Please share your top one-pot ideas while my kitchen is being ripped out

[naturelover]

Basically I'll have access to the cooker most nights but it'll be in the middle of a building site.

I think we'll eat a fair few bacon rolls and baked potatoes. I have a handful of things in the freezer (soup, bolognaise).

I think ready meals and takeaways will cost too much.

What quick easy dinners can we do in one pan on the hob, that need minimal prep?

To add to the challenge, they have to be egg and dairy free.

Anyone got any good ideas? Many thanks

One yummy winter warmer is a sausage hotpot.
Grill or fry some sausages and then cut them into pieces.
Put the sausages in a big pan with a tin of tomatoes and any veg that you have/like.
I usually use onions, mushrooms, courgette, peppers, leek, carrots, sweetcorn etc.
You can fry the veg before adding the tomato if you like.
Add a stock cube and some water.
Add herbs, garlic, salt and pepper etc to your taste.
It's yummy with rice, baked potato, mashed potato etc

chicken wraps put everything in the wok and away u go we tend to have chicken,peppers,onions and mushrooms.

If you have a slow cooker i'd use that more lots of veggies and meat you can always but pre-chopped veggies for ease still cheaper than a takeout and nicer.

Chicken tagine - chicken, onions, garlic, spices (cinnamon, cayenne, cloves, ginger), olives, stock - slow cook all in the pot, no need to brown. Serve with couscous. Boil kettle, pour over dish of couscous and leave to soak for five mins.

Or just bake things - meat, potatoes and roasted veg all together in the oven in the same big tin (added at different times obviously).

So you have access to an oven and a hob, but don;t want to use too much stuff? Should be easy. I only have a hob and a microwave. We try to eat a high-protein / low carb diet, so we tend to eat this sort of thing - I've added in the pulses we would include if we were not trying to lose weight:

• Chorizo and white bean stew. Fry chorizo and onions, add a tin of tomatoes, a tin of beans, some garlic and smoked paprika if you have any, and eat with crusty bread.
• Meat and two veg - easy to do if you fry the meat. Stuffed chicken breasts, chops etc all good like this
• Sausages with steamed veg
• Burgers (we don't eat them with buns or chips: instead we have them with ALL the trimmings, ie fried mushrooms, bacon, cheddar for those that eat it, red onion, avocado, tomatoes and salad)
• Veg curry: sweet potato, spinach, chick peas, coconut milk, thai green curry paste. Have with rice if you want.
• Favourite salad: bacon, spinach, mushroom, red onion, tomato, avocado, cheese (cheddar, parmesan or blue cheese all delicious with this and can obv be added at the table for anyone who wants it). Have with Spanish garlic bread (toast baguette under the grill, scrape with raw garlic clove then a halved tomato, drizzle with oil)

Of course you can easily do pasta - my favourite sauce is putanesca, ie tomato, anchovy, caper, garlic and chilli; DD loves it with onions fried slowly in lots of butter with chopped frankfurter and sweetcorn stirred in - or couscous (really nice with roasted veg, pesto or harissa, and feta cheese). Or spend an hour making a big pot of chilli that you can dip into on a couple of nights.

Good luck! Hope the new kitchen is fab.

there are some really good one pot recipe ideas on the bbc good food website.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/favourites/one-pot/.

You could buy some of those disposable foil trays and do traybakes eg chicken and peppers/onions/potatoes/spices etc or pork chops/potatoes/apples - whatever really. Just serve with bagged salad and bread and throw away tray - minimal washing up.

You could also do chicken breasts or fish in tin foil parcels with herbs/wine/olive oil splashed in and serve with jacket potatoes and those microwaved steamed vegetable pouches.

Other 1 pot ideas - chicken jambalaya or thai prawn or chicken noodles. Can give recipes if you like