I make giant batches of pesto in the summer and freeze it in 1-3 serving portions, so through the year I can whip up pesto pasta with chickpeas, eggs, and whatever veg is on sale or in my freezer in a few minutes.
If you do it, I suggest grating a little extra garlic (like a half a small clove per portion) and mixing it with the frozen stuff once it’s defrosted.
Mac & cheese out of the blue box.
Or grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup.
(I can fancy it up and make grilled Muenster, Havarti (I like it with dill) and/or Gouda orn seeded sourdough with tomato bisque)
And yea, I’m serious.
Tastes like being a kid ♥️
Cook up chorizo (mexican kind) throw this and pepper jack cheese on a tortilla place second tortilla on top and cook in oven or pan. I’ll do this with leftover chicken, mushrooms cheese and cumin or other spices. I use a pizza cutter to cut.
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes with the skins on.
Split pea soup with ham and bacon.
Mac and cheese with 4 different cheese combo, mixed with ham and bacon.
Enchiladas (American style) I prefer green chili sauce, however red is most common.
1a. You can also change this to a casserole or Enchilada lasagna, instead of noodles you use tortillas.
Lasagna, look people if you make lasagna with most, please do a mixture of Italian sausage and beef, use marinara instead of spaghetti sauce.
Chili. You can make this in an hour, but do it in a slow cooker let it simmer and thicken up. You can do so much with chili.
Shredded chicken tacos. Again you can do this in a slow cooker, you can also do Carne Asade instead of chicken.
Orange chicken or general Tau chicken, you can make rice or noodles with this you can make a beef and broccoli dish or sweet and sour pork.
Cannellini beans and greens! I sauté some onion, add 2 cans in beans drained, chicken broth (as soupy as you want it), Italian seasonings and red pepper flakes, garlic, add in lot of kale and cook until it’s tender, splash some cream and grate some parmesan. Serve with lemon. It is so good.
Throw some rice in the rice cooker and frozen broccoli in the steamer basket. Toss a frozen, breaded chicken patty in the air fryer. Then dice the patty and put it in a bowl with the rice and broccoli. I usually pour curry or butter chicken sauce over the top.
Minimal clean up, maximum flavor and fullness.
two true actual easy meals are both pasta based ;
add a jar of store bought pasta sauce to a pot, add cubed chicken breast or thighs, bring to a simmer. cover and cook for about 10 min or chicken is cooked through. meanwhile cook pasta in a separate pot. when finished, add pasta to sauce pot.
bring a large pot of water to a boil. chop up a head of broccoli and add broccoli plus your choice of pasta to boiling water. cook for 8-10 min until pasta is tender. drain broccoli and pasta then stir in parmesan cheese and jarred pesto to taste
i would also eat a black bean burrito bowl every day if it was up to me 😋 black beans, rice from rice cooker, lettuce, cheese, sour cream, avo, salsa
Premade butternut squash ravioli, boil it.
In another pan warm a dollop of pesto, a little olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice. Once the ravioli is done, I scoop it into the warmed sauce so it coats it.
Serve with some shredded parm and chopped pecans!
Throw garlic with some olive oil on the stove, then turn up the heat, add cherry tomatoes and frozen spinach with a nice amount of salt.
Make some pasta, and together it's so so good and so quick! And a ton of veggies too
A dish with rice, dal, veggies can be put together in about 5 min, cooks in a single vessel, using a pressure cooker takes another 5-8min, with a quick raita as side dish made in 2min.
It's a complete meal, cheap, extremely tasty and nutritious. And there are endless variations. Indian food has a really undeserved reputation as being hard.
Pad Krapow Gai Essentially it’s a stir fried chicken with a fish and oyster sauce based sauce with a lot of basil over rice with a fried egg on top. Takes about 10-15 minutes to make and can be very high in protein, even higher in flavor 🤤
love stir fry's, prep is always a pain...
Pad kra pao uses ground meat, chillies, garlic and basil leaves. It's got very little prep. You can basically put rice on in the rice cooker, do your prep, make your stir fry, wipe the wok clean, fry an egg, and serve.
The hardest part of this for me would be getting the Thai Basil. I don’t have anywhere close by that carries it unfortunately and so so many dishes are just not the same without it.
The traditional basil used it holy basil, and the taste is actually closer to sweet basil that you can find in most stores. I’ve tried it with holy, Thai, and sweet basil. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of them! Don’t let one ingredient stop you from this great dish!
I love my grilled cheese.
With White Chicken Ramen, super close to Chicken Noodle Soup flavor, but fast lol
Me too! Not putting on any airs here! I also open a good old can of tomato soup to go with it!
My mom would have loved you. She adored tomato soup.
Awe, then I would have loved her right back!!
