Weeknight Meals

Juicy summer melon with a salty-sweet crunchy bacon topping makes for a low-effort but universally crowd-pleasing appetizer.

If you love the sour-salty-sweet Thai green papaya salad, you’ll love this peak-summer version made with tomatoes and cucumbers.

This flavorful lamb patty with lemony yogurt sauce is guaranteed to spice up your burger routine. 

The only thing better than a tomato salad? Tomato salad with a lemony, oniony roast chicken on top.

This gnocchi (Is it pasta? Is it a salad?) with a jammy cherry tomato sauce takes just 25 minutes and one pan.

Take sweet, juicy melon into the realm of dinner with a hit of Taiwanese black vinegar. (Chile crisp, fish sauce, and fried shallots help, too.)

This fantastic make-ahead recipe is ideal for a picnic or tomorrow’s lazy lunch.

Cabbage as its best self: Grilled to charred, tender perfection, then doused in a creamy sesame sauce.

As long as you’ve got sausage, a quick-cooking vegetable, pasta—and, oh yeah, a chunk of parm and a knob of butter—you’ve got dinner.

A laid-back risotto (not an oxymoron!) in a summer state of mind.

A scaled-down seafood boil you can pull off on a weeknight with nearly any quick-cooking vegetables.

If you’ve never grilled fish before, this recipe, featuring forgiving swordfish, is the best place to start.

Fried urad dal + spices+ pasta + parm = rich and nutty tadka pasta you can conjure up in less than 30 minutes.

Crisp on the outside, pillowy on the inside, and up for dancing with any savory flavor in your fridge or pantry. 

Smoked salt and herbs add depth and sweet pickled radishes bring some zing to this bison rib eye.

A spring dinner that takes 15 minutes to prepare! Throw together the asparagus, arugula, and avocado salad in the 10 minutes it takes the fish to roast.

This elegant pork chop dish with charred broccoli salsa verde makes use of an oft-discarded part of the vegetable: the stem!

Leave the hassle of deep-frying cauliflower to the restaurants! You’ll still get beautifully crispy florets by popping them into the oven.

Hot yogurt soup? Yes, hot yogurt soup. It’s creamy, savory comfort in a bowl.

This easy, weeknight dish deploys a simple technique for achieving crackly-skinned, juicy chicken breasts every time. And as for those peas? Go for frozen if you can’t find fresh.