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Everybody understands the struggle of getting dinner on the table after a long day. If you're looking for a simple recipe to simplify your weeknight, you've come to the right place--easy dinners are our specialty. We all have our favorite go-to pasta meals for busy nights, and a roast chicken always hits the spot, but when our usual recipes get boring, look here for meal ideas. These quick-and-easy dinner recipes offer up major inspiration, even on those busy nights when you're drawing a blank on what to make. For an easy supper that you can depend on, we picked out some of the tried-and-true favorites that have gotten us through even the busiest of days. Whether you're cooking for yourself or for a family, these easy dinner recipes are sure to leave everyone satisfied and stress-free.
Already Cooked Shrimp Recipes All Recipes Easy 5-Ingredient Salmon Recipe Best Ever Baked Salmon Recipe
Best Easy Chicken Marsala in Easy Dinner Recipes,Chicken Marsala is a one-pot, 30-minute meal made with golden brown chicken cutlets, savory mushrooms and a rich marsala wine sauce that is every bit as tasty as a restaurant version! The chicken is thin, crispy around the edges, and coated in a luxuriously flavorful sauce. And of course, the mushrooms!! Mmmm, the mushrooms. While the basics of the recipe are very similar across all versions, the sauce can vary from creamy to dark. For this version, I chose to keep the sauce dark and rich, but feel free to add a splash of cream to lighten it up if you’d like!
Best Easy Chicken Marsala
Bacon Chicken Marsala in Easy Dinner Recipes,This one-skillet paleo chicken marsala is loaded with flavor! Juicy chicken, a creamy mushroom sauce and crispy, savory bacon make this a recipe you’ll want in your dinner rotation! It’s dairy-free, gluten-free, Paleo, and Whole30 compliant. When using coconut milk, the mustard and nutritional yeast help cut the coconut flavor, but these two are entirely optional in the recipe.
Bacon Chicken Marsala
Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,This easy Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata recipe is made with a delicious lemon caper sauce and is the perfect meal for the lemon lovers in your life! It’s made in less than 30-minutes. This gluten-free and paleo chicken piccata recipe with lemon, capers, and fresh herbs is one of my favorite weeknight meals EVER. It’s perfectly cooked with an amazing sauce and comes together so easily in only one-pan.
Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata
Family Favorite Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Who knew that by simply dredging chicken breasts in flour and serving them with a tangy sauce that you would end up with one of the best Italian chicken dishes of all time? Chicken piccata is always a crowd favorite with its golden-browned chicken breasts and a delicious sauce combining lemon juice, butter, capers.
Family Favorite Chicken Piccata
Flavorful Paleo Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,This paleo chicken piccata is an easy, quick, and super flavorful weeknight dinner. Adding asparagus makes the already delicious combo of chicken, lemon, and capers even tastier and more nutritious. This paleo chicken piccata is so flavorful already from the capers, lemons, and ghee that it doesn’t need an assertive herb on top.
Flavorful Paleo Chicken Piccata
Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta with penne, sauteed strips of chicken breast, broth, cream, goat cheese, parmesan, lemon, and asparagus! Easy midweek meal, perfect for spring! Feel free to play around with this one! Swap out a different cheese, or experiment with different herbs like thyme or basil, or even add some heat with a few chili pepper flakes.
Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta
Thyme-Mint Chicken Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Cubed chicken sauteed in olive oil, served with pasta in a creamy sauce infused with thyme, mint, and honey. This is a quick and easy chicken pasta with a cream sauce infused with thyme, mint, and lemon. What a great flavor combination! And the kicker is that by the time the pasta water has come to a boil and the pasta is cooked, everything else is ready too, making for a filling, tasty midweek meal.
Thyme-Mint Chicken Pasta
Easy Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Easy Chicken Piccata is an amazing dinner made in minutes that the entire family will love. This one-pan Lemon Chicken Piccata Recipe has only 7 ingredients and is packed with SO much flavor. You gonna love the flavor combination of the bright lemon juice, salty capers, and creamy butter. It’s an extremely simple recipe, but one that can be dressed up for a romantic date night, or dressed down for a quick weeknight family meal.
