Are you a working woman and mommy bear looking for easy and quick dinner dishes your kids will love, without having to slave for hours in the kitchen? Read on! Working moms know the drill. After a long day in the office the last thing you feel like doing is spending hours on your feet cooking dinner, and even though you really want to, you know you can’t give them frozen peas again for dinner.
Here are 5 super quick and easy dinner ideas your kids will love:
Hamburgers
If you have a gas braai, you can just grill the patties on there quickly (saves time on washing a pan and cleaning the oil splatter on the oven). You can also place them in the oven under the grill. Next, you just need fresh rolls, tomato, cheese, onion, and whatever else your family enjoys on their burgers. You can serve oven-baked chips (get them from Spar, Checkers, Pick n Pay) with the burgers.
Wraps
You can literally put anything in a wrap. If you have leftovers from the night before, use that. Otherwise just cut chicken breasts into strips, fry them in the pan quickly with some mushrooms and tomatoes and onion, roll it in a wrap with a bit of cheese, and voila – dinner is ready.
Spaghetti Bolognaise
If you don’t have a go-to recipe, simply buy a packet of Royco Cook in Bolognaise sauce. You just add tomatoes and onion and the mince and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Spaghetti should also be ready after 20 minutes.
Chicken steaklets or schnitzel with chips or mash
You get those chicken steaklets in the frozen food section at Pick n Pay, Spar, or Checkers. They have plain ones, or there are ones with different flavoured fillings. Just pop them in the oven for 25 minutes and dinner is ready.
Pork bangers and mash
The only thing that will take some time here is cooking the potatoes. But if you get home really late and there’s no time to cook the potatoes, put them in a Checkers bag in the microwave (wet the potatoes and make holes in them with a fork) until they are soft and ready to be mashed.
