If your idea of an "easy to cook" dinner involves peeling and slicing things then cooking them for, *ahem*, AT LEAST an hour, I'm afraid my suggestion won't even qualify as "dinner".
You need 50-65 grams of your favourite Barilla pasta. I find your regular Penne to be the easiest to measure, handle and eat. 10-15 tablespoons of your favourite tomato sauce. Finding a good ready-made tomato sauce is really tough but if you never tried a good one you probably won't be able to tell either way. Parmesan cheese, grind it yourself or buy it packaged. 40-50 grams of previously-sliced-by-somebody-else Turkey breast.
Fill any cooking pan with just enough water and put it to boil. Separate the amount of Pasta you'll cook. Pick a dish and start laying out the Turkey breast slices on it while the water heats up. Prepare the tomato sauce to be heated, you can use some small milk pan or something. Prepare to mark the time. As soon as you notice the water has started to boil, reduce the temperature to bare minimum where there's still water vapor coming up but no more bubbles and drop the Pasta in the pan. Immediately start stirring and marking the time. Continue to stir for the first minute or so. You can add some salt to the water if you want but I don't. Go get the Parmesan cheese ready, grind it, open the bag, whatever. Keep stirring the pasta every now and then to prevent it from sticking on the pan or on each other. After 5 minutes, start heating the tomato sauce at the minimum temperature possible, you can add a drop of sugar to the sauce now to cut the acidity but I don't. Put the Turkey breast in the microwave oven at maximum temperature with that special cover for cooking things in the microwave for as long as it takes to get the Turkey breast popping like pop-corn, which should be more or less 50 seconds. You aren't actually "cooking" it but killing any unwelcome bacteria (and warming it up anyway), that's why we're using sliced turkey, it's easier and quicker to get it steaming and popping. Don't forget to stir the pasta every now and then. Take the Turkey breast out and dress it as you wish as long as it doesn't take more than 5-10 minutes to prepare, I suggest Aceto Balsamico di Modena and olive oil, it will only take 30 seconds. But pretty much anything will go with turkey, like the tomato sauce itself. Hopefully you're at the 8th or 9th minute by now, time to take out the pasta. If it looks like it has absorbed enough water already, take it out or wait another minute but don't let it pass the 10th minute. You may take it out at the 7th minute or on some cases even the 6th if you don't mind a harder chew. With the pasta on your dishes it's time to get the tomato sauce out which should be warm by now. Drop it over the pasta. Put the Parmesan now or take it all to the table and there you go.
Dinner ready in 15 minutes, or 10 if you don't count the time it took to boil the water. You can replace the turkey breast for anything that's just as easy to sterilize in the microwave in less than 15 minutes, like a very chopped Chicken breast (without skin).
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