Halloween Dinner Ideas
Halloween dinner ideas — pumpkin pastas, butternut squash risottos, sweet potato skillets, and orange-hued savory dinners for October 31.
★ Jack-o-Lantern Twist
Jack-o-Lantern TwistStuffed Peppers
Only fitting that my first pepper post is of course... peppers!! This is one of my all time favorite dinners because it’s so easy and so filling😋
Michelle TsizhovkinIngredients
- olive oil
- 1/2 cup Yellow Onion
- 2 cloves minced Garlic
- 1 pack Ground Turkey/ meat of choice
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- to taste cayenne
- to taste onion powder
- to taste garlic powder
- one jar tomato sauce
- 4 bell peppers
- one cup shredded mozzerella
- a few pieces buffalo mozzarella
Instructions
- 1Preheat the oven to 375.
- 2Sauté onions and garlic in olive oil until onions become transparent
- 3While thats cooking, cut the top off the peppers and scoop any insides out so it’s hollow, and line in a baking tray. I find that using a loaf tin is the most convenient for baking peppers.
- 4If you prefer your peppers on the softer side, bake them in the oven as it’s preheating while cooking the onions, garlic, and meat!
- 5Add your meat of choice to the onions and garlic and cook all the way through, seasoning with salt, pepper, cayenne, onion powder, and garlic powder
- 6Once meat is cooked, add tomato sauce and let simmer for a few minutes
- 7Scoop meat mixture into bell peppers and top with shredded cheese and pieces of buffalo mozzerella. Bake for 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, broil the last two minutes to get the cheese nice and toasty.
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Open in Pepper →The Dinner Before the Candy
Halloween dinner has one job: fill the kids up before they hit the candy trail. Something warm, filling, and quick enough to serve before dusk.
Cooks on Pepper use this collection every year for the same reason — every recipe leans on pumpkin, squash, or sweet potato for the holiday color, and lands on the table in 30 minutes.
Every recipe here is savory (dessert is coming), photogenic in orange, and family-friendly enough that costumed kids will actually eat before running out the door.
Quick Tips
- 1
Roast pumpkin at 425°F
Higher heat caramelizes the edges — the sweetness carries the whole dish.
- 2
Use butternut for creamy sauces
Butternut blends silky-smooth, pumpkin can turn stringy.
- 3
Pre-cook to hit trick-or-treat time
Most of these hold well — start the sauce an hour early so dinner lands 6pm sharp.
- 4
Add sage or brown butter
One tablespoon of brown butter with fried sage turns any squash dish into a fall centerpiece.
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