Want to whip up a quick dinner? Race to the kitchen and try these recipes

Why is cooking for ourselves one of the most annoying chores out there? Cooking, of course, can bring great joy to those who do it, and there’s countless people out there who’ve made a career out of it. However, if your career is elsewhere, coming home after a hard day’s work and cooking a meal often seems like climbing a mountain.

When cooking seems like too much of a hassle, we often turn to take-out, frozen food, or the dreaded sad PB&J or whatever fake meal we can whip up without turning on the stove to bring us an utter lack of joy with each forced bite.

Have you exhausted all of your favorite take-out spots, filled your recycling to the brim with frozen dinner boxes, and licked every last peanut butter jar clean? You’re in luck – we’ve found the best & easiest recipes on the web that’ll land you with a quick dinner. Close Doordash, we repeat: exit the apps. Check out our list of quick dinner recipes to get you through the week for cheap with minimal effort.

One pot pasta

Pasta’s an easy quick dinner choice, but it’s not exactly exciting when you’re making noodles ala salt & butter. Damndelicious.net has a recipe for a one-pot garlic parmesan pasta that’ll have you munching on some restaurant-quality Italian food without the wait, with one of the web’s tastiest quick dinner recipes.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, 4 cloves minced garlic, 2 cups chicken broth, 1 cup milk, 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine, salt & pepper to taste, 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese, 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves.

Directions

1. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add garlic, stirring frequently until fragrant for about one to two minutes.
2. Stir in chicken broth, milk and fettuccine. Season with salt & pepper to taste.
3. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer. Stir occasionally while cooking for eighteen to twenty minutes. Stir in Parmesan. Add more milk as needed until you reach your desired consistency.
4. Garnish with parsley and serve.

Greek Salad

What’s a better quick dinner recipe than greek salad? Greek salad is versatile, flavorful, and full of the veggies you need to recharge from a hard day’s work. Here’s Love & Lemon’s super quick & easy greek salad recipe. If you want something more substantial, just add the protein of your choice!

Ingredients

Dressing:

¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil, 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar, 1 minced garlic clove, ½ teaspoon dried oregano, ¼ teaspoon Dijon mustard, ¼ teaspoon sea salt, freshly ground black pepper.

Salad:

1 English cucumber cut lengthwise, seeded, and sliced ¼-inch thick, 1 green bell pepper chopped into 1-inch pieces, 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes, 5 ounces feta cheese cut into ½ inch cubes, ⅓ cup thinly sliced red onion, ⅓ cup pitted Kalamata olives, ⅓ cup fresh mint leaves.

Directions

1. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, garlic, oregano, mustard, salt, and pepper to taste to make the salad dressing. 
2. On a large platter, arrange the cucumber, green pepper, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, red onions, and olives.
3.  Drizzle with the dressing and toss. Garnish with a few generous pinches of oregano and top with mint leaves, salt & pepper to taste. Serve.

Simple Salmon

Intimidated by the idea of cooking fish? It all ends here. We’ve found what has to be the easiest quick dinner recipe for salmon on the internet on Allrecipes.com; this recipe only takes about fifteen minutes and has a whopping total of six ingredients. Time to pack in those Omega-3s.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon garlic powder, 1 tablespoon dried basil, ½ teaspoon salt, 4 six-ounce pieces salmon, 2 tablespoons butter, 4 lemon wedges.

Directions

1. Stir together the garlic powder, basil, and salt in a small bowl. Equally distribute mix and rub onto the salmon fillets.
2. Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the salmon in the butter until browned & flaky for about five minutes per side. Serve each piece of salmon with a lemon wedge.

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It doesn’t get quicker than that! Try these quick dinner recipes that you can pull off with your last ounce of energy after work, and you’ll be eating like royalty.