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50+ All Time BEST Comfort Fall Recipes

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by: Joanna Cismaru
10.22.21

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These are 50+ of my absolute favorite and BEST Comfort Fall Recipes. When cooler weather starts, there’s nothing better than hearty and comforting food that brings such warmth with it. This collection of recipes is the epitome of comfort foods and I love sharing them with all my friends and family.

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These warm, hearty, and welcoming dishes are irresistible and incredibly delicious. That’s why they are called comfort foods. But don’t take my word for it, try some for yourself and you’ll be coming back for more!! Think lots of cheese, sauces, stews, casseroles or soups that are homey and make you feel tremendously wonderful, after every single bite.

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Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup
This crockpot chicken noodle soup is a classic and hearty soup, requiring minimal effort giving you tender chicken, loads of noodles and a delicious broth.
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Baked Spaghetti Casserole
This Baked Spaghetti Casserole is a simple, kid friendly weeknight dinner consisting of all the classic Italian flavors we know and love. Easy to put together and always a crowd favorite.
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Guinness Braised Short Ribs
These melt-in-your-mouth Guinness Braised Short Ribs are hearty, super comforting and incredibly delicious, slowly cooked in stout, beef broth and lots of fresh herbs. They really are fall-off-the-bone deliciousness!
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Sloppy Joes
Oh, Sloppy Joes! Saucy, meaty, sweet, and savory. This American classic sure does live up to its name! It's a meal that everyone will approve of, while barely taking any effort to execute. So, grab a plate, a napkin (or ten), and get ready to put together this spectacular dinner!
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Beef Bourguignon
This Beef Bourguignon is a classic French beef stew recipe adapted from Julia Child. This Beef Bourguignon is so much more than just a beef stew, it’s comforting and heavenly and a must try!
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Turkey Tetrazzini
This Turkey Tetrazzini is a heavenly pasta casserole with chunks of turkey amidst a rich, cheesy and creamy herb flecked sauce, all topped with more cheese and baked until hot and bubbly.
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Pumpkin Maple Cornbread
This Fall inspired easy-to-make Pumpkin Maple Cornbread is not only moist and delicious, it can be made in about 30 minutes. A crisp golden crust, fluffy center, lots of pumpkin flavor, this maple syrup infused cornbread is perfect fall comfort food. A must for any Thanksgiving or Holiday dinner!
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French Onion Soup
This French Onion Soup is a classic based on Julia Child‘s famous recipe. Buttery caramelized onions, rich and savory broth, cheesy toasted bread, this soup is flavorful and truly comforting.
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Crock Pot Roast
A fool proof recipe for The Best Crock Pot Roast. Fall apart tender beef that’s been deliciously seasoned, served with carrots and potatoes!
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Tomato Bisque
Tomato Bisque – Made with roasted garlic, this creamy, blended to silky perfection, soup is always a huge hit. While it sounds and tastes gourmet, this recipe couldn't get any easier. Serve it as an appetizer or a main course! No matter how it hits the table, it'll be greatly appreciated.
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Lasagna Roll-Ups
Incredibly delicious Lasagna Roll-Ups that are totally delicious and a true comforting dish presented in a fun new way. Take the guesswork out of portion control.
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Meatball Casserole
An incredibly delicious, made-from-scratch Meatball Casserole with creamy mashed potatoes. This casserole is the ultimate crowd-pleaser – juicy meatballs with a homemade marinara sauce over creamy mashed potatoes with lots of cheesy goodness!
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Chicken and Corn Chowder
Chicken and Corn Chowder – One pot and less than 30 minutes is all you need to make this delicious and comforting chowder loaded with chicken and corn. We're accomplishing so much down home comfort today, all in one little bowl!
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Beef Stew
A classic Beef Stew with all the fixings! A truly simple dish to make with simple ingredients, but one that’s loaded with a multitude of deep and rich flavors.
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Skillet Chicken Pot Pie
This Skillet Chicken Pot Pie is the ultimate comfort food perfect for cold winter nights with a golden pastry crust and loaded with creamy chicken and veggies.
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Baked Mac and Cheese
This easy homemade Baked Mac and Cheese recipe is the ultimate classic comfort food. We’re talking decadent creamy macaroni with the most incredible cheese sauce. Total soul-food and always a crowd favorite!
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Lemon Garlic Pork Roast
This Lemon Garlic Pork Roast is one of my favorite dishes to make for Sunday night dinners. The marinade, made with lots of garlic and fresh lemon, is incredibly aromatic and the perfect match for creating a restaurant-quality pork loin.
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One Pot Spanish Chicken and Rice
This One Pot Spanish Chicken and Rice is packed with great flavors and vibrant colors! Easy to make and all in one pot, from the stove top to the oven, dinner is ready with no fuss!
