Quick and Easy 5 ingredient dinners
Are week nights crazy at your place? If so, have a look at these 135 quick and easy 5 ingredient dinners that will not only save you tons of time in the kitchen but tons of money too.
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I know that depending on what we’ve got going, putting together a complicated time consuming dinner with tons of ingredients can become nearly impossible.
Usually, we turn to our prepared frozen food stash – I make and stockpile homemade soup and freeze our leftovers on the regular to use on extra busy nights! But, when we’re looking to put something fresh together that’s easy and delicious we’re turning to quick and easy 5 ingredient dinners more and more and including them in our meal plans regularly.
So here are the absolute best 135 quick and easy 5 ingredient dinners the interwebz have to offer.
These 135 quick and easy 5 ingredient dinners are beyond awesome because they come together quickly (some are Slow Cooker too!), make meal planning a breeze and keep grocery costs low since they don’t require a ton of extras that you’ll only use once.
I’m one of those people who refuses to buy a spice, condiment or other seasoning that I know I wont get a ton of use from because I hate food waste. Anyone else?
Quick and Easy 5 Ingredient Dinners
Chicken & Turkey Dinners
3. 5-Ingredient Lemon Chicken with Asparagus
5. 5-Ingredient Baked Fajita Chicken
6. Slow Cooker Pineapple Salsa Chicken
7. Pesto Chicken Stuffed Peppers
8. Sticky Stove-top Chicken Drumsticks
9. 5 Ingredient Slow Cooker Apricot Chicken
10. 5-Ingredient Chicken Lazone Recipe
11. Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs
12. 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Apply Cider Pulled Chicken
13. Caprese Chicken
14. Sage Butter Faux-Roasted Chicken
15. 5-Ingredient Chicken Masala
17. 5-Ingredient Chicken & Rice Bake
18. 5-Ingredient Chicken Parmesan
19. Top-Shelf Chicken Under a Brick
24. Contest Winning Broccoli Chicken Casserole
25. 5-Ingredient Chicken Verde Tortilla Pie
27. Chicken Parmesan Meatball Casserole
Quick and Easy 5 Ingredient Dinners: Pork Dinners
28. Easy Crockpot Pork Roast Dinners
29. Slow Cooker Maple Dijon Ham
30. Bourbon Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin
31. 5-Ingredient Spicy Pulled Pork
32. Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Peaches
33. 4 Ingredient Pork Chop Casserole
35. Grilled Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin
38. Crock Pot Italian Pork Chops
39. Crock Pot 5-Ingredient Pork Roast
40. 5-Ingredient Chinese Pork Ribs
41. 5 -Ingredient Slow Cooker Brown Sugar Ribs
42. 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Root Beer Country Ribs
43. 5-Ingredient Ham and Cheese Pockets
45. 5- Ingredient Apricot Glazed Ham
46. Quick and Easy 3-Ingredient Pork Chop Casserole
47. Butternut Squash and Pork Sausage Casserole
48. 5-Ingredient Sausage Hash brown Casserole
49. 5-Ingredient Hawaiian Pork Chops
50. Jamie Oliver’s Pork and Mash Gratin
52. Spaghetti Carbonara with Bacon
53. BLT Pasta
54. 5-Ingredient Bacon Asparagus Pasta
Quick and Easy 5 Ingredient Dinners: Beef Dinners
55. 5 Ingredient Beef Enchilada Recipe
58. Cheeseburger n Fries Casserole
59. 5-Ingredient Beef Stroganoff
61. 10 Minute Beef Teriyaki Skillet
63. 5-Ingredient Beef Tortilla Pie
64. 5-Ingredient Hamburger Casserole
67. Beef Taquitos
68. Barbecue Pineapple Meatballs
71. One Pot 10-minute Beef & Broccoli
74. Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage
76. 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Stew
77. 3-Ingredient Crock Pot Shredded Beef Tacos
81. Corned Beef with Mustard-Marmalade Glaze
Fish/Seafood Dinners
