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You can balance this one out with a side salad for 20, or even a sheet pan full of roasted veggies for a crowd. Can I tell you that it was all gone by the end of the meeting? Homemade Baked Macaroni and Cheeseįor our couple’s group a month ago, one woman brought in a huge pan of macaroni and cheese. Then, chop up some tomatoes, avocados, and roast some Mexican street corn as a side dish (hint: using frozen corn is perfectly acceptable!). Make two sheet pans of these chicken quesadillas for something different to feed your group. You can pair this with this German Potato Salad for 20. Take this recipe for 6, and adapt it for 20.Īnd here’s a twist: Cajun shrimp and sausage sheet pan bake (serves 18). Got two sheet pans? Great – you can load them both up with sausage and lots of vegetables, and make a scrumptious sausage veggie bake for everyone. Here’s an easy Caesar salad for a crowd (that you can double for all 20 of you). What I love about serving this dish for 20? Well, you can get a foil baking pan for easy clean-up afterwards, and the sides are quite simple: add in garlic bread and a big salad.įor garlic bread, we buy those $1.00 Walmart French loaves, and slather each side in olive oil, butter, and garlic powder. Here’s the recipe for sheet pan scrambled eggs (you’ll need to double), and here’s the recipe for sheet pan hash browns (serves 24). Sheet Pan Eggs and Hash Brownsįorget the frying pan – you can easily cook scrambled eggs and hash browns for 20, using your sheet pans! Not only will this be filling for everyone, but get this: you can prep it the night before and then just pop it in the oven 20 minutes ahead of when everyone wants to eat! Genius. Instead, check out this sheet pan pancake recipe for 10 (two sheet pans = 20 servings). If you were to make individual pancakes for everyone for breakfast…well, you’d likely still be cleaning up when it’s time to start lunch. Psst: pair this and other main dishes with one of these 17 easy side dishes for family reunions. I absolutely love a BBQ chicken sweet potato with diced red onions and Monterrey Jack.
Meats (could be taco meat, sausage, pot of chili, etc.)įor a cool twist? Make some sweet potatoes.20 Baked Potatoes (you can do these in the oven, or in crockpots).And, people loved how they could customize their food! It definitely served 20 people, and was simple (plus cost-effective) to create. One of the best party foods I ever picked was to create a loaded baked potato bar for my husband’s college graduation several years ago. Chopped avocado (or pre-made guacamole).Then, you can have the following as sides: In a crockpot, you’ll want to make a big batch of taco meat. Hint: wondering how many tater tots to cook? According to this site, you’ll need an estimated 360 tater tots, or 7.5 lbs. You set everything up buffet style, with serving plates of tater tots only, and have people make their own plates. Here’s the deal: you make a ton of tater tots on half-sheet pans in the oven, and then you prepare the toppings. Who doesn’t love to eat tater tots? Both kids and adults will enjoy this one. Serve with this broccoli salad for 20, for a full meal. Shortcut: use plain, frozen meatballs (you’ll need 66 for this recipe) from your grocery store and just heat them up in your slow cooker. Then, buy hoagie rolls or sliders, cheese, and a few other things so that people can assemble their own, hot, meatball slider sandwiches when it’s time for dinner. You just prep these 4-6 hours before you need them. Use your slow cooker (you’ll likely need more than one, for a group of 20) to cook a bunch of tasty, juicy meatballs all at once (and ahead of time). You can put pizza sauce and cheese on each as the base, and then make Hawaiian pizzas, sausage pizzas, veggie pizzas…and you can also used jarred pesto sauce to create “white pizzas” in place of the red sauce. Psst: here are the sheet pans we purchased almost two years ago – we’re very happy with them (and it looks like they’re cheaper now than when I purchased them!). Check out these awesome French bread pizzas – you can fit 12 of them on one sheet, so you’ll need to either do two shifts of cooking time, or have two sheet pans.
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