21 Recipes for a Father's Day Barbecue (2024)

Summer is finally here time to fire up the grill and whip up a dream barbecue for Dad.

All 37 Recipes are Dad tested and guaranteed to be delicious and easy. So everyone can get outside and enjoy the party.

Here at our house we usually start our Father’s Day with a leisurely brunch by the pool or a mid-morning boat ride and then ease into an early backyard barbeque.

Mix and match from the recipes below to create the perfect father’s day barbecue that will make Dad’s day!

Happy Father’s Day!

Cheers!

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Featured Image: Crudités Plate with 3 Dipping Sauces – Pesto,Tzatziki, and Roasted Beet Dip

Homemade Pesto

Tzatziki

Roasted Beet Dip

This is another budget-friendly platter that can be made with fresh vegetables from the supermarket.

• Quartered Baby Cucumbers
• Pepper Slices (Use a combination of red, yellow and green peppers)
• Carrot Sticks (or look for multi-colored Rainbow carrots.Carrotsare readily available in five maincolorsin the stores these days: orange, red, purple, white, and yellow.
• Cherry or Grape Tomatoes
• Green Beans
• Rainbow Radishes

Spanish Garlic Prawns (Gambas Al Ajillo) with Crusty Bread

This classic Spanish tapa is super easy to make and is the perfect appetizer or starter for your Father’s Day barbecue. The garlicky goodness is pure heaven. Make sure you have lots of crusty bread to soak up every last drop of this dreamy garlic sauce.

Spicy Blackberry and Bourbon Chicken Skewers

Simple and easy this is the perfect starter for a backyard barbecue to celebrate Dad. Grilled chicken skewers are so easy to make and easy to eat (leaving a hand free for Dad’s co*cktail). The spicy bourbon and blackberry barbecue sauce take these tender pieces of chicken to the next level of goodness. This may just become your favorite barbecue sauce.

Charcuterie Platter with fresh fruit and assorted cheese and crackers

I know charcuterie is soooo last year, but it remains a favorite around our house. I love searching for the perfect ingredients to put on my board, trying new cheeses and other little tidbits.

And everyone loves having something to nibble on while enjoying a co*cktail and waiting for dinner to be served.

Make a Creative Crudités Platter

These are definitely not your mama’s old crudités platters or the dreadful grocery store vegetable tray of wilted carrots, celery, and ranch dressing.

These creative crudités platters are beautiful and are filled with amazing flavors and textures that will wow any crowd.

Perfect for appetizers, nibbles before a meal or BBQ, and awesome for potlucks and block parties.

Without meat, these are a great vegan and vegetarian-friendly appetizer that everyone will love.

Easy Grilled Chicken Wings

Everyone loves chicken wings and these are made super easy with a super-secret hack – the slow cooker.

It can be hard to get wings cooked perfectly on the grill. Cooking the chicken wings in the slow cooker before grilling makes these wings super tender, perfectly cooked, and ready for your favorite chicken wing sauce.

Try them with one or all of these sauces. yum!

Anchor Bar Buffalo Sauce (the original)

Tropical Coco Loco

Honey BBQ

Chili Sesame Soy Sauce

Homemade Hummus and Veggies Tray

This Homemade Hummus with veggie is so easy to make and super delicious you’ll wonder why you ever buy packaged hummus.

This is a terrific starter for any party or backyard barbecue.

Plus this recipe is easy to customize.

Hot Crab Dip Recipe

Filled with tons of lump crab meat and served hot this is so good. This is by far the number one dish people request for potlucks, birthdays, and any special celebration.

Serve with a selection of crackers, crusty bread, and vegetables.

It’s also really good served with tortillas chips.

Featured Image: Greek Heirloom Tomato Salad

Goat Cheese and Walnut Panzanella Salad

Goat Cheese and Walnut Panzanella Salad with a light honey mustard vinaigrette is the perfect starter salad to serve for a Father’s Day barbeque.

Panzanella is just a fancy name for a salad that includes bread as one of the main ingredients. It’s very popular for summer filled with tomatoes and bread.

Once you learn to make this delicious bread salad you’ll find all sorts of ways to customize this salad.

