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Main Dish Recipes

Main dishes are - for obvious reason - the main attraction of any meal.  But that doesn't mean they have to be intimidating, or overly complex.

Here are the usual links to some of the superstars of my favorite main dish recipes.

Main dish recipes can be vegetarian like:

  • Easy Red Lentils and Rice - my absolute favorite comfort food and so easy to make.
  • Tofu Coconut Green Curry - Serious yum power
  • 13 Bean Soup - Simple, Affordable, Nourishing

My favorite main dish recipes that center around chicken, beef, pork, lamb, and seafood:

  • Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire - not the easiest but definitely not the hardest but oh so worth it!
  • BBQ Oven Baked Beef Short Ribs - Takes a long time to cook but so easy to make!
  • Chicken and Stewed Tomatoes - Comfort food delishness.
  • My Mama's Homemade Pork Green Chili - So good the next day!
Top view of shallow bowl of beef shanks with marrow in an orange vegetable puree. Garnished with basil.

Osso Buco (Veal Shanks) in Vegetable Puree

White plate of Yellow/ Green Mung Beans (Lentils), over brown rice, garnished with red pepper flakes and green onions.

Easy Kitcheree (Kitchari Or Mung Beans)

Top view. White deep platter with 5 browned cooked chicken thighs on a bed of bright green peas and cooked peppers. Serving silverware on side.

Lemon Chili Chicken with Peas

White Bowl of farro, and edamame with a small bowl of toasted pine nuts and another small wood ball with a portion size of the dish topped with feta. side view.

Farro Salad with Edamame, Pine Nuts, Feta Cheese

White plate of seared slices of smoked sausage on a bed of vegetables or diced red peppers, onions, and zucchini. Silverware, napkins, plates in background. Close up.

Turkey Kielbasa, Onions, Peppers, and Zucchini

Halved Reuben Sandwich with pink corned beef, sauerkraut, melty swiss cheese with thousand islands dressing on a plate. Blue cup in background.

Reuben Sandwich Recipe

Close up of thin sliced pink corned beef on a wood cutting board.

Easy Crockpot Corned Beef and Cabbage

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Creamy bowl of tan potato and leek soup on a white table with parsley garnish. top view.

Potato Leek Bisque / Soup

Beef, Carrots, Leeks, Potatoes cooked in a red dutch oven pot with a brown gravy. Top view.

Irish Beef and Stout Stew

Pork Chop with red Tomato Ginger Curry sauce on a white square plate with broccoli behind it.

Pork Chops with Tomato Ginger Curry

White shallow bowl of green/brown split pea soup with green parsley garnish. Spoon in the soup.

Vegetarian Split Pea Soup

White bowl of chicken thighs in a yellow sauce with tomatoes, onions, and capers. Yellow Rice in bowl on the side. Top view.

Turmeric Arroz con Pollo (Spanish Chicken and Rice)

Bouillabaisse (Fish or Seafood Stew) In a white bowl with clams, shrimp, and chunks of white fish in a yellow red delicate sauce.

French Bouillabaisse (Fish Stew / Soup)

Dry Rub Baby Back Ribs Cut With The bones still on and stacked on a wood plate..

Oven Baked Dry Rub Baby Back Ribs

8 Quail Nestled Into And Cooked In A Cast Iron Skillet

Easy Pan Fried Quail

White Bowl With Spoon Filled With Braised Beef and Orange Sweet Potatoes in a Brown Beef Sauce. Side view.

Cumin Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes

Top view. White bowl with spoon of white rice covered in yellow brown creamy lentil puree. White bowl of rice on side.

Simple Coconut Red Lentils And Rice

Close up of pan of fusilli pasta with quartered mushrooms in a light cream sauce with parsley garnish.

Creamy Mushroom Pasta with Lemon

White bowl with black rim of red tomato bisque soup on a wood rectangle plate. Grilled cheese sandwich cut in half diagonally on the side.

Easy Tomato Bisque Soup

Braised Pot Roast on a white dish with a brown sauce with chunked carrots and fennel.

Pot Roast with Fennel and Carrots

2 wood bowls and one pair of chopsticks. Bowls have rice noodles and a tan sauce with cilantro, mung beans, and sliced green onion garnish. side top view.

Coconut Curry Chicken Rice Noodle Bowl

White shallow bowl (side view) of brown/red chunks of lamb with diced carrots and sauce over white rice with a pea, mint, and almond garnish.

Braised Lamb Stew with Peas and Mint

5 seared cooked boneless skinless chicken thighs in a black pan on a white table. Top down view.

Easy Pan Fried Boneless Chicken Thighs

White plate with a piece of meat pie topped with mashed potatoes and a stainless steel dish of a whole casserole in the background. Close up.

Ground Beef Cottage Pie

Roasted Beef Brisket Sliced on A Wood Cutting Board With Horseradish in a White Bowl with A Fork

Simple Oven Cooked Beef Brisket

White tea chup with 3 poached shrimp and a lemon wedge on the edge with cocktail sauce in the cup. Close up.

Easy Homemade Cocktail Sauce

Whole cooked beef tenderloin sliced on a cutting board revealing pink center. Side View

Simple and Easy Whole Beef Tenderloin

Browned prime rib roast on elevated rack in a cast iron pan on a wood cutting board. Close up.

Cradled Prime Rib Roast

Crispy pan seared shrimp close up in a black pan with brown bits and fond stuck to the shrimp and pan. Closer up.

Easy Pan Seared Shrimp with Butter

Shrimp In A Dark Roux With red and yellow peppers on yellow grits on a white plate.

The Best Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits

Top down view of red pot filled with cooked browned beef chunks and carrots in a brown gravy and tomato sauce.

Beef Goulash Stew with Spaetzle

Small Potatoes, Shrimp, Sliced Andouille Sausage, Corn cooked and laid out on craft brown paper. Close up.

Easy Low Country Boil

Braised & Seared Beef Bone In Short Ribs with BBQ Sauce In A Yellow Shallow Round Baking Dish

Easy Oven Baked BBQ Beef Short Ribs

Brown bowl full of bone in chicken legs and thighs in a red stewed tomato sauce with rice on the side in a tan bowl.

Stewed Chicken and Tomatoes with Rice

St. Louis Ribs Baked In BBQ sauce on a wood plate with an orange napkin.

Oven Baked BBQ St Louis Ribs

White shallow bowl filled with a red green sauce with pork and green chiles. Spoon hangiing out the bowl and tortilla and napkin on the side.

My mamma's Pork Green Chili

2 small wood bowls filled with brown miso soup with green onions and sliced mushrooms floating. 2 traditional Japanese spoons. Top view.

Easy Miso Soup

Top down view of cooked boneless skinless seared chicken thighs in a yellow cream mustard sauce in a dark pan.

Pan Fried Chicken Thighs with Dijon Cream Sauce

Slice of meat lasagna on a white plate with another slice in the background. Close up.

Beef and Italian Sausage Lasagna

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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