71 easy french recipes

Canned tuna gets the French treatment in this microwave-friendly St. Jacques: mushrooms, bell peppers, and green onions in a white wine cream sauce topped with buttery crushed croutons. Elegant enough for company, easy enough for Tuesday.

Easy poached fish gently simmers fillets in a court-bouillon of water, white wine, lemon juice, sliced onion, peppercorns, allspice, and bay leaf. A lean, classic French method that keeps any fish moist and ready for sauces or salads.

Tortillas stuffed with cheese, ham, and sweet bell peppers covered in a savory mixture of eggs and salsa are allowed to mingle overnight, like a Mexican French toast. Easy to prepare and just pop it into the oven in the morning with your feet up, sipping a coffee.

Lighter poke cake built on a yellow cake mix doctored with lemon gelatin, applesauce, and egg substitute, then drenched in a citrus glaze that soaks into every fork-pricked hole. Tangy, moist, easy.

Traditional Middle Eastern semolina cake drenched in lemon syrup. This easy yogurt-based dessert bakes golden brown and soaks up fragrant citrus syrup for a moist, tender treat perfect with tea.

Easy apple puff pie with halved McIntosh apples arranged in a pie shell, drenched in sweetened condensed milk, and sprinkled with cinnamon. Just 5 ingredients for a caramelized, custardy apple pie.

Monkey bread is the pull-apart treat everyone fights over: quartered biscuit dough tumbled in cinnamon sugar, stacked in a bundt pan, and drenched in a buttery brown-sugar caramel that bakes into sticky, gooey gold. Easy with canned biscuits.