Quick Mediterranean Dinner Recipes
Tested mediterranean dinner recipes you can cook tonight. Every dish on this page includes per-serving cost, calories, and step-by-step instructions designed for a busy weeknight kitchen.
16 recipes match this filter.
gluten freeOne-Pan Lemon Garlic Chicken
Crispy-skinned chicken thighs roasted with lemon, garlic, and herbs on a sheet of golden potatoes. twenty minutes of prep, one pan to clean.
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Calories
- 520 kcal
- Cost per serving
- $3.85/serving
Prawn Native Pasta
Nigerian prawn native pasta combines al dente spaghetti with a deeply flavoured palm-oil and crayfish base, fresh prawns, and assorted peppers. It is a Naija twist on pasta that tastes nothing like Italian — and is better for it.
- Time
- 40 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $3.00/serving
Spicy Chili Garlic Noodles
These spicy noodles are ready in about fifteen minutes
- Time
- 40 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $3.00/serving
Pink Pasta
Adding cooking cream to the base of your pasta sauce is a fantastic way of elevating it
- Time
- 40 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $3.00/serving
Signature Coconut Rice
Delicious and aromatic Nigerian Coconut Rice is a simple recipe to make. The following is a recipe for Nigerian Coconut Rice
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $3.20/serving
Flavoured Herb Rice
Herb Rice is a delicious and simple side dish, perfect for almost every recipe. Use fresh or dried herbs to give this dish amazing flavor.
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $3.20/serving
Casserole Sauce
Stewing is done on the top of a cooker with heat being applied directly to the underneath of the pot; while casseroling takes place inside the oven with heat circulating all around the pot.
- Time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $4.50/serving
Vegetable Sauce
It takes less than 45 minutes to make this veggie sauce, and the best part is that it mixes well with rice, beans, and even cooked yam.
- Time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $4.50/serving
Turkey Stew
This turkey sauce is so delicious and comes quickly together.
- Time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $4.50/serving
Beef Goulash
Goulash is a meat and vegetable soup or stew that is spiced with paprika and other herbs and spices. It originated from Hungary, this food is mainly consumed around Europe . it is one Hungary national dishes and a representation of the nation
- Time
- 1 hr 20 min
- Servings
- 6 servings
- Cost per serving
- $4.50/serving
Rotisserie Chicken
A whole chicken seasoned with herbs, garlic, and butter, then slow-roasted on a rotisserie or in a high-heat oven until the skin is mahogany-crisp and the meat falls off the bone. The simplest impressive dinner.
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $5.50/serving
Grilled Prawns
Jumbo prawns marinated in garlic, lemon, chili, and olive oil, then char-grilled over high heat until lightly smoky and pink. Ready in under ten minutes and spectacular with crusty bread or jollof rice.
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $5.50/serving
T-Bone Steak
A thick-cut T-bone steak seared in a ripping-hot cast iron with butter, garlic, and thyme, then rested until juicy. The T-bone gives you two steaks in one — the tenderloin on one side and the strip on the other.
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $5.50/serving
Grilled Fish
You can make your own spiced grilled fish in the comfort of your kitchen with this very few ingredients
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $5.50/serving
Grilled Turkey
An excellent way to have your turkey is by grilling
- Time
- 50 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $5.50/serving
Yam And Sweet Potatoes
Yam and sweet potato simmered together in a palm-oil base with peppers, onions, and a touch of stockfish. The result is a deeply orange Nigerian porridge — softer than asaro, sweeter than plain yam porridge.
- Time
- 55 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
- Cost per serving
- $2.80/serving
Why these recipes work for "quick mediterranean dinner recipes"
Every dish on this page was tested in the RecipeCrave kitchen with timing, cost, and calorie data measured rather than guessed. The filter applied here combines a real query intent — for example, "I have an hour after work and I want something Italian for dinner" — with the structural metadata on each recipe so the result is a tight, actionable list rather than an open-ended search. Browse, save what looks good, and the per-serving cost on each card tells you whether it fits the week's grocery budget.
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