If you're looking for easy summer cookout recipes to make your BBQ a special time for friends and family browse through these delicious and creative recipes from some of your favorite bloggers. Grilling, smoking, and Blackstone recipes that will folks line up for with plate in hand for more.
Easy Appetizers
Starters for your meal that can be made ahead, or as you are making your main meal!
Smoked Jalapeno Poppers
Smoked Jalapeno Poppers are an easy appetizer full of cheese and chorizo wrapped in crispy bacon goodness! A quick side dish that can go on the smoker or the grill and done in about 45 minutes!
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Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potatoes with Lime Yogurt Sauce
These oven baked kabobs are great any time of year, boasting a tantalizing flavor blend of chicken, sweet potatoes, veggies and a lemon herb marinade, cooking kebabs in the oven couldn’t be easier.
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Grilled Brie Appetizer & Balsamic Strawberries
This Grilled Brie Appetizer with Balsamic Strawberries is the perfect, ridiculously easy appetizer for your next cook-out! Sweet from the strawberries, a bit of tart from the balsamic and so creamy.
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Smoked Deviled Eggs
Take a classic dish to a whole new level by infusing hard boiled eggs with smoke on your barbecue or smoker. Smoking adds a ton of flavour making these Smoked Deviled Eggs a hit at every single time!
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Beef and Meat Main Dishes
Creative burgers and steak recipes to impress your guests with something new and different!
Smash Burgers on the Blackstone
The only reason you need to buy a Blackstone! Classic diner smash burgers are a quick treat for the family or the whole neighborhood!
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Grilled Steak with Pistachio Pesto
Grilled Steak with Pistachio Pesto makes an easy, healthy, paleo, and Whole30 protein for summer. The dairy free pesto comes together in 5 minutes and makes the perfect dip for any grilled meat or veggie.
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Nigerian Beef Suy Skewers
If you are interested in developing Nigerian recipes, start with Beef suya. It is Nigerian street food featuring grilled beef skewers seasoned with ground peanuts and spices
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Chesapeake Crab Burger
This Chesapeake Crab Burger recipe combines two summertime favorites into one delicious hamburger. It is a perfectly seasoned and grilled ground beef patty topped with delicate crab meat in a light, flavorful sauce served on a kaiser roll.
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Grilled Asian Marinated Skirt Steak
This grilled skirt steak dinner recipe is made with minimal ingredients (only six)! Add in a few healthy skirt steak sides and you've got yourself the perfect summer weeknight meal!
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Blue Cheese Burgers
A made from scratch blue cheese burger recipe. These blue cheese stuffed hamburgers are melty, delicious, and your new favorite grilling recipe.
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Smoked Leg of Lamb
Making this smoked leg of lamb was a piece of cake and there was nothing complex about it, apart from the flavors. This smoked leg of lamb recipe made Greek-style gets really easy if you have an electrical smoker at home, but of course you can opt for using any type of smoker.
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Pork Main Dishes
Pork is one of the best things to make on the smoker or grill! Beautiful Pulled Pork to easy Bratwurst sandwiches will make dinner easy for the holiday weekend!
Carribean Jerk Smoked Pork
This is a summertime favorite and easier than you might think. Jerk Smoked Caribbean Pork is spicy and delicious. Slice it thin and pile on a bun with some cooling slaw.
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Pinchos (Puerto Rican Grilled Pork Kebabs
Deliciously seasoned kebabs made from pork or chicken grilled over charcoal then sauced to a caramelized finish!
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3 2 1 Smoked Ribs
3 2 1 Ribs are a classic and easy way to get fall off the bone tender delicious ribs! This is a great fool proof recipe for a beginner, and a method that is used by lots of veterans.
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Smoked Pork Belly Burnt Ends
Take yourself to flavour town with these smoked pork belly burnt ends. This is a simple, delicious recipe that will have you coming back for more. Smoke these pork burnt ends on your Traeger or another smoker.
