50 Easy, Low-Maintenance Meals to Make for Dinner

We’ll never go back to boring old watermelon slices again.

Easy-breezy (and so French).

This elevated skillet dinner is ready in 20 minutes.

Did you know you can roast cucumbers just like chicken? (You can. And it’s glorious.)

A one-pan dinner that looks (and tastes) fancy but is totally foolproof.

No kneading necessary, thanks to store-bought flatbread.

A protein-packed dinner that happens to be meat-free.

News flash: Cooking seafood doesn’t have to be tricky and time-consuming.

Cooking for a crowd? Spice things up with this white turkey chili with avocado.

Four servings for less than $10? Salute!

Colorful, bursting with flavor and ready in 30 minutes. Practically perfect in every way.

Got five ingredients, a few pantry staples and 20 minutes? You can make this dish.

Sometimes simplicity wins.

Featuring two ingredients you already have in the fridge.

Say goodbye to post-dinner cleanup.

There’s no need to boil: three minutes in the skillet and they’re done.

Make a double batch and stash the leftovers in the freezer.

Psst: Leftovers will make the most non-boring work lunch in history.

Just as healthy as a salad, but the whole family will actually eat it.

Aka how to cook fish with no cleanup (or fishy smell).

Tastes like you spent all day making it. Lucky for you, it only takes 30 minutes.

You could order takeout. Or you grab an apron and whip up this quick Thai-inspired dish in half an hour.

Lose the carbs, keep the flavor.

Simple, flavorful, comforting.

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At less than $5 a serving, the price is pretty right.

Some nights, boring old chicken breast is good enough for dinner. Tonight is not one of those nights.

Plain spaghetti and meatballs? Yawn.

Your food processor does most of the work. (Save your energy for eating.)

It's the perfect fall dish, but we're making this all year long.

The quickest, easiest baked pasta ever.

Just set it and forget it. (But, um, don’t forget to eat it.)

Psst: Blood oranges are the highlight of this dish.

Eat your heart out, Julia Child.

Extra-crunchy pine nuts, please.

Our two favorite dinners, together at last.

Anything but your average seasonal squash soup.

So healthy yet so satisfying.

Bookmark it for a cold, rainy night.

Best of all, there’s only one dish to do.

Slurping encouraged.

Ooh, and it’s ready in under an hour.

This shortcut is brilliant.

The perfect Netflix-watching meal.

Yep, it’s possible.

Aka what to do with all those leftovers.

The ultimate cold-weather dish.

We heart tahini.

Mixing veggies in means you can eat twice as much. Win-win.

The creamiest.

Let your Crock-Pot do the work.