Create Quick Meals with a Pantry Essentials Checklist

by Kim McCosker and Rachael Bermingham

Keep these key ingredients on hand in your kitchen pantry — they’ll help you create and flavor your meals, and save many a dish from disaster. From 4 Ingredients: More Than 400 Quick, Easy, and Delicious Recipes Using 4 or Fewer Ingredients, by Kim McCosker and Rachael Bermingham.

SAVORY

• Barbecue sauce
• Beef and chicken bouillon cubes
• Bread crumbs
• Curry Powder
• Dijon mustard
• French onion soup (dry mix)
• Fresh vegetables
• Garlic
• Ketchup
• Lemons
• Mayonnaise
• Minced ginger
• Peppercorns
• Pesto
• Pine nuts
• Refrigerated piecrusts
• Rice
• Sea salt
• Sesame seeds
• Soups (canned): asparagus, celery, etc.
• Sour cream
• Soy sauce
• Spaghetti and noodles
• Vegetable broth
• Vinegar
• Worcestershire sauce

SWEET

• All-purpose and self-rising flour
• Bamboo Skewers
• Canned fruit: pineapple, pear
• Cinnamon
• Coconut, shredded
• Condensed milk
• Cornstarch
• Cream
• Cream cheese
• Eggs
• Evaporated milk
• Food coloring
• Fresh fruit
• Gelatin
• Graham crackers
• Honey
• Jams: apricot, strawberry, etc.
• Jell-O
• Marmalade
• Mixed dried fruit
• Mixed spices
• Nutmeg
• Puff pastry and short crust pastry
• Sugar (confectioners’, granulated, superfine, brown)
• Vanilla cake mix
• Vanilla extract

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