These easy fall recipes are the ones we turn to when we’re starting to feel a bit of cooking burnout. They’re comforting, and quick to make, but packed with the of autumnal produce that gets you excited about cooler weather. There’s roasted squash, sweet potatoes, and beets, plus the last of the good tomatoes and eggplant. These are our go-to sheet-pan dinners and one-pot pastas, plus our favorite fall soups, brunches, and side dishes, all built for weeknights when you just need an easy recipe.
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Creamy One-Pot Pasta with Sausage and Squash
Easy fall recipes like this one are pure comfort in a pot. And here, it’s just one pot: The pasta and the creamy butternut squash sauce with Italian sausage are all cooked together. You don’t even need to boil water. Fewer dishes? Yes, please. See recipe.
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Pumpkin Dutch Baby With Pumpkin Butter
Is there a better fall brunch than this quick and easy Dutch baby? Whip up the batter in your blender, and use the extra canned pumpkin to make a concentrated pumpkin butter for putting on top. See recipe.
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Panko-Crusted Roast Chicken Thighs with Mustard and Thyme
On a busy weeknight, you need an easy chicken recipe that comes with its own side, like this panko- and Dijon-thyme butter-crusted chicken with roasted carrots. See recipe.
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Vegetarian Three-Bean Chili
Whether you’re watching football or not, it’s definitely chili season. This version gives you full flavor (thanks to a few pantry shortcuts) in just 30 minutes. See recipe.
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Ancho Chile Pork Tenderloin with Brussels Sprouts and Squash
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Double-the-Mustard Chicken with Potatoes and Greens
Dijon mustard mixed with honey serves as a sweet-tart marinade for the chicken, while the whole-grain mustard adds dynamic pops of flavor to the dressing. It’s an easy fall dinner we make over and over again. See recipe.
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Sheet-Pan Roasted Squash and Feta Salad
Feta and bread get roasted alongside squash, then tossed with pleasantly bitter greens for a vegetarian dinner salad that’s equal parts warm and cold, soft and crunchy, and sweet and savory. See recipe.
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Roast Salmon and Broccoli with Chile-Caper Vinaigrette
Busy weeknights? Sheet pans to the rescue! For this easy salmon recipe, you’ll give the broccoli a head start so it gets nicely browned by the time the salmon is perfectly cooked. See recipe.
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Braised Chicken Legs With Grapes and Fennel
We love anything with Calabrian chile paste, but this new chicken recipe is really special. Some of the grapes break down in the bottom of the pan, lending their juices to the sweet-spicy braising liquid, while the others stay intact, emerging from the oven glistening and burnished. See recipe.
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Sausage and Greens Sheet-Pan Dinner
When you’ve got less than half an hour to get dinner on the table, a sausage sheet-pan dinner will always be there for you. With crispy mini potatoes and hearty greens that are roasted in a sweet-tart mustard dressing, this one’s an easy crowd-pleaser. See recipe.
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Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Beans and Guacamole
When all else fails, you can always have sweet potatoes for dinner. This version is extra-satisfying, thanks to a topping of black beans and guacamole. But we have about a million other sweet potato topping ideas, too. See recipe.
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Spiced Turkey Chili with Spaghetti Squash
Spiced with cinnamon, allspice, and cocoa powder, this warming bean and turkey chili pairs perfectly with roasted spaghetti squash in this naturally gluten-free dinner. See recipe.
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Slow-Cooked Eggplant with Lemon and Fennel Seeds
Use this master formula as your guide—but feel free to get creative with the add-ins. A dried chile? Sure! A few sprigs of herbs from your windowsill? Why not? See recipe.
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3-Ingredient Creamy Pumpkin Pasta
Pumpkin pasta just screams fall, and this luxurious dish couldn’t be simpler to make. The key to balancing the richness of the cream and the sweetness of the pumpkin in this easy pasta sauce is salty, starchy pasta water. See recipe.
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Crispy Tofu With Maple-Soy Glaze
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Speedy Skillet Ravioli Lasagna
With a little help from frozen ravioli, you can pull a skillet of toasty, bubbly lasagna from the oven in a little more than half an hour. In this ingenious one pan supper, you make a tomato sauce right in the same skillet you use to bake the whole thing, and the ravioli—layered with mozzarella and Parm—cooks and soaks up the tomato flavor at the same time the starch from the pasta thickens the sauce. See recipe.
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Yogurt and Spice Roasted Salmon
This is just about the easiest way to cook great salmon: You’ll cube it up for maximum surface area, add a spicy yogurt marinade, and cook it super-hot and fast. See recipe.
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Slow-Cooker Chipotle-Orange Pork Tacos
The best easy fall recipes actually give you two totally separate dinners. Make this slow-cooker pork to serve on Monday as tacos, and then, on Tuesday, turn the rest into this quick stir-fry. See recipe.
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Steamed Kabocha With Ginger-Soy Dressing
The magic of steam cooks the squash both quickly and evenly, and steaming the dressing with the squash opens up the flavor of the ginger, garlic, and scallions.
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Caramelized Eggplant with Harissa Yogurt
If you haven’t tried using your air fryer for veggies yet, you’re missing out. This eggplant has a truly wonderful texture. See recipe.
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Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Quite a few Epi staff members always need to have something sweet around. And these days, this is our easy cake recipe of choice: It’s moist from the zucchini, with excellent pops of crunchy walnuts, and lots and lots of chocolate on top. See recipe.
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Crispy Pan-Seared Chicken and Zucchini with Olives and Lemon
This flavorful chicken dish, doused in an olive and chile relish, is a great way to use up whatever zucchini you have lingering. See recipe.
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Sheet-Pan Cumin Chicken Thighs with Squash, Fennel, and Grapes
You probably get the point by now: The best chicken dinner comes with its own side dish. Here, sweet acorn or delicata squash and grapes roast under the cumin-rubbed chicken thighs. See recipe.
