Seafood one-pot dinners

One-pot seafood dinners that earn their keep

Seafood weeknight dinners are about timing more than skill. Most of what you do is build a base — broth, aromatics, vegetables — that's ready to receive the fish or shellfish in the last few minutes. The Seafood corner of this site holds 61 weeknight dinners that all run in a single pan, with average total times around 45 minutes. About 13 of them sit comfortably in the weeknight-win window at thirty-five minutes or less.

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

Quickest seafood dinners on file

• Gambas al ajillo — 32 minutes, Soup Pot, serves 4.
• Garlicky prawns with sherry — 32 minutes, Skillet, serves 4.
• Honey Teriyaki Salmon — 32 minutes, Skillet, serves 4.

A few we'd put on the table tonight

• Kung Po Prawns (Chinese, 39 min)
• Sea bass with sizzled ginger, chilli & spring onions (Vietnamese, 46 min)
• Vietnamese caramel trout (Vietnamese, 36 min)

Shopping the Seafood section

The honest pantry for cooking seafood 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 seafood 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 Seafood: the methods index shows what gear suits seafood best, and the cuisine index shows where in the world seafood cooking has been quietly perfected. The full library always remains one click away if you want to start over and just browse.