One-pot dinner ideas
One pot or one pan, and one thing to wash up. Dal, curries, pasta cooked in its own sauce and hearty stews all come together in a single pan. Let us pick a one-pot dinner and show you the video.
We have 363 one-pot dinners to pick from, all cooking videos with captions, which makes a written recipe much more likely to work.
One-pot dinners people cook
A few of the one-pot videos we pick from, each from a YouTube creator. Tap one to watch it, or use the button above to have one picked for you.
The Cooking Foodie 路 2:45
Tasty 路 0:57
Food Impromptu 路 5:32
Martha Stewart 路 3:14
Food Impromptu 路 5:20
Natashas Kitchen 路 6:34
Downshiftology 路 8:05
Yeung Man Cooking 路 11:08
Tips for one-pot cooking
- Use a wide, heavy pan with a lid: it holds the heat evenly and leaves room for pasta or rice to cook in the sauce.
- Add ingredients in order of cooking time, so the onions soften first and quick ones like spinach or peas go in at the end.
- If pasta or rice soaks up the liquid before it is tender, add a splash of hot water rather than cold, so the pot keeps cooking.
How it works
Tap the button and we pick a one-pot dinner at random from our cooking videos. Not feeling it? Pick again; you will not see the same video twice this visit. Happy with it? Watch it on YouTube, or tap "Get the written recipe" and sign in with Google to get the ingredients and steps written out.
Questions about one-pot dinners
What counts as a one-pot dinner?
A dinner cooked in one pot, pan, skillet or wok. We pick from videos whose title says so, from dal and curries to one-pot pasta, chilli and stews.
Can I make these in an Instant Pot or pressure cooker?
This page picks videos that say one pot or one pan, not every pressure cooker recipe. Some of them do use an Instant Pot or pressure cooker; the video shows which.
Does one-pot pasta really cook in the sauce?
In one-pot pasta videos the dry pasta usually cooks in the sauce with just enough liquid, so there is no separate pan of water to drain. Stir now and then so it does not stick.
Can I pick a one-pot dinner for my diet?
Yes: vegetarian, vegan, vegetarian with eggs or pork-free. Picks only come from videos chosen for that diet whose title names nothing it excludes. Still check the recipe, as a title can leave an ingredient out.
More dinner ideas by dish
More dinner ideas by ingredient
- Dinner with chicken
- Dinner with mince
- Dinner with beef
- Dinner with fish
- Dinner with eggs
- Dinner with pasta
- Dinner with rice
- Dinner with noodles
- Dinner with potatoes
- Dinner with lentils
- Dinner with chickpeas
- Dinner with tofu
No ingredient in mind?
Let the dinner decider choose from your diet, time and the kind of food you fancy. Already found a video? Paste it into the YouTube to recipe converter.