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Easy Recipes

Opt for easy recipes to minimize stress and kitchen mishaps, making cooking accessible and enjoyable for all skill levels.

Here you will find easy dinner recipes for any weeknight that your whole family will love, such as Chicken Gyros, Cajun Shrimp, and one of my favorites Mediterranean Fish.

Savory weeknight dinner can be made quickly using casserole dishes, instant pots, and slow cookers.  Instant pots are a well-known brand of electric pressure cookers, and slow cookers can include crockpots, which are typically stoneware pots.

Reader favorite quick dinner ideas include these kid-friendly ground beef tacos, Hawaiian chicken in a casserole dish, baked sweet potato, and this main dish garlic butter pork chop recipe.

Easy chicken dinners that can be made gluten-free on a sheet pan include chicken breast and chicken thighs. Don't forget chicken salad, which can be eaten as leftovers with tortillas or sandwiches for lunch the next day!

Easy recipes can also include comfort food, such as buffalo chicken dip as an appetizer with tortilla chips, Italian spaghetti sauce, fajitas, and the reader's favorite moo goo gai pan, which is full of veggies.

Overhead image of a large serving bowl filled with cold Olivier salad made with cooked potatoes, carrots, hard boiled egg, diced egg, peas, dill pickles, and onion in a creamy mayonnaise dressing.

Olivier Salad (Russian Potato Salad)

Close up image of a small white bowl filled with parsnip puree seasoned with salt, black pepper, and chopped green onions.

Creamy Parsnip Puree Recipe

Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Large serving spoon resting in a glass baking dish filled with poppy seed chicken casserole.

Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole

Garlic herb lamb chops in a large skillet.

Garlic Herb Lamb Chops Recipe

Large wood serving bowl filled with prepared watergate salad and topped with four maraschino cherries as a garnish for color.

Watergate Salad

Large pan filled with Pasta Alla Gricia and sprinkled with fresh Pecorino Romano Cheese.

Pasta Alla Gricia

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

Cheese Grits

White serving bowl filled with creamy mashed cauliflower drizzled with brown butter and garlic.

Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes

Tender cooked baby potatoes with a salt crust and soft insides arranged in a small baking dish line with parchment paper and served with a small side of melted butter.

Salt Potatoes

Overhead image of a sweet potato pie with one slice removed.

Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Roast Turkey Breast Recipe

Prepared kielbasa and potatoes in a large pan garnished with chopped parsley.

Kielbasa and Potatoes

Close up image of egg roll in a bowl made with ground pork and veggies in a flavorful sauce and garnished with sliced green onion.

Egg Roll in a Bowl

Creamed corn in a large shallow pot.

Creamed Corn Recipe

Honey being drizzled over freshly baked cornbread.

Easy Cornbread Recipe

Wooden spatula holding a square of cooked cornbread casserole hovering above a white baking dish filled with golden brown baked cornbread casserole recipe.

Cornbread Casserole

Overhead image of a large rusted baking sheet with a neat pile of cornbread squares, two topped with thick butter and drizzled with butter.

Sweet Cornbread Recipe

Overhead image of two white bowls filled with stir fried glass noodles with chicken and vegetables and garnished with green onions.

Pad Woon Sen

Overhead image of a white plate with crinkled edges filled with a plate of chicken lo mein with onions, carrot, bell pepper, and snow peas and garnished with chopped green onions.

Lo Mein Recipe

White plate filled with chunks of meat and egg noodles smothered in a creamy brown gravy and garnished with fresh thyme.

Beef and Noodles Recipe

Large skillet filled with baked balsamic chicken thighs garnished with sliced lemon.

Balsamic Chicken

Large oval salad platter artfully displaying a tuna nicoise salad with green beans, hard-boiled eggs, sliced green onions, boiled potatoes, canned tuna, olives, and tomatoes on a bed of lettuce.

Nicoise Salad

Five large pan-seared bratwurst nestled on top of a skillet filled with sauerkraut sauteed and mixed together with apples and onions and garnished with minced parsley.

Bratwurst and Sauerkraut

Dinner plate filled with two chicken skewers, lemon slices, and a side of greek salad.

Chicken Skewers

Small wood salad bowl filled with fresh and light green goddess salad.

Green Goddess Salad

Overhead image of a small glass jar filled with homemade green goddess dressing.

Green Goddess Dressing

Glass salsa bowl filled with homemade salsa verde

Salsa Verde

Overhead image of a large white bowl filled with fresh pineapple salsa made with diced red onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, and pineapple and mixed with fresh lime juice, pineapple juice, and minced cilantro.

Pineapple Salsa

Large, shallow serving bowl filled Hawaiian macaroni salad and garnished with fresh green onions.

Hawaiian Macaroni Salad

White plate filled with yaki udon noodles made with thinly sliced pork, mushrooms, carrots, and cabbage and garnished with green onions.

Yaki Udon (Stir Fried Udon Noodles)

White bowl filled with Korean rice cakes and fish cakes in a spicy, sweet, and savory sauce and garnished with sesame seeds and sliced green onions.

Tteokbokki (Spicy Korean Rice Cakes)

Small white bowl filled with fried rice.

Fried Rice Recipe

Spoon dipped in a small white ramekin filled with gyoza sauce.

Gyoza Dipping Sauce

Small white bowl filled with thickened teriyaki sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds.

Teriyaki Sauce Recipe

Large white plate filled with chicken and vegetable chow mein.

Chow Mein Recipe

Large wok filled with yakisoba noodles, chicken, and veggies covered in yakisoba sauce.

Yakisoba Noodles Recipe

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

Miso Ramen

Small white serving dish filled with cooked edamame seasoned with soy sauce, garlic, sugar, and salt.

Easy Edamame Recipe

White dinner plate with white rice topped with Hunan chicken stir fry made with chicken and vegetables coated in sweet and sour sauce and a side of chopped green onions in a small white ramekin on the side.

Hunan Chicken

White bowl filled with peas, bacon, celery, green onion, red onion, and cubes of smoked gouda all tossed in a creamy Italian mayo dressing.

Pea Salad Recipe

Baking sheet linked with parchment paper and topped with a stack of cooked chicken Yakitori skewers.

Chicken Yakitori Recipe

White bowl filled with white rice topped with sliced cucumber, avocado, mango, ahi tuna, green onions, edamame, and drizzled with creamy Sriracha mayo sauce.

Poke Bowl Recipe

Overhead image of a large white bowl filled with mango salsa made with mango, red onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

Mango Salsa

Large white rectangle plate topped with five assembled shrimp tacos filled with cabbage slow, shrimp, and creamy taco sauce.

Shrimp Taco Recipe

Homemade salsa in a small white bowl served with tortilla chips.

Salsa Recipe

Overhead image of guacamole in a white serving bowl garnished with chopped white onion and tomato.

Guacamole Recipe

Spooning chimichurri sauce over grilled marinated flank steak.

Flank Steak Marinade

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