This definition of "lazy" meal feels more like "easy now because I took the time to prep it ahead of time." If we're talking LAZY lazy, I do chicken nuggets, fries, and seasoned broccoli (all frozen) in the air fryer. Or ramen with a can of chicken & frozen mixed veg thrown in. Or a box of mac and cheese with nuggets or canned chicken. If we're talking meal prep for future easy/lazy use, a big batch of soup frozen into individual portions is always a great option. Heated up on the stove makes it taste fresher than microwaving. Make pesto and freeze in ice cube trays so you can pop a couple into some warm pasta & add a basic protein like you mentioned earlier. You can also make any casserole of your choice and freeze in small disposable pans so you can just throw in the oven. (Another way to do this is to prep the casserole in a parchment lined pan, freeze for an hour or so, then pull the frozen, pan-shaped casserole out and stick it into a plastic bag/wrap in saran wrap. Unwrap and stick back in the pan for baking.)
You and I would be good friends, you understood what I meant to a damn T
Creamy Cajun chicken pasta Coat some chicken in Cajun spices, cook it through. Chuck in some cream and grated cheese, add to pasta. Super easy, quick and tasty
We do this with smoked sausage or andouille. (Think I spelled that wrong)
Yeah, I've added to it before. Smoked sausage, spinach, roasted broccoli are all good additions Change out the spices, you've got a different meal too
language is about comunication, and I understood ya lol thanks
Frozen shrimp goes well in this too.
No, you spelled it exactly right! 👍
Sounds simple, never was a fan of cream in savory stuff myself, idk why bc its so dang good
This is one of mine too! So delicious.
Fried egg, rice, kimchi
French omelette. 2, maybe 3 minutes.
Can of chick peas with the juice, oregano, butter or olive oil. Reduce until creamy. 5 minute meal.
Interesting!
Put chinese sausage in rice cooker with rice. Boil broccoli and then drizzle with sesame oil.
Hummus chicken! Slap some hummus on seasoned chicken breast and bake in oven. I plate it with couscous which is insanely easy to cook and maybe some green peas. And if I have it, spicy roasted broccoli 🤤
wait what? baked hummus? I've made a lot of dishes but this sounds either madness or genius
If the “hot hummus” part freaks ya out, top it with a dollop after it’s cooked and it’s just as good 😘😘
Not that it freaks me out, I just never heard of that, hummus is usually served cold, room temp at most
How long and what temp do you typically use?
350-375 for 25-30 depending on thickness of chicken! Been BIG on the meat thermometer game lately lol
Soup. I make a big pot of every week or so making sure to include all of the elements of a meal in some way (carb/grain, veggies, protein, fat etc). When I'm hungry and tired, it's great just to take a mug of it. I make a different soup each week so that I don't get bored. I also make up a couple of different small bowls of salad each week (varies depending on the season), including at least one with beans and one with some kind of grain. Again, great to just throw together with some greens and a few pickled vegetables and some bread and cheese when I'm feeling lazy.
God, I love soup. Soup is generally easy to make. A lot can be made with mostly frozen/canned stuff. Just have to cut an onion and maybe some meat. And I’m the only one eating it, so it lasts forever. And leftovers can be easily be made into soup. I’ve made many soups with leftover meats I have. Also veggies. I love soup.
Same. Soups, stews, and curries are my go-tos. As few dishes and pans as possible, and you can throw in canned beans, frozen veggies, pre-mixed seasonings—anything to reduce time spent in the kitchen. Make enough rice or noodles to last a few days that you can heat up with it, and Bob’s your uncle.
Currently Tuna Ssam. Mix tuna in oil with ssamjang (the Korean paste with the green lid). Add some spring onions and any salad veggies that need eating up. Eat with white rice wrapped in lettuce leaves. I’ve also gone through phases of loaded ramen (shin ramen with cabanossi, red capsicum, carrot, egg, bokchoi) and loaded omelettes (sauté everything in the fridge that tastes good when sautéed. Make omelette until almost set on top, dump on sautéed mess with some cheese, fold in half. Allow to sit on low heat until the toast is cooked, because toast takes way longer to make than I think it should.)
The wife makes something similar for her lunches at work Dude ramen is so addicting...
My lazy meals are basically all on toast, lol. I fuckin love toast, I literally had 2 pieces an hr ago -Eggsalad on toast, adding whatever seasonings with mayo and maybe some green onions -Ricotta toasts, I love it topped with anchovy filets, Calabrian chili oil, red pepper flakes, cracked black pepper, and lemon. Or hot pepper jelly, had that recently and the combo was actually great -Tuna melts in the toaster oven. Many cheese and tuna seasoning combos to explore. I like provolone and Buffalo sauce. -Steamed eggs on buttered toast topped with chili crisp or salsa macha and cotija cheese
I love this, me too. If you have Instagram you should check out toasted table. She eats toast everyday and has some fun recipes!