82. 5-Ingredient Garlic Parmesan Tilapia
83. One pot 5-ingredient Tuscan Baked Fish
84. Crockpot Salmon with Caramelized Onions and Carrots
85. Jamie Oliver’s One Pan 5-Ingredient fabulous fish
86. 5-Ingredient Fish Stick Wraps
87. Greek Snapper on the Grill
88. 5-Ingredient Shrimp and Black Bean Enchiladas
91. Steamed Cod with Ginger and Scallions
92. Rioja Steamed Mussels with Chorizo
93. Grilled Tuna over Arugula with Lemon Vinaigrette
95. Easy 5 Ingredient Baked Salmon
99. Easy Skillet Tilapia Veracruz
100. 5-Ingredient Fish Taco Bowls
101. 5-Ingredient Spicy Southern Cod and Cornbread
102. 5-Ingredient Glazed Salmon
103. 5-Ingredient Salmon and Broccoli Stir Fry
104. 5-Ingredient Shrimp Scampi with Angel Hair Pasta
105. 4-Ingredient Sweet Honey Garlic Shrimp
106. 5-Ingredient Sweet Chili Sesame Shrimp and Zoodles
107. Honey Garlic Shrimp Skillet
108. 5-Ingredient Shrimp and Avocado Stir Fry with Lemon
Quick and Easy 5 Ingredient Dinners: Meatless Dinners
109. Potato Crusted Pizza
110. Crispy Kale and Gouda Egg Scrambled Tacos
111. Cauliflower Soup
113. Roasted Garlic and Lemon Rigatoni with Brown Butter and Gruyere
114. 5-Ingredient Parmesan Pasta
115. Brown Butter Parmesan Spaghetti
116. Sweet Potato Ribbons with Sage Brown Butter Sauce
117. Leek Tart
118. Slow Cooker Curried Tomato Soup
119. Roasted Broccoli Grilled Cheese
120. 5-Ingredient Roasted Carrot Ginger Soup
121. Chickpea and Rosemary Fritatta
122. Spaghetti with Spinach Sauce
123. Baked Gnocchi with Ricotta
124. Easy Veggie Chili
125. Roasted Sweet Potato and Asparagus Pasta
127. Creamy Butternut Squash Risotto
128. Asparagus, Ricotta and Egg Pizza
129. Spinach Mushroom Scrambled Eggs
130. Avocado Salsa Verde Chilaquiles
134. Asiago Tortellini
135. Mushroom Turnovers with Sour Cream
Thanks for this! I’m moving across the country soon and I’ll be unemployed for a little while. Really need ways to save money on food and this will definitely help!
I love 5 ingredient recipes! I think 5 is a magic number somehow. I recently wrote about Jamie Oliver’s latest book, which offers some really lovely combinations with only 5 ingredients (plus the odd red wine / olive oil / salt / pepper additions).
OMG this is so exciting, thank you Jenny! I am always looking for really easy dinners to cook on the sailboat. It’s amazing how much money you can save doing this. I can’t wait to try some of these. Pinned for future reference 🙂
What an incredible collection of recipes! I love that you included a picture for every single one. I hate when I go to a round-up post and have to click-through to see what the recipe looks like. Bravo on a great post! Pinning for later!
I’m all about simple recipes – these look great!
WOW! This post is filled with so much awesomeness and foodie eye candy! I can literally spend an entire afternoon just browsing these fabulous 5-ingredient recipes. Thank you so much for this incredible collection of delicious recipes. 🙂
Pinning this because I’m totally in a meal-planning rut! I’ll be looking this over in fine detail before I do our grocery shopping this weekend!
I love recipes like this, that keep my grocery lists short and sweet! And I like that a lot of these recipes are using the same ingredients in different ways.
thanks for putting this guide together! I’m pinning it for later!!
This is a massive recipe round-up, as a fellow blogger I can imagine the amount of work and dedication that went into researching all the recipes, linking, making all the graphics…. Kudos to you!
Also… thank you so much for including so many meatless options 🙂
I love that you have them separated into groups by meat type/veggie etc. I and going to comb through these…I love simple recipes 🙂