Easy Family Favorite Recipes
Easy Family Favorite Recipes ideas to create for dinners and lunch. Homemade main dishes ideas and vegetables with delicious desserts.
Easy Family Favorite Recipes
An irresistible selection of easy family favorite recipe ideas to create for dinner or lunch with some dessert bakes. A few South African recipe favorites that are great to bake for family meals. Regular Oven cook and baked casseroles or roasts with vegetables and meats or fish and pasta dishes. There is also some Stovetop cooking recipe ideas that all family members love. A variety of dessert or treats to bake or No cook and no bake homemade ice cream recipe idea. Grill Braai or Barbecue recipe ideas for all.
FAQ’s
What should be in every dinner?
For main meals recipe ideas.
- Meat or chicken or fish as a protein
- vegetables at least two servings per meal, warm and a cold salad. a variety of colors
- potato dish or rice or pasta
- dessert with fruit or custard
What is the simplest food to cook?
- A casserole with all the protein and vegetable and carbs in.
- all in one meals oven baked, casseroles.
- stovetop cooking, all in one pot.
- stew with meats and vegetables and gravy
- steak and salads
- sheet pan meals with sausage and onion and small veggies
What is the easiest thing to cook for dinner?
- a casserole dish on Mondays with left over meats, with rice and left over veggies
- a sheet pan rainbow veggie and sausage or chicken meal
- macaroni and cheese elevated with bacon and tomato
- instant pot 3 bean chili soup
- stews with lots veggies, potato and meat, on bread or rice
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Meat and Vegetable Meals
Easy Roasted Leg of Lamb Recipe. A delicious tender lamb with bone in roasted in the oven for Christmas family dinner or lunch.
Simple Oven Roasted Beef Recipe
Simple Roasted Beef Recipe in the oven for dinner. Roasted beef cut with herbs and spices with onion and garlic, for gluten free meals.
Tasty One Pot Beef Stew recipe for meals. Stovetop meat dish with veggies, potato with mushroom soup, its a cold weather one pot wonder.
Bangers and mash with gravy and vegetables recipe. Easy meal for a lunch or supper on stove top and tips on how to make mash potato.
Fried Fish and Chips with Salad
Fried Fish and Chips with Salad recipe idea. Best battered fried fish fillets with sides of chips, Greek salad and lemon, fresh from the sea.
Homemade Cottage Pie Dish recipe bake for lunch or dinner. Easily pan fry the ground beef and ingredients and top with mash and parmesan.
Minced Beef Spaghetti and Veggies
Minced Beef Spaghetti and Veggies for lunch recipe idea. Create this easy and simple meal for a supper and use left over mince on sandwiches.
Spaghetti and Meatballs with Sauce
Spaghetti and Meatballs with Sauce. Homemade fresh ground beef and spices meat balls with Marinara tomato Sauce on spaghetti.
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole
Creamy Chicken Broccoli Pasta Casserole recipe with sauté mushroom and bacon. Easy baked dish with cheddar cheese and herbs and spices.
3 Bean Chili Soup in Instant Pot
3 Bean Chili Soup in Instant Pot recipe. This easy and healthy vegetarian chili soup is a winter meal, add meat for a versatile soup.
Chicken Mushroom Bake Recipe. An easy 2 ingredient quick supper or lunch casserole for a quick healthy oven baked family meal.
The Tasty Vegetable Dish recipe oven baked. An easy healthy vegetable casserole that can be made ahead with veggies as a side dish.
Homemade Family Macaroni and Cheese recipe idea. A South African oven baked casserole dish with garlic and bacon, for lunch or dinner.
Baked Parmesan Chicken with Garlic and Mayo
Baked Parmesan Chicken with Garlic and Mayo Recipe. An easy casserole dish with tender chicken breasts for a family lunch or dinner.
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s
Sunday Roasted Chicken and Potato’s recipe. Best family oven meal for lunch or dinner and special occasions with gravy and vegetables.
Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe
Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe. The Best South African creamy chicken noodle mushroom and peppers, dry white wine, on fire and coals potjie. Other potjie recipes –> Original SA Potjie Pot Recipes
Juicy Grilled Whole Lemon Chicken
Juicy Grilled whole Lemon Chicken. Grilled on outside braai or barbecue this recipe of a spatchcock chicken seasoned with fresh lemon juice.
Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken Kebabs
Tender Grilled Honey Mustard Chicken Kebabs or sosatie recipe. Easy idea for grilling on a braai or barbecue, a homemade honey mustard marinade.
Grilled Beef and Peppers Sosaties
Marinated Grilled Beef and Peppers Sosaties recipe on a braai or barbecue. Homemade kebabs on a stick and a simple marinade idea.
Toasted Braai Grilled Sandwiches
Toasted Braai Grilled Sandwiches recipe ideas. The Best South African grilled cheese, tomato and onion filling on coals or barbecue idea.
Homemade Garlic Braai Loaf recipe. Easy idea of a loaf, sliced stuffed with garlic, butter and parmesan cheese for starters, grilled in foil.
Creamy Pumpkin Vegetable Casserole
Creamy Pumpkin Vegetable Casserole dish recipe idea. Seasonal healthy oven baked dinner or lunch with mushroom soup and cheese on top.
Creamy Garlic Potato Casserole recipe. Best easy 3 ingredient warm side dish idea for a braai, dinner or lunch, oven baked budget meal.
The Best Dutch Oven Roast Chicken recipe. The perfect whole chicken for dinner that comes out tender, juicy and moist and full of flavor.
Homemade Tangy Lasagna Dish recipe. A casserole with ground beef meat, layered with pasta sheets, tomato sauce, and cheeses.
Roasted sausage and potato supper
This will become a firm family favourite as it can be cooked in one dish and is so quick and easy to put together. If you’re making this for young children, you can replace the wine with stock, if you prefer. Choose your favorite type of local, British sausage for this recipe – my family loves leek and sage.
Slow Cooker Pulled Pork starts with a dry rub, then gets basted in a Carolina style vinegar sauce. Fall off the bone tender, juicy, and delicious.
Puddings
Bread pudding and Apple Bake Recipe. Simple of old fashion breakfast or even a dessert with vanilla sauce and raisins casserole dish. Another bread pudding recipe –> Simple Bread and Butter Pudding
Easy Malva Pudding and Sauce recipe. Best South African family dessert idea, oven baked with a sauce, or served with homemade custard.
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding
Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding recipe. Easy old fashioned classic oven baked dessert with healthy dark cocoa mixed in same dish then baked.
Simple Bread and Butter Pudding
Bake this Simple Bread and Butter Pudding recipe for a warm dessert with left over stale bread and serve with custard, cream or ice cream.
Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe
Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe that is an easy 3 ingredient homemade frozen dessert and a rich no chum easy family recipe.
Easy Tasteful Vanilla Ice Cream
Easy Tasteful Vanilla Ice Cream recipe. Homemade, no eggs, no chum, only easily hand mixed with simple 3 ingredients from your kitchen.
Blissful No Bake Custard Milk Tart
A homemade Blissful No Bake Custard Milk Tart recipe with condensed milk. Tennis biscuit base makes an easy fridge tart dessert.
Easy Lemon Meringue Tart recipe. A biscuit base, condensed milk and fresh squeezed lemon juice and with meringue as a oven baked dessert.
Recommendations
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favorite family recipes to create
- family Dinner recipes
Desserts for your family
- Braai or barbecue grilling recipes
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