Welcome summer with the ultimate list of fresh and summery gluten free recipes! From sizzling grilled dishes, to berry-packed desserts, garden-fresh salads, and cooling cocktails, your summer cooking bucket list is here!
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Warm nights, ‘skeeter bites, frosty sips, and popsicle drips – that’s what summer days are made of!
This roundup of gluten free summer recipes makes me feel dizzy (and hungry!) in the best possible way. There are so many dishes I want to cook over the next few months and so I’ve rounded up over 60 of my freshest, most delicious, and summery gluten free recipes to welcome the new season with.
From sizzling steaks, to berry-packed desserts, garden-fresh salads, and cool cocktails, I hope you find one, two, or twenty recipes to enjoy over the next few months!
Dessert Recipes
Dirt Cake
Dirt Cake is a classic Midwestern dessert that's loved by all. This no-bake dessert recipe is perfect for holidays and summer BBQs.
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Gluten Free Blueberry Crisp
Gluten Free Blueberry Crisp is a luscious, blueberry filling beneath a craveable, crunchy-crisp topping. The perfect summer dessert recipe!
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Gluten Free S’Mores Bars
Gluten Free S’Mores Bars are sweet, sticky, and ooey-gooey — no campfire needed! A quintessential summer treat that can be enjoyed all year round.
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Gluten Free Lemon Bars
Gluten Free Lemon Bars are a simple yet outstanding dessert made with everyday ingredients. This bright and sweet-tart treat will be loved by all!
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Gluten Free Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars
Gluten Free Frosted Sugar Cookie Bars are soft, chewy, and finished with a flourish of homemade buttercream frosting!
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Gluten Free Peach Cobbler
Gluten Free Peach Cobbler is a cozy dessert recipe that makes just enough for 2. Perfectly sweet and made in just 1 bowl from kitchen staples.
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Triple Berry Crumb Bars
Triple Berry Crumb Bars are a sweet and easy gluten free dessert that's packed with fresh, juicy berries. Taste like pie but is so much easier!
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Gluten Free Peach Crisp
Gluten Free Peach Crisp is a cozy and irresistible summer dessert! A sweet-tart fresh peach filling is piled high with a brown sugar and oat topping then baked until golden brown, bubbly, and caramelized.
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Gluten Free Angel Food Cake
Gluten Free Angel Food Cake is impossibly light and fluffy, just like the original! This sweet and simple cake is perfection topped with whipped cream and berries.
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Gluten Free Blueberry Pie Bars
Gluten Free Blueberry Pie Bars taste like old fashioned pie — without all the work! A juicy blueberry filling is sandwiched between buttery crumb layers.
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Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake
Gluten-Free Strawberry Shortcake that's classic yet never fails to impressive. Simple, stunning, and perfect for any spring or summer dessert occasion.
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Oreo Mousse
Oreo Mousse is a fluffy and whippy gluten free dessert recipe that’s calls for just 3 main ingredients. Beyond yummy, and make ahead too!
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Gluten Free Zucchini Bread
Gluten Free Zucchini Bread is soft, tender, and dairy free too! This lower fat, healthier zucchini bread recipe will be a hit all summer long.
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Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins
Gluten Free Strawberry Muffins are moist and tender on the inside with a crystal-sugar snap on the outside. Perfectly sweet and summery!
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How to Cut Watermelon Sticks
Learn how to cut watermelon sticks — the best, mess-free way to serve watermelon, and a hit with kids! I’ll show you how with a video and step-by-step photos.
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Caprese Skewers with Balsamic Drizzle
Caprese Skewers with Balsamic Drizzle are a quick, healthy, fresh, and fabulous appetizer recipe! Easy to assemble, and perfectly poppable.
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Easy Fruit Dip
The Best Fruit Dip is made from 3 everyday ingredients and is perfect for the holidays, parties, showers, and BBQs. Pair with fresh fruit for a beautiful presentation.
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Best-Ever Southwestern Black Bean Dip
Best-Ever Southwestern Black Bean Dip is a party in a bowl! Fresh, healthy, and crunchy, it's a staple at parties and get togethers!
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Pickle Wrap Dip
Pickle Wrap Dip turns your favorite poppable appetizer into a simple, craveable dip. This easy, gluten free dip recipe is totally addicting!
