“What ought to I make for dinner?” is perhaps certainly one of life’s most-asked questions. And fast, straightforward dinner recipes (which might be equally scrumptious) are one of the crucial standard Google searches.
With that in thoughts, we sifted by way of our recipe archives to seek out the simplest dinner recipes. That’s proper—on this publish, you’ll discover 60 straightforward dinner recipes.
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Unsure what you’re longing for dinner? We’ve a wide selection of recipe concepts on this publish, together with:
- Soup and Chili
- Pizza
- Pasta
- Stir Fry
- Casseroles
- Salads
Simple Taco Soup
A easy and easy-to-make taco soup recipe made with floor beef, black beans, tomatoes, and selfmade tortilla strips. You should definitely add toppings like shredded cheese, bitter cream, avocado, cilantro, and sizzling sauce.
Italian Beef Sandwiches
This recipe for Italian beef sandwiches may be made in a crock pot and cooked slowly over eight hours. It’s a simple dinner concept that you could throw collectively within the morning and revel in within the night.
Honey and Miso Stir Fry
Stir fry is certainly one of our go-to dinner concepts. This stir fry has a thick, mouth-watering honey miso sauce and it may be made with tofu, hen, or any form of protein you favor.
30-Minute Sheet Pan Pizza
Do-it-yourself pizza in half-hour? Oh, sure. This recipe makes use of rapid rise yeast to shortly make the dough, and you may prime it together with your favourite toppings. We selected pineapple and ham— a controversial selection.
Toasted Ravioli Salad
Belief us on this dinner concept—toasted ravioli blended in a inexperienced salad and topped with balsamic dressing. The crunchy, tacky ravioli paired with a contemporary salad is so good!
In a single day No-Boil Lasagna
Lasagna is among the greatest consolation meals, and you may make it in a flash with this straightforward recipe. You possibly can even prep this lasagna the night time earlier than utilizing no-boil noodles and pop it within the oven the following day.
Air Fryer Rooster Tenders
A easy air fryer hen tenders recipe made with flour, egg, and panko (or breadcrumbs) that you could make in an air fryer in beneath 20 minutes. For those who’re on the lookout for one thing additional quick, you should utilize frozen hen.
20-Minute Vegetable Inexperienced Curry
Scrumptious vegetable inexperienced curry in simply 20 minutes! This recipe is filled with good-for-you elements and may be served with tofu or hen. It’s an ideal weeknight dinner concept anytime, however particularly when it’s chilly outdoors.
Rooster and Rice Casserole
You possibly can’t go unsuitable with this dinner concept—hen and rice casserole. This straightforward recipe is made out of scratch (with out condensed soup) and is topped with crunchy French fried onions. It makes nice leftovers!
Quinoa Stuffed Bell Peppers
These stuffed bell peppers are full of quinoa and topped with melty cheese. They go nice with a aspect of black beans with feta cheese and some slices of lime.
30-Minute Vegetable White Chili
This veggie white chili is filled with taste and tremendous easy and fast to throw collectively. For those who desire, you’ll be able to swap the beans for shredded hen for a extra conventional recipe. It’s superb both method.
10-Minute Creamy Tomato Soup
You gained’t imagine the key ingredient on this 10-minute creamy tomato soup recipe. It makes this soup extremely creamy with out utilizing any dairy. Serve this soup with a wonderfully toasted grilled cheese sandwich for an entire meal.
Simple Gnocchi Soup
This gnocchi soup is made with greens, potato gnocchi, and sausage. It’s an incredible stability of veggie and protein, and impressed a scrumptious Olive Backyard soup (however even higher!).
Purple Beans and Rice Veggie Burgers
This straightforward recipe for high-protein veggie burgers options pink beans and rice, which is a good mixture as a result of they kind an entire protein. You can even make additional burgers and freeze them for a fast dinner.
Chipotle & Pumpkin Veggie Enchiladas
A chipotle pumpkin enchilada recipe that’s filled with taste—and the sauce may be simply made in a blender. High these enchiladas with plenty of melty cheese and ripe avocado. You gained’t be disillusioned!
Simple Tortellini Soup
A easy 20-minute tomato soup with cheese tortellini and a juicy orange base. It would sound somewhat completely different, nevertheless it provides a vibrant pop of taste. Soup and pasta in a single dish? Sure, please.
Complete Wheat One-Pot Pasta
For those who haven’t made a one-pot pasta earlier than, you should attempt it. This entire wheat model has fewer energy, extra fiber, and extra vitamins than common pasta, so it’s a win-win scenario.
