4 Easy Meals To Help You Improve Your Cooking Skills

Stir Fry

Stir fry meals are one of the easiest meals to prepare. There are so many different meat, fish, and veg combinations you can use, and you can throw in anything that needs using up too.

Once you know what type of stir fry you want to make, like this quick and easy shrimp stir fry, it isn’t that hard at all. Some good tips to remember when stir-frying include; making sure your wok is smoking hot, never cooking cold meat (room temperature is best), and adding the vegetables first, then the cooked meat. This will give you the best results and flavor too.

Pasta Bakes

Again like with stir-fries, pasta bakes can be incredibly flexible. Whether you are making your sauce from scratch or using a store-bought jar, it can be ready to eat in under an hour. You can choose from simple choices: tomato pasta bake, chicken and chorizo, tuna pasta bake, vegetable pasta, and more. There are endless choices and combinations you can create, and you can use leftover veggies in the dish itself or make the sauce and add in anything you wish or need to be used up to a fun twist on an easy midweek meal.

Pot Roast 

Every family will have different ideas on what constitutes a good pot-roast, but the beauty of this meal is that everything is cooked together in one pan. The duration of the cooking time will largely depend on the size and cut of meat you use, but you can expect to let this do its thing over a few hours. The trick is to aim for low and low when cooking to get you that melt-in-the-mouth tenderness that everyone knows a good pot roast for. Whether you use beef, chicken, pork, or even pheasant, you want to leave it for a few hours because it is delicious and soft, and all the flavors have marinated together for an exceptionally tasty but easy dish to prepare.

Salads 

You shouldn’t overlook the humble salad when it comes to meals that are easy to prepare. Your salad can be as basic or complex as you wish and be incredibly versatile in terms of ingredients, from using lettuce pickles, tomatoes, and onions only with a nice dressing to adding different elements and textures like avocado, fruit, quinoa, barley, nuts, seeds, and more. You can experiment with the different possibilities when making salads to help you create a fun and easy meal idea you can enjoy any day.

Conclusion

You don’t have to be the next Masterchef to help you make delicious meals in the kitchen. Practice makes perfect, and these easy meal ideas are excellent places to start.