I need some SUPER QUICK DINNER IDEAS. We're in a rut eating the same old things.....?

Question

Like hamburgers and chicken strips. Can anyone help???

Answer 1

Easy Chicken Corn Chowder

INGREDIENTS:

* 2 cups water
* 1 envelope chicken noodle soup mix
* 1/4 cup long-grain rice
* 1 to 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
* 2 cups milk
* 1 small (8 ounces) can cream-style corn
* 1 cup cubed cooked chicken, or 1 (5 ounces) can white meat chicken

PREPARATION:
In a medium saucepan, bring water to a boil; add chicken noodle soup mix, rice, and chopped onion. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until noodles and rice are tender, about 20 to 25 minutes. Add milk, cream-style corn, and the chicken; heat through. 4 servings

Make a tossed salad from washed bag lettuce, tomato and bottled dressing

This is fast!

Answer 2

Get a wok i.e. stir fry pan, it will be your friend for life. My quickest proper dinner is this:
(1) throw 2 cups of rice in the stiry frying pan, add just enough water to cover it all, water you've already put to the boil (electrical boilers are amazing) and boil it through hard for 5 minutes.
(2) when most of the water is gone from the pan, add cut vegetables (you can get macaroni or chines veggies packaged from any supermarket), add a splash of olive oil too, and stirfry it for 2 minutes. That means keeping the temperature high, and the stuff in the pan moving.
(3) At the end, chuck in some 'meat'. As it takes time to cook meat properly, I usually resort to cashew nuts instead, not the salty ones, just throw them in with the rest and keep on stirring for another minute.

All that takes nine minutes, smells great and tastes so much better than anything a microwave oven has to offer. Mind you, if you insist on hamburgers, you can easily have them in the grill during these nine minutes. Don't stirfry them though.

Answer 3

Dinners made in the crockpot may take a long time...but the preparation is almost nil....

and if you can handle throwing a pot roast and some potatoes and carrots, an onion soup mix packet, and 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup spicy tomato juice into the crockpot...and turn it on and sit back and let it do all the work....

then you can handle making great meals with little effort.

Answer 4

Broiled fish (takes a couple of minutes on each side), crock pot dinners that you put in before you go to work and have a nice pot roast, stew, casserole when you get home, quick fried rice(using leftover rice, veggies, an egg, a cutup pork chop-boneless), a frittata (made with eggs, veggies, cheese), pizza fritte (buy some pizza dough already made, heat up the oil, and throw them in for a minute or 2 each side-top with sauce and cheese-should be able to make 4 "frittes" from each dough, just cut into 4 pieces and stretch)

Answer 5

Watch 30 minute meals with Rachael Ray. Well try a pressed meal, like chicken cooked with a brick on top of it(make sure the brick is wrapped in foil), paninis for the entree(if you don't have a panini press then use a skillet and a can of canned food), smothered muschrooms with kale(if you don't know what kale is use other vegetables that are used for smothering).

Answer 6

Try dedicating a Sat afternoon once a month and 'bulk' cook. Meaning, make a couple of batches of meatballs, a couple of pounds of meat sauce, cook up a couple of chickens, then divide them up into family size portions and put in the freezer. It is easy to have wonderfully quick and nutritious meals on hand with very little effort to finish it up once you get home. For example:

meatballs turn into: spaghetti and meatballs
Swedish meatballs, meatball hoagies, sweet and sour meatballs,
meat sauce or plain browned hamburger with onion turns into:
filling for tacos, make a gravy and put over toasted buns or rice or potatoes, soup base, etc. The meat in tomato sauce turns into lasagna, beef enchiladas, etc
roasted chicken turns into:
chicken Alfredo, lasagna, enchiladas, chicken Ala king

Getting some ideas?

Answer 7

What about BBQ?
I use Kraft original BBQ Sauce and add 1/2 box dark brown sugar 1 oz. paprika, 1/2 oz garlic powder, salt and pepper mix it thoroughly. Cook meat in the oven until it is almost done and then start adding sauce first coat then coat again after sticky. Continue until cooked. I use it on pork chops, chicken, ribs.

Answer 8

I am obsessed with casseroles, because they only dirty one dish, are easy to prepare, usually pretty quick and you can get lots of variety. Here are a few.

Beef and Rice Casserole:
1 lb. ground beef
1 md. onion-chopped
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 can fried onions
1/2 cup rice

Saute onions and brown meat. Put all ingredients (except fried onions) in a casserole dish, cover and bake @ 400 F for 30 min. Sprinkle with fried onions and bake 10 min. uncovered

Spinach and Cheese Casserole:
3 eggs
6 Tbs flour
10 oz spinach- chopped
1lb. large curd cottage cheese
16 oz grated cheddar
1/2 tsp. salt

Beat eggs and flour until smooth. Combine remaining ingredients (only using half of cheese), and pour into a well greased casserole dish. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top. Bake, uncovered, 1 hour. Let stand 10 min. before serving.

Chicken and Broccoli Casserole:

3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 box stuffing mix (omit butter)
10 oz frozen broccoli- thawed
1 can cream of any kind of soup
8 oz shredded cheddar

Prepare stuffing mix, leaving out butter. Line a baking dish with foil (easy clean-up). Place half of stuffing in pan. Add chicken and broccoli, place remaining stuffing on top. Cover with soup. Bake @ 350 F for 30-45 min. Sprinkle with cheese and bake 15 more min.

Answer 9

CHICKEN MARSALA - In first frying pan, Cut boneless chicken into chunks or strips, coat with flour and cook in butter until all sides just start to brown, set aside. In second frying pan, melt butter and add fresh sliced mushrooms (lots) and cook until they just start to soften, add generous amount of Marsala wine and a couple of finely diced garlic cloves and cook for three minutes. Add chicken from first pan and cook until sauce thickens (flour from chicken will thicken sauce), Add a small spritz more Marsala wine ( to refresh Marsala wine flavor) and serve immediately.

Answer 10

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