Crispy Air Fryer Wings
A easy recipe for tremendous crispy air fried hen wings that may be simply be personalized with any wing sauce or sizzling sauce. Frank’s Wing Sauce is our favourite, although!
Chickpea Yellow Curry
Chickpea yellow curry is a filling, vegetarian-friendly dinner possibility, and certainly one of our favourite sorts of curry. Serve alongside some white or brown rice and prime it with chopped cilantro. Yum!
Creamy Pea & Recent Herb Fettuccine
For those who’re craving a consolation meal, fettuccine is the last word repair. This creamy pea and contemporary herb fettuccine is made with selfmade Alfredo sauce and may be on the desk in half-hour or much less.
Tremendous Filling Candy Potato Tacos
These filling candy potato tacos are the proper stability of candy and spicy for a superb, wholesome dinner. We extremely suggest you give these a attempt at your subsequent taco Tuesday.
Simple Calzone Recipe
Scrumptious calzones made straightforward with with suggestions of store-bought dough choices and from-scratch dough recipes to attempt. This enjoyable dinner concept pairs properly with a salad (and plenty of dipping sauce).
Finest Baked Macaroni and Cheese
What’s to not love about baked macaroni and cheese? This can be a tremendous straightforward recipe that’s made with out eggs or evaporated milk. A straightforward, traditional recipe! This recipe makes 4-6 servings and is nice leftover.
Thai Tempeh Lettuce Wraps
Lettuce wraps are an incredible weeknight dinner concept which might be fast to throw collectively, easy, and scrumptious. This filling is Thai-based, and may be made with floor turkey or tempeh (to make them vegetarian).
Quinoa Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp scampi is certainly one of our favorites, and this recipe makes use of quinoa as an alternative of noodles for a lighter model. Serve with a salad or your favourite vegetable aspect dish and revel in!
Springfield-Model Cashew Cauliflower
Do you know cashew hen was based in our hometown? This recipe for cashew cauliflower is predicated on the recipe we all know and love, however somewhat bit lighter. It’s extremely good!
Stuffed Pepper Soup
This easy-to-follow recipe is made with the identical elements as stuffed bell peppers, and prepared in half-hour. Serve this soup with a cheese quesadilla for the total soup and grilled cheese expertise.
Spicy Peanut Noodles
The sauce on this noodle dish is much like the peanut sauce you make for spring rolls (with somewhat extra spice). You can additionally add additional greens to this recipe to make it extra of a stir fry.
Baked Rooster
Baked hen is a fast dinner concept, and you may serve it with so many various sides. This recipe exhibits you tips on how to bake hen breasts with out brining so they’re juicy and completely cooked each time (in quarter-hour!).
White Sauce Veggie Enchiladas
We love making enchiladas for dinner, particularly as a result of you’ll be able to customise them utilizing all types of fillings and elements. This recipe is vegetable-based and topped with a creamy, white sauce.
Rooster Noodle Soup with Rotisserie Rooster
Get pleasure from a heat, comforting bowl of selfmade hen noodle soup in lower than half-hour utilizing a rotisserie hen from the grocery retailer. It doesn’t get any simpler than this. This recipe makes round 4 servings (excellent for lunch the following day).
Stir Fry Spaghetti Squash
Right here’s a stir fry recipe that’s made with spaghetti squash. The seasoning and cooking technique on this recipe makes the spaghetti squash style SO very like glass noodles. You gained’t even know the distinction!
Baked Potato & Broccoli Cheddar Soup
This potato broccoli soup has all of the creamy taste of baked potato soup and packs an honest quantity of greens from the broccoli. High it with with shredded cheese and crackers earlier than digging in.
Sheet Pan Totchos
We love a simple sheet pan meal—they’re easy to make and excellent when feeding greater than two individuals. That’s the place sheet pan totchos (tator tot nachos) are available. They’re all the time a favourite, and children love them, too.
Creamy Garlic Mac & Cheese
Mmm … macaroni and cheese. This mac & cheese recipe is thick and creamy with numerous garlic. Oh, and it may be made in a crock pot! Simply think about having this simmering in your counter and prepared in supper time.
Simple Hamburger Soup
A straightforward hamburger soup with flavors of pink onion, garlic, cayenne, and chili powder. High this soup with shredded cheese and pickles (and toasted buns on the aspect) for an final hamburger-like expertise.
St. Louis-Model Pizza
St. Louis-style pizza is a skinny, crunchy crust pizza with a mix of provel cheese and a barely candy sauce. This dough is yeast-free and comes collectively very quickly.
