The Complete One Pot: 400 Meals for Your Skillet, Sheet Pan, Instant Pot®, Dutch Oven, and More (The Complete ATK Cookbook Series)
Simplify dinner and eat well with hundreds of meals that take full advantage of your favorite pans.
Today's one-pot recipes are more varied than ever. From sheet-pan suppers to no-boil pastas, these flavorful recipes represent the test kitchen's best strategies for successful single-pan cooking, including staggering cooking times so everything finishes at once and developing an arsenal of no-cook sauces to dress up Instant Pot and slow cooker meals.
ATK flips the lid on several one-pot cooking assumptions; first, that it's always slow. More than 130 of the 400+ recipes can be made in 45 minutes or less. Next, that the recipes serve an army: We paid attention to smaller family sizes by adding scaled-down recipes serving two throughout the book. And we made some of the all-time best recipes more flexible with choose-your-own pan options such as Classic Chicken Soup that can be made in a Dutch oven, slow cooker, or pressure cooker. Finally, we realized that decluttering dinner didn't stop with using just one pot but also meant limiting the number of bowls.
Skip takeout with Sheet Pan Veggie Pizza. Make date-night Classic Arroz Con Pollo for Two in a saucepan. Cook for a crowd using a roasting-pan for Herbed Lamb Shoulder with Fingerling Potatoes and Asparagus. Set and forget Slow Cooker Spiced Pork Tenderloin with Raisin-Almond Couscous, or get dinner on the table fast using an Instant Pot to make Cod with Warm Tabbouleh Salad.
Reviews (61)
Not feeling this cookbook yet...
Not the greatest. Out of ten recipes we liked one as a family and we are very open to new meals. Also, be ready to buy ingredients for the shelf you may never use again. There are a lot of ingredients needed for each recipe, on average 8-10 so be prepared for that. I’ll update when I make more recipes in a few more months. On the fence still with this one.
Covers a Lot of Ground
I have always liked America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) cookbooks which always seem to follow a very predictable format. I was excited to get this particular cookbook which is a collection of one-pot recipes. It has not disappointed me. I will start with this: anymore, many people equate one-pot cooking with doing everything in an electric pressure cooker, neglecting the Dutch oven, cast iron skillet and many other stalwarts in the kitchen. This book does have recipes designed for use in the pressure cooker but it is not limited to just that. It covers sheet pans, casserole dishes, skillets, Dutch ovens, roasting pans, sauce pans, slow cookers, and electric pressure cookers. If you’re looking for a book that covers just the pressure cookers, there are better choices, but if you want a book that covers a variety of single pots and pans, this is a collection that has a little something for just about every pan in the kitchen. This is a huge collection of recipes, 400 in all. Many cookbooks these days seems to stop somewhere between 75 – 100 recipes, so this one has a lot more to offer. Each recipe follows the familiar ATK format – a “Why this Recipe Works” introduction, the recipe itself, and more often than not a full-color photograph. If you’re not familiar with the introductory material that ATK includes with their recipes, it is a breakdown of things they tried, things that works, and things that did not. Frequently they state the goals they were trying to achieve – texture, flavor profile, etc. Each recipe is tagged with the type of pot for which the recipe was developed, right under the title. A few recipes have special treatment and are provided with methods for preparation in multiple pots An example of this is the recipe for Classic Beef Stew which is presented for three different pots – a Dutch oven, a roasting pan and a sauce pan. The chapter breakdown is “Soups”, “Stews and Chilis”, “Chicken”, “Beef”, “Pork and Lamb”, “Seafood”, “Vegetarian”, “Pasta and Noodles”, and finally “Desserts”. Obviously there is a little overlap between these but the organization is reasonable and logical. If you are looking for just recipes for a specific pot (for example, the slow cooker), the index at the back of the book is your best friend. It lists the recipes by title, but also you can look for Slow Cooker in the index and find the recipes listed individually there, not only alphabetically but also thy recipe type (dessert, etc.). Some real thought went into this, and the result is a more useful book for those looking for specific preparation based on pot type. As should be expected, the recipe results are predictable and good. I have not tried many of the recipes in this book yet, but the ones I have tried have worked out well. This is a good book by ATK that covers a lot of ground. The format is familiar and the organization of recipes is solid. I am pleased with this cookbook and am happy to recommend it.
Does not provide instruction for all cooking methods for all or most of the recipes.
I am about half way through this book after it arrived a couple of days ago. I have already found a number of recipes that I would like to try. This is a good cook book. I recommend it. My disappointment is that correctly or incorrectly I had the impression that they provided instructions for each cooking method (Instant pot, slow cooker, Dutch oven, skillet) for each recipe . Instead the recipes are grouped by cooking method. So if you don't own an Instant Pot or similar device you can't do many of the recipes. Generally, what can be made in Instant Pot can be done in a Dutch oven or slow cooker using more time. They could have easily given a time for alternative methods.
ATK exceeds their sterling reputation, must buy.
This is a Kindle book for me so I can't take a picture of it for you. ATK has the reputation of excellence in everything they do and they certainly meet that challenge here. I already had my Instant Pot before this came out but I ordered it anyway. They cover *any* single pot meal which is invaluable for "grandma" cooks like me who love to experiment in the kitchen. That said this book is full of great recipes and excellent instruction. This would make an awesome gift for any cook you know who enjoys inspiration and/or help thinking of the answer to the eternal question "what's for dinner?"
Great Cookbook
Great recipes and multiple ways of fixing them! Most recipes have a photo. Very creative and versatile.
Highly recommend
Loved the book. Read it cover to cover as soon as I got it. Pictures are beautiful. I want to try practically every recipe in the book. I am into the idea of one pot cooking, and this book delivers as the title advertises. I could list every recipe I want to try, but it would take forever. Suffice to say, I will be keeping this book right on my kitchen counter and looking at it regularly for new recipes to make.
one pot
The pots include skillet, sheet pan, instant pot, and dutch oven. I don't have an instant pot or any pressure cooker. At the beginning of each chapter the recipes are categorized by the pot, for instance, Beef has 18 recipes under skillet, 6 under sheet pan, 7 under dutch oven, 5 under slow cooker, 4 under instant pot, 2 under casserole dish, and one under cook it three ways, which gives three different methods like classic, pressure cooker, and slow cook. Each chapter varies with the cooking methods, the soup chapter is fairly high in instant pot while desserts only have one- cheese cake. I don't find not having an instant pot hampers my ability to cook from or enjoy this book. I would say a slow cooker and dutch oven or some sort of cooking pot would probably be the most used, and sheet pan. The recipes fall into the standard atk format. A paragraph on why the recipe works, the ingredient list, and then the directions. All are clearly written. There is a vegetarian chapter, which is nice. The roasted chicken breasts with ratatouille was very good.
Good recipes but ebook version is hard to use
ATK always has good recipes. I got the ebook version but should have gotten the print version. The ebook version is much harder to browse through because you end up flipping back and forth between the table of contents and individual recipe pages. Also, it would be more useful if it was organized by method. I don't have an Instant Pot, for example, so it is disappointing to see an interesting sounding recipe, open it up and find it is for an Instant Pot.
Three dinners and counting.
Each one a hit. Easy to follow and straightforward recipes.
Wonderful Book
I particularly like this book because it contains quality recipes, and is beautifully organized. It is so easy to navigate. Pick your main ingredient, then the first page of each section breaks down the recipes into type of primary cookware (skillet, crock pot, insta pot, casserole, sheet pan, dutch oven), then lists recipes under each type of cookware. So far the recipes I have tried have been very good and I would repeat them. A very good sign.
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