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Hi, everybody! Mia right here, filling in for Emily right now.
A second of reality: Sometimes, I prepare dinner not what I need to eat that night time, however what I need to eat the following day. Chili, all kinds of soups and stews and roasts, fried hen — these are all scrumptious straight from the pot (or the cooling rack set in a baking sheet). But I like them higher as leftovers, after they’ve had a second to mellow within the fridge and loosen up into their greatest selves.
So right now’s lineup options 5 dinners which can be fast and ideal for consuming tonight however, I believe, actually shine as leftovers, whether or not reheated or repurposed into different equally scrumptious dishes. I’m not nice at multitasking, however my meals are.
1. Meatballs With Any Meat
We all know that meatloaf makes terrific leftovers, and what are meatballs if not tiny spherical meatloaves? Melissa Clark’s meatball recipe is, because the title signifies, wholly versatile, and a reader favourite with 5 stars and over 4,000 critiques. Stuff leftovers into break up hero rolls for sandwiches; I smush mine into marinara for a slapdash Bolognese state of affairs.
2. Sheet-Pan Scallion Chicken With Bok Choy
I all the time make further of Kay Chun’s miso-mustardy hen in order that I can shred leftovers and pile it on rice for unbelievable lunch rice bowls. Or I observe her lead for hen salad: “Simply decide the meat off the bones, chop the bok choy and blend it with some olive oil, lemon juice and chopped celery or recent herbs.”
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3. Cauliflower Adobo
I can’t stress sufficient how significantly better any adobo is the following day, after the soy sauce and vinegar have had time to spherical out one another’s 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 cream-cheesed bagel! Flake it right into a salad or grain bowl! Greedily seize huge hunks of it straight from its container to scarf down with half of a sleeve of Saltines and a few pickles! This recipe from Moira Hodgson yields one beautiful dinner and a bunch extra wonderful meals.
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5. Niku Jyaga (Japanese Beef and Potato Stew)
We can’t discuss leftovers with out mentioning some type of stew, and this Japanese beef and potato stew from Saori Kurioka and Cheiko Kumagai, tailored by Hannah Kirshner, comes collectively in simply 45 minutes. Two issues: One, after all it will likely be at its most scrumptious after a protracted relaxation, however these soy-mirin-sake flavors will sing straightaway. Two, in the event you don’t have the optionally available kombu, you need to use dashi powder, as advised by a reader, Diane. This is what my mother and grandma did for his or her Japanese stews, and what I do, too.
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