These 18 Easy Pantry Recipes are delicious and perfect for every meal of the day. You’ll find recipes that are packed with goodies, and made with pantry staples and affordable ingredients.

Titled Photo Collage (and shown): 18 Easy Pantry Recipes.

How are you doing today? I hope you and your family are safe and well!

Today, I thought it would be a good idea to share with you my favorite easy and delicious recipes made with pantry staples.

These recipes are great to make when you’re busy during the week.

These pantry recipes use very simple ingredients like canned beans, tomato sauce, canned tuna, dried pasta, quinoa, and rice.

The best part of these easy pantry recipes is that you probably already have most of the ingredients on hand. Enjoy!

_________________________________________________________________________

Easy Pantry Recipes

  • Classic Chili has all the great flavors of the traditional recipe, using a can of beans, a can of diced tomatoes, and a can of tomato sauce. The only fresh ingredient you’ll need is ground beef from the fridge.
overhead view of a white bowl with classic chili recipe
  • Slow Cooker Chili Recipe: Another delicious chili recipe made with all the most popular pantry staples, but this one is cooked in the slow cooker. You’re going to love it!
overhead view of slow cooker chili in a white bowl.
  • Pasta e Fagioli Soup: This soup features lots of pantry staples like a can of beans, dried pasta, and a can of diced tomatoes — and it’s so good!
overhead view of Pasta e Fagioli Soup in a bowl.
  • Quick Easy Bean Salad – With some cans of beans, a can of corn, a can of olives, and a good dressing, you’ll have a delicious and fresh side dish!
close-up of a salad bowl
  • Pumpkin Alfredo Pasta: it’s made with a can of pumpkin purée, heavy cream, and dried pasta. Easy, quick, and delicious!
overhead view of pumpkin Alfredo sauce
  • Tuna Salad: This salad is easy to make and a bright, light lunch for any day of the week. It’s made with canned tuna and mayo, and it’s totally pantry-stable.
Overhead view of tuna salad in a white bowl.
  • Tortellini Soup: It’s made with dried tortellini pasta, a carton of chicken broth, a can of crushed tomatoes, and a little tomato paste. So good and so quick to make!
overhead view of tortellini soup in a white bowl.
  • Shrimp Spaghetti: This dish is made with dried spaghetti, olive oil, garlic, and shrimp. You can’t miss this one — it’s simple, delicious, and made mostly with pantry staples.
close up view of garlic shrimp spaghetti on a serving dish.
  • This Quick Easy Tuna Pasta recipe is a delicious meal to make when time is short. You will need a can of tomato sauce, a can of tuna, and quinoa fusilli pasta. Super easy and quick to make.
close-up of tuna pasta in a white bowl
  • These Sweet Potato Tuna Patties are very soft inside and crispy on the outside. It is delicious, easy, and quick, you only need eggs, sweet potato, a can of tuna, almond flour or breadcrumbs, and some seasoning.
Tuna Patties with sweet potatos on a platter
  • This super-easy and satisfying Sausage Quinoa Pasta is tossed in a can of tomato sauce and parmesan cheese. This is a perfect filling pasta dish for your busy weeknight.
overhead view of Sausage Quinoa Pasta on a blue plate
Sausage asparagus quinoa pasta in a cast iron skillet.
  • This is an Ultra-easy Slow Cooker Chicken Chili you will ever make. Dump a can of beans, a can of diced tomatoes, a can of tomato sauce, some spices, and let the slow cooker do the rest for you.
overhead view of two bowls containing slow cooker chicken chili
  • This Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili is made with a mixture of extra-lean ground turkey, sweet potato, onion, bell pepper, can of diced tomatoes, can of tomato sauce and a can of beans. It is a perfect hearty bowl of chili for a cold day! 
Slow cooker sweet potato chili in a white bowl with green onions on top.
  • Switch things up by adding some new ingredients to your traditional rice recipe and have this delicious Leek Kalamata Rice meal for your dinnertime!
A bowl of leek kalamata rice.
  • Quinoa chicken salad makes a quick and easy side or main that you can serve hot or cold. Delicious and packed full of good-for-you ingredients too!
overhead view of Quinoa Chicken Salad in a blue bowl
  • This delicious Coconut Berries Oatmeal is made with can of coconut milk, chia, rolled oats, and chia seeds (all pantry staples). 
close-up of Oatmeal with betties on top
  • This Roasted Blueberry Oatmeal is a hearty and delicious way to start your day. It is made with carton of coconut milk, oats and maple syrup and berries.
overhead view of Oatmeal in a white bowl

 

Olivia Ribas

Welcome

Hi, I'm Olivia


Iโ€™m so happy youโ€™re here!! For the last 11 years, Iโ€™ve been sharing easy, quick, and family-friendly recipes like chicken, salmon, ground meat and pork chops (total reader favorites!), perfect for stress-free weeknight dinners made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Explore More

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

2 Comments

  1. Kerry says:

    Great to see this in my feed thanks

    1. Olivia Ribas says:

      happy you liked it!