250 Best 4-Ingredient Recipes

You can make a simple and delicious home-cooked meal in only minutes with quick and easy recipes without sacrificing appetite appeal. This cookbook offers an extensive collection of recipes for appetizers, beverages, weekday evening meals, and special occasions. Each recipe has only 4 ingredients. The recipes are all easy and the ingredients are commonly available. Also included are nutrition tips, kitchen tips and ideas, freezer tips, and recipe variations.

Gourmet Meals in Minutes, Culinary Institute of America

We live in a hectic world where there isn't a lot of time to spend on meal preparation, but we still want to enjoy the food we eat. Gourmet Meals in Minutes will show you how to create a wide variety of mouth-watering, nutritious meals without spending all day in the kitchen. More than 200 recipes with illustrated step-by-step techniques.

Fast Entrees

Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison have taken up that perennial challenge--how to develop a repertoire of quick work-night dinners. At the end of a long day, few of us have time to pore over long, complicated recipes. Hugh and Teri offer the perfect antidote--recipes with short ingredient lists and concise instructions that don't sacrifice flavor in the pursuit of efficiency. Drawing on culinary influences from around the globe, Fast Entrees features mouthwatering recipes for fish, shellfish, poultry, pork, beef, pasta, and wraps. Indulge yourself with Roast Salmon with Thai Coconut Sauce, Spicy Mussels with Roasted Red Peppers, Chicken with Herb-Mustard Marinade, Pasta with Orange and Toasted Sesame Seeds, or Spicy Beef Chili in Pita Bread. With such an array of flavors to choose from, Fast Entrees will equip you with meals tailored to the seasons and your tastes, all brought to the table in the flash of a pan.

Weekday Gourmet

Sale! For people with busy schedules, healthful & tasty meals to prepare in less than 30 minutes.

Fast & Fresh

From appetizers to desserts, delicious meals to make in an hour or less, from founder of one of America's most successful cooking schools.

Almost from Scratch

Finally, a sophisticated, gourmet cookbook that enables home cooks to make great-tasting meals without spending all day in the kitchen. Make the most of pre-packaged foods to streamline the way home cooks prepare everything from soup to dessert. Using such products as salsas, pestos, prepared sauces, and dressings that are readily available at local supermarkets, recipes that once took a whole afternoon can now be assembled quickly and easily. A jar of tapenade is a magical marinade for grilled chicken, a seasoning for soup or a thickener for lamb stew. Cornbread mix makes miraculous biscotti, and a jar of corn and black bean salsa is a Southwest corn Chowder waiting to happen. With sumptuous appetizers like Baked Brie with Garlic, and tantalizing desserts such as Dark Chocolate Souffle, this comprehensive collection covers every possible category; readers will find it an indispensable resource.

Cooking Light Superfast Suppers

In a world that makes ever-increasing demands on people's time, this cookbook is indeed a lifesaver. Innovative recipes with carefully calculated ingredients, and attenuated prep times, get cooks in and out of the kitchen in record time to put delicious meals on the table. Clever and always quick, this collection will revolutionize your cooking with no loss of nutrition and no compromise in taste.

The Quick Recipe

2004 James Beard Award Winner for the General Category The Quick Recipe is the result of thousands of hours of testing to determine the techniques that deliver big flavor in less time--all from scratch. Starting with building block recipes for basic quick cooking techniques such as sautéing, grilling, or stir-frying, the editors of Cook’s Illustrated developed more than 300 flavorful recipes, including honey-glazed pork loin with fennel and carrots, lemon pudding cake, stir-fried chicken with green beans in spicy orange sauce, and 30-minute tart tatin. Each recipe requires less than 60 minutes (many less than 30) from ingredient prep and assembly through cooking and/or cooling, and most recipes require 10 or fewer ingredients. In addition to developing quick recipes that do not sacrifice taste, the editors have identified supermarket ingredients that save time without sacrificing flavor. More than 200 illustrations provide shortcuts for techniques, including shaping biscuits and scones, stuffing chicken breasts, or seeding tomatoes. All 309 of the recipes in this 464-page, hardcover cookbook are new to The Best Recipe Series, and 85 have never appeared in Cook's magazine.

