2,217 main dish recipes

One-pot pork chop supper with potatoes and carrots simmered in tomato soup with Worcestershire and caraway seeds. A complete skillet dinner with almost no cleanup.

San Ton Pa is a traditional raw fish mincemeat dish using sole, halibut, or flounder cured in lemon juice with onion, garlic, pimentos, fennel, and cilantro. Served cold with green salad.

Texas-style chili with cubed beef chuck, no beans, simmered with chili powder, green peppers, tomatoes, and oregano. Topped with cheese and raw onion.

Pressure cooker lotus rice with short grain brown rice, dried lotus seeds, and roasted almonds. A nutty, chewy vegetarian grain dish with a subtle floral quality.

Kielbasa casserole with rice, whole plum tomatoes, green pepper, and onion baked together for 2 hours. A dump-and-bake one-dish Polish sausage dinner with just 5 ingredients.

Rolled and stuffed lamb shoulder with breadcrumbs, bacon, orange zest, and fresh herbs, roasted and glazed with honey and orange juice for a sweet-savory Sunday centerpiece.

Poppy seed pasta casserole with ground turkey in tomato sauce layered over creamy fettuccine tossed with Neufchatel, cottage cheese, and sour cream.

Krautfleisch is a German pork and cabbage casserole braised with paprika, caraway seeds, and tomato puree. Simmered low and slow until fork-tender, finished with sour cream.

Vegetarian pizza topped with chunky peanut butter, sauteed carrots, celery, and onion, seasoned with marjoram and finished with sunflower seeds. No cheese, no tomato sauce.

Puerto Rican-style larded pot roast studded with garlic-rubbed ham strips, browned and braised in tomato puree with onion and red pepper. Bold, old-school Latin comfort food.

Tricolor Boboli pizzas: prebaked crusts topped with olive tapenade, caramelized red onion, red peppers, goat cheese, and toasted pine nuts. A 1990s Mediterranean dinner-party shortcut.

Spaghetti and clam sauce: a classic Italian-American pantry pasta with canned clams, garlic, olive oil, and herbs tossed with spaghetti. Ready in 20 minutes.

Greek beef saute: sliced sirloin with onion and red pepper in a red wine demi-glace spiked with orange zest and oregano. Restaurant flavors on the table in 25 minutes over couscous or rice.

Layered cornbread casserole with corn chips, sour cream, chilies, cheddar, and olive-studded cornbread baked over the top. A Southwest potluck bake that comes together in 30 minutes.

Green garlic chili: a Southwestern-style stew built on whole cloves of mellowed garlic, fresh green chiles, and tangy green tomatoes simmered with tender beef. No beans, no tomato sauce, just deep savory heat.

Hoosier supper, an Indiana-style ground beef and rice casserole loaded with eggplant, tomato, and onion soup mix, finished under a parmesan bread crumb crust with ripe olives.