One-Pot Meals

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.

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.

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

Any vegetable or meat would be in good company with this stew’s spicy-funky base of kimchi, gochugaru, and gochujang.

For this soup recipe, we skipped browning the meatballs and poached them instead. This will keep them very tender and their flavor light, which is ideal for this seasonal dish.

Exactly the kind of hearty-but-not-too-hearty soup you want on a rainy spring day.

You can use this foolproof steaming method to cook any sturdy fish—salmon, snapper, black cod, or arctic char would all be great.

Just about the most approachable at-home fish cooking method there is.

This comforting, fried garlic-topped chicken soup tastes like it took hours to make but comes together in a flash.

Our creamy stovetop mac and cheese is about as easy as opening a box—and a whooooole lot more delicious.

A pan full of veggie-packed fried rice is one of the easiest and most satisfying weeknight dinners we know of.

This is the hearty, rustic, and deeply warming comfort food you'll be craving on all snowy days.

This black bean soup is seasoned with a heavy hand. If you are salt- or spice-averse, decrease the amount of salt to 1½ tsp. and use 1 chipotle chile with 1 tsp. adobo sauce instead.

This Polish hunter’s stew features kielbasa, smoky bacon, melty cabbage, and lots of delicious broth that can be sopped up with bread.

This simple, big-flavor chicken thigh dish is a great intro to the fundamentals of braising—once you've got the method down, you can braise just about anything.