5 Dinner Recipes You Can Make Make in Minutes With Just a Single Pan

What’s a One Pan Dinner?

You probably guessed from its name, but one pan dinners are meals made by baking or broiling all the ingredients on just one baking sheet altogether. It’s a similar concept to slow-cooker meals and one-pot dinners in that the food preparation is really straightforward, but one-pan dinners give you a chance to play with different textures of food that slow cooker meals can’t.

The best one pan dinners are made up of a mixture of vegetables like sweet potato, green beans, or tomatoes, and one or two sources of protein like chicken breast, eggs, or chick peas. The great thing about them, though, is that you can use whatever you have in your fridge!

What to Love about One Pan Meals

Complete, balanced meals

Incredibly easy
Short prep/cook times
Enhanced flavor

How to make One Pan Meals even Faster

Prepare your veggies ahead of time. Just wash and chop up enough for the next few days, and store them in the fridge. When you’re ready to cook, take your pick of veggie combination, and throw them on the baking sheet.

You can also prepare an entire pan (or two) ahead of time. That way, when you get home from a long day, you can take the pan out the fridge, and pop it right into the oven. It couldn’t get any easier than that! This is your healthy answer to those frozen dinners. They might have been tempting as a time-saver, but they’re expensive, high in sodium, sugar, and processed foods, and they don’t even taste that great.

One Pan Dinner Recipes

Here are some awesome one pan dinner recipes that we thought were creative, healthy, and a hit with the whole family. Of course, you can modify any of these to suit your diet or preferences, but these are a good place to start!

Warm Salade NiÇoise

What You Need:

1 lb sweet potatoes, cut into rounds
½ lb green beans (stems removed)
2 cups halved cherry tomatoes

2 tbsp olive oil
4 organic eggs
½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground pepper

What to Do:

Preheat oven to 425°F.

Throw everything except the eggs onto a baking sheet. Roast for 20 minutes.
Crack eggs into a ramekin or directly onto roasted food. Roast for an additional 10 minutes, or until eggs are set as you like.

White Bean, Sweet Potato, Kale Toss with Spiced Yogurt

What You Need for Pan:

2 sweet potatoes cut into rounds
1 bunch kale
4 cups cooked white beans

2 tbsp coconut/avocado oil

What You Need for Spiced Yogurt:

1 garlic clove, minced

2 tbsp organic orange juice
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon

½ tsp ground cumin
1 cup plain yogurt

What to Do:

Preheat oven to 425°F.
Toss sweet potatoes with oil and bake for 20 minutes. Add kale and beans, bake for another 5 minutes.
In a bowl, combine everything else. Serve alongside veggies.

Salmon and Broccoli Pan with Jalapeno Vinaigrette

What You Need:

2 bunches broccoli, chopped
4 salmon filets

5 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 capers, drained

1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and sliced
Salt and pepper to taste

What to Do:

Preheat oven to 400°F.
Toss broccoli with 3 tbsp oil, and bake for 15 minutes, turning once.
Combine jalapeno, vinegar, and salt. Let sit for 15 minutes. Mix in 1 tbsp oil, season with salt and pepper.

Move broccoli to the edges of the pan, place salmon filets in the centre. Rub with oil, salt, and pepper. Bake 15 minutes. Serve with vinaigrette.

Paprika Chicken with Brussel Sprouts

What You Need:

4 chicken thighs or breasts

1 lb Brussel sprouts, trimmed and halved
4 small shallots, halved
1 lemon, sliced

2 cloves garlic, minced and mashed.
1 tsp thyme
1 tbsp smoked paprika

Salt and pepper to taste

What to Do:

Preheat oven to 450°F.

Toss Brussel sprouts, shallots, and lemon with oil, salt and pepper onto sheet.
Rub chicken with garlic mash, paprika, thyme, salt and pepper. Add to centre of sheet.
Roast for 20-25 minutes, until chicken is fully cooked.

Salmon Roast with Tomatoes and Olives

What You Need:

2 lbs plum tomatoes, trimmed and chopped
½ onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 cup pitted olives, chopped
4 salmon filets

1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp rosemary, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

What to Do:

Preheat oven to 400°F.
Toss tomatoes, onion, garlic with oil onto sheet. Roast for 45 minutes. Increase temperature to 450°F.

Add olives, rosemary, salt and pepper. Add salmon filets in the centre of the sheet.(You can put some of the tomato/onion on top of the salmon). Roast 10-15 minutes, until salmon is cooked.