Easy Dinner Recipes
Need a cheat's guide to delicious dinner recipes? Here's the best quick and easy dinner ideas from the Good Housekeeping cookery team.
We understand that when it comes to midweek meals, ease is key. Thankfully, easy can still mean nutritious and delicious!
These recipes will get supper on the table without any fuss, and with minimal mess and washing up.
Cheat's Gnocchi with Sage Butter
A fresh, hearty Italian dish.
Recipe: Cheat's Gnocchi with Sage Butter
Katsu Cod Fishcakes
Make the curry sauce up to a day ahead, cool, cover and chill. Reheat over medium heat until piping hot to serve.
Recipe: Katsu cod fishcakes
Cheat's Satay Chicken and Salad
This quick version of satay sauce doesn’t require any cooking to thicken, which makes it the perfect midweek meal alongside the healthy and fresh slaw.
Recipe: Cheat's Satay Chicken and Salad
Cheat's Lobster Macaroni Cheese
We've used a tin of lobster bisque and prawns to make a cheat's lobster macaroni cheese recipe.
Recipe: Cheat's Lobster Macaroni Cheese
Cheat’s Traybake Roast
Let the oven do all the work in this really easy midweek dinner.
Recipe: Cheat’s Traybake Roast
Easy Meatloaf with Baked Beans
A comforting classic, served with quick barbecue beans.
Recipe: Easy Meatloaf with Baked Beans
Easy Meatball Lasagne
Jarred roasted peppers are the secret to a super simple but flavoursome sauce here. Swap the Parmesan for mature Cheddar cheese, if you like.
Recipe: Easy meatball lasagne
Cheat's Chicken Chowder
This soup is a real crowd pleaser – and it’s so easy to whip up. Make it even quicker by using leftover chicken.
Recipe: Cheat's Chicken Chowder
Prawn and Mango Noodle Salad
You only need to boil the kettle for this refreshing Asian-style salad
Recipe: Prawn and Mango Noodle Salad
Smoked Mackerel and Giant Couscous Salad
This hearty salad recipe is packed full of good-for-you-ingredients and can be on the table in under 30 minutes
Jerk Tofu Tray Bake
A simple vegan tray bake that's packed full of flavour.
Recipe: Jerk Tofu Tray Bake
Orzo Paella
Our nod to the Spanish favourite swaps traditional rice for quick-cooking orzo pasta.
Recipe: Orzo Paella
Nacho Chilli Beef
Load this nachos recipe up with toppings and deliver to the table for everyone to dig in.
Recipe: Nacho Chilli Beef
One Pan Chicken and Chorizo Rice
Chicken thigh fillets remain juicier than breasts. Avoid easy cook rice, or the end result will be mushy.
Recipe: One Pan Chicken and Chorizo Rice
Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice Traybake
All the flavours of delicious sweet and sour chicken, without any of the fuss. Feel free to microwave the rice, or serve with steamed instead, if you fancy.
Easy Fish Pie
With a ready-made soup as the sauce and a pre-made mash topping, this has to be the easiest fish pie ever!
Recipe: Easy Fish Pie
Cheat's Chilli Recipe
Want a quick-fix dinner that's full of flavour? Using ready-made salsa speeds up prep time.
Recipe: Cheat's Chilli Recipe
Chicken Satay Salad Wraps
A nice change from the ever-popular chicken fajitas.
Recipe: Chicken Satay Salad Wraps
Chicken Fajita Pasta Bake
Chicken fajitas are a family favourite, but why not enjoy the flavours in an easy pasta bake!
Recipe: Chicken Fajita Pasta Bake
An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).
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