What's your best "five ingredient or less" dish?

water, essence of wood from wodden spoon, seasoning packet, ramen. There ya go. Modded in 3… 2… 1…

@Fred931 Clearly, you’ve never looked at the list of chemicals, err, ingredients on the ramen package.

brussels sprouts, bacon, onion – sautee.

boiled potatoes, avocado, lemon juice, salt, olive oil.

chicken breast, sea salt, pepper, garlic, onions, capers

Grilled cheese
Cheese+bread+whatever chemicals are in the bread

@syz Soup Nazi: No joke for you?

I think he’s talking about processed foods not containing more than five ingredients, not recipes, but I may be wrong.

Chicken breast, olive oil, salt, peper, bake for 30 minutes at 400.

@janbb Yeah, I fudged a little and thought I would take it to the recipe level…..

Black beans, brown rice, corn niblets, grated mozarella, salsa.

Flour,
water,
yeast,
tomatoes and
cheese= PIZZA

Pasta sauce:

1 – tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, basil, salt
2 – basil, olive oil, parmesan, salt, pine nuts (blend and pesto voila!)

Do spices count as an ingredient?

1 package of Sunbird Egg Drop Soup mix. Water. An Egg. Juice of a whole lemon. Rice.

Make soup per directions. Add egg. Add lemon. Add rice. Viola! Avgolemono soup!

16-bean dried bean soup mix (I’m counting this as one ingredient)
Water and chicken bullion
Onion

You get to add any additional ingredients you want to.

Like Mike Hunt, I’m down for grilled cheese sandwich anytime. I think it’s King of the Comfort Foods.

A Texan, I also love a a couple of large tostadas (ingredient 1) lathered with refried beans (2), cheddar cheese (3), guacamole (4) and sour cream (5). ‘Scuse me, I’m off to make a few right now even though it’s almost time for sleep.

Eggs + flour = pasta
Tomatoes + EVOO + basil + garlic + salt = sauce
Flour + sugar + yeast + water + butter + garlic (okay, that’s 6) = garlic bread

Pasta + sauce + garlic bread + wine = dinner. :)

@Austinlad – I can hear your arteries screaming from here. :P

Corn tortillas
Colby Cheddar/Jack cheese
White onion
New Mexico chile powder
Oil/Crisco
=
Enchiladas

Potato chips +
Sour cream +
Onion soup mix =
Delicious and only 3 ingredients, but probably not what Michael Pollan had in mind.

Stoneground wheat flour, yeast, honey, water, salt
= damn good bread

(made entirely by hand, of course)

sliced potatoes
spinach leaves
sliced Italian sausage
diced onion
olive oil

two ingredients.

Oreo’s and milk.

chicken
garlic
butter
crushed chilli
potatoes

A total simplification of a meal I love. Usually would include salt, pepper, some more herbs and more veg.

tortilla chips
refried beans
cheese
rotel salsa
sour creme

And for desert:

flour
eggs
chocolate*
sugar
butter

for the ultimate chocolate fondant

* damn guess this is cheating as chocolate is a combination of many different ingredients. The only way around it is to make your own, but that’ll involve replaceing chocolate with cocoa powder and adding milk as a 6th item on the list. Grr.

Eggs, oil, milk, seasoning—> scrambled eggs. Serve on toast, and you’ve got the full five ingredients.

steam rice – mold it into a shape of a circle
egg – dip the rice in the egg which you use chopsticks to stir and mix it up
pepper and salt – to add to the egg mixture before you add the rice
olive oil – to put on the pan which you are going to fry the stuff at medium heat

I’m going to put my cards down and say it doesn’t matter how many ingredients are on the label, just the quality of those ingredients. Counting them is just a cop out rather than actually investigating the health value (or lack of value) of a food product.

Homemade chocolate fudge.

Powered sugar, real butter, vanilla, Hersheys Chocolate Cocoa and real milk.

Real fast. real good. and really fattening.

Homemade Yat Gat Mein

Boil spaghetti (al dante).

Add meat of choice ie. diced pork or sausage.

Add 1–2 sliced onions (optional).

Add 2–3 tbsp of bacon grease (optional).

Season to taste with

* salt
* pepper
* soy sauce (liberal amount)

Cover.

Reheat under low flame until onion becomes limp.

Mix well.

Enjoy

asparagus, steamed
sesame oil – a few drops
lemon juice, a squirt
Kosher salt and sesame seeds on top.

Water Casserole

Chinese chicken: Put chicken pieces in a pan, sprinkle with sesame oil, granulated garlic, brown sugar, ginger and soy sauce. Bake at 350 for 1 hour, basting twice. Serve over rice.