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Home › Recipe Index › 30-Minute Meals

30-Minute Meals

Classic House Salad - An EASY side salad recipe to serve with your favorite entree or alongside the main course! Made with common ingredients that you likely have already, but it's flexible and adaptable so you can ADD anything else you have on hand! The simple vinaigrette is easy, light, and flavorful but your favorite salad dressing also works.

House Salad

Chicken Chow Mein — Chewy chow mein noodles, crisp-tender veggies, and juicy chicken are stir-fried in a sesame-soy sauce! It’s a SIMPLE and FAST recipe that anyone can make. It's cheaper than ordering take out, your family will be impressed, and you'll love how EASY it is to prepare!

Chicken Chow Mein

Garlic Shrimp Stir-Fry — Made with juicy shrimp, crisp-tender veggies, and a homemade stir-fry sauce, this stir-fry is QUICK and EASY! It’s ready in just 25 minutes and tastes so much better than takeout! Serve the stir-fry with noodles or rice for a complete meal. 

Garlic Shrimp Stir-Fry

Mediterranean Pasta Salad - Juicy tomatoes and cucumbers, black and green olives, crumbled feta, and tender pasta are tossed in a homemade balsamic vinaigrette! An EASY pasta salad recipe with Mediterranean-inspired ingredients that's ready in under 30 minutes! It makes a big batch and is perfect for potlucks, picnics, or planned leftovers.

Mediterranean Pasta Salad

Barbecue Chicken Sliders - These FAST and EASY sliders are made with shredded chicken, smothered in tangy barbecue sauce, sandwiched between soft slider buns with cheese, and baked until warm! These pull-apart sandwiches are perfect for parties, game days, or any casual gathering where a simple appetizer or snack is needed!

Barbecue Chicken Sliders

Black Bean Burgers - This will be your new FAVORITE black bean burger recipe! EASY, full of great texture, flavor, and tastes just like a great burger - minus the meat! Can be GRILLED or BAKED!

Black Bean Burgers

Grilled Chimichurri Salmon — Salmon filets are grilled until flaky and tender, then topped with a tangy herbed chimichurri sauce! This is a FAST and EASY grilled salmon recipe that’s ready in 20 minutes. Perfect for meal prep or whenever you’re craving a fresher and lighter summer meal that's exploding with FLAVOR!

Grilled Chimichurri Salmon

Crunchy Peanut Chicken Salad - Crispy fried chicken with crunchy cabbage, carrots, peanuts, cilantro and the EASIEST and BEST homemade peanut sauce that coats every bite!! A salad that you'll CRAVE over and over!! 

Crunchy Peanut Chicken Salad

Spaghetti Pasta Salad - If you need a FAST and EASY hit for your next potluck, summer picnic, or barbeque, look no further than this spaghetti pasta salad recipe! Served chilled, it’s full of juicy cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, salty olives, plenty of Parmesan and feta cheese, and coated with tangy Italian dressing so it's bursting with FLAVOR!

Spaghetti Pasta Salad

Grilled chicken breasts with a glazed coating, garnished with fresh herbs on a white plate.

Grilled Chili Peach Chicken

Creamy Corn and Bacon Salad - This EASY creamy corn salad with crispy bacon, jalapeño peppers and green onions for extra flavor, and plenty of shredded cheese will be a few FAVORITE side dish! Perfect for your next picnic, potluck, barbecue, or summer holiday like the 4th of July or Labor Day and it's ready in 15 minutes!

Creamy Corn and Bacon Salad

Classic Macaroni Salad - This fast and easy pasta salad recipe with tender elbow macaroni, bell peppers, carrots, celery, ham, and a super creamy dressing is a family FAVORITE! You can make it up to a day in advance if you want to get ahead and serve it at your next casual get together, backyard barbecue, picnic, potluck, or weeknight family dinner! Everyone always wants seconds!

Macaroni Salad

Melt In Your Mouth Chicken - This FAST and EASY baked chicken recipe transforms chicken breasts into a new dinner time FAVORITE! Tender, juicy, saucy chicken with a Parmesan topping that is incredibly flavorful and made with just FIVE main ingredients! This chicken is sure to literally melt in your mouth! 

Melt In Your Mouth Chicken

Roast Beef Sliders - Tender roast beef is mixed with sauteed green peppers and onions, piled into soft Hawaiian rolls, topped with Provolone cheese, and brushed with butter and garlic before baking! These juicy sliders are fast, EASY, and perfect for Father's Day, backyard barbecues, potlucks, game day events, or anytime you need a great comfort food recipe!

Roast Beef Sliders

Southwest Chicken Cobb Salad - A Southwestern spin on traditional Cobb salad complete with tender chicken, crispy bacon, cheese, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, black beans, corn, and avocado over a bed of Romaine lettuce! Topped with barbecue sauce and Ranch, there's so much FLAVOR and TEXTURE galore in every bite of this crispy, crunchy, EASY salad!

Southwest Chicken Cobb Salad

Grilled Salsa Verde Pepper Jack Chicken - The EASIEST salsa verde marinade keeps this chicken so juicy and tender!! Melted pepper Jack cheese on top takes an already awesome piece of chicken and makes it that much BETTER!!

Grilled Salsa Verde Pepper Jack Chicken

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