So, you have started learning cooking and looking for some easy meal recipes that need little efforts to prepare. Do you want to cook simple recipes at the beginning? Here we have come up with top 5 basic meals which are easy to cook and give you marvellous taste. You can cook these recipes for your friends or when you are feeling hungry and your mother is at home. Checkout the healthy and tasty basic meals you can’t wrong with.
- Crispy Cheddar Chicken
If you love chicken and want to cook a basic chicken meal then you can start with this. Crispy Cheddar Chicken is easy and simple to cook. All you need chicken breast, milk and cheddar cheese that are easily available in the market.
Ingredients:
- Chicken breasts
- 2 sleeves Ritz crackers
- 1/2 C milk
- 1/4 t salt
- 1/8 t pepper
- 3 Cup grated cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
Sauce:
- 10 ounce can cream of chicken soup
- 2 T butter
- 2 T sour cream
Cooking Method:
In a food processor grind some ritz crackers and cut large chunks of chicken breast. Take three separate pans and add cheese, milk and cracker crumbs. Add ¼ teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper in the cracker crumbs and mix well. Now, start dipping chicken breast piece in the milk followed by cheese. Now, dip the cheesy chicken into the crackers crumbs and press it. Now, take a pan and apply cooking spray. Now add the chicken in the pan and sprinkle some dried parsley over the cheesy chicken breast. Cover the pan with foil and let it bake for 35 minutes at 400 degrees temperature. After 35 minutes, remove the foil and bake it for another 10 minutes and let the chicken get brown and crispy.
To make the sauce, take a pan and add sour cream, cream of chicken soup and butter. Stir them over medium heat. Serve over the chicken.
- Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Who doesn’t love Spaghetti and this basic meal will make your day. This simple and easy to cook recipe is perfect to have it at your dinner time. With a handful of ingredients, you can quick this basic meal with little to no effort.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 12 ounces spaghetti
- 1 finely chopped onion
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- 14 ounces vegetable or chicken broth
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
Cooking Method:
Take a large skillet and add onions, ground beef and garlic. Let them cook for 6-8 minutes or until the beef is properly cooked. Drain off all fat. To make a sauce, add tomato paste, water, broth, oregano, black pepper, basil and mix well. Let them boil. Add spaghetti to the sauce and stir in between. Let the spaghetti cook for 17-20 minutes in simmer heat or until the sauce thickened. Topped it with parmesan cheese.
- Easy Fried Rice
Fried rice is very simple to cook.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons sesame oil
- 3 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- ½ cup frozen peas
- 4 diced carrots
- 2 eggs
- Sesame seeds (Optional)
Cooking Method:
Cook the rice with two cups of water in pressure cooker. In a large skillet, heat sesame oil over medium heat. Now, add onions, garlic, peas and diced carrots. Let then cook for 5-7 minutes. Now, add rice, chicken and over them add soy sauce. Mix well to combine. Your Fried rice is ready.
- Minestrone in minutes
This 10 minutes meal recipe is perfect for lunch when you are in no mood to eat heavy food.
Ingredients:
- 1-litre hot vegetable stock
- Olive oil
- 350 g mixed vegetables (frozen)
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 4 tablespoon pesto
- 100g thin spaghetti, broken into short lengths
- Coarsely grated vegetarian parmesan-style cheese, to serve
Cooking Method:
Take a pot and add the vegetable stock with tomatoes and let them boil. Add spaghetti and let it cook for 6 minutes. When the spaghetti is cooked add vegetables to boiling for two minutes on simmer heat. Soup is ready, serve it with a drizzle of olive oil, pesto and sprinkle some parmesan cheese.
- Mini jacket potatoes
You can never go wrong with mini jacket potatoes recipe. With few ingredients and easy to cook a meal is perfect for anytime.
Ingredient:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 500g potatoes
- 75ml half fat soured cream
- sea salt
- small bunch chives snipped
Cooking method:
Preheat the oven at 190-degree temperature. With a fork, prick the potatoes, rub them with olive oil and sprinkle some sea salt over them. On a baking sheet, put the potatoes and bake them for 1 hour. Take out the potatoes from oven and let them cool. Cut a small cross on the top on potatoes. Let the bases little open. Add a teaspoon of sour cream on every simple potato with black pepper. Sprinkle some chives and serve.
Try these basic meal recipes at home and improve your cooking skills.
