50 Easy Dinner Recipes To Try Tonight

Need some quick and easy dinner recipes and ideas, ones you can make without spending hours in the kitchen or even in the grocery store? Especially on weeknights, I find myself wanting to cook and serve a healthy, home-cooked meal, but yet I just don’t have it in me to make something time consuming and laborious. My favorite ideas are the recipes where everyone thinks you worked very hard, but you actually did not! If you are also a fan of this sort of recipe, then I have 50 cool recipes for you to check out. These 50 easy dinner recipes are the best of the best, you will definitely be excited when you see how easy they are to make. Check out the gorgeous photos from some of the top food and DIY bloggers and see for yourself. Yum, right? Whether it be easy chicken recipes, simple vegetarian or vegan dishes, home-style comfort foods or easy recipes with ground beef, these 50 fantastic foods are sure to please most anyone you want to feed. I made this list a few months ago, and now all my friends insisted I share a copy with them, as it makes last minute dinner planning and even the weekend plan ahead meal prep that much easier. You only need a few ingredients to make a lot of these easy recipes, so there is no need to spend hours at the grocery store hunting down a long list of weird ingredients.

Easy Dinner Recipes

1. Quick Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls

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This easy chicken recipe idea is healthy, quick and delicious, so I am not sure what more you could ask for. This quick chicken teriyaki dish is now on of the most requested foods by all three of my children. Even picky eaters love this one.

2. One-Pan Ground Beef Pasta

Well Plated

Looking for easy beef recipes? Look no further than this simple garlic butter steak with potatoes. Your meat and potato people are sure to fall in love with it, and you just may turn the rest of them into steak lovers, too. A one skillet meal you can make in a hurry, this is the easy idea for beef when I have late day meetings at the offics and know I will not be home early. Serve it with a green salad and you have a quick and easy, healthy meal. If you need dinner ideas for tonight and don’t have anything to make yet, never fear. This simple recipe idea for dinner is quick to prepare and requires minimal ingredients. For a hearty

, this is one of my all time favorites.

This is the recipe I come back to when time is tight and everyone is hungry right now. Hearty pasta and seasoned beef in one pan, cozy and filling, and endlessly adaptable to whatever is in the fridge. Well Plated has the recipe.

Easy Chicken Piccata Recipe Video

For quick and easy Italian tonight, learn how to make this awesome creamy chicken piccata recipe. Love

? Serve this with your favorite pasta and a Ceasar salad for a healthy, balanced meal.

3. 15-Minute Chicken Chow Mein

cookingclassy

Who doesn’t love Chinese takeouts? Well, this Chicken Chow Mein recipe is as good as the restaurant and it’s so easy and simple to make, it will be ready on the table in about 15 minutes or so. Totally a crave-worthy dinner! When I try Asian recipes always turn out so well, which surprises me since I don’t always prepare such things. I love adding exciting new flavors to my dinner menu, and this is a family favorite, an easy noodle dish kids love.

4. One Pot Penne Pasta with Tomato & Basil

thelittlekitchen

I have been wanting to try so many one pot pasta dishes online but haven’t quite figured out the best recipe until I stumbled upon this post from The Little Kitchen. I just love how fresh this looks so I’ll have to finally give it a try.

Easy Chicken Recipes

Easy and Healthy Primavera Stuffed Chicken

For a super healthy, super delicious but easy dinner idea, try stuffing chicken breast with vegetables Primavera style. Learn how to make with this video recipe tutorial. For healthy dinner ideas, try this yummy vegetable

for dinner.

5. 15-Minute Easy Honey Garlic Chicken

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If you’re looking for

Easy Honey Garlic Chicken might just be the perfect recipe for you. It is a super

cooked in 15 minutes

Stir-fried to perfection, this dish will absolutely be an instant favorite in your home.

Easy Chicken Marsala Recipe

6. Lemon Garlic Shrimp Scampi

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Want a recipe that’s incredibly simple and tastes amazing the next day? Lemon Garlic Shrimp Scampi hits the home run for it’s absolute deliciousness. The best part is this recipe can be cooked and on the table in just minutes.You are definitely going to love this recipe.

7. 10-Minute Lemon Garlic Salmon & Asparagus

gimmedelicious

I am certified salmon lover and this recipe of salmon, asparagus and garlic caramelized in the flavorful browned butter is just the perfect dish to impress just about anyone. No prep need and is ready in just a few minutes. Does it get better than that?

8. One-Pan Cheesy Chicken, Broccoli, and Rice

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Got a hectic week ahead and running out of ideas to cook? This One-Pan Cheesy Chicken, Broccoli, and Rice dish is perfect for a busy weeknight, you’ll definitely want it on your weekly meal plan.

9. Sheet Pan Lemon Parmesan Garlic Chicken

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This recipe looks and tastes amazing. Made them tonight and my whole family loved it! It’s so quick and easy to prepare, I will definitely be putting this on permanent rotation.

12. Chicken and Broccoli Shells and Cheese

lovegrowswild

Another excellent recipe. Everyone loved it! Super easy to make. Smells amazing too. I used to have fear and be ashamed of my cooking but this simple recipe from Love Grows Wild have helped me get over this! So, we’re serving up some good, ‘ol mac and cheese today. Everyone loves this easy weeknight meal!

15. Pepper Steak

southyourmouth

This pepper steak stir fry is thinly sliced flank steak cooked with red and green bell peppers in a savory sauce. A quick and easy meal that tastes even better than take out! This homemade version is ready in minutes and has that same great restaurant flavor. Make it in the comfort of your own home by following along with the complete recipe of South Your Mouth.

16. Honey Balsamic Steak Bites

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17. Sweet Potato Gnocchi In Spinach Cream Sauce

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18. 4 Ingredient Pesto Chicken Bake

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19. Easy Crispy Mongolian Beef

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20. Ground Turkey Skillet with Green Beans

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22. Quick Fish Curry

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23. One Pan Chicken Enchilada Skillet

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24. One-Pot Creamy Mac & Cheese

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26. Chinese Lemon Chicken

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27. Philly Cheese Steak Sloppy Joes

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28. One Pot Vegan Mushroom Stroganoff

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31. Penne Alfredo with Bacon and Sundried Tomato

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32. Easy Oven Baked Salmon

A Couple Cooks

No flipping, no fussing, and it comes out tender and flaky every single time. That reliability is why it lives in my weeknight rotation, and it is just as good when friends are coming over. A Couple Cooks walks you through it.

33. Creamy Seafood Pasta

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34. Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers

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35. Spicy Korean Chicken

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36. Dump-and-Bake Healthy Chicken Parmesan

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37. 5-Ingredient Garlic Butter Quinoa

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38. Korean Sticky Chicken

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39. One Skillet Mongolian Beef Broccoli

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40. Easy Homemade Wonton Soup

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41. Santa Fe Chicken Skillet

Salt & Lavender

Thirty minutes and one skillet gives me tender chicken, black beans, corn, plenty of cheese and proper southwest spice. My boys ask for this one by name. It is the kind of dinner that tastes like more effort than it was. Salt and Lavender has it.

43. Black Bean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

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44. Roasted Veggie and Black Bean Tacos

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45. Cuban Style Sliders

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46. Quinoa Cakes with Parmesan

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47. One Pot Pizza Rigatoni

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48. Beef Burrito Skillet

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50. One Pot Chicken and Rice

Iowa Girl Eats

Part soup, part risotto, and wholly comforting is exactly right. Juicy chicken and fluffy seasoned rice cooked together in a single pot, and my family asks for it again and again. It is gluten free too. Iowa Girl Eats has the recipe.