Taste.com.au top 20 five-ingredient dinner recipes

Dinner doesn’t have to be a chore with these five-ingredient recipes, compiled by the Taste.com.au team.

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September 6, 2023 - 5:00AM

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You don’t need a grocery list as long as your arm to cook up a delicious dinner.

These easy recipes are made from just five ingredients (and in some cases, even less), so you can whip a meal using whatever you have on hand.

Choose from easy pasta dishes, simple soups, tray bakes and more.

1: Creamy chicken and spinach potato bake

It only takes 5 ingredients to whip up this next-level potato bake. With layers of tender potato slices, oozing mozzarella, BBQ chicken and spinach doused in a creamy sauce (with a hint of mustard), midweek dinners don’t get much better than this! This super easy potato bake can also be served as a side dish (just leave the chicken out).

2: Five-ingredient chicken piccata

Create a gourmet-style meal with this effortless chicken dish served with zesty butter and caper sauce.

Mexican pulled pork rice bowl.

3: Mexican pulled pork rice bowl

You only need five ingredients and 20 minutes to whip up this tasty pulled pork and rice bowl. It is the ideal way to use up any cooked rice you have lying around in the fridge. To make your own Mexican rice, simply toss rice, black beans and a little tomato salsa together. Yum.

4: Tuna mornay jacket potatoes

Two retro favourites, creamy mornay and fluffy baked potatoes, come together in this super easy recipe.

5: Satay beef skewers

You only need five ingredients for these simple Asian inspired satay beef skewers and colourful salad.

6: Chicken and mushroom pasta bake

Take a few shortcuts with this easy (and extra cheesy!) chicken and mushroom pasta bake.

Gnocchi with burnt butter and oregano.

7: Gnocchi with burnt butter and oregano

Zoom around the supermarket for a few ingredients, then around the globe with this four-step recipe.

8: Cherry tomato and roasted garlic prawn linguine

Simple but delicious, this garlicky five -ingredient prawn linguine is a weeknight dinner winner.

Five-ingredient meals: Slow cooker honey garlic chicken.

9: Slow cooker honey garlic chicken

This kid-friendly sticky honey chicken is cooked in the convenience of the slow cooker and only needs five ingredients -winner, winner!

10: Coconut and cashew chicken curry

Frozen veg and bought curry sauce are you secret weapon for quick and easy nourishing dinners. This creamy curry only takes 2five minutes to make and is packed with protein and dietary fibre.

11: Salmon and asparagus brown rice pilaf

A simple, speedy salmon dinner that only require five -ingredients.

12: One-pan butter chicken with baby broccoli

Butter chicken has never been easier with this one-pan recipe. Serve this Indian favourite with baby broccoli on a bed of basmati rice.

13: Speedy salmon noodle stir-fry

For a boost of sweet veg, add capsicum to your stir-fry. Seed, chop and cook with the carrot.

Tandoori chicken bake.

14: Tandoori chicken bake

This flavour-packed tray bake uses just five ingredients and a few store-bought shortcuts to get dinner on the table in a flash.

1five : five -ingredient Vegemite pasta

Ready in just 20 minutes, this cheesy, buttery spaghetti made with Vegemite and San Remo pasta, is the most Aussie dinner we’ve ever seen!

16: Broccoli and sweet potato soup

This quick winter-warmer can be served in under 2five minutes!

Gnocchi with goats cheese and spinach.

17: Gnocchi with goats cheese and spinach

This Italian-style fast food dish has it all - tender gnocchi, creamy cheese and a rich tomato and vegie sauce.

18: Baked lemon chicken with spring greens

A plate of baked lemon chicken with spring greens goes down a treat on any dinner table!

19: One-pot melting lemon salmon spaghetti

It only takes five ingredients and five minutes prep to whip up this easy, creamy spaghetti. Watch as the mascarpone melts into a slurpalicious sauce – it’s pure midweek magic!