What is the meaning of one dish meal?

Answer 1

A balanced meal that consists of dietary fibre, water and nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals in one dish.

For example, a pasta (carbohydrates) with vegetables (dietary fibre, vitamins and minerals) and some chicken or meat (proteins and fats) gets everything together without requiring you to prepare three separate dishes.

Answer 2

A one dish meal is a combination of protein and vegetables prepared and served in one dish. Many times these dishes take the form of a casserole. If you combine meat or beans with vegetables and possibly pasta, rice, or other grains you have a one dish meal.

Answer 3

I used to have this friend in Alaska. Kooky guy, nuts really but check this out; 1 can cream of chicken soup

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 large can canned chicken (get the good stuff is you can, low sodium)

saltine crackers

cheddar cheese

1 bunch Broccoli broken down to floweretts

Salt Pepper to taste

In a large deep casserole dish layer thus;

saltines crushed cover the bottom

1/2 can either soup

layer of chicken broken up

Layer cheddar cheese grated

1/2 can other soup

Layer Broccoli

Layer cheese

Repeat layering till everything is used

Save enough saltines and cheddar cheese to mix together for topping.

Pop this mess into the preheated oven at about 375 to 400 degrees for 25 minutes. The trick is to heat everything through and through, making sure the cheese melts thoroughly without over cooking the broccoli. The Broc' should be bright green and still have a shape to it instead of OD green and dead looking.

Name it what you want I don't have a name for it.

This is just one idea that popped into my head from the question. Casseroles and Soups make the best one dish meals. Everything can be found in any decent cook book. Be creative, it is after all the real spice of life. Check out the food channel on the tube. As a retires chef myself, I really appreciate how they are bringing innovation and inventiveness into the kitchen.

Food is the source of the energy we use to live and preparing your own meals is communing with the first source and center where everything comes from and celebrating our liveingness.

Answer 4

Quite apart from fast-food restaurants- though it does suggest economy and also a pre-packaged production run- meals in one piece, like newly made autos- the idea was widely propagated in Nazi Germany and was known as Ein topf and the word for meals. The subject is discussed in some detail in the book- the Twelve Year Reich.

Answer 5

it think it is a meal with only 1 course in it normally a main meal so it is quite filling

Answer 6

Perhaps the best example of a one dish meal is Pizza. Others would be lasagna, taco salad, shepherd's pie and pasty.