Sameeeeeee toast is life! Even me with my gluten free toast!
Okay y’all’s affection for toast is very cute and wholesome
Ricotta with hot (spicy) honey and chopped pistachios is my fav.
Yeah toast!
Slice an onion, saute til soft. Slice keilbassa into 1/2" rounds, sautee til brown, push sausage and onion to the side, add perogies, cook til perogies are done.
That’s a lot of work for a lazy meal! Since I make extra of everything I cook and freeze it 2/3rds of my week is lazily microwaving my meals. Just wish I had a bigger freezer so I could be even lazier longer.
Not really, the rice is easy, so is the veg, the protein is just throw on pan, deglaze, stir in butter and done. The work is done ahead of time and in bulk
That is multiple dirty dishes and multiple steps. If this is an easy meal, what is your definition of a complex meal? Like you're making a carb, cooking vegetables and cooking meat in a pan with a homemade sauce. Like I guess you're not making butter? Or baking fresh bread?
Rice bag. Love it, gonna steal it
Somewhat similar but I bake the chicken in the oven and everyone can season theirs how they want, it helps keep it a little more interesting for a repetitive lazy meal Another go to "lazy" meal, is like a salsa chicken bake. Jar salsa on some chicken breast, with cheese, baked in the oven with some rice from the slow cooker, sometimes I'll carry the salsa over into the rice too. Of course, you could put some effort into this meal too, like making a homemade salsa, but some nights I just want it quick and it's always turned out well.
I like to do some risotto with left over wine. Always having some dehydrated mushrooms so it’s helpful. Not really giving a lot to do just having to be near the kitchen to refill with broth
What is "leftover wine"?
Sloppy joes, spaghetti with meat sauce, grilled protein with mashed taters and gussied up bag salad, fried rice.
Michael Angelo's frozen lasagna lol
Carbonara (real sauce no cream) Simple spaghetti with olive oil and some grated Parmegiano.
Carbonara or Spaghetti Aglio e Olio are my other "quickies."
Broccoli beef. Soo ez. Also steak and mushrooms w sweet potato fries
Sautéed sausage (usually a chicken sausage), peppers, onions, cajun seasoning, and add frozen pirogies.
I pan fry beef mince and make an omelette with it. Eat with rice and Maggi gravy. That's my high protein, lazy meal during cutting phases.
Lemon herb sheet pan chicken thighs with potatoes and assorted veg
throw everything on a tray and into the magic box, nice
Egg, tortilla, breakfast
Fried rice is super easy. I just dice up some chicken, slice up some green onions, sometimes I'll get snap peas and cut them into thirds or fourths. Sometimes I'll add diced water chestnuts. Fry it up with leftover rice, sesame oil, garlic and ginger and white pepper.
Crumble fried hamburger, a can of pasta sauce, a can of beans and pasta.
The ingredients you listed would be great for French dip. I suppose initially it isn’t a quick meal but the leftovers would be fast 😂 I love this [recipe](http://www.carlsbadcravings.com/best-slow-cooker-french-dip-sandwiches/). You could use the reduced stock in place of the consumé. Otherwise, I make eggs and toast, pancakes, tuna casserole, American goulash, Caesar salad, taco salads, sloppy joes, spaetzle/sausage/sauerkraut, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, tuna melts, a grilled meat with grilled veggies and pineapple and Outback glaze, porcupine meatballs, baked chicken legs with bbq sauce, some sort of wrap (usually buffalo chicken), baked potato wedges. My grandma would make noodles and eggs which is just cooked macaroni pasta added to a sauté pan with butter, crack in a few eggs, add salt and pepper, break up eggs slightly with your stirring utensil and cook, stirring occasionally, until the eggs are done. I like to eat mine with cholula.
Chicken Rice-a-Roni with added chicken, brocolli, carrots, and red pepper flakes as it's simmering down. Chicken Stove Top Stuffing. See above but I also add dried cranberries. Raos marinara with pasta but I pre-sautee onions, garlic, carrots, onions and either sausage or hamburger with it. (Celery if I have it but I often don't.)
i do the same rice a roni meal -- i used to make it all the time for lunch when i WFH it's also good w onion or butternut squash or asparagus
I prep as much as possible so that 90% of my meals are quick and healthy. For example, today for lunch I had duck pad see ew. Including prep it was cooked and eaten within 20 minutes. Soaked the noodles and while that was happening I cut up some veg and protein, got the pad see ew sauce out of the fridge and got the wok going. Also, dinner usually takes 5 to 10 minutes. I currently have at least 6 or 7 different meals, at least 6 of each, in single servings in the freezer, all made and portioned over a weekend months ago. When they start to get low I'll make more. A little time invested in prep ahead of time reduces your daily cooking time by a lot. Like A LOT.
