Difficulty

Advanced one-pot weeknight recipes

Advanced-rated one-pot dinners from the Spice & Simmer kitchen. Difficulty here is mostly about the number of moving pieces, not how hard the cooking is — every recipe still uses a single main pan and stays inside a normal weeknight window.

What "Advanced" actually means here

Advanced-rated recipes sit in their own particular spot on the weekday. Across the Spice & Simmer library this section holds 101 dinners, with total times averaging 73 minutes. The fastest advanced dinner clocks in at 60 minutes; the longest is 85.

If you're new to one-pot cooking, the advanced tier is a fair calibration of how much energy a weeknight dinner is actually going to take. We pace the steps the way we'd cook them ourselves — get the heat going, season as you go, taste before you serve.

Quickest advanced dinners

A few worth coming back to

Where to look next

If the advanced tier feels right for the week ahead, you'll find related angles in our methods and proteins indexes — the same dinners viewed through what's in the cupboard rather than how complicated they are. The full recipe library can be re-sorted any way you like; difficulty is just one lens of several.

The collection

101 recipes in this section

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Apple cake
Skillet Netherlands

Apple cake

⏱ 64 min 🍽 4 🧽 1 skillet
Asado
Skillet Argentina

Asado

⏱ 60 min 🍽 4 🧽 1 skillet
Beef Mandi
Soup Pot India

Beef Mandi

⏱ 75 min 🍽 6 🧽 1 pot
Æbleskiver
Skillet Norway

Æbleskiver

⏱ 69 min 🍽 4 🧽 1 skillet
Chelsea Buns
Sheet Pan British

Chelsea Buns

⏱ 76 min 🍽 6 🧽 1 sheet pan