Lunch - quick and easy recipes - page 169

For this healthy, refreshing salad recipe, jicama combines with ruby grapefruit and mango with lime, cayenne pepper, and cilantro.

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 this easy microwave chocolate mug cake recipe, flour, sugar, cocoa powder, vegetable oil, and an egg turn into a delicious treat in 90 seconds. Raspberry preserves and shredded coconut give it a Black Forest twist.

Montreal steak seasoning combines the British love of beefsteaks with the French flair for seasoning. It’s excellent on steaks and potatoes.

For this healthy coleslaw recipe with Asian flavors, Napa cabbage combines with green onions, a gingery rice-vinegar dressing, and chopped toasted peanuts. You can make the slaw 2 hours ahead, then cover and refrigerate. Re-toss before serving.

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 classic coleslaw recipe, cabbage and carrots are tossed with a mayonnaise-based dressing. For a spicy twist, add optional Quick-Pickled Jalapeños.

Purple and green cabbage blend with bagged, shredded broccoli slaw, walnuts, and cranberries. Greek yogurt mixed with Classic Vinaigrette makes the perfect dressing. This light and easy dish is ideal beside a plate of smoked ribs on a summer day.

This easy, spicy lime and jalapeño coleslaw recipe adapted from Bon Appétit is perfect with fish tacos, or next to a burger. This recipe is featured on our Summer of Clean Eating channel.

Green cabbage, fresh corn, tomatillos, and cherry tomatoes: the perfect summer coleslaw recipe. A lime, garlic, and mustard dressing finish it off, along with a sprinkling of chopped cilantro.

A hearty dressing of mayonnaise, onions, dill pickles, and horseradish dresses red cabbage in this classic coleslaw.

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.

In this healthy halibut ceviche recipe adapted from Bon Appétit, the lime-cured fish is tossed with raw tomatillos, avocado, a jalapeño pepper, green olives, onion, and cilantro.

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.