How To Make: Simple Recipes for Beginners

Kickstart your healthy eating journey with this beginner’s guide to cooking nutritious and deliciously simple recipes. We all need to start somewhere! If you’re new to the kitchen, these quick recipes offer easy-to-follow instructions along with expert tips to create wholesome dishes with ease. From mastering how to hard-boil eggs (perfectly, every time!) to how to cook brown rice and air fryer chicken breast, I’m here to guide you through some cooking basics. You’ll be a culinary whiz in no time!

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Baked Sweet Potatoes in the oven are so easy and come out perfectly sweet and fluffy on the inside with this foolproof recipe.
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Baked Sweet Potato (How To Bake Sweet Potatoes)

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55 mins
Cooked quinoa inside the Instant Pot.
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How To Make Perfect Instant Pot Quinoa

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15 mins
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Perfectly Grilled Zucchini Recipe

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25 mins
chicken breast
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Air Fryer Chicken Breast

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1 hr 15 mins
Turkey meatloaf cut into slices next to a bowl of ketchup glaze.
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The Best Turkey Meatloaf Recipe

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1 hr
Having hard boiled eggs on hand for quick breakfast on the go or to add to salads and sandwiches makes busy weekdays so much easier. This foolproof stove top method for boiling eggs every time.
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How To Hard Boil Eggs (Perfect Everytime)

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A bowl of steel cut oats topped with blueberries and bananas.
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Instant Pot Steel Cut Oats

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fork shredding strands of spaghetti squash
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Roasted Spaghetti Squash

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1 hr 10 mins
Homemade nut butter is so simple to make, just two ingredients (nuts and salt)! Simply toast the nuts then put them in the food processor. Here I made nut butter three ways; almond butter, walnut butter and pecan butter but any tree nut would work.
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How To Make Nut Butter (Three Ways)

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35 mins
Crispy french fries made in the air-fryer
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Air Fryer French Fries

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20 mins
This is hands down, The Best Enchilada Sauce Recipe ever. Once you try this, you'll never buy canned again! If you love enchiladas as much as I do, then making homemade enchilada sauce from scratch is a must.
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The Best Homemade Enchilada Sauce Recipe

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15 mins
Salsa Verde is a fresh, healthy salsa made with roasted tomatillos, peppers, garlic, onion and cilantro. Perfect for dipping your tortilla chips into or used in recipes that call for jarred Salsa Verde.
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Salsa Verde

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30 mins
Want to know how to make perfect eggs in the Instant Pot? This simple formula will give you perfect, easy-to-peel eggs either hard boiled or soft boiled.
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Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs (and Soft Boiled)

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Easy 3-Ingredient Low-Fat Graham Cracker Crust

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Homemade Basil Pesto
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Homemade Basil Pesto

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5 mins
homemade ketchup
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Homemade Ketchup

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25 mins
Want to know how to cook perfect brown rice every time? This foolproof method will give you perfect rice that is never sticky.
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Brown Rice Recipe – How To Cook

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52 mins
A skinny tropical green smoothie made with pineapple, shredded coconut and bananas, then blended with spinach, light coconut milk and Greek yogurt. High in Vitamin A, B-6, C, Manganese and fiber.
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Skinny Green Tropical Smoothie

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5 mins
Tzatziki Sauce
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Tzatziki Sauce

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10 mins