Looking for easy dinner ideas for family? You have come to the right place. These quick family meals make it easy to get a dinner on the table quickly that your whole family will love.
20 Plus Quick And Easy Dinner Ideas for Family
When you need quick meal idieas and easy dinner to put together, keep this collection of recipes handy. Here, you’ll find easy family meals that can be made in about 30 minutes as well as those can be ready in as little as 10 minutes! Get inspired with savory and meaty meals of chicken, beef, turkey and pork as well as seafood meals of shrimp and salmon. You’ll also find meatless meals for delicious dinner options. One-pan skillet meals, sheet pan meals, as well as pressure cooker meals all help to make your cooking experience quick, easy and nutritious. From pizza and pasta to soup and hot dogs, you’ll find a variety simple dinner ideas for family that will soon become family favorites while saving you time in the kitchen.
Lasagna in a skillet is a quicker way to that cheesy goodness that you’ve been craving. Swap out pasta sheets for farfalle noodles and build it with the other traditional ingredients that you’ve come to love. Easy, cheesy, and delicious!
Skillet Lasagna Recipe by Lil Luna
This sheet pan chicken fried rice meal is everything. It’s delicious, it’s ridiculously easy and it’s healthier than ordering takeout. If you can add diced chicken to a sheet pan, season it up with soy sauce, add rice, frozen peas and carrots and bake it, you’ve got yourself an amazingly quick meal ready to serve and devour in about 15 minutes.
15 Minute Sheet Pan Chicken Fried Rice Recipe by Averie Cooks
This savory and garlicky seafood and pasta recipe can be ready in just about 10 minutes! Make sure you purchase fresh shrimp that’s already been peeled and deveined so you can get the scampi going in the skillet while the pasta is boiling. Super quick and yummy!
Easy Shrimp Scampi Recipe by Spend With Pennies
Just wait until you taste these delicious Sheet Pan Pork Chops with Apple! These easy baked pork chops are perfect for holiday dinners, weekend family suppers, or just a delicious weeknight meal to gather everyone around the kitchen table.
Sheet Pan Pork Chops with Apple
Thirty minutes is all you need to get this zesty chicken fiesta skillet meal on your table. Chop your chicken, onion and bell peppers, open cans of black beans and corn, add some seasoning and you’re practically finished. Win-win!
Quick And Easy Chicken Fiesta Skillet by Zesty Olive
Riced cauliflower, coleslaw mix, and ground beef make up this tasty egg roll in a bowl that comes together easily by putting your pressure cooker to work. No need for Chinese take-out with this recipe!
Instant Pot Egg Roll In A Bowl by Awe Filled Homemaker
This quick and easy recipe is adaptable in so many ways for whatever your diet may be. Use lighter options for less fat and leave out the wine and choose other options. Delicious no matter how you personalize it, it’s a tasty one-pan chicken skillet dinner that you’ll love.
Skinny Easy Chicken Marsala Skillet by The Girl On Bloor
This sheet pan meal of savory baked pork chops and potatoes is not only delicious and quick, but there’s practically no clean up involved! It’s a winner already, right? The sauce is the secret to these moist and tender chops. They come out sweetly caramelized. Delish!
Oven Baked Pork Chops With Potatoes by Recipe Tin Eats
This taco soup comes together in about 30 minutes. You can change up the meats, choosing from ground beef, turkey, or chicken. Serve with an array of family favorite garnishes. Make a double batch of this awesome soup and save the leftovers for a rerun later in the week.
Cheesy Taco Soup by Carlsbad Cravings
Can’t decide between pasta or cheeseburgers for dinner? No worries – make this awesome and tasty mashup of the two! Ground beef, pasta shells, tomato sauce and cheese get garnished with dill pickles and bacon. Easy and kid-approved, too!
Cheeseburger Pasta by Dinner At The Zoo
This skillet meal of bacon, eggs and potatoes is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Keep these common ingredients on hand so you can whip up this savory meal anytime you’re too tired to be creative in the kitchen. This meal is comfort food that everyone loves!
