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

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racinghare · 19/04/2022 13:03

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!

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MissStarry · 19/04/2022 18:05

Can’t beat chucking a jacket potato (or a large sweet potato) in the oven for the most lowest of effort times & can still make it healthy with a tub of cottage cheese/tin of tuna etc and salad, or take it to old skool comfort of beans and cheese.

BigSkies22 · 19/04/2022 18:07

Butcher's sausages plonked on top of cherry tomatoes, segmented onions and balsamic vinegar whooshed over. Baked in the oven, baked potatoes on the side.

Limer · 19/04/2022 18:10

@Comedycook

Rub some cajun spice on a salmon fillet. Put in oven for 10-15 minutes...serve with a packet of microwave rice and salad/veg
Mine is very similar. Pour a couple of tablespoons of sweet chilli sauce onto a salmon fillet. Wrap in foil. Cook in oven for 20 mins. Serve with pack of couscous and salad/veg.

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ZippyZap · 19/04/2022 18:10

Jacket potatoes shoved in the oven for 1.5 hours followed by sausages shoved in the oven, a side of Brocolli and carrots and baked beans... Or just beans and peas/sweetcorn and cheese on top!

JennyJumpup · 19/04/2022 18:10

This, and I stir in 30g parmesan and 2 cups frozen mixed veg also.

www.campbells.com/recipes/one-dish-chicken-rice-bake/

Hawkins001 · 19/04/2022 18:14

@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!
Jacket potato salad, Chips, fried eggs, sausages Pizza Burgers and salad with chips Or very basic bowl of pasta or spaghetti
Alightjacket · 19/04/2022 18:15

I use a big casserole pot. Pasta, water, spinach, peas & broccoli. Boil it all up. Don't drain the water! Add in a big dollop of pesto - green or red. Half a tub of cream cheese and some/ a lot of grated Parmesan. Stir it up and serve! It's super easy and super tasty!

RB68 · 19/04/2022 18:19

oven cooked fish - usually cod or salmon - just wrap in foil with lemon wedges - with salad. Sometimes do oven chips or home made wedges, sometimes rice with peas and sweetcorn, sometimes just a slice of decent bread

Lasagne can be simpler if you double up when you do bolognaise and freeze, take it out in the am then by tea time its ready to layer up, make a bechamel and sprinkle with grated cheese and shove in the oven with garlic bread

We like a beef stew which takes a bit of time however if you combine with baked potatoes it purely is a shove it in the oven for 2 hrs and pots for 1 1/4hrs. It helps I have an always on oven so energy less of a consideration.

Also roasted med veg with rice or cous cous and this can be with fish or meat to taste - just add some herbs and cook sep in the oven to the veg

Another thing I often do is prep fr the next day so for e.g. if having baked potatoes i do extras that can be skinned and used for mash on a shep pie or fish pie with the skins becoming loaded skins if you like that sort of thing.

We often have roasted ham but then with left overs do a basic potato and ham stew - liturally precooked meat, stock, carrots, onions (celery if u like it) and potato (waxy and floury if you can a floury thickens it) and cornflour to thicken the gravy a bit if you prefer. All goes in the pot and when the potatoes are soft its done. Great for after a day outside or day out to be ready quick and warming, served with bread if you want

breakdown19 · 19/04/2022 18:20

Placemarking

MurmuratingStarling · 19/04/2022 18:20

Goodfellas frozen pizza from Morrisons.

CotswoldWoolly · 19/04/2022 18:21

Leftovers pie - random bits of defrosted leftover roast (meat, veg and gravy). Topped with filo or flaky pastry.
Anything previously batch cooked from the freezer - eg spag Bol, lasagne, curry parcels (defrosted chicken curry in filo pastry), chilli with wedges or nachos.
Potato, cod and chorizo traybake. Sausage (or chicken) and veg traybake.

ithoughtisawapuddycat · 19/04/2022 18:26

Another shameless placemark

Longingforatikihut · 19/04/2022 18:30

Chicken breast basted in pesto. Cherry tomatoes, quartered red onions and beetroot quick spray of oil. All in one dish. In the oven.

Onlyforcake · 19/04/2022 18:31

Gnocchi, cheese sauce (you can buy diff ready made ones for this sort of thing), left over roadt chicken, squeeze of garlic puree, spinach, frozen peas, asparagus, bit of milk. Stir well. Cover in bread crumbs and some parmesan. Bake for about 45 mins (longer if its the shelf gnocchi). You can easily leave out the chicken, or add some mushrooms, sometimes I put in roast butternut squash, I've also put in broccoli when I'm trying to use it up.

Pashazade · 19/04/2022 18:31

The gnocchi recipe from the baking tin book is
Stick the gnocchi in boiling water for 2 mins
Dump in tray, pour over a pot of creme fraiche, stir through as many frozen peas as you want, top with ham hock. Bung in oven for 15/20 mins. Vary the meat with anything you want I cook it off if needed whilst the gnocchi is warming through and then mix it in. Also works with spinach instead of peas.

Musmerian · 19/04/2022 18:33

Spaghetti Carbonara. While span is cooking beat up an egg and some Parmesan and fry some bacon. Once pasta is cooked Chuck in bacon and egg mixture and add some more cheese. Or fresh tomatoes fried with olive oil and garlic served with Parmesan.

I8toys · 19/04/2022 18:38

Sausages and tin of cannelli beans + lloyd grossman tomato and chilli sauce in roasting tin - serve with salad and garlic bread

Chicken drumsticks, new potatoes + jar of pesto in roasting tin and add in some cherry tomatoes near to the end

Greenandcabbagelooking · 19/04/2022 18:39

Cheesy green pasta.

Cook pasta
Approx 3 mins before it's done throw in broccoli and peas
Put spinach in the colander, then drain the pasta and veg over it
Return to pan
Add cream cheese, grated cheddar, and a little milk
Stir

BoredZelda · 19/04/2022 18:39

Pasta bake or lasagne.

Lasagne isn’t no effort if all made from scratch. It’s not difficult but isn’t a quick option.

Terfydactyl · 19/04/2022 18:43

@icanonlydosomuch

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

I tried it once, boiled like the packet said. Didnt eat it. Might give frying it a go.
Is this common knowledge?

Rinatinabina · 19/04/2022 18:45

“Bolognaise” in a frying pan, cook mince, drain off excess with lid, stir in tinned tomato, oregano, stock simmer for 20 min, meanwhile cook pasta.

LadyCordeliaFitzgerald · 19/04/2022 18:48

This thread should be in classics.

Only on mumsnet could ‘no effort’ include chopping this, grating that, and making a cheese sauce from scratch.

PegasusReturns · 19/04/2022 18:49

For real no effort it’s egg and soldiers or beans on toast. Otherwise carbonara, chili prawn linguine, mac and cheese, fajitas or pizzas (with shop bought bases).

Lasagne takes me as long as beef Wellington. There’s nothing low effort about it.

Horriblewoman · 19/04/2022 18:53

Fried or baked gnocchi is a million times nicer than boiled!

Lowest effort is probably scrambled eggs on toast or fish finger sandwich.

Facewipes · 19/04/2022 18:57

Agree lasagne is an effort. I make a big batch of bolognese and portion some just as sauce and freeze then keep some for lasagne. then the next day I make bechamel and make up the lasagne - too much effort in 1 day for me.

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