30-Minute Meals! Our Top 8 Recipes for Quick Summer Home Cooking
When the temperatures rise, how do you keep cool in the kitchen?
Hot days call for fast suppers that are as satisfying as they are easy to make.
This week, we’re sharing our favorite no-sweat summer dinners, like: refreshing lettuce wraps you can eat with your hands while sitting on the porch, cold noodles slicked with a savory sauce, and creamy chilled silken tofu, so soft it melts on your tongue. Whether you're craving something ice-cold, brazenly charred, or meltingly cheesy, we’ve rounded up the recipes from this week’s episode below.
We’ve put together realistic, weeknight-ready ideas for getting dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less, while maximizing peak produce and minimizing the amount of dishes you need to dirty.
Skip the sweat and savor the season — press play now and discover more summer dinner shortcuts!
What’s your favorite speedy summer dinner?
RECIPE ROUNDUP:
Cold silken tofu with chili soy sauce by The Floured Camera
Korean multigrain rice from Maangchi, and a quicker version that doesn’t require soaking your grains from Tiffy Cooks
Ground turkey, shitake, and cashew lettuce wraps by Cybelle Tondu from NYT Cooking (unlocked), and a vegetarian mushroom tofu PF Chang copycat recipe
30-minute sheet-pan chicken fajitas from Midwest Foodie Blog
Caprese chicken by Ree Drummond, can be served with Ciabatta or focaccia. While it takes longer than 30-minutes, we do love making Carolina Gelen’s focaccia recipe at home.
Jamie Oliver’s eggplant flatbread. We also like this yogurt flatbread from Smitten Kitchen as a base (but it does ask you to let the dough rest for 30 minutes).
Farfalle with yogurt & zucchini by George Germon and Johanne Killeen for Food & Wine
Cold noodles with zucchini by Erik Kim for NYT Cooking (unlocked)
Green bean and scallion pancake by Justin Chapple for Food & Wine
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That yogurt pasta sounds so good!