20 of Our Favorite 20-Minute Dinners for Busy Nights Around the Holidays

Have yourself a merry little dinner! JoinMyRecipesto save, search, and organize your recipes all in one place! To start saving, click on any recipe below, then tap the heart 🩷 icon. Shrimp Pesto Pasta “The shrimp can also be switched out for chicken or salmon. Both go well with pesto and bacon. Just make sure to cook them through fully before adding them to the pasta.” —Danielle Campbell, Recipe Developer Brown Butter Cacio e Pepe “Watch your brown butter closely. It can go from perfectly golden to burnt quickly. If you sense that it will burn, quickly but carefully transfer the butter into a heat-proof bowl to stop it from further browning.” —Sharon Lehman, Recipe Developer Lemon Orzotto With Spinach and Peas “I really enjoyed this simple and delicious recipe! Yum!! It was just creamy enough with the coconut milk. I’ve been trying to avoid dairy anyway. Thanks for a keeper recipe!” —Gina, Reader 20-Minute One-Pan Beef and Chickpeas “My favorite way to serve this dish is with steamed basmati or jasmine rice. If you start the rice first, everything will be ready at the same time. A definite win for any weeknight. You can also use a more convenient, even quicker rice—like frozen, bagged, or microwave—if you really want time and effort to be minimized.” —Devan Grimsrud, Recipe Developer “I often serve this pasta on its own, but if I have a rotisserie chicken or leftover roasted chicken on hand, I’ll toss that in for a dose of protein. My husband and I like it with a hit of fresh lemon juice squeezed on top, but that never makes it past my harshest critics. So I always add it directly to my plate rather than the pot.” —Molly Adams, Recipe Developer Easy Chickpea Curry “I also like to substitute

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