The ultimate guide to Summer Recipes! Whether you want no-cook breakfasts, light lunches, grilled dinners, or fruity desserts we’ve got you covered!
I absolutely love Summer eating. But what I don’t love is spending a lot of time in the kitchen…especially when it’s hot outside. Being outside is much more desirable than slaving away in a stuffy, hot kitchen.
What should i make when it’s hot outside?
Any recipe that is no-cook or has a quick cook time, grilled outside, or hands-off and made in a crockpot, instant pot, and/or air fryer are great for staying cool!
This compilation of recipes is absolutely perfect for Summer. They’re quick and easy to make so you can spend as little time as possible in the kitchen and as much time as possible outside.
Whether you’re cooking for Summer holidays, get togethers, or just day-to-day eating, these recipes are perfect for the hot, Summer months!
Breakfast
Smoothies, no-bake energy bites, or meal prepped recipes like breakfast burritos are perfect for Summer!
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
This Strawberry Banana Smoothie takes just 5 minutes and 4 ingredients to make. It's fresh, fruity, creamy, and oh-so-yummy!
Healthy Breakfast Sandwich
A healthy breakfast sandwich made of eggs, veggies, & optional turkey & cheese! Make these the day of or make them in advance & store in the freezer!
Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos
These Vegetarian Breakfast Burritos are stuffed with potatoes, veggies, black beans, meatless crumbles, cheddar cheese, and more. Enjoy immediately or make ahead and store in the freezer!
Peanut Butter Energy Bites
These Peanut Butter Energy Bites are the perfect healthier treat to satisfy your sweet tooth! Full of all natural peanut butter, oats, and just a touch of honey! Only 130 calories! Gluten free. Vegetarian.
Tropical Smoothie
This Tropical Smoothie Recipe tastes like paradise! Creamy coconut milk is blended with mango, pineapple, and banana to create a nutrient packed and delicious drink!
Lox Bagel
This Lox Bagel has an everything bagel base that's piled with tangy cream cheese, lox or smoked salmon, fresh cucumber, capers, dill, and more!
Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
These Peanut Butter Banana Cookies are chewy and loaded with chocolate chips. Bonus: they're vegan, naturally sweetened, and healthy enough for breakfast, but decadent enough for dessert.
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bites
These no bake chocolate peanut butter energy bites are the perfect healthy snack. Loaded with all natural peanut butter, honey, old fashioned oats, cocoa powder, vanilla, salt, and dark chocolate. Quick, easy, and they taste like a peanut butter cup!
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
This Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie is ultra creamy and packed with peanut butter and chocolate. This healthy smoothie tastes like a chocolate peanut butter milkshake!
Avocado Toast
Avocado Toast FOUR ways! Crispy bread topped with perfectly seasoned smashed avocado and your choice of toppings. This 15-minute toast is hearty, healthy, and perfect for on-the-go meals.
Overnight Oats Recipe 3 Ways
Overnight Oats Recipe 3 Ways! 1. Peanut Butter Honey Banana 2. Blueberry Greek Yogurt (no banana) 3. Vegan Strawberry Banana. All healthy, easy & delicious!
Acai Bowls
These Acai Bowls take just 5 minutes to whip up and are absolutely packed with nutrition and flavor. Frozen acai blended with mixed berries and banana and finished off with all your favorite toppings.
Peanut Butter Protein Balls
These No Bake Peanut Butter Protein Balls are a quick, easy, and healthy snack. They're packed with all-natural peanut butter, loaded with dark chocolate chips, and are naturally sweetened! Can be made with or without a food processor.
Snacks, sides, and apps
Strawberry Goat Cheese Bruschetta
This Strawberry Goat Cheese Bruschetta is my new favorite appetizer. Slightly chewy bruschetta is topped with creamy goat cheese, peppery arugula, juicy strawberries, and earthy basil!
Air Fryer Corn Dogs
These Air Fryer Corn Dogs are juicy in the middle and crispy on the outside! An easy and healthier way to make perfectly cooked frozen corn dogs that taste deep fried!
Veggie Pizza
This cold Veggie Pizza has a buttery crescent roll crust and is topped with a ranch cream cheese spread, cheddar cheese, and fresh veggies!
Ambrosia
Ambrosia is the perfect 10-minute side dish. It's light and fresh, sweet and creamy, and absolutely packed with sweet fruit, fluffy marshmallows, crunchy pistachios, and chewy coconut.
Easy Bruschetta
This Easy Bruschetta Recipe is a healthy Summer classic with just 8 ingredients! Juicy tomatoes, tossed with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, balsamic vinegar, and fresh basil.
Easy French Onion Dip
This Easy French Onion Dip Recipe is a classic party appetizer! With just 5 minutes of prep, this creamy caramelized onion deliciousness is the perfect, crowd favorite treat.
