Full tables, full bellies – that’s the goal! These 40 easy family dinner recipes are kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing, and simple enough for any night of the week.
There’s just something really special about family dinner time. Bonus if the kids actually eat the meal, the adults can genuinely enjoy it, and nobody’s making a separate plate at 7pm. That’s the dream!
These family dinner recipes are exactly that: crowd-pleasing, kid-friendly, and delicious enough to put on repeat. They’re also easy enough to get dinner on the table in less than an hour, so that dinner feels less like a task and more like the best part of the day.
Here’s to full tables and full bellies! ❤️
My Favorite Family Dinner Recipes
Instant Pot Spaghetti
My whole family loves this Instant Pot Spaghetti! Silky, flavorful, and delightfully clingy. Easy enough for my kids to make it too!
Yummy Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
These chicken tenders made in the air fryer are a favorite in our house! Golden, hot, and crispy with your favorite sauce on the side!
Burger Bowls with House Sauce and Ranch Fries
A burger in a bowl! Ranch-seasoned fries topped with a burger patty and all the fixings, with a drizzle of house sauce to take it over the top!
Ricotta Meatballs with the Crispy Topping
These Ricotta Meatballs are an easy and delicious family favorite! Tender, juicy homemade meatballs with a jar of good marinara and a crispy topping to finish it all off. YUM!
Ridiculously Good Air Fryer Broccoli
This Air Fryer Broccoli is both tender and crisped at the same time. So easy and done it 10 minutes! We’ve been making it every night and my kids go wild for it.
Best Anytime Baked Chicken Meatballs
These Baked Chicken Meatballs are the BEST! The perfect addition to any meal or to eat right on their own. Bonus: they’re meal-prep friendly to stock up throughout the week!
Sheet Pan Salmon with Dill Potatoes
Simple and delicious salmon and potatoes roasted on a sheet pan, and covered in a garlic dill butter sauce! One of my family’s favorite dinners.
Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits
Our easy chicken pot pie with biscuits has a flaky, golden topping over creamy chicken and veggies. It’s the ultimate cozy comfort food for any night of the week!
Cottage Cheese Pizza Crust
This cottage cheese pizza crust is ridiculous. 4 ingredients, 20 minutes, and actually chewy, crispy, and delicious.
Quick Homemade Ramen
Take the usual ramen up a notch with this quick homemade ramen. Fresh veggies and herbs make this extra delicious, healthy, and cozy!
Creamy Tomato Lasagna Florentine
This Creamy Tomato Lasagna Florentine is so deliciously comforting and simple. Noodles, tomato sauce, and a creamy spinach layer!
Chicken Teriyaki Burgers with Sesame Slaw
These Chicken Teriyaki Burgers are amazingly simple while also being ridiculously delicious. Caramelized burgers that are fried up in minutes, a pile of sesame slaw on top, and a perfectly toasted bun. YUM.
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup
This creamy chicken noodle soup is SO good! Thick noodles, tender chunks of chicken, and the flavors of creamy thyme, garlic, and veggies.
Ridiculously Good Air Fryer Chicken Breast
My go-to everyday air fryer chicken! Thinly sliced chicken breast pieces, coated to the max in spices, plus a bit of brown sugar and cornstarch, and air fried to golden, juicy perfection.
The Best Alfredo Sauce
Creamy, silky, homemade Alfredo sauce! Perfectly smooth, wonderfully creamy, and paired with twirly pasta.
Three Cheese Baked Ziti
Three Cheese Baked Ziti that is bubbly and browned, extra creamy, extra saucy, and incredibly easy!
Sheet Pan Chicken Pitas with Tzatziki
Part bowl, part salad, part sandwich folded up into any kind of bread you like, and I’m here for it in every form.
Ang’s Creamy Tortellini Soup
Creamy Tortellini Soup that is comforting, cozy, and so yummy! Rich and creamy tomato broth, cheesy tortellini, fresh spinach, and Italian sausage.
Ridiculously Good Chicken Tacos with Green Sauce
Just 20 minutes to get these chicken tacos on the table! Juicy, flavorful, and absolutely mindless in the best way.
The Best Sunday Chili
This is the BEST Sunday Chili! Beef, bacon, tomatoes, chopped veggies, beans, and spices – it’s a cozy weather weekend essential!