Healthy Arugula Salad with Grilled Nectarines

I love to pair fruit with cheese in salads. I really love grilling my fruit before adding to the salad, it just brings out an earthy sweetness that I can’t resist. Try this super delicious, low calorie, and healthy arugula salad with grilled nectarines – it’s sure to be a hit at your next cookout.

Grilling the nectarines brings out the full flavor of the fruit. The sweet, tartness of the nectarines paired with gorgonzola is the perfect complement to the bite of arugula.

Watermelon and Feta Salad

Refreshing, light, and delicious. This super easy watermelon and feta cheese salad recipe is sure to be a big hit.

Simple Strawberry Summer Salad

Strawberries and salad greens come together in this beautiful simple strawberry summer salad. The salad looks special and fancy but is really easy to make, your guests will be impressed.

No time for the fancy presentation. No worries, just toss everything together. It will be just as delicious and still look amazing.

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Grilled Loaded Baked Potato Salad

For a different twist on the same old potato salad try this Loaded Baked Potato Salad recipe.

You can really taste the potatoes without all the yucky mayonnaise.

This is a lower-calorie version using fresh ingredients and baked potatoes.

Rosette Italian Vegetable Tart

Yeah, I know this looks super fancy. But the Rosette Italian Vegetable Tart is easy to make and absolutely delicious, plus it’s beautiful. Guests will rave about this veggie tart.

Twice Baked Potato Casserole

Everything you love about twice baked potatoes but without all the fuss. This is so easy and is sure to become a go-to recipe.

Grilled Corn Topping Station

Summer is corn season. Corn at its peak is so sweet and delicious that it really doesn’t need any topping but these 10 amazing toppings are perfect for creating a “do it yourself” corn on the cob topping station.

Grilled Zucchini, Squash and Asparagus Recipe

Grilled veggies are delicious, nutritious and super easy. Try this Grilled Zucchini, Squash and Asparagus recipe for a quick side dish for your next BBQ.

My family loves grilled zucchini and squash. They let me add asparagus since it’s one of my favorite vegetables.

You can experiment with different veggie combinations, just remember to cut your veggies to about the same thickness, so they cook evenly.

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Philly Style Grilled Sausage and Peppers Recipe

My Philly husband loves sausage and peppers. I’ve adapted the traditional recipe so that it can be the centerpiece of our backyard barbecues.

The peppers and onions steam perfectly in foil packs and grilling the sausage brings out the smoky flavor of the hot Italian sausage.

We have the perfect sausage and peppers, now if I could just get Cacia’s or Sarcone’s rolls in Florida…

Grilled Lobster Mac and Cheese

Yum…

Lobster Mac and Cheese is an all-time favorite.

Grilling the lobster before adding to the Lobster Mac and Cheese makes this recipe a true standout.

So decadent and so good. Grilled Lobster Mac and Cheese is the perfect dish for special occasions but it’s so easy to make you can have it any night of the week.

Replace lobster with shrimp or crab meat.

Whole Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Roast Garlic Blue Cheese

Whole Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Roasted Garlic and Blue Cheese is an elegant and easy to make an entree for holidays and special occasions.

Everyone will be wowed and only you will know how easy this is to make. This is sure to become a new favorite recipe.

Lemon Rosemary Grilled Salmon Recipe

This easy Lemon Rosemary Grilled Salmon will become one of your most requested backyard cookout recipes.

On hot summer nights, this is one of my go-to recipes. it cooks on the grill so I keep the kitchen clean.

It’s a light and perfectly satisfying meal. Perfect for any barbeque. Great news this is a great low-calorie option.

Cajun Beer Can Chicken Recipe

This Cajun beer can chicken recipe is a smokey, spicy twist on the all-time favorite beer can chicken recipe (as kids we called this butt can chicken).

Rubbed with a Cajun seasoning mix, over a can of Abita Beer with grilled andouille sausage.

Heaven, there’s nothing better.

Grab a cold one and let’s cook this Cajun beer can chicken recipe.

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Bayou Swamp Water co*cktail

This Bayou Swamp Water co*cktail is filled with pineapple juice, coconut rum, citron vodka, Chartreuse, and blue curaçao.