What's your 'bung it in the oven' no effort dinner?

[racinghare]

I asked for dinner advice yday and got so may lovely suggestions, so I'm back for more lol. Something quick and easy bung it in the oven no effort- what's your go to? Mine is usually a chicken, carrots and potato all cooked together and then add stock at the end to turn into a gravy. That's too much effort today though!

Pasta bake or lasagne. If I'm feeling a bit crazy I'll throw in a garlic flatbread for good measure!

pizza or breaded fish, oven chips & peas.
Not an oven dish but a bag of ready chopped stir fry veg, cooked prawns, chicken or tofu and noodles or microwave rice.

Not oven but I fry some gnocchi and pour pesto over. Literally takes minutes! Served with garlic bread!

packet of cooked prawns or two stirred through 3 or 4 packets of savoury flavoured 2 min in microwave rice. Feeds 2 hungry teenage boys in less than 5 minutes.

Mine is defrost some chicken, cover in spices or seasoning of some sort, chop up a salad and chuck on the table with tortilla wraps to build your own.

It doesn’t go in the oven, but chicken quesadillas. I keep precooked shredded chicken in the freezer. It only takes a few minutes to cook each quesadilla. If I have multiple people I might get two pans going.

Gnocchi in a roasting tin with mushrooms and olive oil for 20 minutes, add spinach and cheese for 5 minutes before serving

cowboy pie with chopped veg on the side for health 😅

Pizza
Any kind of pizza, fresh/frozen/pitta/tortilla/homemade

I must be lazy as lasagne is in no way a low effort dinner for me! Mine isn't an oven dish but one of my favourite lazy dinners is to cook noodles, then add frozen peas and sweetcorn a minute or so before the noodles are done. Drain and stir in one beaten egg per person and cook it in the residual heat. Add soy sauce and maybe sriracha or similar to taste.

Sausage traybake www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pesto-sausage-traybake

Cheats fish pie recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/easy-fish-pie-1

@Fivemoreminutes1 that sausage traybake looks amazing, that's going on my meal plan for next week!

Gnocchi in a roasting tin with mushrooms and olive oil for 20 minutes, add spinach and cheese for 5 minutes before serving

I’m going to try this. I’ve never cooked gnocchi before. Do you need to cook or prep it first or anything or can you just chuck it in?

Not an oven dish, but either frozen gyoza and a stir fry pack with soy and sweet chilli sauce, plus prawns.

Or frozen edamame beans, a salmon fillet sliced up and canned Chinese straw mushrooms all heated up in fish stock with soy and chopped up nori sheets.

Any low effort lasagne would be ready made here.

Yes, that gnocchi sounds really nice.

@ChairOfInvisibleStudies

I must be lazy as lasagne is in no way a low effort dinner for me! Mine isn't an oven dish but one of my favourite lazy dinners is to cook noodles, then add frozen peas and sweetcorn a minute or so before the noodles are done. Drain and stir in one beaten egg per person and cook it in the residual heat. Add soy sauce and maybe sriracha or similar to taste.

I know! Lasagne is my all-out effort.

Mine would be just chicken on the bone with some herbs and wedges or baked potatoes.

One step up is add some peppers, veg, onion, garlic, olives and chick peas.

When I suggested pasta bake or lasagne I meant ready made ones from a supermarket!

@BarbaraofSeville

Not an oven dish, but either frozen gyoza and a stir fry pack with soy and sweet chilli sauce, plus prawns.

Or frozen edamame beans, a salmon fillet sliced up and canned Chinese straw mushrooms all heated up in fish stock with soy and chopped up nori sheets.

Any low effort lasagne would be ready made here.

Your second dish sounds right up my street - do you buy your fish stock or make your own in advance? Any recommendations?

A ready meal!

Agree, lasagne is for a day when I have lots of energy! (Can’t remember the last time I had it!).

Not bung in the oven but to the table in under 10 mins I do ‘spaghetti with Spanish flavours’ form bbc good food which is just pasta (fresh for speed), chorizo and a jar of roasted red peppers, finished with Parmesan.

Egg (dry fried or omelette) n chips (oven) is a favourite too.

this Mary berry sausage tray bake is also a winner. I up the portion a bit!

@Ponderingwindow - same but we have cheese and tomato ones. A family favourite here.

My children also love plain pasta with bacon and melted cheese over the top and some cooked peas stirred in. Total cooking time about 15 mins. Honestly they absolutely love it!

@Squiff70 now I get it - I was feeling very inadequate, but now I realise I'm just slow on the uptake 😂

Chicken thighs, halloumi, cherry tomatoes, red peppers, some new potatoes and garlic cloves. Smother the whole lot with olive oil, dried oregano and some chilli flakes and pop in the oven for 45 mins..

@WeOnlyTalkAboutBruno, nope, just chuck it all in, Can't stand boiled gnocchi but roasted takes it to another level
I usually use a blue cheese to finish it off but any cheese will do