Welcome in the new season with these simple and fresh spring dinner ideas. These spring recipes bring all the savory flavor (and sometimes sweet!) to your dinner table.
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Whether you are cooking on a busy weeknight or want something comforting on a Saturday night, these bright dishes are for you.
I love when spring arrives. It gives us fresh herbs and spring produce to make every meal a little extra special. I’ve collected some of my favorite spring soups that utilize spring vegetables, spring pasta recipes, and more. Serve any of these with a side salad drizzled with a lemon vinaigrette dressing and a slice of sourdough bread.
Oh, and don’t forget a refreshing drink. I recommend a cold glass of fermented lemonade or lavender lemonade.
Spring Dinner Ideas
This easy carrot ginger soup recipe is uniquely flavorful. It takes a simple root vegetable and turns it into a creamy soup flavored with rich broth, earthy vegetables, and sweet and tangy notes from fresh lemon and honey. It’s definitely one you are going to want to add to your collection of delicious creamy soup recipes.
Carrot and Ginger Soup
This sweet potato breakfast hash has become one our favorite things to make. It starts with tender sweet potatoes and savory, smoky sausage. It is then topped with earthy onions, garlic, and red bell peppers. Everything is warmly spiced with a blend of cinnamon, cumin, and chili powder.
Sweet Potato Hash
This easy baked ziti recipe is packed with gooey cheese, layered with tangy tomato sauce, and baked until golden brown. It’s a decadent dinner that will leave the whole family asking for seconds.
Baked Ziti
Family burger night just got even tastier with these savory burger bowls. Simple to make and bursting with flavor, these are sure to become a weeknight dinner staple!
Burger Bowls
This stuffed bell pepper soup recipe is a take on traditional stuffed peppers, turned into a hearty soup. Serve hot with a slice of crusty bread for the perfect family meal.
Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup
This creamy soup featuring fresh broccoli, hearty potatoes, and an irresistible smooth texture is a new family favorite of ours. It has definitely made its way into our top favorite healthy recipes.
Cream of Broccoli Soup
This creamy lemon chicken pasta is about to be your new favorite meal. Zesty lemon and tender chicken come together in a creamy pasta bursting with flavor.
Lemon Chicken Pasta
Crockpot chicken tacos are one of those meals that is simple and easy, but the whole family loves every time. This is the easiest crockpot chicken taco recipe around. Set it and forget it, then top this easy recipe in delicious ways that makes the simple ingredients shine!
Chicken Tacos
Easy ground beef gyros are packed with Greek flavor, nestled into warm pita bread and topped with creamy homemade tzatziki sauce and fresh veggies. It is an easy weeknight meal you will want to make again and again!
Beef Gyros
A go-to lunch on busy days, this Cobb chicken salad tastes like summer. Crispy bacon, hard-boiled eggs, and juicy tomatoes are combined with shredded chicken and mayo to make the most delicious high-protein meal.
Cobb Chicken Salad
Zucchini lasagna is a low-carb, garden-fresh spin on traditional lasagna., with tender zucchini slices, creamy layers of cheese, and a savory meat sauce.
Zucchini Lasagna
Certain to be a family favorite, this creamy gnocchi sauce recipe is a fusion of rich mascarpone, fragrant shallot, and robust garlic cloves, simmered together with heavy cream, cheese, and pillowy gnocchi for a quick and easy meal.
Creamy Gnocchi Sauce
There’s so much flavor packed into this rich, creamy, chicken soup. Notes of bright lemon mixed with the savory taste of tender chicken and delicious herbs, makes this meal hard to resist! It’s perfect and filling on its own, but I highly recommend serving it with a side of crusty bread.
Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
If you are looking for a healthy meal, this chicken kale soup is calling your name. A simple recipe with basic ingredients is packed full of flavor from the onions, garlic, and chicken broth. It’s the ultimate comfort food!
Creamy Chicken and Kale Soup
The best Zuppa Toscana Soup is creamy and flavorful, filled to the brim with sausage, bacon, potatoes, kale, bone broth, and cream.
Zuppa Toscana Soup
Make this Greek chicken with orzo pasta for a quick and easy weeknight meal. Chicken is marinated in a zesty Greek dressing and pan fried. Served with a flavorful orzo, veggies, olives, and feta cheese, this recipe is packed full of flavor and nutritious ingredients.
