16 Weekday Roast Recipes

A trussed classic roast chicken on a rack, set inside a skillet.

Classic Roast Chicken1/16

Succulent. Crisp-skinned. Simple. If that's what you seek in a roast hen, your search stops with this ooh- and aah-inducing technique.

A pot roast with potatoes and vegetables on a decorative platter with a serving fork on the platter and a napkin on the side.

Easy Pot Roast, Potatoes, and Vegetables2/16

This classic, hearty, homey dish—just like something your grandma used to make but better—is an ideal one-pot meat-and-potatoes meal. Includes oven as well as slow cooker instructions.

Ina Garten's lemon chicken roasted on top of a bed of bread croutons and lemon wedges.

Ina Garten’s Lemon Chicken3/16

If we had to choose just one roast chicken to spend the rest of our lives with, this would be the one. No contest.

A partially shredded roast pork butt in a roasting pan with a cup of barbecue sauce and two forks.

Roast Pork Butt4/16

Excuse us, but we're too preoccupied stuffing our pieholes with roast pork butt to say anything. Hey, anyone seen the napkins?!

Three spiced roast chicken thighs, with warm spice, cajun, and spiced curry coatings

Spiced Roast Chicken5/16

A weeknight godsend, these spice-rubbed, oven-blasted chicken parts do dinner on the double. Er, triple.

A salt-baked red snapper with all the flesh removed from the bones and a broken salt crust and knife beside the fish skeleton.

Salt-Baked Red Snapper ~ Lubina a la Sel6/16

Bury a whole snapper in a heap of wet salt. Shove it in the oven. Then forget about it. Your reward for so little effort? The sweetest, most tender fish you'll ever experience.

A perfect roast chicken in a metal roasting pan that is resting on a kitchen towel, with a bunch of herbs beside it.

Brined Chicken7/16

Brined, salted, chilled, roasted, and pampered, this hen makes weeknight dinner as well as weekend entertaining a feat of ease.

Jamie Oliver's Sunday roast carved and displayed on a wooden cutting board.

Jamie Oliver’s Sunday Roast8/16

An exceptionally tender roast and crisp-as-can-be roasted potatoes that will make any meal memorable beyond words.

A pork loin roast, tied and seasoned with salt and pepper, on a foil-lined sheet pan with a wire rack.

Pork Loin Roast9/16

Just like what your grandma would put on the table for Sunday night dinner. (Don't you love how food instantly transports you through time?!)

Szechuan spice-rubbed pork loin covered with ground Szechuan peppercorns, condiments on the side

Szechuan Spice-Rubbed Pork10/16

For this embarrassingly easy roast, a tingling rub of Szechuan pepper, black pepper, and nutmeg (yes, nutmeg) coats pork butt or loin before it's roasted to tender incredibleness.

A perfectly roasted beef tenderloin with Madeira sauce on the side ion a copper pot

Beef Tenderloin with Madeira Sauce11/16

This no-fuss recipe doesn't ambush you with any trickery. It just delivers you a supple, perfectly cooked roast beef tenderloin napped with a slightly boozy but goof-proof sauce.

A roast pork loin with apples and onions scattered around it on a baking sheet.

Roast Pork Loin with Apples and Onions12/16

This pork loin, with its fennel and garlic rub and apples and onions roasted on the same sheet pan, is about to become your new favorite supper salvation.

Skillet with four seared pork sausages with roasted grapes on a baking sheet nearby.

Pork Sausages with Roasted Grapes13/16

A traditionally Umbrian dish in which pork sausages and plump grapes are coaxed to tender goodness and jammy sweetness. You're welcome.

Roast pork chop with a halved, roasted apple, mashed potatoes, and kale.

Roast Pork Chops14/16

This simple recipe turns out comfort food of the most refined order. Not bad for a one-pan Sunday supper.

A person stirring flour into the basic pan gravy with a wooden spoon on a rimmed baking sheet.

Basic Pan Gravy15/16

Great pan gravy doesn't just happen by chance. Here's how it does happen. And with no fuss. No mess. No lumps. Just easy, foolproof, soul-satisfying gravy.

A stock pot filled with mushrooms, leeks, garlic, onion, carrots, and parsley for making roast chicken stock.

Roast Chicken Stock16/16

Sure, made-from-scratch stock like grandma used to make is frugal beyond belief. But wait till you see what it does for your cooking.