Cooked - quick and easy recipes - page 132

Frothy, cinnamon-scented Mexican hot chocolate is delicious for breakfast (with or without churros for dunking) or on chilly evenings before bedtime. If you’d like to skip the milk, go ahead and substitute the same volume of water.

For this quick and easy chicken pho recipe, you’ll need rice vermicelli noodles, shredded meat from a rotisserie chicken, chicken broth, ginger, Asian fish sauce, basil, cilantro, mung bean sprouts, hoisin sauce, and Sriracha.

For this easy tahini dressing recipe, the sesame seeds paste combines with lemon juice, garlic, kosher salt, and olive oil. Use it to dress a hearty chicken salad with greens and cucumber.

For this healthy spaghetti recipe, roasted red onion, zucchini, yellow squash, and red bell pepper combine with toasted pine nuts and chopped black olives.

Penne pasta cooked al dente combines with sautéed spinach, crumbled feta, crème fraîche, and yogurt in this easy vegetarian baked pasta dish.

My mom’s slow cooker chocolate cake is a straightforward recipe that’s a great way to introduce little ones to cooking. I measured out all of the ingredients, and then had my daughter do all the mixing. Serve Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos with this cake for dessert, and there you have it: an easy, kid-friendly menu. Note: You’ll need a medium-sized, 3.5-quart, slow cooker for this recipe. If you use a large, 7-quart, slow cooker the edges tend to by black.

For this classic Louisiana bayou crawfish boil recipe, crawfish are poached in water with onion, lemon, bay leaf, and garlic. Game plan: Unless you bought them prepurged, the crawfish will have to be soaked in an ice chest full of fresh water for about 10 minutes before cooking, to clean their exterior and cause them to get rid of the swampy muck in their intestines. For more New Orleans-style inspiration, check out our Mardi Gras recipes.

For these easy quick-pickled jalapeños, sliced chiles combine with white vinegar, water, sugar, and salt, with a few black peppercorns for extra flavor.

In this old-fashioned fruit butter recipe, a puree of fresh blueberries cooks down for at least 4 hours in the slow cooker. Sugar, lemon, cinnamon, and nutmeg join the berries in the last hour of cooking.

Fresh shrimp are briefly poached, then halved and allowed to cure in lime and lemon juice. To finish, they’re tossed with onion, serrano chile, cilantro, cucumber, and avocado. This recipe makes for an excellent party appetizer, paired with cocktails such as our easy martini recipe.

Lemon and herbs flavor this easy slow cooker poached salmon recipe adapted from the The Kitchen. Serve with Basic Aioli.

In this laidback crockpot version adapted from the Practical Stewardship blog, browned rice goes into the slow cooker along with tomatoes, broth, onion, garlic, bell peppers, and spices. Approximately 3 hours later, you’ve got a fluffy, deeply flavored side dish.

In this super-easy slow cooker summer squash recipe, sliced zucchini, yellow squash, onion, and a touch of olive oil cook for 2 hours, until soft and tender.

A classic creamy mushroom pasta bake recipe, with penne, cremini mushrooms, fresh thyme, homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup, and melted cheese.

Creamy nacho cheese sauce, tortilla chips, and pickled jalapeños top grilled spiral-cut hot dogs in this ode to movie theater noshing. Learn how to spiral cut a hot dog by watching this Chow video

Fresh cherries sautéed with a habanero chile and balsamic vinegar are the zesty topping for spiral-cut hot dogs.