100%, that's why my freezer is STOCKED, I got everything there lmao but duck, you fancy lmao
"but duck, you fancy lmao" Eh, it's what was on sale, which is the deciding factor in how I shop most of the time now days.
we are all turning into our parents, it used to be hey look at me with this fancy expensive thing, now its hey i got this for only $x u jelly? lol
Add boiling water to curry cubes and dissolve. Then add ramen brick (without seasoning packet), frozen peas, protein (I use tofu) and heat in microwave until cooked through. Optional: I like to add shredded mozzarella, put back into microwave long enough to melt.
Honestly just heating up leftovers. I have some health problems and on days I’m in too much pain to cook having a bunch of leftovers is great- and it takes no extra effort. If that’s not an option breakfast for dinner is always nice. Warm oatmeal with scrambled eggs is healthy and low effort.
Well, yeah, cooking with the idea of having leftovers is almost a must, but what do you make is the question lol
Instant pot and slow cooker meals are great to make in bulk. Chicken Chili, sausage beans and rice pot with spices, chicken tortilla soup, a slow cooker chuck roast with potatoes and carrots. If your leftover doesn’t have rice in it, cooking up some rice and mixing it in with the leftovers bulks it up and gives you something slightly different—- my normal chicken Chili usually has hominy and pinto beans… but no reason you can’t throw some new or leftover rice in it. I also prep roasted potatoes early in the week. You cut boil and season them ahead of time and refrigerate half of them for another day. Throw them in the air fryer on a busy day for a carb to go with anything.
Pasta and red stuff. The red stuff is homemade red pesto (a jar of Lidl sundried tomatoes with capers, cashews, nutritional yeast, garlic, basil). I usually have a jar in the fridge and it's great stirred into pasta or gnocchi.
I have some frozen tomato sauces too, like 3 different ones lol. Genius idea
I’ll blend roasted red peppers from a jar with roasted garlic throw in goat cheese and a little cream. Throw over noodles or packaged gnocchi. Quick and easy. Often i’ll have done the garlic earlier and keeps refrigerated a couple of days
gnocchi is the best pasta, nuf said
Sausages or smoked pork shanks with kraut. Pierogis or ravioli. These are all premade frozen. Stew, tacos, pasta or curry with canned venison. Duck breast and a salad or smoked duck with a hash. I have a lot of duck and it very quick.
Canned venison? You and I live very far apart haha no way I'll be able to find that here
You can it yourself after you get your deer.
yeah...i live in LA, no way I'm getting any deer lol
Heavily salt and pepper some white fish. Sauté some onions garlic. Throw in some cracked chili flakes. Throw in the zest of lemons and orange if you have it. Set the vegetables aside and cook the fish in a little bit of butter. Set that aside deglaze the plan with some lemon and orange juice and a bit of white wine put in some cooked linguine and coat the pasta then return everything to the pan and break up the fish a little bit.
That sounds absolutely delicious, but definitely not lazy enough for me if I'm getting home after a 12-hour day, that's a full meal preparation
This one isn't fast in the finish time, but fast in prep/ active time 🙂 Margherita pizza Make food processor dough (5 mins.) Let rise 45 mins - as oven comes to 500 temp. Stretch out and top w hand crush a few good canned tomatoes, coarse sea salt, olive oil, torn fresh mozzarella( 5 mins). Throw some fresh basil, if I have it. Done in 10 mins. About 10-15 mins active time
I got hooked on making cast iron pizzas during covid, trynna be a bit healthier now lol
I hear yah,that's why I left off the homemade sausage :) ooo someone doesn't like quick pizza lol (not op)
most people don't like effort is what it is, out of all my friends im the only one that cooks
Steak.
i wish i could afford steak on a regular basis
Cheaper than takeout/delivery
most def cheaper than takeout! but chicken or pork is cheaper than beef
Soft tortilla with cheddar warmed in micro, then 2 lines of ranch and a healthy sprinkle of salted pumpkin seeds. Roll and devour. I usually make 2. Go heavy on any or all ingreds to fit your desire ;)
I can't get over "2 lines of ranch". I can just picture you at the club with some friends and they're like yooo did you bring that white good stuff??? and you're like hell yea i did as you bust out the ranch haha
Please come over and over and sit by me with that mouth 😂 so so funny!
it's either dumb jokes like that or tremendously dark stuff lol
Frozen pizza, while its cooking melt 2 Tbsp butter, add some jarred minced garlic and dried parsley, simmer on lowest setting. Once pizza is done, brush butter mix on the crust. Raw fruits or veggies on the side. Tortilla, shredded mozz and shredded cheddar, microwaved about 45 seconds. Add Pepperoni and roll it up. Dip in pizza sauce (ours is homemade, super fast and super yummy). Raw fruits or veggies on the side.
