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Home ยป Recipes ยป Main Dish

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 skillet filled with meatballs and tomato sauce sprinkled with Italian herbs.

Best Italian Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

A bowl of soup has meatballs, couscous, and carrots with spinach in chicken broth.

Easy Italian Wedding Soup {Instant Pot or Stovetop}

A photo collages shows several easy dinner ideas kids could make.

Easy Dinner Ideas for Yo-Yo Nights {You're On Your Own!}

A plate of sauerbraten has homemade spaetzle and red cabbage on the side.

German Sauerbraten {Oven or Slow Cooker}

A serving of Chinese noodles with ground pork has green onions sprinkled over the top.

Spicy Peanut Butter Noodles with Pork

A bowl of French onion soup has toasted baguette slices with melted cheese over the top.

French Onion Soup {Freezer-Friendly}

Two pork tenderloins in a dutch oven.

Roasted Pork in Applesauce

A sloppy joe sandwich on a soft bun has some filling dripping onto the plate and potato chips on the side.

Crock Pot Sloppy Joes

A white soup bowl filled with thick ground beef chili topped with shredded cheese and sliced green onions. There's a spoon and a pile of potato chips on the side.

Ground Beef Chili Bowls

A homemade cheese pizza is sliced and ready to serve.

Classic Cheese Pizza

A white bowl is filled with thin spaghetti and fresh cherry tomatoes and arugula. Parmesan is sprinkled over the top.

Fresh Tomato Pasta Toss

A baking tray filled with baked quesadillas.

How to Cook Quesadillas Family-Style

A bowl of cooked jerk chicken with red and yellow bell peppers and onions.

Air Fryer Jerk Chicken {or in the Oven}

A big bowl of buttery shrimp with garlic bread for dunking.

Garlic Butter Shrimp Skillet

A homemade peach pizza has been sliced and served.

Fresh Peach Pizza with Pancetta

The grilled tilapia is on a dinner plate with a dollop of dill aoli, red rice, and a cob of corn.

Seasoned Grilled Tilapia

A skillet filled with meatballs, lemon slices, and asparagus spears.

Romano Chicken Meatballs with Lemon Sauce

A barbecue pulled pork sandwich is on a plate next to potato chips.

Pulled Pork in the Oven or Slow Cooker

A bowl filled with white rice, spinach, and seasoned shrimp.

Mediterranean Shrimp and Rice

A muffin tin filled with garden lasagna cupcakes shows the spinach and tomatoes covered in melted cheese.

Garden Lasagna Cupcakes

A serving dish filled with boiled shrimp with caraway seeds.

Seasoned Boiled Shrimp

A platter of 4 meatball skewers with teriyaki glaze. A plate of grilled vegetables and fresh pineapple are in the back.

Easy Grilled Meatball Skewers

A pita is wrapped around chicken gyro meat with fresh tomatoes and slices of red onion. The sandwich sits next to some fresh lettuce.

Easy Chicken Gyros Wrap

Slices of pineapple glazed ham sits on a platter next to the roasted pineapple slices. A tray of colorful Easter eggs sits in the background.

Mustard Glazed Ham with Pineapple

A blue plate with roasted shrimp next to lime wedges. Fresh parsley is sprinkled over the top. A blue napkin is under the plate.

How to Cook Frozen Shrimp

A blue plate has a pile of spicy shrimp with two lime wedges and a sprinkle of fresh cilantro over the top.

5-Minute Spicy Shrimp

A serving of Irish Beef Hand Pies on a white platter.

Irish Beef Hand Pies

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

A blue baking dish has a spoon scooping out a serving of chicken tetrazzini pasta with peas.

Easy Chicken Tetrazzini {No Mushrooms!}

The roasted chicken sits on top of roasted vegetables in a round roasting pan.

Easy Roasted Chicken with Vegetables

A platter of cheesy crab melts have green onions sprinkled over the top.

Easy Cheesy Crab Melts

A bowl of peanut butter noodles has a fork pulling up the pasta to show the sauce and veggies.

Asian Peanut Butter Pasta

Air Fryer Tandoori Chicken on a white plate. Salad sits in the background.

Tandoori Marinated Chicken in the Air Fryer

A filet of macadamia encrusted halibut is covered with a drizzle of lemon butter cream sauce. Fresh green asparagus and a serving of wild rice sit next to it on the plate.

Prep-Ahead Macadamia Crusted Halibut

A cooked, pan-fried pork chop sits on a dinner plate next to potatoes.

Panfried Pork Chops that Don't Suck

A taco salad made with mini frozen tacos.

10-Minute Trader Joe's Meals

Bow tie pasta is tossed with roasted broccolini, roasted tomatoes, and chicken meatballs.

Roasted Broccolini Pasta Toss

A square pan of chicken spaghetti is ready to be frozen in aluminum foil wrap.

Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti Casserole

A bacon cheddar burger has layers of fresh tomato and fresh basil and sits next to a serving of potato chips.

Candied Bacon and Basil Cheeseburgers

Two sheet pans hold roasted green beans, roasted potatoes, and a breaded sheet pan chicken cutlet.

Sheet Pan Chicken and Veggies

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