Being short on time doesn’t mean settling for a boring dinner. These 20-minute dinners are easy, seriously full of flavour and genuinely worth making!
You’d be surprised how much flavour you can pack into a dinner in just 20 minutes. In fact, some of my all-time favourite dinners are those that come together in a pinch. Over the years I’ve gathered quite the collection of quick dinners, so I wanted to share my very best ones that take just 20 minutes. Here’s why you’ll love them:
- Actually 20 minutes – every recipe takes 20 minutes to make, including prep!
- Proper dinner material – filling, satisfying and worthy of your dinner rotation.
- No compromise on flavour – these recipes use simple ingredients but truly pack in the flavour.
From creamy pastas and juicy chicken to salmon, steak, pork and plenty more, there’s loads here for the nights when dinner needs to happen fast. So let’s tuck in shall we?!
1. Steak Pasta
Tender steak sliced over a rich, creamy, garlicky sauce with plenty of parmesan. This has been one of my most popular recipes for a number of years now, and for very good reason!
2. Honey Garlic Chicken
Juicy chicken coated in a sticky honey garlic sauce that’s sweet, savoury and ridiculously good. It’s one of those dinners that tastes like it took far more effort than it actually did.
3. Creamy Prawn Linguine
Plump prawns (shrimp) and linguine tossed through a gorgeous creamy sauce. Quick, simple and one of my favourite ways to serve prawns.
4. Brown Sugar Glazed Pork Chops
Pork chops are coated in a sweet and smoky brown sugar glaze. Such a simple way to make pork chops seriously delicious!
5. Burrata Chicken Milanese
Crispy chicken Milanese topped with creamy burrata and delicious marinated tomatoes. It’s got loads going on, but somehow still comes together in just 20 minutes.
6. Smoked Salmon Pasta
Tender smoked salmon tossed through creamy pasta with chives and lemon. It’s rich without being too heavy and comes together ridiculously quickly.
7. Steak with Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Juicy steak served with a rich and creamy mushroom sauce. It’s classic comfort food that feels far more impressive than the amount of time it takes to make.
8. Cream Cheese Chicken
Golden chicken breasts doused in a rich cream cheese sauce. It’s creamy, comforting and ridiculously easy to throw together.
9. Honey Lemon Salmon
Flaky salmon coated in a glossy honey lemon sauce with the perfect balance of sweet, tangy and buttery. This is such an easy way to make salmon feel a little bit special.
10. Olive Pasta
A buttery, garlicky pasta loaded with olives, lemon, herbs and toasted pine nuts. If you love olives, this is one of those simple pasta dinners you absolutely need to try. If you don’t love olives, this might be the recipe that finally changes your mind.
11. Garlic Butter Cod
Flaky cod basted in plenty of 4-ingredient garlic butter sauce. This recipe is proof that you really don’t need much to turn a piece of cod into a seriously good dinner!
12. Hot Honey Garlic Bread Pizza
Crispy flatbread topped with plenty of cheese, garlic and hot honey. It’s ridiculously easy, but that sweet, spicy and cheesy combination makes it dangerously good.
13. Tomato Prawn Pasta
Juicy prawns tossed through pasta in a rich tomato sauce with garlic and a little chilli. It’s simple, full of flavour and perfect when you want pasta without anything too heavy.
14. Sticky Apricot Chicken
Golden chicken coated in a 4-ingredient sticky apricot glaze that’s sweet, tangy and packed with flavour. One of those dinners where the sauce does all the heavy lifting.
15. Creamy Tuscan Prawns
Juicy prawns (shrimp) in the most delicious Tuscan-style sauce imaginable. Perfect simply served with crusty bread and a lemon wedge!
16. Creamy Garlic Pork Chops
A super simple garlic sauce paired with juicy pork chops. For how simple this dish is, it really has no business being so delicious.
17. Spicy Prawn Noodles
Juicy prawns (shrimp) and noodles tossed through a spicy, savoury sauce with plenty of flavour in every bite!
18. Cajun Chicken with Avocado Corn Salsa
Juicy Cajun chicken topped with a fresh avocado and corn salsa. It’s colourful, full of flavour and a really nice change from the richer, creamier dinners (I know, who am I these days?!).
19. Creamy Lemon Ravioli
Ravioli tossed through a silky lemon and parmesan sauce that’s rich, fresh and ridiculously easy to make. It’s the type of comfort food you could serve all year round!
20. Honey Lemon Chicken
Pan-fried chicken coated in a glossy honey lemon sauce that’s sweet, buttery and tangy. Really simple ingredients, but the end result is genuinely delicious!
And there we have it! A collection of the most delicious 20-minute dinners. If you loved this Roundup be sure to Pin it for later! Made any of the recipes? Let me know how you got on in the comments.
Thanks Chris
Im looking forward to cooking. . And eating some of your quick and tasty dishes.
Hope you love them, Lyn! C.
Thank you for your delicious recipes. I cook them on a Friday for my daughter and family when they get home from work. The meals all go down well .
This is lovely to hear, Margaret! So pleased the recipes are going down well 🙂 C.
The variety is amazing! I can’t wait to try a different spin on a pork chop, thank you Chris
Cheers Katrina! 🙂 C.
Got your Comfy cook book and love it can’t wait to try the rest of the dinners thank you Chris
Hope you love them, Leah! 🙂 C.
Thank you for the lovely recipes
Hope you love them Jean! C.
All of these work for me. Now all I have to do is grocery shop.
I’m tempted to make all 20!