Easy Chicken Piccata
Italian Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Get an Italian restaurant favorite at home for just a fraction of the cost. The best part? It comes together from start to finish in just 20 minutes. This is perfect for a busy weeknight. Serve over hot cooked spaghetti or your favorite pasta and spritz with additional lemon juice for added brightness to the dish. Enjoy this restaurant favorite at home with a glass of white wine and fresh garden salad. This Italian chicken recipe is sure to please your entire family.
Italian Chicken Piccata
Shrimp and Artichoke Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Pasta with shrimp, artichoke hearts, basil pesto, and peas. A great quick, pull-together meal. The recipe uses items that I typically keep on hand in the freezer—frozen shrimp, peas, and artichoke hearts—as well as pesto.Even though it looks like there’s a lot going on—shrimp, artichokes, peas, pesto, pasta—the whole dish can be made in the time it takes to cook the pasta!
Shrimp and Artichoke Pasta
Fettuccine Alfredo in Easy Dinner Recipes,For this dish, we prefer dry fettuccine noodles to freshly made because the pasta holds up better to the sauce. The instructions assume that you are using dry noodles. If you use fresh, adjust timing accordingly. Fettuccine Alfredo is the best served as soon as you make it, but it will keep, covered, in the fridge for up to 5 days. It can be reheated with a little bit of water or butter in a saucepan over low heat. It typically does not freeze well.
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo in Easy Dinner Recipes,Fettuccine alfredo with mushrooms brings a mix of cheesy, creamy and earthy flavors together. It's a restaurant-worthy dish you can totally make at home. Alfredo is one of the most underrated sauces—it’s made with just a few pantry staples, it’s always satisfying, and it’s surprisingly easy to make at home. Every home cook should have a recipe at the ready for quick weeknight dinners. It’s certainly not just for restaurant dining!
Fettuccine Alfredo
Whole Wheat Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,This Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto is a quick and easy meatless dinner! Make your pesto with cashews for extra creaminess. Blanching the kale also helps keep the pesto green.Kale has long been a popular vegetable in New England since it can be grown all year round in both the field and cold frames. Luckily, its popularity has really gained traction everywhere lately, giving us plenty of new ways to enjoy it – like this pesto pasta!
Whole Wheat Pasta
Pasta Pomodoro in Easy Dinner Recipes,Pasta Pomodoro—angel hair pasta tossed with sauteed shrimp, garlic, tomatoes, and basil. Only 30 minutes! To safely defrost frozen shrimp, place in a bowl of ice water. In this Pasta Pomodoro with Shrimp we are using both, and tossing them with quickly cooked fresh tomatoes (that’s the “Pomodoro” part), garlic, and basil. You could use canned tomatoes, but if tomatoes are in season, and they are ripe and juicy, you can use them with hardly any extra time.
Pasta Pomodoro
Quick and Easy Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Quick, easy, and surprisingly delicious, pasta with wilted arugula and a sauce made of olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and canned tuna. All you need is canned tuna (packed in olive oil), garlic, olive oil, chili pepper flakes, baby arugula, and pasta. This recipe requires tuna canned in olive oil. Tuna canned in water just doesn't work well with this recipe. If water canned tuna is your only option, drain it, and soak it in half a cup of good quality olive oil for an hour first.
Quick and Easy Pasta
Smoked Salmon Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Smoked salmon with pasta in a sauce of shallots, garlic, white wine, lemon, and cream, with toasted pine nuts and parsley.The essentials are smoked fish, lemon, garlic, and pasta with some olive oil, wine, and or cream binding them together.There’s also room for maneuvering; add more or less wine or cream to taste; leave out the pine nuts if you can’t be bothered; add some asparagus or cream cheese if you want; use smoked trout or sturgeon instead of the salmon.
Smoked Salmon Pasta
Loaded Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup in Easy Dinner Recipes,This Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup is loaded with veggies, noodles, and a homemade “chicken” seitan. It’s perfect for a cozy meal! Whoever decided that Chicken Noodle Soup was “the thing” to eat when you’re under the weather? This veggie-packed and noodle-loaded vegan version are perfect for any time of day/year/personal well-being.
Loaded Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup

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    Everybody understands the struggle of getting dinner on the table after a long day. If you're looking for a simple recipe to simplify your weeknight, you've come to the right place--easy dinners are our specialty. We all have our favorite go-to pasta meals for busy nights, and a roast chicken always hits the spot, but when our usual recipes get boring, look here for meal ideas. These quick-and-easy dinner recipes offer up major inspiration, even on those busy nights when you're drawing a blank on what to make. For an easy supper that you can depend on, we picked out some of the tried-and-true favorites that have gotten us through even the busiest of days. Whether you're cooking for yourself or for a family, these easy dinner recipes are sure to leave everyone satisfied and stress-free.
