17 Easy Chicken Dinner Recipes for Weeknights

We love easy chicken dinners around here, and especially ones that are so simple to make on weeknights! We put together a list of our most favorite easy chicken dinner recipes, perfect for school nights, work nights, and most of all, weeknights. You can enjoy these easy dinners in 30 minutes or less, with minimal ingredients. We got your weeknight chicken dinners covered!

Weeknight Chicken Dinner Recipes

When I put together this list, I chose recipes that took 30 minutes or less, and used readily available ingredients. All of these recipes combine pantry staple ingredients, and a cuts of chicken. These are all recipes we make in our own kitchens during weeknights, and we know you’ll love them as much as we do!

Cornflake Crusted Chicken Thighs

Crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and baked to golden delicious perfection! These Corn Flake Crusted Chicken Thighs are simple to make, and they work great for an inexpensive, kid friendly meal the whole family loves. The best part about this recipe? It yields crispy, crunchy chicken without frying it, and because we’re using chicken thighs, they stay super juicy while they bake.

 

Greek Lemon Chicken and Potatoes

Greek Lemon Chicken and Potatoes Tender baked chicken thighs, yukon gold potatoes all mixed up in a lemony garlic sauce that comes together in minutes.   Toss, bake and serve.

Easy Shredded Chicken (perfect for meal prep!)

Shredded chicken has so many uses! Soups, tacos, sandwiches, even on its own it is a great source of protein. We make perfect shredded chicken by baking chicken breasts, adding a bit of olive oil to the cooked chicken, and shredding it with a  hand mixer. By adding a little bit of olive oil, we keep the chicken super moist, and it’s great for meal prep. The process from start to finish is only about 30 minutes, making it a quick option for lunch and dinner recipes alike.

Easy Chicken & Pasta 

Cozy and comforting Chicken and Pasta.  Simple and easy with fresh ingredients.  We made this pasta and chicken in a casserole style to make it family friendly.  A perfect Sunday night dinner but easy enough for a weeknight casserole.

Crispy Butter Dijon Chicken Thighs

Crispy Butter Dijon Parmesan Crusted Chicken Thighs. Oven baked to a crispy crunch!  Dredged in a simple concoction of butter and dijon then dipped in panko crumbs and parmesan.  Crispy on the outside and tender in the middle, this chicken is oven baked, but with all the crunch of fried chicken. One of our most favorite family chicken dinners to make!

Lemon Garlic Rosemary Chicken Thighs

We love chicken thighs around here. They’re super versatile, easy to cook, and they absorb flavors really well. It felt like a natural combination for garlic, lemon and rosemary. This is a simple recipe perfect for weeknights and batch cooking. Plus? It’s healthy, and uses only fresh ingredients, nothing processed, and a recipe you’ll make over and over again.

Easy Air Fryer Chicken Nuggets 

Our homemade chicken nuggets make for a healthy, scratch made option the whole famiy loves! Ground chicken is dredged formed into nuggets, dredged in panko crumbs and air fried to perfection. These Air Fryer Chicken Nuggets will be one recipe your kiddos and family ask for time and time again!

Easy Baked Chicken Meatballs

These Baked Chicken Meatballs are easy, healthy and juicy!  Made with ground chicken and baked for an easy hands off meal.  Serve with pasta, rice or as an appetizer.  Pefect for meal prep and they freeze really well.

Greek Yogurt Chicken

We’re big chicken lovers around here and this recipe is one we’ve been making forever! It was due for a formal recipe here on the blog. Greek yogurt, lemon juice, fresh garlic, and herbs coat tender chicken thighs for some of the best, restaurant quality grilled chicken you’ll have.

Baked Chicken Breasts with Lemon Rice Pilaf

This easy chicken and rice recipe features tender baked chicken breasts, aromatic lemon pilaf with veggies, and the best part? This is such an easy recipe, you’ll make it over and over again! The bright lemon flavor is so delicious, and it’s a clean eating recipe with leftovers for days.

Honey Glazed Chicken and Sweet Potatoes 

This recipe is a total weeknight winner. Honey Garlic Roasted Chicken Thighs with Sweet Potatoes is all made on one sheet pan. It’s baked to perfection, and we broil the chicken with a little bit of honey for a perfectly caramelized chicken thigh. I’ve made this time and time again and I know it will become a regular rotation in your house too!

Easy Baked Chicken Thighs

We love any easy variation of chicken, especially chicken thighs. They’re easy, tender and this oven baked version is great for easy dinners and meal prep alike. All you need are boneless skinless chicken thighs, some spices, and olive oil.

Ground Chicken Pasta

Often times I find myself with a pound or two of ground chicken and I’m not sure how to use it. Ground Chicken Pasta Skillet to the rescue! This is such an easy meal to make and one the whole family will love. We love to have it for leftovers the next day, too!

Baked Salsa Chicken 

With just a few ingredients you can bake up this healthy, protein packed Salsa Chicken.  Tender and juicy chicken sprinkled with taco seasoning and smothered in salsa.  Oven baked for easy clean up and perfect for weeknight dinners.

Easy Grilled Chicken Tenders

Grilled chicken is always such a great and these Grilled Chicken Tenders with Balsamic Rosemary Marinade are so easy! A quick simple marinade with pantry staples soaks right into the chicken tenders, then they’re grilled to perfection. Perfect for summer nights when you want an easy, flavorful meal.

Easy Sheet Pan Chicken Dinners

This is the ultimate guide to making the most perfectly tender chicken breast. We are experts in sheet pan meals and this staple Sheet Pan Chicken Breast is a recipe every home cook needs. This recipe is perfect for so many uses and meal prep alike. Perfect chicken breast are baked on a sheet pan is one recipe you’ll make once, and use weekly, just like we do!

Easy Chicken in Mustard Cream Sauce

Chicken in Mustard Cream Sauce is so easy to make! Perfect for weeknight and fancy enough for company. We smother boneless chicken breasts in a easy to make mustard sauce. Easy chicken dinner in about 20 minutes!

Want more chicken recipes? Check them all out here! 

To easy dinners!

Clink!

Kathi & Rachel

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