Easy Weeknight Dinners — After a long day, who wants to spend hours in the kitchen? With these quick dishes and weeknight dinner recipe ideas, you can free up your evenings for the important stuff — like relaxing! Scroll down to discover our quick and easy weeknight dinner recipes.
Easy Weeknight Dinners - 19 Super Easy Weeknight Dinners To Try This Week
1. Lemon Garlic Butter Salmon in Foil with Pineapple
This lemon garlic butter salmon is a breeze to make and the method of cooking it all together in a foil pouch seals in moisture and keeps the sweet aroma intact. A no-fuss weeknight dinner with no clean up!
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2. One-Pan Tomato Spinach Tortellini
Easy, healthy and family friendly and ready in 20 minutes. This delicious comfort food is the perfect answer to your weeknight dinner prayers!
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3. Cilantro Lime Shrimp with Zucchini Noodles
A perfect low-calorie and low-carb option for a quick, light dinner.
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4. 20 Minute Healthy Sausage and Veggies One-Pot
Baby potatoes are quickly stir fried then paired with savory sausage, sweet bell peppers and zucchini for a mediterranean touch. Perfect for busy weeknights or when you just don’t feel like cooking!
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5. Pan Seared Salmon with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce
This pan-seared salmon recipe is perfect for a dinner ready in under 20 minutes. Pan fried to a flakey perfection, salmon is crispy on the outside and drenched in a creamy and super fragrant sun-dried tomato sauce.
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6. Tomato Spinach Shrimp Pasta
Healthy, light and delicious comfort food, you might have to double the batch!
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7. Mozzarella Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Seriously cheesy and bursting with flavors, this quick dinner for two is perfect for a busy weeknight.
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8. Chicken Stuffed Spaghetti Squash
Spaghetti squash is stuffed with a creamy, cheesy, chicken and dried tomato filling. It’s next-level delicious and perfect if you don’t like doing the dishes!
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9. Garlic Lime Chicken Tenders and Quinoa
This garlic lime chicken tenders and quinoa is a whole and effortless meal, perfect for a weeknight dinner for two. Beside chicken and quinoa, all you need for this recipe is a good mix of spices and a handful of fresh herbs.
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10. Roasted Chili-Lime Tilapia and Veggies
Fragrant spices and lime come together for a flavor explosion on the flakiest tilapia fillets ever. This is a super easy, quick, and healthy family meal for busy weeknights!
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11. Honey Dijon Chicken and Veggies Foil Packs
Chicken breasts seasoned in a honey-mustard sauce are baked in foil to a tender finish with juicy grape tomatoes and zucchini. You’ll love the simplicity!
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12. Baked Garlic Chicken and Potatoes
This is your new go-to quick and easy dinner for the family! Chicken thighs, potatoes and red onion, bake everything in one single pan with just a simple seasoning of salt, pepper, garlic powder, and Cayenne powder.
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13. Sausage, Pepper and Cauliflower Fried Rice
A nutritious blend of flavors for a delicious dinner ready in 20 minutes.
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14. Creamy Shrimp Scampi with Zucchini Noodles
Unbelievably easy and healthy, perfect for a busy weeknight!
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15. Baked Lemon Chicken with Veggies
A healthy, nourishing weeknight dinner prepared in just one-pan.
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16. Lemon Garlic Herb Shrimp in Foil Packets
Shrimp with tomato and zucchini are marinated with a herbed lemon garlic sauce and smothered in foil packets in the oven. This quick, healthy dinner is so easy to make, anyone can do it!
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17. Creamy Pesto Chicken Meatballs
You can eat these creamy chicken meatballs a million different ways: on top of pasta, zucchini noodles, cauliflower rice or even in a sandwich! It’s comfort food at its tastiest and you can whip it up in about 30 minutes.
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18. Quick Braised Lime Chicken
A hearty and deliciously nutritious chicken dinner that's ready in 30 minutes.
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19. Sheet-Pan Honey Chili Chicken with Veggies
Hearty and nutritious, this sheet-pan chicken takes weeknight dinners to new levels. Dress juicy roasted chicken thighs in a spicy sweet marinade and serve with a side of sweet bell peppers and rice or bulgur.
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