Mexican Grilled Corn
This Mexican Grilled Corn aka elote is the perfect summer grilling recipe. Fresh corn smothered in creamy mayo, smokey spices, and salty cotija cheese!
Easy Guacamole Recipe
This is the BEST Easy Guacamole Recipe. A classic chip dip with fresh ingredients and simple seasonings. The best part? It’s easily customizable!
BBQ Baked Beans
These BBQ Baked Beans are quick, easy, and the perfect side dish for any meal! Loaded with crispy bacon, onions, canned baked beans, mustard, ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, and steak seasoning. The canned bean shortcut is easy and still delicious. Promise!
Easy Deviled Eggs
These Easy Deviled Eggs are a cinch to make thanks to my trick for making the best hard boiled eggs! They're also delicious and loaded with the creamiest filling of mayo, apple cider vinegar, dijon, horseradish, Worcestershire, relish, salt, paprika, and chives!
Easy Pico de Gallo Recipe
This Easy Pico de Gallo Recipe comes together in a matter of minutes! Fresh tomatoes, onion, cilantro, jalapeno, lime, & garlic make this truly delicious.
Crack Dip Recipe
This Crack Dip is highly addictive. You've been warned. 😉 Full of cream cheese, bacon, sour cream, spices and more, you're never gonna want to stop eating it!
Strawberry Baked Brie Recipe
This Strawberry Baked Brie is the easiest appetizer for spring! Warm brie is topped with strawberries, basil, pecans, & a simple balsamic/honey marinade.
Cream Cheese Salsa Dip
This Cream Cheese Salsa Dip requires two ingredients and 30 seconds of prep! It's addicting, it's creamy, it's so easy, and the spice level is up to you!
Slow Cooker Chex Mix
This Slow Cooker Chex Mix is so easy to make and so addicting! This homemade version of a classic snack is made up of chex cereal, Cheez-Its, and mini pretzels tossed in a tangy, salty, and slightly spicy sauce.
Pro tip
List of the best summer salads and summer pasta salad recipes coming soon!
Lunch
Avocado Tuna Salad
This Avocado Tuna Salad is light, fresh, and just as creamy as classic tuna salad without the mayo! Serve it on bread, with crackers, in a wrap, you name it!
Cranberry Chicken Salad
This Cranberry Chicken Salad is easy to make and perfect for meal prepped lunches! It's packed with bacon, crunchy veggies, and chewy dried cranberries, and is great served on a sandwich, over a salad, or with crackers!
Club Sandwich
The classic Club Sandwich is so easy to make at home! Full of toasted bread, turkey, lettuce, tomato, colby jack cheese, crispy bacon, and my secret sauce!
Chicken Salad
This Chicken Salad Recipe is ridiculously easy to throw together and my version of a classic! Light, creamy, and so yummy, you're going to want to give this recipe a try!
Tuna Salad
This Tuna Salad is a twist on a classic. Full of pantry staples and a few secret ingredients, this makes the BEST sandwiches.
Thai Chicken Salad
Bring this Thai Chicken Salad to work & you'll have the best lunch there. With so many great textures, fresh flavors, & tangy dressing, you'll never get bored!
Healthy Chickpea Lettuce Wraps
These healthy chickpea lettuce wraps are so quick and easy to put together, taste great, are vegetarian, and of course, are super healthy!
Spicy Tuna Roll Bowl Recipe
This Spicy Tuna Roll Bowl is a deconstructed version of the spicy tuna sushi roll. Loaded with protein-packed tuna, brown rice, and veggies all smothered in a creamy, spicy mayo sauce, this bowl is almost too good to be true!
Caprese Grilled Cheese Sandwich
If you're looking for a quick and easy, fresh, summer lunch, then look no further, because this Caprese Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe is perfect! Your favorite bread slathered in homemade (or store-bought) pesto and topped with gooey mozzarella cheese, and fresh juicy tomatoes!
Easy Egg Salad
This Easy Egg Salad Recipe is great for a quick and easy, healthy, gluten free, vegetarian, low carb, meal prep lunch! Hard boiled eggs with celery, red onion, light mayo, non fat plain greek yogurt, dijon, and spices!
Dinner
Greek Kebabs Recipe
Paired with tzatziki and full of tender chicken, veggies, and an herb-y garlic marinade, these Greek Kebabs are the perfect, quick & easy, healthy summer dinner!
Grilled BBQ Chicken Tacos Recipe
Juicy grilled chicken smothered in BBQ sauce plus crunchy, fresh, healthy coleslaw makes these the easiest & tastiest Grilled BBQ Chicken Tacos ever!
Grilled Shrimp Skewers
Grilled Shrimp Skewers. Easy, healthy, delicious summer food at it's finest! Only seven ingredients necessary!