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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
These Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls are a fun twist on the classic, filled with brown sugar, cinnamon and come loaded with pecans and doused in a delicious cream cheese icing. They're  fluffy, sweet and perfect for the holidays!
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Cabbage Roll Casserole
My Cabbage Roll Casserole recipe is layered with a perfectly seasoned pork and rice mixture, tender cabbage, and topped with cheese. It's a great meal you can throw together with ease. With instructions included for turning this into a freezer meal, good homemade food will be a cinch any night of the week.
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Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast
Succulent Rosemary Garlic Pork Roast that's perfect for a Sunday dinner or a special occasion. Easy and quick to prepare, always a crowd pleaser, this pork loin is delicious, juicy, and incredibly tender!
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Lemon Chicken Soup With Rice And Peas
This yummy Lemon Chicken Soup With Rice And Peas is perfect for a cold winter day, especially if you're feeling under the weather! Easy to make, lemony, bright and delicious.
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World’s Best Chili
This has got to be the World’s Best Chili recipe as far as I’m concerned, made with chuck short ribs and a chili paste made from scratch with dried chiles! Super hearty and delicious!
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Instant Pot Pork Chops With Mushroom Gravy
This Instant Pot Pork Chops With Mushroom Gravy recipe is the best way to transform simple everyday ingredients into a special dinner. You don't need to spend much time in the kitchen either, plus this is made entirely in the instant pot. These pork chops are easy, delicious and perfect for your weekly dinner rotation!
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American Goulash
American Goulash – One of the original classic one-pot meals! Loaded with beef and macaroni noodles, cooked to tender perfection in a rich tomatoey sauce. With a simple list of ingredients and fool-proof instructions, this comforting recipe is a favorite for busy families. Even picky eaters will lick their bowls clean!
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Crockpot Salsa Chicken
This Crockpot Salsa Chicken with cheese requires only 3 ingredients. It’s embarrassingly easy to make, full of flavor and so delicious! 
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Harvest Rice
Get yourself ready for the holidays with this incredible Harvest Rice full of fall flavors. It's really easy to make, great for any night of the week yet perfect for your holiday spread.
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Oven Baked Chicken Thighs
This Oven Baked Chicken Thighs recipe is a force to be reckoned with! Simple and deliciously baked chicken with a mustard, honey glaze – this dish is definitely going to be a top-contender in your weekly recipe planning!
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Easy Swiss Steak
This Easy Swiss Steak recipe is made with inexpensive beef, cooked down until tender in a flavorful tomato sauce. Made all in one pot, an impressive steak dinner doesn't have to cost you so much money and effort!
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Roasted Cornish Hens
These Roasted Cornish Hens will be your new favorite recipe for romantic date nights or to impress dinner party guests. They're simple, elegant, and turn out perfectly every time with my easy step-by-step instructions.
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Spaghetti Bolognese
Spaghetti Bolognese is a classic Italian meat sauce that is a staple in most families. My super simple Spaghetti Bolognese is the perfect dinner for any night of the week and will wow your family or guests.
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Mexican Pork Stew
This One Pot spicy Mexican Pork Stew brimming with pork, sausage and beans is a classic hearty dish full of deep Mexican flavor and makes for a delicious and easy weeknight meal.
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Instant Pot BBQ Pulled Pork
Easy and quick Instant Pot BBQ Pulled Pork done in a fraction of the usual time. Juicy pork shoulder cooked in the most delicious BBQ sauce and loaded with tons of flavor. Perfect for a busy weeknight or your holiday entertaining. 
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Italian Stuffed Peppers
These Italian Stuffed Peppers are incredibly simple to make, with only 15 minute prep time, you'll end up with a sinfully delicious and sophisticated dinner. Classic Italian comfort food that's not only tasty but really healthy and good for you!
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Roast Beef
Learn how to make perfect Roast Beef with this foolproof recipe! Featuring instructions to cook your roast to any temperature you prefer, this is a guaranteed winner for any special occasion you host. Whether it's family or guests, I've got you covered for a gorgeous dinner table centrepiece.
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Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup
This Creamy Cheesy Chicken Enchilada Soup is a fiesta of flavors full of chunks of chicken, black beans, corn and diced tomatoes, for a complete satisfying and comforting bowl of soup.
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Pastitsio (Greek Lasagna)
Also known as Greek Lasagna, this Pastitsio is everything comfort food should be. The perfect dish for a large crowd that will please even the pickiest of eaters. Layers of pasta, a delicious and aromatic meat sauce, topped with a special bechamel sauce, is what this Greek Lasagna is all about.
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Curried Butternut Squash Soup
