Traybakes make mealtimes easier: Less hands-on time while making dinner, less washing up afterwards, and meals that are full of flavour. Whether you're looking for hearty comfort food, dishes that make the most of seasonal produce, or meals you can make when short on time, try these 'set-and-forget' recipes.
Orange and fennel chicken traybake
Low prep time, high flavour! This simple, budget-friendly chicken and fennel traybake from Adam Liaw only takes 5 minutes to put together. After tossing the chicken in a sauce gently perfumed with notes of orange and ginger, roasting for 45 minutes creates an addictive, sticky glaze for the chicken, perfect with the tender roasted fennel and onion.
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Ultimate Family Chicken
episode • The Cook Up with Adam Liaw • Cooking • 25m
G
episode • The Cook Up with Adam Liaw • Cooking • 25m
G
Ratatouille and halloumi bake
Halloumi lovers, this bake is for you! Embrace that delicious squeaky cheese in this ratatouille tray bake. Delicious served warm or cold, it can be easily reheated in the microwave, so also makes a handy packed lunch.
Cannellini and sausage tray bake
"Sometimes after a long day I take the one-tray oven route. This means throwing everything into a dish and putting it into the oven for it to do all the work. It’s incredibly rewarding for very little work," says cookbook author Elizabeth Hewson, who shared this recipe on The Cook Up with Adam Liaw.
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Tray Bake
episode • The Cook Up with Adam Liaw • Cooking • 24m
G
episode • The Cook Up with Adam Liaw • Cooking • 24m
G
Jamie Oliver's pasta bake
A dinner that's colourful and fun: it uses up leftover garlic bread for the breadcrumb topping! This easy pasta bake from Jamie Oliver includes broccoli (or swap in Brussels sprouts), cheesy sauce and garlic bread crispy bits.
Sheet pan roasted fish and vegetables
Fish for dinner, but make it easy and full of flavour and texture? Say hello to this recipe from Mary Berg. This zesty, lemony, garlic fish with roasted veg and crunchy bread chunks is a great one-pan meal.
Sausage, potato and pea bake
This one has a few steps, but is a good one to fit in around other things you need to do, as the oven and microwave do most of the work. Another fantastic comfort bake from Adam Liaw, this recipe starts with microwaved potatoes. Add sausage pieces, a smooth béchamel sauce sauce, frozen peas and a cheesy topping and bake, and you have a dinner that bridges the gap between simplicity, budget and speed.
Middle Eastern lamb tray bake
A colourful mix of veg go in the oven, with lamb chops added on top part-way through the cooking time, to create a full-of-flavour dinner. Perfect with an easy yoghurt-tahini-lemon dressing to dollop on for serving!
Get-your-veggies-in sausage bake
Sausages, garlic, zucchini, pumpkin, sweet potato, butter beans and cherry tomatoes come together in this colourful bake, which is finished by tossing the baked mix with goat's cheese and baby spinach leaves.
Curried chicken casserole
Another fantastic recipe from Mary Berg, this one with a dish-saving way of cooking the couscous. After marinated chicken and paneer pieces are baked along with tomato, onion and capsicum, the chicken is removed and set aside to rest. Chicken stock and couscous are added to the baking tray and stirred into the vegetable and paneer mixture. Five or so minutes later, you have fluffy couscous. Pop the chicken back on top and dinner is ready to serve!
Tiger prawn bake with olives, tomato and breadcrumbs
If you've got time to make the breadcrumb topping, it really adds a great finishing touch to this Mediterranean tray bake from Silvia Colloca.
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Silvia's Italian Masterclass
series • Cooking
PG
series • Cooking
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Tex-Mex chicken and rice bake
A fantastic one-pot meal with rice, sweet potato, onions, black beans and juicy, delicious, seasoned chicken thighs. This will feed six, so great for a larger family or to have leftovers the next day!
And if you're looking for sweet tray-bakes, we have great ideas there, too:
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