Pantry Meals

How to Make a Meal With What You Have

What's inwards your pantry, refrigerator as well as freezer? This collection of pantry-friendly recipes offers ideas as well as tips on how to construct a repast amongst what you lot convey without a special trip to the grocery or a search for some uncommon ingredient.
So if your pantry includes a tin of chickpeas or your refrigerator a caput of cauliflower or your freezer a pocketbook of frozen spinach, here's how you lot construct a repast correct instantly out of what you've got.

friendly recipes offers ideas as well as tips on how to construct a repast amongst what you lot convey without a Pantry Meals

This page is a brand-new improver to my pop series, Alphabet of Vegetables of vegetables every unmarried day.

But this page is different.

It features exclusively the recipes based on our most-loved as well as most-useful shelf-stable ingredients (think canned vegetables, canned beans, dried pasta, grains as well as rice, say) as well as frozen foods (especially frozen vegetables) as well as a few surprises.

And because fresh vegetables stay non exclusively of import inwards a salubrious diet but readily available, I'm also including some fresh vegetables that continue good too.

Here are my goals.

Start amongst pantry & freezer ingredients that easily springboard into an actual meal

Offer only a handful of recipes per ingredient, each amongst relatively few other ingredients

Identify the other ingredients to complete the meal, a one-stop expect vs paging through recipe after recipe.

Think through substitutes, how to position the utilisation of ingredients to conduct decisions on omissions as well as substitutions

Soup! Because soup is slowly to make, fills you lot up, keeps good as well as frequently freezes good ... as well as its footing is, well, water, null to a greater extent than probable to move easily on paw than water.

What follows are shortlists of recipes that kickoff amongst a unmarried ingredient, some fresh, some shelf-stable or from the freezer.

Quick Tips for Pantry Cooking

THAW MEAT SAFELY Keep a pound of chicken, a pound of hamburger inwards the freezer. To safely thaw the meat inwards 60-90 minutes, submerge the bundle inwards mutual frigidity (yes, cold, non hot) water. For upwardly to a span of hours, the meat tin thaw on the counter. But I similar to set the bowl of H2O as well as meat into the refrigerator at breakfast, it'll move thawed as well as ready to ready past times dinnertime without opportunity of the meat getting equally good warm equally it thaws out.

STOCK UP When you're shopping, store for staples amongst an optic on the future. Instead of buying only 1 tin of dried beans (or frozen broccoli or dried pasta ... etc.), purchase iii or vi or fifty-fifty a case.

CHEESE Cheese freezes well, specially dry out cheeses similar parmesan. I purchase large blocks of cheese from warehouse clubs, cutting them into pieces, roll the pieces individually inwards wax newspaper to freeze inwards a large ziplock freezer bag. Block cheeses freeze improve than sliced as well as grated cheese; after freezing, cheese slices may non split good as well as grated cheese may plow clumpy.

CILANTRO & PARSLEY Bundles of fresh cilantro as well as parsley tin continue for 2-3 weeks. Just continue the bundle intact, cut down a niggling fighting off the stems as well as insert into a drinking drinking glass amongst a niggling water. Refresh the H2O every few days.

GREEN ONIONS Fresh dark-green onions continue for 2-3 weeks when treated similar fresh flowers, run into How To Keep Green Onions Fresh for Weeks.

LEMONS & LIMES Freeze whole lemons to utilisation later, 1 at a time. One volition thaw inwards nether an lx minutes on the counter or inwards thirty seconds inwards the microwave.

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Simple Meals to Make
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Common Pantry Ingredients
Can of Chickpeas
Frozen Spinach
One Egg
Head of Cauliflower
Bag of Lentils
Rotisserie Chicken
Pound of Hamburger

novel ingredients added every calendar week
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Alphabet of Vegetables
from A Veggie Venture, my nutrient weblog virtually vegetables

About This Recipe Collection

Canned Chickpeas
(assumes tabular array salt as well as pepper are on hand)
SALAD SUPPER
Chicka Chicka Chickpea Lunch

chickpeas + lemon + parmesan

Quick. Weeknight Easy. High Protein. Vegetarian.

