• Search
  • Saved Recipes
  • About
  • Browse Recipes
  • Recipe Index

Main Navigation

  • Recipe Index
  • About
  • Saved Recipes

The Forked Spoon

Eat Healthy • Adventure Often

  • Browse Recipes
  • Breakfast
  • Salads
  • Soups
  • Sides
  • Dinners
  • Desserts
  • By Diet

Home » Easy Recipes

Easy Recipes

If you are looking for the best Easy Recipes on the internet, you have come to the right place. You will find easy dinner recipes to make on 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 a stoneware pot.

Reader favorite quick dinner ideas include these kid-friendly ground beef tacos, pesto 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, 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 reader favorite moo goo gai pan, which is full of veggies.

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

Biscuits and Gravy

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

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

Hashbrown Casserole

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

Vegetable Beef Soup

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

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup

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

Kung Pao Chicken

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

The Best Homemade Hamburger Helper

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

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

Swedish Meatballs

Close-up image of mini cocktail hot dogs wrapped in crescent roll dough and baked until golden.

Pigs in a Blanket

Thai Sweet Potato Soup with Lemongrass + Ginger

Thai Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Soup

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 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

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

Wooden spoon filled with rotel dip resting on top of a white bowl filled with cheesy rotel dip.

Rotel Dip

Glass Pyrex dish filled with cheesy tater tot breakfast casserole.

Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole

Piece of cheese and sausage breakfast sausage on a white plate with a glass od orange juice and bowl of fruit in the backgroud.

Breakfast Casserole

One half of a roasted air fryer spaghetti squash on a white serving plate garnished with salt and black pepper.

Air Fryer Spaghetti Squash

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

A slow cooker filled with Ham and Bean soup

Ham and Bean Soup (Crock Pot)

Close up of a large white salad bowl filled with shredded Brussels sprouts, kale, avocado, grated carrot, pomegranate arils, tossed in a light lemon vinaigrette.

Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad

A close up of food, with Butter Garlic steak

Garlic Butter Steak Bites

White rectangle serving plate filled with bacon wrapped shrimp and garnished with fresh parsley.

Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

Close up of thick cinnamon honey butter smeared onto a wooden board and drizzled with sweet honey and cinnamon.

Cinnamon Honey Butter Board

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

A plate of honey glazed carrots

Honey Glazed Carrots

Large pot filled with blended Acorn Squash Soup.

Acorn Squash Soup

Four roasted acorn squash halves.

Roasted Acorn Squash – How to Cook Acorn Squash

Baked Sweet Potato

Perfect Baked Sweet Potato

Round serving bowl filled with small yellow boiled potatoes.

Garlic Butter Boiled Potatoes (How to Boil Potatoes)

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

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 11
  • Next Page »

Chef Jessica Randhawa of The Forked Spoon

I’m Jessica! Aka mom, wife, chef, and travel-obsessed photographer. Welcome to The Forked Spoon. Here you can browse hundreds of incredible family-friendly recipes covering dozens of diets, courses, and cuisines. Learn more about me.

Reader Favorites

  • Baked Buffalo Chicken Dip Cheese Pull with a tortilla chip. The Best Buffalo Chicken Dip Recipe (+ Video)
  • A close up of a bowl Chimichurri Chimichurri Recipe (How to Make Chimichurri Sauce)
  • Perfect, clear, beef bone broth in a large stockpot. Bone Broth Recipe (How to Make Bone Broth)
  • Bok Choy being cooked in a wok with a spoonful of garlic sauce 10 Minute Garlic Bok Choy Recipe
  • White bowl filled with homemade chicken soup. The Best Chicken Soup Recipe
  • A bowl of Vietnamese Pho with a spoonful of bone broth Pho Recipe (How to Make Vietnamese Noodle Soup)
The Forked Spoon has been featured on Yahoo, CountryLiving, MSN, Cosmopolitan, USA Today, and Parade
  • About
  • Browse Recipes
  • Contact
  • Accessibility Statement

Copyright © 2023 · The Forked Spoon LLC • Disclosure