300 Fast and Flavorful Recipes from America’s Most Trusted Test Kitchen

Tired of quick recipes that aren’t really quick or don’t taste very good? While some cookbooks promise 30-minute meals, America’s Test Kitchen delivers. The Best 30-Minute Recipe is packed with more than 300 great-tasting recipes, along with time-saving techniques that will help you become more efficient in the kitchen. You’ll also find honest evaluations of ingredients important to quick cooking, such as chicken broth, preshredded cheese, instant rice, and more. And because the type of equipment you use is important to the success of any recipe—made in 30 minutes or not—we tell you which brands are worth buying.

The Best 30-Minute Recipe features a surprisingly wide range of recipes. You get not only the very best versions of naturally quick dishes like salads and stir-fries, but also quick and easy recipes for typically long-cooking dishes that you’d never even think of making on a weeknight—including meatloaf, lasagna, beef pot pie, and a pad thai so easy that you may never call for takeout again. With efficiency and good taste, The Best 30-Minute Recipe is the time-pressed cook’s guide to getting dinner on the table, night after night.

This has become one of my go-to cookbooks. It's so great for putting together a weeknight dinner in a flash, especially the skillet meals. Spanish Chicken and Rice, Skillet lasagna, Macaroni and Cheese, Skillet Ziti, the list goes on and on of recipes that have become family favorites. Everything i've made is very easy with easy to find ingredients and comes together fast. Highly recommended!

This is a very short review. My family has been cooking out of this book for over a year, and we've loved it. The meals are truly 30 minutes, not just 30 minutes AFTER you have chopped all the ingredients. You know the books, the ingredient list says, "4 cups of chopped carrots. That's when the 30 minutes starts."

I've given this book to friends and I am giving it again this year. I get comments like "best cook book I've ever had. I'm now actually getting complements on my cooking. Before they just ate and thanked me -- sometimes."

Advertised as new. Two concerns: 1.) Arrived with bottom corners badly bent... most likely caused by their poor wrapping and happened during shipping. Book was put in packing envelope with no bubble wrap. I order many books on line, the only problems are from people who do not bubble wrap to protect books from damaged corners and possible moisture damage. Otherwise the book was very good. 2.) I also wrote about my concern a couple of weeks ago and never heard back. I wanted to give them a chance to reply before I posted negative feedback, but never heard from them. That is why I rated them 3 stars - badly damaged corners from poor wrapping and no response or effort to make things right after I took the time and effort to give them a chance to do so.

This has become a staple for us (and for my mother-in-law whenever she comes to visit!) -- with a 1yr old and two busy work schedules, we don't have much time to do the complicated, layered recipes that we usually love. But these recipes are really pretty doable in the 30min window they promise, and I've learned good shortcut techniques for other recipes too! What's nice is that they don't sacrifice on taste even as they come up with creative ways to cut down on the cooking time -- my daughter LOVES the skillet lasagna (and she's a picky eater!), and the mini-meatloaves are incredibly tasty! I probably have almost 50 cookbooks that I've bought and loved over the years, but this is the one we turn to 95% of the times these days.

I never really time myself when I cook but this book is great. You don't have to follow it word for word. The recipes are delicious and precise. I am now cooking roasted chicken breast and pan seared salmon for dinner... can't wait to try more. Great time saving methods.