50 Easy & Healthy Dinner Ideas Ready in Just 30 Minutes

This one-pan dinner cooks in less than 30 minutes — and packs in a ton of flavor.

Inspired by the tasty filling in Chinese egg rolls, this ground pork skillet requires very little chopping thanks to a bag of coleslaw mix, but it’s full of ginger and garlic and all the hallmark flavors you expect from egg rolls.

Tender pieces of chicken are tossed with charred sweet corn and tender summer zucchini.

Chicken lettuce wraps are super easy and a surprisingly quick weeknight meal. Bibb or butter lettuce are the best picks for these wraps.

The salmon for these easy customizable bowls cooks in less than 10 minutes. While the recipe calls for rice, any kind of cooked grain would work here. Cooked quinoa, cooked farro, and cooked couscous are all good alternatives. And if you want a lower-carb option, you could also swap in cauliflower rice.

With just 5 ingredients and 30 minutes, dinner is served.

If you’re a fan of restaurant-style lettuce wraps and are searching for a quick weeknight recipe, these are for you. They’re filled with a flavorful combination of ground turkey, cashews, ginger, and garlic, and are ready in less than 20 minutes.

This comforting soup with dumplings and veggies is the ultimate low-effort, high-reward dinner.

Summer rolls for dinner? Yes, please! Serve these shrimp and veggie rolls with nước chấm (Vietnamese dipping fish sauce) or creamy peanut sauce for dipping.

This incredibly flavorful stir-fry comes together with just three ingredients. It’s made with your ground meat of choice (either pork or chicken), a 14-ounce bag of coleslaw mix, and some store-bought sweet Thai chili sauce.

Meet the easy, extra flavorful dinner that will never leave our weeknight rotation. It's perfect with steamed rice and your favorite salad kit.

Bagged slaw makes this egg roll in the bowl a cinch to make.

A cool, refreshing veggie sandwich inspired by ones sold in California natural foods grocery stores. You’ll smear creamy hummus on one half and an avocado mash on the other. To ensure the sandwich doesn’t get soggy, make sure to deeply toast the bread: the crispier it is, the better.

It starts with marinating raw cherry tomatoes in vinegar, garlic, and red pepper flakes. A splash of reserved pasta water and a shower of Parmesan bring it together into a silky sauce that clings wonderfully to the noodles. The whole thing can be made in under 20 minutes, making this a true weeknight dinner. so good, you’ll be making it on repeat.

Low-carb shrimp lettuce wraps are crisp, crunchy and need just 5 ingredients.

The ultimate refreshing cold noodle dish of chewy noodles tossed in a tossed in a sesame-peanut sauce. Serve them with a Taiwanese cucumber salad or a Sichuan smashed cucumber salad.

There’s nothing a Costco rotisserie chicken can’t do. By shredding the chicken breast meat (here’s how to do it in less than a minute!) and picking up just two other ingredients while you're at Costco, you can turn them into a super-quick and tasty meal that’s perfect on a busy weeknight.

Made with poached shrimp marinated in citrus juice, tomato, avocado, and cilantro, this is the perfect thing to make when you don't feel like cooking. Serve the shrimp ceviche with homemade tostadas, crunchy plantain chips, or tortilla chips for scooping.

An easy recipe for a vegetarian hummus bowl topped with roasted eggplant, chickpeas, a soft-boiled egg, and tabbouleh.

Full of crunchy cucumber and carrots, these Taiwanese cold sesame noodles take under 30 minutes to make.

This make-ahead-friendly salad is packed with crunchy veggies and tossed in a garlicky oregano vinaigrette. Eat as-is or serve alongside your favorite pizza.

This steak fajita salad features cumin-rubbed flank steak along with charred peppers and onions over a bed of crunchy, chopped romaine and red cabbage.

Plump shrimp with cubes of ripe avocado, creamy mayo, chopped celery, shallot, cilantro, and a squeeze of fresh lime juice.It’s so good, you’ll be eating this straight from the bowl.

This perfect make-ahead salad is bound to become an instant classic.

This star of this crunchy, veggie-packed salad is a tangy Greek-inspired dressing, which doubles as a marinade for the feta cheese and chickpeas.

It’s fast, flavorful, and easy to make — the trifecta of a staple recipe! What sets this apart from all other salads? A trick using rotisserie chicken that delivers the fastest shawarma.

Grilled skirt steak turns a regular Greek salad into a hearty main salad that's full of crunchy veggies and feta cheese in a lemon-oregano vinaigrette.

Creamy avocado replaces mayo in this tasty version of tuna salad.

This vegetarian chopped salad — packed with farro, fresh veggies, and hearty chickpeas — gets even better as it sits.

This easy 20-minute steak salad gets an umami hit from fish sauce, sherry vinegar, and lime juice tossed through a mix of crunchy veg, and is finished with fresh herbs.

Rotisserie chicken, toasted bread cubes, and sweet summer veggies combine for a shortcut panzanella you'll want to eat every week.

This jam-packed summer salad combines juicy peaches and cherries with peppery arugula, creamy avocado, crunchy pistachios, and crispy cubes of halloumi cheese.

Packed with bright, fresh, bold flavors and juicy strips of grilled chicken breast, this is the big salad you'll want to eat on repeat for dinner.

Inspired by traditional caprese, this dinner salad is topped with marinated grilled steak and a punchy basil vinaigrette.

A few hints of sweetness take this classic curried chicken salad into a winner that you can stuff into bread or eat as lettuce wraps.

An easy recipe for an Italian-inspired tuna and white bean salad with fennel, radicchio, and arugula.

An easy pasta salad with cheese tortellini, sun-dried tomatoes, and baby spinach tossed in a balsamic dressing.

This light and fresh summer salad is packed with fresh herbs, snappy green beans, and a sunny lemon vinaigrette.

Cheesy tortellini pockets are tossed with marinated artichokes, fresh veggies, feta cheese, olives, and a lemon vinaigrette.

Say what you will about boiled chicken breast, but this cold chicken salad with crisp cucumber, ripe mango, and a toasty sweet mustard dressing is greater than the sum of its parts.

The crunchy chickpeas are the best.

This vegetarian creamy hummus bowl is inspired by sabich, a Middle Eastern sandwich stuffed with fried eggplant, tomato-cucumber salad, and hard-boiled eggs. Serve it with pita bread or pita chips to scoop it all up.

We promise this will be your go-to dinner all summer.

An easy orzo pasta salad filled with Mediterranean flavors like roasted red peppers, olives, crunchy cucumbers, and feta cheese.

A very light and springy skillet pasta with big lemony flavor.

This vibrant, no-wilt nutty farro salad, which is packed with buttery olives, peppadew peppers, fresh mozzarella, and more, gets even better as it sits. It's the perfect make-ahead dinner!

Fluffy savory pancakes packed with shredded zucchini, herbs, and salty bites of feta cheese. Serve them with tzatziki or a lemon-tahini sauce for dipping.

A vegetarian recipe for pearl couscous salad filled with hearty chickpeas, tomatoes, herbs, and feta cheese.

This pasta is as simple as it gets – it has zucchini, extra-virgin olive oil, pasta, Pecorino Romano, salt, and pepper.

This hearty, satisfying dinner salad can be made with rice or whatever grain you have in the pantry: nutty farro, millet, quinoa, etc. Orzo or pearl couscous are also great options.