40 + Cast Iron Recipes
In this post, you will find 40 of the BEST cast iron recipes. You’ll find a variety of one-pot meals, decadent desserts, and healthy recipes to make for your family or loved ones.
Cast Iron Recipes
Cooking with a cast iron skillet is a favorite for many homesteaders and home cooks. They are incredibly versatile for one.
You can create your own roasted coffee at home, bake brownies or a giant skillet cookie. And make the perfect fried chicken with homestyle drop biscuits.
These are just a few of the recipes you’ll find in this amazing list of cast iron recipes.
You’ll definitely want to save this list and come back for more new and deliciously inspiring recipes!
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New to Using Iron Skillets?
Here are a few helpful tips to get you started with cast iron cooking.
I have used and absolutely love Lodge cast iron. They arrive pre-seasoned, but that doesn’t quite give them with a perfect non stick surface.
To properly season your cast iron, clean it and dry it completely. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F. Rub a thin layer of vegetable or canola oil over the surface with a paper towel.
Do not use Olive oil or butter to season – this will leave your skillet sticky. But you can cook with them!
Place upside down on baking sheet that is lined with foil. And bake for 1 hour.
To keep it clean, wash with hot water and a soft wash cloth or sponge. Dry thoroughly.
You can also give it a super light wipe down with vegetable or canola oil. And heat it up over medium heat on the stove top for a few minutes.
Skillet Recipes
Break out that cast iron skillet and get ready to make a delicious one-pot meal! Here are 40 of the BEST skillet recipes for you to enjoy with your loved ones.
Low Carb Chicken Skillet Recipe
This recipe for an easy low carb chicken skillet recipe makes a great weeknight meal. It is simple to make and it is Keto friendly. And is full of delicious Italian caprese flavors!
Easy Irish Soda Bread Recipe
This incredibly easy Irish Soda Bread recipe is simply made in a cast iron skillet. It is slightly sweet and perfectly delicious.
Cast Iron Ribeye with Garlic Mushrooms (in under 30 min)
Once you make steak in a cast iron skillet you’ll never go back! This Cast Iron Ribeye with Garlic Mushrooms takes about 20 minutes to make but is worthy of any special occasion.
Skillet Cornbread
A slice of warm Skillet Cornbread is the perfect addition to any meal. Using a cast iron skillet gives this tender and light cornbread a crunchy, buttery crust.
Skillet Pull-Apart Pretzel Buns with Creamy Cheese Dip
This recipe for Skillet Pull-Apart Pretzel Buns with Creamy Cheese Dip has a wonderfully descriptive title! Soft delicious pretzel buns surround creamy cheese dip, all baked to a golden gooey perfection in a skillet, making it easy to serve and enjoy right out of the oven!
Easy Cherry Clafoutis Recipe | Cast Iron Royal Ann Cherry Clafoutis Recipe
Taken from the traditional French cherry clafoutis recipe and adapted to make it a cast-iron Royal Ann cherry clafoutis. This easy dessert has simple ingredients and presented in your favorite cast iron pan
Our Favorite Perfect Skillet Apple Crumble
This amazing skillet apple crumble is filled with juicy apples baked into sticky, caramel-y, gooey perfection, and topped with a buttery crisp meets crumble topping that is decadently crumbly, a little bit doughy, with plenty of crunch.
Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
This Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie is a perfectly delicious sweet treat for the family. It’s sure to become an instant favorite comfort food. And it is simply baked in a 10” cast iron skillet.
Keto Cast Iron Skillet Pork Chops
Cast iron skillets are durable and versatile pieces of cookware. Add a few ingredients, and you have a delicious keto cast iron skillet pork chops dinner!
Easy Skillet Lasagna {with NO Boil Noodles!}
This skillet lasagna is a flavorful and easy dinner! Perfect for all age groups.
Cast Iron Skillet Brownies
Cast iron skillet brownies have the perfect crisp outside and tender inside. No need for a fancy brownie edge pan when a skillet delivers the best brownies ever!
S'mores Skillet Cookie Cake Recipe
S’mores skillet cookie cake with warm chewy cookie, graham crackers and toasted marshmallows.
How to Roast Coffee Beans at Home in a Cast Iron Skillet
Roast your own coffee beans at home using whole beans and a cast iron skillet. A delicious and frugal way to perfect your own home roast.
Skillet Irish Soda Bread Minis
Super-easy, super-cute Irish soda bread minis are baked up in a cast iron skillet, creating sweet little rolls in half the time of loaf soda bread. It’s homemade bread on a weeknight!
Fig and Cardamom Cast Iron Skillet Scones Recipe
These fig and cardamom scones are perfect for a dessert or with your afternoon coffee or tea. By baking these scones in a cast iron skillet in one piece, you get a crispy outside and a tender inside busting with the flavor of figs and cardamom.
Skillet Cajun Shrimp
Skillet Cajun Shrimp are slightly spicy, cajun seasoned shrimp that cook hot and fast in a skillet. Shelled and deveined raw shrimp are lightly marinated for 30 minutes, then cooked and are ready in under 5 minutes!