Avocado Caesar Green Beans
Grab a bag of green beans, blitz up a quick avocado caesar, toast some panko, and let’s go! This is some type of magic.
Ridiculously Good Air Fryer Salmon
My go-to salmon recipe that’s perfect every time! Crisped and golden on the outside, buttery and juicy on the inside, and made in 15 minutes start to finish.
Trader Joe’s Sun-Dried Tomato Focaccia Turkey Sandwich
Pillowy sun-dried tomato focaccia gets piled with pesto mayo, turkey, juicy tomato slices, and greens. This sandwich is a beauty and practically a lifestyle!
Avocado Mojo Bowls with Sweet Potato and Chicken
We are living our best bowl life this week. Seasoned sweet potato wedges and chicken meatballs or rotisserie chicken all piled onto a plate with a little puddle of punchy green avocado mojo sauce. Yes, wow, repeat.
Butter Chicken Meatballs
These butter chicken meatballs are covered in a rich and mildly spiced tomato gravy that is made luxurious with just a little bit of butter and cream. Serious weeknight magic!
Baked Tortellini with Sausage
This Baked Tortellini with a sausagey tomato sauce is pretty basic but it’s ohhhh so good. It’s my comfort food weakness right now. Highly recommend dunking in there with some buttery garlic bread!
Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Cilantro Lime Sauce
These vegetarian tacos have a deliciously satisfying black bean filling with fresh salsa and seasonings all tucked into a golden crispy tortilla and served alongside a cool and creamy cilantro lime sauce. YUM!
5 Ingredient Tomato Soup
A simple 5 ingredient tomato soup made with butter, onion, and canned San Marzano tomatoes. Based on the Marcella Hazan tomato sauce recipe. This hits the cozy vibes just right.
Crunchwrap Supreme
Crunchwrap Supreme! OMG. Layers of taco meat, queso, tostada, lettuce, tomato, salsa, hot sauce, and sour cream.
Smash Burgers with House Sauce
The famous Smash Burger! Deeply crisped, craggy, juicy, squashed patties covered with melty cheese, piled on a buttery bun, and topped with a dreamy zip of secret sauce.
Saucy Gochujang Noodles with Chicken
A spicy, peanutty, noodley bit of super easy comfort food! These gochujang noodles require just a handful of ingredients – like ramen noodles, peanut butter, sesame oil, and soy sauce – and come together in just 20 minutes.
Easy Crockpot Carnitas
These are the easiest crockpot carnitas and simple enough for anyone to make! Juicy, flavorful, and perfectly browned with a crispy crust.
15 Minute Lo Mein
15 Minute Lo Mein! Made with just soy sauce, sesame oil, a pinch of sugar, ramen noodles or spaghetti noodles, and any veggies or protein you like. SO YUMMY!
The Best Chicken Tinga Tacos
These Chicken Tinga Tacos are THE BEST! Saucy, spicy, real food perfection.
Instant Pot Italian Beef Sandwiches
Instant Pot Italian Beef! Just a few minutes to prep and totally hands-off to make. Tender shredded beef, crusty buttered bread, melted provolone, salty tangy giardiniera, and some broth to dunk it all in.
Reuben Casserole
This Reuben Casserole is a classic sandwich-turned-casserole situation and you don’t want to miss it! Butter-soaked pumpernickel bread, pulls of Swiss cheese, tender corned beef, briney sauerkraut, and lots of homemade reuben sauce sauciness. Let’s dive in!
The Best Swedish Meatballs
Swedish Meatballs that are perfectly tender and spiced, served with creamy, savory, tangy gravy. Comfort food at its best!
Spaghetti with Crispy Zucchini
This Spaghetti with Crispy Zucchini is the perfect end-of-summer song! It doesn’t get much better than fresh summer zucchini coated in a crispy, cheesy breading piled high on top of spaghetti with fresh herbs. YUM!
Chicken Enchilada Casserole
A 5-ingredient stacked enchilada casserole layered with tortillas, beans, and chicken and covered with cheese and enchilada sauce.
Instant Pot Chicken and Dumplings
This Instant Pot Chicken and Dumplings is the most comforting, delicious bowl of goodness. Chicken, veggies, pre-made biscuits, seasoning, and all of it made creamy by the humble potato. YUM!