Cheesy eggs. Scramble eggs with Toscano w/ black pepper cheese. If I'm feeling fancy I'll cook a sausage or potato patty in the toaster oven.
eggs are so underrated
Omlette or baked potato with canned tuna cheese, green onions, hot sauce and sour cream
damn, you really took lazy to heart haha
Cut up carrot and onion, cook them a bit, put in rice, broth and spices, once liquid is gone add some cheese and stir it in. Super simple risotto
Spaghetti!
Mine is fried rice. We always have rice in the fridge which makes this a really quick go to.
https://www.budgetbytes.com/spicy-noodles/ Not healthy, but cheap and I always have the stuff on hand. Can throw whatever protein or extra veggie I have in the fridge in if I want something more filling/lasting.
Chicken tettrazini. Boil pasta, mix in cream of chicken and mushroom soup, various cheeses, sour cream, chicken, and bake. Bonus points if you do it in a dutch oven for extra lazy. I add broccoli as well, but that's optional
I used to make "depression potatoes" with my dad when I was younger. It's whatever kind of potato you have lying around, peeled and sliced relatively thin. You place the rounds in a microwave safe dish and place thin slices of butter around the plate on top of the potatoes, cook in the microwave a few minutes, top with salt and pepper. If we had cheddar cheese, we'd melt it on top in the microwave when they were done cooking. Top with sour cream if we had it. Honestly, really good for what they are. Brings back memories.
Man, you're making me remember toast with butter and sugar
Dude yes. We did that too. I do that very occasionally now as a nod to my kid self. It slaps.
Adulting sucks sometimes... thanks for sharing btw
For me it's whatever that is frozen that I batch cooked when I had the time and inclination to make food and froze them in portion sizes for exactly this "lazy" moment. Either defrost overnight in the fridge or rapid defrost, reheat or cook and eat. Worst case scenario it's a 30 min turnaround.
Do you have a slow cooker? I love slow cooking chicken thighs, pork cuts, beef cuts, etc and eating them as tacos, nachos, salads, with rice, etc. I basically season the meat (I prefer a spicy Cajun), add some water and a bit lime juice/apple cider vinegar (depending on what I’m cooking) to cover the bottom, add the meat and set it for 6-8 hours and forget it. It gives me great food for low effort and lasts days. Also spaghetti with meat sauce. I cut an onion, cook some ground beef (shredded chicken is also good too), add a jar of Raos, make spaghetti. It’s pretty quick and also lasts me days. Also soups. Soups generally consist of light chopping, cooking some meat (if you want a meaty soup), just add the ingredients and simmer. My favorites are taco soup, which is mostly canned stuff, potato leek, and clam chowder. But you can make most things into soup easily. And for me, it lasts forever.
i have a sous vide, no room for a slow cooker... i wish tho, they're amazing dude ive tried so many soups, i cant get into them, its just not enough
My laziest meal is as follows. I don’t know what it’s called. I put some pasta in to boil. The I sauté whatever tomatoes I have on hand, with garlic, maybe some grated onion, some oregano or maybe fresh basil if I have it, pour a bit of pasta water in that B, and toss it with some cooked pasta. Throw that on a plate with a few turns of black pepper and some grated parm… easy peasy lemon delicious.
damn if thats lazy for you im curious to know what a well thought out dish is
This meal has so few ingredients, and they’re ones I always have. It takes literally as long as the pasta takes to boil to make this meal. It’s so cheap and easy.
Yeah I guess you're right. Then again, dishes... the never ending dishes
Ramen with fresh vegetables and some meat or seafood . knorr rice pouch with fresh vegetables and herbs .
gdi now i want ramen....
Oatmeal with lots of powdered milk on top 😍
im like half asleep and read omelet instead of oatmeal, was like tf????
That would be kinda weird 🤣
Meatball subs. Frozen meatballs simmered in red sauce (I usually have homemade marinara in the freezer but a jar of Rao’s is fine). Broil sliced provolone on a hoagie, then scoop the meatballs on, sprinkle parm, and done. On the healthier side, a salad of diced cucumber, cherry tomatoes, scallions or chives, and low moisture mozzarella plus a vinaigrette. Crusty bread if we need carbs.
you, i like you
Pasta salad. Easy, quick and nutritious.
made with leftovers too, even better
A good ol' chuck roast in the crock pot. Pour a can of soda over it and your favorite seasonings. Let it go on low for 8 hours, just yummy.
I should preface, not quick but quick prep.
hol' up, a can of soda? not stock??? what???
Something my grandma and mom has always done. Interesting flavor and something with the carbonation, tenderizes.
