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20-minute soy calamansi chicken

30-minute meals

10.14.2025 in Newsletter by Connie Veneracion

What main dishes can be cooked in 30 minutes or less? Stir fries (ones that don’t entail lengthy prep anyway), pasta (excluding lasagne or cannelloni or any of those pasta shapes that require special cooking methods), chicken fillets and fish fillets are among our favorties.

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Connie Veneracion, 2020

Hi, I’m Connie!

Home cook and writer by passion, photographer by necessity, and good food, coffee and wine lover forever. I write recipes, cooking tips and food stories. No AI is used in creating content for this blog.

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