Whats up everybody! Mia right here, filling in for Emily immediately.
Second of reality: Typically I cook dinner not what I wish to eat tonight, however what I wish to eat the subsequent day. Chili, all types of soups, stews and roasts, fried rooster, all style scrumptious straight from the pot (or from the cooling rack positioned in a baking tray). However I like them higher as leftovers after they’ve had a second to thaw within the fridge and calm down at their greatest.
So immediately’s lineup consists of 5 dinners which are fast and excellent for consuming tonight, however I feel actually shine as leftovers, whether or not reheated or reworked into different equally scrumptious meals. I am not good at multitasking, however my meals is.
1. Meatballs with any meat
Everyone knows that meatballs makes nice leftovers, and what are meatballs if not little spherical loaves? Melissa Clark’s meatball recipe is, because the title suggests, fully versatile and a reader favourite with 5 stars and over 4,000 evaluations. Stuff leftovers into cut up sandwich rolls; I slather mine within the marinara for a bolognese slap state of affairs.
2. Pan-fried Onion Chicken with Bok Choi
I all the time make additional Kay Chun’s Miso Mustard Rooster so I can shred the leftovers and pile them on high of rice for wonderful rice bowls for lunch. Or I comply with her rooster salad instance: “Simply take away the meat from the bones, chop the bok choy and toss it with a little bit olive oil, lemon juice and chopped celery or recent herbs.”
3. Cauliflower Adobo
I can not stress sufficient how a lot better every one is adobo is the subsequent day, after the soy sauce and vinegar have had time to spherical off their sharp edges. This cauliflower variation from Ali Slagle isn’t any exception.
4. Salmon with lemon-herb marinade
Is there something extra luxurious than leftover salmon? Eat it on buttered toast or a bagel with bitter cream! Grate it right into a salad or grain bowl! Greedily seize huge chunks of it proper out of its container to cowl with half a sleeve of pickles and some pickles! This recipe from Moira Hodgson makes an exquisite dinner and a bunch of different nice dishes.
5. Niku Jyaga (Japanese Beef and Potato Stew)
We will not discuss leftovers with out mentioning some type of stew, and this Japanese Beef and Potato Stew by Saori Kurioka and Cheiko Kumagai, tailored by Hannah Kirchner, comes collectively in simply 45 minutes. Two issues: First, in fact it is going to style greatest after an extended relaxation, however these soy-mirin-sake flavors will sing instantly. Second, if you do not have the non-compulsory kombu, you need to use dashi powder as urged by reader Diane. That is what my mom and grandmother did for his or her Japanese stews, and so do I.
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