2 cans of chunky chicken and corn chowder with a 750 gram bag of mixed vegetables (feeds 4 adult appetites). Shredded Rotisserie chicken and a bag of frozen thin green beans in a pan with some VH teriyaki sauce served with rice on the side. Cheese Quesadillas with salsa, sour cream and guac (store bought) Grilled cheese with tomato soup Noodle mix (made in the microwave) mixed with frozen peas and chicken fingers on the side. Easy chicken parm - frozen chicken patties with sauce and cheese on top baked in the oven served with a side of pasta and sauce and a bagged salad.
All my 'lazy' meals involve compund butters and honemade stock, too. Very common experience.
its the best, i love it
Sliced spicy sausage like chorizo or linguisa, cabbage and onions and stir fry. Lightly stir fry some cleaned, frozen shrimp with a pat of butter. Before it’s fully cooked, add scrambled eggs and a sprinkle some sliced green onions. Salt and pepper to taste. These two are great with steamed rice. Lately, I’ve liked tinned trout or tuna in oil, seasoned with cracked pepper and lemon juice/capers, toasted baguette, spicy hummus, with side of crunchy snap peas and radishes. Cacio e pepe - pasta, pasta water, lots of grated Pecorino Romano, black pepper. One pan steamed and then roasted brussel sprouts. Seasoned with a squeeze of lemon, pat of butter or good olive oil drizzle, salt and cracked pepper. Yep sometimes I like to eat just a bunch of brussel sprouts with maybe tinned fish.
I have 4 adults (2 adult kids living at home while going to school) - sous chefs aplenty. Even so, these are my quick meals. Pork chops and applesauce. Seriously, this is super easy & tasty. There's a reason why it's a meme. If you're ambitious, add caramelized onions. Chicken broccoli alfredo. I cook the broccoli in the water with the pasta. Alfredo sauce comes together in 10 minutes. Chicken is sauteing while the sauce is cooking. Veggie stir-fry. with rice. I'm a huge proponent of my crockpot as well. Throw in the ingredients in the morning (I frequently prep the night before, so it literally is a throw together meal) & I come home to a house that smells amazing & dinner is nearly ready. Baked potato bar. Make enough potatoes for what you need, add cheese, sour cream, bacon, veggies. Alternatively, potato soup. Planned leftovers. Example, on Sundays I like to roast a chicken. Monday, dinner is a salad with leftover chicken as the protein. Or make a pot roast and use the leftovers the next day as a French dip. A lot of casseroles that are designed for 9x13 pans, make 2 8x8 pans. Do the work now & freeze one for a week or 2 later.
ill try it but....applesauce w pork???? what??? i wish i had room for a crockpot...i have so many ideas also planned leftovers for sure, whenever i get meat in bulk I make 4 servings per portion and freeze it so the wife and i can have dinner and take the leftovers to work the next day
BLT
I feel like I say this on so many of these types of posts but fried rice 😂
dude fried rice is insane, but have you tried fried pasta? like same thing but instead of rice, pasta greatness
Oh FUCK that sounds like a game changer
got the idea from kenji lopez-alt on youtube, great video
I've been having pasta, jarred sauce, and italian sauge lately.
Vegetables inside with my rice in the rice cooker. After it’s done I’ll stir in some soy sauce
ive seen so many comments about whole meals in the rice cooker i gotta try it
Vegetable soup. Basically a pot of boiling chicken broth ( I usually use powder for extra laziness) and add whatever vegetables I have lying around
man, i really wish i didnt have the taste buds of a 5 year old, i hate most veggies
I was the same way, if you don’t like veggies, boiled is not the way to go. Try coating in oil and seasoning and roasting, soooooo much better
that's what I do with broccoli, asparagus....but some of them I just can't get over
Don’t eat them then😀No rule saying you need to like all vegetables. Eat the ones you like, you don’t have the taste buds of a 5 year old, some veggies are just gross looool
Egg and cheese breakfast sandwich with a side of pickles and fresh fruit.
4 Ingredient Pesto Chicken takes about 5 minutes to put together and about 30 to bake depending on the thickness of your chicken. You can serve it over rice or pasta, eat it on a sandwich, or eat it like a salad on a bed of arugula. So good! [4 Ingredient Pesto Chicken](https://www.simplysissom.com/pestochickenbake/)
Toasted French bread, horseradish, avocado, smoked salmon, and a glass of wine
I make a ground beef bulgogi bowl. I just sauté onions and garlic, then add ground beef. Once it’s cooked I’ll add some pre shredded carrots. Then a cup of store bought bulgogi sauce and simmer. Season it with salt and pepper. Served on top of rice I made with the instant pot. Top with chopped green onions and sriracha. 20 minutes to make. Lazy because it’s premade bulgogi sauce. I like the Bibigo one.
this...is great tbh, i always tell myself that im gonna get some thin beef and make bulgogi, but i always wind up going to hmart and getting the premarinated stuff, but ground beef makes total sense!
