Quick, Budget-Friendly Dinner Recipes You'll Make Again and Again

In true Mediterranean style, this rustic-chic fish dish is as doable as they come. If you can't find harissa powder, use harissa paste which can often be found in jars or tubes (and is a handy panty ingredient to have on hand), or use a mix of equal parts paprika, ground cumin, and ground coriander, plus a pinch of cayenne.

Here's a very quick dinner that takes delicious inspiration from Chinese takeout meals. It's as if you took the dumpling filling and tossed it in a pan with the wrappers

Do you have a weekly Taco Night? The quickest, tastiest solution for a filling is seasoned ground beef with raw, thinly sliced vegetables. Here's another trick to get the most flavor from a few ingredients: Grate the zest of the limes before you squeeze them for juice.

Everything simmers in one pan together to create this soulful and filling dinner. Spicy andouille sausage is worth seeking out for its true Cajun flavor.

Boneless chicken thighs are more flavorful and cost less per pound than chicken breast does. They are our go-to cut for easy, budget-friendly chicken dinners. Also, they take to frying beautifully.

A bowl of clear broth, wholesome quinoa, and vegetables is the proof that quick can be healthy, too. Use vegetable broth to make this a vegan dinner or go with chicken broth for a meat-free meal.

This Italian-inspired dinner has only three components, and each one plays off the other perfectly. If you take a short cut and use pre-cooked polenta from a tube, this is a super quick dinner. If you've got a bit more time, save a little money and make a pot of polenta yourself.

Beans and greens are two sources of filling fiber in this meatless soup. Make a double batch and you'll have lunch on hand for another day.

This is sure to become a favorite weeknight dinner—and one that will be easy to pull off if you stock your pantry with staples like rice vinegar and udon noodles, and your freezer with edamame. If you're not an eggplant fan, substitute your favorite vegetable.

Brown rice is the perfect foil for this highly flavored, sweet and spicy stir fry. Plan ahead and start a pot of rice before you begin the stir fry—or cook it ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator or freezer in batches.

In this fast vegetarian dinner, almonds replace the usual pine nuts to give a nutty flavor and crunch to an unusual and tasty sauce that doesn't require a food processor or a mortar and pestle. It's really that easy.

Another recipe that's bound to become a regular on your weeknight rotation, this vegan baguette sandwich is inexpensive to make and deliciously different. When pressed before grilling and grilled (in a grill pan on the stovetop or on an outdoor grill), tofu takes on the flavors of the spicy marinade and a delicious smoky grilled flavor, too. All the better for pairing with a quick carrot salad that's put together while the tofu marinates.