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Easy Dinner Recipes

All the easy recipes you need for a delicious family dinner tonight. Pick your favorite main dish and then pair it with a simple side dish or salad for a meal everyone at the table will love.

You can narrow your choice down by type of entree or find a quick and easy recipe you can get to the table fast.


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  • The tater tot casserole has a spoon scooping a serving, you can see the ground beef, green beans, and corn with golden brown tater tots on top.
    CASSEROLE
  • A white bowl is filled with farfalle pasta and fresh vegetables.
    PASTA
  • A white bowl is filled with a creamy chicken and wild rice soup.
    SOUP
  • A seasoned fish filet is on a hamburger bun with shredded lettuce and a sliced tomato.
    SANDWICH
  • A taco salad in a bowl next to a pitcher of dressing.
    SALAD
  • A homemade cheese pizza is sliced and ready to serve.
    PIZZA

Most Popular Dinner Recipes

Two Smithfield pork tenderloins have been seasoned and roasted. They are now served on a white platter with fresh rosemary garnish.

How to Cook Smithfield Pork Tenderloin {3 Easy Ways}

The tater tot casserole has a spoon scooping a serving, you can see the ground beef, green beans, and corn with golden brown tater tots on top.

Minnesota Tater Tot Hotdish

The spiral ham is on a roasting rack so it can be broiled to make the brown sugar glaze crispy.

Crockpot Spiral Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

Two slices of slow cooked turkey breast are on a plate drizzled with gravy.

Slowcooker Boneless Turkey Breast

A white baking dish is filled with wavy egg noodles, chopped pork, and corn and red peppers to show the final baked saucy pork and noodle bake casserole.

Saucy Pork and Noodle Bake for Leftover Pork

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POPULAR DINNER Recipes

Quick Dinner Recipes

Quick Dinners
A blue plate has a bed of rice topped with chunks of chicken, pineapple, and roasted vegetables.

Sheet Pan Hawaiian Chicken

A bowl of tortellini is coated in a creamy boursin cheese sauce with tomatoes and spinach.

Baked Boursin and Tomato Pasta

A plate with sliced barbecue chicken has a drizzle of Alabama bbq white sauce over the top.

Baked Alabama BBQ Chicken Breasts

A platter of crispy baked chicken tacos has bowls of tomatoes, green onions, and sour cream in the background for garnishing.

Baked Chicken Tacos

A serving of teriyaki meatballs with pineapple and vegetables over rice.

Pineapple Teriyaki Meatballs Stir Fry

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FAVORITES

Lighter Fare

Light Dinners
A baking dish with creamy chicken pot pie has phyllo dough on the top.

Lighter Chicken Pot Pie

A light and healthy tortellini soup has spinach and carrots floating in the broth.

Weight Watchers Tortellini Soup

A plate of spaghetti with chicken bolognese sauce has a fork twirling the noodles.

Easy Chicken Bolognese

A platter of oven baked salmon next to roasted asparagus has a fork showing the flaky pink fish.

Oven Baked Salmon

A serving of grape and chicken pasta salad is on a plate with a fork.

Chicken Pasta Salad with Grapes

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A platter of rolled-up turkey taquitos sits next to a bowl of sour cream and a bowl of salsa.

Crispy Baked Turkey Taquitos {Oven or Air Fryer}

A bowl of rice is topped with crockpot creamy chicken made with cream cheese and topped with salsa and green onions.

Crockpot Creamy Chicken {Mexican Style}

A bowl full of shredded chicken with a spoon. There's a bowl of red tomatoes, a green napkin, and a bottle of hot sauce sitting nearby.

Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Chicken

An airfryer basket has 7 seasoned chicken tenderloins golden brown and cooked.

Healthy Chicken Tenderloins in the Air Fryer

A bowl of cheese tortellini with pesto sauce and roasted tomatoes.

Cheese Tortelloni with Pesto {3 Ingredients}

A perfect BLT sandwich sits on a white plate.

Classic BLT Sandwich

An egg salad sandwich sits on a blue plate.

Deviled Egg Salad

A bowl of baked tortellini with a slice of garlic bread on the side.

Baked Cheese Tortellini Skillet

A bowl filled with green lettuce, topped with buffalo chicken salad, fresh tomatoes, and drizzled with buffalo sauce and blue cheese dressing sits in front of a serving bowl of lettuce with mason jars of dressing on the side.

