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

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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Hard Boiled Eggs

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

25 mins
Overhead view of a fork shredding spaghetti squash strands from baked spaghetti squash.
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Baked Spaghetti Squash

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)

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

20 mins
All the flavors in a Spicy California roll without the rice! These avocados are stuffed with lump crab, cucumbers and spicy mayo topped with furakike and drizzled with soy sauce. I’ve had this idea in my head all week, I wasn’t exactly sure how it would come out but I’m obsessed with them, they came out so good!
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California Spicy Crab Stuffed Avocado

10 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

15 mins
Bowl of salsa verde with 3 lime wedges and chip
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Homemade Salsa Verde

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

10 mins
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Easy 3-Ingredient Low-Fat Graham Cracker Crust

Roasted Heirloom Carrots with Feta, Lemon and Truffle
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Roasted Heirloom Carrots with Feta, Truffle and Lemon

40 mins
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Slow Cooker Lemon Feta Chicken Drumsticks

4 hrs 10 mins
This Crock Pot Balsamic Pork Roast is so easy and literally falls apart once cooked. Here it's cooked with balsamic vinegar and honey which gives it a slight tang that I love!
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Crock Pot Balsamic Pork Roast

6 hrs 5 mins
These Santa Fe turkey lettuce wraps are SO good, you'll WANT to save some leftover turkey just to make them (or leftover chicken breast would work too)! Have you ever had the Spinach Santa Fe Egg Rolls with the Cilantro Ranch Dipping Sauce from Chili's? They're dangerously good – I don't even want to know how many calories they are. That's where the inspiration for these lighter lettuce wraps came from.
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Turkey Santa Fe Lettuce Wraps

30 mins
This yummy protein enriched blueberry banana PB smoothie is filled with with frozen blueberries, a banana, and a little Greek yogurt and PB2 for protein.
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Blueberry Banana PB Smoothie

5 mins
Summer plum tomatoes roasted in the oven with garlic and herbs make an easy, delicious homemade tomato sauce that will fill the room with an intoxicating aroma.
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Roasted Tomatoes

50 mins
Homemade Basil Pesto
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Basil Pesto Recipe

5 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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How to Cook Brown Rice

52 mins