What are your"too lazy to cook" recipe ?

I like to take those boxes of breakfast cereal they sell and I like to whip them up in a big bowl with some milk. I call it cereal with milk.

Fake pizza: Make toast. Drizzle toast with a little bit of olive oil. Smear tomato paste on toast. Sprinkle with garlic powder and oregano. Top with a slice of provolone.

Cook some rice in a rice cooker, top it with a runny sunny-side up egg, add some high quality soy sauce and a bit of butter. Sliced green onions if I'm feeling less lazy.

Pesto pasta.

1. Cook a packet of pasta and drain

2. Put in a bottle of pesto

Done.

I have an electric kettle, so instant ramen. I live near an asian grocery store, so I also have a ton of ramen varieties

Bake some frozen chicken nuggets, toss in buffalo sauce, cut up some iceberg lettuce and throw it all in a soft tortilla with ranch.

or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread

You can't just disrespect Germany like that...

Rice via rice cooker. Ground chicken cooked in a frying pan with preminced garlic and squeeze tub of ginger. Pinto beans from a can. Mix em all together in a bowl with shredded cheese.

Tofu scramble. I premake the spice mix, then open up a pack of tofu and crumble it into a preheated pan with oil, sprinkle over the spice mix, add black beans then pepper and sriracha (as well as a bit more of the spice mix), stir and heat it up a bit, then done. If I'm feeling less lazy, I'll add veggies and stuff, but it's honestly decent like this with the right spices. Here's what I use for my spice mix (this is for a full jar which will last between 10 to 20 meals depending on how heavily seasoned I'm feeling that month):

• 8 tablespoons nutritional yeast
• 4 teaspoons chili powder
• 4 teaspoons ground cumin
• 4 teaspoons black salt (also called kala namak) or regular salt
• 3 teaspoons turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Boxed mac n cheese with tuna

Open faced sandwiches (smørbrød/smørrebrød/smörgås) - slice of bread or toast, butter and some topping.

Very nearly as no-effort is boiling or frying an egg. Very nearly as no-effort as that is a scramble or omelette. Grilled cheese sandwich. Pasta with butter (sauce), garlic and/or chili oil. Baguette/sub/hoagie kind of thing as an upgrade on the sandwich - they sell "half-baked" ones that keep for a good while. Bacon and eggs, carbs optional.

A basic stir fry or meat-in-pan-sauce are still easy. Get whatever equipment makes your preferred foods (or healthy eating) easier.

A real cheat code here is when you truly can't find it in you to cook, have some easy heat and eat meal or something and then plan + prepare tomorrow's dinner.

Microwave burrito + take chicken out of the freezer for tomorrow

"Every Day Dal" from Curries Without Worries 1 cup split red lentils Tbl ghee or butter 1-2 dried red chilies Tbs tumeric Tbs cumin 1-3 Tbs salt (to taste) 1 Tbs each minced ginger and garlic 5 cups water

Put in large pot bring to boil simmer 35+/- min stir it you want

Feeds 6-8 people & nice w rice

Omelette. Ham and Cheese. Low carb and tasty.

Quesadillas!

If you're lazy but not in a rush, legume soup. Throw lentils, canned chopped tomatoes, frozen veg and some spices and maybe stock powder in a pot and wait. If you don't want to wait for lentils to cook, replace by canned beans. Easy, cheap, minimal cleanup (this is usually the part I'm too lazy for) and very reasonably healthy.

• Turn on your oven at 200c, ballpark
• Trim any excess skin you don't wanna eat off of a bunch of chicken thighs
• Chuck the thighs in a baking sheet skin up
• Wash some potatoes and cut em into wedges. You can peel em if you want
• Chuck em in the baking sheet with the chicken
• Sprinkle on some salt, and a bunch of other spices that work with chicken and/or potatoes. Garlic powder, pepper, paprika, fuckin dry basil or whatever, idk. Try to get it on both sides of the chicken but if you CBA just get it on the skin side
• Drizzle some sunflower or olive oil all over everything. Just a bit is fine
• Put the baking sheet in the oven. Doesn't matter if the oven isn't fully heated, it's fine
• Come back in like 1h and check if the chicken's done. Come back every 10 min after that until it is
• Once it's cooked, you might turn on the fan to crisp up the skin and the potatoes a little more, or maybe not, whatever

It's gonna be the most 7.5/10 dinner but it's like 5 min prep, it reheats fine, and you can walk away and shower or take a nap. You can wash the baking sheet tomorrow, who cares? It was the first 'recipe' I learned how to cook in college, and it's still my go-to lazy weekday recipe.