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Easy Boursin Bruschetta Dip
Boursin Bruschetta Dip is an easy, summery appetizer recipe that features a layer of creamy Boursin cheese topped with fresh, homemade bruschetta. A total crowd-pleaser!
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Dirty Martini Dip
Dirty Martini Dip tastes like an olive-adorned dirty martini in dip form! This alcohol-free, bold and zesty dip is irresistible.
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Simple Vegan Pesto
Simple Vegan Pesto is made with fresh, everyday ingredients — no parmesan cheese needed. Use as a dip, marinade, or sauce. The possibilities are endless!
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Side Dish Recipes
The BEST Pasta Salad
The BEST Pasta Salad is an old family recipe that’s a hit at parties, potlucks, or as a zesty side dish with dinner. Full of flavor and punch!
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Cucumber Tomato Salad
Cucumber Tomato Salad drizzled with Italian Vinaigrette is the perfect side dish to any summer meal! Quick, fresh, healthy, and delicious.
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The Best Baked Beans Ever
The Best Baked Beans Ever are the perfect mix of sweet and savory. This old fashioned baked beans recipe with bacon will liven up any BBQ or cookout!
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Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad)
Esquites, aka Mexican Street Corn Salad, is full of fresh and craveable textures and flavors. Serve with any summer dinner!
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Gluten Free Potato Salad
Gluten Free Potato Salad is a classic potato salad free from crunchy mix-ins. This smooth and creamy homestyle potato salad recipe is the perfect summer side dish!
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Summer Sweet Corn Saute
Summer Sweet Corn Saute is a buttery, 5 ingredient side dish recipe that pairs perfectly with any summer dinner!
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Air Fryer Green Beans
It doesn't get easier than Air Fryer Green Beans! This simple side dish recipe cooks in less than 8 minutes and is full of both fresh and roasted flavors.
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Sweet Corn with Maple-Bourbon Brown Butter and Bacon
Sweet Corn with Maple-Bourbon Brown Butter and Bacon is an unforgettable side dish recipe that is PACKED with flavor and takes just 15 minutes to make.
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Green Beans with Bacon
Green Beans with Bacon is a simple yet mouthwatering side dish that's special enough for the holidays, yet easy enough to make with dinner tonight!
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Air Fryer Corn on the Cob
Air Fryer Corn on the Cob is a cinch to make! Sweet, snappy, and slightly caramelized — this easy method will become your favorite way to cook sweet corn.
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Salad Recipes
Napa Sweet Corn Salad
Napa Sweet Corn Salad is full of fresh flavors and lots of crunch. Serve as a healthy side dish with any summer dinner, or take to a BBQ!
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Steak Salad with Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Steak Salad with Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette is a feast for the eyes and stomach! This restaurant-quality salad is loaded with dried cherries, crispy shallots, candied pecans, and goat cheese.
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Grilled Chicken Salad
Grilled Chicken Salad is fresh, healthy, and packed with char-grilled flavor! Sizzle up this satisfying, summery salad recipe tonight.
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Chickpea Salad
Chickpea Salad is fresh, healthy, crunchy, and full of plant-based protein and fiber. Enjoy on it's own or serve with any dinner!
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Sweet Corn Caprese Salad
Sweet Corn Caprese Salad is a fun twist on the classic Caprese Salad. Serve this simple summer salad recipe with a grilled main, or all on its own.
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Big Mac Salad
A Big Mac Salad will fill you up without weighing you down. This low-carb, gluten free version of the drive thru classic is healthy, satisfying, and full of protein!
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Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd
Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe for a Crowd is bursting with sweet and juicy fruits and berries. This big batch recipe is perfect for parties and potlucks.
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Everyday Kale Salad
Everyday Kale Salad is so simple and delicious, you'll want to eat it every day! Serve this nutritious and flavorful salad for lunch, or as a side with dinner.
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Sesame Noodle Salad
Sesame Noodle Salad is fresh, light, and packed with fresh vegetables. Serve as a tasty side dish with dinner, or enjoy these cold sesame noodles on their own!
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Marinated Vegetable Salad
Marinated Vegetable Salad is a healthy, make-ahead salad recipe highlighting crunchy fresh vegetables. Quick, easy, and fresh!
