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Party Food: Great Recipes For Entertaining

If you like to entertain and cook delicious food for friends and family, you'll find all the recipes you need in this recipe collection. From bite-sized flavor-packed appetizers to elegant mouthwatering main courses, we've got the dishes that will make your party a big success.

Try these Grilled Turkish Kofta Kebabs for your next backyard barbecue, this Easy Beef Bourguignon, elegant Indian Lamb Biryani or extraordinary Afghani Aushak for your next sit down dinner party. For a casual get-together with friends, make a big pot of our Award-Winning White Chicken Chili or try this Easy Spanish Paella that you can make in one hour.

If you want help picking easy party recipes that will wow the crowd without stressing out the cook, this post is for you - The Best Easy Party Food Recipes. it includes my best tips for how to plan, shop and cook for your party so you can can relax and enjoy it too!

 

 

Fingers holding a thin seeded cracker.

The Best Homemade Seed Crackers: Thin, Crisp and Delicious!

A broiled miso salmon fillet topped with miso dressing and sesame seeds on a bed of salad greens with jicama matchsticks, mango chunks and sliced watermelon radishes.

Miso Ginger Salmon Salad

Arepas stuffed with chicken avocado salad, and a stack of five arepas in the background.

Reina Pepiada: Venezuelan Arepas with Chicken and Avocado

6 almond cookies, each with an almond in the middle, on a glass plate with 3 whole almonds decorating the plate.

Spanish Almond Cookies (Almendrados)

chicken Marbella in a roasting pan with prunes, green olives and a garnish of chopped parsley

Chicken Marbella from The Silver Palate

Carnitas: Mexican Slow Cooked Pulled Pork

round soft cheese in shallow bowl surrounded with olive oil, herbs and whole spices. Hand holding a baguette slice that has been spread with some of the cheese.

Marinated Cheese with Herb and Garlic Infused Olive Oil

small glass bowl on a black and white cloth napkin, filled with cranberry bourbon bbq sauce, a few cranberries scattered around

Cranberry Bourbon BBQ Sauce

Beautifully golden brown roast turkey on a wooden serving platter, topped with fresh thyme sprigs.

Spicy Yogurt Marinated Roast Turkey

Tender looking dumplings on a bed of yogurt topped with tomato meat sauce and chopped mint.

Aushak

Plate topped with spaghetti twirled with arugula and prosciutto. Cubes of feta on top. Limes in the background and foreground.

Pasta With Prosciutto, Arugula and Feta

Two piece of Filipino chicken adobo - two braised chicken thighs coated with rich brown adobo sauce - on a bed of white rice, on a plate, with a sprig of bay leaves on the side.

Filipino Chicken Adobo

A loaf of pumpkin bread on a wooden board with three slices cut and leaning down from the loaf.

Healthy Pumpkin Bread

Plate topped with a slice of bobotie, meat casserole with custard on top, yellow rice and salad.

Bobotie

Royal Thai Crab Cakes

Bowl of chili con carne topped with shredded cheese, sour cream and chopped scallions, a silver spoon in the chili, a small bowl of chopped scallions on the side.

Eddie's Award Winning Chili

Hands reaching in to grab seafood from a table topped with a seafood boil

Seafood Boil Recipe

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dozen of mini caprese salad skewers on a white platter

27 Favorite Father's Day Recipes

8 coco bread rolls in a basket lined with a flowery cloth napkin.

Jamaican Coco Bread

plate with a serving of lamb biryani and a very long windy sprig of mint. A small blob of yogurt raita on the side.

Indian Lamb Biryani

shallow round dutch oven filled with baked chicken thighs and rice topped with chopped cilantro.

One Pot Coconut Lime Chicken and Rice

Two rows of roasted rainbow carrots arranged on a rectangular platter with whipped feta down the center and toasted bread crumbs sprinkled on top.

Roasted Carrots with Whipped Feta

Corned beef hash: a delicious healthier recipe with lots of veggies. Add a poached egg on top for a fantastic breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Homemade Corned Beef Hash

Vietnamese noodle salad bowl - bun this nuong - with caramelized pork, vermicelli rice noodles, shredded carrots, cabbage and cucumbers, bean sprouts and half a lime, chopsticks resting on the bowl.

Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Caramelized Pork (Bun Thit Nuong)

Salt pastry shaped like a fish with scales on top of a plate with lemons and parsley and a knife and fork in the background

Baked Fish In Salt Pastry

salt-crusted new potatoes in a wooden bowl garnished with parsley

Syracuse Salt Potatoes

chicken biryani in a cast iron skillet with a serving spoon scooping sound out

Indian Chicken Biryani

labneh on a plate with olive oil and mint and a knife in it

Labneh

Here's an amazing roast chicken recipe from chef Yotam Ottolenghi. Chicken thighs are spiced with za'atar and sumac, tossed with onions, lemons and garlic, and roasted. This is a great dinner party recipe because it's a beautiful dish, you can do all the prep ahead, the chicken is tender and juicy, and the flavors are fantastically delicious!

Ottolenghi's Roast Chicken with Za'atar and Sumac

Korean cucumber salad in a bowl with chopsticks

Korean Cucumber Salad

Roasted almonds in a bowl with roasted almonds scattered around

Roasted Almonds

Six gilda pintxos (anchovy, olive, guindilla pepper skewers) on marble

Gilda Pintxos

snowflake mugs filled with Swedish Glögg. delicious hot spiced mulled wine and spirits

Swedish Glögg: Hot Mulled Spiced Wine

leafy salad on a small plate with baby romaine, orange segments, toasted pecans and cranberries.

My Favorite Holiday Salad

close up of beef short ribs and cubes of butternut squash in rich gravy with sprinkles of chopped parsley on top

Beef Stew with Short Ribs

Dutch oven on a striped cloth, filled with ratatouille

The Best Easy Ratatouille Recipe

One piece of saucy cheesy eggplant lasagna on a small plate topped with a basil leaf.

Eggplant Lasagna

7 fig and goat cheese crostini on a platter with sprigs of rosemary around the plate

Fig and Goat Cheese Bruschetta Appetizer

Two grilled lamb and fig skewers surrounded by lemon slices and mint sprigs

Grilled Lamb and Fig Skewers with Mint Pepper Glaze

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