Lazy Chicken

1. Pour about a centimeter white rice in a baking dish. I prefer something a 20x30cm tempered glass one, but I'm sure you can use whatever.
2. Add frozen vegetables on top.
3. Dissolve a chicken broth cube hot or boiling water, pour into dish, add water to a bit above the rice.
4. Place frozen chicken legs on top, or whatever other frozen chicken pieces you'd like.
5. Generously season chicken.
6. Stick in oven for about an hour at 200°C.

You might need to add boiling water while it's cooking, but after making it a couple times you'll know about how much water is needed from the start.

Make rice, throw minced meat in, done. It looks like dog food but it's pretty good.

Pasta and jarred sauce

• Two minute noodles (ramen) and a cup of frozen veggies. Boil in water for 5 mins.
• While that's boiling, fry an egg separately - I like to season with a little salt and pepper while the egg is frying.
• Once noodles/veg are done, drain then add the noodle seasoning, a little butter and half a cup of shredded parmesan. Stir through until butter & cheese has melted and everything's well combined.
• Put noodles and veg in a bowl, egg on top.
• Enjoy!

I just go to bed when I am too lazy to cook!

I am severely malnutrition 😎😎😎

Whenever I make soup, I always make a lot. The extra soup goes into quart bags and goes in the freezer. So I have a soup library.

Rip open a bag of soup, toss it in a pan on medium low. Make some popcorn in the air popper.

Soup and popcorn with about a minute of work. The hardest part is picking out which soup I want.

Some of mines

• Pasta with frozen veggie and curry sauce, like take a bag of frozen veggie, put in the pan, add coconut milk and curry powder

• Pasta with eggs, That's the extreme on the too lazy to cook spectrum just crack an egg in the pasta, an improvement is to add some garlic and olive oil

Noodles with sriracha, olive oil and nutritional yeast

A bowl of hot instant ramen with a poached egg is my go-to. Very simple, takes at most 10 minutes, and tastes really good too.

Cook white rice in a rice cooker but instead of water, use a canned soup. Flavor of the soup gets into the rice. A few minutes of prep and walk away.

What my dad calls "Lazy Fuck Chicken": mix instant French onion soup into a cup of cream, pour over chicken breasts in a gratin dish, shredded cheese on top, into the oven for half a hour, done. Serve with instant rice. Can't get more taste for less work.

I boil half a cup of rice, add 3tbsp of peanut butter and about 100ml sweet chili sauce, and I mix it evenly. Bish bash bosh.

spaghetti ala bolognese is my lazy to cook recipe or chicken paprikás (or rather it's less sour creamy version which is called pörkölt). if I make it from chicken, it's done pretty quickly

or, chili con carne. it's also in the super easy and quick category

Cooking?!

When I'm specifically being too lazy to?

I don't even cook for myself on the good days.

Canned tuna mixed with rice, and omelette with cheese

Tin of (Aldi) chicken curry, add some frozen peas and spinach and fresh chopped (with a scissors) chillies. Better - in my opinion - than some take away and all chain pubs’ offerings. Five minutes maximum from cupboard and freezer to my mouth.

Throw rice, soy sauce, oyster sauce, onion, potato, chorizo, frozen peas, some spices and water into a rice cooker. Hit go, take 40 min nap, eat.

Smoked salmon and cherry tomatoes

Oatmeal made with milk. Stir in peanut butter when it is hot and ground cinnamon. Filling.

Spiced fried chicken breast, steamed veggies and carb of choice: mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, or wheat bread.

