Use Up Leftover Vegetables
Recipes built to take whatever is left in the crisper drawer, rather than demanding an exact list.
11 recipes
11 recipes sit under Use Up Leftover Vegetables, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Scrambled Eggs with Vegetables at 10 minutes; the longest, Bread and Milk Pudding, takes 45. 6 of them finish in twenty minutes or less, which is usually what matters on a weeknight.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave — a stove and a pan is enough. 6 are vegetarian. 7 have no chili at all, so they work for children. 2 are properly spicy.
These recipes lean most often on Chicken egg, Cooked rice, Cabbage and Margarine — if you have one or two of those as well, more of this list becomes cookable tonight rather than after a shopping trip. Add what you have to your fridge and the recipes reorder themselves around it, with anything missing collected into a shopping list.
Village-Style Fried Rice
Yesterday's rice, three basic aromatics, and a hot wok. The most honest fried rice — no drowning in sweet soy sauce.
⏱ 15 min🍽 2 servingsEasy
Saucy Mixed Vegetables
The most efficient way to clear six kinds of vegetables before they all wilt.
⏱ 20 min🍽 4 servingsEasy
Vegetable Fritters
The most dignified destination for leftover cabbage, carrot, and sprouts starting to wilt.
⏱ 25 min🍽 4 servingsEasy
Tamarind Vegetable Soup
Sour, refreshing, and packed with vegetables. The best way to clear seven leftovers at once.
⏱ 35 min🍽 5 servingsEasy
Scrambled Eggs with Vegetables
Nine minutes, one pan, and almost any leftover vegetable can go in.
⏱ 10 min🍽 2 servingsEasy
Sausage and Cheese Fried Rice
The version made for children: no chili at all, and the cheese goes in off the heat so it melts instead of clumping.
⏱ 15 min🍽 2 servingsEasy
Nugget Fried Rice
The emergency school-morning breakfast: ten minutes, from what is already in the freezer.
⏱ 12 min🍽 2 servingsEasy
Simple Gado-Gado
Boil the vegetables separately, not together. Each has its own timing, and combining them gets all of them wrong.
⏱ 35 min🍽 4 servingsMedium
Steamed Banana Cake
No oven, and moister for it. Wrap the steamer lid in a cloth so condensation never drips onto the batter.
⏱ 45 min🍽 6 servingsMedium
Bread and Milk Pudding
The best way to finish bread going stale. Fresh bread actually makes a soggier pudding.
⏱ 45 min🍽 5 servingsEasy
Corned Beef Fried Rice
Let the corned beef stick and crust before you stir it. That is the best part, and the part most often skipped.
⏱ 15 min🍽 2 servingsEasy