5 Easy Weeknight Dinner Recipes, Including Salmon Salad With Grapefruit
Photo, Michael Alberstat.
Freshen up the dinner rotation with colourful and filling dishes, perfect for the wet days of early spring. From tender greens and vegetables to bright and zesty pastas and a spicy stir fry, this meal plan has a dish to get excited about from Monday to Friday. (Plus a saucy rhubarb crisp to kick start the spring rhubarb season!)
Seared-salmon salad with ruby grapefruit and snow peas
Ready in: 15 min. Serves: 4
This main-course salad boasts healthy unsaturated fats from both salmon and avocado and comes together in just 15 minutes, leaving you stress-free and satisfied. Get this seared-salmon salad with ruby grapefruit and snow peas recipe.
Kung Pao chicken stir-fry
Ready in: 20 min. Serves: 4
Prep and measure ingredients before cooking to make this stir fry even speedier. If you have leftover snow peas from Monday night’s dinner, they’d make a great addition to this dish. (Just add them in with the bell peppers.) Get this kung pao stir-fry recipe.
Easy lemon pasta
Ready in: 20 min. Serves: 8
A light pasta tossed with grated pecorino, lemon juice, chili flakes and parsley. (It doesn’t get much simpler than this!) Bonus: It’s a great option to get you over that mid-week hump. Get this easy lemon pasta recipe.
Saucy mango pork chops with red leaf salad
Ready in: 25 min. Serves: 4
These stovetop pork chops cook in just 6-8 minutes and are packed with flavour, thanks to a spicy-sweet sauce featuring fresh ginger and mango chutney. Get this saucy mango pork chops with red-leaf salad recipe.
One-pan lamb chops and minted carrots
Ready in: 50 min. Serves: 4
This supper looks sophisticated, but the ingredient list is surprisingly short. The same pan is used to cook both the lamb and the carrots, cutting down on clean-up time. Get this one-pan lamb chops and minted carrots recipe.
Dessert: Rhubarb crisp
Ready in: 1 hour 15 min. Serves: 6–8
Why not give your crisp a spring spin with rhubarb? Its tart taste is a great complement to the crunchy, buttery topping. If you want to speed things up, simply portion it into 8 individual ramekins and reduce the baking time to 25 minutes. Get this rhubarb crisp recipe.
Watch: How to make poached (stewed) rhubarb
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