One-Pot Meals

A fragrant, sweet-and-sour, perfectly acidic roast chicken. 

Quick, spicy, filling, and made mostly of pantry ingredients, this chili/tortilla soup/frito pie mash-up is calling your name. (Shhh. Listen closely.) 

This soup coaxes big flavors from a short ingredient list. 

This stick-to-your-ribs stew gets heft from creamy white beans and winter squash.

Here, chicken legs are gently oven-braised in puttanesca sauce until nearly falling off the bone. 

With a crispy, toasted top hiding saucy, tomato-y noodles, this one-skillet broken spaghetti dish is anything but one-note.

Obe Ata is a Nigerian sauce that incorporates floral habanero chiles and bell peppers. This recipe uses obe ata as the base for a spicy, warming chicken and sweet potato stew. 

Colorful, crunchy, and incredibly easy, you can pull this bright Indian dish together in 20 minutes or less.

If you’ve ever tried maitake mushrooms, then you already know this, but they have an unbelievably rich flavor and aroma of piney forest floor and fresh fallen leaves. This recipe celebrates everything we love about them.

This Kung Pao recipe stays very close to the original but includes seasonal peppers.

We opted to use cherry tomatoes for this poached cod recipe because we like their sweetness and how quickly they collapse into a sauce.

This isn’t the crisp-skinned, high-heat-roast chicken you’re probably familiar with. Instead, it’s a melt-in-your-mouth tender, schmaltzy, slow-roast version.

Warming cumin, cardamom, turmeric, and ginger make this Somali chicken stew recipe from Hawa Hassan a rich aromatic experience.

Make this hands-off recipe when you want to cook fish but it stresses you out. Not anymore!

Make these succulent pork chops when it’s 6:26 p.m. on a Monday and you haven’t figured out what’s for dinner.

Peak-season tomatoes along with chickpeas, toasted almonds, and harissa make for a complete flavor bomb in just one skillet.

Lightning-fast weeknight fried rice with flavor-concentrated cherry tomatoes. How? It’s a little salting trick.

Make this glossy, buttery beef stir fry when you need dinner on the table in less time than it takes to listen to a podcast.

August is peak eggplant season; look for Japanese and Chinese eggplants for this stir-fry recipe.

This fast miso-curry paste and handfuls of charred green beans and peas transform skinless, boneless chicken breasts into a highly craveable dinner.

Making one giant pancake instead of a bunch of smaller ones means that everyone can sit down to pancake breakfast at the same time.

This recipe is more formula than mandate: You can use mussels, cherry tomatoes, and shallots instead.

This recipe requires you to chop a grand total of zero vegetables. What's the shortcut? Harissa, a North African pepper sauce that brings the flavor (so you don't have to).

These richly flavored ribs are a riff on kalbi jjim, a traditional Korean special-occasion dish.