"Stir fry": Fry meat of choice in a frying pan, add spices and vegetables of choice. Eat with rice or on/with wheat bread. 1 frying pan with meat and vegetables add carb to that.

Grill meat and vegetables of choice. Add carb on the side.

Chicken chickpea curry.

Canned chickpeas, whatever chicken you have on hand, canned diced tomatoes, curry powder, onion, coconut milk, lemon juice. Served over rice.

Sliced mozzarella (or whatever) cheese in a bowl, and some sandwich meat. Served cold.

• Macaroni
• Can of concentrated tomato soup
• Half a can of milk
• Shredded cheese added when mixing

Savory oats. Put oats, milk, butter and whatever you fancy in a pan. Done.

I have a small rice cooker perfect for 1-2 portions. Aldi sells asian-style pan-fry veggie mixes including spices and all in large bags, frozen. They also sell veggie balls for frying, frozen.

Between those three + some spices + soy sauce, I can always create something nice with just a small pan, plus with the rice cooker timing is unimportant. Takes about 10 minutes max, most of which is standing next to the pan waiting for something to fry. Stacks nicely in a bowl, looks fancy, takes 0 effort, and I can customize the taste with the array of spices I always keep at home nowadays.

Nutella on toast. Ruin your life and food like me

Bean and Cheese nachos Bonus if you have some sort of leftover chicken or other grilled meat to add.

Cook refried beans. Dab a thin coat of beans with a spoon on a chip and place on greased baking sheet. Add meat if you have it. Cover with shredded cheese. Bake on 350 for 5-6 minutes.

I like to serve with salsa and pickled jalapeños if I have them, which I usually do just for this dish.

• boneless skinless chicken breasts
• Taco seasoning
• Fajita seasoning
• Salsa

Dump everything into crockpot, come back after work and enjoy shredded chicken tacos / nachos / burritos.

My family's spaghetti and meat sauce recipe. 5 ingredients:

Water, salt, pasta;
ground beef, tomato sauce (from a jar if fancy, but canned is great)

1. Boil and salt the water. Add the pasta. Boil until as soft as you want. While that's going
2. Cook the meat, breaking into little chunks. Then drain the fat. Then add the sauce and some salt and mix it. Stop it some time after it's boiling

Serve together.

(Of course there are details like how much of stuff, but that's the jist of it)

Rice cooker, after it's halfway, throw in an egg or two, leftover meat, can of beans, soup, or chili, whatever's available. It's nourishing and always tastes good.

Kraft Mac and cheese with sausage cut up in it.

Don't have any, too lazy...

1. Cook pasta: spaghettini, spaghetti, linguine, whatever
2. Strain when cooked, set aside
3. add heaping tablespoon olive oil+garlic to pot, heat for a minute
4. Add the pasta, salt and pepper, stir
5. serve

*Swap some butter for oil if preferred

Italian sausage, penne pasta, and marinara. Beyond easy...not particularly healthy.

Caprese salad

Buy a tomato. Slice it. Buy presliced mozarella Alternate tomato and mozarella on a plate. Put basil on top. Drizzle either balsamic vinagrette or salt and olive oil.

Delicous and super easy.

Also sometimes I make a quick melt on the waffle press, season with garlic powder and shredded parmeson, and dip in salsa. Fantastic and super easy.

Probably something from The Sad Bastard Cookbook. It's a free book with lots of easy meals and good advice.

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Uber Eats

While you cook up some boxed mac and cheese on the stove, cut up some broccoli and onions or whatever appropriate veggies you have lying around, and open a can of tuna (any kind of cooked protein is fine, so fry and shred some chicken breast or ground beef if you're feeling ambitious.) When that's done, mix it together in a casserole dish, throw some cheese on top and chuck it in the oven until it turns a bit brown.

Carbonara.

Cook some chopped up bacon until crispy. Boil some pasta until cooked. Dump half cup of pasta water into bacon, mix. Mix 3 eggs with a half cup of parmesan, drip in a few tablespoons of pasta water while mixing. Turn off stove, dump pasta into bacon, mix for a few minutes, dump egg and parmesan in, mix vigorously. Eat with a big chunk of crusty bread. Should take 20 minutes from turning on the stove to eating.

