The Ultimate Comfort Food Recipes I Found on Reddit That Changed My Cooking Game

I am a night owl who often stresses over life with overthinking at night. And nobody could understand better than me how comfort food helps in those situations. Being a die-hard foodie, I would instantly think of cooking something that could calm my soul and boost my mood. Food ideas kept bubbling, but I could never decide what to cook for them. So, I looked for some posts on Reddit and found the ultimate comfort food recipes that changed my cooking game.   

1. One-pot Spaghetti

Spaghetti¹ has always topped my comfort food list. But I often avoid it due to the number of dishes to be done next. However, this one-pot dish did change my cooking game from requiring a lot of utensils to one. It reduced half of my effort and enhanced my pleasure in cooking.

As per the recipe by Berkamin, I added 100 g spaghetti, 4 tsp of olive oil, two cloves of smashed garlic, extra virgin oil and salt in a single pan. Alert! Avoid adding too much salt and water, as they will not get poured down the drain. I kept the pan on low flame for 5 minutes to avoid boiling all the water. And instead of adding garlic in the beginning, I preferred to add it when half the pasta was cooked. Later, I added some lemon juice and a last bit of salt and pepper for seasoning. And voila!! Here comes my dish.

2. Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits

Although cooking a dish that feels like an entire meal is stupid, my comfort food can be anything. So, this chicken pot pie recipe with biscuits drew my attention out of being both a foodie and a cooking fanatic. It did alter the cooking game by showing how easy it is to add veggies and make a pie look wholesome. You select to cook it at the end of the night for fun. Those thyme and sautéed shallots with creamy chicken peaking with carrots and peas under the biscuit topping is enough to drool me into cooking and eating everything up. Because that’s a lot of flavours that are willing to burst into my mouth!!       

3. Cheesy Potato Snack  

Potatoes have always been the best snack² for comfort food. It’s just serotonin to life. This ultimate find of the cheesy stuffed potato for late-night cravings changed my cooking game to learn to create the best snack. Adding turkey with Swiss cheese blended with black pepper, a pinch of garlic salt, and a butter glass to the potato croissant created the excellent experience I have been waiting for. It changed my cooking game from the old way of preparing monotonous potato snacks to something new.

 4. Scalloped Potatoes

One of the best finds for comfort food that changed my cooking game was these scalloped potatoes. Peeled and sliced potatoes baked in vegetable stock layers with garlic, salt, and pepper created a fusion of overwhelming favor that can blow anyone’s mind in a second. Such a comfort food is what I could even diet for. The best part is that it is so healthy that it does not add any cream, as I usually do. This makes me keep away all the calories at bay, which changed my cooking game. I can now indulge in the best potato recipe without feeling sinful of compromising my health at the cost of my foodie thoughts.

So, the next time you feel a bit off or struggle through your studies at night when the food cravings hit, do try these. I assure you comfort while finding a whole new meaning to cooking.

1. Manthey, Frank A., and Anton L. Schorno. “Physical and cooking quality of spaghetti made from whole wheat durum.” Cereal Chemistry 79.4 (2002): 504-510. ↩︎
2. Mu, Tai-Hua, Hong-Nan Sun, and Meng-Mei Ma. “Sweet potato snack foods.” Sweet potato. Academic Press, 2019. 303-324. ↩︎

Last Updated on May 1, 2024 by Namrata