5 Easy Dinner Recipes, Including Fast Chicken Parmesan
Photo, Roberto Caruso.
March 24, 2017 Chicken dinner plan
Monday: Quick chicken parmesan
Ready in: 40 mins. Serves: 4.
Topped with homemade tomato sauce and melted mozzarella, this breaded chicken dish is a simple, yet scrumptuous, meal. Serve it with a side of arugula salad for a shot of greens. Get the recipe.
Tuesday: Sweet and sour pineapple chicken
Ready in: 30 mins. Serves: 4.
Try our take on the sweet-tangy take-out fave. Bonus: This flavourful meal is cooked in a single pan (yay for easy clean up). Serve it with steamed rice or ramen noodles. Get the recipe.
Wednesday: Roast chicken sheet pan dinner
Ready in: 45 mins. Serves: 4.
It’s Wednesday — the week is half done! Give yourself a break tonight with this sheet pan chicken roast; just toss everything onto a pan and bake in the oven. There’s nothing better than a no-fuss, no-muss humpday meal. Get the recipe.
Quick chicken posole
Ready in: 35 mins. Serves: 6 to 8. Posole is a Mexican soup made primarily using hominy — a dried corn — but you can also substitue in navy beans (you know, if you don’t have hominy lying around). Get the recipe.
Friday: Honey garlic chicken wings
Ready in: 40 mins. Serves: 4. Kick back and start your weekend with a super-simple (only 5 minutes of prep work!) dinner. If you want to give these wings a bit more kick, add hot sauce to taste for a honey-hot variation. Get the recipe.
Mocha-fool pudding with crunchy amaretti cookies
Ready in: 15 min. Serves: 4.
Swap that after-dinner java for a creamy, crunchy mocha parfait. Get the recipe.
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