New Vegetarian Cooking

Rose Elliot is one of the world's most popular and influential vegetarian cooks; she is the author of more than fifty cookbooks that have sold over three million copies around the world, and is known for her practical, innovative recipes. In this new collection, Elliot presents 120 completely new vegetarian and vegan recipes inspired by Mediterranean and Far Eastern cuisine, She combines an abundance of organic vegetables with fresh herbs, exotic spices, beans, and grains to produce such simple, delicious, energizing dishes as Braised Vegetables with Lemon and Parsley, Pappardelle with Eggplants and Artichokes, Millet with Peppery Leaves and Avocado, and Mulled Wine Pears. All of the recipes rely on easy-to-follow methods and exciting flavors and are accompanied by menu plans suitable for such occasions as quick after-work meals, family celebrations, and thirty-minute recipes for dinner parties. Beautifully illustrated with more than fifty stunning full-color photographs of recipes and ingredients, New Vegetarian Cooking will inspire and delight new vegetarians, established vegetarians, and those who just want to cook the occasional vegetarian meal for friends or family.

Once-A-Month Cooking, Revised Edition

A proven system for spending less time in the kitchen and enjoying delicious, homemade meals every day.

Student's Vegetarian Cookbook

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Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals

Rachael Ray loves to cook, and loves to share her cooking experience with others. In this wonderful first collection of recipes, you will discover how to make imaginative, nutritious meals in very little time, using short-cut secrets, on-hand ingredients, and easy-to-follow instructions. As her television fans will tell you, whether it's pasta, salad, sandwich, make-your-own take-out--whatever--Rachael's recipes always work, and they are unfailingly delicious, too.

Dinner Doctor

The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor, together with over 1.6 million copies in print, does for dinner what she did for dessert--shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch. Making excellent use of the Crock-pot and other labor-saving appliances, incorporating hundreds of shortcuts and tips, and cooking from a pantry of prepared foods--whether canned, frozen, jarred, dried, or fresh from the salad bar--the Dinner Doctor shows how to make over 200 fast and kid-friendly appetizers, salads, soups, sides, and main course. Take, for example, a can of tuna, and think outside the sandwich: Add beans, tomato, and a vinaigrette, and it becomes a Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad. Turn that healthy mixture into a pasta salad with the addition of cooked penne. And make a speedy pasta supper by tossing the salad with sauteed zucchini and a generous shower of shredded Parmesan. Or, whip up a tuna Noodle Casserole like mom used to make--but faster and healthier--by lightening the traditional cream of mushroom soup with lemon juice and lowfat milk and using precooked pasta and frozen peas. There are dozens of ways to doctor deli-counter basics into stunning hors d'oeuvres. Five quick casserole toppers. Five zippy garlic breads and 30 ways to dress up frozen peas frozen spinach. And the 15s--15 cold pasta sauces, 15 ways to doctor deli chicken, 15 meals made from summer tomatoes, and more.

Don't Sweat Guide to Cooking

Learn how to keep it simple in the kitchen so that you focus on enjoying time with family and friends instead of trying to be a perfectionist.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking with Mixes

With the success of such cookbooks as The Cake Mix Doctor home chefs have found that they can overcome the quality issues in many convenience products, including soup mixes and cake mixes, and end up with a better dish than they could have made from scratch. Taking this new trend one step further, ward-winning author Ellen Brown shows readers how adding simple ingredients can turn mixes into culinary masterpieces--in half the time. Inside, readers will find fantastic recipes for broth, stocks, marinades, rubs, salad dressings, dips, spreads, soups, stews, salads, meat poultry, pastas, rice, cakes, cookies, and desserts.