Post your best five ingredients or less recipes

[LavenderBlue]

Easy chickpea salad:

one can chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
crumbled feta cheese to taste
chopped canned or jarred artichokes
fresh or canned and peeled red peppers cut into small strips
olive oil

1. Drain and rinse chickpeas in a bowl.

2. Add all other ingredients. Chill or serve as is.

Substitute pasta for chickpeas and it works just as well.

[oreally]

Pad Prik. Only ingredient required: phone to call local Thai place.

OK this one probably doesn't "count" either but easiest grilled chicken ever:

chicken
montreal chicken seasoning

Sprinkle on heavily and grill. Kicks ass every time.

[teela brown]

Korean Kalbi Shortribs (not the thin-sliced, flat kind that you grill)

Chunky short ribs
Beef broth
Knob of fresh ginger
Soy sauce
Bottled Kalbi sauce (sort of a Korean teriyaki sauce, but stouter and spicier)

Turn the oven on to 325 degrees. Put the ribs in a dutch oven and add the broth, the knob of ginger, and a glug of soy sauce. Stew them for three hours or until they are very tender. Turn up the oven to 450, remove the pot of ribs, and lift them out of the broth and put them on a foil-lined oven pan and return them to the now-hotter oven to brown and get crusty for 15 minutes. Then paint them all over with Kalbi sauce and return them to the oven for five minutes to caramelize and get crusty.

Serve with white rice.

[Lukeinva]

Leek
Onion
Potato
Broth
Sour cream

Simmer everything in the broth until done and then blend on high into a smooth soup. Top with a dollop of sour cream.

[Missy2U]

Chicken the only way I will eat it other than fried. It might sound gross, but the kid and husband and I like it.

1 package buddig beef
1 large container sour cream
1/2 pound bacon
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
6 or so chicken thighs or pieces of chicken

In a greased casserole, put down the buddig beef in the same number of stacks as you have chicken pieces - in other words if you have 6 pieces of chicken, make 6 equal stacks of beef.

Put a piece of chicken on top of each stack.

Salt and pepper the chicken well.

Put a piece of bacon on top of each piece of chicken.

Put in the oven at 350 for 45 minutes.

Mix together the sour cream and soup.

Pour it over the chicken.

Put it back in the oven for about a half hour or so till it's all bubbly.

Eat with rice.

[pulykamell]

I can strip down (and have many times) my Thai basil chicken to the following:

Chicken (ground or cleavered into little pieces)
Basil
Fish Sauce (or oyster sauce, but that's a little different. You could even do soy here, if you wish)
Garlic (or shallots, or red onions)
Thai chiles

Of course, you generally want to serve that with rice, too.

[oreally]

Originally Posted by pulykamell

Fish Sauce (or oyster sauce, but that's a little different. You could even do soy here, if you wish).

Not if you want me to eat it. Leave the soy for Chinese stuff.

[pulykamell]

Originally Posted by oreally

Not if you want me to eat it. Leave the soy for Chinese stuff.

Yeah, I only put soy in my "more than 5 ingredients" version, where I do about a third each of fish sauce, oyster sauce, and soy sauce. The interesting thing is that David Thompson, author of perhaps the bible of Thai cooking in English, extensive researched and in-depth with history and background, so much so that the first recipe doesn't even occur until a couple hundred pages into it (the book is almost 700 pages[!]), has a mix of light and dark soy sauce for his Thai holy basil beef recipe. Me, I like the fish sauce, and lots of it.

[ThelmaLou]

Cook some rice. Spread it in an ovenproof dish.
Top with orange roughy filets.
Pour over plenty of bottled oyster sauce.
Bake until fish is done.

This is sublime, and it's even better the next day when you break up the fish and mix it in with the rice.

[JoseArcadio]

Salmon en croute:

salmon fillet
spinach
cream cheese with garlic/herbs
shortcrust pastry
egg

Heat oven to 200C. Roll out shortcrust pastry so it can encase the salmon and place on baking sheet. Put the salmon in the middle. Layer on the spinach then the cream cheese. Fold over the pastry, trim, cut some slits on the top. Brush the top with beaten egg and bake for 30 minutes.

