Your easy and quick midweek dinner recipes

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Hi all!
What's your go to easy meal to put together when you need something easy and quick for the family to have?

Some of mine: we usually have cooked chicken or salmon in the freezer and we serve it with cous cous and boiled frozen veg. Takes little time and makes for a balanced quick meal!

I recently discovered homeprides pasta bake sauce and I put that on a baking dish with dry pasta and water then top up with cheese and we have a quick simple and tasty dinner!

Ham, egg and oven chips
A cheese burger in a bun or on top of a bowl of salad
Sausages, rice and baked beans
Meatballs cooked in passata with pasta, or rice or salad
Pork steaks (or leftover chicken, or a sliced up beef steak) with fried wok ready noodles and soy sauce (add vegetables if you have children that eat them unlike me)
Chicken Fajitas (or the kids really like gammon steaks in a wrap [shrug])
Sometimes go really simple with quesadillas or beans on toast or scrambled egg and a bagel
Cheesy pasta made with crepe fraiche and grated cheese stirred into hot pasta, or napolitana sauce which is passata and garlic mixed with cream and stirred into pasta.
Not quite what you asked for but batch cooking and freezing e.g chilli and serve with taco shells, chicken pie filling and top with ready rolled puff pastry, bolognaise sauce.

Finally! someone else who has sausage, beans and rice @1stMrsF

OP this macaroni cheese is quick and not too rich https://www.annabel-langbein.com/recipes/speedy-macaroni-cheese/3047/

We also have

Breakfast for dinner: Helen Brownings speedy sausages, bacon, eggs, grilled tomatoes/beans & toast

Pasta pomodoro

Bacon, cabbage & noodles/pasta

Chorizo & pasta with jar of pasta sauce

Halloumi orzo warm pesto 'salad' - Cook orzo in salted water, dump pesto in a bowl with halved cherry tomatoes, spring onions, olives (or whatever you fancy). Pan fry the halloumi, serve atop combined pasta and pesto mix. 15mins and delicious.

Forgot to mention a glug of olive oil/some pasta water to loosen

Egg fried rice made with microwave rice
Pesto gnocchi
Pitta pizzas
Prawn stir fry
Tuna burgers
Falafel burgers
Hot dogs
Stuffed peppers www.unclebens.co.uk/recipesearch/stuffed-peppers
Oven baked risotto www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/oven-baked-risotto

For ready in minutes, minimal prep type meals:

Fresh tortellini with sautéed veg
Prawn stir fry
Halloumi and veg fajitas
Omelette with salad

If batch cooked counts: Bean & veg chilli with microwave rice.

@fizzysister that sounds amazing, going on my meal plan for next week

@rainbowunicorn it's a weekly staple in this house!

Butterflied paprika chicken breast, grilled, sliced and served in pita with salad.
Frozen cod fillets wrapped in Parma ham
Stir fried veg with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, soy and sweet chilli sauce and cashews (I buy the ready chopped stir fry packs)
Pasta arabiata
Pasta with cream cheese, garlic, red onions, mushrooms and Parmesan
Pasta bake, with onion, peppers, kidney beans, chopped toms, herbs and balsamic. Topped with cheese and breadcrumbs.
Tuna pasta bake.

Amazing ideas everyone! Will definitely go through these and add to my shopping list as there's lots of fab options!

@lexloofah it was an invention of DD1 who suddenly demanded it in a pub at about 5yo. Luckily the pub obliged with no question! DD2 just has sausages and beans.

These burritos are super quick and easy.

Mine are:
pasta bake with cream, mushroom and bacon!
Garlic creamy chicken
Homemade pizzas are quick too!