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Home › Recipe Index › Main Dish › 30 Minute Meals

30 Minute Meals

Browse this collection of 30 Minute Meals for recipes that will make your life easier on those crazy, busy days. All of these quick and easy recipes can be on your table in 30 minutes or less!

Craving Italian? Get my Meaty Tortellini Skillet, Chicken and Spinach Skillet Pasta, or Skillet Chicken Parmesan on the menu.

Restaurant quality dishes that you can make FAST in your own kitchen include my Easy Chicken Cobb Salad, Blackened Mahi Mahi, and Chicken Marsala.

Chicken fried rice in a skillet with vegetables, scrambled eggs, chopped chicken, and green onions.

30 Minute Meals

Easy Chicken Fried Rice

Easy baked fish fillets in a white baking dish with lemon slices and dill, surrounded by side dishes, whole lemons, and salt and pepper shakers.

30 Minute Meals

Easy Baked Fish

Oven roasted pork tenderloin seasoned with Southwestern spices, sliced and served on a cutting board.

30 Minute Meals

Oven Roasted Pork Tenderloin (Southwestern Spiced)

A pressed Cuban sandwich showing layers of roast pork, ham, melted Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard on golden toasted bread.

Sandwiches

Cuban Sandwich Recipe (Cubano)

Cashew chicken with bell peppers, carrots, and mushrooms in a skillet.

Stir Fry

Cashew Chicken Stir Fry

Mexican shredded chicken on a cutting board with forks and a spent lime.

Air Fryer

Air Fryer Mexican Shredded Chicken

Kielbasa and sauerkraut with apples in a skillet next to a pan of dinner rolls.

30 Minute Meals

Skillet Kielbasa and Sauerkraut

Fish sandwiches with coleslaw on a wood board with French fries.

Sandwiches

Fish Sandwich Recipe (Crispy and Oven Baked)

Korean ground beef in a white bowl with rice and roasted vegetables.

30 Minute Meals

Korean Ground Beef Bowls

Two open face BBQ chicken wraps next to a cutting board filled with rolled wraps.

30 Minute Meals

BBQ Chicken Wraps

A lightened up chicken saad sandwich on wheat bread sliced in half in small ceramic dish with sliced apple.

Sandwiches

Light and Healthy Chicken Salad

A chicken and vegetable stir fry with peanut sauce in a cast iron skillet next to a bowl of rice and green kitchen towel.

30 Minute Meals

Peanut Chicken Stir Fry

A wooden spoon resting in a pan of Chicken Stroganoff.

30 Minute Meals

Chicken Stroganoff

Steak bites garnished with parsley in a cast iron skillet.

30 Minute Meals

Steak Bites

Cranberry chicken salad on a croissant wth lettuce on a wooden plate.

Sandwiches

Cranberry Chicken Salad

Bang bang salmon on a foil lined baking sheet.

30 Minute Meals

Bang Bang Salmon

A copycat Panera chicken salad sandwich sliced and resting on a cutting board.

Sandwiches

Napa Almond Chicken Salad (Panera Copycat)

A stack of ground turkey burger sliders with melted cheese.

Game Day

Turkey Burger Sliders

Air fryer chicken tenders on parchment paper with sprigs of parsley and Ranch in a small bowl.

Air Fryer

Air Fryer Chicken Tenders

A sliced turkey pesto sandwich stacked on a wood board.

Sandwiches

Turkey Pesto Sandwich

Chicken broccoli alfredo in a blue skillet.

Pasta

Chicken Broccoli Alfredo

Two green salads in white bowls next to salad ingredients in small bowls.

Salads

Salad Bar Ideas

Sliced soy garlic chicken on top of white rice in a bowl with broccolini.

Asian

Soy Garlic Chicken

Shrimp scampi with tomatoes and corn in a blue skillet.

Pasta

Summer Shrimp Scampi

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