[Greekfreak]

Roast lamb:

Lamb roast (not chops--never mind those toothpicks), at least 900g
Greek oregano (yes, there is a difference)
Salt
Pepper
Lemon juice.

I would also add some extra virgin olive oil, but it's not always necessary.

[MadTheSwine]

Bratwurst marinated in cherry pie filling
Caramelized onions
Hot dog bun

YUMMY!

[Novelty Bobble]

Spaghetti
Good olive oil
Lots of parmesan
Flaked chilli

Cook spaghetti, add the rest. yum!

You even have an ingredient to spare so go wild with pancetta, smoked salmon or chopped basil (or whatever you fancy)

[Timchik]

Chicken Satsivi

Chicken pieces (drumsticks/thighs - I like boneless thighs]
2 cups walnuts (half a pound?)
7 or 8 cloves garlic
bunch of fresh coriander (cilantro)
Khmeli suneli Georgian spice mix (available from any Russian or Ukrainian grocery)

Chop the cilantro finely; grind the walnuts and garlic with the spice mix in a food processor or pestle to the consistency of a thick paste. Fold in the cilantro. Boil the chicken in just enough salted water to cover until done. Remove the chicken pieces; add enough of the still-hot bullion to the walnut/garlic/cilantro paste to form a sauce. Add the chicken pieces to the sauce - if the pieces are boneless, break them up a bit to give the sauce more surface area to infuse into.
Can be eaten warm, but is best if cooled in the refrigerator a few hours - satsivi apparently means "cold dish" in Georgian.
I could eat this three times a week with no complaints.

[Theobroma]

Coke & Ketchup Chicken

Chicken pieces
onions
1/2 cup coke
1/2 cup ketchup
oil

Brown chicken pieces--bone-in works best. Remove from pan and put in sliced or chopped onions. Cook a few minutes until softened, put chicken back, mix coke & ketchup with fork or whisk in bowl or measuring cup, pour over chicken, cook on stove on med heat until done, another 20-30 min. If liquid boils off and it's too dry, add more coke. If sauce is too thin, take chicken out so it doesn't get overcooked, crank up heat, and boil a few minutes until thickened.

Serve over rice, noodles, or (best of all) boiled potatoes to soak up the juices.

Seriously, this is wicked awesome. Got to try it to believe it. One of my husband's faves. Feel free to add mushrooms if you are so inclined and want to get fancy and make a SIX-ingredient dinner.

[madrabbitwoman]

from here http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=664436

my recipe for Boston baked beans:
2 tins normal baked beans
1 onion diced
teaspoon mustard
1/2 dozen rashers fake bacon/notdogs pan fried (the notdogs are particularly good) Vegetarian
Golden syrup/treacle to taste (most recipes I've seen have treacle but golden syrup works fine)
in a dish in the oven until bubbly.
om nom nom nom

[MikeF]

Pico de gallo

Tomatoes
Onion
Cilantro
Jalapenos
Garlic

A bunch of tomatoes and the rest to taste

[Gray Ghost]

Shrimp Stew (cut down to comply with OP)

Saute 1 onion in olive oil in wide, oven-proof skillet.

When softened, add one 28 oz can of chopped tomatoes. Stir and let cook down for about 10 minutes. Add green chiles to taste (or just use Rotel tomatoes/chiles to begin with)

Add 1-2 lbs of peeled shrimp to stew. Stir.

Crumble 1/2 to 1 lb of feta cheese over bubbling stew.

Place under broiler for 10 minutes or until cheese is browned.

Serve.

I like adding a sliced garlic clove or two to the onions. If you want, add 1/4 bottle of beer to bubbling tomatoes. Naturally, you'd add additional spices to taste, but this is essentially it. Scatter green onions and dill on top and you're good to go.

[Angel of the Lord]

I don't know what this is called. I read the recipe in a local cookbook when I was a kid. In my experience, for some reason women love it, and men can take it or leave it. I'm sure that's just the result of a small sample group, though:

Ingredients:

• Graham crackers
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar. Probably light, but I doubt it really matters.

