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30-minute meals

101 quick dinner ideas, prepared and cooked in half an hour or less!
By Chatelaine
Updated November 2, 2012
30-minute meals
Need a great dinner idea that can be prepped, cooked and served in under 30 minutes? We've got 101 delicious dishes that will make every meal as easy as it is tasty. Just select your main ingredient from the list below and we'll give you super supper ideas to please every palate.

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· Easy chicken kabobs
· Caribbean chicken with pineapple-lime salsa
· Artichoke chicken with roasted peppers
· Caesar-basil chicken
· Cajun chicken with fettuccine
· Cheater chicken paprikash
· Chicken cacciatore
· Chicken-and-shiitake soup with coconut milk
· Freezer curried chicken à la king
· Honey-garlic chicken sandwiches
· Japanese chicken salad
· Lime leaf chicken
· Lemony chicken stir-fry
· Grilled ginger-honey chicken
· Oriental chicken burgers
· Rub-a-dub chicken and garlicky spread
· Saucy chili chicken
· Skillet chicken chili
· Venetian chicken
· Far Eastern kebabs
· Speedy couscous supper
· Chinois duck salad with warm ginger dressing
· Coconut-ginger oyster bisque sips
· Dilled salmon stroganoff
· Dilled shrimp & pasta salad
· Easy gourmet scallops and shrimp
· Balsamic salmon
· Fast-roasted fish steaks with tomatoes and pesto
· Elegant seafood soup
· Frozen seafood stir-fry
· Grilled halibut with tomato-mint salsa
· Grilled Southern shrimp
· Love potion mussels
· Marvelous mussels
· Harvest tuna pasta toss
· Hoisin salmon au poivre
· Honey 'n' lime glazed salmon
· Hot coconut-ginger shrimp
· Mussels with tomato salsa
· Pan-seared scallops with sweet peppers
· Pasta with tuna and capers
· Roasted Caesar salmon
· Roasted curried salmon with lime avocado
· Roasted salmon steaks with yogurt-chutney sauce
· Roasted salmon with ginger-orange glaze
· Saffron mussels
· Saffron tomato shrimp
· Spaghetti with broccoli, scallops and chili peppers
· Spicy shrimp linguine
· St. John's cod cakes
· Spicy Asian stir-fry
· Cumin-chili-rubbed eye of round
· Basil hamburgers
· Burger thyme
· Gingery veal piccata
· Jalapeño-garlic steak
· Mediterranean sirloin burgers with stuffed tomatoes
· Middle Eastern burgers
· Mini-burgers
· Glazed barbecued steak
· Gourmet chipotle sirloin burgers
· New salsa cheeseburgers
· Penne, beef 'n' broccoli
· Pepper-rubbed rib eye with grilled tomato salsa
· New-fashioned spaghetti and meatballs
· Veal scaloppine with capers and lemon
· Sukiyaki beef with noodles
· Easy schnitzel
· Speedy couscous supper
· Pot-au-feu in a few
· Spiced southwestern steak
· Easy schnitzel
· Spice-rubbed pork medallions
· Peppercorn pork tenderloin
· Pork 'n' bean chili
· Easy schnitzel
· Sage-and-bacon countryside couscous
· Speedy couscous supper
· Spicy pork and peppers
· Maple-pepper-coated pork tenderloin
· Lemon-tarragon lamb chops
· Carrot-and-rosemary golden couscous
· Cauliflower in curry vinaigrette
· Amazing veggie burgers
· BBQ portobellos
· Eggs in portobello caps
· Couscous salad with plum tomatoes
· Couscous with stir-fried vegetables and basil
· Veggie-and-egg stir-fry
· Warm Greek sandwiches
· Zucchini-and-carrot latkes
· Presto cheese fondue
· Spicy Szechuan eggplant
· Susan's cornmeal pancakes
· Grilled stuffed plum tomatoes
· Sicilian pasta
· Speedy couscous supper
· Acton's Shanghai noodles
· Fettuccine alfredo
· Feta, rapini and sweet red pepper pasta
· Asian angel-hair slaw
· Asian pasta primavera
· Cajun chicken with fettuccine
· Dilled shrimp & pasta salad
· Spicy shrimp linguine
· New-fashioned spaghetti and meatballs
· Sukiyaki beef with noodles
· Sicilian pasta


30-minute meals
Choose ingredient Beef Chicken Duck Fish/seafood Lamb Pasta Pork Turkey Vegetarian

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