Biscuits and Gravy Casserole
What about “breakfast for dinner”? Biscuits and gravy casserole solely has 6 elements and takes 45 minutes to bake. You possibly can even make the vast majority of this recipe forward and bake it while you’re able to eat.
Baked Mini Falafel Salad
Discovering a salad to make for dinner that’s each filling and flavorful can typically be a problem, however this baked mini falafel salad has all of it. It’s so good!
Crock Pot Butternut Mac & Cheese
All of the consolation and tacky goodness of macaroni and cheese made with a wholesome dose of butternut squash. This recipe is a good possibility for somebody who’s gluten illiberal however needs to take pleasure in a pasta dish.
Simple Pumpkin Curry
Pumpkin curry combines the flavors of pumpkin with coconut milk and spices which might be considerably paying homage to many Indian dishes. It’s so good! Serve with tofu or your protein of selection.
White Bean, Dill, and Vegetable Soup
A hearty vegetable soup made with white beans, potatoes, and chopped dill. This soup is creamy and filling whereas nonetheless managing to be manufactured from largely vegetation and entire elements.
Recent Spring Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Recent spring rolls are versatile—you may make them for dinner or you’ll be able to take pleasure in them as an appetizer/finger meals. And they’re very easy to place collectively! Seize a veggie chopper to make the method somewhat faster.
Portobello Beer Burgers
For those who’re craving a burger however need one thing lighter, attempt a portobello mushroom cheeseburger. The mushrooms are soaked in beer earlier than they’re cooked for a singular taste. Add some onion rings (on prime or as a aspect) and also you’re set.
Heat Brussels Sprout Salad
This can be a heat and filling salad made with Brussels sprouts, cranberry raisins, and selfmade croutons. Emma made this after consuming an analogous salad at a restaurant. Simple and scrumptious!
5 Bean Vegetarian Chili
A brilliant straightforward vegetarian chili recipe utilizing a mixture of pinto, kidney, black, nice northern, and garbanzo beans. Garnish with shredded cheese, bitter cream, inexperienced onions, and plenty of Fritos.
One-Pot Creamy Broccoli Pasta
A one-pot meal utilizing contemporary, retailer purchased pasta and broccoli. This dish comes collectively shortly and it’s good and comforting. It will even be scrumptious with air fryer salmon or air fried hen tenders.
Honey-Roasted Veggies and Gnocchi
We love making roasted greens for dinner, and this recipe combines Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and gnocchi (potato dumplings). This can be a colourful, wholesome, and scrumptious meal that you could take pleasure in in beneath half-hour.
Rooster Verde Enchiladas
These tacky hen verde enchiladas are straightforward to make and excellent for leftovers the following day. The bottom of this dish is a rotisserie hen and your favourite jar of salsa verde (so easy!).
Orange Rooster Sauce
Orange hen is much like candy and bitter hen—it has a flavorful sauce that has some sweetness to it. The bottom of the sauce is orange juice, nevertheless it has many different elements that stability out the candy taste.
Carrot Pesto Pasta
The carrot pesto pasta is somewhat bit savory, somewhat bit candy, and nonetheless has some scrumptious creaminess from the Parmesan cheese. The sauce may be made in a meals processor, and couldn’t be simpler to make.
Gradual Cooker Break up Pea and Lentil Soup
We love a soup recipe that we will throw within the gradual cooker within the afternoon and have dinner prepared by the tip of the workday. This break up pea and lentil soup is equally filling, good for you, and scrumptious.
Simple Vodka Sauce – 6 Elements
This can be a tremendous easy vodka sauce recipe with solely six important elements. This creamy, pink sauce can served on any kind of pasta you favor—even gnocchi. Plus, selfmade sauce all the time tastes higher.
Stovetop Brussels and Shells
A stovetop dish with Brussels sprouts, entire wheat pasta, and a lightweight, creamy sauce that accommodates a vibrant pop of taste from contemporary lemon juice and zest. Youngsters will love this recipe, too!
Creamy Sausage and Kale Soup
This sausage and kale soup is a weblog favourite. It has a creamy base alongside chewy kale and mushy (however chunky) potatoes. And, you can simply make this soup vegetarian with a few straightforward swaps.
Spicy Tempeh Taco Salad
You’re going to love this spicy tempeh taco salad! Though this recipe is vegetarian, you can additionally use floor beef. Both method, it’s a scrumptious mixture of salsa, spicy mayo, and chopped cilantro. Serve with mushy or fried tortillas.