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Chicken Thighs With Tomatoes and Feta
This one-skillet chicken gives you the best of both worlds: crispy skin atop tender dark meat that gently cooks in the bubbly sauce underneath.
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Maple-Roasted Acorn Squash
It’s useful, during fall, to know how to roast vegetables. This is a classic method for squash from Ina Garten. You’ll fill the cavity of each gourd with butter and maple syrup. See recipe.
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Slow Cooker Ribollita
You can cook with a slow-cooker year round, but it feels especially right in fall, when you’re craving a hearty soup like this one. Ribollita is thickened with bread and redolent with garlic. See recipe.
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Butternut Squash and Chorizo Hash
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Coconut Creamed Greens
You could serve this alongside some other dishes, sure. But it’s so satisfying that we’d be happy to just eat a big plateful of these greens for dinner. See recipe.
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Feel-Better Chicken and Rice Soup
We added sweet potatoes to this this garlicky, gingery chicken and rice soup, so it’s a little more filling, a little more flavorful, and a little more comforting. See recipe.
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Cauliflower Carbonara
Sometimes you just want to eat a lot of pasta. Sometimes, adding veggies—like cauliflower—makes that dinner feel even better. See recipe.
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Winter Salad Hummus Bowls
Okay, we know this is called a winter salad, but the truth is, it’s a template for the perfect easy fall dinner, too. Take hummus, dress any greens or veg you like with this delicious dressing. Top with our make-ahead Seedy Power Sprinkle and serve with jammy eggs. See recipe.
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Baked Pasta alla Norma
Cheesy, saucy baked pasta is even more fun when you can slice it into wedges. See recipe.
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Melted Broccoli Pasta With Capers and Anchovies
Broccoli florets are often a ho-hum side. But melted broccoli is a sauce that’s great with pasta, especially when topped with toasted bread crumbs. Feel free to spice it up with chile flakes if desired. See recipe.
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Roasted Beets with Grapefruit and Rosemary
Beets are wonderfully sweet and earthy this time of year. Here, their flavor is brightened with grapefruit zest and juice. See recipe.
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Crispy Chicken and Potatoes with Cabbage Slaw
Another easy chicken dinner, coming through! Here, cumin-spiced chicken thighs and roasted potatoes are balanced by a zippy, jalapeño-spiked alternative to coleslaw. See recipe.
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Black-Eyed Pea Salad With Hot Sauce Vinaigrette
Canned black-eyed peas are creamy and satisfying, especially when prepared the way chef Carla Hall does it here. The salad soaks up a dressing that’s tangy with yellow mustard, hot sauce, and apple cider vinegar. See recipe.
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Eggplant Omelet (Tortang Talong)
For this Filipino classic, eggplants are heavily charred before being battered with egg and pan-fried, making them smoky, creamy, crispy, and totally satisfying. See recipe.
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Lentil and Chicken Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Escarole
Fresh dill and lemon add brightness to this quick and hearty chicken soup, made from a store-bought rotisserie chicken. See recipe.
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Sheet-Pan Pasta Bake with Chicken and Kale
If you’ve ever wished your pasta bakes had more crispy edges, this easy recipe is the answer. So much more crunchy topping per bite! See recipe.
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Sweet-and-Saucy Pork Chops
The secret to these well-caramelized pork chops? A pinch of sugar. It helps the chops develop an exceptional golden-brown crust. See recipe.
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Ramen Noodles With Spring Onions and Garlic Crisp
These noodles really shine thanks to a crunchy, spicy garlic topping. See recipe.
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Big Green Lentil Salad
Cool yogurt, crunchy seeds, and herbs turn lentils into a filling salad you’ll actually be excited to eat. Serve it with warm pita for swiping up the garlicky yogurt. See recipe.
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Sheet-Pan Spaghetti Squash Puttanesca
Rather than pasta, serve the salty and spicy flavors of this classic Southern Italian dish with spaghetti squash “noodles” for a delicious, hearty vegetarian dinner. See recipe.
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Freeform Chicken Meatballs with Carrots and Yogurt Sauce
If you feel like shaping perfect meatballs is kinda too fussy for a weeknight meal, we agree. That’s why this recipe has you drop dollops of spiced ground chicken onto a sheet pan, where they’ll roast with sweet carrots until everything is golden brown. See recipe.
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Sheet-Pan Chicken Saltimbocca with Roasted Potatoes and Crispy Kale
Looks fancy, cooks easy. This entire Italian-inspired dinner is cooked on two baking sheets, so dish duty is quick. See recipe.
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Slow-Roasted Salmon with Harissa
If you’re looking for tender, flavorful salmon that’s never overcooked, you need to get on board with slow-roasting. This version has a punch of spicy harissa, but you could also use a little pesto, curry paste, tapenade, Calabrian chile, mustard… or just lots of olive oil and a few sliced lemon wheels. See recipe.
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Broccolini With Sesame Sauce and Lemon
The best broccolini is dressed with this salty-sweet sesame sauce. You may be surprised how quickly the platter empties. See recipe.
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Instant Pot Red Bean and Quinoa Soup with Taco Fixins
Got an Instant Pot? Add this to your weeknight rotation. While the beans cook, you can prepare an array of fun toppings. See recipe.
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Cheesy Loaded Sweet Potatoes
Steam a batch of sweet potatoes in advance, and this dinner can be yours in 15 minutes flat. See recipe.
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10-Minute Sausage Skillet with Cherry Tomatoes and Broccolini
Easy fall recipes require quick-cooking ingredients, like the precooked Italian sausage in this weeknight favorite. See recipe.
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Pasta Carbonara with Cabbage and Mushrooms
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