10 Quick High-Fibre Recipes for Easy Weeknight Dinners

1. Aubergine Butter Beans

Total time: 20 minutes

This aubergine butter bean recipe is rich, tomatoey and incredibly satisfying. Butter beans are naturally creamy and soft, making them perfect for quick high-fibre dinners that still feel comforting.

If you want something hearty but easy, this is a great place to start.

2. Marry Me Beans

Total time: 20 minutes

These creamy, savoury beans feel indulgent but are still a very practical high fibre dinner idea. The sauce is rich and flavourful, while the beans keep it filling.

A perfect option if you want healthy food that doesn’t feel “too healthy”. I love eating it with a crusty baguette and butter! 

3. 15 Minute Creamy Tomato Beans

Total time: 15 minutes

This is one of those quick high fibre meals you’ll come back to again and again. It uses simple pantry ingredients and comes together with almost no effort.

Serve it with toast or flatbread and you’ve got a very solid quick high-fibre meal with hardly any effort.

4. Chickpea Mushroom Stroganoff

Total time: 20 minutes

A creamy, cosy dish that’s perfect when you want comfort food. The mushrooms add depth, and the chickpeas make it a filling vegetarian high fibre recipe.

Great for colder evenings or when you want something a bit more substantial.

5. Quick Black Dal

Total time: 15 minutes

This is such a good one to have in the rotation if you want more lentil recipes that don’t take ages. You still get that lovely comforting dal feeling, but in a much quicker format.

6. Marry Me Lentils

Total time: 20 minutes

Lentils are brilliant for quick dinners because they’re so easy to make feel substantial. This recipe is creamy, satisfying and very weeknight-friendly.

It’s especially good if you want a quick vegan high-fibre dinner with a bit of comfort-factor.

7. Feta Pepper Beans

Total time: 10 minutes

This is the perfect thing to make if you’re low on time. It’s one of the quickest high-fibre recipes on the site, and the feta and peppers do loads of the flavour work for you.

8. 15 Minute Garlic Chickpeas

Total time: 15 minutes

Garlicky chickpeas are always a good idea. This is such a handy recipe to have because it’s simple, quick and made with very basic ingredients, but still feels like a proper meal.

9. Alfredo Beans

Total time: 15 minutes

This is proof that high-fibre recipes can still feel creamy and indulgent, without using cream! If you want something cosy and low effort, this is a great choice.

10. 15 Minute Courgette (Zucchini!) Chickpeas

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Total time: 15 minutes

This one feels a bit fresher and lighter than some of the others here, which is nice if you don’t want every quick dinner to be creamy or tomato-heavy. The chickpeas still make it filling, but the courgette keeps it feeling light. It’s also high protein with 30g protein per portion. 

Best quick high-fibre recipes depending on what you want

For something really quick: Feta Pepper Beans or 15 Minute Creamy Tomato Beans.

For maximum comfort: Marry Me Beans or Alfredo Beans.

For a lentil-based dinner: Quick Black Dal or Marry Me Lentils.

For a chickpea recipe: 15 Minute Garlic Chickpeas or 15 Minute Courgette (Zucchini!) Chickpeas.

For a tomatoey bean dinner: 15 Minute Creamy Tomato Beans or Aubergine Butter Beans.

If you want even more high-fibre recipes

If you make your way through these and want more, I’d try Smoky Caramelised Onion Butter Beans, Butter Bean Curry, and Creamy Tuscan Chickpeas next. They take a little longer, but they’re all very good.

Final thought

If you want to eat more fibre, you really don’t need to overcomplicate it. A few quick bean, lentil and chickpea recipes can make a big difference, especially when they’re easy enough to make on a busy night.