SALAD SUPPER
Warm Butternut Squash & Chickpea Salad amongst Tahini Dressing

chickpeas + roasted squelch + lemon + tahini + parsley/cilantro

Fresh & Seasonal, Perfect for a Cozy Mid-Winter Dinner. Easy Weeknight Supper. Weight Watchers Friendly. Not only vegan, Vegan Done Real. Naturally Gluten Free. Leftovers Freeze Well.

ONE-SKILLET DINNER
Chickpeas amongst Tomatoes, Spinach & Feta

chickpeas + love apple tree glue + canned love apple tree + chickpeas + feta

Vegetarian. Quick Supper. Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep.

VEGGIE BURGERS
Chickpea Cakes amongst Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce

chickpeas + yogurt + egg + staff of life crumbs + dark-green onion + cilantro + cucumber

Fresh Flavors. Easy Weeknight Vegetarian Dinner. Low Fat. High Protein. Weight Watchers Friendly.

FLAVOR-PACKED & FLEXIBLE
Chipotle Chickpea Salad

chickpeas + mayo + lime + chipotle inwards adobo sauce + love apple tree + bell pepper + cilantro

Rave Reviews! Fresh & Seasonal. A Summer Classic. Great for Meal Prep. Easy Weeknight Supper. Low Carb. Low Fat. Scales from Small Plates to Large Platters. Weight Watchers Friendly. Easily Vegan. Naturally Gluten Free.

VEGAN MAKEOVER
Vegan Chickpea Gumbo

chickpeas + pepper + celery + canned love apple tree + okra + hot sauce + liquid smoke

Fresh & Seasonal. A Cajun Classic. Great for Meal Prep. Low Fat. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Weight Watchers Friendly. Vegan. Easily Gluten Free. Leftovers Freeze Well.

WARM COMFORT FOOD
Hot & Sour Chickpeas (Chana Masala)

chickpeas + ginger + canned love apple tree + lemon

Quick. Easy. Vegan. Leftovers Freeze Well.

SANDWICH SPREAD
Chunky 'Choke & Chickpea Chow

chickpeas + canned artichoke + pickles + bell pepper + celery + capers + mayo + mustard

Weight Watchers Friendly. Vegetarian or Easily Vegan. Leftovers Freeze Well.

More Recipes Calling for Chickpeas
chickpea recipes
from A Veggie Venture

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FROZEN SPINACH
(assumes cooking oil, onion, tabular array salt as well as pepper are on hand)

BREAKFAST CASSEROLE
Easy Make-Ahead Breakfast Casserole

spinach + frozen hash browns + spices + cheese + eggs + salsa

A Master Recipe, Specially Suited for Easy Adaptations.

BREAKFAST CASSEROLE
Spin Dip Baked Eggs

spinach + ruddy pepper + cream cheese + milk + eggs

Budget Friendly. One Pot. Weight Watchers Friendly.

EASY MEALS
Greens & Grits

spinach + grits + mushroom + canned love apple tree + maple syrup + chipotle inwards adobo sauce

Vegan. High Protein. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly.

CHEESY CASSEROLE
Turkey Florentine

spinach + butter + bouillon cube + other veggies + milk + flour + milk + cheese + cooked turkey or other meat

Budget Friendly.

BURGER NIGHT
Spinach Burgers

spinach + terra firma meat + spices

Leftovers Freeze Well. Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep.

ONE-SKILLET DINNER
Chickpeas amongst Tomatoes, Spinach & Feta

spinach + garlic + love apple tree glue + canned love apple tree + chickpeas + feta

Vegetarian. Quick Supper. Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep.

MAKE-AHEAD CASSEROLE
Creamy Spinach amongst Artichokes

spinach + cream cheese + butter + lemon juice + spices + canned artichokes

Good for Meal Prep. Add Cooked Protein for Full Meal.

ONE-SKILLET ADAPTABILITY
Warm Lentil Salad amongst Spinach & Goat Cheese

spinach + lentils + celery + bell pepper + vinegar + caprine animal cheese

Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Fat. High Protein. Gluten Free. Vegetarian. One Pot.

