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    Easy 5 Ingredients or Less Recipes

    Here are our favorite 5-ingredient recipes that are simple and easy to make even when your pantry is running low! Everything from quick pastas, and handmade potato gnocchi, to simple hearty soups, satiating salads, and chicken cutlets the whole family will crave.

    • Garlic butter shrimp scampi with extra virgin olive oil, grated parmigiano reggiano parmesan and scallions, garlic shrimp scampi recipe.
      Delicious Shrimp Scampi for Two (or a Crowd)
    • plum and mozzarella caprese salad with basil leaves and olive oil on a plate
      Plum Caprese Salad (with Buffalo Mozzarella)
    • Colored Chinese dumplings being pan-seared and steamed to make potstickers including purple dumplings, green, pink, and two-toned wrappers with half-purple and half gold and half gold and half white dumplings.
      Naturally Colored Dumpling Wrappers (For Chinese New Year (春节)
    • Easy strawberry sugar using double the amount of strawberries to get the dark pink flavored sugar.
      Strawberry Sugar Recipe (All-Natural w/Video)
    • a pitcher half full milky-looking bright yellow homemade Italian limoncello next to a bottle of homemade limoncello and a fresh lemon on a red and white striped pot holder
      How to Make Limoncello (The Authentic Italian Way)
    • A stack of silky homemade wonton wrappers dusted with cornstarch to keep them from sticking together with a slight yellow hue from the addition of egg.
      Thin & Chewy Homemade Wonton Wrappers (Using All-Purpose Flour)
    • DIY vanilla pudding mix in a mason canning jar with pieces of vanilla beans poking out from the top.
      5-Minute DIY Vanilla Pudding Mix (For Adding to Cake & Cookie Recipes)
    • A repurposed maple syrup jar with homemade strawberry coulis in it made with fresh for a professional touch to homemade desserts.
      30-Minute Strawberry Coulis (Professional Strawberry Sauce)
    • Cast iron skillet gnocchi with sage, olive oil, and parmesan cheese with seared caramelized purple onion.
      3-Ingredient Italian Potato Gnocchi Recipe +Video
    • Homemade strawberry blood orange sauce in a glass Weck tulip jar, a bright red fruit sauce for topping pancakes, cheesecake, and ice cream.
      15-Minute Strawberry-Blood Orange Sauce Recipe
    • Stack of homemade French crepes with golden brown toasted spots, thin and delicate classic crepes ready to fill.
      How to Make Classic French Crêpes
    • two lines of alternating tomato and mozzarella slices drizzled with bright green olive oil, sea salt and sprinkled with baby leaves of basi.
      How to Make Italian Caprese Salad (l'insalata Caprese)
    • Homemade 00-thin crust pizza with pioppini mushrooms, pepperoni, shallots, mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella, and large green and black olives.
      Best Thin-Crust 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (+Video)
    • Top down view into a mason canning jar filled with homemade pizza sauce and garnished with 3 fresh oregano leaves.
      Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe (With Video)
    • a beautifully broiled diver sea scallop in its shell with slightly crispy and golden brown edges and glistening in oil
      Italian Diver Scallops au Gratin (Capesante Gratinate)
    • deep red glistening prosciutto sugo pasta sauce in a navy blue Silit Brand braising pan looking so scrumptious you just want to take a big bite of it!
      Italian Prosciutto Sugo (4-Ingredient Pork Tomato Sauce)
    • Perfect homemade egg noodles for chicken noodle soup resting on a flour-dusted tea towel, freshly cut and ready to cook from scratch.
      Easy Homemade Egg Noodles (For Chicken Noodle Soup & More)
    • perfectly pan seared long carrot slices glistening with olive oil on a white platter
      Best Sautéed Carrots Recipe (10 Minutes Restaurant-Style)
    • homemade spinach pasta rolled out and a zigzag-edged square lying on a cutting board with a mound of ricotto, Parmigiano-reggiano, and spicy salami filling in the center.
      Spinach Pasta Dough (Using Semolina Flour)
    • Homemade pumpkin pasta dough with lasagna sheets and Atlas Marcato 150 pasta machine next to it with 3 pumpkin pasta dough balls covered in the background.
      Pumpkin Pasta Recipe (Easy Homemade Pasta Dough)
    • The silkiest creamy béchamel sauce layered into a traditional lasagna bolognese on top of meat ragu.
      15-Minute Silky Béchamel Sauce (Easy White Sauce Recipe w/Video)
    • A spoon full of traditional strawberry jam being taken out of the widemouth mason Ball jar showing it's perfect gel point.
      Easy 30-Minute Strawberry Jam Without Pectin (w/VIDEO)
    • a ladle full of deep red tomato pasta sauce
      Classic Italian Tomato Sauce for Pasta
    • A bottle of McCormick's pumpkin pie spice next to a glass weck jar filled with homemade McCormick's substitute with two spoons filled with the respective spice mixes to show the color of each.
      Pumpkin Pie Spice Recipe (Best McCormick Copycat)
    • Top down view of a widemouth Ball jar filled with creamy homemade almond pulp hummus next to a prep bowl of raw almonds.
      10-Minute Creamy Almond Pulp Hummus (Zero Waste Hack)
    • Grilled red argentinian shrimp on a grill pan.
      4-Minute Perfectly Grilled Argentinian Red Shrimp
    • cantaloupe wedges draped and wrapped with beautifully soft and luscious paper-thin sheets of prosciutto di parma on a marble round platter in the sunlight with a view of Italy in the background
      Italian Prosciutto Wrapped Melon Slices (Prosciutto e Melone)
    • A deep dark glistening spoonful of my other favorite cherry pie filling using a combination of dark sweet cherries and sour cherries being held over the pot of pie filling.
      Easy Black Cherry and Sour Cherry Combination Pie Filling
    • The Best Spaghetti Sauce with Beef (Spaghetti con Ragù)
    • A dessert plate with a small Italian biscottate (toasted bread slice) smeared with strawberry-apricot-nectarine jam with the hand-labled jar of jam in the background.
      30-Minute Strawberry-Apricot-Nectarine Jam (Without Pectin)
    • A side by side photo of raw blue Italian crabs on the left and bright orange cooked Italian crabs on the right.
      The Easiest Way To Cook Blue Crabs (Granchio Blu Facile)
    • turkey breast cutlet frying in a cast iron skillet
      Crispy Italian Turkey Breast Cutlets (Cotoletta di Tacchino)
    • Sweet Corn and Zucchini Pasta (Summer Pasta)
    • white asparagus cooking in a cast iron skillet with bits of crispy ham sprinkled on top
      White Asparagus with Crispy Ham (Asparagi Bianchi di Bassano del Grappa)
    • closeup of fresh egg maccheroni pasta with purple and red sauce
      Fresh San Marzano & Purple Carrot Pasta Sauce w/Maccheroni
    • closeup of a braiser dish filled with spaghetti with zucchini and Grana Padano cheese
      Pasta alle Zucchine (Spaghetti with Zucchini)
    • fresh spinach gnocchi just rolled and ridges added using the tines of a fork all on a semolina flour-dusted parchment-lined baking tray.
      Spinach Gnocchi From Scratch (Italian Gnocchi Made Easy)
    • A split image showing half of a Biscoff pie crust and the other half a key lime pie in the biscoff pie crust.
      2-Ingredient Biscoff Pie Crust (For Cheesecakes & No-Bake Desserts)
    • Homemade strawberry-rhubarb pie filling on a spoon being held above the pot it was cooked in.
      Easy Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Filling
    • My hand holding a widemouth Mason canning jar filled with bright red glistening homeamde cherry pie filling.
      Ultimate Cherry Pie Filling Recipe (10-Minutes, Homemade)

