40 Quick-to-the-Table Dinner Ideas

Save time in the kitchen with these quick and easy chicken, beef, lamb, pork and seafood recipes.

Chicken

• Spiced Chicken Patties in a Pita
• Chicken Jalfrezi
• Chicken and Noodle Stir-Fry
• Warm Chicken Salad
• Polenta-Crusted Oven-Fried Chicken Fingers
• Chicken Pinwheels with Pasta
• Chicken and Chickpea Pilaf
• Chicken Piccata
• Sweet and Sour Chicken
• Parmesan-Crusted Chicken


Beef and Lamb

• Reuben Sandwich
• Beef Strogonoff
• Thai Red Beef Curry
• The Basic Hamburger
• Classic Tacos
• Open-Faced Grilled Sirloin and Tomato Sandwiches
• Steak Au Poivre
• Asian Meatballs with Peanut Sauce
• Lamb Burgers with Tzatziki Sauce
• Grilled Lamb Shish Kebab


Pork

• Pasta Alla Carbonara
• Penne with Sausage and Escarole
• Pork Sloppy Joes
• Rigatoni with Rapid Ragu
• Balsamic-Fig Pork Chops with Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes
• Everything Lo Mein
• Pork Chops with Green Peppercorn Sauce
• Sausages with Lima Beans
• Classic Chinese Wontons
• BLT


Seafood

• Farfalle with Tuna, Wilted Spinach, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, and Pinenuts
• Grilled Ginger Salmon with Oriental Spicy Rice
• Shrimp Diavolo
• Herb-Baked Swordfish
• Baked Flounder with Bacon
• Pad Thai
• Tuna Melt
• Roasted Salmon with Sweet-n-Hot Mustard Glaze
• Spicy Shrimp Gratin
• Fish and Chips