Buffalo Chicken Salad

A CrockPot has a batch of Tuscan chicken with sundried tomatoes and spinach.

Slow Cooker Tuscan Chicken Pasta

Two ham and cheese stuffed potatoes are on a serving plate with a fork.

Ham & Cheese Stuffed Potatoes

A grilled turkey reuben sandwich is on a plate with potato chips and baby carrots.

Grilled Turkey Reuben Sandwiches

A dinner bowl has a serving of butter chicken spooned over jasmine rice. Fresh cilantro is sprinkled over the top.

Easy Instant Pot Butter Chicken

A homemade chicken spinach alfredo pizza has been sliced and the pieces pulled apart.

Chicken Spinach Alfredo Pizza

A baked potato is stuffed with crockpot chicken taco chili and then topped with corn and a dollop of sour cream.

Crockpot Chicken Taco Chili

Bolognese Meat Sauce has been served over large rigatoni noodles and a fork is stirring them together.

Classic Beef Bolognese Sauce

A metal baking pan has 3 rows of baked bbq chicken sliders showing the melted cheese oozing out.

BBQ Chicken Sliders

A Crockpot is filled with shredded bbq chicken thighs and bbq sauce.

BBQ Crockpot Chicken Thighs

A bowl of rice is topped with shredded bourbon chicken from the crockpot.

Saucy Crockpot Bourbon Chicken

A baking dish is filled with saucy apricot chicken sprinkled with fresh herbs.

Instant Pot Apricot Chicken

A blue plate has a serving of chicken rice alfredo casserole. You can see the red peppers and peas popping up through out the serving.

Chicken Alfredo Rice Casserole

Italian beef sandwich has toasted bread, melted provolone cheese, and pepper relish on top of the shredded beef.

Crock Pot Italian Beef Sandwiches

A small white bowl is filled with chicken fried rice and veggies. A fork rests on the side.

Easy Chicken Fried Rice

The bottle of salmon seasoning sits next to a baking pan of salmon.

5 Easy Salmon Seasonings with Matching Side Dishes

The eggs and ham slab pie has been sliced and served on a plate next to a small green salad.

Cheesy Egg and Ham Slab Pie

A baking pan filled with ham pot pie filling and topped with fresh homemade biscuits instead of pie crust.

Ham Pot Pie with Biscuit Topping

A plate of spaghetti coated in homemade alfredo sauce sprinkled with parmesan cheese.

Homemade Alfredo Sauce with Cream Cheese

A white bowl filled with farfalle pasta, cubed ham, and peas to show the ham and peas alfredo recipe.

Creamy Alfredo with Ham and Peas

A white bowl has a bed of rice that's been topped with the ground pork stir fry loaded with peppers and cabbage.

Ground Pork Stir Fry

A white bowl of ramen noodles and ground beef with red peppers and broccoli.

Easy Ground Beef Stir Fry with Noodles

The spiral ham is on a roasting rack so it can be broiled to make the brown sugar glaze crispy.

Crockpot Spiral Ham with Brown Sugar Glaze

A white plate has jasmine rice and a pile of honey garlic chicken thighs sprinkled with fresh green onions.

Honey Garlic Chicken Thighs

The salmon burger is on a brioche bun with lettuce and tomato. A drizzle of tartar sauce drips down the side.

Salmon Burgers {Air Fryer or Skillet}

A white platter of golden brown baked chicken legs.

Baked Chicken Legs

A pork taco with corn salsa on a blue plate, there are lime wedges on the side.

Easy Pork Tenderloin Tacos

A white bowl is filled with lettuce, tomatoes, and chopped deli meats and cheeses.

Grinder Salad

A skillet is filled with Swedish meatballs and creamy gravy.

Swedish Meatballs in Gravy

A white bowl of creamy Irish potato soup has fresh chives sprinkled on top and a spoon on the side.

Irish Potato Soup

The white plate has two baked chicken thighs that have been seasoned with blackening spice.

Cajun Blackened Chicken Thighs {Air Fryer or Oven}

A plate is filled with rice pilaf and Meyer lemon roasted chicken thighs that have sliced lemons on top.

Roasted Meyer Lemon Chicken

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