Family Dinner Recipes Everyone Will Love
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Have you had enough of the same old chicken and ground beef recipes? Whether you are looking for a quick dinner on a busy night or are just ready for something different, these recipes are both easy and delicious!
I’ve compiled some of my favorite dinner recipes all in one place for you, or you can browse through my whole dinner recipe collection here.
Planning a Family Dinner
Everyone deserves a little variety in their life when it comes to dinner, if you’re like me, you get tired of the same thing day after day and week after week. These are some of my tips for making dinner less stressful and more tasty.
- Start with what you know you like already, then change it up a bit. Love a good taco night, try making taco soup, chimichangas, or taco pasta.
- Add in new ingredients. Like lasagna, mix it up with some zucchini or spinach layered in, or try a different protein; swap out ground beef with sausage or a combination of the two. Maybe even try a vegetable lasgana with a white sauce.
- Let everyone choose a meal (and help make it). Pick a day to plan out the meals i.e. Sunday night plan out the menu with the family and let everyone pick a dinner for a night of the week. You night end up with some favorites or maybe something totally new.
30 Minute Dinner Ideas
- This Creamy Tortellini with Sausage is the ultimate easy weeknight dinner—packed with flavor, made in one pan, and ready in under 30 minutes. It’s rich, comforting, and perfect for feeding your hungry fam on a busy night.
- This recipe for Pigs in a Blanket is sure to become a fam favorite. This classic, timeless recipe is always a delight for both young and old. If you are needing something to feed a crowd, make up a whole batch of these delicious hot dogs wrapped in buttery biscuits, they will disappear in seconds!
- Swedish Meatballs Recipe is a delicious and easy dinner recipe that the whole fam will enjoy. This recipe for Swedish meatballs is a tasty combination of ground beef and ground pork covered with a creamy gravy that is perfect served over pasta or mashed potatoes.
- Easy Teriyaki Shrimp is cooked in one pan and ready in under 20 minutes. So much flavor in this teriyaki shrimp from simple ingredients like soy sauce, ginger, garlic and red pepper flakes. Serve teriyaki shrimp over rice for a simple dinner.
- This easy recipe for Chicken Stir Fry is loaded with vegetables and so much flavor from the simple stir fry sauce, and always so much better than ordering take out. Serve this with a simple fried rice and dinner is done!
One Pan Dinners For the Family
- No one can resist the flavors bursting from this one pan garlic parmesan pasta. This is a simple weeknight dinner idea that takes just a few ingredients and is ready in less than 20 minutes.
- One of our favorite easy, one-pan dinners is garlic butter tri-tip steak with asparagus. This steak and asparagus dinner is simple to make and is sure to be a family meal that you and your family will make on repeat.
- These easy chicken burrito bowls are the perfect one-pot dinner! Packed with tender chicken, colorful bell peppers, hearty black beans, fluffy rice, and sweet corn—all seasoned with bold taco flavors, and ready in under 30 minutes.
- Getting dinner on the table in under 20 minutes is totally possible with this easy chicken orzo recipe. Orzo is a tender pasta that can easily be cooked in one pan with all of the other simple ingredients to make a tasty dinner you will absolutely love.
- Pineapple Chicken Curry is a simple, 30 minute meal that is loaded with fresh veggies and chicken in a creamy coconut curry sauce. Pineapple Curry is one of those meals you will crave after trying it just once. Serve over warm rice or even on its own as a soup.
Easy Soup Recipes Families Love
- This Easy Minestrone Soup is the perfect comfort food on a chili night. Loaded with a ton of vegetables, pasta, and beans, this soup can stand as a healthy meal on its own.
- 8 can taco soup is such a simple dinner and easy soup recipe! Beans, corn, tomatoes, green chiles, and some taco seasoning make this a delicious and healthy meal. This easy taco soup recipe will soon be on repeat on your weekly menu.
- Loaded with veggies and simple ingredients, this Easy Tortellini Soup Recipe will become a regular on your comfort food menu. Ready in under 20 minutes for a quick meal.
- Chicken and Dumpling Soup is pure liquid comfort. This Chicken Dumpling Soup Recipe is loaded with veggies, a warm, comforting broth, and delicious, buttery dumplings in every bite.
- Sausage Potato Soup is so easy to make, creamy and delicious. This Potato and Sausage Soup is loaded with Italian sausage, simple vegetables and of course cheese. Perfect for a busy weeknight meal or when you need a full belly of comfort food!
Easy Beef Recipes
- Ground Beef Rice Bowls. Made with just a few pantry staples and ready in under 20 minutes, this dish delivers bold, Korean inspired savory flavor without a lot of work. It’s a budget friendly ground beef recipe the whole fam will devour!
