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Jun 10, 2024 · Ahead, you'll find an array of summer recipes designed to simplify your dinner routine, including quick 30-minute meals, marinated chicken dishes, flavorful pasta salads, and creative ways to incorporate seasonal summer veggies onto your dinner plate.
Jun 29, 2024 · On hot days when you don't feeling like cooking, much less eating, but dinnertime is just around the corner, turn to these light dinner ideas for inspiration. These recipes rely heavily on summer produce (like tomatoes and corn), fresh flavors, and minimal cook times so you can spend more time enjoying sunny summer days.
- Quick and Easy Summer Dinner Recipes
- Vegetarian Summer Dinner Ideas
- Grilled Summer Dinner Recipes
Let's face it: There are better ways to spend a summer evening than to stand over a hot stove for an hour. These easy dinners come together in no time flat.
Whether you're planning for Meatless Mondays—or, as vegetarians call it, "everyday"—these meat-free summer dinners are healthy and satisfying.
Summer is prime time for grilling, and these easy grilled summer dinner recipes help you bypass a hot kitchen and a lot of cleanup.
- Herbed Chicken-And-Rice Salad. Microwaveable rice and rotisserie chicken will help you pull together this pretty entree salad without having to turn on the stove.
- Lemon Vinaigrette Pasta Salad With Field Peas. Use whichever pasta you prefer and combine with an easy honey-lemon vinaigrette and fresh veggies for a side dish that goes with anything.
- Chicken Caesar Salad Sandwiches. Cut that rotisserie chicken to the bone for these delicious sandwiches that are perfect for lunch or dinner. The chicken salad mixture can be prepared a day ahead for extra ease when assembling your sandwiches.
- Tropical Chicken Lettuce Wraps. These healthy lettuce wraps are no-cook and all good. The light chicken salad mixture brings both heat and sweet for a 15-minute recipe that's anything but boring.
- Lisa Milbrand
- Lemony Chopped Salad With Pita. Can't stand to turn on the oven to crisp the pitas for this tasty dinner salad? Pop them in the toaster or use pita chips instead.
- Coconut-Marinated Shrimp With Cucumber and Jicama. Use pre-cooked shrimp and let it sit in your fridge, marinating in coconut milk and chilis, for a ceviche-like salad that's filling and refreshing.
- Cornbread Panzanella. Cornbread soaks up the delicious flavors of all our summer favorites—tomato, cucumber, avocado—in this easy no-cook dinner recipe.
- Summer Tacos With Scallion-Peanut Relish. Rotisserie chicken makes this flavorful, summery taco recipe a cinch to make. (You can also warm up the tortillas in the microwave, if you don't care about getting the char.)
25 Easy and Refreshing Dinner Ideas for Hot Summer Nights. The only thing better than summer weather is these recipes. Cook smarter and succeed every time. Every recipe in this collection was developed and refined by our team of 50 test cooks until they arrived at the best version. Fresh Take on the BLT.
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This list of 31 quick dinner ideas will have you in and out of the kitchen (or manning the grill) with plenty of time left to chill out on any hot summer night of the week.