Cheesy Bacon and Egg Hash by Cafe Delites
This sheet pan salmon is slathered with a savory butter mixture before a session under the broiler in the oven. The veggies of green beans and tomatoes go on the pan, too, and are blistered to perfection for a quick and delectable meal.
Sheet Pan Salmon With Blistered Tomatoes And Green Beans by Lexi’s Clean Kitchen
Forget rolling out a crust or trying to bite through a cardboard frozen one, make this one pot pizza-inspired meal that subs pasta for the crust. Totally personalize this meal with the meats and veggies of your choice, just like you would when you order pizza! This will be one of your family’s most requested meals, guaranteed.
One Pot Pizza Pasta by Yellow Bliss Road
The trick to making these quick and easy is to use one tortilla per quesadilla and fold it over. No more flipping and losing all the inside ingredients mid-air. Make sure all your veggies are chopped small enough to fit comfortably inside the tortilla. Make this simple meatless quesadilla meal of black beans, onions, bell peppers and cheese in about 10 minutes.
Quick Quesadillas Recipe by Cookie And Kate
Garlic and ginger give this 30 minutes beef dish a sweet and spicy flavor. Serve this savory awesomeness over a steaming pile of rice. This beefy recipe will quickly become a family favorite!
Easy Mongolian Beef by Dinner Then Dessert
Baked in stages to get all the veggies tender, this chicken and assorted vegetable sheet pan dinner is a great way to meal prep, too. Make enough for two meals if your oven has the space. Eat it tonight and save the leftovers for another meal.
Sheet Pan Chicken With Rainbow Vegetables by Well Plated
Make this spicy shrimp and pasta meal in under 15 minutes by letting your pressure cooker do all the work. This is pretty much a dump everything in, season it and walk away meal. Keep this one in your rotation for days when you literally have no time to waste in the kitchen. Quick and easy, indeed!
Instant Pot Bang Bang Shrimp Pasta by A Spicy Perspective
Sure, you could just put out all the fixins’ for hot dogs and let everyone assemble their own, but let’s make an effort and at least give them a session in oven for good measure. Go ahead and assemble the hot dogs, decorate with all the yummy extras, place them in large baking dish and bake until the cheese is melted and the buns are golden. These are kid and adult approved. Bake a batch tonight!
Cheesy Baked Hot Dogs by Simply Recipes
If you have eggs in your fridge, you can make a quick frittata for dinner. Here, a simple mushroom and spinach sauté provides delicious veggies. Add just about any cheese and you’re practically there. Finish this masterpiece off in the oven for a few minutes just so everything sets and then you’re ready to serve.
Mushroom And Spinach Frittata by Wonky Wonderful
This isn’t your tuna melt from back in the day; this one is elevated to a Tex-Mex-inspired flavor experience. It’s packed with corn, red bell pepper, onion, cilantro, and jalapeño pepper and seasoned to spicy perfection. Spread the mixture on the bread of your choice, sprinkle it with some cheese and melt it in the oven for 10 or 15 minutes. So good!
Tex Mex Tuna Melts by Bowl Of Delicious
If you’ve got some boneless pork chops, a jar of BBQ sauce, a pressure cooker and 10 minutes to spare, you can have this awesome meal on the table in no time at all. While your chops are cooking, steam some rice or sauté some fresh veggies for side items. Delish!
Easy Instant Pot BBQ Pork Chops by Eating On A Dime
Looking for a healthy and easy meal? Check out this Sausage, Asparagus & Quinoa Meal Recipe. This meal is so simple to make but flavorful and sure to become a family favorite. We all love quinoa in my family and this is a great way to prepare it. My youngest requests it often.
Sausage, Asparagus & Quinoa Meal Recipe
I hope you enjoy these easy dinner recipes for family. We are so happy to share easy family dinners to make and quick family meals.
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