60 Best Easy Dinners

Our Instant Pot chicken marinara recipe is a simple equation for an easy, satisfying dinner that goes something like this: chicken thighs + a jar of marinara sauce = dinner’s done.

Today, a verdant, bright broccoli pesto pasta that’s as healthy as it is delicious.

Our easy lemon chicken recipe shines with a sunny, lemony zing. Garlic and herbs—plus a glug of white wine—mean that these juicy, tender chicken breasts are as delicious as they are healthy.

This sheet pan ratatouille recipe celebrates all of the olive-oil soaked flavors of the French country classic, but is bulked up into a one-pan meal thanks to the addition of hearty Italian sausages.

It’s a fast and fresh meal that cooks itself in a little parchment packet! Our salmon en papillote has a delicious garlic ginger sauce and tons of veggies.

Moist, flaky, melt-in-your-mouth salmon perfection. This is the baked salmon recipe you’ve been waiting for. Oh, and did we mention it cooks in just 15 minutes?!

Tender fingerling potatoes nestle between slices of lemon and red onion, chicken thighs and all of your favorite salty, spicy, garlicky favorites in this insanely easy sheet pan chicken recipe.

Need more weeknight-friendly dinner options? This five spice chicken sheet pan dinner is so delicious and easy, we guarantee it’ll become the new standard for weeknight dinners.

Stuffed with cheese and avocado, this giant, melty, upgraded cheese sheet pan quesadilla is good on its own, but we take it over the top with a side of homemade jalapeño ranch for dipping.

Instant Pot mac and cheese is easier and better than boxed mac and cheese! My rich, creamy, homemade Instant Pot mac and cheese recipe is everyone’s new favorite fast dinner. 

Wait wait wait—taco night can be even easier? Yep! Meet our 3-ingredient Crock-Pot chicken taco meat recipe!

Quick and crazy-delicious, a jar of mango chutney is the secret to the delicious, slightly sweet flavor of this chicken-and-cauliflower sheet pan dinner.

Seasoned with Old Bay, this asparagus, shrimp and sausage sheet pan dinner couldn’t be easier. Served with a lemon aioli, it’s the kind of meal that just might find its way into your weekly rotation!

We’re back at it with the easy sheet pan dinners, and tonight we’re dressing up basic cauliflower and chicken with our latest favorite secret ingredient in this za’atar chicken sheet pan dinner.

This recipe ticks all the boxes—a little meaty, some dark leafy greens, and some starchy goodness. An easy one-pan sausage, kale and potato skillet that pleases everyone, from cook to clean-up crew.

These addictingly sweet and umami-laden Hoisin glazed pork chops come together in just a few simple steps and are the perfect way to get out of that weeknight dinner rut.

If you’re craving a delicious, one-pan dinner that can be made in less than 40 minutes, then these skillet-seared pork chops covered in mushroom cream sauce will be your new best friend.

A smoky-sweet dry rub ensures that this grilled pork tenderloin comes off the coals with a gorgeous crust. Sliced up and served with a bowl of chimichurri—you’ll be hearing raves for days.

Cauliflower gnocchi with bruschetta sauce and sausage is a low-carb supper that bursts with bright, bold flavors and comes together in under ten minutes.

Juicy Italian sausages and peppers are roasted together on a sheet pan—yay for easy clean up—and stuffed into classic hoagie rolls for an Italian sausage sandwich that’s delicious anytime of day.

It doesn’t get much more decadent than this juicy, rich and buttery grilled rib eye steak with Italian salsa verde.

Fresh orange and lime juice, plus plenty of garlic and spices tenderize juicy flank steak in our simple, delicious carne asada recipe.

Herbaceous homemade chimichurri sauce meets a classic grilled flank steak recipe for a match made in summer dinner heaven.

A Chinese five spice-hoisin marinade sinks into scored flank steak like nobody's business, and turns a simply grilled flank steak into a total flavor bomb.

This streamlined, five-ingredient tortilla soup is built mostly from pantry ingredients and quick, easy and satisfying.

Taco night, but make it soup! Our taco soup recipe features all of the standard taco fixings, including ground beef flavored with our homemade taco seasoning. Don’t forget the toppings!

We took classic Indian chicken tikka masala and turned it into a tikka masala soup that is the definition of cozy. Slurping encouraged.

This creamy tortellini soup recipe, with a hearty tomato soup base loaded with sausage, kale and tortellini, is one of the most popular recipes we’ve ever shared. You're going to love it!

Once you make this quick and easy classic chicken noodle soup recipe for yourself, you’ll be saying goodbye to the canned stuff for good.

Using just one pot and (instant!) ramen noodles—just the noodles, toss that sodium-bomb flavor packet—makes this vegetarian coconut curry ramen a quick and easy dinner.

