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Easy Dinner Main Dish Recipes

Start your dinner menu off with a delicious centerpiece and then match your side dishes and veggies to the main dish.

Pick one of my quick one pot dinners like this kid-friendly taco skillet or baked tortellini when you need dinner done fast.

A bowl of tomato-based pastina soup has a spoon lifting out a bite so you can see the star-shaped pasta.

Tomato Pastina

A bowl of gnocchi soup has chunks of diced carrot and a clear broth. Slices of lemon are on the plate next to the bowl.

Gnocchi Soup with Lemon and Dill

The shredded chicken sandwich has slaw and green onions on top, a serving of green beans on the side.

Hawaiian Chicken Crockpot Sandwiches

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}

A hearty beef sandwich sits next to a cup of beef au jus dipping sauce.

French Dip Sandwiches {Crock Pot or Dutch Oven}

A bowl of homemade chicken soup with chicken and carrots has a spoon scooping up a bite.

Homemade Chicken Soup for Flu & Cold Season

A collage shows 4 easy comfort food dinners that will warm you up.

40 Cozy Comfort Food Recipes to Soothe Your Soul

A piece of sourdough bread has chunks of turkey meat and gravy on top.

Open Face Turkey Sandwich with Gravy

A white bowl is filled with a creamy chicken and wild rice soup.

Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Soup {or Stovetop}

A roasting pan filled with chicken leg quarters with onion, lemon, and orange pieces.

Roasted Chicken Legs Quarters

The baked ground turkey sloppy joes are on a blue plate with potato chips.

Ground Turkey Sloppy Joes

A bowl of caribbean chicken soup has fresh cilantro sprinkled over the top and corn bread muffins in the back.

Spicy Caribbean Chicken Soup

The photo collage shows a stack of meals in a freezer next to photos of the food cooked and served on a plate.

35 Best Meals to Freeze and Reheat

The slowcooker is filled with long noodles, chunks of chicken, bell peppers, and is sprinkled with grated parmesan cheese on top.

Crockpot Cajun Chicken Pasta

A blue bowl is filled with spaghetti noodles, sliced bell peppers, and chicken tenderloins to show the finished chicken scampi.

Copycat Olive Garden Chicken Scampi

A stuffed pork tenderloin has cranberries and blue cheese peeking out of the roll. A bunch of fresh thyme is on the platter.

Cranberry Blue Cheese Stuffed Pork Tenderloins

A blue baking dish filled with mac and cheese with bread crumb topping. A serving spoon has removed a portion to show the creamy elbow noodles.

Make Ahead Mac and Cheese

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 finished savory apple pizza has a golden brown crust, sliced apples, and fresh arugula scattered over the top.

Harvest Apple Pizza

A bowl of sausage lentil soup sits on an orange napkin with a spoon ready for eating.

Spicy Sausage and Lentil Soup

A tomato sauce and shredded chicken sandwich has provolone cheese on a crusty bun.

Crockpot Italian Chicken Sandwiches

A platter of cranberry turkey sliders show the melted cheese and poppy seeds on top.

Cranberry Turkey Sliders

A white bowl is filled with shredded beef that was cooked in the crockpot.

Shredded Beef in the Crockpot

The white bowl has the stir fried beef and broccoli with chopped green onions over a bed of white rice against a blue background.

Stir Fry Beef and Broccoli

A white platter has squares of Mongolian beef flatbread.

Mongolian Beef Pizza

A white bowl with a spoon is filled with the tomato-based stuffed pepper soup.

Instant Pot Stuffed Pepper Soup

A metal pan filled with sausage and pasta casserole is ready to go into the freezer.

Easy Italian Sausage Pasta Casserole

A baked BBQ chicken pizza has been sliced for serving.

Barbeque Chicken Pizza

A white soup bowl filled with tomato bisque has brown bread croutons floating on top.

Tomato Bisque Soup

A slowcooker is filled with a beef stew topped with mashed potatoes and parsley.

Crock Pot Shepherds Pie

The shredded chicken is on a brioche bun with coleslaw. Hot sauce is drizzling down the sides.

Slowcooker Hot Honey Chicken

A blue plate holds a serving of rice with chunks of steak drizzled with fresh green chimichurri sauce. Fresh tomatoes are sliced in the back.

Grilled Chimichurri Steak

A photo collage shows some of the easy shrimp recipes for dinner including a shrimp po'boy, shrimp rice bowl, and shrimp tacos.

35 Easy Shrimp Recipes for Busy Nights

A slowcooker sits on a wooden cutting board. There's a ladle and a plate full of sandwich buns sitting next to it.

14 Crock Pot Sandwiches

A Crockpot next to 3 photos of soup.

18 Tasty Crockpot Soup Recipes

The white bowl is filled with potsticker soup. Half a dumpling is resting on the spoon to show the filling and the peas.

Easy Potsticker Soup

A white bowl of chicken noodle soup sits on a blue plate. There are wavy egg noodles and fresh parsley peeking out of the broth.

Easy Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup

A crockpot has tortellini soup with a tomato broth base.

Crockpot Tortellini Soup with Ground Beef

A bowl of elbow noodles coated in a creamy taco mac sauce with ground turkey.

Creamy Taco Pasta Skillet

A bowl of hot chicken taco soup has shredded cheddar and a dollop of sour cream on top. Sliced bread in the background.

Quick Chicken Taco Soup {No Beans!}

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