Pls suggest the fastest/least labour intensive recipe for these ingredients

[Millie1]

We're snowed in and I'm running out of everything ... for dinner tonight I have chicken fillets, 1 onion, carrots, some celery, a butternut squash and either rice, pasta or potatoes. What can I cobble together with minimum effort? I have four very fussy eaters (one needs carbs and isn't big into potatoes) and I feel like I'm getting the flu or similar so don't have the energy to do much ... any suggestions please?

Thanks

I'd just chuck the chicken, carrots, butternut squash and par-boiled potatoes in a roasting pan and roast the lot, it'll take time to cook but there's not much preparation involved. You could always boil up a bit of pasta for the DC who doesn't eat potatoes.

f you're snowed in and need to stretch things ( I talk from experience last week ), then I'd suggest three dishes:

• Butternut soup with bread. Roast the BNS for 45 mins, halved, drizzled in oil, meanwhile sweat onions and garlic until soft. Then add scooped out BNS flesh and some stock, veg or chicken. Whizz in blender.
• If you have a tin of tomatoes, I'd cut half the fillets of chicken up and make a pasta sauce with them, the toms, some puree, onion, garlic, carrot and celery.
• The other half of the fillets I'd make a chicken risotto, again using the celery and onion.

Chicken fried rice?

Oh great ideas - thank you. Had thought about the one-pan roast, hadn't considered risotto - have risotto rice. Shall go examine cupboards! Ta!

As Taffeta suggests, I would use that lot to make two dishes: a curry with the chicken, assuming you have spices/pastes in the cupboard, served with rice, then a soup with the rest of the veg.