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 Pasta al Limone Lemon zest and juice perk up this classic buttery and cheesy pasta dish. The secret lies in emulsifying the sauce to a satiny consistency using the starchy pasta water, not cream.   TUESDAY Pressure Cooker French Onion Soup Traditional techniques for caramelizing onions can take hours to deliver extra-sweet, complex flavor. The pressure cooker reduces that time down to about 30 minutes of hands-off cooking.  WEDNESDAY Fried Rice With Blistered Green Beans and Basil Get your mid-week greens in with this easy fried rice—over and done with in fifteen minutes flat, because we know how busy you are. THURSDAY Creamy Risotto alla Milanese Saffron-scented risotto alla milanese is one of the most luxurious—and simplest—of risottos. This tradition-busting method guarantees the creamiest, silkiest, most delicious version possible. FRIDAY Takeout-Style Kung Pao Chicken (Diced Chicken With Peppers and Peanuts) Just because it's a Chinese-American standard, complete with slightly-gloppy-sauce and mild heat doesn't make diced chicken with peppers and peanuts any less delicious.     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 help you guide your efforts with what we're taking on over the weekend.  Homemade Ramen Noodles Making good ramen noodles at home is a simple process, so long as you have a few key ingredients and a decent amount of time. In total, it takes 24 hours—so gather your ingredients tonight, prep the noodles tomorrow, then make our new pressure cooker chintan shoyu broth for Sunday supper.     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

Almond Biscotti: The Perfect Care-Package Cookie

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Almond Biscotti with Anise These classic Italian biscotti are lean and crunchy, making the perfect end to a rich meal when dunked in a fortified wine, or a simple mid-afternoon snack when served alongside a strong cup of coffee. Biscotti have an excellent shelf life, so they're ideal for care packages and cookie jars alike. Read More → The Kitchen Essential Serrated knife A serrated knife will be more gentle on this fragile dough, producing clean slices of biscotti with ease. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 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

The Serious Eats Guide to Pressure Cooker Ramen

Plus, homemade ramen noodles No Images? Click here   Ramen, Now in Your Pressure Cooker In the past week, we've published a series of recipes to help you make ramen at home. My original goal was to develop a pressure cooker recipe for a classic chintan shoyu ramen—that is, a bowl of noodles submerged in a light, clear broth seasoned with soy sauce. I wanted the recipe to yield a braised-pork topping, but I didn't want it to require too many unusual or specialty ingredients. After a month or two of testing different recipes, I discovered that the ingredients used in the clear broth could subsequently be used to make a rich and creamy chicken ramen broth, with just a bit more time in the pressure cooker and a brief blitzing with an immersion blender. That led to the development of an entirely different recipe, for a bowl of miso tori paitan ramen. Finally, after I'd finished those two recipes, we realized that some of our readers might want to experiment with making their own noodles at home, either out of curiosity or because quality ramen noodles aren't readily available at their local supermarkets. I ended up spending several months developing a basic recipe for ramen noodles that anyone can make, so long as they have a pasta roller and a food processor or stand mixer. —Sho Spaeth, features editor The Ultimate Guide to Making Ramen Noodles Every bowl of ramen should be crafted around the best wheat-based, alkaline noodles you can get your hands on. Here's how to make them at home. How to Make Shoyu Ramen Using a Pressure Cooker A classic chintan shoyu ramen—a light broth flavored with soy sauce—made easier with the help of a pressure cooker. Love Tonkotsu? Meet Tori Paitan Ramen If you know and love tonkotsu ramen, you owe it to yourself to make your own tori paitan ramen broth at home—rich, creamy, just as tasty, and pretty simple, too.     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 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