10,000 main dish recipes

Crispy flour-dredged soft-shell crabs served on a pool of creamy tomato sauce with creme fraiche, cumin seeds, celery seeds, garlic, and shallots. A restaurant-worthy crab dish with a make-ahead sauce.

Lightened-up hash brown casserole with frozen shredded potatoes, evaporated skim milk, nonfat sour cream, and sharp cheddar under a crisp buttered cornflake crust. A church-potluck classic, reformed.

Italian rabbit saddles boned, rolled around a garlic-olive-rosemary stuffing, then seared and braised in fresh tomato sauce. Rustic Tuscan cooking at its most honest.

Moo grataem, a Thai garlic pork stir-fry with fish sauce, sweet dark soy sauce, and fresh cilantro. Thin-sliced pork tenderloin over rice in 30 minutes flat.

Frogmore stew is the classic Lowcountry boil: red potatoes, smoked sausage, corn, and shrimp simmered in one Old Bay-spiced pot. Staggered timing means everything finishes just right for a dump-and-feast spread.

Treat your guests tonight with this succulent chicken dish that will have them licking their lips after every forkful!

Golubtsi, traditional Russian cabbage rolls stuffed with millet, salt pork, carrots, and onion, simmered in a tangy sour cream and tomato sauce. Old-country comfort food with deep roots.

Mediterranean monkfish kebabs marinated in olive oil, lemon, garlic, and rosemary, then grilled with bell pepper between meaty cubes of fish. A firm fish that grills like lobster without falling apart.

Lobster or shrimp fra diavolo in a spicy tomato sauce with red wine, hot peppers, garlic, and fresh herbs, tossed with pasta. Italian-American seafood at its boldest.

Cheesy Tex-Mex rice loaded with melted Monterey Jack, sharp cheddar, green bell pepper, corn, and olives, finished with creamy yogurt. A weeknight side or vegetarian main.

Cajun chicken sauce piquant with a dark roux, Chablis wine, tomato sauce, stuffed olives, and hot pepper sauce, slow-cooked for hours and served over spaghetti. Big-batch Cajun cooking.

Sausage-stuffed baked apples topped with brown sugar and bacon, roasted until the apples turn soft and sweet. A savory-sweet fall main dish with just six ingredients.

Pan-seared chicken breasts with a white wine tarragon pan sauce, chives, and parsley. A light, elegant weeknight dinner ready in 25 minutes with just a handful of ingredients.

Creamy chicken on biscuits made with cream of chicken soup, sauteed celery, green pepper, and pimento. A quick comfort food dinner using leftover cooked chicken.

Smoked ham stuffed with cranberry cornbread stuffing and glazed with whole berry cranberry sauce and corn syrup. A stunning holiday centerpiece with built-in sweet-tart contrast.

Hot Indian chicken curry blooms cumin and cardamom in oil, then builds a tomato-onion masala with ginger, garlic, and Thai chili. Garam masala spiced, served over rice.