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Easy Homemade Sausages
Homemade sausages are soo rewarding and, folks, they only require nothing more than mince/ ground meat, seasonings, natural casings and a mincer although it is a simple task nowadays to get your meat minced by your butcher. How wonderful!
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Pulled Pork Barbecue
This pulled pork barbecue is seasoned with a delicious dry rub that's salty, sweet, and just a bit spicy and then it’s smoked low and slow until the meat is fall apart tender.
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BBQ Ribs in the Oven then Grill Recipe
If you want succulent, fall-off-the-bone BBQ ribs then the only way to go is to bake them in the oven first, and then finish them off on the grill. Slathering them with a sticky, homemade BBQ sauce of course.
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Seafood Main Dishes
Shrimp is a quick and easy dinner on the grill for the weekend!
Grilled Garlic Shrimp
These juicy Grilled Garlic Shrimp, with a white wine spritz, are full of flavor and a delicious dinner idea no matter what time of year!
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Easy Grilled Swordfish
Easy, juicy and tender grilled swordfish stuffed in light corn tortillas. These grilled fish tacos take minutes to prepare. The perfect Summer BBQ main dish!
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Spicy Grilled Shrimp Skewers
All you need is 10 minutes for this super easy to make, and most importantly super tasty and flavorful grilled shrimp marinade! These Spicy Grilled Shrimp Skewers recipe is perfect for your summertime grilling!
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Surf and Turf with Chimichurri Steak and Shrimp
Surf and turf with chimichurri sauce made in under 30 minutes! A restaurant-quality meal that will impress the entire family and have them begging for more. Flank steak seasoned and cooked to perfection with juicy tender shrimp coated in homemade chimichurri.
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Chicken Main Dishes
Chicken is one thing most everyone can agree on! Try out some of these delightful recipes this summer.
Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Lemongrass Chicken
Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Lemongrass Chicken – Bun Ga Nuong – with juicy chicken thighs marinated in an incredible sauce. A fantastic summer grilled recipe to feed a crowd!
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Grilled Chicken Skewers Recipe
Need to feed and fuel up the entire family? Look no further than these dynamite chicken skewers. With a quick marinade and zesty Cajun seasoning, these skewers are easy to make and to eat!
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Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs in Turmeric Greek Yogurt Marinade
The Turmeric Greek yogurt marinade features not only fresh turmeric but also fresh ginger, garlic and lemon. The flavor this coats and infuses the grilled boneless chicken thighs with is outstanding.
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Grilled Lime Chicken with Cilantro and Lemon
This is the best Grilled Lime Chicken recipe you'll ever have and the last you'll ever make! Only 5 simple ingredients that tenderize and flavor grilled chicken. Marinate for 30 minutes and grill for less than 10!
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Grilled BBQ Chicken
With a brine that keeps the chicken juicy and some homemade BBQ rub, this grilled BBQ chicken is the perfect dish when breaking out the grill.
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Vegetarian Main Dishes
Easy to prepare dishes for the vegetarian's in your life. These also make great sides or appetizers too!
Grilled Halloumi and Avacado Salad
Grilled halloumi and avocado salad is a nice side dish or vegetarian main dish for Memorial day.
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Balsamic Grilled Vegetable Salad
These Grilled Eggplant Kebabs are grilled until soft and lightly caramelised in a tahini satay marinade. A fun twist on the traditional satay recipes that is vegan, nut free & gluten free.
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Balsamic Grilled Vegetable Salad
If you've got an abundance of summer squash, such as zucchini and yellow squash, you've got to make this Balsamic Grilled Vegetable Salad! It will wow your taste buds and make you think about grilled vegetables in a whole new light.
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Grilled Portabello Mushrooms
These Grilled Portobello Mushrooms are flavorful and so easy to make. Covered in a delicious marinade, these mushrooms are sweet, tangy, and have a tasty texture.
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Side Dish Recipes
Easy side dishes to compliment the star of the show! Classic cookout side dishes to round out the meal.