Greek Chicken with Orzo Pasta
Creamy chicken corn chowder starts with crispy bacon and pan-seared juicy chicken, and is then simmered with corn, onions, garlic, celery, and tender potatoes in a creamy broth. Packed with a sweet and savory corn flavor, this is the ultimate comfort food for a cool night.
Chicken Corn Chowder
This delicious orange chicken is coated with a flour mixture, fried until crispy, and covered in sweet, fresh, orange sauce. Serve over rice or a noodle stir-fry, this is a family favorite recipe that is better than takeout!
Orange Chicken
Healthy tuna salad is a light, refreshing meal packed with fresh herbs, crunchy garden celery, and the delightful twist of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Tuna Salad
A tasty twist on a classic, this Southwest chicken salad recipe is packed with juicy chicken, crunchy vegetables, avocados, bacon, and mixed together with creamy cilantro lime mayo. Your family will devour this easy recipe in minutes!
Southwest Chicken Salad
A perfect springtime lunch, this grape chicken salad is a simple high-protein meal that the whole family can enjoy. Made with juicy grapes, diced stalks of celery, and crunchy pecans, it is full of flavor and texture.
Chicken Salad
This vegetable hash recipe in a cast iron skillet is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It is quick to throw together and easy to clean up. Best of all it is a great healthy family meal!
Vegetable Hash
Crispy, pan-fried salmon croquettes are a delicious, protein-packed main dish you can have on the table in 15 minutes flat.
Salmon Croquettes
If you are looking for a healthy breakfast recipe that is simple and feeds a crowd, look no further than this Chicken Frittata! Made with shredded chicken, spinach, gruyere and feta cheeses, and fresh herbs, it’s a flavorful, delicious way to start any day.
Chicken and Spinach Frittata
Sides
This creamy, savory dill potato salad is the perfect addition to summer picnics, cookouts, or Sunday dinner. It’s creamy, full of texture, and the fresh herbs and chopped pickles add big flavor.
Dill Potato Salad
Spinach Pie is our family’s take on a classic, savory Greek pie. Served piping hot, a velvety spinach filling is seasoned with caramelized yellow onion and melted butter, wrapped up in puff pastry. Perfect as your main course or a show-stopping side dish.
Spinach Pie
Stuffed bell peppers with ground beef is a hearty classic filled with whole grains, seasoned beef, and melted cheese.
Stuffed Bell Peppers
These sourdough ham and cheese rolls are as delicious as they are beautiful. Savory ham and melted cheese are rolled inside homemade rolls to make perfect pinwheels with a golden brown crust. Make these ahead of time for a picnic lunch or a delicious addition to a summer gathering.
Sourdough Ham and Cheese Rolls
This Greek pasta salad recipe is full of delicious flavor and uses simple ingredients you likely have on hand. It’s the perfect solution for an easy side or light dinner!
Greek Pasta Salad
This roasted beet salad begins with a bed of fresh spinach and perfectly roasted, tender beets. Tangy pickled red onions, fresh mint, creamy cheese, and crunchy pistachios add layers of flavor and texture. A simple vinaigrette ties everything together with just the right touch of sweetness.
Roasted Beet Salad
The perfect side dish for summer potlucks and backyard barbecues, this simple coleslaw recipe pairs the refreshing crunch of freshly shredded cabbage with a tangy, creamy dressing.
Coleslaw
This homemade tomato soup recipe starts with fresh tomatoes simmered with onions, garlic, and Italian seasoning. Serve it topped with fresh basil and chopped bacon for a nutritious, comforting dinner or lunch.
Tomato Soup
Sourdough brioche rolls are tangy, lightly sweetened, and enriched with butter, eggs, and milk for an unbelievably soft texture and rich flavor. These are sure to be your new favorite dinner rolls!
Sourdough Brioche Rolls
A crusty loaf of tangy sourdough bursting with pockets of sweet raisins, dried cranberries, and walnuts, this sourdough fruit bread serves well for breakfast and pairs flawlessly with a hot cup of coffee or tea.
Sourdough Fruit Bread
Sourdough Irish soda bread is my take on a traditional Irish quick bread. Risen with the acidity of buttermilk, sourdough starter, and baking soda, it has a tender crumb similar to biscuits and is full of buttery flavor, a light sweetness, and sourdough tanginess. I love the rustic presentation of this beautiful, golden brown boule.
Sourdough Soda Bread
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