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    Already Cooked Shrimp Recipes All Recipes Easy 5-Ingredient Salmon Recipe Best Ever Baked Salmon Recipe
    Best Easy Chicken Marsala in Easy Dinner Recipes,Chicken Marsala is a one-pot, 30-minute meal made with golden brown chicken cutlets, savory mushrooms and a rich marsala wine sauce that is every bit as tasty as a restaurant version! The chicken is thin, crispy around the edges, and coated in a luxuriously flavorful sauce. And of course, the mushrooms!! Mmmm, the mushrooms. While the basics of the recipe are very similar across all versions, the sauce can vary from creamy to dark. For this version, I chose to keep the sauce dark and rich, but feel free to add a splash of cream to lighten it up if you’d like!
    Best Easy Chicken Marsala
    30 minutes
    easy
    Bacon Chicken Marsala in Easy Dinner Recipes,This one-skillet paleo chicken marsala is loaded with flavor! Juicy chicken, a creamy mushroom sauce and crispy, savory bacon make this a recipe you’ll want in your dinner rotation! It’s dairy-free, gluten-free, Paleo, and Whole30 compliant. When using coconut milk, the mustard and nutritional yeast help cut the coconut flavor, but these two are entirely optional in the recipe.
    Bacon Chicken Marsala
    35 minutes
    easy
    Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,This easy Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata recipe is made with a delicious lemon caper sauce and is the perfect meal for the lemon lovers in your life! It’s made in less than 30-minutes. This gluten-free and paleo chicken piccata recipe with lemon, capers, and fresh herbs is one of my favorite weeknight meals EVER. It’s perfectly cooked with an amazing sauce and comes together so easily in only one-pan.
    Gluten-Free Chicken Piccata
    25 minutes
    easy
    Family Favorite Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Who knew that by simply dredging chicken breasts in flour and serving them with a tangy sauce that you would end up with one of the best Italian chicken dishes of all time? Chicken piccata is always a crowd favorite with its golden-browned chicken breasts and a delicious sauce combining lemon juice, butter, capers.
    Family Favorite Chicken Piccata
    30 minutes
    easy
    Flavorful Paleo Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,This paleo chicken piccata is an easy, quick, and super flavorful weeknight dinner. Adding asparagus makes the already delicious combo of chicken, lemon, and capers even tastier and more nutritious. This paleo chicken piccata is so flavorful already from the capers, lemons, and ghee that it doesn’t need an assertive herb on top.
    Flavorful Paleo Chicken Piccata
    30 minutes
    easy
    Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta with penne, sauteed strips of chicken breast, broth, cream, goat cheese, parmesan, lemon, and asparagus! Easy midweek meal, perfect for spring! Feel free to play around with this one! Swap out a different cheese, or experiment with different herbs like thyme or basil, or even add some heat with a few chili pepper flakes.
    Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Pasta
    35 minutes
    easy
    Thyme-Mint Chicken Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Cubed chicken sauteed in olive oil, served with pasta in a creamy sauce infused with thyme, mint, and honey. This is a quick and easy chicken pasta with a cream sauce infused with thyme, mint, and lemon. What a great flavor combination! And the kicker is that by the time the pasta water has come to a boil and the pasta is cooked, everything else is ready too, making for a filling, tasty midweek meal.
    Thyme-Mint Chicken Pasta
    40 minutes
    easy
    Easy Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Easy Chicken Piccata is an amazing dinner made in minutes that the entire family will love. This one-pan Lemon Chicken Piccata Recipe has only 7 ingredients and is packed with SO much flavor. You gonna love the flavor combination of the bright lemon juice, salty capers, and creamy butter. It’s an extremely simple recipe, but one that can be dressed up for a romantic date night, or dressed down for a quick weeknight family meal.
    Easy Chicken Piccata
    40 minutes
    easy
    Italian Chicken Piccata in Easy Dinner Recipes,Get an Italian restaurant favorite at home for just a fraction of the cost. The best part? It comes together from start to finish in just 20 minutes. This is perfect for a busy weeknight. Serve over hot cooked spaghetti or your favorite pasta and spritz with additional lemon juice for added brightness to the dish. Enjoy this restaurant favorite at home with a glass of white wine and fresh garden salad. This Italian chicken recipe is sure to please your entire family.
