29 One Pot Recipes

Are you on the hunt for one pot recipes that save time and dishes?  These 29 One Pot Recipes and family meal ideas must be worked into the meal plan!  This collection of easy family dinner ideas should help add more variety to the menu and make everyone around the table happy!

Dinner Ideas for Tonight

I always mean to make a meal plan for the whole week and then work the plan as the week unfolds, but then life happens.  When life is busier than I planned for, which seems like always these days, I find myself looking for last minute dinner ideas.

Here’s some of the best recipes ideas for tonight’s dinner:

• One Pot Beef Goulash from Plowing Through Life
• One Pot Garlic Chicken Alfredo from Julie’s Eats & Treats
• Italian Chicken Skillet from Tastes of Lizzy T
• Instant Pot Salsa Chicken from Unsophisticook
• Crock Pot One Pot Chicken Casserole from Recipes that Crock
• One Pot Crock Pot Pork Dinner from Recipes that Crock
• One Pot Crock Pot Chicken Dinner from Recipes that Crock
• Sheet Pan Chicken Fajitas from This Farm Girl Cooks

One Pot Meals with Pasta

With kids and trying to keep on budget, we eat a lot of pasta.  Pasta is affordable and fills little bellies.  We love that there are so many flavor combinations that work great with one pot pasta recipes!

• Instant Pot Chicken and Bacon Carbonara from Plowing Through Life
• 20 Minute Skillet Pizza Casserole from Beyer Beware
• One Pot Pizza Pasta from Julie’s Eats & Treats
• One Pot Taco Pasta from Cooking with Carlee
• Pasta with Olive Oil and Garlic from Unsophisticook
• Ham & Alfredo Spaghetti from Plowing Through Life
• One Pot Creamy Chicken and Noodles from Cooking with Carlee
• Creamy Ham & Swiss Noodle Bake from Turnips 2 Tangerines
• Skilletini from Cooking with the Cowboy
• One Pan Taco Mac & Cheese from Beyer Beware
• One Pot Ham Penne Skillet from Julie’s Eats & Treats

One Pot Family Dinner Ideas with Sausage

We want our kids to eat good sources of protein, but sometimes big hunks of meat can be difficult for kids to chew.  Thus we love using sausage for the flavor that smoking ads as well as being a ground meat it is easy for kids to eat!

Here are some great one pot meal ideas with sausage:

• Old Fashioned Sausage, Potatoes & Green Beans in the Instant Pot from Plowing Through Life
• One Pan Little Potato Sausage Bake from the Country Cook
• Cheesy Smoked Sausage Bake from Plain Chicken
• One Pot Cheesy Sausage Pasta from The Food Hussy
• Chicken Sausage Jambalaya from This Farm Girl Cooks
• One Pot Collards with Rice and Sausage from Cooking with Carlee
• One Pot Sausage Pasta from Tastes of Lizzy T

Other Easy One Pot Meals and Casseroles

• Easy Tuna Casserole from Unsophisticook
• Simple Chicken Stir Fry from The Recipe Life
• One Pot Corned Beef, Cabbage, Potato Dinner from Recipes that Crock