12 Easy & Quick Dinner Recipes for the Family

Preparing dinner does not need to feel like a chore to you all the time. In fact, getting your food ready for the evening can be even fun, if you let it be!

Easy and quick dinner meals make cooking a pleasure. Moreover, preparing these meals saves your precious time for the day. Before you even realize it, these quickie dinners will let you have more time for yourself before the day ends.

1.    Shrimp, Leek and Spinach Pasta

Satisfy your cravings for some seafood without any inconvenience. This dish can help you multi-task and save time. As Realsimple.com suggested, sauté the leeks and shrimp in a butter mixture as your pasta cooks. Witness the spinach wilt when your pasta meal is ready to be eaten.

 2.   Spicy Salmon, Bokchoy, and Rice Meal

Cook your rice in a cooker as you put in honey sauce on your salmon. Afterwards, cook your bokchoy vegetables in a matter of minutes, and you're good to go!

3.  Chicken, Zucchini, and Prosciutto in One Dinner

Eat your tasty chicken meal with your favorite Italian veggie, zucchini, and ham, prosciutto. Make your evening special by pairing this tasty meal with a delicious lemon-flavored iced tea.

4.  Pasta, Mixed with Turkey and Broccoli

A quickie pasta meal combined with turkey is still an ideal dinner even when it's not Thankgiving. Your favorite carbonara with turkey and broccoli will make your evening feel like a holiday.

5.    Sloppy Joe and Macaroni Salad

Sloppy Joe and a side macaroni salad make ideal light dinner meals. If you need to go to bed early, try this quickie meal for a change.

6.    Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich

A BLT sandwich is a tasty, yet healthy, option for a light dinner. For better and healthier results, go for wheat bread in preparing your sandwich dinner.

7.    Clam Chowder Soup and Garlic Bread

A bowl of clam chowder soup paired with garlic bread warms the stomach for the evening.

8.    Coleslaw Salad

Just throw in some veggies and vinaigrette salad dressing and you'll have a full stomach for the night.

9.    Tuna Sashimi and Fried Shrimp Tempura

Your craving for Japanese food is satisfied without any worry about gaining those pounds. Raw tuna sashimi and stir-fried shrimp tempura is a light Asian dish that will complete your day.

10.   Chili Rubbed Pork Chops

Eat Mexican rice with your tangy chili flavored pork chops to satisfy your desire for something fried with a hint of barbeque. As The Food Network suggested, cooking and preparation time for chili rubbed pork chops total to approximately 10-15 minutes.

11.   Potato-Egg Salad

Just throw in some slices of potatoes and eggs to a bowl of salad dressing, green peas, and mint. In about 10 minutes, your potato-egg salad should be ready.

12.  Bruschetta Burger

As you'll read in Cookinglight.com, bruschetta burgers are ready after 35 minutes of cooking time. What makes this quick and light dinner so special is that you just need to flatten the patties more thoroughly to make them browner. Along the way, you can add more toastiness to your bread as well.

Make dinner something you'll look forward to every evening. These easy-to-prepare meals should now inspire you to make dinner your favorite meal for the day.