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Easy Dinner Ideas — Restaurant-Quality Meals at Home

Easy Dinner Ideas — Restaurant-Quality Meals at Home

Easy Dinner Ideas — Restaurant-Quality Meals at Home

"What's for dinner?" is the hardest question in any kitchen. This is a tested dinner list: restaurant flavour with home-cook effort, ingredients from any supermarket, and most of them ready in under 40 minutes.

They're ordered from quickest to longest, with a note on each: when to make it and who it suits.

The recipes

  1. Volcano Cheese Ramen

    10 minutes — the tired-night dinner. · 10 min

  2. Emily Mariko's Salmon Rice Bowl

    15 minutes from leftovers, healthy and filling. · 15 min

  3. Gigi Hadid's Spicy Vodka Pasta

    25 minutes, a creamy spicy pasta everyone loves. · 25 min

  4. Marry Me Chicken

    30 minutes, one pan, good enough for guests. · 30 min

  5. Cheese Buldak (Korean Fire Chicken)

    30 minutes, fiery Korean chicken under melted cheese. · 30 min

  6. Cornflake Chicken Tenders (ASMR Crunch)

    Cornflake-crusted chicken tenders — the kids' favourite. · 30 min

  7. Sushi Bake

    40 minutes, every sushi flavour in one family tray. · 40 min

  8. The Original Baked Feta Pasta

    45 minutes, and the oven does the work. · 45 min

  9. Quesabirria Tacos (Birria Tacos)

    3 hours — a weekend project, and worth it. · 3 h

Chef's notes

The restaurant secret for home dinners

The difference isn't the ingredients, it's the order: prep everything before the heat goes on, get the pan properly hot before the chicken goes in, and season to taste at the end. Three habits that change any plate.

A full week of dinners

Cook the rice once and use it for the salmon bowl and the sushi bake; cook the chicken once for Marry Me Chicken and cheese buldak. The whole week gets easier.

Questions

What's the quickest dinner here?

Volcano cheese ramen in 10 minutes, then the salmon rice bowl in 15.

What's the best dinner for guests?

Marry Me Chicken or the sushi bake: both can be prepped ahead, served from one dish, and look restaurant-made.

Where can I find more dinner recipes?

The Edible Codex has 361 recipes across 386 pages, including dozens of restaurant-kitchen dinners.

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Free recipes from the book

  • The Original Baked Feta Pasta
  • Marry Me Chicken
  • Quesabirria Tacos (Birria Tacos)
  • Gigi Hadid's Spicy Vodka Pasta
  • Emily Mariko's Salmon Rice Bowl
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  • Sushi Bake
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  • Cheese Buldak (Korean Fire Chicken)
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