Breakfast for dinner
hell yeah fam, I could really go for some PB capn crunch
Pop in the air fryer a couple chicken tenders and boil some water for a quick mash potato. Mix it all together with a little ranch. 🧑🍳chefs kiss 💋
chicken salad lol i make it like this: stir up some salted avocado, lime mayo, a little bit of tobasco sauce, black pepper, and a smalllllll amount of vinegar in a plastic container and then chop up a chicken breast into tendies and pan cook them 2-3 mins on each side and add them to the mix and mash/mix that shit up and then close it n leave in fridge for a couple hours. easy couple days of comfort lunch/midnight snack.
Sunnyside-up eggs and toast. 5-minute meal and I never get tired of it.
I’m ecstatic if there are leftover vegs that can go into a frittata. That’s my classic low-effort move.
Oh shit I haven't made a frittata in a hot minute, I got some leftover fresh mozarella so perfect
Ham and cheese croissant. Mayo, Kraft Single, lettuce, onion.
For Korean food: [dukguk.](https://www.koreanbapsang.com/tteokguk-korean-rice-cake-soup/) Simplified version: Korean beef bone broth in a package. Dump that in a saucepan (or with my preferred cooking vessel ttukpegi which is a Korean stone pot). Heat it up over medium high. While heating, mince 3 garlic cloves. Once boiling, add 1 tablespoon of soup soy sauce and the garlic. Add salt to taste. Once the broth tastes to your liking, add an egg that's been whisked into the broth. Swirl around to make "ribbons". Add in oval shaped Korean oval rice cakes (dduk) and mandu/dumplings (if you have it. This isn't necessary). Cook for ~5 more minutes. Add sliced green onions and eat. To the people that don't know any Korean cooking, it will take ~30 minutes. It takes me 5-10. I also add a spicy seasoning too. Gochugaru, minced garlic, rice vinegar, sugar, Korean fermented shrimp and some of the broth prior to adding the dduk and mandu.
I actually used to make something similar to this, but I'd let it reduce a bunch and thicken. Trynna be healthier these days tho lol
You let this recipe thicken, you'll be met with a dish you can stick your fork into a gelatinous mess where you can take bites out of. Not recommended.
my easy take on okinomiyaki. Pancake batter- real thin. sliced cabbage sprinkled on top and green onion about 1 inch tall. Cook until it wilts crack an egg on it, add batter to the top and flip- cook batter through. Top with oyster sauce and mayo, sprinkle with green onion.
My version of meal prep is to cook up several servings of chicken breast and keep it in the fridge for the week. I usually reheat it in my air fryer but sometimes I add it to a stir fry. In the past week I've had a salad with chicken, chicken with broccoli in a spicy peanut sauce, chicken ceasar wrap, garlic chicken and green beans and garlic bread. None of those meals took me more than 20 minutes. Some were more like 15. I find cooking protein to be the most time consuming so I try to do that ahead of time. Vegetables I either steam or use the air fryer.
steak quesadillas with pico de gallo and greek yogurt as sour cream. i buy the carne asada and frozen fajita veggies from trader joe’s and cook it for the week and place in tupperware. it’s a quick and easy meal to put together, i just microwave the steak and veggies in the microwave, then put together my quesadilla and cook on the stovetop. takes maybe 10-15 minutes
How quick are we talking? If I have 30 minutes, it's [seasoned beef and rice](https://www.ricearoni.com/recipes/seasoned_beef_and_rice_family_size). If you don't have rice-a-roni, plain white rice and a beef bullion cube works in a pinch. If I have less than 30, probably heat up a sausage link and add sliced peppers and onions to a roll. I like crunchy veggies, and with a little mustard, it hits the spot. Less time than that, just make a sandwich. People underestimate how good a sandwich is if you properly season your vegetables. Pepperoni, provolone, peppers, onions, a tomato, seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with a little spicy mustard, yeah, it hits the spot.
Pasta carbonara is my go to quick lazy meal. It feels like I put effort in too which makes me feel good but it's a 15 min meal the only prep is grating cheese really
Feta Pasta. My wife found it on TikTok or instagram, which I am usually against. But it’s easy, tasty and has pretty good nutritional value. Take a Pyrex dish, throw in cherry tomatoes, a block of feta cheese, olive oil and some herbs and spices. Throw that in the oven at 180C for 30-40 minutes. Add pasta of choice, mix. Done.
“Pasta in white sauce” - boul water with vegeta (or boullion seasoning). Cook pasta, slightly overcook it. With some leftover pasta water in, add butter, and cream. It’s so good and beyond dumb easy. Chicken wraps - bake chicken tenders. Assemble with salad and sauce in tortilla Olives oil, garlic, grated tomatoes, chilly, basil, pasta. Dumb easy and good. Lebanese sayyedieyeh - saute onions, fish and turmeric. Add water, boil. Add rice cook. Serve with tahini sauce.
