13 foil dinner recipes

Pork chop and acorn squash foil packet dinner with butter, brown sugar, and honey. Sealed up tight and baked into a single-serving meal. Six ingredients, no dishes to wash.

New England boiled dinner with corned beef simmered until tender, then carrots, turnips, potatoes, onions, and cabbage cooked in the broth. A classic one-pot Yankee comfort meal.

Use microwave to make this delicious boiled dinner that contains lots of flavor!

SPAM, sliced potatoes, carrots, and onions baked in foil packets with a sweet-tangy brown sugar, beer, and stone ground mustard glaze. A hands-off foil packet dinner with almost no cleanup.

Salmon baked in foil packets on a bed of spinach, topped with a creamy horseradish walnut sauce. An elegant one-packet dinner with easy cleanup.

Salmon steaks baked en papillote with fresh ginger, served on a pool of white wine and lime cream sauce. An elegant foil-packet dinner with restaurant presentation.

Grilled salmon en papillote with homemade basil-garlic butter, tomato slices, lemon, and bay leaf. Sealed in foil packets on the barbecue for a no-mess dinner.

Calvert's pecan flounder bakes flounder fillets in foil packets with pecan vinaigrette, lemon slices, white wine, and toasted pecan halves. An elegant Southern-inspired dinner for four.

Vidalia beef patty bakes a ground beef burger with sliced potato and sweet Vidalia onion in a buttered foil packet. A hands-off, one-serving campfire-style dinner.

Tenderized round steak seasoned with mace, topped with pineapple, and baked in foil until juicy and tender. A simple Hawaiian-style steak dinner for two that's also diabetic-friendly.

Cajun-seasoned salmon fillets and spiral-cut fries baked together on two sheet pans in a hot oven. Four ingredients, 30 minutes total, and dinner is solved with zero frying and easy foil cleanup.

Chicken breast baked in a foil packet with zucchini, roma tomatoes, green beans, garlic, and a squeeze of lemon. Served over angel hair pasta for a light, Provençal-inspired dinner with almost no cleanup.

Baked cod in a sack steams the fish in a sealed parchment or foil packet, so it comes out moist, flaky, and never dry. A clean, healthy, one-packet dinner that traps every bit of flavor and juice.