One-Pot Meals

Crisp-tender cucumbers and deeply browned pork crumbles add delightful texture to this quick and savory weeknight stir-fry.

Your summer weeknight doesn’t get any easier than this riff-able chicken and corn stir-fry.

This vegetarian recipe makes a strong case for replacing a veggie burger with a slab of melty, salty cheese.

A scaled-down seafood boil you can pull off on a weeknight with nearly any quick-cooking vegetables.

Give wilty greens a new lease on life by blanching and blitzing them into the ultrasmooth, ultragreen base of a simple bowl of beans.

Adjust the heat in this riff on Thai tom kha gai to your liking—use one chile for mild heat, two for medium, and three if you want sweat beading on your brow.

Chiles, beans, and aggressive use of your spice cabinet come together for a chili that’s perfect for the in-between season.

Puréed and caramelized pineapple spruce up Filipino adobo while keeping it simple enough to pull off for a weeknight meal.

This Hong Kong staple is the ultimate one-pot comfort food.

Spiced with Hungarian paprika, dill, and thyme, this comforting soup is just what you need when winter seems to go on forever, and ever, and ever…

Rich, spiced, and full of coconutty goodness and zingy lime, this version of the traditional Indonesian dish uses bone-in chicken thighs to cut the cooking time to just under an hour.

When we crave beef but don’t want a capital-S steak, we opt for a smaller cut (hello, short ribs!), then pile on lots of meaty mushrooms.

Chef Melissa Miranda’s adobo is oven-roasted, leading to tender meat on the bottom of the pot as well as crispy skin on the top.

Creole seasoning is the key to adding a spice cabinet’s worth of flavor in just a few shakes in this one-pot dinner.

Pasta cooks directly in its sauce in this genius vegetarian dish that stars lentils and deeply browned mushrooms.

This one-pot meal is cozier than your favorite bathrobe, with fragrant basmati rice, tender chicken, warm spices, and coconut milk.

Ghormeh sabzi is one of the most celebrated Iranian stews. Andy Baraghani’s recipe includes lamb shoulder, onions, tons of fresh herbs, dried limes, and dried fenugreek leaves.

Green curry paste adds heat and lots of complex flavor to this 30-minute lentil soup.

Hetty McKinnon’s creamy, crunchy, salty-sweet peanut noodles with cucumbers are busting up our what’s-for-lunch blues.

Grate your tofu on a box-grater (it works!) and the rest of this satisfying lunch bowl is only minutes away.