27 Healthy One-Pot Meals You Can Feel Good About Making (2024)

29 Healthy and Delicious Dinners You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less

Cannellini-Bean and Greens Stew

The combination of beans and greens is a nutrition powerhouse. The brothy mixture is simmered in one skillet and is perfect for spooning onto toasted bread or eating as is.

Lemon Chicken With Potatoes and Escarole

Not only is this dish quick, easy, and flavor-packed, but it’s also a well-balanced meal—it has some protein, fiber, carbs, and good-for-you fats. To make it even more healthy, use leaner chicken breasts instead of thighs.

Martha’s Greenhouse-Vegetable Soup

This soup is packed with so many hearty fresh vegetables, that you’ll think the pot is going to overflow. As they cook down and become tender, they meld with the vegetable stock to create a light yet filling vegetarian soup.

Wild Salmon With Edamame-Cauliflower Rice

If you want to incorporate more vegetables into your dinner, start by turning the cauliflower into rice, then add some edamame. You can make it really healthy by serving with heart-healthy wild salmon. And with this sheet-pan dinner, the oven does the work and clean-up is simple.

Broccoli-and-Chickpea Parmesan

Here's a healthy vegetarian one-pot meal that's sure to warm and satisfy any night of the week. This dinner starts with canned chickpeas and jarred marinara sauce, so it's quick to put together. But that's not our favorite thing about this dish. What we love most is the crunchy, cheesy panko and mozzarella topping for broccoli—in short, it's a total winner.

One-Pan Pasta

So fresh and so easy! Our famous one-pan pasta recipe combines tomatoes, onion, garlic, herbs, water, and a drizzle of olive oil with dried pasta—everything cooks together in a straight-sided skillet. Once the water has evaporated, there's perfectly al dente pasta in a creamy sauce that coats every strand.

Kitchari

Versions of this comforting savory porridge abound across India and beyond. This recipe, which is a favorite among editors in our test-kitchen, combines yellow mung dal (split mung beans), basmati rice, warming spices, and a colorful medley of vegetables into a cozy and healthy meal.

Sheet Pan Vegetable Hash With Eggs

Colorful, healthy, and made on one sheet pan, there's a lot to like about this hash. Finely chopped broccoli and cauliflower replace the usual potato, red bell pepper and baby spinach up the nutrition, and eggs bring protein.

Shrimp With Spicy Green Rice

On a chilly night, there's nothing more nourishing than this rice and peas dish. With plenty of spicy flavors and crisp green vegetables, it's our favorite one-pot, one-bowl dinner.

Cauliflower-Sweet Potato Curry

Hunks of sweet potato and cauliflower soak up a creamy sauce of garlic, ginger, onion, coconut milk, and red curry paste in this one-dish dinner. In the last moments of cooking, baby spinach, edamame, and zucchini are stirred in and then everything finished with cilantro and lime juice.

Baked Cod With Tomatoes and Potatoes

This is one of Martha's all-time favorite potato recipes and for good reason. Thinly sliced Yukon Gold potatoes, tomatoes, and shallots form a delicious bed for flaky cod.

Chicken-and-Mushroom Congee

If you love risotto, then you'll love this take on rice porridge, a dish that's beloved across Asia. Our recipe uses short-grain white rice, which gets creamy as it cooks with chicken broth, chicken thighs, fresh ginger, and scallions.

Super-Grain Soup With Watercress and Mushrooms

We're calling this the most exciting vegetable soup ever. There's so much to take in—meaty mixed mushrooms, sweet slices of onion, quinoa, flavorful stock (use vegetable or chicken), and plenty of Pecorino Romano cheese for an indulgent finish.

Roasted Sea Bass With Sweet Potatoes, Spinach, and Salsa Rustica

Another wonderful sheet pan dinner, this one features meaty bass fillets with healthy greens and sweet potatoes. The salsa rustica is a parsley, oil, caper, and vinegar sauce that's drizzled over the meal just before serving.

Chicken and Vegetables in Parchment

Cooking "en papillote" in the oven is a wonderful easy and healthy technique. The "one-pan" for this meal is a parchment packet, everything steams inside without the need for lot of butter or oil.

Creamy Broccoli-and-Spinach Soup

It's easy being green with a soup this delicious. When you want to make a quick and nutritious meal for lunch or dinner, this 35-minute recipe hits the spot.

Coconut Fish-and-Pumpkin Stew

Looking for a new way to cook with pumpkin? Try this sweet and savory stew, which swaps in coconut milk for the usual heavy cream. Cod fillets cook gently in the slightly spicy sauce, alongside baby spinach and calabaza squash.

Warm Quinoa and Chicken Salad

Quick-cooking quinoa is a nutritional powerhouse packed with protein, iron, and fiber. Here, it's the base for a main-course salad with chicken, peas, and asparagus.

Black-Bean and Sweet-Potato Stew

This nutritious stew is flavorful, hearty, and protein-packed thanks to the beans and quinoa. It packs in some heat thanks to a poblano pepper and minced chipotle in adobe.

Spring Ragout With Asparagus and Poached Eggs

Make this dish when asparagus is at its peak for a hearty yet elegant one-pan vegetarian meal.

Roasted-Vegetable Couscous Bowl

Here's a sheet pan dinner with chickpeas, cauliflower, and carrots. Couscous is added after the other ingredients have roasted for a spell. (Yes, you can cook couscous in the oven!) Feta, cilantro, and a squeeze of lemon bring it all together for serving.

Braised Chicken With Artichokes, Olives, and Lemon

Cook a whole chicken low and slow with artichoke hearts, Castelvetrano olives, fresh oregano, and lemon. You'll be rewarded with super tender, flavorful meat in this bright yet homey dinner.

Greek Quinoa Salad

All the essentials of a classic Greek salad are here—feta, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives—but they're joined by a new supporting player: quinoa. It's cooked in the same pan used to sauté onions and garlic for a protein-rich addition that makes the salad more substantial and delicious.

Salmon, Red Cabbage, and New Potatoes

This vibrant one-pan wonder features salmon (good for your heart), red cabbage (high in vitamin C), and new potatoes (high in fiber). And did we mention it tastes really delicious?

Vegan Sweet Potato Chili

This black bean and sweet potato chili is a colorful and healthy dinner. Extra points for flavor and protein if you top it with avocado.

Kimchi Stew With Chicken and Tofu

Add some spice to your weeknight with this soothing dish. Kimchi is hailed as a probiotic food that improves cardiovascular health and the digestive system.

One-Pot Chicken and Brown Rice

A delicious, healthy dish for the whole family, this all-in-one meal is a smart way to use up the vegetables you probably already have on hand.