Creamy and deeply savory, it’s hard to believe that this rich and hearty white bean soup with bacon is made from just five simple ingredients.

Earthy mushrooms are the savory stars of this creamy, pungent, satisfying Hungarian mushroom soup.

Olive oil, salt, fresh tomatoes, and a little time are all it takes to create the most vibrant fresh tomato sauce recipe that’s ever emerged from the TMP test kitchen.

With just five ingredients, dinner doesn’t get easier or more delicious than this creamy roasted red pepper rigatoni pasta. If you’ve got ten minutes and can open a jar, you can make this tonight.

Can creamy, cheesy stovetop mac and cheese perfection be achieved with just four ingredients? You bet your buttons—and this easy macaroni and cheese recipe proves it.

The heavenly combination of nutty brown butter and sage is a classic gnocchi sauce that tastes absolutely divine on Trader Joe’s frozen cauliflower gnocchi.

A big pan of pillowy gnocchi surrounded by bubbling pools of mozzarella melting into creamy ricotta and tomato sauce—one whiff of this heavenly baked gnocchi is enough to silence the ravenous masses.

Take a pack of instant ramen noodles, ditch the seasoning packet, and use the noodles to whip up sesame garlic ramen noodles that taste restaurant-worthy but come together in about ten minutes.

Hearty and comforting, this meaty, easy bolognese sauce recipe takes less time to make than it does to disappear into hungry tummies.

Buttery, garlicky, shrimp-y, shrimp scampi recipe is easily the best meal you can cook in 15 minutes or less. Yum! Toss that garlic-butter shrimp with pasta, or grab a fork and dig straight in.

Chicken thighs marinate in a homemade harissa sauce, then hit the grill for a super quick, easy chicken dinner that packs a major, major smoky, spicy burst of flavor.

Our reader-favorite cilantro lime chicken recipe gets its juicy, bright burst of flavor from a quick, and zesty marinade of lime, garlic, cilantro, and honey. Chicken thighs have never tasted better!

Yet another super smart recipe that combines two of our favorite things—a spatchcocked chicken and homemade taco seasoning—to make a 3-ingredient dinner everyone will adore.

Creamy, cheesy, and so easy, our comforting green chicken enchilada recipe features a tangy green enchilada sauce plus lots of short cuts to make dinner a breeze.

This perfect roast chicken will soon become your family’s favorite weeknight dinner. It’s juicy and flavorful, with a bright and buttery lemon-and-herb pan sauce.

This whole roast chicken recipe boasts crisp skin, juicy meat and just five ingredients. It’s an everyday feast that everyone will love.

A super lemony, herbal marinade is the key to making this simple chicken-and-potatoes freezer meal radiate bright, summery, sun-soaked flavors—even after months in the freezer.

Freezer meals are a total life saver, and freezer chicken fajitas just might be our favorite of all. With just a few ingredients, and minimal prep, they’re one of our best back-pocket dinners.

Lemony, caper-topped, and just buttery enough, chicken piccata is an easy weeknight supper that’s easy to love, and so very fast.

Filipino chicken adobo is a flavor bomb in the best way! Chicken thighs are marinated in adobo sauce, which is tangy, sweet, fragrant and EASY, then simmered to tender, juicy perfection.

Our easy orange chicken recipe puts a healthier spin on the sweet-savory Chinese takeout favorite.

This easy Kung Pao chicken recipe uses grocery store ingredients to recreate everyone’s favorite Chinese restaurant dish at home.

A speedy, savory Thai beef basil stir fry that’s just a bit spicy and really hits the spot.

Quick, easy and delicious, this crispy chicken stir-fry with blistered green beans and a garlicky sauce is perfect for a better-than-takeout weeknight dinner!

Five ingredients, a few minutes and a hot skillet, and you’ll be digging into a delicious soboro donburi, a gingery ground beef that reminds us that the best Japanese recipes are often the simplest.

Baked eggs in salsa verde are our low stress/no mess way to prepare eggs for one or for many. Sprinkled with cotija and cilantro, and served with warm tortillas these are a fabulously easy meal.

Another few-ingredient, scour-the-pantry recipe, coming in hot! Smoked paprika and jarred marinara sauce punch up a simple vegetarian dinner of tomato-y braised chickpeas with chard.

A healthy, fast, vegetarian dinner is as easy and delicious as can be—meet our veggie-loaded portobello mushroom fajitas!

Runny, fried eggs over a bed of seasoned beans, atop a layer of warm corn tortillas, add a few condiments and voilà! Homemade huevos rancheros!

As far as we’re concerned, if you know how to make perfectly creamy, fluffy soft-scrambled eggs, you’ve got the skills you need to succeed—in the kitchen, in love, in life. We’ll show you the way.