5 Days of Easy Grill-Friendly Dinners
By Becky Hughes. Photo by: Emma Fishman.
It's August now, and you need to absorb all the summer you can before the season turns. This weekly meal plan keeps you exactly where you want to be: standing over the grill. Oh, and if you don't have a proper grill, a grill pan will do just fine.
Monday: throw it all on the grates
This entire recipe is made on the grill, and it couldn't be any easier—you just toss the veg in oil and throw it onto the grates alongside a coiled sausage (or enough links to serve your group). Grill up a good amount of extra sausage—enough to yield 1/2 cup sliced—and save it for tomorrow.
Get this recipe: Italian Sausage with Grilled Broccolini, Kale, and Lemon
Tuesday: Breakfast Pizza for dinner
It's breakfast pizza, for dinner—maybe the greatest combination of words ever written. This pizza has spinach on it, because health. It also has a hell of a lot of cheese and cream, because deliciousness. If you're making dough from scratch (you fancy, huh?), or even if you're using store-bought, save about a pound for Friday night's dinner. Oh, and that extra sausage you grilled last night—chop or slice it and add it to this pie at the very end, along with the eggs, just so it warms through.
Get this recipe: Breakfast Pizza with Sausage, Eggs, Spinach, and Cream
Wednesday: Get Some Tofu on the Grill
This Thai green bean salad is just as delicious as it is gorgeous—not to mention, it's healthy AF and vegetarian-slash-vegan-friendly (no fish sauce here!). Grill up some extra marinated tofu and beans to save for your next dinner.
Get this recipe: Grilled Thai Green Bean Salad
Thursday: embrace your inner goddess
The work week is almost over, but not quite—so take it easy tonight. The beauty of a buddha bowl is that you can throw in any leftover vegetable and protein you've got on hand, whip together a quick and herbaceous yogurt sauce, and call it dinner. Tonight, use the leftover grilled beans and tofu from last night's grill-fest.
Get this recipe: Green Goddess Buddha Bowl
Friday: TGIF—thank goodness it's flatbread
Friday night dinners work best when they're more of an assembly of ingredients than a full-fledged cooking event. Grab that leftover pizza dough from Tuesday's egg-and-sausage pie and throw it on the grill until it gets charred and crispy. Cover it with labneh, herbs and smoked fish, or burrata, cucumbers and fava beans—or host a flatbread party and make 'em both. How's this for proof that weekly meal planning isn't boring?
Get this recipe: Flatbread with Smoked Trout, Radishes, and Herbs
Get this recipe: Flatbread With Fava Beans, Cucumbers, and Burrata
This story originally appeared on Epicurious.
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