I love a good meal as much as the next person but what I don’t love is spending an hour doing the dishes afterwards. Nope, NOT FOR ME. Here are a handful of brilliant and delicious one pot dinner (or one tray) recipes that will save you from washing every pot and pan you own!
Fuss-free is for me!
Truth be told, there are at least a few nights a week that I just can’t be bothered with doing the whole dinner thing. Because #mumlife. But I still want to eat something delicious, putting a hold on effort, not flavour. If you get my gist. So if you find yourself in the same rut as me – or if you just want to explore some minimal dish-using recipes – give these ones below a crack. Promise you won’t be disappointed!
Eleven one pot dinners you all need in your dinner repertoire
1. Shake ‘n’ bake chicken drumsticks
I do love myself a shortcut in the kitchen and this recipe is all that. A simple packet of 1.5kg chicken drumsticks (budget-friendly, bonus!) can be transformed with minimal fuss – and minimal mess with this shake ‘n’ bake chicken drumstick recipe.
2. Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni
Going meat-free a little more often? This spinach and ricotta cannelloni recipe IS FOR YOU! Granted, you DO have to mix together the filling in a bowl (that’s just one bowl) and then bake in a separate dish, it’s technically TWO dishes, but it’ll be so delicious you really won’t care and your family will wolf it down in no time. YUM.
3. The Slow Cooker Chicken Dinner Hack
You can absolutely deliver a chicken dinner and sides from one bowl – your slow cooker bowl! Check out how to make this sensational slow cooker chicken hack for the dinner win!
4. TikTok Baked Fetta Pasta
We love TikTok for many things – the funny dog videos, the hilarious mums and now, the all awesome viral recipes! The TikTok baked fetta pasta recipe is a gamechanger for a fuss-free and delicious mid-week dinner. Want to amp it up? Stir through some shredded BBQ chicken at the end for extra protein.
5. One Tray Savoury Slice
An awesome way to use up those unused veggies in the crisper at the end of the week, this savoury slice recipe makes for a fabulous warm-weather dinner with a salad side or eat it cold in the kids’ lunch box. So good, so budget-friendly and so easy to make!
6. One-pot pasta for the win!
Not even kidding – this pasta dish is cooked all in one pot, TOGETHER. Hence the name one-pot pasta. Perhaps don’t cook it for your Italian neighbours, for fear of scrutiny and crimes against pasta but it’s a good one for a pasta-loving family!
7. Bacon and Pea Risotto
You don’t need a bunch of ingredients to deliver a delicious dinner. Sometimes you just need bacon, peas and onion to be the stars. Check out this bacon and pea risotto recipe and be wowed by the flavour!
8. Low-Carb Dinner Recipes: Cashew Chicken
If you’re mindful of your carbohydrate intake, this low-carb cashew chicken recipe is a tasty one to try. All in the wok it goes! Add some extra veggies and serve with a small side of rice.
9. Kids’ Choice : Cheese and Tomato Pasta
When it comes to kids and pasta, legend says the cheesier it is, the better it’s received. So here you have it, mamas, the cheesiest tomato pasta recipe they just simply cannot resist! Just one pot and four ingredients!
10. Pork San Choy Bao – The Star of the Dinner Recipes
The awesome thing about this pork san choy bao recipe is that it literally REPLACES the dishes with lettuce cups. I can’t look past a recipe that has you eating your plates so this is a good one to have on the dinner rotation!
11. Easy Fried Rice
An oldie but a goodie, fried rice doesn’t always have to be a side dish, it CAN be in the spotlight as one of your mid-week dinner recipes! Again, an easy dish to amp up with added veggies, puffed tofu or meat (you can even shred meat leftovers to add to it).
There you have it, enough one-pot dinner recipes to rotate through the upcoming weeks so you can spend more time doing what you want to do in your evenings and less time stacking the dishwasher or standing at the kitchen sink. Talk about winning at mum life!
If you have any one-pot dinner recipes you’d love to share, tell us about them in the comments below, we’d love to hear!
