Kailash Chand

Kailash Recent Post Pages allows you to display recent posts anywhere on your site using a shortcode. You can configure: 
* Number of posts 
* Number of columns 
* Show/hide featured images 
* Show/hide read more links 
* Customize read more text 
* Display on all pages or only single posts

Kailash Recent Post Pages

A plugin to display recent posts in a customizable grid with options for featured image, read more links, and number of columns.

Ross Cornell

This plugin adds a simple widget that allows you to display a number of recent blog posts from a specific category. You have the options to choose a title, category, number of posts and whether or not to show the post date. The posts will be ordered by date just like the default Recent Posts widget included with WordPress.

very easy to use

Very usefull

Just like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category to pull posts from.

Kailash Recent Post Pages vs Recent Posts by Category Widget