11 Essential Southern Recipes Everyone Should Make In 2024

If you made a resolution to cook more and take out less this year, we think this collection of Southern recipes is the best place to start. We've rounded up a list of our favorite dishes that will take you from breakfast to dinner, plus snacks, appetizers, and drinks that are always needed when company's coming.

Cooking your way through this list throughout 2024 will help you revisit vintage classics, such as Pineapple Casserole, Skillet Cornbread, and Fried Green Tomatoes. You might even discover new family favorites and sharpen your cooking skills. After all, we've never heard of a time when someone could turn town a slice of Tomato Pie or scoop of cobbler, no matter the fruit.

Whether you're whipping something up for the next potluck or planning a dinner party, you'll always be able to count on these classic Southern recipes for making mealtime feel more like home. It's time for some comfort cooking, y'all!

1: Cheese Dreams

Similarly as the name suggests, when you make these little chomps you'll dream constantly about them. These are additionally only what to make ahead on the grounds that they freeze (you got it!) like a fantasy.

2: Heirloom Tomato Pie

We took your grandma's tomato pie recipe and refreshed it with flawless legacy tomatoes and a natively constructed Parmesan-Buttermilk Hull. It's too beautiful to even think about eating. Kindly note that we said nearly.

3: Soup Beans

This Appalachian staple is something you'll need to add to your supper pivot. The velvety pinto beans are best matched with a few chow and cornbread.

4: Homemade Chicken Salad

Yes, you love chicken serving of mixed greens, yet perhaps this year, you'll make it absolutely without any preparation (no rotisserie chicken this time!). It's many individuals' go-to recipe for an explanation, so get to it!

5: Old-Fashioned Banana Pudding

We've shared an entire pack of our number one easy routes to recipes, however there is one recipe where everything except hand crafted essentially won't cut it. From the meringue fixing to the pudding, everything (with the exception of the vanilla wafers obviously) is produced using scratch, and that is exactly the way in which we like it.

6: Homestyle Ground Beef Casserole

"Meal" could typically fall onto hard of hearing ears assuming you have a family loaded with particular youngsters, however that won't be the situation with this Homestyle Ground Hamburger Dish. This dish utilizes kid-accommodating fixings like ground hamburger, noodles and cheddar to make an encouraging supper.

7: Over the Moon Chocolate Pie

This pie was motivated by a Chattanooga-number one, the MoonPie. It has an entirely tacky marshmallow meringue and a chocolate filling that makes certain to carry a grin to each chocolate sweethearts face.

8: Pear Salad

You realize that Southerners have a gift for assembling dishes that never dissapoint. Mom adored this serving of mixed greens, and best of all, there's no cooking required.

9: Curried Okra Shoestring Fries

Everybody will cherish eating their okra when it takes on a fry-like surface. Indeed, even the stalwart okra critics can't eat only one.

10: Praline-Cream Cheese King Cake

We know that during specific seasons, you see this exemplary cake in each and every supermarket and bread kitchen, yet you can make it yourself, as well. We added a few walnuts to give that cream cheddar filling a smidgen of a punch.

11: Creamed Chipped Hamburger and Toast

This nostalgic recipe can be served over Texas toast or buttermilk bread rolls. Best of all, you can store your Chipped Meat in the refrigerator for as long as four days.