18 Quick & Easy Meals Perfect For Busy Weeknights Slideshow

During the week, making dinner can be so time consuming. After you come home from work, the idea of chopping, dicing, grilling, or searing is sometimes just too much to bear. Make your weeknights a little easier with recipes that are quick and easy and can be on the table in about 30 minutes. You can use store-bought pesto and toss it with pasta and chicken or you can quickly grill shrimp and serve it with pomegranate salsa. There are so many quick and simple options to make during the week, which is the reason why we made it the theme of this week's SWAT (Sharing With A Theme).

Try this quick, easy, and healthy baked chicken recipe that gets coated in a honey garlic glaze — yum!

For the Baked Honey Garlic Chicken recipe, click here.

This is a delicious five-ingredient pasta dish that will have you in and out of the kitchen in no time.

For the Pasta Pesto Bake recipe, click here.

This arugula pasta salad is perfect as a side dish or as a main course for lunch or dinner and can easily be made gluten-free.

For the Arugula Pasta Salad recipe, click here.

Rotisserie chicken is one of my favorite secret ingredients. It is a delicious time-saver, and it is the reason why this recipe can be prepared in less than 20 minutes. This pasta combines diced rotisserie chicken and broccoli with a creamy lemon and goat cheese sauce. It's cheesy without tasting heavy, and the chicken and broccoli turn the dish into a complete meal. — The Kittchen

For the Lemon Goat Cheese Pasta With Rotisserie Chicken recipe, click here.

I've learned that fresh, wild-caught fish is most delicious when it's romanced with simple ingredients. This sole meunière is the perfect example of that. A light dredge in flour, then the fish is off to a pan of brown butter to become succulent and moist beyond belief. This easy fish recipe is then finished off with a drizzle of lemon butter sauce and a garnish of parsley. — Mon Petit Four

For the Sole Meunière recipe, click here.

Broiled salmon, basil chile oil, and quick-pickled summer vegetables team up for a fast and fresh Paleo dinner with tons of flavor. — A Calculated Whisk

For the Caramelized Salmon With Basil Chile Oil and Pickled Vegetables recipe, click here.

Lentil cooked in an aromatic coconut curry... call it daal curry, lentil curry, legume curry. It's a wholesome delicious meal that can be cooked in a pressure cooker or slow-cooker. — Turmeric N' Spice 

For the Matki-Coconut Masala recipe, click here.

One-Pot Italian Sausage:  Cheesy sausage pasta in a flavorful sauce that comes together in less than 30 minutes using only one pot! — Baking Beauty

For the One-Pot Italian Sausage Pasta recipe, click here.

A quick brushing of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt, pepper, and chipotle chili powder is all it needs, besides a screaming hot grill.  Dinner is ready in about four minutes. — The View from Great Island 

For the Grilled Shrimp With Pomegranate Salsa recipe, click here.

This dinner is super simple, delicious, and can be put together in 25 minutes.

For the Super Quick Chicken and Summer Vegetables Stir-Fry recipe, click here.

Roasted vegetables topped with a versatile creamy tahini dressing make these bowls healthy, filling and, of course, delicious! — Oat and Sesame

For the Roasted Broccoli Barley Bowls and Creamy Tahini Dressing recipe, click here.

This bowl is a lovely combination of noodles, eggs, bacon, and green onions. It's hearty, tasty, and exactly what you need during a busy week.

For the Chinese Noodles With Blackened Green Onions, Bacon, and an Angry Egg recipe, click here.

Looking for a super flavorful one-pot meal? Look no further with this mussels recipe.

For the Creole Mussels recipe, click here.

Take this smoked chicken, add this smoked chicken stock, and a few other goodies, and you have this amazing smoked chicken verde soup that comes together in less than 30 minutes. — Vindulge

For the Smoked Chicken Verde Soup recipe, click here.

This is a low-calorie dinner that is still very comforting. This recipe is comfort food meets healthy in one pot.

For the 20-Minute One-Pot Meal recipe, click here.

This is a quick and easy pasta dish filled with pesto, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, and olives.

For the Pasta With Pine Nuts recipe, click here.

Seasoned marinated chicken cooked with fresh chorizo, bacon, onions, peppers, filled in a tortilla and topped with Oaxaca cheese, cilantro, and avocado, makes this dish fantastic and easy to put together.

For the Chicken Alambre recipe, click here.

The sauce used to cook the zucchini noodles in this recipe is somewhat akin to puttanesca, minus the anchovies and capers. I love the brininess that the olives add to the tomato sauce, and they also add a meaty texture to this vegetarian recipe. (It's actually vegan if you decide to leave off the cheese.) — The Hungry Hutch  

For the Zucchini Noodles With Olives and Tomato Sauce recipe, click here.