Chicken one-pot dinners

One-pot chicken dinners that earn their keep

Chicken is the workhorse of the weeknight stove. Bone-in thighs for slow flavor, boneless for speed, the whole bird when you have a Sunday and want lunch sorted for the week. The Chicken corner of this site holds 96 weeknight dinners that all run in a single pan, with average total times around 50 minutes. About 8 of them sit comfortably in the weeknight-win window at thirty-five minutes or less.

The cuisine that turns up most often in the Chicken collection is Chinese, and the cooking method we lean on most for chicken is the Soup Pot. That combination is a fair shortcut: open one of those pages, scroll until something looks like dinner, get cooking.

Quickest chicken dinners on file

• Turkish rice (vermicelli rice) — 32 minutes, Soup Pot, serves 4.
• Chicken wings with cumin, lemon & garlic — 33 minutes, Soup Pot, serves 4.
• Sticky Chicken — 33 minutes, Skillet, serves 4.

A few we'd put on the table tonight

• Pan-fried hake, white bean & chorizo broth (Spanish, 43 min)
• Spanish chicken pie (Spanish, 36 min)
• Turkey Bánh mì (Vietnamese, 39 min)

Shopping the Chicken section

The honest pantry for cooking chicken on a weeknight isn't long. A reliable fat, a salt you trust, two or three aromatics (onion/garlic/ginger/shallot), and one good acid will turn most chicken ingredients into a dinner. The recipes here lean on the ingredients you already keep around; the spice work is where each cuisine adds its own fingerprint.

To wander sideways from Chicken: the methods index shows what gear suits chicken best, and the cuisine index shows where in the world chicken cooking has been quietly perfected. The full library always remains one click away if you want to start over and just browse.