14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (2024)

These days we want dinner to be fast and at least somewhat nutritious, but every once in a while, it's nice to step it up and create a wholesome meal that is both comforting and nostalgic — like Grandma used to serve. Look to these Sunday dinner recipes to make it happen.

Chicken and Vegetable Sheet Pan Dinner

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This mustard-glazed chicken is fast *and* nutritious. Make it in just 35 minutes. The sheet pan is loaded with potatoes and veggies, so it's a complete meal in one. (via Brit + Co)

Instant Pot Loaded Baked Potato Soup

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This simple pressure cooker soup has all the flavors you love in an all-dressed jacket potato but skips the dairy. Potatoes, cashews, and chicken stock make the creamy, broth base. (via Brit + Co)

Slow-Cooker Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (3) The twirl of egg noodles coated in creamy mushroom sauce. The tender bite of slow-cooked chicken… sigh. This modernized stroganoff recipe has it all. It’s mostly cooked hands-off so you can really relax until dinner’s ready. (via Brit + Co)

Creamy Chicken Quinoa Broccoli Casserole

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (4) Protein lovers will obsess over the quintuple whammy of chicken, quinoa, milk, cheese, and bacon in this casserole. Add a little broccoli for extra fiber and vitamins, and you have an indulgent dish that doesn’t skimp on nutrition either. (via Brit + Co)

One-Pot Roasted Tomato Soup

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (5) Roasted tomatoes add an extra layer of flavor to your soup, making it taste like it cooked for hours when really, this recipe comes together in less than an hour. Serve it with a grilled cheese. (via Brit + Co)

Slow-Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup

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The slow cooker is sometimes the next best thing to having grandma fixing you a bowl of her famous soup. Add your ingredients and go about your business as your house fills with a heavenly smell that will beckon you to fill your bowl a few hours later. (via Brit + Co)

7. King Ranch Casserole: Even if you’re eating on your own, you deserve to treat yourself, like with a mini casserole dish filled with cheesy, slightly spicy king ranch chicken. (via Brit +Co)

Instant Pot Tuscan White Bean Soup

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (7) Eat the rainbow with a pot of soup that has colorful veggies, fiber-rich white beans, and lots of spicy sausage for good measure. (via Brit + Co)

Easy Vegan Baked Ziti

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (8) Soaking your pasta eliminates the need to boil it when making baked pasta dishes. That means this four-ingredient vegan baked ziti is a one-pot meal, so you can spend your post-dinner bliss actually relaxing, not up to your elbows in dishes. (via Brit + Co)

Vegan Portuguese Kale Soup

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (9) Kale is cooked until meltingly tender in this recipe. It gives each spoonful a silky, luscious bite. Its earthiness is brightened up by hot sauce, red pepper flakes, and garlic. (via Brit + Co)

Comforting Pancetta Pasta

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (10) Inspired by the classic Roman dish pasta all’Amatriciana, tangles of spaghetti are tossed with crisped up pancetta and plenty of Pecorino to give this recipe a salty, meaty bite. Sweet tomatoes round out the dish, and red pepper adds a slight kick that will have you reaching for your wine glass. (via Brit + Co)

Instant Pot Indian Butter Chicken

14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (11) Succulent chicken that tastes like it has been cooked for hours can be whipped up in minutes in the Instant Pot. Serve it over fluffy basmati rice, which will soak up the ghee-enriched spiced tomato sauce. (via The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook; photo via Brittany Griffin / Brit + Co)

Instant Pot Beef Stew

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Break out your Instant Pot to prepare a beef stew that's ready in less than an hour, with a rich broth that will revive you in time for the week ahead. (via Brit + Co)

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

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A surefire way to guarantee that a simple meal of pasta with olive oil and garlic tastes worthy of the weekend is adding in as much fresh parsley as you can handle. Melting a couple of anchovy fillets in the oil might weird you out at first but the savory punch it adds to this dish is undeniable. (via Where Cooking Begins; photo via Gentl and Hyers)

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14 Sunday Dinner Recipe Ideas to Make Grandma Proud (2024)

FAQs

What is a traditional Sunday dinner? ›

The typical white American family eats white bread rolls with butter, mashed potatoes, roast beef or baked chicken, and peas for dinner, with milk on the side.

Why is my grandmas food so good? ›

They all seem to agree that when you cook for your family with love, you spend the extra time to adjust and perfect a recipe and to gather the best ingredients. In this way, grandma cooking can differ greatly from the simplified weekday meals we sometimes chuck together last minute.

What is the 7 color Sunday meal? ›

A standard 7 colours plate must contain the basics like inyama of your choice, gravy, rice, potatoes, butternut or pumpkin, bean salad, ibeetroot, green beans or peas and carrots.

What do people cook on Sundays? ›

It's always nice to enjoy a comforting meal, especially for a Sunday dinner. The only drawback is that many classic Sunday dinners like pot roast, lasagna and pot pies are… well, labors of love. They're recipes you make when you have all day to cook because they take time.

What is the main ingredient in a traditional Sunday dinner? ›

Sunday roast, or roast dinner, is a traditional British meal of roasted meat, potatoes, and accompaniments like Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, stuffing, gravy, and various condiments depending on the meat.

What makes a good grandma? ›

Being adaptable, teachable, respectful, and supportive can lay the groundwork for being the kind of grandparent your kids and grandkids can trust. Don't beat yourself up if you realize that you've made some grandparenting mistakes. Parents and grandparents aren't perfect, and everyone has room to grow.

Why do grandmas love their grandchildren more? ›

What seems to be the common theme and reasoning is that grandparents don't have as much responsibility and the need to discipline their grandchildren. With a lack of being that authority, it probably means less stress when spending time with them, which leads to their relationship being perceived as more loving.

Why does my grandma eat so little? ›

Typical causes for elderly appetite loss include the following: A lower metabolic rate and less physical activity mean seniors need fewer calories. Changes in the senses of smell and taste can make food less desirable. We also lose taste buds as we get older.

Why do people do Sunday dinner? ›

Sunday dinner is rooted in the agrarian mid-afternoon meal tradition, with a Sunday meal focusing on family in a post-urbanized society since this was the only day in which many families could gather, explains Smithsonian Magazine.

Can a Sunday dinner be healthy? ›

Healthy Sunday Dinner

Pick a lean meat like chicken or turkey and roast it without oil. It has juices in it, so it won't dry out. You could also remove the skin and just eat the breast meat to keep it lower in calories. Add lemon to the middle of the bird for extra flavour without a lot of extra calories.

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