60 Comforting Fall Dinners You Need to Try

This quick and easy, one-pot, comforting chicken and gnocchi soup is full of flavor, with herbs, spinach, shredded carrots, tender potato gnocchi, and chicken. This is better than Olive Garden’s recipe, it knocks everyone’s socks off.

This Miso Ramen with Roast Pumpkin is a big bowl of slurpable noodle soup! It makes a great vegetarian or vegan dinner because it is so easy and super healthy. 

This Italian mushroom stew is a rustic stew that is traditional to Utica, NY. This recipe is made with pork, Italian sausage, tomato sauce and lots and lots of mushrooms. Served over Italian bread it is delicious comfort food!

This easy, one-pot, rich and comforting creamy chicken tomato tortellini soup is full of hearty goodness. Cheese tortellini and shredded chicken are coated in a tomato-cream sauce full of herbs and fresh parmesan cheese!

This classic pumpkin soup recipe is quick and easy to make and so delicious. It's been our go-to pumpkin soup for years now. We love it because it's creamy (but without using cream) and full of flavor. 

Tonkotsu ramen is rich, filling, and easy to make at home with a luscious slow-cooked pork and chicken broth, fresh noodles, soft yolks, and tender pork belly.

Healthy, hearty and delicious Butternut Squash Black Bean Turkey Chili is a simple to make recipe that is packed with flavorful ingredients! Gluten and dairy-free

I can never pass a homey noodle soup with incredible texture. This is my family's weekend go-to recipe that still gets me excited after nearly 30 years!

This Instant Pot Three Bean Chili, is a must try weeknight meal. It’s warm, hearty, packed with flavors, perfect texture and super easy to make. Plant-based protein. Vegan.

This creamy, healthy Instant Pot mushroom wild rice soup is a simple, throw-it-all-in-and-start recipe for flavorful, hearty soup perfect for a cold winter day. Vegetarian with options to make it vegan.

Deep red, earthy, sweet, slightly smoky northern New Mexico red chile powder provides the amazing complexity in this Instant Pot Red Chile Posole. It can be on your table in about an hour, but it tastes like it was cooked for hours!

Comforting and creamy broccoli cheddar soup is a fan-favorite at Panera Bread! It’s quick to make at home and perfect for those cold weather evenings! 

Minestrone Soup is a perfect family-friendly meal hearty enough for even the biggest appetites.  It’s the easiest, and best Instant-Pot Minestrone Soup recipe ever and full of protein-packed beans and loaded with veggies.

This easy maple-glazed pork tenderloin is easy and quick enough to be a weeknight meal. yet special enough to be on your Thanksgiving or Christmas table.

An easy apple glazed cornish hen served with toasted herb dressing that is quicker to prepare than a turkey for your holiday table!

With all the traditional seasonings of the original, this vegan meatless meatloaf with chickpeas, peppers, and onions is big on flavor topped with a tomato maple glaze. Perfect as the main dish at your next dinner party, or easy enough to pull together for a weeknight meal.

Paleo Moroccan Sheet Pan Chicken with Spiced Acorn Squash is an easy, flavorful meal guaranteed to be a new favorite!  Crispy chicken, spiced acorn squash and cauliflower, olives, and mint are an incredibly delicious combination.  

Paleo + Whole30 + gluten free + dairy free 

This oven-braised pot roast is melt-in-your-mouth tender, incredibly flavorful with veggies and fresh herbs, and super easy to put together!

An easy keto cast iron skillet pork chops recipe featuring bone-in pork chops & a creamy mushroom & herb pan sauce.

This Easy Pizza Casserole recipe is loaded with marinara sauce, pepperoni, sausage, and green pepper layered with cheesy toasted garlic bread. Your whole family is going to love this quick weeknight casserole! 

This Caribbean vegan plantain curry is filling, delicious and made in one pot. It’s packed with sweet potatoes, spinach, kidney beans and fragrant spices.

Delicious skillet Gypsy schnitzel dinner is a German dish of pork, veal or chicken cutlets loaded with flavor, paired with onions and fresh peppers, smothered in a creamy sauce and is sure to be a huge hit!

These Creamy Parmesan Mushroom Turkey Meatballs are so tender and tasty!  The meatballs are baked, then smothered in the most delicious creamy parmesan mushroom sauce. And they’re low-carb, keto-friendly, and gluten-free!