- Beef and Broccoli has tender pieces of flank steak combined with broccoli in a delicious, savory sauce. Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry is so much better made at home with fresh ingredients and ready in less than 30 minutes. This is a one pan meal the whole fam loves.
- Homemade Beef Pot Pie has bits of steak, vegetables, and onions in a creamy beef gravy topped with a flaky pie crust. This Easy Beef Pot Pie Recipe is ready in under 30 minutes, perfect for a busy weeknight meal!
- This Cheesy Taco Pasta Recipe is a homemade version of a Hamburger Helper recipe, but so much better. This taco pasta is loaded with lean ground beef, taco seasoning, tomatoes, pasta, and of course cheddar cheese. This homemade version is so much better than the boxed stuff, the whole family will love it!
- Cast Iron Skillet Burgers is the most flavorful and easiest way to make homemade burgers right on the stove. Pan fried hamburgers come together quickly, only take a few minutes to make in a cast iron pan, and using cast iron creates a delicious crispy outside that is a tastebud treat with every bite.
Chicken Dinner Recipes
- Oven Baked Chicken Chimichangas are stuffed with a cheesy chicken filling and cooked in the oven so the outside is crisp and crunchy with every bite. This baked chimichanga recipe is so easy to make at home and you won’t even miss them being fried because they come out crisp and delicious from the oven every time.
- Chicken Pot Pie with Crescent Rolls is the easiest recipe for a classic chicken pot pie. With a double-crust layer of crescent rolls and that savory chicken pot pie filling, this is one chicken dinner that you will be making on repeat.
- This Easy Chicken Salad Recipe is a classic recipe made with shredded chicken, red grapes, green onions, celery, pecans and mayo. Add a little twist to the basic chicken salad sandwich with the addition of some lemon zest, juice and a few poppyseeds.
- This Chicken and Gravy Recipe is pure comfort food-rich and so flavorful, perfect for a hearty family meal. Made with tender shredded chicken and savory homemade chicken gravy, this dinner is easy to make and uses ingredients you most likely already have on hand.
- This simple Honey Garlic Chicken Recipe is sure to become a fam favorite. Tender chicken breasts are coated in a flavorful honey garlic sauce and served over rice to make a quick and easy dinner in about 20 minutes. Perfect for a busy weeknight dinner.
Shrimp Recipes For Dinner
- This Lemon Garlic Shrimp Pasta is one of most favorite easy pasta recipes. This Shrimp Pasta Recipe only uses a few ingredients and is bursting with delicious flavors from the lemons, garlic and shrimp. This shrimp and pasta recipe is ready in just 30 minutes, ready to feed the whole hungry fam!
- Fresh Spring Rolls with easy peanut dipping sauce are loaded with shrimp, vegetables and rice noodles for a delicious and refreshing appetizer or serve as the main dish. Dip in the smooth peanut sauce for a kick of amazing flavor and a little spice with every bite.
- Sheet Pan Shrimp Fajitas are such an easy, healthy meal. All cooked on one pan. Loaded with tasty shrimp, vegetables and a simple homemade fajita seasoning. This Shrimp Fajita Recipe will be on repeat.
- These Teriyaki Shrimp Skewers are so simple to make and only take a few minutes to grill up. Marinated in a homemade teriyaki sauce and threaded onto wooden skewers to grill, these make a fun, hands on meal to make and eat.
- Easy Lemon Garlic Shrimp is loaded with shrimp covered in a tangy, buttery, garlicky sauce that is super simple to make. Garlic and Lemon Shrimp are ready in less than 15 minutes and are always a huge hit! This easy shrimp recipe is perfect for a busy weeknight dinner.
Quick and Easy Pasta Recipes
- Italian Sausage and Pepper Pasta is an easy, savory 20 minute meal, perfect for a busy weeknight that the whole family will enjoy. This is one of those dinner recipes that after making it once becomes a regular on the menu.
- This Easy Baked Ziti recipe is a simple, meatless, cheesy, classic Italian style meal. Baked Ziti tastes like lasagna, but is done in half the time! This is such an easy dinner to serve a crowd or for a simple weeknight family meal.
- This Cherry Tomato Pasta Sauce in a skillet is so flavorful and easy to make with just a few ingredients. Cherry tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, fresh basil, and a little pasta water makes this simple pasta sauce. This will easily become a regular on your weekly meal planning menu.
- This simple recipe for Spinach Ricotta Pasta is a perfect weeknight dinner! Just a few simple ingredients and it tastes like you made a big pot of unstuffed shells without all that extra stuffing work!
