Summer means cookouts. Whether you’re truly cooking outside on your grill or making due indoors, you can still partake in all of your summer favorites, from burgers and veggies, to salads, dips, and cocktails. To help you embrace all that summer has to offer (food-wise, at least), we rounded up 33 easy and delicious summer barbecue recipes you can make all season long.
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Appetizers
1. Basil Whipped Goat Cheese
Source: What’s Gaby Cooking
2. Grilled Peaches with Burrata, Honey, and Pistachios
Source: Two Peas and Their Pod
3. Deviled Eggs
Source: Grandbaby Cakes
4. Greek Salad Hummus Board
Source: Spices in My DNA
5. Mexican-Style Street Corn Dip
Source: The Defined Dish
Sides
6. Peach Tomato Caprese
Source: What’s Gaby Cooking
7. Grilled Corn Salad with Tomato and Avocado
Source: By Erin Clarke of Well Plated
8. Dill Cucumber Salad
Source: Foodie Crush
9. BBQ Sweet Potatoes
Source: The Rustic Foodie
10. 5-Ingredient Marinated Tomatoes
Source: Pinch of Yum
11. Instant Pot Pinto Beans
Source: Isabel Eats
12. French Potato Salad
Source: One Lovely Life
13. Grilled Vegetables
Source: Foodie Crush
14. Creamy Kale Caesar Salad
Source: The Movement Menu
15. Strawberry Panzanella Salad with Balsamic Glaze
Source: Jessica in the Kitchen
16. Vegan Pasta Salad with Lemon Herb Dressing
Source: The College Housewife
17. 20-Minute Vegan Pesto Pasta Salad
Source: Jessica in the Kitchen
Main Dishes
18. Sweet Potato Cheddar BBQ Chicken Burgers
Source: Ambitious Kitchen
19. BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Source: Grandbaby Cakes
20. Grilled Chicken with Chipotle-Whiskey BBQ Sauce
Source: The Defined Dish
21. Extra Crispy Carrot Spinach Quinoa Burgers
Source: Orchids + Sweet Tea
22. Sticky, Sweet, and Spicy Grilled Ginger Chicken
Source: Ambitious Kitchen
23. BBQ Tofu Vegetable Kebabs
Source: Emilie Eats
24. Cheesy Pickle Pretzel Sliders
Source: My Name is Yeh
25. Taco-Style Veggie Dogs
Source: Emilie Eats
26. Pineapple Pork Burgers
Source: Budget Bytes
Sweets
27. Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips
Source: Two Peas and Their Pod
28. Baked Peach Hand Pies
Source: Oh, Sweet Basil
29. Mixed Berry Slab Pie
Source: Sally’s Baking Addiction
30. Waffle Cone Fruit and Yogurt Cups
Source: Oh, Sweet Basil
31. Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Source: Sally’s Baking Addiction
32. Grilled Angel Food Cake with Pineapple, Coconut, and Caramel
Source: My Sequined Life
33. Olive Oil Blondies with Chocolate Frosting
Source: My Name is Yeh
Drinks
34. Lillet Spritz
35. Watermelon Margarita
Source: Isabel Eats
36. Citrus Honey Lime Mint Mocktail
Source: Orchids + Sweet Tea
37. Cucumber Melon Gin Spritzers
Source: Spices in My DNA
38. Sparkling Cherry Lemonade
Source: Chungah Rhee | Damn Delicious
39. Ranch Water
40. Frozen Aperol Spritz
Source: The College Housewife
