39 easy dinner recipes when you’re stuck for ideas

Key points

• A roundup of 39 quick and easy dinner recipes is designed to help home cooks who are short on time or ideas. It includes stir fries, pasta dishes and air fryer meals.
• Chef Colin Fassnidge shares his mid-week go-to, a pan-fried chicken breast with herb and butter lemon, which he says can be cooked in 30 minutes. Karen Martini shares a deluxe bolognese recipe.
• Most dishes take around 30 minutes or less to prepare and cook.