Tray Bake Suppers
What to cook for dinner? The perennial question in most households. After a long day with kids, sometimes the last thing we all want to think about is: What’s on the menu tonight… Complicated by children who may not always be receptive, to elaborate meal plans. I write every day about how we can eat better at home, cook smarter, waste less and nourish our family with good food, and even I can struggle to find new quick and easy meals. Inevitably one meal eaten in my house every week, is a tray bake of some kind. One tray and a few ingredients roasted in the oven: that is it. And, although I say my family and I eat a tray bake every week, they won’t have noticed. It might be a chicken tray-bake, or a salmon tray-bake, or a roasted vegetable tray-bake and so on… variations are endless.
Whatever your cooking ability a tray-bake is pretty manageable to prep and tweaking the ingredients each week, means that suddenly you have a whole new repertoire of suppers with very little thought. On average 5-10 minutes prep is all you need to assemble it, then you can get it in the oven and do other things. Here are are three tray-bakes, which are incredibly simple to prepare: I hope they will be the beginning of a weekly tray-bake meal in your house too.
my tray bake “rules” ~
Use-up the forgotten vegetables and herbs
Include a full meal: protein, a starchy carbohydrate and a selection of vegetables
Prep your ingredients according to cooking times: cut sweet potatoes into dice so they cook faster and leave broccoli in big wedges; to even out the cooking times. Lastly, throw quicker cooking ingredients such as kale, or cherry tomatoes onto the tray halfway through cooking, to stop them being overcooked.
Get creative and try combinations of ingredients that your family enjoy
New tray bake recipes to try ~
