289 one pot recipes

Italian sausage, chickpeas, and pasta shells simmer together in a fennel-scented tomato sauce with chunky zucchini. A rustic one-pot dinner ready in an hour. Skip the sausage for a meatless version.

Poor man's lasagne, a one-pot ground beef and macaroni casserole with tomato sauce, mushrooms, and a cheesy topping. A budget-friendly skillet-to-oven alternative to layered lasagna in under an hour.

Spanish rice in the slow cooker: ground beef, bell peppers, onions, and converted rice braised low in tomato sauce with chili powder and Worcestershire. A dump-and-go family-sized one-pot dinner.

Syrian noodles with lentils is a hearty one-pot vegetarian stew of cumin and coriander-spiced lentils simmered until tender, then finished with broken vermicelli. High-fiber comfort food that feeds six for pennies.

Flour-dusted chicken browned golden and simmered in a fragrant curry-tomato sauce with sweet currants, bell pepper, and toasted almonds. Served over rice with coconut and chutney for a vibrant one-pot dinner.

Happy family stew braises beef chuck with plum tomatoes, green chilies, cumin, oregano, and Worcestershire for hours into a rich Tex-Mex-leaning beef stew. Served over rice for a one-pot crowd dinner.

Uncle Roy's chili: a meatless vegetarian chili with two kinds of canned tomatoes, kidney beans, three tablespoons of chili powder, and a serious shot of hot pepper sauce. Pantry-friendly weeknight one-pot dinner.

Chili macaroni is a one-pot weeknight dinner combining ground beef, kidney beans, corn, tomatoes, and elbow macaroni in a chili-spiced sauce, topped with melted cheddar. Think homemade Hamburger Helper chili mac, only better.

No-bean beef chili with cornmeal dumplings simmers slow-cooker style with enchilada sauce, tomatoes, and black olives, then gets crowned with soft cornmeal mounds and melted cheddar. Tamale-pie meets chili in one pot.

Dublin coddle is Ireland's beloved one-pot supper of sausages, bacon, potatoes, and onions simmered low and slow until everything melts together. Serve with soda bread and a bottle of stout for the full Dublin experience.

Stovetop chili mac with browned sirloin, jalapeños, Vidalia onions, and a cumin-chili spice blend simmered in beef broth and tomatoes. Toss with elbow macaroni and melted cheddar for a one-pot dinner that serves eight.

Tender chicken and brown rice simmered in broth with a surprising hit of horseradish and sugar, loaded with bell peppers and black beans. A hearty one-pot dinner topped with Parmesan and ready in 30 minutes.

Beef barley soup built on a slow-simmered beef shin broth with carrots, parsnips, celery, and tomato, finished with chewy pearl barley. A hearty one-pot meal that doubles as a side of horseradish-dressed beef.

I have made this recipe many times for my husband who is from Morocco. I had this recipe book and lost it--finding the recipe here was great. This is one of his favorites. I would recommend not making this in a crock pot.

Easy bean bake brings together great northern beans, smoky bacon, brown sugar, and molasses in one pot for a sweet and savory side that bakes hands-off in the oven. Classic American baked beans done the slow way.

Red beans and rice cooked the proper way: dried kidney beans simmered with bay and bell pepper, then the bean stock cooks the rice along with sauteed onion, pepper, garlic, and cumin. Vegetarian, deeply savory, all in one pot.