Optional Ingredients:

• Chopped pecans, or any other nut. But I think pecans would be best.

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350.
• Line a greased (with Pam or somethign) baking pan (or a cookie sheet, if you're careful and line the bottom of the oven with tinfoil first) with the graham crackers. Set it aside for now.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
• Add the brown sugar and bring it up to a simmer/boil. Leave it there for two minutes, or until it's all expand-y and a darkish brown.
• Pour over the graham crackers. Add nuts if you want.
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until the edges are medium-ly browned.

It's probably absolutely terrible for you. It sticks something fierce to the pan, and you'll be scrubbing that sucker for about 20 minutes. I've never made it look pretty, because the graham crackers always floated and stuck together. But damn if it doesn't taste like a little slice of heaven.

[ThelmaLou]

Originally Posted by Angel of the Lord

I don't know what this is called. I read the recipe in a local cookbook when I was a kid....[snip]... It sticks something fierce to the pan

Hmmm... sounds like this calls for The Greatest Culinary Invention of the 21st Century: NONSTICK FOIL. This stuff is The Bomb. Gitchyseff some.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Originally Posted by madrabbitwoman

from here http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=664436

my recipe for Boston baked beans:
2 tins normal baked beans
1 onion diced
teaspoon mustard
1/2 dozen rashers fake bacon/notdogs pan fried (the notdogs are particularly good) Vegetarian
Golden syrup/treacle to taste (most recipes I've seen have treacle but golden syrup works fine)
in a dish in the oven until bubbly.
om nom nom nom

We use brown sugar instead of golden syrup/treacle. And I've used a variety of different sausages (hot dogs, brats, whatever), sometimes cut the long way, sometimes cut into coins. The sausage/meat does need to be thoroughly cooked before heating.

[Chefguy]

Sausage of your choice in chunks
potatoes, cut up
onion, chopped
olive or other vegetable oil
pepper

Fry them all until nice and crispy.


Eggs Purgatorio:
Leftover spaghetti sauce
eggs
cheese

Heat the sauce, dump in a couple of raw eggs and the cheese, poach until the eggs are cooked (with runny yolks) and the cheese is melty.

Breakfast Burrito
eggs
cream cheese
bacon
chili spices
flour tortillas

Cut up the bacon, season with chili spices and saute. Scramble the eggs, add cream cheese near the end. Heat torts one at a time in a large frying pan. Stuff. I also like to add cilantro.

[Lightnin']

Here's a salsa recipe I've discovered recently:

2 cups chopped fresh pineapple
1 smoked habanero (or three chipotles)
1 cup onion
1 cup cilantro
1 clove of garlic

Put all the ingredients in a blender to mix them all up. Cook it down a bit if you'd like, I'm not sure this step is even necessary.

Extremely good. Add more peppers if you can handle it.

[ThelmaLou]

Originally Posted by Angel of the Lord

I don't know what this is called. I read the recipe in a local cookbook when I was a kid. In my experience, for some reason women love it, and men can take it or leave it. I'm sure that's just the result of a small sample group, though:

Ingredients:

• Graham crackers
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar. Probably light, but I doubt it really matters.

Optional Ingredients:

• Chopped pecans, or any other nut. But I think pecans would be best.

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350.
• Line a greased (with Pam or somethign) baking pan (or a cookie sheet, if you're careful and line the bottom of the oven with tinfoil first) with the graham crackers. Set it aside for now.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
• Add the brown sugar and bring it up to a simmer/boil. Leave it there for two minutes, or until it's all expand-y and a darkish brown.
• Pour over the graham crackers. Add nuts if you want.
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until the edges are medium-ly browned.

It's probably absolutely terrible for you. It sticks something fierce to the pan, and you'll be scrubbing that sucker for about 20 minutes. I've never made it look pretty, because the graham crackers always floated and stuck together. But damn if it doesn't taste like a little slice of heaven.

I can't stop thinking about this recipe.

