45 Easy Cooking Recipes for Beginners
If you're a beginner in the kitchen, than this collection of easy recipes will be the perfect place to start.
You don't need to be a gourmet chef to make yourself delicious and healthy meals. These 45 Easy Cooking Recipes for Beginners are the perfect dishes to build up your healthy cooking skills. All of these recipes are hearty, flavorful, and will satisfy your appetite. With these easy cooking recipes, you'll be making everything from healthy chicken recipes to easy pasta recipes in no time at all.
These recipes are all excellent options for healthy weeknight dinners or to make when you're expecting company. You'll be sure to impress your guests and your taste buds. Because these recipes are delicious to eat, simple to make, and nutritiously healthy, we know that they will satisfy you and your family. We suggest that you make one of these easy healthy recipes for dinner tonight. Healthy cooking for beginners can be a difficult thing to start, but if you try it once, then you'll realize how easy it really is. It'll be easier on your wallet and maybe you'll even have fun experimenting in the kitchen. With these easy recipes for beginners at your fingertips, meal prep will be a breeze! As dinner will be so easy to make with these recipes, you won't feel the need to order delivery.
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Easy Recipes for Beginners: Breakfast Recipes to Start the Day
It can be difficult to make every single meal every day, but breakfast is definitely the most important. When you eat something healthy in the morning, it sets a good precedent for the rest of the day. Cooking breakfast food is one of the easiest things to do, especially with one of these easy breakfast recipes! Breakfast dishes tend to be easy to make, too, and are perfect options for cooking for beginners. Whether you're looking for the perfect brunch dish or an easy cooking recipe for those hectic mornings, these recipes will be just what you need. These cooking tips for beginners are a great way to start the morning — or even if you just want breakfast for dinner!
Beginner Lunch Recipes: Salad, Pasta, and More
Lunch is one of the most-looked-forward-to meals of the day. You might find yourself wanting to go out to eat, but you know that you have leftovers from one of these recipes designed to help get started with cooking for beginners. The morning can be really long and you just want a break in the middle of your day. Make that break even better when you bring something delicious to eat with these healthy lunch recipes! Your coworkers are going to be so jealous when they see what you're eating. They're not going to believe that the recipe for your meal is super easy! When it comes to easy recipes for beginners, these lunch options are perfect for shaking up your morning routine.
Easy Dinner Recipes for Beginners
It's after work, the kids are home from school, and evenings are just so busy. With these easy dinner recipes, you won't be spending hours in the kitchen, sweating over a hot stove. Even if you're a cooking wizard, you're going to want to try these easy dinner recipes for beginners, because they're delicious and just so simple to make. You'll be impressed with the new skills you learn when you try these recipes.
In this section, you'll discover tried-and-true casseroles and even a few new takes on beloved classics. These easy cooking recipes are definitely better — and cheaper — than ordering take-out! From skillet meals to casseroles and everything in between, you'll find that these recipes are the perfect responses to the age-old question of "What's for dinner tonight?"
Easy Snack Recipes for Beginners
You can't go wrong with having a few quick and easy snack recipes up your sleeve! These delicious snack recipes are easy to make, and are healthy, too. Instead of reaching for a bag of chips or a candy bar when hunger strikes, you can easily stick to your fitness plans by making these recipes for snacks. Some of these recipes are also just the thing to share at your next party or get-together with friends.
If you want to keep the hunger at bay while at work or when running errands, then consider stashing a healthy snack or two in a resealable container in your purse, gym bag, or work bag. You will be more likely to stick to your healthy eating plan — and less likely to want to grab a milkshake or candy bar — by having your snacks on hand. Get creative and rotate your snack selection, too. You definitely don't want to get bored with eating the same snacks every day!
BONUS: Beginner Recipe for Dinner!
Ship Wreck Casserole: It really doesn't get any easier than this budget-friendly casserole recipe. It's a one pot meal that you can put together even on the busiest of weeknights. You probably have all of the ingredients you need in your kitchen already from leftovers. What better way to use leftovers than to make something completely new and delicious with them? It's the perfect beginner recipe and you can make it in less than an hour, and maybe even tackle part of your to-do list while the casserole bakes.
What's your favorite easy recipe?
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Sleepy Jules
Mar 02, 2018
This looks like the perfect page for me - my boyfriend teases me all the time since I don't know how to cook (and he makes everything), so this should be super useful! Thanks for putting this together!
Eugenia
Sep 22, 2017
My go-to cheap and healthy recipe in college was pita or naan pizzas. I would put plain tomato sauce on top, a little cheese, and basically every vegetable I could think of on top and it would still taste delicious!
aketch
Oct 25, 2016
Beef Paprika. Braise sliced striploin steak, two chopped onions and one cup sliced mushrooms in a pot. Add a cup of water, one teaspoon marjoram and one half teaspoon caraway seeds. Add two tablespoons of Hungarian paprika. Cover pot, lower heat and simmer for two hours until the meat is very tender. Thicken with flour and add salt and pepper to your taste. Serve over egg noodles or dumplings.
margiekins22
Aug 16, 2016
There is nothing wrong with healthy and easy! I'm pretty new to healthy cooking so I'm really taking in all the tips I can get!
Bbparker1957 29106 82
Aug 12, 2016
Toast garlic chips in evoo, remove, add shrimp, then fresh spinach, add garlic back and serve. Less than 15 min. Delicious.
lindadchurch3 7366 582
Aug 09, 2016
This is one of my favorites for a hot summer day and its healthy and this is all that you need but a ice cold glass of tea and maybe a garlic roll.
ridiculosity 67303 43
Aug 08, 2016
My favorite easy recipe...let me see. I think it would be simple salad without any cooking involved. After that, steak someone else grilled just perfectly for me. They're both healthy foods and I love them.
coupygirl870 26256 68
Aug 08, 2016
the garlic Gouda and Parmesan cauliflower and Turkey spinach shell made seperately in one meal would be great Might try them both tonight
aketch
Mar 21, 2016
Tonight we had healthy Nachos Grande! I lined a microwaveable plate with tortilla chips, low fat grated cheddar cheese and black beans, seasoned with pepper and chili powder. I microwaved each plate for about 40 seconds and served topped with salsa, lettuce, tomatoes, diced avocado, chipped green onion and fat free yogurt. Delicious!
Taylor R
Aug 05, 2015
I never thought about putting shrimp in a pasta before. It would be a good substitute for meat.
Z Christensen
Jul 22, 2015
So nice to see a collection of easy recipes like this. They look really yummy, too. Thanks!
collagegirl91
Jun 11, 2015
I love eating chili all year-round the Heart Healthy Chicken Chili with Summer Squash sounds delicious! Plus, adding squash to chili in the summertime is a great way to make use of the seasonal veggie, and then, leftover chili freezes well, too!
SuzieV
Jun 10, 2015
I can't wait to try that balsamic chicken! One of my favorite ingredients to use
Samantha M
Jun 09, 2015
Some of these recipes look so good it's hard to believe they're good FOR you too!
ecartinian
Jun 09, 2015
I will be passing each of these along to my roommates - so simple, cheap, and easy!
Member 4146479
Jun 08, 2015
Recipes for beginners are always good to have even for advanced cooks.
keenanc 5344209
Jun 08, 2015
These are great for a beginner cook like me. Very simple to make. Thanks!
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