This meal is a family favorite! l make it for Sunday dinner almost every week. It tastes amazing, makes the house smell heavenly, is made in one pan and takes only 20 minutes to prep! Grain and dairy-free to boot!

Chicken Fricassee is made with chicken, mushrooms, carrots, and onions in a creamy sauce. I've turned it into a 30-minute skillet meal while preserving the comforting flavor of the original.

One-pan dinners are all the rage, especially one that combines great tasting pork sausage and veggies, like these Brussels sprouts and butternut squash.  Doesn’t this look delicious?  All you need is 45 minutes and a few pantry staples. 

This carbonara recipe is creamy, decadent and oh, so good. A rich, creamy sauce with egg yolks and parmesan cheese mix into hot pasta, bacon, shallot, garlic and black pepper for a quick and easy dinner that is ready to impress anyone.

With a homemade meat sauce, a cottage cheese layer with sautéed spinach and copious amounts of cheese (4 varieties), this Homemade Lasagna Recipe is straight up comforting. You’re gonna love it!

This Creamy Pumpkin Pasta is ready in under 30-minutes and is so delicious.

Baked Ziti with Sweet Italian Sausage is a dinner the whole family will love! This flavorful dish can be made ahead of time and is great for sharing with guests and taking to those in need.

Roasted garlic & caramelized onions deepen the flavors of this super addicting pasta recipe. The spicy parmesan kale chips are so fun and add a perfect crunch to this comforting pasta recipe.

Amazingly tender gnocchi are bathed in two of the best things in the world: bacon and cream then sprinkled with cheese for one of the best dishes ever.

An oh so creamy, cheesy, and wonderfully comforting mushroom risotto recipe. The mushrooms add a rich, earthy flavor that really goes with the big pile of fresh parmesan you’ll be piling on top.

Smooth, creamy and perfect keto cauliflower mash. Without batting an eyelid, I would say this is the best cauliflower mash ever.

Fresh sauteed green beans with bacon, onions, and mushrooms – an easy to prepare green bean side dish cooked on the stove top with just 4 simple fresh ingredients and a dash of salt and pepper.

Crispy bacon teams up with cheddar and parmesan to bring a whole new level of flavor to this hearty butternut squash side dish recipe.

Want your family to eat more vegetables? They won’t be able to resist these One-Pan Roasted Fall Vegetables! Minimal clean-up and lots of flavor.

Whole grain delicious base topped with roasted veggies. Vegan, dairy-free

The most delicious Italian ragu made with well-marbled short ribs, cooked to tender perfection in just under an hour using the Instant Pot!

Caribbean curried butter beans – who doesn’t love this delicious vegan, low-carb, Island-style fragrant curry, slowly cooked with an assortment of vegetables.

Pork and Apples are a perfect pairing! Combine in your Instant Pot or slow cooker with stone ground mustard and sage for a flavorful and tender main dish, Instant Pot Pork and Apples with Sage and Ground Mustard is healthy and delicious, with minimal effort.

Authentic Goan Chicken Vindaloo made in the Pressure Cooker or Instant Pot. Vindaloo is a traditional Goan curry that is made with meat cooked in onions, ginger, garlic, along with lots of aromatic whole spices and the tanginess of vinegar. Enjoy this dairy-free and gluten-free Chicken Vindaloo with rice or naan for a satisfying dinner!

A quick and easy white wine version of Coq au Vin using an Instant Pot (instructions provided for a slow cooker method as well) served over smashed baby red potatoes. A satisfying and extremely tasty dinner perfect for any day of the week!

This slow cooker beef and chorizo casserole is exactly what you need on a chilly day – tender chunks of beef slowly simmered in a rich, delicious gravy with chorizo chunks, mushrooms and carrots.

Sweet butternut squash is paired with fall spices and a rich and creamy cheddar flavor to make this Instant Pot Butternut Mac the perfect comforting side dish for a cool fall day.

This delicious Crockpot Enchilada Chicken combines tender chunks of chicken with tangy enchilada sauce. Serve this over rice, on lettuce wraps, or over a sweet potato for a complete meal. This crockpot chicken recipe is sure to be a hit!

Rich, creamy and cheesy, this Broccoli Cheddar Pasta is comfort food at it’s best! This family-friendly one-pot meal is everything a Broccoli Cheddar soup promises, and more.

Rich and comforting beef stew made in about an hour in the Instant Pot! This recipe is easy, fast, and full of flavor with garlic, herbs, and loads of veg.