I'm not hugely fond of graham crackers, BUT... what if you made this with vanilla wafers? You could either line the pan with vanilla wafers (or another plain cookie) and pour the "sauce" over, or, if you're truly adventuresome and madcap, you could mix broken vanilla wafers into the sauce, then quickly spoon in dollops onto the nonstick foil and bake.

Maybe if I recite the multiplication tables, I can stop thinking about this.

[Dung Beetle]

Originally Posted by Novelty Bobble

Spaghetti
Good olive oil
Lots of parmesan
Flaked chilli

Cook spaghetti, add the rest. yum!

You even have an ingredient to spare so go wild with pancetta, smoked salmon or chopped basil (or whatever you fancy)

Yup, mine are spaghetti-based too.

We do spaghetti with chopped cooked chicken, toasted walnuts, pesto, and parmesan cheese (in fact, we’re eating this tonight!)

Or, chop up and cook a package of bacon (don’t drain it), add a couple cans of diced tomatoes, a handful of green onions, spaghetti, and parmesan.

[Dung Beetle]

Thought of another: Ham, Cabbage, and Potatoes. I know, it doesn’t sound like what you wanted for dinner, but you’ll be happy when you’re eating it!

[Tara57]

Originally Posted by ThelmaLou

I can't stop thinking about this recipe.

I'm not hugely fond of graham crackers, BUT... what if you made this with vanilla wafers? You could either line the pan with vanilla wafers (or another plain cookie) and pour the "sauce" over, or, if you're truly adventuresome and madcap, you could mix broken vanilla wafers into the sauce, then quickly spoon in dollops onto the nonstick foil and bake.

Maybe if I recite the multiplication tables, I can stop thinking about this.

You can make this recipe with Saltine crackers as the base. It is addictive -- sweet and salty.

[ThelmaLou]

OMIGOD.

And you could serve it with vanilla ice cream.

[Angel of the Lord]

Originally Posted by ThelmaLou

OMIGOD.

And you could serve it with vanilla ice cream.

I have been known to crumble it and put it on ice cream, though I haven't made it in ages. I think any carb-type base would work, really--vanilla wafers, saltines. I bet it'd work with shortbread, too.

I don't know if doing it alone would work too well--it doesn't seem to hold its shape that well, even with nuts chopped in. Maybe it'd be different with the vanilla wafer crumbs, but somehow I doubt it. That way would probably work to make something that's just a crumble.

If I were doing it now, I'd probably just use parchment paper, but I hadn't heard of it when I was making this.

[Johnny L.A.]

Ham hocks and black-eyed peas.

Ham hock(s)
Black-eyed peas
Water
Bay leaf
Seasoning

[ministryman]

Rib Roast:

1 3-4 rib standing rib roast
cracked peppercorns
kosher salt
olive oil

I got the recipe online. I takes over 2 hours to make, but you will not regret it.

[Chronos]

1 large tomato


Serves 1.

[Lynn Bodoni]

Originally Posted by Johnny L.A.

Ham hocks and black-eyed peas.

Ham hock(s)
Black-eyed peas
Water
Bay leaf
Seasoning

Use chicken broth instead of water.

[Intergalactic Gladiator]

Apples, pineapple, and coconut. I find that delicious.

My wife also has a very good recipe for chicken salad which is chicken, mayo, chopped celery (optional), and craisins. They craisins are key and the dish gets better after you let it sit in the fridge for a day.

[Infovore]

Really easy chicken:

1 boneless chicken breast per person (I usually make this for 2)
1 can chicken broth
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 jar sliced mushrooms
Rice (I use the Uncle Ben kind in the individual bags that you boil in the microwave - 1 packet works for 2 people)

In a nonstick skillet, dump the chicken broth in.
Heat up the stove and the broth.
Put in the chicken breasts.
Cook for about 7 minutes on each side (check them for doneness by cutting into them)
Meanwhile, cook up the rice and heat up the mushroom soup.
Put the sliced mushrooms in the mushroom soup and stir to make a sauce
Put a chicken breast on a bed of rice and smother with sauce
Serve and enjoy! (oh, and the chicken broth just gets tossed--it's just to give the chicken flavor, and I haven't found anything else useful to do with it.)

