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Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

4th of July Dinner Recipes

This Vegetable Macaroni Salad is a favorite side for family barbecues and potlucks. Made with a creamy mayo dressing and filled with olives, cucumbers, celery, tomatoes, dill pickles, green onions, and pimientos, this flavor-packed pasta salad has a perfect blend of crispness from the veggies and creaminess from the dressing. Here the image is close up on the serving bowl filled with the macaroni salad, ready to serve.

Vegetable Macaroni Salad

This Potato Salad with Dill Pickles is a favorite side dish for summer barbecuing. The salad has a creamy mayo based dressing mixed with red potatoes, celery, green onions, dill pickles, and hard-boiled eggs. It gets a flavor boost with a little Greek seasoning in the dressing and a dill and paprika garnish. Here the potato salad is featured in a serving bowl with dill, pickles and green onions on the side and background, all of which are ingredients in the salad or as a garnish.

Potato Salad with Dill Pickles

This is our favorite chicken salad. We love the chicken, celery, grapes, craisins, almonds, and green onions in the salad, and the dressing takes it over the top. The creamy mayonnaise poppy seed dressing has a little sugar, oil and vinegar, and Dijon mustard that really sets this chicken salad apart. Here the chicken salad is served on a plate in an open, halved croissant with additional croissants, sandwiches, and salad in the background.

Croissant Chicken Salad

These Garlic Parmesan Green Beans are the perfect side dish for a weeknight meal or a special holiday dinner. Ready in minutes, these green beans are boiled to crisp-tender then sauteed with a delicious garlic butter seasoning and finished with a sprinkling of Parmesan. Here the prepared beans are pictured in a saute pan with tongs in the pan ready to pick up a serving of beans.

Garlic Parmesan Green Beans

Sweet potato salad in a serving bowl made with cinnamon roasted sweet potatoes and pecans, crumbled bacon, sliced apples, Craisins, mixed greens, feta cheese, and sliced red onions. Served with a maple vinaigrette.

Sweet Potato Salad Recipe