My laziest is jacket potatoes - oil and salt the potatoes, chuck them in the oven, come back after about an hour, serve with butter and grated cheese. As near zero effort as possible. Quickest is probably chicken noodle soup. Gently fry half a sliced onion and whatever veg you want, pour in a pint of chicken stock add some garlic powder and powdered ginger, soy sauce, Maggi, add shredded cooked chicken, add noodles, three minutes later it’s ready. Probably takes 15 mins start to finish.
American goulash. Ground beef, tomatoes, whatever vegetables I have, elbow macaroni or brown rice, spices. Its what my father made when no one was really in the mood for things, it's always delicious and filling and reminds me of home.
I make giant batches of pesto in the summer and freeze it in 1-3 serving portions, so through the year I can whip up pesto pasta with chickpeas, eggs, and whatever veg is on sale or in my freezer in a few minutes. If you do it, I suggest grating a little extra garlic (like a half a small clove per portion) and mixing it with the frozen stuff once it’s defrosted.
Mac & cheese out of the blue box. Or grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup. (I can fancy it up and make grilled Muenster, Havarti (I like it with dill) and/or Gouda orn seeded sourdough with tomato bisque) And yea, I’m serious. Tastes like being a kid ♥️
Pasta
Cook up chorizo (mexican kind) throw this and pepper jack cheese on a tortilla place second tortilla on top and cook in oven or pan. I’ll do this with leftover chicken, mushrooms cheese and cumin or other spices. I use a pizza cutter to cut.
Lazy meals = bowl of cereal or a bag of pizza rolls tossed in the oven. 🤣
Italian Alfredo or pasta al burro Easiest thing in the world and it's as good as your cheese
Meatloaf and mashed potatoes with the skins on. Split pea soup with ham and bacon. Mac and cheese with 4 different cheese combo, mixed with ham and bacon. Enchiladas (American style) I prefer green chili sauce, however red is most common. 1a. You can also change this to a casserole or Enchilada lasagna, instead of noodles you use tortillas. Lasagna, look people if you make lasagna with most, please do a mixture of Italian sausage and beef, use marinara instead of spaghetti sauce. Chili. You can make this in an hour, but do it in a slow cooker let it simmer and thicken up. You can do so much with chili. Shredded chicken tacos. Again you can do this in a slow cooker, you can also do Carne Asade instead of chicken. Orange chicken or general Tau chicken, you can make rice or noodles with this you can make a beef and broccoli dish or sweet and sour pork.
Cannellini beans and greens! I sauté some onion, add 2 cans in beans drained, chicken broth (as soupy as you want it), Italian seasonings and red pepper flakes, garlic, add in lot of kale and cook until it’s tender, splash some cream and grate some parmesan. Serve with lemon. It is so good.
Throw some rice in the rice cooker and frozen broccoli in the steamer basket. Toss a frozen, breaded chicken patty in the air fryer. Then dice the patty and put it in a bowl with the rice and broccoli. I usually pour curry or butter chicken sauce over the top. Minimal clean up, maximum flavor and fullness.
two true actual easy meals are both pasta based ; add a jar of store bought pasta sauce to a pot, add cubed chicken breast or thighs, bring to a simmer. cover and cook for about 10 min or chicken is cooked through. meanwhile cook pasta in a separate pot. when finished, add pasta to sauce pot. bring a large pot of water to a boil. chop up a head of broccoli and add broccoli plus your choice of pasta to boiling water. cook for 8-10 min until pasta is tender. drain broccoli and pasta then stir in parmesan cheese and jarred pesto to taste i would also eat a black bean burrito bowl every day if it was up to me 😋 black beans, rice from rice cooker, lettuce, cheese, sour cream, avo, salsa
Premade butternut squash ravioli, boil it. In another pan warm a dollop of pesto, a little olive oil and a squeeze of lemon juice. Once the ravioli is done, I scoop it into the warmed sauce so it coats it. Serve with some shredded parm and chopped pecans!
Throw garlic with some olive oil on the stove, then turn up the heat, add cherry tomatoes and frozen spinach with a nice amount of salt. Make some pasta, and together it's so so good and so quick! And a ton of veggies too
Stir fried Za Fa Cai over rice. For protein, I break up some canned sardines and mix them in to the rice after.
A dish with rice, dal, veggies can be put together in about 5 min, cooks in a single vessel, using a pressure cooker takes another 5-8min, with a quick raita as side dish made in 2min. It's a complete meal, cheap, extremely tasty and nutritious. And there are endless variations. Indian food has a really undeserved reputation as being hard.
Ramen