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    Home » Recipes » Lunch

    Healthy Lunch Recipes

    • Perfectly pleated chicken dumplings on a sheet tray ready to be steamed.
      Chinese Chicken and Zucchini Dumplings w/Video (Chicken Jiaozi)
    • A pasta bowl filled with homemade spaghetti with beef and tomato sauce covered with grated parmesan and ready to eat!
      The Best Spaghetti Sauce with Beef (Spaghetti con Ragù)
    • Closeup of 5 corn tortilla steak tacos in a round cake pan held up by each other and topped with salsa, jalapeños, and cilantro.
      The Best Way to Save and Repurpose Overcooked Steak (Tacos)
    • A pasta bowl filled with lightly creamy mushroom pasta sprinkled with grated Grana Padano and chives.
      Easy Creamy Pioppini Mushroom Pasta (Pasta con Funghi e Panna)
    • turkey breast cutlet frying in a cast iron skillet
      Crispy Italian Turkey Breast Cutlets (Cotoletta di Tacchino)
    • A wok filled with Mediterranean pasta salad with cooked vegetables, raw veggies, cured olives, shrimp, ham, and mozzarella cheese.
      Mediterranean Pasta Salad with Shrimp & Italian Ham
    • Delicious Cheeseburger Quesadillas (With Vegetarian Option)
    • a bowl of warm and slightly creamy turkey and wild rice soup on a vintage pink and gold venetian serving tray
      Maggie's Turkey & Wild Rice Soup (Using Thanksgiving Leftovers)
    • A dutch oven filled with chicken and dumpling.
      Best Chicken and Dumplings From Scratch (With Video)
    • Homemade Lemon-tomato vinaigrette with herbs in a glass Weck canning jar on top of a decorative vintage tray with pink, white and green flowers.
      Lemon-Tomato Vinaigrette (Easy Summer Vinaigrette Recipe)
    • closeup of sesame egg salad on whole wheat bread that's been cut into triangles and the middles facing out and up towards you
      Best Sesame Egg Salad Sandwich (Tamago Sando たまごサン)
    • chicken ceasar salad on a large round platter
      Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad (Homemade Dressing & Parmesan Croutons)
    • Garganelli pasta noodles in a shrimp and tomato pasta sauce.
      15-Minute Shrimp Pasta with Garganelli (the Italian Way)
    • Brithish style fish and chips on a wire rack looking super crispy and golden brown.
      British Style Fish and Chips (Crispiest Fried Fish Ever)
    • Iceberg lettuce and purple cabbage salad with tomatoes, carrots, eggs, french fried onions, avocado and toasted sesame and pepita seeds.
      Lazy Day Refrigerator Salad (A Hearty and Healthy Salad)
    • Creamy blue crab risotto served in a white pasta bowl with whole cooked blue crab garnish, topped with fresh chives and a single fresh red chili pepper.
      Easy Crab Risotto Recipe (Risotto al Granchio Blu Classico + Video)
    • Golden brown chicken and pork meatballs in a ceramic dish sprinkled with grated parmesan cheese and chives.
      Best Chicken and Pork Meatballs (with Chicken-only Option)
    • a sauté pan full of just tossed creamy sausage and wine sauce with rigatoni
      Creamy Sausage Pasta With Wine Sauce (Almost Pasta alla Norcina w/Video)
    • A pasta bowl filled the ultra creamy lemongrass shrimp risotto.
      25-Minute Lemongrass Prawn Risotto (Shrimp Risotto)
    • A bowl of simple chicken and dumplings with two dumplings surrounded by creamy chicken soup.
      Mom's Easy Chicken and Dumplings (6 Ingredients: 100% From Scratch)
    • a pasta bowl plate filled with spring green asparagus risotto with three pan seared spears and three pan seared scallops on top with a sprinkling of crumbled crispy-fried prosciutto on top
      Asparagus Risotto w/Pan-Seared Scallops & Crispy Speck
    • Thin and crispy sausage and onion St. Louis Style Pizza with a crispy cracker crust.
      Best 20-Minute Thin and Crispy St. Louis-Style Pizza (No-Yeast )
    • Bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup with ramen noodles, chicken katsu and ramen eggs plus sliced celery, julienned carrots, and toasted sesame seed for extra crunch.
      Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup (With a Ramen Twist)
    • the best perfectly cooked carne asada steak with caramelized onions on a sheet pan
      Best Ever Restaurant-Style Carne Asada Steak (For 2 or a Crowd)
    • a layer of stacked golden brown and glossy pork and chive potstickers plated on top of sauteed cabbage with crispy spring rolls in the background
      Best Pork and Chive Potstickers w/Sautéed Napa Cabbage & Carrots
    • 3 turkey tinga tacos in hard tortilla shells with hot sauce drizzled on top
      Easy Turkey Tinga Tacos (Best Way to Use Up Leftover Turkey)
    • chicken breast cutlets being shallow-fried in extra virgin olive oil in a cast iron skillet
      Easy Crispy Chicken Breast Cutlets (Cotoletta di Pollo)
    • a beautiful golden brown Florentine beef steak cooked perfectly
      Perfect Pan-Seared Thick-Cut Steak (Bistecca alla Fiorentina)
    • a heart-shaped white ceramic dish with black chickpea hummus covered in olive oil and surrounded by sautéed borretane onions, carrots, asparagus, olives, pickles, and sun-dried cherry tomatoes
      Easy Black Chickpea Hummus (using Canned Black Chickpeas)
    • perfectly pan seared pork shoulder steaks covered in caramelized shallots, sage, rosemary and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil
      Easy 6-Minute Pork Shoulder Steaks w/Caramelized Shallots & Herbs
    • Homemade Swedish meatballs recipe with creamy gravy served over rice garnished with scallions, better than IKEA meatballs made from scratch.
      Easy Classic Swedish Meatballs with Cream Gravy (Köttbullar)
    • square pasta with sausage and with chopped chives sprinkled on top and grated Grana Padano cheese
      Spicy Abruzzo Ventricina & Salsiccia Pasta (w/Gold-Drawn Pasta)
    • black-eyed pea hummus in the middle of white platter with a pool of extra virgin olive oil in the middle with two halves of a hardboiled egg on one side of the outer rim of hummus and another two halves opposite and on one other side a handful of green olives with pits from Puglia, Italy and on the other side a handful of mini cornichons ready to be eaten
      How to Make Super Smooth Black-Eyed Pea Hummus
    • basil parm panko crusted chicken cooked to golden brown stacked on a platter with a view out of the window
      Easy Basil Parmesan Panko-Crusted Chicken Breast Filets
    • a bowl full of Reginelle tagliatelle pasta which is a tagliatelle egg pasta with zigzagged edges (with a beautiful beef ragù mixed in)
      Tagliatelle al Ragù (Northern Italian Beef Ragù w/Pasta)
    • Crispy Prosciutto and Sun-Dried Tomato Grilled Cheese Sandwich
    • four Argentinian Red Shrimp dusted each with a different type of flour or cornmeal on an Epicurean Cutting board and a line of masking tape below the lined up shrimp indicating what has been used on each shrimp in the lineup
      How to Make Featherlight Fried Shrimp 4 Ways (we tested so you don't have to)
    • perfectly pan seared flank steak sliced and lying in a row on a cutting board revealing the crusty outside and pink middles
      5-Minute Pan-Seared Flank Steak For Two (or a Crowd)
    • Easy Thai Coconut Lemongrass Blackened Chicken
    • 6-Minute Smoky Grilled BBQ Pork Shoulder Steaks

