30 Easy Dinners for a Busy Weeknight!

Do you need easy dinner recipes to save your busy evening? We know that feeling: 5 p.m. is coming right in your face, and you still don’t know what to cook, let alone shop! That’s when this handy list of easy dinner ideas comes to the rescue. From air-fried chicken and one-pot pastas to quick Instant Pot soups and salmon rice bowls, we have you covered with 30 easy meals that need less than 30 minutes to prep. Enjoy!

Easy Dinner Ideas: 30 Easy Dinner Recipes for a Busy Weeknight!

1. Smoked Sausage with Sweet Potato Stir-Fry

This smoked sausage and sweet potato stir-fry is a perfect weeknight dinner idea!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

2. Honey Garlic Chicken Bites

Honey garlic chicken bites is the easiest dinner to throw together! Make it all in one skillet and let the flavors blow your mind!
Cooking time: 12 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

3. Air Fryer Chicken and Vegetables (in 15 minutes!)

This air fryer chicken recipe with veggies is super easy to make and full of flavor. Air fryer chicken and vegetables make a complete and healthy low-carb or keto meal in under 20 minutes!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

4. Baked Salmon in Foil with Asparagus and Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce

This oven foil packets salmon recipe with Asparagus and Garlic Butter Sauce makes an amazingly tasty dinner. The salmon recipe of your dreams!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

5. Garlic Butter Shrimp with Broccoli Rice

This shrimp and rice recipe with broccoli comes together in less than 30 minutes for a quick, balanced, and healthy meal. Shrimp and broccoli rice is also perfect for meal prepping!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

6. Lemon Garlic Butter Chicken and Green Beans Skillet

This one-skillet Lemon Garlic Butter Chicken recipe is a snap to fix. The chicken thighs and green beans are cooked with lemon garlic butter sauce in the same pan. So addicting!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

7. Instant Pot Keto Tuscan Soup (Warm and Comforting)

This Instant Pot Tuscan Keto Soup recipe with Italian sausage is creamy and hearty. You'll enjoy every spoonful of this easy keto soup!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

8. Garlic Butter Steak and Potatoes Skillet

The best pan-seared steak with potatoes recipe you'll ever have - Simple, juicy, and so flavorful steak recipe with garlic butter sauce!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

9. Pepper Steak Stir-Fry (15-Minute )

You'll love this pepper steak stir-fry recipe: A restaurant-quality beef stir-fry you can make in less than 20 minutes, using simple and fresh ingredients.
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

10. Broccoli Cauliflower Cheese Soup with Bacon

This broccoli cauliflower cheese soup recipe is healthy comfort food at its finest!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

11. Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad with Avocado, Tomato, and Basil 

This Healthy chicken pasta salad recipe is packed with flavor, protein and veggies. Try this pasta salad for a quick lunch or a light dinner!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

12. Creamy Chicken Pasta Soup

This creamy chicken pasta soup is nutritious, easy and big on flavor. Try our chicken pasta soup recipe tonight, it's done in less than 30 minutes!
Cooking time: 25 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

13. Creamy Garlic Chicken with Spinach and Bacon

This Creamy garlic chicken recipe with spinach and bacon is rich, creamy, and hearty - everyone will love it!
Cooking time: 25 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

14. 15-Minute Garlic Butter Chicken with Parmesan Cauliflower Rice

This chicken parmesan with cauliflower rice is crispy, soft and SO delish – The ultimate gluten-free / low carb dinner.
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

15. Beef Pasta in Tomato Sauce {Beef Ragu Pasta}

Ground beef pasta recipe is so delicious and so comforting! Everything is cooked in one pot - Everyone will love this easy pasta dish!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

16. Healthy Avocado Chicken Salad

This avocado chicken salad recipe is light, flavorful, and easy to make - Perfect Healthy salad recipe for your next barbecue or potluck!
Cooking time: 6 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

17. Baked Turkey Meatballs with Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce

This baked turkey meatballs recipe is absolutely fabulous in every way imaginable!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

18. Garlic Butter Shrimp with Asparagus

This garlic butter shrimp recipe is delicious and cooks super quickly - The easiest and flavor packed shrimp ever!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

19. Garlic Parmesan Chicken Bake

Our quick and simple garlic parmesan chicken is bursting with delicious flavor and sure to become a new favorite. Try this baked chicken recipe for a quick weekday meal!
Cooking time: 15 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

20. Chicken Baked with Asparagus

These oven-baked chicken bites recipe with asparagus are quick to make and don’t require any frying. The chicken bites are so juicy, tender, and delicious you’ll eat them hot right off the sheet pan!
Cooking time: 25 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

21. Garlic Shrimp Skillet

Juicy garlic shrimp is the most easiest and big flavor packed shrimp! Ready in under 15 minutes, garlic shrimp is an extra quick, very simple, to throw together meal that can be served over anything! This healthy shrimp dish is sure to join your weekend dinner rotation.
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

22. Garlic Butter Chicken and Potatoes Skillet

This garlic butter chicken and potatoes skillet is the easiest and tastiest weeknight dinner - One skillet for amazing flavors!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

23. Tomato Spinach Sausage Pasta Recipe

This sausage pasta dinner recipe is crazy delicious and only 30 minutes or less of work! One of the best sausage pasta recipe ever!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

24. Butternut Lentil Stew

This butternut lentil Stew in creamy coconut sauce is an excellent plant-based dinner for just about any night of the week!
Cooking time: 25 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

25. Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas

Sheet pan shrimp fajitas make an easy weeknight dinner that tastes amazing. Make this baked shrimp fajita recipe once and you'll make it over and over!
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

26. Tomato Zucchini Shrimp Pasta

This zucchini tomato shrimp pasta recipe is a perfect weeknight dinner. You can make the shrimp pasta in less than 30 minutes and everyone loves it!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

27. Garlic Butter Chicken Bites with Asparagus

Chicken and asparagus recipe is a winner for dinnertime - This chicken recipe is is so much flavor and so easy to throw together!
Cooking time: 20 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

28. Easy Salmon Rice Bowl

This tasty salmon rice bowl makes for a satisfying lunch or dinner and takes only 5 minutes to put together. It's so good, you'll be making the salmon rice bowl recipe on repeat!
Cooking time: 5 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

29. Baked Zucchini and Cheese

Baked zucchini and cheese is an easy side dish made in 30 minutes. If you're looking for the perfect balance of crispy and cheesy, this cheesy zucchini bake is for you!
Cooking time: 30 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

30. Garlic Butter Air Fryer Salmon

Garlic Butter Air Fryer Salmon is so simple and delicious! Marinated salmon fillets gets super crisp with the air-frying method, and yet gives you that juicy, flaky flesh just like in restaurants.
Cooking time: 10 minView recipe >> Save to recipe box

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