These healthy one-pot meal ideas are tasty, things you can feel good about serving AND let you get away with doing fewer dishes! Plus, who doesn’t love recipes where cleanup is so easy.
🍽️ Advantages
There are many advantages to making these types of meals. I try to keep them in our food rotation because they save me a lot of time and energy!
- They are healthy! Now, keep in mind not all one-pot meals are healthy, but the ones in this list absolutely are. It’s a great feeling to make your family a meal that is loaded with vitamins and nutrients. That’s a huge win in my book.
- Cleanup is a breeze. Part of cooking that drives many of us crazy is the cleanup. You know how it feels when your kitchen is clean and organized, you cook a meal, and it looks like your kitchen exploded! Meals using one pot means fewer dishes!
- The recipes are versatile. Most one-pot dishes are super easy to adjust to your liking. If you don’t like onions, then skip them! Feel like having some sweet potatoes? Toss a few in the pot. Don’t be afraid to take these dishes and add your own unique flavor spin to them.
- Great opportunities to double a recipe. Most of these recipes work so well for doubling for lunches or leftovers for the freezer.
❗ Expert Tips
Pan Used – One big thing I find that is very helpful is making sure the pot you use is sturdy. A heavy duty pot usually helps your food cooks evenly.
Look At Ingredients In Recipe – Look at the ingredients in the recipe. If you find you enjoy all the ingredients, more than likely you will enjoy the dish. If you happen to not like an ingredient or two, try and swap it out for something you might enjoy. If you are not a fan of broccoli, swap it with cauliflower, or another vegetable.
Pull Together Recipes with Overlapping Ingredients – Look for recipes in the list that have similar ingredients so you can use “green onions” in both recipes instead of just one and have waste.
Leftovers – Store the leftovers in the fridge, and use for meal prepping for a quick lunch the next day or dinner. Most of these recipes reheat really nicely! Make sure to use sturdy containers like our 10 Best Meal Prepping Containers that don’t leak and travel great for work.
Healthy Chicken Meals
Healthy Chicken One Pot Meals that you can use up the chicken in your fridge or freezer. Here are some of the top chicken recipes that will fuel your body, and leave you feeling satisfying.
Sweet and savory cranberry chicken thighs are so simple to prepare, and offer great flavor. GIve this recipe a try today.
Fill up on this meal, and you will be satisfied with the incredible flavors and heartiness. Chicken and veggies piled on a bed of fluffy rice. Sorry, I know this is probably making you drool right now.
This dish is filled with vibrant and colorful ingredients and flavors. It’s hearty with chicken breasts, artichoke hearts, carrots, onions, sweet potato, kale, and has the perfect amount of seasonings.
These chicken burrito bowls will make your taste buds do a little happy dance! They are so simple and healthy. Not to mention, you can easily adjust the ingredients.
If you’ve been on the hunt for an incredible Italian dish that will please the entire family, this is it. This satisfying chicken is paired with mushrooms, onions, garlic, juicy tomatoes, beans, sun-dried tomatoes, seasonings, and has a balsamic vinegar and honey sauce. It’s divine!
This creamy chicken risotto is packed with spinach and bacon to round out this meal idea. You just need seven ingredients and a little less than an hour to make this amazing recipe.
This dinner idea is just plain fancy! It not only looks gorgeous, but it tastes like it was made in a gourmet restaurant. When you bite into the juicy chicken with mushrooms and wine sauce, your heart practically skips a beat.
This chicken dinner idea has two whole chickens, chopped red onions, baby carrots, mushrooms, garlic, and salt and pepper. The aroma of the chicken and carrots cooking will make your mouth water.
Try this bruschetta chicken, and you’ll find yourself addicted to it. You can grill it, bake it, or even cook it on the stovetop because it’s that versatile. It makes a lovely dinner if you are feeding guests or even leftovers for lunch.
Healthy Seafood Meals
Serve up one or more of these healthy seafood one pot meals. Seafood recipes that are going to fill you up and give you an energy boost to tackle the rest of the day.
