Cooking technique Recipes

Smoked cabbage is hands-off and a perfect side dish for whatever floats your boat. While you've got that smoker fired up, quarter a head of cabbage and slap it on in that last bit of cooking time. It pairs well with beef, pork, and chicken.

These steak and potato foil packets are a fun dish that the whole family will love and an easy clean up. The combination of steak, potatoes, grilled onions, and bell peppers, seasoned to perfection...mmm mmm good!

This grilled pattypan squash has a subtle sweetness and a meaty, yet juicy texture. The flavor is simple, but the savory garlic butter takes things up a notch. Pattypan squash has a different shape than typical squash, but it’s just as inexpensive—so cooking one up is an easy and budget-friendly way to impress company. Try it as a side for grilled chicken or steak.

These quick and simple grilled artichoke hearts make for a great last-minute appetizer idea if you have guests stopping by, or just any time. They are also a lovely addition to a charcuterie board.

Made with only a few simple ingredients, these spicy chipotle chicken burgers will be on the grill in no time. Topped with gouda cheese, mayonnaise, lettuce, and mango salsa, they're just the right combination of spicy and cool.

The thing that makes this easy grilled flounder easy is a reusable, nonstick grilling mat. Flounder is very tender, and the filets are uneven in thickness. You’ll only need to grill it on one side! Because of its delicate nature, direct cooking will only take a few minutes, so the other parts of your menu need to be complete when you start cooking the fish. We love this with a simple baked sweet potato and a green salad.

These hamburgers with grilled apple and chili crisp are juicy and delicious. Serve the beef patties in buns with grilled sweet-tart apples, thick-cut onions, and spicy mayo.

These tofu kebabs are marinated in a curry and serrano-spiced coconut milk marinade, skewered, and grilled for a delicious vegetarian summer dinner. Serve with cilantro chutney for dipping.

These spiced harissa beef and lamb koftas are seasoned with the bold flavors of turmeric, cumin, and harissa paste, shaped around skewers, and grilled.

This chicken Laredo with cilantro cream is a Southwestern treatment of grilled chicken breast with toppings to add flavor and eye appeal. We have chicken so often that sometimes I need to punch up the flavor, and we love this dish with grilled zucchini and a simple tossed salad.

This technique for grilled chicken meatballs is the only way to go. By pre-baking the meatballs, they finish quickly on the grill, and stay moist and juicy every time. A hoisin-ginger glaze makes a beautiful, glossy meatball, but you can flavor them just about any way you want.

The best grilled chicken breasts you'll ever make begin with a basic marinade and end with the best technique for perfect cooking, complete with beautifully-executed grill marks.

This grilled balsamic beef would be one of my signature dishes if I were a chef at a barbecue restaurant. The aged balsamic vinegar-based marinade is perfectly balanced, and grilling over high heat creates a beautiful sear.

This dill pickle pasta salad with chopped dill pickles, bacon, and Cheddar cheese is briny, rich, salty and absolutely delicious.

Zesty citrus juices meet the char of the grill in this tasty shrimp recipe. Finish it off with a delicious citrus-thyme butter and serve with extra grilled orange wedges.

This Parmesan espresso martini steak, rubbed with coffee and served with salty fricos and lightly dressed watercress, is inspired by the Parmesan-topped espresso martini trend that was everywhere last year.

This grilled radicchio and avocado salad uses zhug, a traditional green hot sauce from Yemen. In this version, we toned down the spice and added lemon for brightness.

My kids love making these brown bear biscuits for breakfast whenever we go camping. This recipe is super simple and there's no prep for mom!

This grilled bang bang chicken salad is a vegetable salad composed on top of spinach leaves, and tossed with a sweet-spicy bang bang sauce dressing. Surrounded by spicy grilled chicken, then garnished with green onions and sliced almonds, it is a delicious, crunchy, summer dinner.

Grilling halibut in foil packets keeps the fish moist and tender. It also prevents the delicate fillets from breaking apart on the grill.We like this with a simple green salad and some crusty bread.

These French onion burgers are made with a simple combination of ground beef and onion soup mix, then topped with Havarti cheese, onions, and mushrooms. These burgers will become a favorite at parties.

These smoked pork chops with sauerkraut make a fairly quick-and-easy, satisfying weeknight meal. The chops are already fully cooked, so they don’t need a lot of time braising, but the flavor is there.

This smoked bologna method turns an ordinary chub of bologna into something spectacular, a poor man’s ham, so to speak. This will make the best fried bologna sandwich you’ve ever had.

For these dill pickle chicken skewers, boneless chicken thigh pieces marinate in a jar of pickle brine, then are threaded onto skewers alternating with pickles. seared in a grill pan, then baked, they are finished with a tangy, buttery, garlic ranch sauce.

These grilled pork tenderloins with mango-pineapple salsa are perfect for summer grilling. Because of their size and tenderness, you will use an indirect method to grill them after searing. While the grill is heating up, make the sweet-tangy salsa.

These grilled marinated halloumi and vegetable skewers will be some of the most colorful, tasty, savory kabobs you’ve ever had. Garnish with a handful of chopped fresh herbs such as oregano, basil, thyme, and mint if you like.

The sauce on these hot honey grilled carrots has a great balance of flavors that compliment the charred sweet carrots. It's a simple yet beautiful side dish.

Chef John's churrasco chicken thighs are marinated in a beautiful garlic, chili, and herb paste. It's some of the most juicy and flavorful grilled chicken you will ever have. Serve with lemon wedges or chimichurri sauce—but the very best way to serve it is over our Chimichurri Potato Salad.