It's simple as heck and essentially college-student food, but I love it anyway. For me, this counts as "cooking".

[Lamar Mundane]

Originally Posted by ThelmaLou

I can't stop thinking about this recipe.

I can't stop thinking about it either, but I'm pretty sure it's for a different reason.

[YogSosoth]

Cold tofu with thousand year egg

Cubed silken tofu
Diced thousand year egg
Chopped green onions
Soy sauce

[ThelmaLou]

Originally Posted by Lamar Mundane

I can't stop thinking about it either, but I'm pretty sure it's for a different reason.

You intrigue me, sir. That's a provocative statement.

[billfish678]

A cheese dip of sorts.

One jar of Queso cheese dip.

One can of refried beans.

One can of Rotell tomatoes with green chiles. Drain very well (use the lid to squeeze out all of the juice).

About half a diced onion. More if your really like onion, less if you don't. Use a sweet/yellow/purple/red onion, not one of those those more bitter white types.

Make a puree out of jalapeno peppers. Remove the stems but don't bother with removing the insides or the seeds. Use just enough vinegar to make it a thick slurry.

Mix all but the jalapeno slurry in a bowl and heat/cook in a microwave. Cook a lot if you want the onions well cooked. Not so much if you don't. Do about 2 minute increments that include good stirring/ mixing between nuking. Helps to let it sit a few minutes between nukings to let things simmer/cook the onions.

Once it is well mixed/melted/cooked add the jalapeno slurry until you can start taste the tang. Play with with how much you need to add to get the flavor/heat level you like.

If you wanna break the 5 ingredient rule, add paprika and garlic to taste as well. Paprika till the dip starts to become brownish is a good start. A few heaping spoons of minced garlic is also a good starting point.

Grab some chips and enjoy.

[Lamar Mundane]

Originally Posted by ThelmaLou

You intrigue me, sir. That's a provocative statement.

What my brain sees when I read the recipe: Take two sticks of butter, roll them around in a cotton candy machine for a half hour or until thickly coated. Serve with Graham Crackers.

[Suburban Plankton]

One pound pasta (we prefer bowties, but pick your shape)
One can corn
Two cans chili
Cheddar cheese

Cook the pasta. Heat the chili and corn, toss with the pasta. Dump on as much cheese as your arteries can handle.

You have now made "Chili Corn Cheese Thing".

It's not exactly haute cuisine, but it's been a favorite comfort food in the Plankton household for going on 20 years now

[Hockey Monkey]

Armageddon Brownies (This is what I want to eat right before I die.)

1 tube Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
1 package Oreo Doubl Stuf Cookies
1 box Ghirardelli Caramel Turtle Brownie Mix
Plus the eggs and oil called for on the brownie box

Line an 8x8 pan with foil or parchment paper with 2 sides overlapping to allow for easy removal. Spray with Pam. Preheat oven to whatever the directions on the brownie box says.

Smoosh the tube of cookie dough evenly over the bottom of the pan. Layer 16 Oreos flat on top of the cookie dough. Eat remainder of package. Prepare brownie mix as directed and pour over Oreos. Bake as directed on brownie box. I find with my oven I need to use the longer time. Trust me, gooey is OK if you don't get them quite done enough. You don't want to over bake them.

You can use any brownie mix you like, and you can use Reese's cups (or other candy or cookies) instead of Oreos.

[Lissla Lissar]

The crackers sounds like Smitten Kitchens Caramel Crack. She melts chocolate chips over the top, and sprinkles sea salt.

It's crackers with hard toffee and chocolate. It's amazing.

[ThelmaLou]

Originally Posted by Lissla Lissar

The crackers sounds like Smitten Kitchens Caramel Crack. She melts chocolate chips over the top, and sprinkles sea salt.

It's crackers with hard toffee and chocolate. It's amazing.

Hmmm... this is ringing a bell. I think there's a Passover goodie like this, made with matzah.