Black Bean Burger Recipe
This Black Bean Burger Recipe is PACKED with vegetables and flavor and is super quick and easy to make. All you need is 10 minutes and a food processor! Vegan. Gluten Free.
Baked Fish Tacos Recipe
Healthy Baked Fish Tacos! Tilapia + spices + loads of lime all piled into a corn tortilla and topped with a fresh, crunchy slaw! Healthy easy deliciousness for the win!
Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin
This Air Fryer Pork Tenderloin is juicy, flavorful, and so easy to make. Pork is coated in a sweet and smoky rub, then air fried until it's crispy on the outside and tender in the center.
Healthy Alfredo Sauce Recipe
This Healthy Alfredo Sauce is a lightened up version of a classic (helloooo only 130 calories per serving). Made with greek yogurt, skim milk, and parmesan!
Smash Burgers
This Smash Burger Recipe is a homemade version of a fast food restaurant classic! These burgers are ultra juicy with crisp edges and cook extremely quickly!
Instant Pot Taco Meat
This Instant Pot Taco Meat is so quick to make and results in a deliciously moist and flavorful addition to tacos, burritos, taco salads, nachos, you name it!
Air Fryer Salmon
This Air Fryer Salmon is crispy on the outside, juicy in the middle, and coated in a sweet and spicy brown sugar chili rub. Quick, easy, and healthy weeknight dinner.
Shrimp Lo Mein
This Shrimp Lo Mein is packed with juicy shrimp, veggies, pasta, and a sweet, tangy, and slightly spicy homemade sauce.
Instant Pot Lemon Chicken
This Instant Pot Lemon Chicken is light, fresh, and healthy. Tender chicken is tossed in a sweet and spicy lemon sauce then served over brown rice!
Crockpot Sausage and Peppers
This Crockpot Sausage and Peppers is a classic, hearty, kid approved dinner! Italian sausage is slow cooked with peppers and onions in flavorful sauce and served on rolls with melted provolone!
Pulled Pork Recipe
This Pulled Pork Recipe is made in the crockpot for a super moist and tender meat. Serve it in sandwiches, as tacos or nachos, or with pasta!
Cauliflower Pizza Crust
This Cauliflower Pizza Crust is gluten-free, low-carb, AND low in calories. It's so easy to whip up and makes the perfect crispy and delicious canvas for all your favorite pizza toppings!
Instant Pot Orange Chicken
This Instant Pot Orange Chicken is tastier and healthier than Chinese take-out! This recipe is kid approved and couldn't be easier.
Shrimp Tacos
These Shrimp Tacos are loaded with perfectly spiced baked shrimp and ultra creamy slaw! This quick and easy dinner is loved by all.
How to Make Easy Homemade Basil Pesto
How to Make Easy Homemade Basil Pesto. This recipe is quick, easy, fresh, and SO versatile! Loaded with basil, pine nuts, garlic, lemon, and parmesan . . . this tastes like summer! PSST - I have ingredient substitutions and serving suggestions listed below!
Crockpot Sesame Chicken Recipe
This Crockpot Sesame Chicken is a more flavorful, health-i-fied version of a take-out classic! One of my go-to throw and go, quick and easy recipes!
Instant Pot BBQ Chicken
This Instant Pot BBQ Chicken is made with only 5 ingredients! This easy dinner recipe is kid friendly and so versatile — serve on tacos, over nachos, as sandwiches, you name it!
Dessert
Vegan Lemon Bars
These Vegan Lemon Bars are tart, creamy, and extra lemon-y! This plant based dessert is gluten free, naturally sweetened, and so easy to make.
Apple Pie Cookies
These Apple Pie Cookies are like miniature hand pies. Ooey-gooey apple pie filling is sandwiched between two pieces of buttery, flaky refrigerated pie crust and then baked until golden-brown.
Banana Bars
These Banana Bars are the best way to use overripe bananas! They're moist, fluffy, and slathered in a sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting.
Key Lime Pie
This Key Lime Pie Recipe has a shortbread cookie and pistachio crust and a bright, yet creamy filling made with sour cream and condensed milk!
Lemon Bars
This Lemon Bars Recipe is the perfect Summer dessert! A buttery shortbread crust is topped with a sweet, citrusy, and perfectly gooey lemon curd filling.
Vegan Sugar Cookies
These Vegan Sugar Cookies are soft, chewy, SO flavorful, and topped with the creamiest homemade vegan buttercream frosting!
Crockpot Peach Cobbler
This Crockpot Peach Cobbler is a classic dessert made in the slow cooker. Frozen peaches are topped with a spice cake mix then slow cooked to ooey-gooey perfection. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!
