After a busy day, the last thing you want to do is spend all night cooking. While take-out is often an appealing option, it certainly isn't the healthiest for your body or your wallet.
We've found meals that are both nutritious and delicious with easy recipes that include salads, pasta, risotto, curry, pizza, and fish.
Check out these 22 healthy meals that are ready in 30-minutes or less – that's weeks worth of dinner recipes that are easy to make, tasty and nourishing.
Strawberry Arugula Salad with Steak & Balsamic Vinaigrette
This delicious strawberry arugula salad is packed with fresh berries, almonds, feta, and arugula, topped with seared steak, and drizzled with a balsamic vinaigrette! A fast and easy weeknight dinner.
Cajun Shrimp Tostadas
These crispy tostadas are topped with refried beans, perfectly sauteed cajun shrimp, and garnished with freshly chopped tomatoes, avocado, and green onions. Grab a couple limes and this fabulous jalapeno ranch dip and you have perfection!
Via Maebells
Sriracha Almond-Crusted Chicken Caprese Salad
This Sriracha Almond-Crusted Chicken Caprese Salad is a salad that is posing as the main meal. It’s really filling and substantial, but still light enough to help cure you of your cake-hangover.
Via Floating Kitchen
Grilled Chicken with Balsamic Berry Salsa
Easy grilled chicken topped with a balsamic berry salsa made with strawberries, blueberries, red onion, mint and balsamic vinegar. Full of spring flavor and so healthy! Paleo, gluten free, dairy free, Whole 30 and low calorie.
Via Tastes Lovely
Kale Pesto Zucchini Noodles and Salmon
This simple and healthy Kale Pesto Zucchini Noodles and Salmon dinner is ready in just 30 minutes!
Honey Mustard Chicken Salad
Honey Mustard Chicken Salad with bacon, avocado, sliced red onion, and sliced tomatoes topped with a three ingredient honey mustard dressing. Creamy, tangy and so addictive!
Via A Saucy Kitchen
Summer Vegetable Sausage Risotto
This creamy, comforting risotto is loaded with all the best veggies of summer and absolutely essential for the last days of summer!—Ready in under 30 and made in only one pan!
Tuscan Tomato Basil Tortellini
Cheesy tortellini with a creamy Tuscan tomato basil sauce – pasta lovers will fall madly for this easy 20-minute dish!
One Pan Gnocchi with Sundried Tomatoes and White Beans
An easy vegetarian dinner recipe that uses only one pot and is ready in under 30 minutes!
Pan Seared Mahi Mahi with Mango Papaya Salsa
Pan seared Mahi Mahi topped with a tropical mango papaya salsa. The Mahi Mahi is cooked in coconut oil and a little butter to give it a crispy, brown exterior that pairs perfectly with the mildly spicy fruit salsa.
Via Tastes Lovely
Sheet Pan Chili Lime Shrimp Fajitas
Sheet pan chili lime shrimp fajitas make an easy, healthy, and delicious one pan 20-minute meal with tons of flavor the whole family will love.
Grilled Peach and Prosciutto Pizza
Grilled Peach and Prosciutto Pizza makes for a perfect summer meal but to successfully make a grilled pizza you will first need to know a few tricks.
Via Mariah’s Pleasing Plates
Pork Egg Roll in a Bowl
The ever so addicting Paleo Pork Egg Roll in a Bowl (Crack Slaw). Super easy to make, and oh so satisfying.
Greek Quinoa Grilled Zucchini Boats
Greek Quinoa Grilled Zucchini Boats, stuffed with seasoned quinoa, olives, tomatoes, and feta. This easy recipe is also healthy, vegetarian, and gluten-free!
Citrus Tuna Ceviche Bowls
These citrus tuna ceviche bowls are loaded with fresh veggies, zucchini noodles, and a creamy avocado dressing. They’re an easy, healthy and gluten-free, no-cook summer meal!
Sweet Potato Falafel Burgers
A cross between falafel and a veggie burger, these savory patties make a hearty meal. Quinoa flakes act as a binding agent and ramp up the protein content, too.
Via Canadian Living
Fish Taco Rice Bowl
Fish Taco Rice Bowl with avocado and pickled onions, topped with a Cilantro Lime Dressing! The perfect 30-minute meal to satisfy even the pickiest of eaters!
Chicken Curry
Homemade chicken curry has never been simpler with this foolproof recipe that cooks up in only 30 minutes.—SO much flavor loaded into this comforting, veggie-filled curry!
Pumpkin Butter & Thyme Pork Tenderloin
4 ingredient Pumpkin Butter & Thyme Pork Tenderloin – Seared pork tenderloin topped with a pumpkin butter and thyme sauce, then roasted in the oven. A healthy and delicious 30-minute dinner recipe that is paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free.
Via Tastes Lovely
Tandoori Fish Packets
The star ingredient in this recipe is tandoori spice blend, a fragrant combo that includes cumin seeds, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and garlic. We love it with tilapia and other kinds of mild fish, which absorb the robust taste without being overwhelmed by it.
Via Canadian Living
Scallop Pepper Antipasti Salad
Gourmet scallop and pepper antipasti salad is effortlessly elegant – a five-star dish anyone can make in under 15 minutes!
Jerk Chicken and Mango Avocado Salsa
Whole 30 friendly Jerk Chicken with a simple mango & avocado salsa – sweet, spicy, and packed with flavor.
Via A Saucy Kitchen
With meals that take 30-minutes or less, you can cook an entire dinner in less time than it would take to get take-out.
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