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    Tasty Valentine's Day Recipes

    • Homemade har gow crystal shrimp dumpling on a pink marble platter showing translucent dumpling skin with pink shrimp visible inside.
      Har Gow Shrimp Dumplings 虾饺 (Ultimate Recipe Guide + Video)
    • Valentine's Day desserts recipes 9-photo compilation featuring Biscoff brownies, strawberry cheesecake, salted caramel cheesecake, fried cherry pies, devil's food cake cupcakes with chocolate ganache, strawberry scones, pan-banging chocolate chip cookies, strawberry cupcakes, and white chocolate vanilla bean crème brûlée cheesecake for romantic desserts for two or Valentine's Day dessert ideas.
      20 Best Valentines Day Desserts (Romantic Recipes for Two)
    • Pepperoni topped pizza in the shape of a heart that's been cut in a zigzag down the middle and slightly separated to reveal a broken heart pizza
      20-Minute Valentine's Day Heart-Shaped Pizza
    • a beautiful golden brown Florentine beef steak cooked perfectly
      Perfect Pan-Seared Thick-Cut Steak (Bistecca alla Fiorentina)
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    Chinese New Year Recipes

    • just steamed homemade money bag dumplings or beggar's purses in a bamboo steamer sitting on top of nappa cabbage leaves
      Steamed Pork & Chive Money Bag Dumplings
    • The best shrimp burger recipe served up in red burger baskets on a vintage carhop tray - crispy shrimp burgers on two potato buns with burger toppings including spicy wasabi mayo, shredded cabbage, pickles, cilantro and shallots with twice-fried french fries for a real classic drive in burger experience.
      Crispy Shrimp Burger Recipe (Homemade Teochew Shrimp Patties + Video)
    • zigzagged square wonton wrappers cut out and ready to be filled
      Easy Homemade Wonton Wrappers (Using Bread Flour)
    • Homemade shrimp toast cut in half showing abundant shrimp filling inside, with crispy golden sesame-topped toasts on plate, authentic Chinese shrimp toast recipe appetizer.
      Chinese Shrimp Toast (Fried, Air Fried, or Baked)
    • Perfectly pleated chicken dumplings on a sheet tray ready to be steamed.
      Chinese Chicken and Zucchini Dumplings w/Video (Chicken Jiaozi)
    • Homemade Asian sesame dressing in a small Weck Canning jar with toasted sesame seeds and fresh chives floating on top, showcasing its rich amber color and smooth texture.
      Asian Sesame Dressing (Easy 5-Minute Homemade Recipe + Video)

    Authentic Italian Lasagne Recipes

    • A slice of prosciutto cotto and mozzarella lasagna with cheese and tomato sauce oozing out.
      Italian Ham & Mozzarella Lasagna (Lasagna di Prosciutto Cotto e Mozzarella)
    • Traditional homemade lasagna bolognese with eight layers, showcasing rich meat sauce and handmade spinach egg pasta noodles in classic Italian culinary style.
      Authentic Lasagna Bolognese (Lasagne alla Bolognese +Video)
    • eggplant and zucchine parmigiana with text overlay stating the recipe was a pinterest and Food52 Grand Prize Recipe winner
      Mama A's Eggplant & Zucchini Parmigiana (Pinterest & Food52 Golden Recipe Grand Prize Winner)
    • Speck and Asparagus lasagna just out of the oven
      Italian Speck & Asparagus Lasagna (w/Asparagus Béchamel & Zucchini Crema)

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