The 20-Minute Shabbat
A simple, real Shabbat dinner for tired parents: store-bought shortcuts, one-pan main, kid-friendly sides and almost no dishes.
At a glance
- Serves
- 4 to 6
- Meals
- Friday night + Shabbat lunch
- Dishes
- 8
- Kashrut
- Friday night: meat · Shabbat lunch: meat
- Cook on
- Thursday, Friday
For the week when you have a toddler on your hip and nothing left. This is a full, beautiful Shabbat with about twenty minutes of actual work. Store-bought is not cheating. It's strategy.
Friday night
Meat- 1.
Store-bought challah
PareveWarm it in foil for ten minutes. The house smells like Shabbat anyway.
- 2.
Store-bought hummus and a cut-up cucumber
PareveDip and done.
- 3.
One-pan chicken drumsticks and potatoes
Olive oil, paprika, garlic powder, salt. 45 minutes in the oven, 5 minutes of you.
- 4.
Frozen green beans, roasted
PareveSame oven, same time, another pan.
- 5.
Ices or cookies from the bakery
PareveThe kids will remember the dessert, not who made it.
Shabbat lunch
MeatReady before Shabbat.
- 1.
Cold chicken from Friday night
Sliced into wraps or on a platter.
- 2.
Store-bought deli and pickles
- 3.
Potato kugel from the freezer aisle
PareveKept warm on the plata.
Prep timeline
- ThursdayBuy everything in one trip (the list is in the app).
- FridayOne pan in the oven, table set, candles.