Why spend ages cleaning up after dinner when you can use recipes for dishes that only call for one pot or pan? Our favorite weeknight dinners are easy to make and even easier to clean up. These easy one-pot dinnner recipes are prepared in a single pot, sheet pan or skillet.
27 Easy One-Pot Dinnner Recipes for Minimal Cleanup
Browse through these delicious family recipes, pick out your favourites and let’s get cooking!
This Skillet Pizza Pasta Casserole is a one pot dish perfect for family dinner, this is food for kids that adults will love too. Easy!
Skillet Pizza Pasta Casserole – Frugal Mom Eh
This Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet is a healthy gluten free meal that is full of flavour and hearty enough to feed your family quickly on busy weeknights!
Ground Turkey Sweet Potato Skillet – Life Love Liz
This Turkey and Sweet Potato Chili is a delicious twist on traditional chili. It’s also lighter and naturally gluten and dairy-free.
Turkey and Sweet Potato Chili – Feast for a Fraction
Pressure Cooker One Pot Chicken and Rice is an easy one pot meal. Freezing chicken with the marinade will free up your time for future meals.
Pressure Cooker One Pot Chicken and Rice – This Old Gal
This American Goulash is chock full of sustenance for the body; you will find real tomatoes and onions, herbs, beef stock and more in this one pot recipe that will please even the pickiest of palate.
Instant Pot American Goulash – Divine Lifestyle
A quick and easy stew of shrimp, cod, tomatoes, and veggies. Great for a cozy family meal or to serve to special guests for dinner.
Seafood Stew – Lanas Cooking
Hearty and filling, this Instant Pot Chicken Tortellini Soup recipe makes enough to feed a family of 5 with leftovers, which is always a win in my book. Best of all? It only uses one pot, so no mess!
Instant Pot Chicken Tortellini Soup – Divine Lifestyle
This One Pan Easy Lasagna Recipe made in oven safe pan with penne pasta, mozzarella, parmesan and ricotta cheese with ground beef.
One Pan Easy Lasagna – April Golightly
Creamy, cheesy, and a constant crowd-pleaser! Our Broccoli Cheddar Chicken Bake is simple to make and such a week-night winner! This recipe is made out of pantry and fridge staples and makes enough for leftovers.
Broccoli Cheddar Chicken Bake – Fresh Simple Home
Easy One-Pot Swedish Meatballs with Egg Noodles – your family will love this swedish inspired family meal.
One-Pot Swedish Meatballs with Egg Noodles – Frugal Mom Eh
Here’s a warming, one-pot chicken, lentil and potato curry you’re sure to make time and time and again as it’s so easy, quick and tasty.
One Pot Harissa Chicken Curry – A Mummy Too
This easy 15-minute one pot pasta made with very basic ingredients! It’s simple, frugal and so delicious!
One Pot Pasta – Little Sunny Kitchen
This One Pot Rice and Ground Beef is so easy to make!! As the name says, you get everything done in just one pot, and the flavors are so good!! Add your favorite vegetables and you’ve got a complete meal.
One Pot Rice and Ground Beef – Simple Living Recipes
Weeknight lifesavers! That’s exactly what this one pot pasta recipe is! On a busy weeknight, when you want nothing more but a simple, incredibly easy and fast, flavorful meal – one pot pasta recipe to your rescue!
One Pot Pasta – Curry Trail
Whether you call this a tray bake salmon or a sheet pan salmon, you definitely need to call it dinner tonight! Juicy salmon, crisp potatoes, and golden mushrooms all roast together in one pan.
Sheet Pan Salmon with Potatoes and Mushrooms – Sidewalk Shoes
Creamy Vegan One Pot Pasta is an incredibly easy dish that comes together in about 30 minutes. You will love the vegan rosé sauce!
Creamy Vegan One Pot Pasta – The Recipe Well
Beef Risotto only dirties one pot and make a comforting, family-friendly meal. It’s got all the components of a traditional lasagna but in rice form!
Beef Risotto – Greedy Gourmet
This Taco Tater Tot Casserole is the best of both worlds: perfectly spicy and homey while being a healthier version of the more classic casserole. It’s also a one-pot dinner recipe, making it low on fuss and clean-up. Kids and adults alike love this casserole. Add it to your menu this week!
Taco Tater Tot Casserole – Maes Menu
An easy soup recipe your family will love! It’s quick to make and takes little effort. Perfect for those busy weeknights.
Busy Day Soup – Simply Stacie
Instant Pot Chicken Fajita Pasta is a one pot comforting and cheesy dump and start recipe. It is perfect for a busy weeknight dinner!
Instant Pot Chicken Fajita Pasta – Nourish Plate
A simple, light, 30-minute super delicious one-pot prawn pulao prepared with basic pantry staples.
One-Pot Prawn Pulao – Spoons of Flavor
Sometimes for dinner – I just want to grab one pot and have it do the whole job – this Spanish Rice and Beans recipe is just that! One meal – one pot and you’re going to love it!
Spanish Rice and Beans – The Food Hussy
Chicken divan combines chicken, rice, and broccoli into a one-pot casserole meal that is both delicious and nutritious. Cooked in the slow cooker makes it super simple!
Chicken Divan – Savory with Soul
Need an easy meal idea that comes together fast? This flavor-packed one-pot chicken and rice dinner is the perfect cozy solution for lazy nights. Tender veggies, chicken thighs, and rice cooked in a rich sauce of tomatoes make an effortless dish your whole family will love!
Bosnian One Pot Chicken and Rice – All That’s Jas
This One Pot Creamy Mushroom Pasta is a family friendly dish that’s ready in just 15 minutes. And it only takes a handful of simple ingredients to pull it together.
Vegan One Pot Creamy Mushroom Pasta – Delicious Everyday
Juicy, tender, and flavorful chicken baked with fluffy butter rice. This is a family-friendly one-pot complete dinner that is loved by adults and kids alike.
Oven Baked Chicken and Rice – Little Sunny Kitchen
This is the easiest recipe for honey garlic chicken ever. This Honey Garlic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal is complete with sides of carrots, broccoli and baby potatoes. It’s full of flavour, quick and easy, and best of all, your family is going to love this recipe.
Honey Garlic Chicken Sheet Pan Meal – Frugal Mom Eh
Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!