11 5-Ingredient Recipes Using Pantry Staples

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One Skillet Tuscan Tortellini

These are all recipes that rely on items you hopefully have on hand. There are other added ingredients in most cases, and often a protein which you may have in your freezer, but all of these recipes have been chosen because the extra ingredients are also items that we are likely to have in the fridge. And if you don’t have one of the ingredients? Sub something else in, or skip it.

One Skillet Tuscan Tortellini

We need to get more streamlined in how we cook, and craftier. We have to be more efficient. It will be challenging, but in the end perhaps we will also see how resourceful we can be, and how we can feed our families faster, easier, cheaper, and without so many bells and whistles.

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5-Ingredient Recipes Using Pantry Staples

Two spoons in a colorful bowl of Lentil, Red Onion and Avocado Salad.
5 from 2 votes

Lentil Salad

This easy lentil salad with a balsamic-lemon dressing is bursting with color, flavor, and textures.
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Congee (Chinese Rice Porridge)
5 from 1 vote

Congee (Chinese Rice Porridge)

Savory Chinese rice pudding (read: comfort food).
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Noodles with Peanut Sauce
4.87 from 15 votes

Noodles with Peanut Sauce

A delicious and easy 15-minute meal you can throw together with pantry ingredients and any vegetables you like. And the sauce — absolutely addicting, and useful in so many other ways!
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Lebanese Couscous with Sautéed Kale with Lemon Dressing / Mia / Katie Workman / themom100.com
5 from 4 votes

Lebanese Couscous with Sautéed Kale and Lemon Dressing

Big fat pearls of couscous are blended up with that now infamous green. An excellent all-in-one side.
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One Skillet Tuscan Tortellini
5 from 3 votes

One-Skillet Tuscan Tortellini

This lush, colorful chicken and filled pasta dish will have everyone vying for seconds.
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Grey and brown plate with Dan Dan Noodles.
5 from 1 vote

Dan Dan Noodles

A classic Sichuan Lunar New Year dish.
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Fork grabbing Migas from a bowl.
5 from 3 votes

Migas

A madcap Tex-Mex scramble of eggs, tortilla chips, peppers, onions, and cheese is the kind of breakfast that makes a whole lot of people a whole lot of happy.
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Fragrant Chicken Tomato Soup in bowl near yellow napkin and spoon.
5 from 3 votes

Chicken Tomato Soup

The smell of this savory soup, which includes easily available pantry ingredients, will make everyone within range instantly ravenous.
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Vegetable and Brown Rice Salad with Honey Lemon Dressing / Mia / Katie Workman / themom100.com
4.80 from 10 votes

Brown Rice Salad

This pretty, vegetable-filled brown rice salad is the perfect side for cookouts and a welcome offering to bring to a potluck.
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Pasta with Edamame, Mint and Basil Pesto / Mia / Katie Workman / themom100.com
5 from 1 vote

Pasta with Edamame, Mint and Basil Pesto

A very quick (25-Minute!) vegetarian pasta with a nice dose of protein.
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About Katie Workman

Katie Workman is a cook, a writer, a mother of two, an activist in hunger issues, and an enthusiastic advocate for family meals, which is the inspiration behind her two beloved cookbooks, Dinner Solved! and The Mom 100 Cookbook.

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