About One Pan Pantry Dinner that starts and ends in one pan
One Pan Pantry is a recipe site for people who want a real home-cooked dinner without a sink full of dishes. Every recipe is built around a single pot, skillet, sheet pan or tagine.
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The idea
Why one pan?
Most weeknight cooking problems are not about skill. They are about time, energy and the pile of pans waiting after dinner. One Pan Pantry starts from that problem.
When everything cooks in the same pan, the onions, spices and browned bits stay in the dish instead of going down the drain. Rice and pasta cook in the juices. Vegetables roast next to the chicken or fish. Fewer steps, more flavor, and one thing to wash at the end.
Fewer dishes is the promise. Flavor is the point.
Cooking philosophy
The house rules
Written like an ingredient list, because that is how we think about a good dinner: a few things, measured well.
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Flavor first
alwaysBrown, deglaze, simmer. The pan builds the sauce for you.
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Approachable
everydaySupermarket ingredients and steps written for a normal home kitchen.
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Practical
to tastePan sizes, prep you can do ahead, and swaps when they make sense.
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Less cleanup
1 panOne pot, skillet, sheet pan or tagine per recipe. That is the rule.
Recipe categories
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Our recipe format
What every recipe page gives you
- AOne vessel
- The pot, skillet, sheet pan or tagine you need, named at the start.
- BTime up front
- Prep, cook and total time at the top of the recipe card.
- CJump, print, pin
- Skip straight to the recipe, print it for the kitchen or save it to Pinterest.
- DClear steps
- A full ingredient list and short, numbered steps you can follow at the stove.
On the menu
The kind of dinners you will find here
Weeknight chickenSkillet thighs, rice and greens
One-pot pastaPasta that cooks in its own sauce
Sheet pan dinnersRoast everything together
Soups and stewsOne pot, a whole week of lunches
Vegetarian bowlsChickpeas, lentils and greens
Latest from the kitchen
Moroccan-inspired
The tagine: the original one-pot meal
Slow-cooked, fragrant and served straight from the dish. Our Moroccan-inspired recipes, from tagines to harira, are written for any kitchen, with or without a clay pot.
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Questions, recipe ideas or collaborations?
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