Collection · 6 recipes

Les meilleurs dîners en 30 minutes

Fast does not have to mean joyless. Every dish here is on the table in 30 minutes or less, and every one was tested at least three times by a named editor. No 1,200-word headnotes, no shortcuts that cost flavor.

  1. 01

    Pad krapow — sauté thaï de porc au basilic sacré

    Thai · 10 min · Easy

    Bangkok street stir-fry in five minutes: pounded chili and garlic, minced pork tossed with fish sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and a final fistful of holy basil. Served over rice with a runny-yolk fried egg.

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  2. 02

    Oyakodon — bol de riz au poulet et œuf

    Japanese · 15 min · Easy

    Chicken thigh and onion simmered in dashi-soy-mirin until tender, finished with just-set scrambled egg, spooned over hot short-grain rice. Fifteen minutes, deeply comforting.

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  3. 03

    Mapo tofu — tofu épicé du Sichuan

    Chinese · 20 min · Easy

    Numbing, hot, fragrant — má-là in technical balance. Silken tofu in a deep red gravy of doubanjiang, ground pork, and roasted Sichuan peppercorn. Twenty minutes from pantry to plate.

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  4. 04

    Cacio e pepe — pâtes romaines au pecorino et poivre

    Italian · 17 min · Medium

    Three ingredients, four minutes, every variable on a knife edge. Tonnarelli, pecorino romano, and an obscene amount of fresh black pepper.

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  5. 05

    Cuisses de poulet au gochujang à la poêle

    Korean-inspired · 32 min · Easy

    Lacquered, spicy-sweet, with a tangle of charred cabbage and scallion at the bottom. Thirty minutes, one pan, dinner solved.

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  6. 06

    Nasi Goreng Kampung — riz frit indonésien du village

    Indonesian · 25 min · Easy

    Smoky, dark, ferociously aromatic. Cold day-old rice, ikan bilis, kicap manis, sambal. Twenty-five minutes on the loudest fire your stove allows.

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