14 Easy One-Bowl Meals For Dinner Tonight (2024)

Our Easiest (And Fastest) One-Dish Pasta Recipes

Cuban Black Bean-and-Yellow Rice Bowls

This colorful, meatless bowl manages to pack in a little sweet, salty, and spicy. A tip from the Test Kitchen: Plantains are ready to cook when their peels turn black on the outside, so buy them black or let them ripen before cooking. Many grocery stores sell heat-and-serve frozen plantains too.

Pulled Pork Bowls

Whether you prepare it yourself or pick up a pound from you favorite local barbecue joint, pair pulled pork with coleslaw, pickles, and cornbread croutons for a filling bowl dinner. Barbecue dressing is the ideal finishing touch.

Burrito Bowls

Turn taco Tuesday around this week and make burrito bowls instead. This healthy option is full of customizable ingredients, so every family member gets exactly what they like. With premade ingredients like microwaveable brown rice, this is the fastest recipe you'll make all week.

Shrimp-And-Herb Rice Bowls

Recreate the flavors of the Lowcountry at home with this fast and easy shrimp-and-rice dinner.This bowl just may satisfy your longing to be near the sea until you can get to the beach again.

Greek Chicken Bowls

Thanks to rotisserie chicken, this wonderful one-bowl meal comes together from start to finish in just 30 minutes. Though we took a shortcut with the chicken, the dressing is made from scratch.

Greek Meatballs with Cucumber-Yogurt Sauce and Rice

Bring the Mediterranean home with this quick, easy recipe. If you have leftovers, Greek meatball pitas with cucumber-yogurt sauce would make a delicious lunch the next day. And we all know meatballs freeze beautifully, so make several batches to save for hectic weeks.

Southwest Chicken Cutlet Rice Bowl

This Tex-Mex bowl is bursting with color and healthy ingredients. For a flavor boost, marinate the chicken in spices for 1 to 24 hours ahead of cooking, but hands-on time is just 25 minutes.Top with freshly sliced avocado and pair with a margarita or Mexican beer because you'll want to toast to this delicious recipe.

Chicken Noodle Bowl with Peanut-Ginger Sauce

Can't stop thinking about that Thai peanut sauce you love? Make a healthy version at home and drizzle it over colorful veggies and filling chicken (all ready in just 20 minutes). Craving, satisfied.

Blackened Shrimp Rice Bowls

Grilled poblano pepper, corn, and blackened shrimp accompany black beans, rice, and avocado and topped with a tangy yogurt dressing. Shrimp gets coated with spices before it gets lightly charred on a hot grill for a few minutes. Swap out the rice with quinoa for more fiber or greens to make it a salad.

Sweet-and-Spicy Salmon Rice Bowl

Sambal olek sauce, Siracha sauce, rice vinegar, and honey provide the sweet, sour, and spicy kick to this salmon bowl. Brown rice, vegetables, and salmon gets cooked in one skillet in just 30 minutes. Cucumbers and radishes add a crunchy topping.

Teriyaki Salmon Bowls with Crispy Brussels Sprouts

Salmon is infused with lemon grass, fennel, green onions, and wine in the slow cooker and then glazed under the broiler with teriyaki sauce. In just 1 to 2 hours, the poached salmon should be moist and tender. The fillets are balanced with Brussel sprouts, mushrooms, and carrots atop brown rice, and drizzled with the remaining teriyaki sauce.

Cauliflower Rice Bowl with Tahini-Herb Chicken

This low-carb, Mediterranean-inspired bowl combines grilled chicken and vegetables with chickpeas and fresh toppings, all dressed with a Greek yogurt-tahini dressing. The dressing doubles as a marinade that tenderizes and flavors the chicken thighs with fresh herbs, lemon, and garlic before they hit the grill. This healthy bowl comes together in under an hour (not including the marinate time) and serves four.

Creamy Rice with Scallops

This 35-minute recipe is company-worthy but easy enough to serve on a casual weeknight. A tip from the Test Kitchen: Look for dry-packed scallops, which are packed without extra water or preservatives. This helps them brown nicely when cooked. Dry-packed scallops have a shorter shelf life than wet-packed scallops, so cook them the day you buy them.

Quick Chicken Noodle Bowls

Cozy up with these chicken noodle bowls when you need a quick comfort meal. Adding fresh lime juice just before serving adds bright flavor to this healthy bowl. Throw in suggested toppings at the end of cooking, such as sugar snap peas, fresh cilantro and mint, green onions, and red chile peppers. A squeeze of fresh lime juice just before serving adds bright flavor to this healthy bowl.