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Strawberry-Basil Chicken Salad with Fried Goat Cheese Balls
Strawberry-Basil Chicken Salad with Fried Goat Cheese Balls is a fresh and flavor-packed summer recipe. Crunchy, creamy, sweet, and savory!
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Berry Chicken Quinoa Salad with Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette
Berry Chicken Quinoa Salad is packed with protein, vegetables, and berries then drizzled with a luscious, homemade Strawberry-Balsamic Vinaigrette.
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Chicken Caesar Salad Pasta
Chicken Caesar Salad Pasta is a fun and filling twist on classic Caesar Salad! Perfect for parties and potlucks, or simply dinner tonight.
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Peach Caprese Salad
Peach Caprese Salad is a summery-sweet twist on classic Caprese Salad. Serve as a light summer supper or a side dish to any grilled dinner!
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Italian Quinoa Salad
Italian Quinoa Salad is bursting with fresh and zesty flavors, packed with protein, and light and healthy too. Serve as a filling, gluten free lunch or side dish with dinner.
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Steak and Sweet Potato Bowls with Avocado-Cilantro Drizzle
Meat and potatoes just got an upgrade! Steak and Sweet Potato Bowls with Avocado-Cilantro Drizzle are healthy, fresh, and filling.
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Jennifer Aniston Salad
The Jennifer Aniston Salad is fresh, crunchy, and packed with plant-based protein. Enjoy this light, gluten free salad as a healthy lunch or dinner.
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Grilling and Smoker Recipes
Grilled Pork Tenderloin
Grilled pork tenderloin cooks in just 15 minutes! This easy, healthy grilling recipe is fork-tender, full of sizzling flavor, and fool proof.
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Perfect Grilled Steak with Herb Butter
Perfect Grilled Steak with Herb Butter features a homemade steak seasoning and buttery herb finish. This easy sizzling grilled steak recipe is mouthwatering!
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Sweet Chili Coconut-Lime Grilled Chicken
Sweet Chili Coconut-Lime Grilled Chicken with Coconut-Lime Cauliflower Rice is a light and refreshing grilled dinner. Simple and scrumptious!
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Simple Grilled Chicken Thighs
Simple Grilled Chicken Thighs are juicy, tender, and super easy – no marinade required! Great for meal prep or a delicious sizzling dinner.
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How to Smoke Salmon
Smoked Salmon is my #1 favorite food to smoke. Buttery, succulent and full of flavor, I’ll show you how to make hot-smoked salmon right at home!
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Smoked Chicken Wings
Smoked Chicken Wings are proof that big things come in small packages. These chicken wings are juicy, sizzling, and packed with flavor!
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Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Bruschetta
Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Bruschetta pairs sizzling grilled portobello mushrooms with fresh bruschetta topping. Serve as a healthy main or side dish.
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Entrees
Easy Baked Ribs
No smoker? No problem! Easy Baked Ribs are succulent, juicy, fall-off-the-bone-tender, and baked vs smoked.
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Mozzarella Bruschetta Chicken
Mozzarella Bruschetta Chicken is an easy chicken dinner recipe that pairs the craveable flavors of fresh bruschetta with mozzarella cheese.
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Creamy Summer Veggie Gnocchi Skillet
Creamy Summer Veggie Gnocchi Skillet combines fresh herbs and vegetables with sauteed gnocchi in this easy, gluten free comfort food recipe that's made in just 1 pan.
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Creamy Sweet Corn Pasta with Basil
Creamy Sweet Corn Pasta with Basil is the ultimate summer pasta dish. This 30 minute meal is creamy and decadent yet full of vegetables, and no actual cream required!
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Spaghetti al Pomodoro
Spaghetti al Pomodoro is the perfect recipe to highlight ripe and juicy summer tomatoes. This simple pasta dish is fresh and light!
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Sweet Corn Risotto
Sweet Corn Risotto is a celebration of fresh summer flavors and ingredients. Creamy and decadent yet light!
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Pasta Fresca
Pasta Fresca is a veggie-packed pasta dish that cooks in less than 15 minutes. This easy dinner recipe is fresh, light, and filling!
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Garlicky Tomato-Basil Shrimp with Zoodles
Garlicky Tomato-Basil Shrimp with Zoodles is a fresh and healthy, low carb, gluten free summer dinner recipe. Quick, easy and made in 1 skillet!
