Quick and Healthy Dinner Recipes and Menus

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Cornmeal-Crusted Chicken Nuggets with Blackberry Mustard

Tossing chicken tenders with cornmeal gives these chicken nuggets great crunch without deep-frying. Blackberries (or raspberries, if you prefer) combined with whole-grain mustard make for a sweet-and-savory dipping sauce. Serve with: Steamed broccoli and carrots.

» Cornmeal-Crusted Chicken Nuggets with Blackberry Mustard

Sweet & Savory Grilled Chicken

This sweet and savory rub for grilled chicken relies on ingredients you most likely have on hand already—brown sugar, dry mustard and onion powder—making it a quick recipe for a night when you’re not sure what you’re making for dinner.

» Sweet & Savory Grilled Chicken

Ancho-Honey Pork Tenderloin with Cheese Grits

In this recipe, roast pork tenderloin is glazed with honey, lime, soy and ancho chile powder and served on top of cheese grits. Ancho chile powder, made from dried poblano peppers, has a mild heat and adds a rich, subtly smoky flavor. Serve with sauteed kale with slivered garlic.

» Ancho-Honey Pork Tenderloin with Cheese Grits

Seared Steak with Caramelized Onion & Blue Cheese Sauce

It only takes one skillet to make this restaurant-worthy pan-seared steak recipe with creamy caramelized onion and blue cheese sauce.

» Seared Steak with Caramelized Onion & Blue Cheese Sauce

Prosciutto-Wrapped Shrimp with Arugula Salad

This recipe for jumbo shrimp wrapped in thin strips of prosciutto and served on a lemony bed of arugula is a practically effortless dish that’s sure to impress your guests. Wrap your shrimp and make the dressing ahead of time, and you’ll have dinner on the table even faster. Serve with toasted whole-wheat baguette sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.

» Prosciutto-Wrapped Shrimp with Arugula Salad

Salmon with Toasted Israeli Couscous

You need only one skillet for this meal of wild salmon fillets and Israeli couscous pilaf. For added fiber, look for Israeli couscous made with whole-wheat flour. Serve with roasted carrots and broccoli with cumin.

» Salmon with Toasted Israeli Couscous

Butternut Squash & Tomato Posole

Posole is a traditional Mexican stew most often made with pork and hominy (dried corn kernels that have been treated to soften the hull) cooked in a fragrant chile-based sauce. In this quick vegetarian recipe, we rely on the meatiness of pinto beans and butternut squash combined with hand-crushed whole tomatoes to make a satisfying stew.

» Butternut Squash & Tomato Posole

Get a healthy, delicious dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less with these quick dinner recipes and quick dinner menu ideas.

This collection of quick dinner recipes ready in 30 minutes or less will help you satisfy your family, so get cooking! Just add a salad, simple side dish or quick-cooking whole grain like couscous or quinoa to round out these easy healthy dinner recipes. Our quick and easy dinner recipes, including quick chicken recipes, quick pasta dinners and more quick dinner ideas, are perfect for putting a good-for-you dinner on the table when you're crunched for time.

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This website really helped me find a quick healthy meal. I love it. Bob, Hawarden, Ch — Anonymous	09/01/2009 - 2:51pm
To Alisha: I add extra veggies in all the time in my pasta sauce. Finely chopped spinach, grated carrots and summer squash completely disappear into marinara or other red sauce to be used for spaghetti, lasagna, baked ziti, etc. You can also mash 1 part steamed cauliflower into 2 parts potatoes in mashed potatoes (adjust the ratio to find the balance where your family doesn't ask what you did different to the potatoes). My family also loves already nutrient rich pumpkin muffins or bread, so I add finely grated carrots into them as well. — Anonymous	01/08/2010 - 2:48pm
I would like to see you add REAL healthy dishes to this page, mayo on salmon or beer battered fish tacos is not exactly healthy eating....... Do you have anything like that........ Or anything including spelt or quinoa. Please post if you do. Thanks — Anonymous	05/17/2010 - 6:40am
When I was searching for quick and easy I guess I think more of recipes with everyday ingredients that most people already have aound the house. With the econmy the way it is the budget is tight. Any creative quick and easy ideas with common foods that can be interchanged with other recipes to keep within a budget? — Anonymous	07/19/2010 - 6:39pm
I'm w the other ladies about more common ingredients. If I had that stuff around the house I'd probably not need the recipe site. — Anonymous	10/06/2010 - 5:36pm
I've made 2 of the above and they turned out very good and very quick. I googled 'quick healthy dinner' and got what I wanted. If you want "quick, budget, dinner" search with those terms and you will find something else. — Anonymous	10/15/2010 - 7:11pm
This meal is delicious and very quick. People will think you spent hours in the kitchen. Will be adding this to the meal rotation. — Jennifer_341	08/15/2012 - 10:37am
These burgers were amazing! Although what's funny is that I actually put the avocado in the meat before cooking....I was tired that night. They still turned out great though. I also used those pita pockets instead of tortillas. — Anonymous	08/17/2012 - 3:56pm