34 One-Pot Meals Just Right for Dinner Tonight

Julia Gartland

One pan, pot, skillet, or Instant Pot is all you need to for these no-fuss family dinners, including salmon, pasta, pot roast, chili, and so much more.

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Julia Gartland

Whether you make dinner in a Dutch oven, a skillet, Instant Pot, or a sheet pan, you'll love these one-pot recipes that make a weeknight meal deliciously doable and keep clean-up to a minimum. Our test kitchen has developed and tested a broad range of creative one-pot, pan, or sheet recipes using chicken, salmon, beef, and other family-favorite proteins. Our vegetarian options are crowd-pleasers the entire family will love like Baked Butternut Squash Risotto and Cannellini-Bean and Greens Stew, the beans are creamy and the greens mild.

Here you'll find stovetop one-pot dinners as well as recipes that let the oven do the work, plus a couple of multicooker recipes—after all, this type of hearty one-pot dinner is a most excellent use of the Instant Pot. Of course, we've included our most famous one-pot meal: One-Pan Pasta is based on a recipe one of our food editors enjoyed while traveling in Puglia, Italy. Back in the test kitchen, she made the dish for her fellow cooks and, the rest is history. The recipe has been an internet sensation ever since. Dry pasta cooks in a skillet, not the usual large pot, along with the other ingredients, for maximum flavor and ease.

If you're new to one-pot cooking, know that beyond the rich selection of dinner recipes here we also have collections of healthy one-pot meals, vegetarian one-pot meals, one-pot meals made for summer, and a collection devoted to chicken one-pot recipes.

Are you feeling full yet? If you're really into the one-pot genre, might we suggest you take it to its logical conclusion: Finish off a one-skillet meal with a One-Bowl Baking Wonder Recipe from our collection of easy-going cakes and cookies.

Make this slideshow your go-to source for dinner recipes that are delicious, family friendly, and easy on the cook. We call that a win-win-win!

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Baked Salmon with Creamy Orzo

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34 One-Pot Meals Just Right for Dinner Tonight

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Baked Salmon with Creamy Orzo

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Easy Chicken Thighs with Cherry Tomatoes and Pernod

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Pork, Mushroom, and Artichoke Fricassee

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Chow Mein

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One-Pan Pasta

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Korean Beef Chuck Roast

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Arroz con Pollo

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Spicy Peanut Chicken

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Savory Pudding with Sausage and Tomatoes

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Salmon, Red Cabbage, and New Potatoes

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Seafood Orzo Risotto

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Pork and Plums

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Irish Beef and Stout Stew

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Pressure-Cooker Chile Verde

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Three-Cheese Skillet Lasagna

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Black Beans and Sausage

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Wine-Braised Chicken

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Butternut Squash Baked Risotto

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Chicken and Brown Rice

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Beer-Braised Sausages with Warm Potato Salad

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Chicken and Dumplings

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Beef Stew

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Vegetarian Gumbo

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Shrimp Jambalaya

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Skillet Cod with Bulgur, Zucchini, and Tomatoes

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