One-Pot

One whole chicken, a smoky chipotle rub, chicken stock, cut vegetables, and a can of pinto beans go into the slow cooker at once. At the end, frozen broccoli and peas (or lima beans) cook in the broth while you pull the chicken. Plus an Indian version.

Restaurant-style saag without the heavy cream or the paneer. Cooked spinach, half puréed and half chopped, simmers in butter-bloomed spices and whole milk, then gets a plain-yogurt finish and cold cubes of low-fat white cheddar, the one cheese Carolyn Mein rates Frequently for the Intestinal type.