For days when you reach home to hungry children and not much time to cook, or for the days when you simply don’t feel like spending hours in the kitchen – 15 recipes that won’t take you more than 25 minutes FROM START TO END! Yes, that’s right: healthy and delicious recipes for the whole family without having to drag your tired body to toil at the oven.
We all have those days and we all need these quick no-fuss-no-mess recipes that we can prepare, cook and serve before everyone is starving. Now, this is a list you definitely need to save for when you’re going to need them next.
So here they are. Choose one from the list, or try them all.
1. Easy Thai Green Curry with Shrimp
Thai food is quite different from any other cuisine, and easy to make too. You’ll need the right ingredients at home of course, but these days Thai Curry Paste jar are present in every other home. Aside from Green Thai Curry Paste, you’ll need some shrimps, peas, coconut milk and some fish sauce – regular household items. This recipe can be served with boiled rice or noodles – which you can probably find in your fridge or cook alongside the main dish.
Get the recipe here at Diabetes Strong.
2. Aloo Gobi Masala
From Thai to Indian! This is a vegetarian dish best served with bread, Indian Roti or rice – a simple but delicious meal that’s healthy and filling. Follow this recipe from Masala Herb and you can make this extremely easy vegetarian curry with just a few potatoes, a cauliflower, tomatoes, herbs and some tomato paste.
3. Summer Pasta with Shrimp
Shrimp usually cooks in a matter of minutes, which is why you’ll find its presence in so many of these quick recipes. This pasta recipe from Living Sweet Moments takes 5 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook; you’ll have a steaming hot plate of dinner on the table in under 20 minutes using just some shrimp, broccoli, cauliflower, edamame and cherry tomatoes.
4. BLT Stuffed Avocado
In just 15 minutes, you can make a bunch of these stuffed avocado recipe from Wholesome Yum, which requires two avocados, a few slices of bacon, tomatoes and lettuce, and some spices. There’s absolutely nothing to do in this recipe but to cook the bacon, mix everything together, and stuff the avocadoes with what you have.
If one avocado per person doesn’t seem enough, you can make more within the same time! They can be not just for snacking, but also as light lunch on days you don’t want to each much.
5. Easy Shrimp Cashew Stir Fry
Another healthy and filling recipe with shrimp, which you can substitute for something else if you have cooked chicken or vegetables in the fridge. This recipe from Slap Dash Mom, however, stir fries shrimp with roasted cashew nuts, snow peas, shredded carrots, some Udon noodles and spices. You’ll also need a wok for stir frying, but that’s a common kitchen utensil these days, especially in homes that love quick meals.
6. Quick and Easy Coconut Chicken Curry
This recipe from A Food Lover’s Kitchen will taste just like something you’ve ordered from your local deli – just as a spicy, tangy and juicy. The best part? It takes less than 25 minutes to cook this delicious chicken recipe with some curry powder, coconut milk and tomato paste. This recipe can be served with steamed rice, bread or with vegetables.
7. One Pan Maple Mustard Glazed Pork Chops
Cooking isn’t the only hard job in the kitchen; it’s the cleaning up that’s the hardest part. If you think so too, you are going to love this recipe from Hungry Hobby that makes mustard glazed pork chops in just a single pan. All this recipe needs are some pork chops that you cook in avocado oil, and then coat with a mixture of maple syrup, mustard, apple cider vinegar and soy sauce.
8. 10-Minute Wonton Soup
A lot of us have frozen wontons in our freezer that we usually steam or fry as snacks. However, by following this recipe from Food Love, you can make a healthy and filling soup with your frozen wontons. The soup is made with Boullion Chicken Soup Base, Sriracha hot sauce, sesame oil and green onions, and the frozen wontons are added to the cooked soup.
9. Easy Vegan Rice and Black Beans
This is an easy recipe from My Plantiful Cooking that is both a main dish and a side together. It takes less than 5 ingredients to cook this recipe: black beans, brown rice, red onion, minced garlic and some spices. The whole procedure takes 20 minutes and can be the perfect meal for the whole recipe; you can even add some cooked chicken or shredded vegetables to the dish if you have some stored in the fridge.
10. Cauliflower Chicken Fried Rice
Another fried rice recipe that uses chicken and can be completed in under 30 minutes, and you can find the recipe here at Sorey Fitness. For this recipe, you’ll need boneless and skinless chicken breasts. Eggs, onions, a bag of mixed vegetables, cauliflower rice and scallions.
11. Instant Pot Spanish Quinoa
Quinoa is a part of Spanish cuisine, but extremely popular all around the world. You can cook this recipe from Recipe This in your Instant Pot with a cup of quinoa, vegetable stock, red pepper, frozen peas, mixed spices and some fresh herbs. All the ingredients need to be stir-fried in the Instant Pot first, and then cooked under closed lid with pressure for a few minutes before its ready to eat.
12. One Pan Ground Beef Keto Recipe
This is a Keto-friendly recipe from Any Reason Life that takes less than half an hour to prepare and cook, but can be extremely filling. This recipe calls for ground beef to be cooked with green beans, apple juice, chicken flavored bullion, white onions and lemon juice.
13. Mushroom Stew
Mushroom stew can be the perfect meal for winter evenings, something to warm up your body and soul both. Cook the mushroom with some diced carrots, onions, tomatoes, vegetables stock, corn starch or flour, and some soy sauce, like this recipe from Nourish Plate, and you’ll have a great meal to serve the whole family.
14. Aloo Gobi Masala
In this delicious recipe from, Food Meanderings, two unlikely ingredients come together to create magic! With breakfast sausage links and finely chopped apples, you need some dry brown rice and chicken stock to make this recipe in under half an hour.
15. Super Easy Hormel Chili Baked Potatoes
Who doesn’t like chili for their dinner? Pair them up with a few potatoes and some cheese, and you get an amazing dinner recipe. This chili recipe from Two Pink Peonies uses sour cream and shredded Cheddar cheese with the chili and the potatoes, as well as salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking doesn’t always have to be a lengthy affair; you don’t always have to spend hours in the kitchen to prepare a good meal for yourself and your family. There are hundreds of easy recipes that will only take a few minutes to cook, but delicious and filling at the same time; these are just 15 of them that you should definitely try.
