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Comfort Food Recipes

Delight in comfort food recipes that evoke nostalgia and warmth, offering the ultimate culinary hug with hearty, delicious dishes that bring people together.

Find family-friendly Comfort Food recipes to please the pickiest of eaters, such as this Birria Ramen or and this fantastic Buffalo Chicken Dip.

Other reader favorites include Biscuits and Gravy, Jambalaya, American Goulash, and Hungarian Goulash.

White bowl filled with miso ramen broth and ramen noodles topped with chashu pork, seaweed, ramen egg, corn, and green onions.

Miso Ramen

A large oval plate piled with golden baked beef empanadas.

Beef Empanadas Recipe

White serving bowl filled with German potato salad and garnished with extra bacon pieces and chopped parsley.

German Potato Salad

Bowl filled with cooked beef birria garnished with white onion, cilantro, and lime wedges.

Birria Recipe (How to Make Birria)

Large white serving bowl filled with birria ramen soup garnished with sliced radish, cilantro, soft boiled eggs, and salsa.

Birria Ramen

Image of of shredded flank steak simmering with onions, bell peppers, and olives in a rich tomato sauce in a large Dutch oven.

Ropa Vieja Recipe

A close up image of fully cooked slow cooker pot roast with picadillo.

Slow Cooker Picadillo Pot Roast

Large white pot filled with simmering beef tips in gravy.

Beef Tips and Gravy

Large skillet filled with creamy shrimp alfredo with fettuccine pasta.

Shrimp Alfredo

A plate of Butter Chicken on a table

Butter Chicken Recipe (Murgh Makhani)

Dutch oven pot roast made with potatoes, carrots, and beef chuck roast just out of the oven.

Dutch Oven Pot Roast

Large white dutch oven filled with tender cooked braised beef short ribs with a red wine beef gravy.

Braised Short Ribs

White serving platter covered with french fries, cheese curds, and smothered in homemade beef gravy.

Poutine Recipe

White plate with a fluffy buttermilk biscuit topped with creamy sausage gravy.

Biscuits and Gravy

Large stainless steel skillet filled with cooked fettuccine noodles tossed in alfredo sauce.

Best Alfredo Sauce Recipe

White serving bowl filled with filled with Hamburger Soup made with ground beef, tomatoes, macaroni noodles, peas, and carrots.

Hamburger Soup

Close up image of a pan filled with gnocchi cooked in homemade tomato sauce and topped with bubby melted cheese and fresh basil.

Gnocchi alla Sorrentina

Wooden serving spoon scooping a large serving of cheesy hashbrown casserole from a white baking dish.

Hashbrown Casserole

Stainless steel soup pot filled with creamy chicken and gnocchi soup filled with carrots, celery, and fresh spinach.

Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Overhead image of a large soup bowl filled with beef barley soup topped with fresh oregano.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

White soup bowl filled with carrots, shredded chicken, celery, and noodles, in a creamy chicken broth.

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup

White serving bowl filled with crispy Korean fried chicken coated in a homemade sweet and spicy Gochujang sauce.

Korean Fried Chicken

Large white ceramic Dutch oven filled with homemade hamburger helper made with ground beef and macaroni noodles.

The Best Homemade Hamburger Helper

Large baking sheet line with parchment paper and filled with french fries smothered with carne asada, cheese, jalapeno, pico de gallo, sour cream, and guacamole.

Carne Asada Fries

Cast iron skillet filled with creamy chicken a la king surrounded by buttermilk biscuits.

Chicken a la King

Large Dutch oven filled with a stew made with shredded pork, frozen lima beans, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and bbq sauce.

Brunswick Stew

Large soup pot filled with Guinness beef stew filled with chunks of beef, potatoes, carrots, and garnished with fresh thyme.

Guinness Beef Stew

Two bowls filled with beef stew made in the Instant Pot and filled with juicy chunks of meat, carrots, and potatoes.

Instant Pot Beef Stew

Large pot filled with simmering beef stew made with beef, potatoes, carrots, onions, in a red wine broth and garnished with fresh parsley.

Beef Stew Recipe

Large skillet filled with cooked browned beef and pork meatballs in swedish meatballs sauce and garnished with chopped parsley.

Swedish Meatballs

Large white baking pan filled with cooked porcupine meatballs in a hearty tomato sauce.

Porcupine Meatballs

White soup bowl set on top of a dark grey plate filled with creamy chicken pot pie soup topped with buttermilk biscuit crumbles and chopped parsley.

Chicken Pot Pie Soup

Golden bubbly and cheesy crab rangoon dip in a round white baking dish and garnished with green onions.

Crab Rangoon Dip

Shredded Mississippi pot roast served over mashed potatoes on a white plate.

Mississippi Pot Roast

White dinner plate with creamy mashed potatoes topped with chicken madeira and mushrooms and a creamy madeira sauce with a side of asparagus.

Creamy Chicken Madeira

Large cast iron skillet filled with four large browned chicken thighs braised in a herb and white wine sauce filled with carrots, onions, and mushrooms.

Chicken Fricassee

Wood serving spoon pouring homemade marsala cream sauce over a cooked chicken cutlet in a large pan filled with marsala cream sauce.

Creamy Chicken Marsala

Glass Pyrex dish filled with cheesy tater tot breakfast casserole.

Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole

White serving bowl fllled with chicken, rice, and veggie souop seasoned with salt, pepper, and dried Italian seasoning.

Chicken and Rice Soup

White shallow bowl filled with broccoli cheddar soup topped with blanched broccoli florets.

Broccoli Cheese Soup

White soup bowl filled with broccoli cheddar soup.

Broccoli Cheddar Soup (30 Minutes!)

Small while plate filled with lemon chicken orzo.

Lemon Chicken Orzo

Shallow white soup bowl filled with lemon chicken orzo soup filled with shredded chicken, carrots, celery, orzo, and peas.

Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

A bowl of Snert

Split Pea Soup

Twice baked potato on a baking sheet topped with cheese, bacon, and fresh chives.

Twice Baked Potatoes

White bowl filled with creamy potato soup and topped with green onions, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and bacon.

Potato Soup Recipe

Large pot filled with blended Acorn Squash Soup.

Acorn Squash Soup

Two white bowls filled with cheesy grits topped with cooked shrimp and garnished with shreddd cheddar cheese and fresh parsley.

Cheese Grits and Blackberry Cobbler

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