One pot pasta
One pot pasta is a pasta cooking technique popularized by Martha Stewart in 2013. In 2025 Food & Wine called it out as one of 25 recipes that changed how America cooks.
Technique
[edit | edit source]The dish involves cooking all ingredients in a pot of boiling water that just covers the pasta rather than the more-typical technique of boiling the pasta in a large amount of water and making a sauce in a separate pan. The small amount of cooking water means the pasta creates its own sauce.[1]
Development and popularity
[edit | edit source]Stewart's technique was learned by Nora Singley, one of Stewart's recipe developers, from an Italian cook in Apulia in 2011 and was published in Martha Stewart Living in 2013.[1][2] The recipe went viral.[2] In 2025 Food & Wine included it on their list of The 25 Recipes That Changed How America Cooks.[3]
In 2025 Meghan Markle used the technique to make a dish she called skillet spaghetti on an episode of her show With Love, Meghan; the technique again went viral.[4] Markle was criticized for not crediting Stewart.[5]
References
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