This Curried Butternut Squash Soup is perfectly spiced with cumin, curry and turmeric, loaded with butternut squash and apples. Creamy, delicious and soul-warming! This recipe is the epitome of fall comfort food.
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Oxtail Stew
This rich Oxtail Stew recipe features tender meat braised in a rich and flavorful gravy. Made with incredibly straightforward step-by-step instructions, this is a recipe you will master for your first try even if it's you're first time working with oxtail.
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Beef Barley Soup
This Beef Barley Soup is rich, satisfying, comfort food in a bowl. A hearty and delicious soup, loaded with tender chunks of beef, barley, fresh herbs and veggies!
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One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese
This One Pot Chili Mac and Cheese combines two great comfort foods all in one! Delicious and hearty, quick and comforting, perfect dinner for back to school and ready in under 30 minutes.
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Honey Roasted Butternut Squash
Using only a handful of ingredients, this Honey Roasted Butternut Squash is one of the best side dishes for any Holiday or weekday dinner. It's a seasonal favorite enjoyed by many that is both healthy and satisfying.
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Healthy Whole Wheat and Oats Pumpkin Pancakes
These Whole Wheat and Oats Pumpkin Pancakes are super healthy, no oil, no fat, no guilt whole wheat and oats pancakes. They're fluffy and perfectly spiced, just what you need on a fall weekend breakfast or brunch!
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Easy Beef Lasagna
This Easy Beef Lasagna is the easiest lasagna ever! There's no need to boil noodles or slave away for hours over the stove for this recipe. It's the perfect meal for a busy weeknight dinner.
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Chicken Fricassee
This Chicken Fricassee recipe is an easy and hearty weeknight meal. This comforting stew is loaded with pearl onions, mushrooms, and chicken. I guarantee you’ll be craving seconds!
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Apple Cider Donuts
Perfectly spiced and beautifully tender, these Apple Cider Donuts are about to be your latest and greatest fall snack, and yes I know the competition is stacked. Full of warm cinnamon, freshly ground nutmeg, tangy apple cider, and with a heavenly chew, these donuts are buzz worthy.
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Flu Fighter Chicken Noodle Soup
This Flu Fighter Chicken Noodle Soup is loaded with good for you ingredients, it’s cozy and the epitome of comfort food. Perfect for when you’re feeling congested or experiencing flu-like symptoms.
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Coconut Chicken Curry
This Creamy Coconut Chicken Curry is delicious, healthy, made in one pot and best of all ready in only 30 minutes! Forget take-out, this is about to become your new family favorite.
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Easy Apple Cake
A delicious and easy Apple Cake with chunks of sweet apples perfect for your Fall baking. Using only a few basic pantry staples, this cake is incredibly easy to make. Serve this with a cup of tea or coffee anytime of the day.
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Apple Bacon Stuffed Pork Chops
Apple Bacon Stuffed Pork Chops with blue cheese – thick cut, juicy pork chops cooked to perfection and loaded with an incredible apple, bacon and blue cheese stuffing.
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Instant Pot Mississippi Pot Roast
Instant Pot Mississippi Pot Roast – Dinner this delicious has never been so easy! Made with fork-tender chuck roast, tangy pickled pepperoncini, and simple seasonings. Serve with creamy mashed potatoes and bask in the greatness of such a simple creation!
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Cinnabons Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnabons Cinnamon Rolls – A Cinnabon copycat recipe, adapted from Todd Wilbur’s  “More Top Secret Recipes” cookbook. About the closest you’ll get to the real thing. Super easy to make.
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Chicken with Creamy Mushroom Sauce
This Chicken with Creamy Mushroom Sauce is a simple yet very elegant dish featuring boneless skinless chicken breasts in a delicious creamy mushroom sauce made with white wine and cream.
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Creamy Cajun Pastalaya
Creamy Cajun Pastalaya – just like jambalaya but better, made with pasta instead and with a creamy sauce and Fontina cheese. Great crowd pleaser and super simple!
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Pumpkin Sausage Pasta
This Pumpkin Sausage Pasta is the perfect comforting fall meal! A delicious and creamy sauce with sausage and pumpkin. Not only is this dish super easy and flavorful but it's ready in just 30 minutes.
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Chicken and Dumplings
This easy recipe for Chicken and Dumplings is the ideal comfort food. A hearty recipe that uses roasted chicken, fluffy buttermilk and chive dumplings that’s both simple to make and shockingly easy to lose yourself in for a moment or two.
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Jambalaya
Enjoy the flavors of this classic Jambalaya made all in one pot, loaded with chicken, andouille sausage, and shrimp. This colorful dish packed with fresh ingredients may look intimidating at first glance, but it is a cinch to make.
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Pressure Cooker Whole Chicken
This step-by-step guide for the best Pressure Cooker Whole Chicken recipe is going to be your new weeknight go-to! In no time at all you’ll have the most tender fall-off-the-bone chicken with crispy skin. 
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  1. COLLEEN says

    October 24, 2021 at 10:04 am

    these look great yummy

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