WeeklyDelight
Collection · 14 recipes

One-Pan Dinners

Dinners that cook in a single pan, pot or tray, for fewer things to wash and fewer things to time.

"One pan" here means one cooking vessel, read from each method: a roasting tin, a sheet pan, a frying pan or a lidded pot. A bowl for mixing does not count. Several of these are oven dinners, so the time includes the roasting but not the oven heating up.

How these were chosen

  • The method cooks everything in one vessel. Recipes that boil pasta or rice in a second pan are left out.
  • A main course that makes a meal with nothing more than bread or a salad alongside.
  • The vessel and its size, where the recipe gives one, are listed on each entry.

Chosen by reading each recipe's ingredients and method, and checked against the recipe again every time the site is built. Times are the recipes' own figures. None of these recipes has been cooked for this collection yet; how recipes are checked.

  1. Greek Chicken Traybake

    Potatoes roast for 10 minutes before the chicken joins them, so both finish together in one large roasting tin.

    Time
    Prep 20 min, cook 45 min; 1 hr 5 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Roasting tin
    Difficulty
    Easy

  2. Sheet Pan Chicken and Potatoes

    The tray goes into the oven to heat while you cut the potatoes, which starts the crisping the moment they land on it.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 45 min; 55 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Baking tray or sheet pan
    Difficulty
    Easy

  3. Sausage and Potato Traybake

    Sausages, potatoes, onions and carrots on one hot tray, turned once halfway, with mustard stirred through at the end.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 45 min; 55 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Roasting tin
    Difficulty
    Easy

  4. Sheet Pan Salmon and Asparagus

    The asparagus and tomatoes get a 5-minute head start, then the salmon goes in beside them for 10; the shortest oven dinner here.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 15 min; 25 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Baking tray or sheet pan
    Difficulty
    Easy

  5. Sheet Pan Cod and Vegetables

    New potatoes, then green beans and tomatoes, then cod, each added at the point that makes them all ready together.

    Time
    Prep 15 min, cook 20 min; 35 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Baking tray or sheet pan
    Difficulty
    Easy

  6. Sheet Pan Gnocchi

    Gnocchi roast straight from the packet on a hot tray with sausage and peppers; there is no water to boil.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 25 min; 35 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Baking tray or sheet pan
    Difficulty
    Easy

  7. Sheet Pan Sausage and Peppers

    Sausages and peppers roast on a preheated tray; the garlic cooks in its skin and is squeezed into the juices at the end.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 35 min; 45 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Oven, Baking tray or sheet pan
    Difficulty
    Easy

  8. One-Pot Chicken and Rice

    The thighs are browned, then nestled into the rice to finish in the same pot; the peas steam in at the end with the heat off.

    Includes a 10-minute rest off the heat, counted in the cooking time.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 45 min; 55 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Large pot or casserole
    Difficulty
    Easy

  9. One Pot Jambalaya

    Sausage and chicken are browned and set aside, the rice simmers in the same pot, then everything is stirred back together.

    Time
    Prep 15 min, cook 35 min; 50 min start to finish
    Serves
    6
    Equipment
    Large pot or casserole
    Difficulty
    Easy

  10. One Pot Paella

    Cooked in one wide paella pan, without stirring once the stock is in, which is what gives the crust at the base.

    Time
    Prep 15 min, cook 35 min; 50 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Large pot or casserole
    Difficulty
    Medium

  11. One Pot Lentil Curry

    Red lentils cook down to a thick curry in 25 minutes in one large pot. Vegetarian as written.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 30 min; 40 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Large pot or casserole
    Difficulty
    Easy

  12. Black Bean and Rice Skillet

    Rice, beans and sweetcorn cook together under a lid in one large pan, with cheese melted over the top.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 25 min; 35 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Frying pan or skillet
    Difficulty
    Easy

  13. Ground Beef and Potato Skillet

    Cubed potatoes crisp first, then the mince browns in the middle of the same pan.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 25 min; 35 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Frying pan or skillet
    Difficulty
    Easy

  14. Beef Taco Skillet

    The rice cooks in the tomato and bean sauce with the beef, so there is no separate pan of rice.

    Time
    Prep 10 min, cook 20 min; 30 min start to finish
    Serves
    4
    Equipment
    Frying pan or skillet
    Difficulty
    Easy