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Anna Berrill

INSANE: Help how can i make my traybakes more exciting | Rare Historical Photos

A good sauce, like pesto or salsa verde, livens up any traybake like Anna Jones’ roast roots.
A good sauce, like pesto or salsa verde, livens up any traybake like Anna Jones’ roast roots. Photograph: Matt Russell/The Guardian

I make a lot of traybake dinners from leftover veg, but they often turn out boring. Any easy ideas for jazzing them up?
Ellen, Chichester

There’s a fine line between a boring and brilliant traybake, and it all comes down to three things – “texture, flavour and colour,” according to Rukmini Iyer, author of the Roasting Tin series, India Express, and one-tin recipe website Dinner with Rukmini. Take roast aubergine: it can be completely “transformed with a punchy lemon and olive oil dressing, a handful of flat-leaf parsley and chopped chilli for flavour and colour, and mozzarella or flaked almonds for texture and crunch”.

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