Get your teenagers cooking with these simple dinners!
These 44 recipes from Australia’s Best Recipes are flavoursome, delicious and most importantly, easy and will have the teens cooking dinner every single night (Haha! Maybe).
Hamburgers with a difference. Mixture makes a large amount using only a small amount of meat. You will always make them once you have tried them. My mum always made them for all our large family barbecues.
2. Slow cooker barbecue chicken
An easy, no-fuss chicken dish, which is a good recipe on a busy day.
Absolutely beautiful chicken and leek pie, and so easy to make.
4. Caramelised onion, pumpkin and goat’s cheese tart
An easy tart to put together and a great way of using up leftover roasted vegetables.
A tasty and simple recipe that’s sure to be a winner with the whole family.
6. Baked mustard chicken pieces
A delicious and simple variation of baked chicken with lovely flavours. We still ask mum to make this for us 30 years after she first made it!
A no fuss, no base needed quiche recipe to which you add whatever filling you like. I like it as the ingredients are always in the house.
This is absolutely the best battered honey chicken out there guaranteed!
This is a delicious nutty-flavoured salad, which is just as nice served hot or cold.
Just like the ones served in Chinese restaurants, you can vary the vegetables and use whatever you have on hand. I make this often, very popular with friends and family.
11. Greek-style chicken with olives and artichokes
This is a must-try recipe that’s really delicious and flavoursome – you wont be disappointed!
This recipe is more Italian than Chinese, but either way the kids love it! I don’t know where the name comes from, but it’s a New England favourite.
This slow-cooked soup is delicious and loved by all.
A quick and tasty stir-fry adapted from a Super Food Ideas magazine recipe, complete with the goodness of vegetables and a whole lot of flavour.
A quick and tasty filling meal.
This is a quick meal to prepare and the kids love it.
A creamy version of tuna mornay with plenty of vegetables.
18. Teriyaki goat meat skewers
Lean meat, good barbecue dish and very tasty.
A yummy salad for a quick lunch or with a light tea.
Melt-in-your-mouth crockpot roast.
21. Creamy chicken and corn soup
A creamy chicken and corn soup.
Once you try this meat pie you will never want to buy another. It’s very yummy.
23. Slow cooker Moroccan chicken
A very tasty and easy slow cooker recipe. Just throw it in and walk away.
This one-pan casserole recipe is much tastier than the packet-bought version.
25. Chinese chicken sweet corn soup
This homemade take on a traditional soup will bring back memories of dining out at a Chinese restaurant.
26. Sue’s Scrumptious chicken salad
Made with a shop-bought barbecue chicken, this no-cook chicken salad has the perfect balance of savoury-sweet flavours, plus a zesty orange dressing. It’s perfect for an easy lunch or light dinner.
27. Creamy chicken and pesto pasta
Make this creamy chicken pasta dish a weeknight staple. It uses everyday ingredients like chicken breast, pasta and pesto, and costs only $3.27 per serve.
One of my family’s favourites.
Looking for the best canned salmon recipe? These easy salmon cakes are a tasty twist on a simple dish. Quick to prepare, these patties are made with potato, cheese and breadcrumbs, giving a moist, delicious inside with a golden, crispy crust.
If you love tacos and Mexican food, then you will love this easy chicken pasta. A hit with all ages!
31. Quick vegetarian fried rice
It’s fried rice but not as you know it! It’s healthy and packed with superfoods to keep you fuller for longer.
32. Speedy Thai chilli jam chicken
Made with cheap ingredients like mince, rice and vegies, this budget-friendly dinner is on the table in under 30 minutes and will cost you just under $3 per serve. Win win!
A simple and easy way to make a salad. Great served with BBQs.
This old fashioned beef stew made in the slow cooker is loaded with hearty vegetables. Perfect for feeding a whole family of hungry tummies or if you are making beef stew for two, this dish can be frozen and eaten at a later date.
35. Quick chicken and noodle stir-fry
This is an extremely quick and easy recipe I adapted from a recipe in Super Food Ideas magazine.
A lovely, creamy version of a well-known favourite.
A favourite with the kids and you can add vegetables if you wish.
This is an easy authentic Chinese lemon chicken just like you would find in a Chinese restaurant. I have recently changed the batter for this recipe. I tested many variations and found this one to be the best. It is light and crispy and covers the meat or seafood much better. The lemon sauce now has a much more intense lemon flavour, it also is easier to make.
Creamy and always a winner.
40. Chinese takeaway fried rice
Ever wondered how a Chinese restaurant can whip up so many orders of different types of fried rice in such a short time? This is what I found out as a struggling student decades ago working in a suburban Chinese takeaway.
These little puff pastry rolls are lovely for either an entree, a snack, in the lunch box or as an after school treat.
A delicious, easy to make pasta meal for the whole family. My kids love this, and ask for it regularly.
43. One-pan garlic butter chicken with mushrooms
At under $5 a serve, this budget one-pan chicken dinner means less washing up!
A vegetarian quiche you can serve hot or cold.
This post originally appeared on Australia’s Best Recipes and has been republished with permission
