Easy Dinner Recipes For College Students" While more freedom comes with attending college, part of that freedom entails learning to cook for yourself. Although the dining hall is a good choice, it is not permanent and, to be honest, occasionally you can grow bored with the same cuisine. However, college is a busy period and we know the last thing you want to do is prepare a full-scale dinner following a demanding day of studies. For beginners, this assortment of dishes offers quick and simple main meal ideas; some of them can even be prepared in your dorm room. These dishes also just call for a few basic, reasonably priced ingredients and won't break the budget. Tell your folks you live on instant ramen no more.
5 Easy Dinner Recipes For College Students
1. Simple Macaroni and Cheese
Delicious, quick, simple macaroni and cheese recipe. Though they aren't necessarily the greatest taste, fancy, designer mac and cheese might cost forty or fifty dollars to make when you have so many costly cheeses. This basic recipe tastes great and is reasonably priced.
Ingredients
- One (eight ounce) box elbow macaroni
- ¼ cup of butter
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp of salt
- Taste ground black pepper to suit.
- Two cups of milkshake
- Two cups chopped Cheddar cheese
Directions
- Bring a big the pan of water just salted to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in boiling water, stirring intermittuously until cooked through but firm to the biting, eight minutes.
- Melt butter simultaneously in a pot set on medium heat.
- Add flour, salt, and pepper; whisk until smooth—about five minutes.
- Pour slowly in milk and stir constantly. About five minutes, keep cooking and stirring until the mixture is smooth and bubbling, thereby preventing the burning of the milk.
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2. Tatertot Casserole
Everyone will appreciate this quick and simple dish, Tater Tot casserole. For this cosy meal, just four simple ingredients combine.
Ingredients
- one pound of ground beef
- One 10.5-ounce can of condensed mushroom soup.
- Taste the ground black pepper and salt.
- One sixteen-ounce frozen tater tots packet.
- Two cups of shredded Cheddar cheese.
Directions
- Get the ingredients together. Set the oven for 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Set a big skillet over medium-high heat. In the hot skillet, cook and stir ground beef until thoroughly browned and crumbly, 7 to 10 minutes. Stir into condensed soup; sprinkle with black pepper and salt.
- Arrange beef mixture in a 9x 13-inch baking dish; equally layer tater tots on top and sprinkle with Cheddar cheese.
- Thirty to forty-five minutes in the preheated oven will turn tater tots golden brown and hot.
3. Shipwreck Dinner
Though not beautiful, this shipwreck dish is a good, busy-night, kid-friendly dinner. Usually, the prep time is restricted to how hard it is to unwrape the meat and how quickly your can opener operates. The major plus is that this is a one-pot dinner entirely.
Ingredients
- one pound lean ground beef
- One (7.25 ounce) macaroni and cheese mix packet.
- One 14.5-ounce can diced tomato.
- one cup milk
- One cup frozen peas
- One frozen cup of corn
- One teaspoon seasonally seasoned salt or to taste
- One cup of shredded Cheddar cheese divided
Directions
- Set a big skillet over medium-high heat. In the hot skillet, cook and stir beef until browned and crumbly, five to seven minutes.
- From Macaroni and Cheese, stir pasta and cheese mixture into beef. Add tomatoes, milk, peas, corn; boil; lower heat to medium-low; cover; simmer until noodles are cooked, about 12 minutes.
- Cook with seasoned salt. Melt one half of the Cheddar cheese in a plate. Top with last of the cheese.
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4. Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken
For the quickest chicken recipe ever, breaded chicken breasts seasoned with garlic and Parmesan cheese bake till golden and crispy. For a hurried, delicious dinner, serve with spaghetti and a salad.
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- One minced garlic onion.
- One cup dry bread crumbs
- Two thirds cup grated Parmesan cheese
- One tablespoon dried basil leaves
- ¼ teaspoon finely ground black pepper
- Six boneless, skinless chicken breasts divided
Directions
- Sort all the components.
- Set oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Greasily oil a 9x 13-inch baking dish.
- Stir the olive oil and garlic in a bowl.
- Dip each chicken breast in the oil mixture and then in the bread crumb mixture. Arrange the coated chicken breasts in the ready-made baking tray and top with any leftover bread crumb mixture.
5. Emily's Excellent Taco Casserole
This taco casserole is a super speedy dinner I like to make when it is getting late and I haven't cooked yet. Chili, corn chips, and cheese are topped with lettuce and tomato. Spice it up with your favorite salsa. Vegetarian chili can be found with regular chili — it is often labeled as "fat-free." This recipe can easily be doubled and cooked in a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Ingredients
- six cups tortilla chips from corn
- Two cups vegetarian chili with beans.
- One cup-sized shredded Cheddar cheese
- Two cups finely chopped lettuce
- Two rroma, or plum, tomatoes, chopped
- ½ cup salsa.
- ¼ cups sour cream
Directions
- Set the oven for 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Lay chips in the bottom of a 9x9-inch baking dish. Drizzle chips with straight from the can chile. Over top sprinkle shredded cheese.
- Preheat the oven; bake until cheese is melted and chili is bubbling 20 to 25 minutes. Top with lettuce, tomato, sour cream, and salsa in the pan, or after serving if folks are finicky.
