Quick Dishes to Prepare When You Have Less Than an Hour to Cook

Another Mexican classic, quesadillas are tortillas filled with cheese — queso is the Spanish for cheese — and other ingredients and cooked on a griddle. Those other ingredients can include avocado, beans, chicken, mushrooms, onions, or whatever you fancy.

This Japanese dish could hardly be simpler or faster. You simply sauté bite-size chicken pieces and coat them in Teriyaki sauce. It goes well with rice and broccoli or other vegetables.

This might sound like a fancy dish but it’s surprisingly easy to make. You simply cook the linguine on its own, blend the tomatoes and seasoning into a thick sauce, cook the shrimp on a skillet, and then add them all together. Voila!

Half the work is already done for you with this dish. You marinate tofu with sesame oil, orange juice, soy sauce, honey, and ginger. Then cook up a bag of frozen stir-fry veggies, add the tofu, and the sauce. It can be served over rice noodles or rice.

You don’t really need a recipe for this simple dish because you can use any spice, herb, or combination of the two. It really just depends on how you like your eggs.