8 Easy, Breezy Summer Dinners

Summer dinners should be low-maintenance, delicious, and ideally eaten outside. These recipes are hassle-free and full of flavor, so you can make the most of the season.

Summer Pasta Primavera

Summer in a bowl! This pasta dish made with roasted summer veggies, sharp Pecorino Romano, crunchy pine nuts, and fresh basil is a delicious way to use up all your seasonal produce.
Southwestern Cheeseburger Sliders

These drip-down-your-chin sliders are jazzed up with smoky Southwestern spices, jalapeño pepper and Jack cheese. Serve them with Roasted Tomato Peach Jam instead of ketchup and your family will swoon.
Grilled Salmon with Creamy Cucumber-Dill Salad

Warm weather cooking is all about keeping it simple: no fussy sauces or heating up the kitchen, just good food made from fresh ingredients. This grilled salmon with a refreshing cucumber salad is just that!
Chicken Fajitas

For these smoky fajitas, you can do all of the prep ahead of time, so all that’s left to do at dinnertime is quickly grill the chicken. And fajitas are just fun — perfect for getting the whole family together and sharing at the dinner table.
Vietnamese Shredded Chicken Salad

This salad is so satisfying, you can get away with serving it for dinner. It’s easy too: you simply shred a rotisserie chicken, chop some veggies, whisk the dressing and dinner is done.
Thai-Style Minced Chicken Lettuce Cups

Boldly flavored with fresh ginger, lime, chili pepper, fish sauce and brown sugar, these Thai-style lettuce cups touch all your taste sensations. Warning: they’re highly addictive.
Maryland Crab Cakes with Quick Tartar Sauce

These Maryland-style crab cakes are made with delicious lump crab meat and just enough filler to bind the crab meat together. And don’t skip the homemade tartar sauce!
Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto and Mozzarella Pearls

Quick, simple, and family-approved — this pasta dish is a family favorite. And here’s the best part: the pesto itself yields enough for two dinners (and freezes well) and the dish is just as good at room temperature as it is hot, so it can double as a pasta salad for a picnic or barbecue.