25 Healthy One-Pot Meals You Can Feel Good About Making

From pastas to soups, these one-pot meals are some of our tried-and-true favorites.

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Photo: Johnny Miller

If you're trying to incorporate a few quick and nutritious meals into your weekly dinner routine, look no further than these healthy one-pot recipes. Not only are they easy to prep and clean up, but they're packed with fiber-dense vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains. This means plenty of bright colors and unique flavors on your plate.

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Cannellini-Bean and Greens Stew

Cannellini-Bean and Greens Stew
Julia Gartland

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.

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Lemon Chicken With Potatoes and Escarole

lemon chicken with potatoes and escarole
Nico Schinco

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.

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Martha’s Greenhouse-Vegetable Soup

Martha’s Greenhouse-Vegetable Soup
Johnny Miller

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.

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Wild Salmon With Edamame-Cauliflower Rice

wild salmon with edamame cauliflower rice served in a pan
Kate Mathis

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.

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Broccoli-and-Chickpea Parmesan

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Johnny Miller

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.

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One-Pan Pasta

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Marcus Nilsson

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.

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Kitchari

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Emily Kate Roemer

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.

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Sheet Pan Vegetable Hash With Eggs

sheet pan vegetable hash with eggs
Chris Simpson

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.

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Shrimp With Spicy Green Rice

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Con Poulos

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.

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Cauliflower-Sweet Potato Curry

cauliflower-sweet potato curry served with cilantro and lime
Con Poulos

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.

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Baked Cod With Tomatoes and Potatoes

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Bryan Gardner

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.

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Chicken-and-Mushroom Congee

Chicken-and-Mushroom Congee recipe
Lennart Weibull

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.

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Super-Grain Soup With Watercress and Mushrooms

super grain soup with watercress and mushrooms
Justin Walker

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.

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

fish and vegetables on baking sheet
Justin Walker

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.

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Chicken and Vegetables in Parchment

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Bryan Gardner

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.

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Creamy Broccoli-and-Spinach Soup

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Yuki Sugiura

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.

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Coconut, Fish, and Pumpkin Stew

Caribbean Fish-and-Pumpkin Stew recipe
Lennart Weibull

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.

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Warm Quinoa and Chicken Salad

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Christina Holmes

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.

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Black-Bean and Sweet-Potato Stew

Black-Bean and Sweet-Potato Stew recipe
Lennart Weibull

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.

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Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas

Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas

Jake Sternquist

Cook dinner for a crowd with these one-pan chicken fajitas. Onions and bell peppers are broiled until lightly charred, then returned to the oven seasoned chicken breasts. Even the tortillas are warmed in the oven, saving you valuable space on the stove top.

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Roasted-Vegetable Couscous Bowl

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Justin Walker

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.

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Braised Chicken With Artichokes, Olives, and Lemon

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GEORGE BARBERIS

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.

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Roasted Salmon, Red Cabbage, and New Potatoes

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Jonathan Lovekin

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?

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Vegan Sweet Potato Chili

vegan sweet potato chili
Bryan Gardner

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.

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One-Pot Chicken and Brown Rice

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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.

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