Gluten Free Tamale Pie – One Skillet
With a cheesy, chewy tamale topping, this skillet tamale pie is like a traditional tamale made in a pan! Gluten free and easy to make, this will quickly become a family
favorite!
Skillet Buffalo Cauliflower Dip
Buffalo dip goes vegetarian with caramelized cauliflower, and get reeeeaallll cheesy. Hot sauce, diced celery and green chiles, plus big shreds of cheese bubbling on top. Plus, the entire thing is made in one pan.
Cast Iron Pepper Crusted Steak Recipe
This Pepper Crusted Steak is cooked to perfection in a cast iron skillet then topped with a creamy mushroom sauce. Perfect for holidays and celebratory dinners!
Hash Brown Omelet Skillets
These Hash Brown Omelet Skillets are Individually sized skillets layered with hash browns, ham, onions, peppers, cheese, and eggs. Great weekend breakfast!
Crispy Cast Iron Skillet Chicken thighs
Crispy Cast Iron Skillet Chicken Thighs are always a hit with the family and are a mostly hands-off dinner that is ready in less than 30 minutes! Better for you than classic fried chicken but still with delicious crispy skin and moist, tender meat that your family will love and that pairs perfectly almost any side!
Skillet Vegan Cornbread
A favorite skillet vegan cornbread recipe that can be made either way–sweet or savory!
Cast Iron Skillet Chicken Thighs
These crispy cast iron skillet chicken thighs will become your go-to meal and for a family of 6, it's easy on the budget.
Skillet Potatoes Recipe {smashed baby potatoes}
These skillet potatoes make for an easy and delicious side dish! Baby potatoes are generously coated in herbs and roasted until crispy on the outside and tender inside.
Make this Brunch Skillet with Sausage & Hash Browns for Weekend Entertaining
Serve this Brunch Skillet Recipe with Sausage & Hash Browns for a tasty all-in-one meal. It's layers of flavor are perfect for brunch or dinner.
Skillet Chocolate Pecan Cake
Chocolate Pecan Cake by itself is yummy enough, however, when you add it into an iron skillet, there is just something that makes it even better.
Skillet Pizza Dip
Ditch the delivery and prepare your pizza in a skillet with built-in bread! Also includes directions for omitting the rolls.
Skillet Parmesan Pecan Green Beans
These Parmesan Pecan Green Beans make a popular side dish. Cooked on the stove-top, you can prepare part of this easy recipe ahead of time. Keto-friendly.
Easy One-Skillet Keto Chicken Parmesan {Paleo, Whole30, & Dairy Free}
This Easy One-Skillet Keto Chicken Parmesan is your perfect Italian comfort food fix. It features lightly breaded chicken that’s crispy on the outside, juicy on the inside, then covered in a homemade cheesy red sauce on top of zucchini or gluten-free noodles.
One Pan BBQ Pulled Pork and Rice Skillet Supper
One pan BBQ pulled pork and rice skillet dinner is full of flavor and texture. It will have everyone coming back for a little more and leave you with very few dishes too!
Skillet Drop Biscuits
These Skillet Drop Biscuits can be on your table in less than 30 minutes making them a perfect weeknight option.
Easy Cast Iron Chicken Fajitas
Cast Iron Chicken Fajitas are a quick and easy meal with marinated boneless chicken breasts, sauteed onions, bell peppers, and topped with chipotle lime crema.
Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie (Pizookie)
This ooey gooey, warm & melty skillet cookie (AKA: Pizookie) is completely irresistible. It’s like eating warm cookie dough topped with vanilla ice cream, better than any restaurant version you’ve ever had!
Easy Garlic Rosemary Skillet Bread
This Garlic Rosemary Skillet Bread recipe is so easy anyone can make it. It’s just mix, one rise and bake to golden brown deliciousness.
The Best Keto Pork Chops Cast Iron Skillet Recipe
An easy, keto cast iron skillet pork chops recipe featuring Hatfield® Premium Reserve Pork® bone-in pork chops & a creamy mushroom & herb pan sauce.
One Skillet Pork Chops with Apple Cider Gravy Dinner for Two
These One Skillet Pork Chops with Apple Cider Gravy are delicious and special enough for an intimate date night dinner for two or an easy, yet impressive, lunch. Tender pork chops are seared in a cast iron skillet then topped with an apple cider and onion soup mix gravy.
Skillet Chicken Pot Pie with Cheddar Garlic Drop Biscuits
This thick & hearty chicken pot pie in one skillet on the stovetop and while that's simmering away, bake a batch of quick & easy cheddar garlic drop biscuits to serve on top.
Cast Iron Chicken With Mint Chutney - Full Meal With Vegetables!
This is a full meal recipe with vegetables! This dinner dish uses fresh mint on baked chicken breasts, along with carrots, potatoes and onions! Your entire family will love this healthy one skillet pan meal!
Keto Maple Pecan Blondies (Skillet Recipe)
This recipe uses a skillet to make delicious low carb blondies! The maple goodness and pecans makes this a recipe you’ll want to make again and again.
