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Easy Four-to-Five-ish Ingredient Meals

If you’re in a pinch, on a budget, or just rushing to get dinner on the table, the four ingredient meal is your weeknight hero. You can grab all the ingredients at Imperfect Foods during your shopping window and then bada-bing bada-boom, dinner is on the table!

Super Easy Shrimp Pad Thai

Sure, this one technically has 7 ingredients but 3 of them are optional. Although, what is pad Thai really without a good squeeze of lime?

4 Ingredient Chimichurri Chicken Tacos

These Chimichurri Chicken Tacos are on the table in a jiffy and bound to be your new favorite go-to dinner.

Easy Chicken Tikka Masala

Fragrant, full of flavor, and ready in under an hour. Enjoy next time you’re in the mood for something both easy and comforting.

Easy Five-ish Ingredient Margarita Pizza

Let’s be real, you can’t go wrong with pizza. Our easy Margarita Pizza is about 5 ingredients, ready in minutes, and never ceases to please.

Easy Baked Miso Salmon with Sesame Ginger Salad

To keep things simple for this easy four-ingredient meal, we used the Toasty Sesame Ginger Salad Kit from Imperfect as the salad base, but if you want to make your own sesame ginger salad, we love this recipe.

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smi
smi
3 years ago

Great! Would love to see more vegeterian/vegan options too!

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Imperfect
Imperfect
3 years ago
Reply to  smi

We love our veggie friends and we hear you! We’ll pass this suggestion along to our team too! ????????????

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Lynn Grismore
Lynn Grismore
3 years ago

I want to try the recipes but can’t get them to print.. Advice>

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Imperfect
Imperfect
3 years ago
Reply to  Lynn Grismore

In the top right hand corner (underneath the social media share buttons) there is a green “print” button that will allow you to easily print this recipe! ????

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