25 Healthy One-Pot Meals Guaranteed to Kickstart Your Wellness Routine

If you want to incorporate more vegetables into your dinner, start by turning the cauliflower into rice; then, add some edamame. You can make it really healthy by serving with heart-healthy wild salmon. As an added bonus, this is a one-sheet pan dinner, so the oven does the work. The rice comes out crispy and cleaning up is simple.

Not familiar with kitchari? We like to think of it as a savory porridge. This test-kitchen favorite combines yellow mung dal (split mung beans), basmati rice, a bevy of warming spices, and a colorful medley of vegetables into one amazing dish.

So fresh and so easy! This one-pan recipe combines tomatoes, onion, garlic, herbs, water, and a drizzle of olive oil with dried pasta—and everything cooks together. Once the water has evaporated, you're left with perfectly al dente pasta in a creamy sauce that coats every strand.

On a chilly night, there's nothing more nourishing than this rice and peas dish. With plenty of spicy flavors and crisp green vegetables, it's our favorite one-pot, one-bowl dinner.

This is one of Martha's all-time favorite potato recipes! Thinly sliced Yukon Gold potatoes, tomatoes, and shallots form a delicious bed for flaky cod.

If you love risotto, then you'll love this take on Asian rice porridge. It's made from short-grain white rice, which gets creamy as it cooks with chicken broth, chicken thighs, fresh ginger, and scallions.

Looking for a new way to cook with pumpkin? Try this sweet and savory stew, which swaps in coconut milk in place of heavy cream (and adds so much more flavor, too). Individual pieces of cod float in the slightly spicy sauce alongside baby spinach and calabaza squash.

We're calling this the most exciting vegetable soup ever. There's so much to take in—meaty mixed mushrooms, sweet slices of onion, quinoa, flavorful stock (vegetable or chicken!), and plenty of Pecorino Romano cheese for an indulgent finish.

It's easy being green with a soup this delicious. When you want to make a quick and nutritious meal for lunch or dinner, this 35-minute recipe should hit the spot.

Cooking "en papillote" (French for "in parchment") in the oven is a wonderful technique. Everything cooks together, lightly steaming in their own juices in the parchment packet, without a lot of butter or oil.

Quick-cooking quinoa is a nutritional powerhouse packed with protein, iron, and fiber. Here, it's the base for a main-course salad with chicken, spring peas, and asparagus.

This nutritious stew is flavorful, hearty, and protein-packed thanks to the beans and quinoa! It packs in plenty of heat as well, thanks to a poblano pepper, minced chipotle in adobo, and garlic.

This vegetarian ragout stew substitutes chickpeas and poached eggs in place of traditional beef. Make this when asparagus is at its peak for a hearty vegetarian meal.

Colorful beets paired with protein-packed eggs bring immune-boosting vitamin C to this meatless dinner that's delicious any time of the year.

Here's a sheet pan dinner with chickpeas, cauliflower, and carrots. Couscous is added after they've roasted for a spell. (Yes, you can cook couscous in the oven!) Feta, cilantro, and a squeeze of lemon bring all the flavors together for serving.

Cook a whole chicken low and slow with Mediterranean ingredients such as artichoke hearts, Castelvetrano olives, fresh oregano, and lemons. You'll be rewarded with super tender, flavorful meat.

This vibrant one-pan wonder features salmon (good for your heart), red cabbage (high in vitamin C), and new potatoes (high in fiber). And did we mention it tastes really delicious?

All the essentials of a classic Greek salad are here—feta, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives—but they're joined by a new supporting player: quinoa. It's cooked in the same pan used to sauté onions and garlic for a protein-rich addition that makes the salad more substantial and delicious.

Another wonderful sheet pan dinner, this one features meaty bass fillets with healthy greens and sweet potatoes. The salsa rustica is a parsley, oil, capers, and vinegar sauce that's drizzled over the meal just before serving.  

Add some spice to your weeknight with this soothing, colorful dish. Kimchi is hailed as a probiotic food that improves cardiovascular health and the digestive system.

A great healthy dish for the whole family, this all-in-one meal is a smart way to use up the vegetables you probably already have on hand.

A  colorful and healthy dinner, that's this black bean and sweet potato chili. Extra points for flavor and protein if you top it with avocado. 

We've transformed the classic Greek dish avgolemono into a scrumptious weeknight pasta. It's as easy as boiling water—you're really just adding a couple more ingredients into the pot.

Slightly sweet and just the right level of spicy, this Moroccan chickpea and lentil stew is known as harira and makes a bright and hearty one-pot vegan dinner.