These grilled mojo pork and pineapple skewers are marinated in Cuban-inspired mojo sauce. Usually based on a citrus fruit known as bitter orange—hard to find in US stores—this recipe uses a combination of orange and lime juice. Marinated pork tenderloin and fresh pineapple chunks, threaded and grilled on skewers, are dressed with a garlicky sauce made from reserved marinade.

This smoked queso dip has all the flavors you love in a queso with an added punch of flavor from the smoker. This will be the first thing to go at your next tailgate party. Serve with tortilla chips.

This Cowboy Butter grilled corn on the cob features a smoky, savory compound butter slathered over juicy, fresh char-grilled corn. Cowboy Butter is a spicy, herbed, garlic-lemon butter you can easily make with the recipe linked in the ingredient line.

This garlicky grilled pesto chicken uses fresh homemade pesto 3 ways: as a marinade, as a sauce brushed over the finished chicken, and as a dipping sauce. This juicy, bright chicken feels summery and fresh.

This grilled chicken and strawberry Mason jar salad with poppyseed dressing, tasty and colorful, is assembled in wide-mouth jars for a take-along lunch, freshly made with marinated grilled chicken and homemade dressing. It can also be a time-saver in several ways. You can use purchased poppyseed salad dressing, and grill a little extra chicken the next time you pull out your grill, or use leftover rotisserie chicken.

These Tuscan style ribs, or Rosticciana, are grilled relatively quickly to a beautiful rusty red, and drizzled with a bright citronette, a lemon-garlic dressing. They are pleasurably chewy and intensely delicious, proving that low and slow is not the only way to go when cooking ribs.

This grilled Cajun corn is fresh sweet corn, charred on the grill, and tossed in Cajun seasoned butter—corn at its finest. It's an easy side dish for a summer cookout. I like to dip mine in Ranch salad dressing.

Wow your guests with these grilled peach, halloumi, and prosciutto skewers. Sweetly charred peaches, salty prosciutto, and grilled halloumi cheese skewers are topped with hot honey and pistachios.

These grilled pineapple lime chicken thighs are tender, juicy, and flavorful. They marinate briefly in seasoned lime and pineapple juices, and are scattered with pineapple chunks after grilling.

Use your slow cooker to make this easy cheeseburger soup. Don't skip the toppings - they make the soup!

This slow cooker creamy lemon herb chicken comes out moist and tender and is perfect for tossing with pasta. Think all the creaminess of an Alfredo sauce minus the cheese.

This slow cooker stuffed pepper soup is essentially deconstructed stuffed bell peppers, in the form of a delicious, hearty soup.

These chicken meatballs are perfectly tender with a delicious fall flair.

Use your slow cooker for this comforting Italian sausage soup with ziti pasta and sausage in tomato sauce topped with cheese.

This easy slow cooker 4-ingredient potato soup uses garlic and herb cheese spread and potatoes O’Brien with onions and peppers to build flavor without increasing prep time. It’s a great addition to your soup season repertoire.

This slow cooker loaded potato chowder is the easiest soup there is - just dump and go. The cream cheese makes it perfectly creamy, and the best part of this recipe is that it only takes 5 minutes to put together.

When I make this slow cooker sausage tortellini soup, my family can hardly wait for it to finish! Tasty and filling, it’s hard to beat. We like it best with warm, crusty bread. A green salad completes this menu nicely.

This slow cooker ground beef stroganoff is pure comfort food, made even more budget friendly using ground beef. Made in the slow cooker preparation is easy and convenient.

I love a slow cooker pasta recipe and this crockpot Caesar chicken pasta is a hearty, creamy pasta dish that the whole family loves. Adding lemon zest really brightens up the dish!

In this slow cooker chicken enchilada casserole, the tender chicken thighs almost shred themselves. With black beans, corn, and tortillas in a flavorful sauce, this dish is plenty cheesy and satisfying.

This slow cooker Greek yogurt chicken is a saucy, super easy, super versatile slow cooker chicken recipe that's great served over rice, or stuffed into a pita.

This easy creamy crockpot chicken enchilada casserole takes only minutes to assemble. Tomatillo salsa and sour cream flavor the saucy chicken; corn tortilla wedges and pepper Jack cheese add the elements of green enchiladas to this comforting dish.

This easy slow cooker Boursin chicken and pasta features boneless chicken breasts, spinach, and orzo pasta in a creamy tomato and Boursin sauce.

This crockpot teriyaki chicken and rice is super quick to assemble. The sauce ingredients, pineapple, and chicken simmer together, and in the last half hour, convenient packs of pre-cooked rice are added to the mix.

These slow cooker beef tips with mushroom gravy make a comforting meal with very little effort. Flavorful ingredients, most of them from your pantry, simmer in the slow cooker together with beef, for a rich gravy.

Use your slow cooker to make this cheesy potato gratin and free up your oven at your next gathering.

Tasty ground beef topped with cheesy mashed potatoes - this slow cooker shepherd's pie hits all the spots if your looking for a hearty comfort dish.

This slow cooker chicken and gravy could not be easier. You'll want to serve this over hot rice or mashed potatoes for the ultimate comfort food dish.

These slow cooker brisket tacos are stuffed with flavorful, tender beef in a rich tomato sauce. Dress up your tacos any way you like, e.g. with shredded Monterey Jack cheese, pickled red onions, diced tomatoes, sour cream, chopped fresh cilantro, and lime wedges.

Serve this slow cooker sweet chili sesame chicken over rice or noodles to soak up the delicious sauce.

This slow cooker cowboy casserole is a family-friendly, budget-friendly layered casserole of ground beef, sliced potatoes, and Cheddar cheese. It's easy to put together and let the slow cooker do the rest.

These slow cooker chicken Caesar sandwiches essentially are saucy Caesar-dressed shredded chicken sandwiches topped with lettuce. Both chicken breasts and chicken thighs work well in this recipe and you can serve them on slider or burger buns.