Elevate your home cooking game with these 21 gourmet dinner recipes that are sure to impress even the most discerning guests. While they may taste like they came straight from a top-rated restaurant, they are all surprisingly easy to prepare in your own kitchen. With a little bit of finesse and some quality ingredients, you'll be serving up chef-worthy creations in no time.
Air Fryer Lobster Tails
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This recipe is made by preparing lobster tails with a lemon garlic butter sauce, air frying until tender, and serving with lemon wedges.
White Bean Panzanella
In this Italian-style recipe, ripe juicy tomatoes are combined with white beans, toasted bread and tossed in an aromatic tomato and white bean dressing.
Puff Pastry Pizza with Blue Cheese & Apples
Puff Pastry Pizza is an easy & delicious way to make pizza - here it's salty, savory & subtly sweet, topped with mild blue cheese, sliced red apples, green asparagus, and crumbled-up kale chips. A perfect dinner, appetizer, or snack!
Duck With Orange Sauce
Learn how to cook Duck Breasts with Orange Sauce - probably the best duck recipe you will find! With the most delicious tart & sweet orange sauce, this is a dish you'll be making over and over again. Afraid to cook duck? Don't be! This Duck with Orange Sauce is one of the easiest "fancy" dishes you can make - and perfect to prep ahead.
Salmon Risotto with Leeks & Lemon
Make this Salmon Risotto in under 40 minutes, with no constant stirring required! With lemon, leeks, and parsley, it's loaded with flavor and an easy dish that seems fancy. Perfect for dinner parties, and quick & easy enough for a weeknight!
Beef Chow Fun
This Beef Chow Fun is easy to make in just 20 minutes for a quick weeknight dinner. With rice noodles, bean sprouts, scallions, and flank steak, this is a dish that will definitely have you craving seconds!
Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
If there's one dish my friends always ask me to make - it's this one. These tacos have all your favorite buffalo flavors in a neat package: buffalo Cauliflower, avocado, blue cheese sauce & cilantro make this dish a winner very time. Easy to make in just 40 minutes in the oven or air fryer!
Smoked Italian Pasta Salad
If you’re a fan of pasta salads with meat, you just have to try this smoked Italian pasta salad. It takes everything that’s great about pasta salad and adds a wonderful smoky flavor to it.
Miso Mushroom Ramen
Make a quick, flavorful dashi and serve with the most flavor-packed mushrooms you've ever had.
Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza
Buffalo cauliflower just got an upgrade! And ended up on top of a pizza with the best & easiest kind of crust - puff pastry. Baked crispy with cheese, and drizzled with a good amount of blue cheese sauce this is one tasty vegetarian dinner, snack or appetizer - either way, you won't be able to help yourself.
Chilli Chicken
A popular and delicious Indian Chinese takeout dish, dry chilli chicken is made with crispy chicken chunks and lightly tossed in a spicy chilli sauce. Packed full of amazing flavors from both worlds!
Sweetheart Cabbage Salad with Gyoza Chickpeas
With just 15 minutes of active cooking you can make this delicious sweetheart cabbage salad that's sure to win over any salad hater. Spinach, sweetheart cabbage and the most flavorful chickpeas are topped with a good amount of Parmesan cheese to turn this salad into a feast - healthy, delicious and easy to make.
Massaman Chicken Curry
This authentic Massaman Chicken Curry (Gaeng Massaman Gai) is made in one pot in just 45 minutes, using store-bought curry paste. With coconut milk, chicken, potatoes and peanuts it's super creamy, subtly sweet and not so spicy.
Tortellini Carbonara
This twist on a carbonara is quick and easy to make, and uses common ingredients you'll find at any supermarket.
Chicken Stuffed with Feta Cheese
Try these chicken filets loaded with Feta cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, and basil for the tastiest chicken you've ever had.
Halloumi Portobello Burgers
These Halloumi Burgers are certainly "extra everything" - topped with mashed avocado, a whole portobello mushroom, crumbled chèvre cheese, peppery arugula, and sweet caramelized onions. Easy to make and a crowd pleaser every time!
Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas
Two favorites combine to create this cheesy, spicy, goodness. A perfect mid-week treat!
Easy Paella
This paella is an easy dish that's a sure crowd pleaser. It's filled with deliciously fragrant saffron & dry white wine and stuffed full of shrimp, chicken, green peas and bell peppers. Perfect for a dinner party and just as delicious reheated the next day. Making it for a crowd? No worries! This recipe works wonderfully when multiplied.
Grilled Lemon Basil Chicken
Make the best Lemon Chicken Marinade in just a few minutes with simple, healthy, ingredients. It's great for grilling, pan frying and oven baking. With olive oil, lemon & basil the chicken comes out so juicy, tender and loaded with flavor.
Black Bean Tacos with Feta Cheese & Pico de Gallo
The best Vegetarian Tacos I've ever had are filled with refried black beans, crumbled feta cheese and topped with heaps of homemade pico de gallo. A quick and easy vegetarian taco recipe that's sure to have you coming back for more!
Oven Roasted Five Spice Peking Chicken
This Chinese five-spice chicken is marinated overnight in five spice, ginger, garlic, and soy sauce and then baked in the oven and glazed to get that delicious-looking skin. It's full-on flavor and pairs amazingly with a ginger scallion sauce. If you're looking for a very flavorful roasted chicken, you definitely need to try this one!
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