20 Incredible One-Bowl Meals For Dinner Tonight

Meal Inspiration in a Bowl

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.

Soba Noodle-and-Shrimp Bowls

Craving Asian flavor? This bright bowl is the healthiest way to get it. It's got a hint of heat and a whole lot of goodness. A tip from the Test Kitchen: Don't ignore the instruction about patting the shrimp dry before putting them in the skillet. This step keeps the shrimp from becoming soggy while cooking and ensures they'll brown more nicely for the best flavor.

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.

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.

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.

Chalupa Dinner Bowl

When the schedule is full, the slow cooker is there to help with dinner. With fall-off-the-bone roast and all the toppings you could want, these dinner bowls are filling and kid-friendly. The fun part is eating the edible taco salad shell bowl at the end.

Buttermilk Grits with Country Ham and Shrimp

If your family loves classic shrimp and grits, imagine how much they'll love it when it's made with buttermilk (and parmesan) grits, country ham, and creole seasoning. Yes, yes, and yes.

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.

Seared Scallops with Fresh Tomato-Basil Sauce and Orzo

This 30-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.

Pork and Bok Choy Stir-Fry

There's a chance you have a pork tenderloin sitting in your refrigerator or freezer that you plan on cooking this week. Instead of going the usual route, make a flavorful stir-fry with it. If you've never made bok choy before, it's time to start. It's full of healthy benefits like vitamins, potassium, calcium, iron, folate, fiber, and antioxidants.

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.

Shrimp Boil Vegetable Bowls

Recreate a favorite seaside recipe at home with this fast and easy shrimp boil bowl. Microwaved potatoes and green beans get blanched and tossed with corn, cooked shrimp, and an Old Bay-spiced vinaigrette. This bowl just may satisfy your longing to be near the sea until you can get to the beach again.

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.

Vietnamese-Style Shrimp Noodle Bowls

The Vietnamese flavors in the dressing from sweet chili sauce, lime juice, and fish sauce has addicting sweet, sour, and salty qualities. The shrimp is coated with spices and cooked on high heat to achieve a dry, crispy crust. The toppings may be the best part: carrots, cucumber, lettuce, cilantro, mint, and peanuts pack these noodle bowls with even more texture and flavor.

Mojo Chicken Bowls

Add mojo to your weeknight menu these flavor-packed bowls. Chicken thighs marinate in a classic Cuban mojo sauce made from orange, lemon, and lime juice, oregano, garlic, and jalapeno. For more flavor, chicken and red onions are grilled and then served with yellow rice, avocado, cilantro, and lime. 

Pork Noodle Bowls

Meal planning is so easy when you can use a batch of pulled pork for several meals. Here pork from our 5 Ingredient Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork recipe provides an easy, fast dinner for four. Mushrooms, cabbage, green onion, cilantro are added to a rice noodle and broth base. Top with soy sauce, dried red pepper, dry-roasted peanuts, and lime juice for the finishing touch. 

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.