Using wild-caught seafood in your one-pot or one-sheet meals is an easy way to make these low-maintenance meals even easier — after all, your protein portions are already prepped and ready to cook.
Limiting your cooking vessel to one pot or sheet allows you to streamline your duties while preparing the dish, gives you just one thing to tend to while you’re cooking, and will leave you with an easier cleanup situation when all is said and done. But that doesn’t mean you’ll be limiting your creativity in the kitchen or your flavor options.
Here are 7 satisfying, healthy, and easy one-pot or one-sheet meals that you’ll want to add to your weeknight recipe rotation
Salmon With Cauliflower Rice and Edamame
Martha Stewart has a low-carb seafood sheet pan meal built around salmon, edamame (another high-quality source of protein), and cauliflower rice. If you’ve never made cauliflower rice before, don’t fret: It’s as simple as mincing florets in a food processor, then roasting on a sheet pan until a little caramelized. Feel free to swap out the salmon for cod or halibut, and replace the edamame with another cooked bean to match your mood.
Fisherman’s Stew
The great thing about a rustic fisherman’s stew recipes is that you can put whatever seafood you have on hand into this one-pot dish, imagining yourself preparing it on a boat with just a hot plate and a sharp knife to work with. This version of the stew from Food & Wine suggests you use halibut as your main protein, but you could use cod or pollock instead — you could even throw some salmon or spot prawns into the mix, and use prawn stock rather than fish stock as the base of the stew.
BBQ Salmon With Corn and Peppers
For a healthy, summer-inspired sheet pan dinner, try Food Network’s recipe for BBQ salmon with a colorful roasted corn and pepper side that’s part salsa, part salad. The BBQ component of the dinner comes from your favorite BBQ spice rub — something sweet and a bit spicy — which you’ll use to flavor the veggies as well as the salmon fillets. As with many seafood sheet pan dinners, the only extra step you’ll need to take is to add the fish to the sheet pan in the final few minutes of cooking so that the veggies have enough time to caramelize in the oven.
Cod Poached in Tomato-Saffron Broth
This poached cod dish from Bon Appetit is both ridiculously easy and elegant, and comes together in under 20 minutes. In fact, poached seafood recipes are often one-pot meals that require minimal time and effort to make. For this recipe, you’ll poach cod in simple garlic and pepper spiced broth, enhanced with a bit of white wine and a pinch of saffron.
Tomato-Tamarind Salmon Curry
Curries are low-maintenance recipes that give you a high-flavor meal in return for your minimal effort — and in many cases, they’re one-pot meals, though you can always serve them with a side of rice rather than as a spiced stew. Inspired by the flavors of Tanzania and Zanzibar, the tomato and tamarind salmon curry from Wild Greens and Sardines is made with coconut milk so it should be plenty filling as a meal on its own.
Cod With Potatoes and Summer Greens
While this recipe from Real Simple for sheet pan cod with potatoes is served with swiss chard, use whatever hearty greens you can get this season; your local farmers are harvesting plenty of kale and mustard greens over the next few months, so you have your pick of something dark and leafy to keep your options open.
Fajita Fish TacosLove fajitas? You’ll adore this fajita-inspired one-sheet recipe for fish tacos from Real Food - Whole Life. Rather than sauteing your ingredients, you’ll roast bell peppers and onions in the oven until they’re soft and sweet, then cook spiced fillets of either cod or halibut on the same pan until they’re just cooked through. Serve on a leaf of lettuce, a soft tortilla, or in a hard shell.