1. Cook some pasta. Doesn't matter what kind.
2. Add cream, if no cream is available add milk and condense longer.
3. Add powdered soup base
4. Enjoy salty, carbs goodness. (Doesn't taste as good if eaten often) If I am felling healthy i'll also eat a raw fruit or vegetable while the pasta is cooking.

Boil pasta. Drain. Add whole can of canned tomatoes to pot (fire roasted or Italian seasoning versions optional)

Salmon and asparagus.

Slow cooker stuff if I'm lazy but thinking ahead a bit. Just throw shit in a pot and turn it on. I tend to get big lumps of meat rather than steaks or whatever, so the slow cooker has the added benefit of me not needing to do much cutting. I just do a few big chunks and it'll be so tender by the time it's ready it'll fall apart. Takes longer to put it away in containers than to prep it, then I'm done cooking for a week lol

Spaghetti bolognese is a regular if I need something soon. Little more work, but it's extremely quick and doesn't require being in the kitchen for the whole thing. Still makes a ton of meals that keep and reheat nicely.

Roasts are nice if I'm sort of having to impress someone but I'm lazy. You just throw shit in the oven and wait. Occasionally come back to throw in something that has a shorter cook time than the meat. Might be heresy but I've never really been keen on the leftovers of a roast though, so one cook is usually only one meal and maybe a sandwich the next day instead of several.

This isn't what you're really asking, but I have a bunch of stuff in the freezer that I can pull out when I'm sick, don't have enough time to prepare a meal or am just exhausted from whatever.

Making lasagne? Make 4, freeze 3. Mex night? I make 20 black bean burritoes at a time. Check out https://onceamonthmeals.com/ for inspiration. Less cooking, less dishes and less food waste. Go pro and pick up a food saver. I make 8 cups of rice and freeze it in a pint food saver bag. It's winter where I live and I have "soup bags" in the freezer so I can take out veggies that were at their peak when they were frozen and put it in a crock pot so I can have summer fresh soup.

1 pound of breakfast sausage. I pull it apart with my fingers to make interestingly-differently-sized chunks. Fry, then eat. Good with syrup.

Indomie! It's not instant ramen soup, exactly.

You cook the noodles, drain them, then mix the flavor packets in. I prefer using half the salt powder package.

They are the pretty much the best instant noodle, and available in the West too. Seriously, go try them sometime!

If I'm too lazy to cook, I open a can of fish and wash a pile of cucumbers to eat as side dishes with the Indomie.

Pasta with a glass of pesto

Khai Jiao

It sounds super fancy and foreign, but it's really just a simple omelette with some fish sauce thrown in. You can get fancy with cornstarch to make it a little crispy, but I ain't got time for that.

Instructions:

1. Beat some eggs with some fish sauce (not a lot, just a splash or a spoonful)
2. Fry eggs in oil, pulling from the side so the liquid on top cooks

It's done when there's no more liquid on top. Eat with rice (can microwave some precooked rice).

Total time: 5-10 min. Try it even if you don't like fish sauce.

Mine is probably oatmeal.

Put half a cup of instant oatmeal, some nuts, peanut butter and a banana in the blender and pour some milk.

I usually put in the refrigerator and eat it in the morning.

For sweetening You can also use dates or maple syrup instead of sugar.

Rice, sardines, kimchi, avocado, soy sauce, sesame oil.

Fried eggs with sliced tomato

Not sure if this would count, but here it is:

• Stovetop stuffing
• Canned chicken

Boil water amount on the box in the electric kettle. Drain canned chicken. (Some brands need to be rinsed because of the amount of salt in the broth they're canned in.) Add stuffing, butter (amount according to the box) and chicken into a bowl. Stir to incorporate. Add boiling water, stir again, and cover for 5 minutes. Fluff and serve.

I suggest using the low sodium version as there will be a lot of salt between the box of stuffing and canned chicken. Can also use leftover cooked chicken.