Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
300 Fast and Flavorful Recipes from America’s Most Trusted Test Kitchen

Tired of quick recipes that aren’t really quick or don’t taste very good? While some cookbooks promise 30-minute meals, America’s Test Kitchen delivers. The Best 30-Minute Recipe is packed with more than 300 great-tasting recipes, along with time-saving techniques that will help you become more efficient in the kitchen. You’ll also find honest evaluations of ingredients important to quick cooking, such as chicken broth, preshredded cheese, instant rice, and more. And because the type of equipment you use is important to the success of any recipe—made in 30 minutes or not—we tell you which brands are worth buying.

The Best 30-Minute Recipe features a surprisingly wide range of recipes. You get not only the very best versions of naturally quick dishes like salads and stir-fries, but also quick and easy recipes for typically long-cooking dishes that you’d never even think of making on a weeknight—including meatloaf, lasagna, beef pot pie, and a pad thai so easy that you may never call for takeout again. With efficiency and good taste, The Best 30-Minute Recipe is the time-pressed cook’s guide to getting dinner on the table, night after night.

Customer Reviews

The Best 30-minute Recipe by M. Capehart
A very excellent cookbook! We already had the New Best Recipe cookbook, so we were familiar with Cook’s Illustrated and their great recipes. To have those kinds of recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or so is great!

Very happy that I purchased this by CanHasStuffs
My husband and I try to make dinner at least five nights per week, but we both work and usually aren’t home until 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. I bought this book hoping that it might help us make tastier meals within our time constraints and it has. We’ve made approximately ten of the recipes so far — half were fantastic and the others were still good. “The Best 30-Minute Recipe” has added a few new favorites to our weekly menus and we’re eating earlier because the recipes are easier and take less time to prepare. A bonus: the kitchen is usually less of a chore to clean after we make one of these recipes because they’ve pared down the steps and ingredients to the essentials. I’ve already given four copies as gifts.

Makes Dinner Fast, Fun and Tasty by Mary
I received this book as a shower present, and we’re hooked on it. While I don’t mind cooking from more elaborate recipes on the weekend, that’s simply not practical during the week. These recipes are quick, although I often do all of the prep up front, which pushes me slightly past the 30-minute mark. (I’ve done plenty of multi-tasking at work; it’s not imperative in the kitchen!) We’ve made several of the skillet pasta dishes and been very happy with them.

There’s a good mix of fresh and pantry ingredients, so you never feel that you have to buy a long list of crazy things to pull off the dish. I like the instructional style in all of the ATK cookbooks, and this one is similarly helpful. Also, you can take the existing recipes and create your own variations.

My only problem to date has been getting the pork w/maple syrup glaze to cook to the proper temperature. I’m going to give that a second try, however, because the sauce was very tasty.

Great Collection by L. Pastore
ALthough I miss the pretty conventional pictures you get in most cookbooks, these really are SUBERB recipes. I made the classic brownies first-I always thought MINE were the best until I tried the brownie one from this book. Also tried Chicken Picatta recipe-so delicious. Great explanations of why certain ingredients are picked for each recipe, and thousands of helpful hints. A great gift for cooks and brides-to-be!

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