Easy 3-Ingredient Onion Baked Potatoes in Foil
These 3 Ingredient Onion Baked Potatoes in Foil are easy to make and unbelievably delicious! Adding the onion/butter mixture between the slices and baking in aluminum foil locks in the rich flavor, adding real pizzazz to your potatoes! They are perfect in the oven or on the grill.
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Low Calorie Broccoli Salad
This the BEST low carb broccoli salad, hands down. There's a little bit of crunchy, sweet, salty and savory goodness in every single bite! This healthy side dish is a great make ahead recipe for potlucks, parties and BBQs.
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Grilled Garlic Parmesan Corn on the Cob
Fresh sweet corn, slathered with garlic butter, grilled, and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Grilled Garlic Parmesan Corn is a delicious and simple twist on traditional corn on the cob, and a family favorite.
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Grilled Zucchini Pasta Salad
Summer in a bowl in this Simple Grilled Zucchini Pasta Salad right here! The lemon gives a fresh burst of flavor along with the corn, parmesan, and zucchini. Make this a side dish for the BBQ or top with chicken for a full summer dinner. This recipe will become your new favorite!
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BBQ Sauce Recipe
This lusciously thick BBQ sauce is sweet, smoky and tangy. Using simple store cupboard ingredients, it's ready in less than 10 minutes. Use it as a basting sauce, dip or pouring sauce - perfect for chicken wings, hot dogs and burgers!
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Calico Baked Beans
Calico Baked Beans have bold flavors that will rise up and slap you silly! Four types of beans in a sweet and zesty sauce will make this dish a huge hit at your barbecue or family picnic.
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Grilled Artichoke Recipe with Magical Aioli
This Grilled Artichoke recipe has a delicate, smokey flavor thanks to the barbecue and is served with the most flavorful, amazing lemon aioli you will ever eat. Learn how to grill artichokes with this easy to follow recipe. If you like artichokes, you are going to love them grilled!
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Pesto Orzo Salad
Sun-Dried tomatoes, basil leaves, and fresh mozzarella make this Pesto Orzo Salad a summer favorite. It’s fresh, flavorful, and so easy to make! Perfect for a picnic, potluck, or weeknight meal.
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Summer Grilled Corn Salad w/Cilantro Lime Dressing
Fire up the grill because you won't want to miss this flavorful summertime favorite. This Grilled Corn Salad is colorful, refreshing and satisfying.
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Dessert Recipes
Don't forget to finish your meal with a yummy sweat treat!
Patriotic Mini Fruit Tartlets
The cutest little Fruit Tarts made with blueberries and strawberries, perfect for Memorial Day! These patriotic tarts not only look the part but they taste incredible and better yet they’re super healthy!
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Banana Sour Cream Cake (Oven & Instant Pot)
A delicous way to use up ripe bananas is this banana sour cream cake that is next level banana bread with cream cheese frosted then topped with walnuts or pecans.
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Skillet Blueberry Cobbler with Smoked Sugar
Wow your guests with this delicious skillet blueberry cobbler made with smoked sugar! The perfect summertime BBQ dessert!
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Healthier Scotcheroos
This healthier recipe for scotcheroos uses honey, coconut sugar, and natural peanut butter. Less of the junk, and still delicious!
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Grilled Triple Berry Crisp
Grilled Triple Berry Crisp in a Cast Iron Skillet combines the juiciest, fresh berries of the season with all the added flavor and enjoyment of firing up the barbecue grill. A golden, buttery crumble with a pinch of cinnamon tops these bubbling berries.
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Smoked Cake
Smoked cake, a sweet treat with a hint of smoke! Smokers aren't just for meat anymore. It's time to make Smoked Cake. Try this easy dessert, you'll love it!
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Everything looks delicious and there are so many to choose from! Saved!
Thank you!
What a great collection of recipes to welcome summer! I can't wait to try them all!
We can't to try them all, they look so good!