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    Easy Meatless Meals

    • Best lenten recipes and meals including cheese enchiladas, lobster ravioli with tomato cream sauce, har gow shrimp dumplings, shrimp toast, crab linguine pasta, crispy Teochew shrimp burgers, asparagus risotto with pan-seared scallops, Italian scallops au gratin, and St. Louis style whole wheat pizza for meatless Friday dinners during Lent (A 9-photo collage of these recipes).
      80+ Best Lent Recipes, Meals & Meatless Dinner Ideas (6-Week Plan)
    • Extra beefy-tasting Beyond Burger on a homemade sesame and poppy seed potato bun.
      How to Make Extra "Beefy" Beyond® Burgers
    • A bowl of paccheri pasta with shrimp and zucchini in a tomato and white wine sauce.
      Paccheri Pasta With Shrimp and Zucchini Sugo
    • Brithish style fish and chips on a wire rack looking super crispy and golden brown.
      British Style Fish and Chips (Crispiest Fried Fish Ever)
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    Our Favorite Spring Recipes

    • Homemade lobster ravioli and shrimp ravioli in heart and star shapes on a serving platter covered with lobster tomato cream sauce, showing the best sauce for lobster ravioli recipe.
      Lobster Ravioli With Tomato Cream Sauce
    • beautifully golden brown frittata in the cast-iron skillet that's been flipped to show off it's perfectly golden underside
      Asparagus and Zucchini Frittata Recipe (Perfect for Spring)
    • A double layer no-raisin best carrot cake with pecans and matcha cream cheese frosting, piped in kisses and garnished with toasted pistachios.
      Best Carrot Cake Recipe (Super Moist, Made from Scratch)
    • 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)
    • A slice of the the best strawberry crostata (aka strawberry jam tart from Italy) on a plate.
      Strawberry Crostata (Italian Crostata di Marmellata di Fragole)
    • A serving platter filled with bright green creamy mashed sweet mushy peas with whole sweet peas for garnish.
      Easy Mushy Peas Recipe

    Make Better Homemade Pizza

    • Collection of 25 homemade pizza varieties including vegetarian options, meat-vegetable combinations, hawaiian, prosciutto-arugula, marinara, margherita, mushroom, various cheese pizzas, olive, breakfast pizza, capricciosa, zucchini and ham, pepperoni, quattro formaggi, BBQ chicken pizza, and more on different kinds of homemade pizza dough including neapolitan, whole wheat, bread flour, 00 flour, St. Louis Style, pizza fritta, and pinsa Romana.
      Best Pizza Toppings & Pizza Dough Ultimate Guide w/Real Photos
    • Pizza dough recipe for a homemade pizza with sausage and onion on a crispy bread flour pizza crust recipe, how to make pizza dough for the best homemade pizza dough.
      Best Bread Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (5 Ingredients)
    • Super crispy sliced whole wheat Supreme pizza with green olives, spicy ventricina salami, salsiccia, prosciutto cotto, mushrooms, red bell peppers, and onions.
      Best Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe (For Thin Crust Pizza)
    • Perfect thick-crust pizza dough with pizza margherita toppings (including homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and mini buffalo mozzarella balls.
      Thick-Crust Pizza (Fluffy 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe)
    • A platter with three golden brown fried pizzas topped with burrata cheese, mozzarella, prosciutto di parma, olives, and sun dried tomatoes.
      Crispy Italian Fried Pizza (Easy Abruzzo Pizza Fritta)
    • St. Louis style thin crust whole wheat pizza cut into squares topped with artichoke hearts, Taggiasche olives, caramelized onions and melted mozzarella cheese - no yeast pizza dough recipe.
      Easy 20-Minute Thin & Crispy St. Louis-Style Whole Wheat Pizza
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