Food Network star Giada De Laurentiis has the recipes you want for fast weeknight meals that don’t go away you with a sinkful of dishes.
You can have lasagna on a weeknight, and it comes collectively in only one skillet.

De Laurentiis’ One-Pot Loaded Rooster Stew
As the culinary personality notes on her life-style and meals weblog Giadzy, this recipe is ideal for when “you want wholesome consolation meals with minimal time and don’t need to do a ton of dishes.”
Dished up with greens, tomatoes, rooster broth, contemporary basil, tomato paste, bay leaf, thyme, rooster breasts, frozen peas, and beans, this meal comes collectively in a single pot.
The greens are sauteed till they’re tender and salt-and-peppered. Subsequent, the tomatoes are stirred in, adopted by the broth, basil, tomato paste, and seasonings, and the rooster is nestled in all that saucy goodness. It’s all simmered for about half an hour. Take away and shred the rooster, then return it to the pot together with the beans and peas.
This recipe is a transparent dinner winner with over 500 five-star opinions from Meals Community reviewers.
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The chef’s shrimp and sausage Cioppino is a ‘surf and turf’ feast
In her cookbook, Weeknights with Giada, the Simply Giada star calls her tackle this dish “Surf and turf in a bowl! I’ve taken a basic Italian seafood stew and given it a twist by including chunks of spicy Italian sausage to the candy sauteed fennel, creamy cannellini beans, and shrimp in a wealthy tomato broth.” And it’s ready in a single saucepan.
Along with the sausage, fennel, beans, and shrimp, De Laurentiis additionally options on this satisfying stew garlic cloves, shallots, white wine (“akin to Pinot Grigio”), tomato paste, low-sodium rooster broth, one bay leaf, contemporary basil leaves, contemporary thyme leaves and, after all, salt and pepper.
You’ll find the entire recipe on De Laurentiis’ meals and life-style web site, Giadzy.
Giada De Laurentiis makes lasagna on a weeknight doable and scrumptious
Lasagna, the Italian-American chef proves in her Skillet Lasagna recipe, doesn’t should be only for weekends and holidays. No-boil noodles, spicy Italian sausage, spinach, and three sorts of cheese make this dish a weeknight indulgence you’ll make many times.
Ricotta cheese, the spinach, and Parmesan cheese are mixed in a bowl and put aside. In an oven-proof skillet, the bottom beef is browned. Add diced onion and garlic and cook dinner till tender, adopted by a stirring-in of tomato paste and crushed tomatoes. Combine in dried oregano and water.
Scoop out a number of the meat combination to arrange to make “layers.” Crack the no-boil noodles and organize them within the simmering sauce. Prime with a number of the reserved meat, adopted by a layer of the cheese combination and shredded mozzarella cheese. Repeat these layers, ending with a beneficiant coating of mozzarella.
Bake till it’s bubbly in a 375-degree F oven for about 40 minutes. It actually ought to be allowed to chill earlier than serving, however the wonderful aroma will make it troublesome to withstand digging into this tacky lasagna instantly.
Discover the entire recipe on Giadzy.