Strawberry Brownies
These Strawberry Brownies are made with strawberry cake mix AND strawberry jello mix to form this fruity, ooey-gooey dessert.
Apple Cobbler
This Apple Cobbler couldn't be easier. A tart, gooey Granny Smith apple filling with a fluffy, yet crisp topping; this is the perfect Fall dessert. Don't forget the vanilla ice cream!
Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
This is the best Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe! No ice cream machine required and it's the perfect combination of fluffy and creamy with so much sweet vanilla flavor!
S’Mores Cookies
These S'mores Cookies have puddles of melted chocolate, crispy graham crackers, and ooey-gooey perfectly toasted marshmallows. The BEST way to eat s'mores without a campfire.
Cookie Monster Ice Cream
This Cookie Monster Ice Cream is a no churn ice cream that's packed with Oreos, Chips Ahoy, and edible chocolate chip cookie dough! No ice cream machine required!
Fruity Pebbles Cookies
These Fruity Pebbles Cookies are colorful, chewy, and loaded with vanilla pudding mix, fruity pebbles cereal, and white chocolate chips!
Peach Cobbler
This Peach Cobbler is loaded with gooey, sweet peaches and topped with a crispy crumbly topping. Made using frozen peaches, this summer classic is prepped in just 15 minutes.
Lemon Cookies
These Lemon Cookies are perfect for lemon lovers! These fluffy cookies are made with lemon cake mix, lemon pudding mix, and topped with a sweet and tangy lemon glaze.
Banana Pudding
This is the BEST Banana Pudding recipe and bonus: it's made in 20 minutes! Crunchy cookies (vanilla wafers or Chessmen cookies) are layered with fresh banana slices and creamy pudding.
How to Make a Milkshake
How to Make a Milkshake: 3 Simple Steps and 10 Minutes for the perfect thick and creamy milkshake! Try vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, mint Oreo, and more!
No Churn Mint Oreo Ice Cream Recipe
No ice cream machine is needed to make this No Churn Mint Oreo Ice Cream Recipe! 7 ingredients & 10 minutes for the fluffiest, creamiest ice cream ever!
Peach Crisp
This Peach Crisp is a classic summer comfort food! Frozen peaches are baked into a gooey filling and topped with a crispy oat, pecan, and brown sugar streusel.
S'Mores Dip
An easy S'mores Dip Recipe four ways: classic s'more, salted caramel, peanut butter chocolate, and white chocolate raspberry! Whichever dip you choose, your sweet tooth is sure to be satisfied!
Vegan Raspberry Oatmeal Bars
These Vegan Raspberry Bars are so easy to make. They're gluten free and loaded with oats, brown sugar, walnuts, raspberry preserves, and more!
Air Fryer Hand Pies
These Air Fryer Hand Pies are SO quick and easy to make. We're making 4 flavors today: S'Mores, Blueberry, Caramel Apple, and Cherry! I used store-bought crust and fillings to make this ULTRA easy, but feel free to make your own homemade crust and fillings!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
No Churn Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Recipe. You know you want some! The BEST homemade edible cookie dough (no eggs, no flour) is folded into a fluffy no churn ice cream base and drizzled with hot fudge! No ice cream machine required.
Lemon Lava Cake Recipe
An ultra tender cake with slightly crisp edges and a perfectly white chocolate lemon-y molten lava gooey center, this Lemon Lava Cake is surprisingly easy and so decadent!
Roasted S'Mores Ice Cream Recipe
This no churn Roasted S'mores Ice Cream Recipe is light, fluffy, and creamy. It's loaded with gooey roasted marshmallows, hot fudge, and crunchy graham crackers. No ice cream machine required!
Drinks
Mimosa
This Mimosa recipe is as easy as it gets. Two ingredients and two minutes for the perfect bubbly brunch cocktail!
Mojito
This refreshing Mojito takes just 5 minutes and 5 ingredients to make! Made with fresh mint and lime juice, it's the perfect cool, summer cocktail. Make a pitcher for a crowd or a single serving for yourself!
Easy Margarita Recipe
A classic, Easy Margarita Recipe. 5 ingredients: tequila, simple syrup (or agave), lime, lemon, and orange juice! A simply perfect and refreshing cocktail!
Watermelon Sangria
This Watermelon Sangria is Summer in a cup! Fresh watermelon and strawberry puree, crisp Pinot Grigio, strawberry vodka, triple sec, and tangy lemon juice! This homemade cocktail is so refreshing!
Green Juice Recipe
This Green Juice Recipe is packed with kale, cucumbers, celery, lemon, ginger, and apples! Loaded with fruits and veggies, this juice is healthy and delicious!
Honey Strawberry Lemonade
This honey strawberry lemonade only has four ingredients and is naturally sweetened! Perfect for kids! Add a shot of gin for an adults only cocktail!
– Jennifer