While it's true that recipes with a huge list of ingredients are often surprisingly simple to make, sometimes you don't want to take the risk. A dish with five ingredients or less is always a sure thing for simplicity.
Grab your ingredients (you'll only need one trip) and crack out one of these beauties for dinner tonight. They're so straightforward you'll swear your stopped time.
One quick word before we launch: we haven't included the holy trinity of oil, salt, pepper in our 'five'. We figure nothing good ever comes out of a kitchen without this trio as a base... fair enough?
Right now an esausta mamma is cooking up this pasta in her apartment by the Piazza di Spagna, knowing that despite it taking only 15 mins to pull together, everyone will love it and there will only be one pan to wash up at the end. Yep, it's that dish.
Every cook needs a good pumpkin soup recipe up their sleeve for busy, over-it kind of nights. It's simple to make and oh-so soothing to eat.
Crispy potatoes roasted with fresh lemon, spicy garlic, coriander and hot pepper flakes - this Lebanese dish serves up a flavour bomb.
Sure, if you made your own pastry you'd be well over the five-ingredient quota. Which is why you don't have to.
This is one of the most traditional dishes of the Lazio region. It’s so simple and requires just five ingredients. It was developed in that area due to the abundance of shepherds in the region who produce Cacio (Roman cheese). Mmm... cheese!
Remember when we mentioned that mamma in Italy? Well, this is the Argentinian version. Mamá, Plaza del Congreso, exhausta.
If these little pies don't make you do a happy dance at the end of the day, we've failed. Four ingredients, 10 minutes of prep and bacon.
You can always rely on a chicken traybake to be fuss-free and this one is no exception. Big flavours like olives and lemon give you plenty of bang for your fiver.
From the hills of northeastern Turkey comes a recipe that will make blue cheese lovers swoon. It's basically fresh homemade noodles with butter and crumbled blue cheese (any soft blue will do). Don't mess with perfection, right?
We're cheating just a little bit here because this Chinese table pleaser uses two types of soy sauce (light and dark), which technically brings the ingredient count to six. But then, we figure most of us will end up using one or the other, so five it is!
Finish your meal with a Filipino leche flan-inspired dish that will take you five minutes to prepare. It's hard to believe this thing of beauty is constructed from only four ingredients, but that's the magic of sugar for you... and Adam Liaw.
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