I’ve cooked well over 1,000 Ina Garten recipes. Here are 10 of my favorites for an easy dinner.

• I’ve spent years cooking all of celebrity chef Ina Garten’s recipes, more than 1,300.
• My favorite dinner recipes of hers include eggs in purgatory and a weeknight Bolognese.
• I love her easy recipes for chicken with creamy mustard sauce and rigatoni with sausage and fennel.

Baked shrimp scampi can be on the table in less than 30 minutes.

The chicken thighs with creamy mustard sauce come out tender and delicious.

Her easy Parmesan “risotto” is great for a vegetarian dinner.

Tomato soup with grilled-cheese croutons is the ultimate comfort food.

Her grilled New York strip steak is easy to prepare.

The eggs are cooked in a flavorful sauce, and store-bought is fine. In this recipe, Garten infuses jarred arrabbiata sauce with onion, garlic, red-pepper flakes, and rosemary.

The recipe only serves two, but it’s easily scalable. 

This story was originally published on September 22, 2023, and most recently updated on August 31, 2026.