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Chicken with Summer Succotash
Chicken with Summer Succotash is a fresh and healthy chicken dinner that's packed with summer veggies and herbs. Light and simple!
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Drinks and Cocktails
Strawberry-Basil Ginger Cocktail
Strawberry-Basil Ginger Cocktail is a refreshing and easy vodka cocktail recipe featuring fresh strawberries and basil. This drink is also great served as a mocktail!
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Watermelon Jalapeño Margaritas
Watermelon Jalapeño Margaritas are the perfect balance of sweet and spice. Incredibly refreshing and no fancy liquors required!
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Secret Ingredient Rosé Sangria
Secret Ingredient Rosé Sangria is festive, refreshing, and flavored with a secret ingredient that puts it over the top!
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Sparkling Mint Limeade
Sparkling Mint Limeade is the ultimate thirst quencher! Sweet, tart, and fizzy, you'll love this refreshing mocktail recipe.
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Pomegranate Peach Prosecco Cocktail
Pomegranate Peach Prosecco Cocktail is fizzy and refreshing with zippy, unexpected flavors. Perfect for any special occasion!
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Blueberry Muffin Smoothie
Blueberry Muffin Smoothie tastes just like the baked good — minus all the sugar and flour! This healthy, gluten free smoothie is a real treat.
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I love this list! So many I’ve tried and so many I can’t wait to try!!
So great to hear it, Donna!! Happy eating! :D
Yum! All of these recipes look absolutely incredible! They are some of my favorites you’ve posted here on your blog!
Thank you so much, Melissa! Happy summer to you!
LOVE this list! I already book marked a few things to try in the next couple weeks, and I’m getting my steak ready to marinate for the dijon-brown sugar marinated steak right now. Yum!
This is a GREAT list! So fun. I’m on the hunt for “pool food” which is basically food but easier since I’m typically throwing everything together in the 30 minutes before we leave for an evening at our neighborhood pool (when I don’t want to order pizza!). One of my favorites is ranch pasta salad – pasta, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, maybe some feta, little grated onion, and ranch dressing. So tasty! Lots of good options here!!
Thank you so much for the reminders of great summer recipes. So nice of you to have recipes organized by the season and sent to readers to kickoff summer! The crockpot BBQ chicken, blueberry crisp, your salad dressing for the pasta salad and cucumber and tomato salad are our favorites. Greatly appreciated.
The new June HyVee ‘Big Ad’ has the Santa Claus melon for $4.99 each (not per pound)!! I think I’ll still skip it…
They describe as ‘Refreshing flavor that’s subtly sweet. The brighter the rinds yellow color, the sweeter the melon.”
I’d emphasize the “subtle” part. ?
I really love this list – thank you!!
Also, I will take my receipt and get my money back on the occasional terrible watermelon or, just the other day, a package of raspberries full of mold right under the sticker. I paid for a yummy watermelon, not the chance of a yummy watermelon ;)
If this hadn’t been *completely* my fault for not reading the sign close enough (and if we hadn’t already chopped it all up!) I definitely would!
thank you for putting this together, wonderful group of recipes, right off the bat love the looks of the kale-bacon hash, and been there with tasteless overpriced melons!
Ooo it’s so so good, Sabrina. I hope you get a chance to make it!
I love this post because it reminded me of so many of your recipes that I love and haven’t made in forever! Thanks!!
Yay!! Happy eating, Brynne!
Challenge accepted!
Cheers to that!
That melon story made me LOL in your Insta stories, and it made me LOL again just reading it here. Sorry for laughing at you. It’s just too funny :).
It totally is (or at least will be in time.) ?
I knew you were going to say the melon didn’t even taste good as I have had that experience too many times. Even ones from the farmer’s market often are tasteless. I finally planted some honeydew melon seeds to show my youngest daughter that it was possible for them to taste good. We only got three melons but they were wonderful!
Love that!! I have never had success growing melon – the last time I tried, the ONE watermelon that sprouted on the massive vine only grew to the size of a marble before turning black, hahaha. ?
$4.99 a POUND?! For a MELON?! Never heard of Santa Claus melon, but for that price, there better be bits of the REAL Santa Claus in it! Yikes!
That’s what I said! There better be a sack of toys inside for $18!!!