If you are a fan of smoked salmon, you really need to try this beauty! Every bite is filled with leeks, potatoes, salmon, peas, chives, cheese, and a flavorful sauce.
30 minutes is all it takes to make this seafood stew. Loaded with a savory light broth, filled with veggies and seafood in each bite.
This is an easy and tasty shrimp boil that all gets cooked in the Instant Pot. Shrimp, smoked sausage, potatoes, corn and more.
I feel like you can never go wrong with shrimp! This shrimp skillet idea is hearty enough to feed a hungry group and delicious enough that even kids will eat it. Try it and see!
Air fryer salmon and asparagus is loaded with nutrients and full of flavor. The air fryer creates the perfect cooking condition for tender and moist salmon.
Here is a one pan sheet pan tilapia recipe that gives you a crusted fish and sliced carrots. Serve up and enjoy this easy fish dinner idea.
This is a pasta dish that is studded with artichokes and shrimp in each bite. This is a very delicious and healthy dish to serve up.
Fish curry is a great alternative to a classic chicken curry. Serve with some basmati rice or lighten it up with cauliflower rice.
A meal in one is what you get with this veggie and salmon baked one pot dish. Totally delicious, easy prep, and family friendly.
Even More Healthy One Pot Meals
Here are a few more tasty meals that are healthy and family friendly recipes. You can even save the leftovers for meal prepping for lunches or quick dinners down the line.
This dish has just the perfect amount of heat and spice from the sriracha sauce! It’s a vegetarian meal, and you won’t even miss the meat because there is so much flavor and vegetables.
Quinoa gives this vegan chili a whole new level of flavor. This dish is great for dinner, lunch, or use to meal prep for the week!
I know that it’s called a Summer Pasta, but in reality, I could eat this any time! It’s a lovely option to cool you down after an especially hot day, but it’s also great for a light lunch or dinner at any time of year.
If you are looking for a vegetable dish, here is a spicy rice that is going to tickle those taste buds in a whole new way! This is a must-make dinner for the family.
Frittatas are so easy and tasty to make. I will eat them for literally any meal of the day, and once you try it, you will feel the same. Plus, if you are eating keto or low-carb, you are in luck because this fits the bill!
You can easily make these Mexican baked eggs for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They give you the spices and flavors of traditional Mexican food, and they are super easy. Kids and adults will devour them in no time.
❓ Common Questions
One pot recipes are when you are making a dish that all ingredients cook in the same pot. You will find some recipes use stock pots, Dutch Ovens, sheet pans, or even a cast iron skillet on the stove.
Pasta recipes do work really well. Now, you just have to cook the recipe as directed to ensure the pasta doesn’t overcook and become soggy.
The biggest thing when making a one pot dinner is watching when the meat is cooked in the recipe. Use a meat thermometer to check the protein to ensure it is fully cooked.
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Ginny Collins is a passionate foodie and recipe creator of Savor and Savvy and Kitchenlaughter. Indoors she focuses on easy, quick recipes for busy families and kitchen basics. Outdoors, she focuses on backyard grilling and smoking to bring family and friends together. She is a lifelong learner who is always taking cooking classes on her travels overseas and stateside. Her work has been featured on MSN, Parade, Fox News, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many local news outlets. She lives in Florida where you will find her outside on the water in her kayak, riding her bike on trails, and planning her next overseas adventure.
Do you have a new link for the Cranberry Chicken Thighs? I followed a link here looking just for it, it was gone, searched the site & found it listed here, but the link just reloads this page.
What a great recipe roundup for one pot meals!! Love it! All these meals look so delicious and comforting! Perfect for this cold season! Thanks for sharing some of my recipes! I am pinning it to some of my boards.
Thanks so much, Neli!
It would be awesome if these recipes were printable!!!!
Hi there! If you click over to the recipes you’re interested in, the featured bloggers may have printable recipes on their site! 🙂