723 pantry recipes

No need to buy store-bought salt substitute, because this recipe is so easy, and you probably have already had most of these spices in your pantry. Much cheaper and tastier at the same time.

Chocolate raspberry cream torte: a light chocolate wacky cake layered four high with raspberry jam and pink raspberry cream filling. An impressive-looking dessert made with pantry staples and no eggs.

Drunken pioneers pasta: wagon wheels topped with sauteed peppers and onions in a quick red wine and beef-stock sauce with basil and rosemary. Pantry weeknight pasta in 25 minutes.

Old-fashioned Nantucket molasses cookies with brown sugar, butter, and a soft, cake-like texture. Six pantry ingredients and no eggs, just like the New England whaling-era originals.

Tuna lemon and caper pasta tossed with Italian oil-packed tuna, extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, parsley, and lemon zest. A no-cook pantry sauce ready while the pasta boils.

Bread machine whole wheat loaf with cracked wheat cereal, wheat germ, honey, and powdered milk. A triple-wheat hearty sandwich bread that goes from pantry to slice with the push of a button.

Spaghetti aglio e olio with sliced garlic sautéed in extra-virgin olive oil, hot pimento, and fresh parsley. The classic Italian pantry pasta that proves less is more.

Thai-style fried noodles are a vegetarian wok dish: al dente noodles stir-fried with garlic, crushed peanuts, pickled radish, diced tofu, and chili flakes. A simpler, pantry-friendly cousin of pad thai.

Easy sugar cookies you simply roll into balls and bake, no chilling and no cookie cutters. Soft, buttery, vanilla-scented cookies from pantry staples, golden at the edges and ready in under half an hour.

Many bean soup with dried mixed beans, smoked ham shank, tomatoes, onion, garlic, and a finishing splash of lemon juice. Classic slow-simmered pantry soup for cold nights.

Five-alarm salsa made with tomato purée, green chilies, onion, garlic, and lime, then water-bath canned for shelf-stable pantry heat. Five ingredients, two pints, serious kick.

Lean cabbage and tomato soup simmered with carrots, onion, and beef bouillon for an hour, a pantry-friendly low-fat brothy bowl that comes together with seven ingredients.

Creamed tuna on toast is the original 10-minute pantry dinner. Flaked tuna folded into silky bechamel and spooned over crisp toast points, finished with paprika and pimento.

Barbecue sauce made with dehydrated vegetables, white wine, honey, Worcestershire, and liquid smoke. A Cajun-style pantry BBQ sauce that simmers for hours using shelf-stable dried ingredients.

Pressure-canned white beans with ham hocks, brown sugar, chili sauce, and mustard. A classic batch canning recipe that fills your pantry with smoky, sweet baked-style beans.

Chocolate banana pie sets sliced bananas under chocolate pudding on a peanut butter rice cereal crust. A no-bake light dessert with three pantry-staple flavors stacked tall.