🌽🍠🍎🎃 My 20 Best Recipes to Make in September including cozy soups, hearty salads, comforting main dishes, and apple and pumpkin desserts. These recipes are perfect for savoring the last bits of seasonal summer produce while easing into heartier fall ingredients 🍁 and seasonal flavors we’ve been waiting for!
What’s Seasonal In September
September is the time to embrace the shift into fall while a few last summer favorites are still around. For veggies, enjoy the last tastes of corn, zucchini, and tomatoes before welcoming bell peppers, squash of all kinds, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and root vegetables.
Say goodbye to peaches and plums and hello to apples and pumpkin in every form for the coziest seasonal desserts. Pears, figs, and pomegranates peak now too.
All of these ingredients are easy to work with and help you pull together easy dinners with big, comforting flavors and simple tasty desserts you’ll want to make on repeat!
Savory Soups, Hearty Salads, and Comforting Mains
Stuffed Acorn Squash
🍎🍂🧡 Stuffed with a mixture of Italian sausage, celery, apple, kale, and seasoned with sage, rosemary, and thyme. This is the perfect fall dinner or hearty side dish recipe that’s ready in under an hour! Healthy, easy, full of flavor and texture, and a very versatile recipe!
Creamy Corn Chowder
🌽🥓🥔 An EASY creamy corn chowder recipe with bacon and kielbasa for smoky flavor while fresh sweet corn adds juicy sweetness and light crunch! Along with potatoes and heavy cream, this is comfort food food at its finest! Made in ONE pot, ready in 45 minutes, and is so filling and satisfying! Can be made with frozen or canned corn if fresh corn isn’t in season.
Roasted Chicken and Sweet Potato Harvest Salad
🥗🧡🍂 Fall-inspired ingredients including tender sweet potatoes, juicy chicken, red onions, cranberries, and pumpkin seeds topped with a honey apple cider vinaigrette! A HEARTY and COMFORTING salad that makes a big batch perfect for planned leftovers!
Hot Cheesy Corn Dip
🌽🧀🎉 This super FAST and EASY corn dip recipe has just 5 ingredients and takes only 5 minutes to stir together making it the PERFECT last-minute appetizer to whip up! It’s great for casual entertaining, tailgating, game day parties, or any time you need a quick baked oh-so-cheesy dip!
Slow Cooker Pumpkin Soup
Sweet Potato Curry
🍠😍🎉 An EASY one-skillet curry that’s ready in 30 minutes and is layered with so many fabulous flavors! HEALTHY comfort food that tastes AMAZING!
Sweet Treats and Desserts with Apples and Pumpkin
Apple Fritter Bread
🍎🍁 Soft, fluffy, and loaded with apples, cinnamon, and sugar inside and on top. It tastes like an apple fritter in bread form and is so EASY to make!
Carrot Apple Bread
🥕🍎🍏This apple carrot bread tastes like carrot cake that’s been infused with apples and it’s AMAZING! Soft, tender, moist, layered with warm flavors and a family favorite! It’s a no mixer recipe that goes from bowl to oven in minutes!
Apple Dump Cake
🍎🍏 The easiest apple cake you’ll ever make because you don’t even need to stir it! Just dump cinnamon-sugar coated apples and cake mix into a pan, pour melted butter over the top, and bake this 5-ingredient dessert. This ultra simple apple dessert reminds me of apple cobbler minus the work. It’s the perfect way to enjoy fall apples! 🍁
The Best Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
🧡🤎🙌🏻🍁 This recipe is truly the BEST homemade pumpkin bread you’ll ever make! It’s an EASY, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that’s guaranteed to win over the hearts of friends and family – it’s just THAT good! It’s moist, soft, tender, packed with chocolatey goodness, and tastes like a heavenly slice of fall!
Pumpkin Spice Cruffins
Pumpkin Spice Cruffins – What you get when you marry a croissant with pumpkin spice and bake it in a muffin pan!! The EASIEST recipe that uses just a handful of convenience ingredients, ready in 20 minutes, and perfect for pumpkin season!!
Cinnamon Sugar-Topped Pumpkin Spice Bread
🎃🍁 An EASY quick bread that bakes up super soft, tender, and moist with plenty of warm fall flavor. The slightly crunchy cinnamon sugar topping is the best part and adds the perfect contrast to every bite. Made as mini loaves, they bake quickly and are perfect for fall snacking, gifting, or entertaining!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake
🎃🍫 is soft, moist, and loaded with chocolate in every bite. This EASY one bowl fall dessert is perfect for entertaining or whenever a pumpkin craving strikes!
