10 quick dinner recipes

Recipes for quick and tasty homemade dinners for the whole family

Today I have for you a list of 10 quick dinner recipes. You can prepare these dishes quickly, and their excellent taste will delight all family members, regardless of their culinary preferences. Discover new favorite dishes for the whole family! See my recipes for quick soups and express main courses that you can prepare in about 30 minutes! See 10 dinner ideas with meat and more!

I don’t know about you, but almost every day I face the dilemma of what to make for dinner. Usually, I have little time for it and sometimes little desire. That’s when I opt for quick dinner recipes. The best ones are those that are ready in half an hour. The second important factor – they must appeal to my demanding children. Fortunately, both they and we like soups, so I try to cook a large pot that lasts us for two or three days.

Soup recipes for the whole family

On the blog, you’ll find some great soup recipes, and today I’m reminding you of two of the quickest – zucchini soup and lentil soup.

Be sure to also check out my other soup recipes – in the autumn-winter period, I highly recommend homemade sour rye soup with white sausage – it takes a bit longer to make, but such a sour rye soup is so nourishing that I often don’t need to eat a main course after it.

 

 

10 quick dinner recipes – main course

If soup isn’t enough to fill you up, savory pancakes come to the rescue. Potato pancakes are, of course, a classic, but you don’t have to limit yourself to them. You can also prepare them from other vegetables.

I personally recommend zucchini pancakes and pumpkin pancakes. To prepare such pancakes, simply grate the vegetables – grate pumpkin or zucchini on a coarse grater, and additionally squeeze out excess water from the zucchini. You can grate potatoes for pancakes either on a fine grater into shreds – then you’ll get crispier pancakes, or grate them into a puree – be careful with your fingers here, as it’s easy to lose skin! To the grated vegetables, you just need to add an egg, a little flour, and spices, and you can start frying the pancakes. For nicely crispy vegetable pancakes, fry them on a very hot pan with heated fat.

Fry the pancakes on both sides until golden brown, and immediately after frying, it’s worth draining them of excess fat on a paper towel. You can serve the pancakes with sour cream, natural yogurt, or, for example, with garlic sauce or tzatziki sauce.

Chicken dish recipes

For meat-eaters, I recommend quick chicken dishes. Chicken breast meat fries very quickly, so you don’t have to wait long for dinner. And if you have more time, make roasted chicken – if you roast it whole, it will last you for two days. My favorite chicken recipe is breasts in a creamy sauce with sun-dried tomatoes. We also really like chicken dishes inspired by Indian cuisine, e.g., chicken curry.

For dinner, chicken breasts just need to be diced or sliced thinly and seasoned. The meat itself has such a delicate flavor that you can prepare a different chicken dish every time – with a different taste and different additions. Additionally, chicken breast meat is low in calories, so it will be ideal for people on a reduction diet or those watching their weight.

Pasta dish recipes

However, my biggest hit is all kinds of spaghetti. They are quick to make, very tasty, and there are so many possibilities that they never get boring. If I’m not inspired, I just cook pasta and add ready-made pesto, or make a quick carbonara. But if I have a moment and the desire, I make pesto myself – e.g., from parsley, or from radish leaves. If we get tired of such pasta, then I try harder and come up with something new. I also recommend such quick homemade spaghetti to you.

Therefore, it’s always worth having a few packages of pasta in your handy pantry for quick dishes. What pasta will be best as a base for a dish? Of course, spaghetti noodles will be perfect for various versions of spaghetti. Besides long spaghetti noodles, I also recommend bow-tie pasta (farfalle), tubes (penne), spirals (fusilli), tagliatelle, and fettuccine (wider ribbons). These pastas will be great for thick sauces that can nicely coat them.

Finally, I can also recommend a quick onion tart on puff pastry. By using ready-made pastry, you’ll get a quick dinner. If you have more time, you can bake other savory tarts.

Weekend hit – homemade pizza recipe!

And finally – for the weekend, I recommend the best homemade pizza! With delicious dough like from a pizzeria and amazing homemade tomato sauce – yum. And if you need to, you can also make pizza in a pan!! Check out how to make pizza in a pan – it’s not that difficult!

I hope my small compilation helps you and serves as inspiration when planning quick dinners for the family! If you have your own tricks for express dinners, please share them in the comments. How do you like my 10 quick dinner recipes?