Here’s What to Cook Every Night This Week (May 2 – 8)

You may think that making a memorable meal requires lots of fancy (and expensive) ingredients. But this week’s menu proves that you can cook a next-level dinner with basic pantry staples—and fast. These seven recipes, which run the gamut from 15-minute shrimp to cheater’s flatbread pizza, call for ten ingredients max, and they’re all ready to devour in less than an hour. Need we say more?

Picky eaters are no match for this buttery, cheesy pasta that comes together in 20 minutes flat. Substitute Parmesan for traditional Pecorino if you don’t have any on hand.

Only a few pantry staples and a packet of ranch seasoning stand between you and dinner for six. Serve the chicken with salad, buttered noodles, mashed potatoes or light and tangy coleslaw.

Thanks to store-bought flatbread, you won’t have to fuss with pizza dough to pull off this elegant vegetarian pie. Use a grill pan if you haven’t taken the barbecue out of hibernation yet.

It doesn’t get more low-maintenance than this family-style stunner. Adding the shrimp with their shells on will help the sauce cling to them (but you can use rice and bread to soak up any sauce that slides off).

Oh hi, farmers market tomatoes. They’ll shine their brightest in this skillet recipe, dressed in a simple mix of olive oil, Parmesan cheese and fresh herbs.

Ideally, you’d shuck two ears of fresh summer corn for this beyond simple soup, but you can easily swap in frozen or canned kernels in the off season.