Sheet pan Dinners

[Tropicalsenior]

1 minute ago, Dr. Teeth said:

If I only got one pan dirty, Mrs Dr Teeth would think I was dying or had been replaced by a space alien.

That sounds like my late husband. I always said that when he got loose in the kitchen, it took an act of Congress to clean up after him.

[Anna N]

28 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

Mark Bittman’s Cod with Potatoes is essentially a sheet pan dinner.   It’s a favorite around my house.   I have of course modified it to get far more than one pan dirty.  If I only got one pan dirty, Mrs Dr Teeth would think I was dying or had been replaced by a space alien.   I couldn’t do that to her, especially not this close to the holidays.

It actually looks like it could serve the purpose if we just write you out of the picture. 😂

[Kerry Beal]

On 12/21/2022 at 10:39 AM, Anna N said:

This seems to be the secret. I guess too many people have tried to suggest that everything can be put on the sheetpan  at the same time.  (This was in fact, the way I discovered one pan cooking. I believe it was a Nigella Lawson recipe. Here). I realize from reading through that recipe now that it was not so much a sheetpan meal as a roasting pan meal, but it was very simple. Then sheet pan/traybake meals took off and cookbooks were written, and testing was neglected, methinks.  Ever the optimist I was hoping for some magic formula, which would pair proteins and vegetables in such a way that each would cook in the same amount of time. I have given my head a shake, and realize how unlikely that is.

Was that' Chicken that Rocks' from way back in eG? 

[Kerry Beal]

Couple of little potatoes at the right time would make this a nice sheetpan meal - Chicken with Caramelized Shallots

[Anna N]

1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

Couple of little potatoes at the right time would make this a nice sheetpan meal - Chicken with Caramelized Shallots

Interesting that he has added soy sauce to the original recipe. 

[Kerry Beal]

15 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Interesting that he has added soy sauce to the original recipe. 

I think I've always used soy sauce in it. 3 tablespoons each of oil and sherry vinegar, 1 tbsp of soy sauce. 

[Anna N]

35 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

I think I've always used soy sauce in it. 3 tablespoons each of oil and sherry vinegar, 1 tbsp of soy sauce. 

You could be right, but he does mention that to him. It’s a change I have not made it in quite a while.

[weinoo]

Ottolenghi weighs in:

 

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Behind every apparently relaxed tray bake, though, there’s a method, or certainly a key factor at play, and that is texture. Thinking about the vital role that texture plays in cooking generally — and in tray bakes in particular — can be useful for when the next tray bake is being thrown together from what is in the fridge. It’s also a useful reminder of why you’ll never find a recipe for tray-bake hummus. Or soup. Texture is all.
 

Take the key players in the one-pan paprika chicken. There are lentils, chicken, kabocha squash and sour cream in the dish. Legumes, protein, squash and dairy: it’s a combination I play with a lot, but the choice of what particular component and which variety I use is key to the success of the dish.

 

 

He's got a secret...Yotam Ottolenghi’s Secret to Great Sheet-Pan Chicken

 

Recipe...One-Pan Paprika Chicken With Lentils, Squash and Daqa

[gfweb]

1 hour ago, weinoo said:

Ottolenghi weighs in:

 

 

He's got a secret...Yotam Ottolenghi’s Secret to Great Sheet-Pan Chicken

 

Recipe...One-Pan Paprika Chicken With Lentils, Squash and Daqa

 

Good secret!

The other secret has to be choice of a protein that can take the heat it takes to cook the veg.

[weinoo]

30 minutes ago, gfweb said:

 

Good secret!

The other secret has to be choice of a protein that can take the heat it takes to cook the veg.

 

I'll bet turkey wings would be good.