    Italian Chicken Piccata
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    Shrimp and Artichoke Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Pasta with shrimp, artichoke hearts, basil pesto, and peas. A great quick, pull-together meal. The recipe uses items that I typically keep on hand in the freezer—frozen shrimp, peas, and artichoke hearts—as well as pesto.Even though it looks like there’s a lot going on—shrimp, artichokes, peas, pesto, pasta—the whole dish can be made in the time it takes to cook the pasta!
    Shrimp and Artichoke Pasta
    30 minutes
    easy
    Fettuccine Alfredo in Easy Dinner Recipes,For this dish, we prefer dry fettuccine noodles to freshly made because the pasta holds up better to the sauce. The instructions assume that you are using dry noodles. If you use fresh, adjust timing accordingly. Fettuccine Alfredo is the best served as soon as you make it, but it will keep, covered, in the fridge for up to 5 days. It can be reheated with a little bit of water or butter in a saucepan over low heat. It typically does not freeze well.
    Fettuccine Alfredo
    30 minutes
    easy
    Fettuccine Alfredo in Easy Dinner Recipes,Fettuccine alfredo with mushrooms brings a mix of cheesy, creamy and earthy flavors together. It's a restaurant-worthy dish you can totally make at home. Alfredo is one of the most underrated sauces—it’s made with just a few pantry staples, it’s always satisfying, and it’s surprisingly easy to make at home. Every home cook should have a recipe at the ready for quick weeknight dinners. It’s certainly not just for restaurant dining!
    Fettuccine Alfredo
    45 minutes
    easy
    Whole Wheat Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,This Whole Wheat Pasta with Kale Pesto is a quick and easy meatless dinner! Make your pesto with cashews for extra creaminess. Blanching the kale also helps keep the pesto green.Kale has long been a popular vegetable in New England since it can be grown all year round in both the field and cold frames. Luckily, its popularity has really gained traction everywhere lately, giving us plenty of new ways to enjoy it – like this pesto pasta!
    Whole Wheat Pasta
    30 minutes
    easy
    Pasta Pomodoro in Easy Dinner Recipes,Pasta Pomodoro—angel hair pasta tossed with sauteed shrimp, garlic, tomatoes, and basil. Only 30 minutes! To safely defrost frozen shrimp, place in a bowl of ice water. In this Pasta Pomodoro with Shrimp we are using both, and tossing them with quickly cooked fresh tomatoes (that’s the “Pomodoro” part), garlic, and basil. You could use canned tomatoes, but if tomatoes are in season, and they are ripe and juicy, you can use them with hardly any extra time.
    Pasta Pomodoro
    30 minutes
    easy
    Quick and Easy Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Quick, easy, and surprisingly delicious, pasta with wilted arugula and a sauce made of olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and canned tuna. All you need is canned tuna (packed in olive oil), garlic, olive oil, chili pepper flakes, baby arugula, and pasta. This recipe requires tuna canned in olive oil. Tuna canned in water just doesn't work well with this recipe. If water canned tuna is your only option, drain it, and soak it in half a cup of good quality olive oil for an hour first.
    Quick and Easy Pasta
    25 minutes
    easy
    Smoked Salmon Pasta in Easy Dinner Recipes,Smoked salmon with pasta in a sauce of shallots, garlic, white wine, lemon, and cream, with toasted pine nuts and parsley.The essentials are smoked fish, lemon, garlic, and pasta with some olive oil, wine, and or cream binding them together.There’s also room for maneuvering; add more or less wine or cream to taste; leave out the pine nuts if you can’t be bothered; add some asparagus or cream cheese if you want; use smoked trout or sturgeon instead of the salmon.
    Smoked Salmon Pasta
    40 minutes
    easy
    Loaded Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup in Easy Dinner Recipes,This Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup is loaded with veggies, noodles, and a homemade “chicken” seitan. It’s perfect for a cozy meal! Whoever decided that Chicken Noodle Soup was “the thing” to eat when you’re under the weather? This veggie-packed and noodle-loaded vegan version are perfect for any time of day/year/personal well-being.
    Loaded Vegan Chicken Noodle Soup
    80 minutes
    easy