36 One-Pan Meals Just Right for Dinner Tonight

Get out your straight-sided skillet for this delicious weeknight dinner that's made with chicken breasts and an easy sauce of mustard, broth, and cream cheese which the egg noodles cook in. 

This one-skillet dinner borrows flavors from chile verde. We love that the couscous gets tang and heat from the salsa as well as earthy notes from canned green chiles.

This is a rich, delicious pork stew that's hands off-easy when you make it in the pressure cooker—it's one-pan dinner cooks long and slow with flavorful results. No pressure cooker? No problem! It can also be made on the stovetop.

A flavor-packed triumph, this one-pot wonder pairs lemon-coriander salmon fillets with a bed of rich bacon-flecked orzo.

A bold and silky sauce made with lime juice, fish sauce, peanut butter, and chili complements ground turkey in this stir fry. You could even swap in ground pork with equally delicious results. 

At a tiny restaurant in the Puglia region of Italy, we saw a chef place dried pasta in a skillet with water, tomatoes, onion, garlic, herbs, and a glug of extra-virgin olive oil, and then cook everything together. It has been one of our "back pocket" recipes ever since: Once the water has boiled away, you are left with perfectly al dente pasta in a creamy sauce that coats every strand.

One of our favorite ground pork recipes, these meatballs are made with just three ingredients (the pork, fennel seeds, and Parmesan). They cook in tomato-bell pepper sauce in a straight-sided skillet. Then, slices of toasted Italian bread are nestled into the pan and everything is topped with mozzarella and broiled. It's an irresistible meal.

Give traditional pot roast a Korean twist by slow cooking beef chuck with gochujang (Korean pepper paste), mirin (sweet rice wine), sake, and plenty of garlic and ginger. Carrots and shiitake mushrooms complete the dish. Serve with rice or transform into quick Korean Beef Tacos.

The traditional Spanish chicken and rice casserole gets its distinctive flavor from white wine, saffron, and pimiento-stuffed green olives. Nestle seared chicken thighs into the seasoned rice and cook everything together on the stovetop.

This skillet of sausage, scallions, and tomatoes surrounded by oven-puffed savory pudding was inspired by the English dish toad-in-a-hole.

Quick, easy, and delicious, cod stars in this tomatoey fish stew that takes just 30 minutes to prepare from start to finish.

If you haven't made this chicken dinner yet, what are you waiting for? It's one of our most popular one-pan meals and with good reason. Think of it as the favorite dip reinvented as dinner. Plus, it's on the table in 35 minutes!

The secret to the perfectly cooked seafood in this paella-like pasta dish? Adding the mussels, shrimp, squid, cockles, and fish to the pot at different times.

Thin pork tenderloin is sautéed with ripe plums, red onions, and a splash of vinegar for a warming meal with only one pan to clean!

Boneless chicken thighs and broccolini, both coated in a chili-spiked peanut sauce, emerge deliciously caramelized after just 10 minutes under the broiler.

Cubes of beef chuck become melt-in-your-mouth tender when braised with Irish stout beer and tomato paste. This dish freezes well: Simply pack the cooled stew into plastic containers and store for up to three months.

Canned plum tomatoes and fresh garlic make an easy, flavorful marinara sauce. Baking the lasagna in the same skillet used to simmer the tomato sauce makes this pasta dish extra quick to whip up.

Using a multicooker optimizes this classic recipe made with a mix of smoky sausage, briny shrimp, tender potatoes, and sweet corn.

Canned black beans and kielbasa (or any other smoked sausage you choose) make a hearty meal. Top each portion of stew with chopped parsley and a dollop of plain yogurt. This quick weeknight meal is ready in 40 minutes.

Salmon coated in grainy mustard is nestled between red cabbage and new potatoes for a healthy and easy weeknight meal.

Better known as coq au vin, this rustic French chicken stew gets its richness from bacon and red wine. Serve with crusty bread or buttered noodles.

Butternut squash and kale cook along with short-grain Arborio rice, making this risotto extra hearty and sweet. After sautéing for a few minutes on the stove, this dish goes into the oven—unlike most risottos, there's no need to stand and stir!

Pale ale makes a flavorful braising liquid for sweet Italian sausages and red potatoes. Make a quick sauce of olive oil, red-wine vinegar, and parsley to drizzle over the potatoes.

Steam dill-flecked dumplings over a stew of chicken thighs, carrots, and peas. No need to spend all day in the kitchen—this down-home favorite is ready in an hour.

Not traditional gumbo, this vegan take on the New Orleans classic is sans chicken or shrimp or andouille, but packs plenty of flavor with canned black-eyed peas, tomatoes, okra, and yellow squash.

Here's an easy but sophisticated one-skillet dinner starring mild-tasting but meaty cod along with wholesome bulgur and saucy summer vegetables.

Garlic, Dijon mustard, and cream amp up the pan sauce for this succulent pork-and-vegetable sauté.

Sweet, plump mussels are steamed in a sauce made with cherry tomatoes, garlic, and wine; white beans add heft while chorizo, a Spanish sausage, brings extra heat.

Making this favorite is as easy as stir-frying noodles, vegetables, and chicken. Serve immediately so the noodles stay nice and crispy.

You can make this beef stew in the oven or slow cooker. Either way, you will have a warming, wholesome, and wonderfully flavorful meal.

Here's a hearty, comforting, and totally delicious bean stew. Tender greens, like baby kale, spinach, or chard, are added right before serving so that they're just wilted. And don't sleep on the garlic-and-sage ciabatta toasts—they're the ideal vehicles for soaking up all that delicious broth.

A hearty one-skillet dinner, this vegetable-packed take on Swiss enchiladas makes a delicious and slightly decadent dinner. Layers of poblano peppers, red onion, and zucchini are interspersed with crema and cheese and topped with soft corn tortillas dipped in green salsa. Then everything is baked to perfection.

Ground turkey makes a rich, flavorful chili in this easy, hands-off recipe that's made in the Instant Pot.

Use a slow cooker or Dutch oven to simmer sliced beef chuck with onion and mushrooms. Just before you're ready to serve the stroganoff, thicken the sauce with cornstarch and stir in sour cream and Dijon mustard.