What should I make for a potluck (covered dish) dinner?

Question

I need to make a quick and easy dish for a potluck this Thursday night. Please give me some suggestions and recipes. Try not to give any casserole recipes.

Answer 1

A super simple cold slaw is always good. Buy the pre cut cabbage slaw. Add a bottle of cold slaw dressing and a few herbs or olives,chopped tomato, what ever you have or like. Make it your own special dish. MMmmmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 2

How about a nice fresh tomato salad?

Here goes:

Cut up 4 or 5 Roma tomatoes in chunks about 1"

Slice about half a red onion

Slice about half a cucumber

Toss together and either make your own vinegar and oil dressing, or use a bottled Italian dressing like Wish Bone.  And you can add croutons (or not) at the last minute.

Either way, it's good.

Answer 3

Potato Salad. People like familiar things.  Every time someone goes to something like this, someone brings Potato Salad.  They'll expect it.  Fill the Potato Salad void.

Answer 4

Asian 5 Spice Barbecued Pork Tenderloins with Mango Citrus Salsa  

Show:  30 Minute Meals  

Episode:  Potluck Perfection  



2 to 2 1/2 pounds pork tenderloins, trimmed of fat

Steak seasoning blend or salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/4 cup dark brown sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons Chinese 5 spice powder (found in spice section or Asian foods section)

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1/3 cup Hoisin prepared Chinese barbecue sauce

1 navel orange, zested and juiced

1 teaspoon dark sesame oil

2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds, for garnish

2 tablespoons chopped cilantro or chives, for garnish

Salsa:

2 ripe mangos, peeled and pitted, diced

1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped

1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped

1/2 red onion, chopped

1 ripe lime, juiced

20 leaves basil, shredded

Coarse salt

Frankie Wraps:

3 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup water, eyeball it

2 scallions, thinly sliced

Vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon per wrap

10 flour tortillas, 8 inches

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Coat tenderloins in steak seasoning or season with salt and pepper. Combine brown sugar and 5 spice powder. Rub sugar and spice over pork. Brush baking dish or broiler pan with oil. Place pork in oven and bake 10 minutes. Combine barbecue sauce with orange zest and juice and sesame oil. Baste meat liberally with sauce and roast meat 15 minutes longer. Remove meat from oven and transfer to a serving platter. Coat meat with sesame and cilantro or chives for color.

Combine mango, bell pepper, jalapeno, onion, lime and basil in a bowl. Season with salt, to your taste.

To make Frankie wraps, heat a nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Beat eggs with water and scallions. Drizzle 1 teaspoon oil into hot skillet and pour in a little of the egg mixture. Add 1 tortilla, cook 30 seconds, then flip. Cook 15 seconds, then flip tortilla back and cook 15 seconds longer. Remove Frankie wrap from the pan and repeat with remaining ingredients. Pile tortillas in foil to keep warm.

To assemble, thinly slice tenderloins and pile meat and salsa at the edge of a Frankie wrap. Tuck up bottoms and edges and roll

Answer 5

My favourite is SWEET BEAN POT:

Combine 2 cans of baked beans with 4 different cans of beans.

Rinse & drain the kidney, pinto, garbanzo, & lima, kind.

Place in a 4-5 qt slow-cooker & set aside.

Cook 8 slices of bacon, diced, reserve 2 tbsp of drippings.

Add 1 1/2 cups of thin sliced Spanish onion, until softened.

Add 2 garlic cloves minced, heat & stir until fragrant.

Add 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup apple vinegar, 1 tsp dry mustard.

Stir in 1/2 tsp salt, bring to boil, add to beans, stir & cover.

Cook on Low for 6 hours or High for 3 hours.

Answer 6

Try making a beef chuck roast in a dutch oven with veggies. Do you have a dutch oven?

Answer 7

It seems to me every time i go to a potluck there are more desserts than anything. Which I'm not complaining any but still. I always try to make something that doesn't involve sugar. Last time I made white chili. It was a hit everyone enjoyed nibbling on it as we played cards. And if that doesn't work try making twice baked baby red potatoes.

Good luck

Answer 8

I love to do shredded BBQ pork.  Its always a hit

Take a pork butt, season with garlic powder, salt and pepper and brown sugar.  Cook in your crock on Low for about 4 hours.  Dump a can of Coke on it and let it go another hour.  Take roast out and put in a bowl and shred with two forks (or do what my hubby does when he makes it and cut into chunks, put in food processor and pulse until it is shredded).  Next pour a bottle of BBQ sauce on it (we love Sweet Baby Ray's) mix well.  Drain juice/drippings out of crock.  Return shredded mix to crock, stir and heat through.  Serve with crusty buns and pickles.

Answer 9

here's my version of baked beans, everyone who's had em loves em:

2 cans of pork n beans undrained

1/4 cup brown sugar (light or dark)

1/2 cup of bbq sauce

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp yellow mustard

1 tbsp ketcup

mix all ingredients and pour into an oven proof dish, bake on 250 for an hour. yummy!

other than that, you could take pasta salad, or a tray of meat and cheese or fruit salad.