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Home » All Recipes » Healthy Dinners » 20 Minute Meals: Kid-Friendly {12 Super Fast Healthy Family Dinner Recipes}

20 Minute Meals: Kid-Friendly {12 Super Fast Healthy Family Dinner Recipes}

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Need a 20 minute meal that’s kid-friendly?

Here are 12, 20 minute meals that are Kid Friendly, and you can have READY IN 20 MINUTES OR LESS for busy weeknights or when dinner time simply sneaks up on you! Um. Like tonight. And maybe tomorrow tonight.

I’m not gonna lie. 20 minute meals are more of a regular event at our home than not. I am a big fan of fast, delicious meals that are quick to pull together in under half an hour or less. Less is always better.

Healthy dinner recipes

I know dinner time can be hard.

Coming back from work or after school activities often leave you with little time to prep and cook healthy dinners from scratch. Stopping at the local take out seems like the easier option. Thing is, it’s not good for your health, waist line or budget.

With a few easy, quick, kid friendly meal planning tips and fast meal ideas, you can get your family eating healthier and save money – in less time that it would take to get through drive through. Just a give it a go for one week.

Quick healthy dinner

But don’t worry – just because it’s a quick dinner, it doesn’t mean you miss out on flavour. Here are 12 of our families favourite 20 minute Dinner Recipes that will please even the fussiest palate. What’s special about these recipes? They’re full of kid-friendly flavor, no one likes a bland dinner but kids can sometime be…picky, shall we say, about the flavors they’ll eat.
These are perfect, and please the whole crowd. And that’s a good thing in my book!

Download my FREE Dinner Time Cheat Sheet below, it’s really handy and will give you a head start!

18 Fast and Healthy Weeknight Meal Ideas here

12 Super Fast Healthy Dinner Recipes

Here are 12 of our families favourite 20 minute Dinner Recipes that will please even the fussiest palate.

Coconut Cashew Curry Chicken and Rice with Mango

20 minute kid-friendly dinners

This fast and tasty recipe from Savita at Chefdehome will have the fussiest kid coming back for seconds.
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20 MINUTE GARLIC BEEF AND BROCCOLI LO MEIN

Seriously a fan of this beef and broccoli noodle recipe. Looked just as good as the picture and tasted amazing!!!!

This recipe rocks! Seriously. My family goes crazy for this dish. The only thing I tend to change is the amount of sugar. I only add one and a half tablespoons otherwise I find it a little too sweet. But other than that ….. it’s a definite keeper!
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Quick Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls Recipe

We make this recipe a lot. The embarrassing kind of a lot. You know when you find a recipe that everyone loves, everyone eats, and you get that ‘This is awesome Mom”, kind of feedback? It’s enough to get you making it again, and again, and … well you get the message. These quick Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls are super easy to put together and you can fill them up with whatever salads or veggies you have on hand. Guaranteed crowd pleaser!

20 Minute Chicken Teriyaki. Our new family favourite! This is so good!!!! Even got to try out our new chop sticks.

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20 MINUTE CHICKEN PANANG CURRY NOODLE BOWLS

A simple 20 – minute chicken panang curry with noodles and fresh veggies. Perfect for chilly, weeknight dinners!

Awesome and really easy Penang chicken curry. I love this list of easy recipes for dinner. Definitely going to try a few more of these!


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Easy Better-Than-Takeout Chicken Fried Rice

This easy, one-skillet recipe is ready in 20 minutes. Get it on the table faster than the time it takes to get take out! Oh yes, it tastes better too – And it’s healthy! That’s a Win/Win no matter how you look at it.


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15 MINUTE 5 INGREDIENT SPAGHETTI CARBONARA

The quickest and easiest pasta dish you will ever make with just 5 ingredients. Loaded with Parmesan and crispy bacon – you know it’s gonna be a goodie!

Are there any easy recipes for dinner that don't include some good ole' pasta recipe? Can't go wrong with this one - so easy to make, delicious, and it will make the whole family happy!

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15 MINUTE ONE POT LASAGNE

You can't go wrong with some lasagne! I needed some easy recipes for dinner that I knew my kids would eat and this stove top lasagne did the trick! They loved it! And it was ready in half the time as my usual recipe.

This quick and easy one pot lasagna puts a new spin on the traditional oven baked lasagna and can be made on the stove top in 15 minutes. Kid friendly and mom approved, your whole family will love this.
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20 MINUTE One-Pan Pesto Chicken and Veggies

I was looking for some easy recipes for dinner but I think I might have found my new favorite skillet dish! Can't wait to make this again for my family. Is tomorrow too soon?

One-Pan Pesto Chicken and Veggies – boneless, skinless chicken thighs with sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus, cherry tomatoes in a delicious basil pesto sauce.
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ONE SKILLET MEXICAN RICE CASSEROLE

20 minute kid-friendly dinners

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CHICKEN CAESAR WRAPS

20 minute kid-friendly dinners

Super Easy to pull together using a cooked chicken and salad from the fridge. I make the salad in one large bowl and then spoon it in to the tortilla wrap to get this on the table even faster!
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THAI CHICKEN NOODLE SALAD

I love this recipe. It’s super versatile and I get to use up veggies in the fridge. It works well as a ‘build your own’ bowl kind of meal so great to introduce the fussier kids to new vegetables. (PLUS you can use a rotisserie chicken if you’re short on time}

15 minute clean eating dinner - thai chicken noodle salad

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Grilled Chicken BLT Tacos

A little grilled chicken, crispy lettuce, soft tacos, crispy bacon and a healthy dollop of sour cream. Oh my goodness!! Yes please – Let me at it! Give this two ingredient soft and bendy tortilla recipe a go (it’s AMAZING!)

This grilled chicken taco recipe is a perfect idea for dinner last night! I was looking for easy and healthy dinner recipes and I'm so glad I found this - my kids loved it!!!!

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Quick family dinners

So, there you have it!

12 new and a little exciting easy recipes for dinner to add to your weeknight meal plan.

The best thing is that you can whip these little beauties up super fast using ingredients you’ve actually heard of! The next time you’re wondering what to fix for dinner (which I think is the reason you are here) – all you have to do it pick one of these!

To see the other posts in this 10 of the Best Meal Prepping Series series, check out the following:

  • 10 Recipes You Can Make with a Pound of Ground Beef 
  • 10 Recipes you can make with a Jar of Pasta Sauce
  • 10 Healthy Sheet Pan Dinners
Wow. Seriously. Wow! OK so not only are these really quick and easy recipes for week night dinner (20 minutes baby) but Oh boy they are delicious! My kids are constantly asking for seconds of the Mexican skillet and two of them are SO picky! So many of these are so quick and easy to make- this sorts out an entire two weeks of dinner planning (we had leftovers twice).

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