Your Next Weeknight Meal Plan (And Weekend Cooking Project!)

What to Cook Next Week No Images? Click here   After a busy day, the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen pulling dinner together. Luckily, we have a wealth of delicious weeknight meals that will have you in and out of the kitchen in one hour or less. Meet our weekly dinner plan: Five easy dinners for five busy weeknights, all sent in advance so you can get your shopping done ahead of time. Cook along with us!   Your Week Ahead MONDAY 30-Minute Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup)  What if we told you that you could make a superb bowl of Vietnamese chicken noodle soup with rich, aromatic broth and fall-off-the-bone tender chicken, all in under half an hour? The pressure cooker comes to the rescue.   TUESDAY Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice With White Sauce This utterly faithful recipe perfectly recreates a New York City halal-cart classic. The chicken is marinated with herbs, lemon, and spices; the rice golden; the sauce, as white and creamy as ever.  WEDNESDAY Grilled Steak, Avocado, and Spicy Crema Sandwiches Toasted bread, grilled steak, velvety avocado, and cool spicy crema make this an incredibly satisfying sandwich. At the height of a busy work week, you want to keep it as simple as possible.  THURSDAY Chicken Piccata (Fried Chicken Cutlets With Lemon-Butter Pan Sauce) Chicken piccata takes a beloved food—pan-fried chicken cutlets—and tops it with a simple but luxurious lemon-butter pan sauce. The result is a flavor and texture festival that blends crispness, juiciness, richness, and tartness all into one. FRIDAY Bucatini all'Amatriciana This quick-cooked sauce is not only fast and easy, it also ensures that the tomato flavor remains bright—a necessary contrast for the rich guanciale that is essential to the dish. It's just fancy enough to make Friday feel special without being an exhausting project.     Your Weekend Project Ah, the weekend. Visions of time-consuming kitchen endeavors dancing in your head all week long, and finally you have the time to pursue them. But which one to choose? Let us guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Homemade Roman-Style Pizza Pockets (Trapizzini) These puffy, crusty pockets of Roman-style pizza bianca are the best party sandwiches ever. They take at least a full 24 hours to complete, as the bread is made from scratch and needs time to rise; but the end result is worthy of a party on a regular Sunday night.     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232-2017 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe