7 Simple One-Pot Meals Perfect for Cold Weather Cooking
Cooking isn’t complicated. If your goal is to prepare wholesome and tasty food, there’s no need for all four burners and the oven to go. Instead, make simple one-pot meals and spend more time eating with family and friends than you do preparing them.
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1. Spicy Braised Brisket
For the ultimate in one-pot meals, try this recipe for braised brisket. A slowly braised Dutch Oven pot roast is among the stars of one-pot meals — it’s both easy and sumptuous. This version adds warming and delicious spices like chili powder, fennel, and cilantro. This tasty dish will impress and become your new fall favorite.
2. Split Pea Chowder
Split pea chowder is a filling mainstay among one-pot meals. Not only will it satisfy your vegetarian family members and guests (as long as you use vegetable stock instead of chicken stock), but it’s super economical and easy to make. While the recipe calls for potatoes and carrots, you could add additional root vegetables too for a chunkier version.
3. Moroccan Braised Chicken Thighs
Turn the everyday fare of chicken into an exotic trip around your taste buds with this recipe for Moroccan-style braised chicken thighs. Braising chicken is routine enough, but you can kick it up a notch with preserved lemon, saffron, cinnamon, and olives.
4. Skillet Lasagna
Lasagna isn’t generally the first thing that comes to mind when planning one-pot meals. Its preparation is usually a multi-pot production and is usually the kind of dish that you reserve for weekend family dinners. Instead, use broken lasagne noodles or any kind of pasta and cook this soup in a Dutch oven for a relatively quick version of lasagna easy enough for weeknight cheesy deliciousness.
5. Rice and Beans
Rice and beans are another super economical one-pot meal. The addition of plenty of spices turns everyday rice and black beans into a tasty dish. Add some sour cream, guacamole, chopped scallions, and a squirt of lime for some additional flavor and pizazz. Rice and beans also reheat well for lunch!
6. Chili and Cornbread
Along the same vein as rice and beans is chili—but how about a bonus addition of killer cornbread on top? Make this turkey butternut squash version in a cast iron skillet and top it with the cornbread mixture before finishing it in the oven.
An impressive and delicious one-pot meal! Make it vegetarian by leaving out the ground meat and substituting a meat substitute like beans or seitan.
7. One-Pot Roasted Whole Chicken with Rosemary and Lemon
Feed a whole family (or 1-2 people all week long) with this simple recipe for a whole roasted chicken. While you may be hesitant to cook a whole chicken—it’s way more economical and then you can use the bones and skin to make chicken stock as well.
This version is called the addition of rosemary, which really adds a lot of woodsy flavor. You can also add root vegetables to balance out the rich, roasted meat. It also makes a lovely presentation when entertaining.
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