One-Pan and One-Pot Dinner Ideas

Fewer pans means less to wash, and that's often the difference between cooking at home and ordering takeout.

These dinners cook in a single sheet pan, skillet or pot, with the vegetables in there too.

Crispy parmesan-crusted chicken baked on one pan with red potatoes and asparagus, so dinner and cleanup are both easy.

One pot, pantry staples, and a bag of cheese tortellini — this is the recipe to reach for when nobody has the energy to decide on dinner.

Sheet-pan fajitas with almost no cleanup — the kind of dinner that keeps a meal plan from falling apart on a Tuesday.

Tips

Line sheet pans with foil or parchment and cleanup takes seconds.
Don't crowd the pan. Food that's packed too tightly steams instead of browning, so use two pans if you need to.
Cut everything to about the same size so it's all done at the same time.

Let the dinner picker choose, or get the What's For Dinner app to roll from your own list and let the whole household vote.