12 Easy and Basic Cooking Recipes We Can All Make

Rice with tomato and fried egg

If there were a queen of easy cooking recipes, it is more than likely that the one with tomato rice and fried egg would occupy the throne. And it is more than easy, very complete and everyone likes it, including the little ones. You just have to make a white rice and add tomato sauce and a fried egg on top.

If you want it to be super tasty, cook the rice with vegetable broth, a bay leaf and a peeled garlic. And make the tomato sauce yourself, with a stir-fry of onion and red pepper, first. And then you add the crushed tomato.

Find out here how to make white rice without going too hard or overcooked.

Cream of zucchini

Nor can a vegetable cream be absent in easy cooking recipes, which in addition to being easy to make give a lot of play: you can make more, freeze it in portions, or even in cubes, and spend it as you need it or to enrich other dishes.

How to do it

To make an easy-easy zucchini, sauté an onion in a saucepan and, when golden brown, add a potato and two diced zucchini. Put it all together a bit. Pour in hot water until the vegetables are covered (but no more so that it does not remain watery). When it starts to boil, lower the heat and cook covered until the potato is done. Crush and accompany with the pieces you like the most: croutons, grated cheese, nuts and seeds, sprouts …

If you want to give it a special and sweet touch, you can add together with the potato and zucchini one or two peeled and diced apples.

If you want more ideas, don't miss our easy soups and creams.

Roast chicken with vegetables

Grilled chicken recipes are endless, but this one is easy-easy. On the one hand, brown the chicken in a frying pan and, on the other, sauté some vegetables (onion, carrot, zucchini and mushrooms). In an ovenproof dish, place the vegetables forming a bed and, on top, the chicken. Bake at 180º for 30 minutes and serve.

To make it juicier, add a little broth and white wine to the source. And if you want it to be lighter, remove the skin once it is cooked.

Here are more recipes with chicken (for when you have tired of eating chicken).

Omelette

Heat plenty of oil in a frying pan, add potato cubes, onion (optional), and fry them over low heat for about 15 minutes (until the potato is tender). Remove and drain the potato and onion in a colander to remove excess oil. Add beaten egg and stir. Heat a pan with a few drops of oil and add the mixture. Set one side of the tortilla for 3 to 4 minutes over medium heat, stirring the pan gently so it does not stick. Flip it over and do it for 2 or 3 minutes on the other side.

To make it on the other side, put a large plate or pot lid on the pan. Flip it over, holding the two together, so that the tortilla is on the plate or lid. Lift the pan and slide the tortilla into it again. And if you are not good at it, we will tell you how to make a prize potato omelette.

Paste with TUNAFISH

It is one of the undisputed stars of children's menus and of the recipes that you can make with a can of tuna and very little effort. You just have to prepare an onion and red pepper sauté, and then mix it with drained canned tuna and fried tomato. While cooking some macaroni al dente. Put them in a refractory source along with the sauce, cover them with grated cheese, the gratins, and that's it.

If you don't like tuna or you don't have it on hand, you can do it with minced meat, slices of sausage, sausage, longaniza or chorizo, diced cooked ham , bacon or tofu (if you want it to be a vegetarian recipe), mushrooms, fruits dry … Imagination to power!

Vegetable ratatouille

Vegetable pistos and samfainas are one of the most versatile easy cooking recipes. There are infinite versions, but they all have in common that they have vegetables cut small and cooked for a long time over low heat. Make a sauce of onion and green pepper and add zucchini and aubergine cut into cubes. Then, add crushed tomato, salt and pepper and cook together over low heat for about 30 minutes.

You can eat it as it is as a starter or first course, or use it as a sauce or garnish for other dishes: with white rice, meats, fish … And since it lasts well for several days, it fits wonderfully in batch cooking, cooking at once one day so you don't have to do it the rest of the week.

Country salad of potato, boiled egg and tuna

Logically, salads cannot be absent from easy cooking recipes. They are as simple as mixing raw or cooked vegetables with lettuce or green leaves and dressing them with a vinaigrette. And if you want a very complete one, try this country salad of potato, boiled egg and tuna.

While you cook some slices of potato and some tender beans in a silicone case in the microwave (at most you need about 10-15 minutes), you prepare a boiled egg. Then, on a lettuce base, you put the potato and the tender beans, along with some tomato wedges, the egg cut into quarters and shredded natural tuna. An easy and appetizing salad.

Baked fish

Another dish that does not represent any difficulty is baked fish . To make this, a bream, cut potato and zucchini slices and bake them in an ovenproof dish for about 20 minutes at 180º. Then, add the washed, boneless bream, and bake for 10 more minutes. And to complete the dish, add some slices of garlic gilt in oil. Besides being a light dinner, it is one of the recipes to lose weight … easy and appetizing!

You can make the same recipe with sea bass, hake, fresh cod …

Noodle Soup

If you are looking for an easy soup, you will love this one. Heat vegetable broth (which you can make or have prepared and frozen) and, when it boils, add a handful of noodles per person. Let it cook for a few minutes (depending on the type of noodle you will need more or less time) and that's it.

To enrich these light soup, you can first sauté some vegetables that you have on hand (carrot, onion, leek …) or a bag of those that they sell washed, cut and ready to cook. And when you have them golden brown, add the broth.

Chickpeas with spinach

Legume stews are very healthy and do not have to be difficult or heavy. To make some chickpeas with spinach in an easy and ultra-fast version, you just have to sauté some ajitos in a large frying pan, fry some cubes of bacon in that oil, add a bag of washed spinach, sauté it all together and, finally, add half a pot of cooked chickpeas and mix everything well.

To complete the dish, add some toasted pine nuts and a little onion marinated in water with a little lemon, sugar and salt.

Discover more recipes with legumes, an essential food that satisfies, provides fiber, lowers cholesterol … Can you ask for more?

Pasta Carbonara

Another of the easy and successful cooking recipes is pasta with carbonara, a sauce that has no mystery. Peel, chop and sauté onion. Add cubes of bacon and cook together for a few minutes. Next, add liquid cream, salt and pepper, and cook a little over low heat. Boil the pasta with plenty of salty water for the time indicated by the manufacturer. Drain it and add it to the sauce. Add beaten egg and stir until they start to set. Turn off and serve with grated cheese.

If you want a vegetarian version, you can do without the bacon and, instead, put raisin mushrooms and pine nuts.

Easy paella

In a paella with oil, brown chicken, turkey, rabbit or chopped pork and remove it. In the same skillet, sauté minced garlic and crushed tomato until excess water evaporates. Add diced green and red pepper and eggplant. Sauté them together with the tomato. Add peas and washed rice, and toast it all together. Add broth that is already hot so as not to stop cooking and the meat that you had removed, and cook 15 minutes over high heat and 5 minutes slower. Let stand a little and serve.

If you want the paella to be dry, the proportion will be 2 or 2.5 parts of broth for every 1 of rice. For a creamy rice, put 3 of broth for 1 of rice. And if you want it broth, put 4 broth for 1 rice.

And if you still don't see it clearly, here is how to make the perfect paella step by step.