FREE Weekly Easy Meal Plan – What’s For Dinner (Week 38)

Welcome to week 38 of Melanie’s Meal Plan Monday!  Here’s a yummy recipe collection for this week:

• Mongolian Beef
• Chicken Parmesan
• Vegetarian Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
• Lemon Dill Salmon
• Cobb Salad

And for dessert we are having extremely easy-to-make apple strudel – made with frozen puff pastry dough!

Monday Dinner Idea: Mongolian Beef

Takeout fakeout!  This homemade Mongolian beef tastes exactly like Mongolian beef from a Chinese restaurant!  It’s much healthier too!

Recipe link: Homemade Mongolian Beef Recipe

Tuesday Dinner Idea: Chicken Parmesan

And on Tuesday we are having Italian!  This Chicken Parmesan recipe is really easy to make and tastes amazing!

Recipe link: Homemade Chicken Parmesan Recipe

Wednesday Dinner Idea: Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

These yummy vegetarian sweet potatoes are stuffed with walnuts, dried cranberries and broccoli – great combo!  So healthy and yummy!

Recipe link: Stuffed Sweet Potatoes Recipe

Thursday Dinner Idea: Lemon Dill Salmon

Salmon fillets are sprinkled with fresh dill, topped with lemon slices and baked in the oven to perfection.  What an easy and delicious meal!

Recipe link: Baked Lemon Dill Salmon Recipe

Friday Dinner Idea: Easy Cobb Salad

This Cobb salad has beautiful layers of classic Cobb ingredients: chicken, avocado, tomatoes, onions, egg, bacon and blue cheese, on a bed of lettuce.  Delicious!

Recipe link: Easy Cobb Salad Recipe

Weekly Dessert Idea: Easy Apple Strudel

Warm cinnamon apple filling is wrapped in a puff pastry dough – so good!  Anyone can make this delicious apple strudel, packaged puff pastry dough makes it so easy!

Recipe link: Easy Apple Strudel Recipe With Frozen Puff Pastry

Weekly Meal Plan Shopping List

Mongolian Beef

• 1 lb beef flank steak or top round
• ¼ cup cornstarch
• 1 bunch green onions
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled
• 1 piece of fresh ginger (1/2-inch size)
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• ¼ cup water
• ⅓ cup dark brown sugar
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Chicken Parmesan

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• ½ cup flour
• 2 cups Panko breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsp oil
• 8 oz mozzarella cheese
• 16 oz pasta sauce

Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

• 4 sweet potatoes
• 1 bunch of broccoli
• 1 cup of walnuts
• 1 cup of dried cranberries
• ¼ tsp cinnamon
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Butter to taste (optional)
• Maple syrup to taste (optional)

Lemon Dill Salmon

• 1 lb salmon fillets
• 1 lemon
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• ½ bunch fresh dill
• ¾ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper

Easy Cobb Salad

• 2 cups of cooked chicken
• 4 slices of cooked bacon
• 4 hard-boiled eggs
• 2 avocados
• 2 tomatoes
• 4 green onions
• 4 tbsp blue cheese, crumbled
• 4 cups of lettuce greens
• 2 tbsp Ranch dressing

Apple Strudel

• 1 sheet frozen Puff Pastry dough, thawed
• 3 apples, peeled and sliced
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp butter
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 1 tbsp white sugar
• 1 egg