A pantry map for 20-minute dinners
Twenty shelf-stable ingredients, sorted into bases, flavor and finish, and the six dinners they make between them. Plus how to restock without overbuying.
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Weeknight
Dinners on the table in about 45 minutes, with honest active and total times.
Sheet-pan chicken thighs with a pan sauce from the drippings
Crisp-skinned chicken thighs, onions and lemons roasted on one tray, plus a five-minute pan sauce made from what's left behind. Dinner in 50 minutes.
A 35-minute red lentil dal that tastes like it took all afternoon
Split red lentils, a pot of water and a two-minute tempering of spices in hot ghee. Why the tadka goes in last and why it matters so much.