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Dinner and Main Course Recipes

Cooking healthy and delicious family-friendly main course dinner recipes should be fun and tasty for all!  Whether you are feeding a large group or catering to kids' tastes, you will find the perfect dinner recipe for all diets and occasions here.

For example, some of my family's favorite main course dinner recipes include jambalaya, pozole, and the always-easy mahi mahi.

You can also learn how to make perfectly cooked Greek chicken or garlic butter pork chop.

Some flavorful popular recipes include Vietnamese pho and Creole red beans and rice.

You will find delicious main course recipes such as cajun chicken, Mediterranean fish, and one of my favorites, butternut squash lasagna.

Try this family-friendly American goulash recipe.

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Close up image of a single hamburger patty with cheese on a sesame bun with lettuce, mayo, red onion, and tomato.

Hamburgers Recipe

A bowl of food on a plate, with Noodle and Ramen

Healthy Ramen Noodles with Spicy Chili Sauce

Couscous Salad with Cilantro Orange Dressing

Couscous Salad

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

Birria Recipe (How to Make Birria)

Plate filled with birria tacos garnished with onions and cilantro and served with a small bowl of birria broth consumé.

Birria Tacos (Quesabirria Tacos)

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

Birria Ramen

Platter filled with golden breaded pork schnitzel garnished with lemon wedges.

Pork Schnitzel Recipe

Grilled Kalbi (Korean BBQ Beef Short Ribs) on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and garnished with thinly sliced green onions and served with a side of kimchi.

Kalbi (Korean BBQ Beef Short Ribs)

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

A whole cooked air fryer chicken in an air fryer basket.

Air Fryer Whole Chicken

Large skillet filled with creamy shrimp alfredo with fettuccine pasta.

Shrimp Alfredo

Cast iron skillet filled with cooked beef and broccoli recipe garnished with slice green onions.

Beef and Broccoli Recipe

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

Freekeh Salad with Roasted Red Pepper, Walnut + Tahini Sauce

Freekeh Salad

Large white skillet filled with arroz con pollo with peas and finely chopped red bell pepper and garnished with fresh mint and lemon slices.

Arroz con Pollo

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

Poutine Recipe

Three large cooked chicken thighs in an air fryer.

Air Fryer Chicken Thighs

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

Large Dutch oven filled with vegetable beef soup in a tomato and beef broth.

Vegetable Beef Soup

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

The Best Beef Barley Soup

A white bowl filled with Kung Pao Chicken and white rice.

Kung Pao Chicken

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

Tray filled with four carne asada tacos made with corn tortillas and topped with a fresh onion, cilantro, and lime juice salsa.

Carne Asada Tacos

Large serving plate filled with thinly sliced carne asada garnished with limes and fresh cilantro.

Carne Asada

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

Shredded cooked pork shoulder mixed with bbq sauce in a large slow cooker.

Pulled Pork Recipe

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

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

Chicken and Rice Soup

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

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