Even those who like to cook can be a little discouraged at the prospect of cooking just for themselves. After all, spending hours in the kitchen preparing a dish for one is not always a practical or attractive day-to-day option. But living alone is no excuse to eat poorly, always repeat the same recipes, or surrender to a diet based on instant noodles and frozen food.
Even those who do not have much cooking experience can enjoy a varied menu without having to put much effort into preparing meals. Pasta dishes, pies and meat can be prepared in a short time and provide very practical lunches. For faster meals, you can vary widely in sandwiches and always have different alternatives for dinner or snacks throughout the day.
Living alone is also no reason to skip desserts or live with ready-made sweets. With a few ingredients and just a few minutes, some recipes can yield delicious desserts and add an extra touch to your meals.
Check out the list of 30 tasty, quick and easy recipe tips to make to prepare at different times of your day. To view ingredients and preparation, simply click on the name of the recipe highlighted in pink at the beginning of each paragraph.
Salty Meals
1. Fry: Fry is a dish that takes the eggs to the oven and yields a result that is almost an egg pie. Does this recipe include tomatoes, peppers, red onion, cheese and potatoes? They are prepared quickly in the microwave.
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2. Chicken Stroganoff: This recipe teaches how to prepare a chicken stroganoff simply and very quickly. Ready in a few minutes, the dish can be accompanied by white rice and potato chips.
3. Penne with green beans and smoked sausage: noodles are naturally easy to prepare, and this recipe is even simpler without even dressing. Still, the dish is colorful and tasty with sausage and green beans.
4. Easy Pizza: those who like to venture into the pasta will enjoy this super simple pizza dough recipe. With the dough ready, you can make the pizza with the filling you prefer.
5. Whole noodles with tomato sauce and buffalo mozzarella: here the whole pennette type pasta is accompanied by a tomato sauce that is easy to make some cheese. The result is a healthy and tasty pasta dish.
6. Pork rib: The alternative to preparing the rib much faster than baking is to use the pressure cooker. In just 40 minutes, is the meat on point? Juicy and soft.
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7. Minced meat in black beer: this recipe combines beef, bacon and black beer can be prepared in under an hour and yields a delicious and different dish to accompany everyday white rice.
8. Tuna Pie: Easy and quick to prepare, this pie looks very pretty and colorful. Also, she can accompany you for a few days at different meals.
9. Cabbage and pepperoni pie: with a very practical preparation? with the batter in the blender? This recipe combines kale and pepperoni and takes about 40 minutes to bake.
10. Vegetable Soup: This recipe brings the vegetables of your choice (or those you have at home) to the blender, yielding a healthy, colorful and tasty soup. The tip is to freeze what's left over and have a meal ready on other days.
Desserts
11. Nutella Cake: Does this cake have one of the easiest recipes in the world? It takes only three ingredients (Nutella, flour and eggs) and bakes for about 30 minutes. To make it even tastier, the tip is a bittersweet chocolate ganache topping.
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12. Chocolate Mousse: To turn a bar of dark chocolate into this mousse you will need just one more ingredient: water. The secret is to prepare an ice bath for the chocolate to look the right texture.
13. Ice cream + cookie: You don't even have to do big culinary experiments to have a great dessert. In this recipe, all it takes is to combine ice cream, a stuffed cookie and chocolate syrup.
14. Strawberry Pave: The recipe is easy and super fast. All the ingredients are easy to find and your only effort will be to chop everything into pieces to assemble the dish.
15. Sweet and Savory Waffles: This recipe is to make you want to have a waffle maker! The preparation is very simple, just beat all the ingredients in a blender, and the pasta serves for both sweet and salty complements.
16. Brigadeirão: Is it likely that you already have all the ingredients needed for the recipe at home? Sour cream, condensed milk, chocolate powder, sugar, eggs and margarine. The total time to have the dish ready is approximately 25 minutes and the cooking is ugly in the microwave.
17. Strawberry vapt-vupt dessert: Here you mix strawberries, cream and condensed milk in a cream and layer it all together, alternating with crackers. The preparation of the recipe is fast and yields a beautiful and fresh dish.
18. Banana Cake: When you live alone, it is normal for fruits to get past the point before you have time to eat them. This recipe takes advantage of bananas that are already overripe and results in an easy and tasty cake.
19. Nutella Mousse: This recipe is super simple, fast and has a delicious result. Just mix the nutella with cream and the mousse is ready.
20. Caipirinha Pave: This pave has a cream made of lemon, sour cream, condensed milk and cachaça, and is mounted in alternating layers with crackers.
Snacks
21. Afonso Pena Dogman: The secret of this hot dog recipe is the combination of mayonnaise. There are seven mayonnaise flavors that make all the difference in the final result of the snack.
22. Hot hole: A handy recipe for a well-seasoned ground beef sandwich, which can be frozen for a second time even more practical.
23. Pa amb tomàquet: The name is hard, but the recipe is super easy. It is a Catalan tomato sandwich that requires few ingredients and you can use that bread that is already getting hard.
24. Natural Chicken Sandwich: A good healthy sandwich option, this recipe can be prepared with wholemeal bread and light yogurt or mayonnaise in the filling.
25. Burger at home: This is for anyone who wants to eat without worrying about calories. The recipe is for a homemade skirt steak burger mounted on a sandwich with cheddar cheese and caramelized onion.
26. Chicken Sandwich with Gorgonzola, Bacon and Arugula: The combination of ingredients results in a colorful, tasty and simple to prepare filling. The tip is to bake the bread for a warm sandwich.
27. BLT Sandwich: the bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich can be served cold or hot and preparation takes just a few minutes.
28. Husband's Sanduba: This sandwich is assembled with olive mayonnaise, mustard, cheese and arugula. The main ingredient is pastrami, smoked meat and sliced into very thin pieces.
29. Sea Wrap: just roll up the stuffing? which in this case is shrimp, salmon, cheese and lettuce? in a wrap and the plate is ready. Wraps can be found ready to market and the filling may vary according to your preference.
30. Sausage Snacks: What is needed for this recipe is sausage, sliced bread, cheese, tomatoes, eggs, mustard and margarine. With common ingredients, the result is a different and quick snack.
38 DELICIOUS ONE-MINUTE RECIPES (May 2024)
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