10 Healthy and Quick Dinner Recipes for the Weekend

With an easy recipe, dinner meal prep can be less stressful and you don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen. Here are some quick and easy recipes for weekend dinner.

Beef with Broccoli

It’s a classic stir fry dish with full flavor. Prepared in less than 30 minutes from start to finish, it’s quick, cheap, and healthy than take-out foods. Beef is sauteed with fresh broccoli in a savory sauce.  

One-Pot Sausage & Veggies

It’s healthy and inexpensive, a delicious quick stir-fried meal with baby potatoes, sweet bell peppers, zucchini, and sausages for a Mediterranean touch.

Ramen

It is served with different soup and toppings, it consists of wheat noodles and meat or seafood such as sliced pork, scallions, and nori. A very popular noodle dish in Japan.

Pesto Chicken Bake

It sounds fancy right? but it is simple, delicious, and healthy and requires only 10 minutes of prep time. It contains lots of protein with healthier preparation than frying and sauteing.

Nachos

It consists of fried tostada topped with refried beans and/or various meats and shredded cheese or nacho cheese, topped with habanero hot sauce.

Protein-Packed Veggie Bowl

It will keep you full for hours and it’s packed with protein from beans, whole grains, and soy, nuts, and seeds, with small amounts of Greek yogurt, eggs, and cheese.

Tuna & Avocado Wrap

Put some avocado slices as the base, add a thin layer of spinach leaves. Add tuna onto the spinach, stack carrots, and red onion beside tuna. Fold in the edges of the wrap and then start rolling.

Bowties & Broccoli

This is a budget meal and you can use whatever pasta you have on hand. It only has a few ingredients which mean low grocery bills and it is very easy to cook. So simple, so good and a very satisfying meal.

Stuffed Bell Pepper

A classic comfort food dish at its finest! It is filled with a mixture of ground beef, rice and tomato sauce and then topped with cheese and baked to perfection.

Instant Pot Cashew Chicken

There are so many versions of Cashew Chicken, it’s a versatile recipe that you can have fun with. With a savory sauce, tender chunks of chicken, and lots of veggies.