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. And with this sheet-pan dinner, the oven does the work and clean up is simple.

Here's a hearty and healthy vegetarian one-pot meal that's sure to warm and satisfy any night of the week. This dinner starts with canned chickpeas and jarred marinara sauce so it's quick to put together, but that's not our favorite thing about this dish. What we love most is the crunchy, cheesy panko and mozzarella topping for broccoli—in short, it's a total winner.

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

Versions of this comforting savory porridge abound across India and beyond. This recipe, which is a favorite among editors in our test-kitchen, combines yellow mung dal (split mung beans), basmati rice, warming spices, and a colorful medley of vegetables into a cozy and healthy meal.

Colorful, healthy, and made on one sheet pan, there's a lot to like about this hash. Finely chopped broccoli and cauliflower replace the usual potato, red bell pepper and baby spinach up the nutrition, and eggs bring protein.

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.

Hunks of sweet potato and cauliflower soak up a creamy sauce of garlic, ginger, onion, coconut milk, and red curry paste in this one-dish dinner. In the last moments of cooking, baby spinach, edamame, and zucchini are stirred in and then everything finished with cilantro and lime juice. 

This is one of Martha's all-time favorite potato recipes and for good reason. 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 rice porridge, a dish that's beloved across Asia. Our recipe uses short-grain white rice, which gets creamy as it cooks with chicken broth, chicken thighs, fresh ginger, and scallions.

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 (use vegetable or chicken), and plenty of Pecorino Romano cheese for an indulgent finish.

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

Cooking "en papillote" in the oven is a wonderful easy and healthy technique. The "one-pan" for this meal is a  parchment packet, everything steams inside without the need for lot of butter or oil.

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 hits the spot.

Looking for a new way to cook with pumpkin? Try this sweet and savory stew, which swaps in coconut milk for the usual heavy cream. Cod fillets cook gently in the slightly spicy sauce, alongside baby spinach and calabaza squash.

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, peas, and asparagus.

This nutritious stew is flavorful, hearty, and protein-packed thanks to the beans and quinoa. It packs in some heat thanks to a poblano pepper, and minced chipotle in adobe.

Make this dish when asparagus is at its peak for a hearty yet elegant one-pan vegetarian meal. 

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

Cook a whole chicken low and slow with artichoke hearts, Castelvetrano olives, fresh oregano, and lemon. You'll be rewarded with super tender, flavorful meat in this bright yet homey dinner.

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.

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?

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. 

Add some spice to your weeknight with this soothing 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.