More Recipes Calling for Spinach
Fresh & Frozen
spinach recipes
from A Veggie Venture

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JUST ONE EGG?!
(assumes cooking oil, tabular array salt as well as pepper are on hand)

MAKE PANCAKES!
Lifetime Pancakes

one egg + yogurt + flour + saccharide + baking pulverisation + baking soda + cinnamon

Scales from Small Batch to Big Batch. Budget Friendly. Leftovers Freeze Well. Skip the Syrup for Savory Pancakes.

More Pancake Recipes
Make Tonight a Pancake Night

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Head of Cauliflower
(assumes cooking oil, onion, tabular array salt as well as pepper are on hand)

SOUP!
No-Cream Creamy Cauliflower Soup

cauliflower + stock

Spicy Cauliflower Soup

cauliflower + carrot + spices + stock

COMFORT FOOD
One-Skillet Cauliflower Casserole amongst Cheese Sauce

cauliflower + milk + flour + mustard + cheese + staff of life crumbs

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Vegetarian. Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Carb.

LOW-CARB RISOTTO
Cauliflower Castilian "Rice"

cauliflower + bell pepper + garlic + canned tomato

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Vegetarian. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Carb.

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A Bag of Lentils
(assumes cooking oil, onion, tabular array salt as well as pepper are on hand)

CONCEPT RECIPE
Veggie Burritos amongst Cilantro Sauce

lentils + jalapeño + murphy + love apple tree + spinach + lime or lemon + cilantro + spices + tortillas

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Vegetarian. Weight Watchers Friendly. High Protein.

GIANT POT OF SOUP
Slow Cooker Vegetarian Lentil Sloppy Joes

lentils + canned love apple tree + love apple tree glue + bell pepper + vinegar + garlic + spices

Smells So Good! Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Vegetarian. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly.

SINGLE SKILLET
Lentil, Pepper & Spinach Supper amongst Crispy Tofu & Indian Spices

lentils + bell pepper + garlic + ginger + spinach + spices + tofu

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Vegan. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly. High Protein.

ONE-SKILLET ADAPTABILITY
Warm Lentil Salad amongst Spinach & Goat Cheese

lentils + celery + bell pepper + vinegar + caprine animal cheese + spinach

Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Fat. High Protein. Gluten Free. Vegetarian. One Pot.

JUST ADD PROTEIN or ROASTED VEGETABLES
Best-Ever Lentil Salad

lentils + carrots + turnip + garlic + mustard + vinegar + olive fossil oil

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Carb.

STOVETOP or SLOW COOKER
Sweet Potato Curry amongst Red Lentils, Roasted Peppers & Spinach

lentils + garlic + curry glue + sweetness potatoes + love apple tree sauce + roasted ruddy pepper + spinach

Budget Friendly. One Pot. Vegan. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly. High Protein.

MEATLESS MONDAY
Falafel Burgers (Lentil Burgers)

lentils + oatmeal + garlic + egg + spices + yogurt + mint

Budget Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. Vegetarian. Gluten Free. Weight Watchers Friendly. High Protein.

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Rotisserie Chicken
(assumes cooking oil, onion, garlic, tabular array salt as well as pepper, mutual herbs & spices, vinegar are on hand)

SOUP
My Chicken Noodle Soup

chicken + stock + thyme + carrots + celery + pasta

Budget Friendly. Family Friendly. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot. Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Carb. High Protein.

MAKE STOCK!
No-Big-Deal Homemade Chicken Stock Don't toss that carcass.

chicken carcass + H2O + fourth dimension + that's actually it

Budget Friendly, Basically Free. Freezes Well. Good for Meal Prep. One Pot.

CASUAL SUPPER
Easy Green Republic of Chile Chicken Enchiladas

chicken + canned chiles + bell pepper + corn + cheese + flour tortillas + yogurt + salsa verde + spices + love apple tree + cilantro

Hot Food, Fast. Budget Friendly. High Protein.

CHILI!
Alphabet of Vegetables

These recipes are collected for my multi-part series