4 Ideas for 5 Ingredient Dinners
There are few things worse than pulling up a recipe only to discover the ingredients section is longer than your current to-do list. Let’s cut down on the time you’ll spend in the kitchen with these 4 ideas for 5 ingredient dinners. They’re flavourful, healthy, and a few are even one-pot wonders—saving you time on clean up as well.
Using just a few fresh items, plus reliable pantry staples like olive oil, salt, and pepper, and regular seasonings from the spice cabinet (we don’t count these as one of the five ingredients) we’re streamlining not just dinner, but your grocery budget, too.
4 Ideas for 5 Ingredient Dinners
Spanish Frittata Tortilla
This is one of those dishes that tastes good morning, noon, and night, and makes a filling meal from humble ingredients. You can make this Spanish Frittata Tortilla in advance and store in the fridge, reheating wedges on a baking sheet in the oven.
5 Ingredients: potatoes, onion, olive oil, eggs
Hoisin Pork Lettuce Wraps
Quick to prepare and fun to eat, it’s hard not to love a recipe that encourages your tablemates to make their own meal and eat with their hands. The one-pan, 5 ingredient sticky-sweet meat mixture takes less than 20 minutes to prepare and can even be served over rice instead of lettuce wraps, if you prefer.
5 Ingredients: onion, red bell pepper, ground pork, hoisin sauce, Bibb or iceberg lettuce
Orzo Risotto with Pancetta and Peas
This recipe belongs in the repertoire of every home cook, especially one with small children under foot. This 5 ingredient dinner hits all of the hallmarks of a meal worth making; it’s satisfying, simple, and cooked in one-pot. This orzo risotto will entice everyone in your family to the table.
5 Ingredients: pancetta, frozen peas, orzo, butter, Parmesan cheese
Chicken, White Bean, and Leek Soup
This simple, satisfying soup is the perfect dinner to bridge the seasons like the gap between late fall and winter and then late winter and early spring. This chicken, white bean, and leek soup is comforting enough to warm you through, but lighter than most seasonal soups making it ideal for eating when the temperature is chilly but not necessarily frigid.
5 Ingredients: leeks, chicken stock, cannellini beans, shredded rotisserie chicken, chopped parsley
