You have little time available but do you want to prepare a satisfying, healthy and balanced dinner? You need a tasty recipe single dish! The single dish well done it is a complete and balanced meal in which proteins, fats, sugars and fiber are contained in a single flow. If we had to summarize it in a balanced formula this would show how it should contain 25% protein, 25% carbohydrates and 50% vegetables and fruit. A useful scheme to learn "to eat healthily and enrich your every meal with all the nutrients your body needs, stimulating the sense of satiety, avoiding insulin spikes and helping us to have better lucidity and long-term energy".

Do you think that a well balanced single course Is it difficult to prepare and does not satisfy your hunger and your palate? Nothing could be more wrong, there are so many unique dishes you can make! Mixing the ingredients you can get complete and healthy dishes but also very appetizing and satisfying. And, if your appetite is insatiable, it is always possible to approach the single dish to a rich man vegetable side dish. Prepare a healthy and balanced single dish it is not difficult and stimulates creativity in the kitchen: it means to get involved, to dare combinations of carbohydrates (pasta, rice, cereals), proteins (meat, fish and legumes) and vegetables, always different, to combine colors to make the preparation appetizing and nice to see; create a balance of different flavors that blend to give rise to a unique and original taste.

But the single dish it can also be a fast dish that comes to you when you don't want to give up an appetizing and healthy meal but have little time to devote to cooking, or, when it is really impossible for you to stop at the table to make a complete meal, consisting of several courses but you don't want to give up the pleasure to taste more flavors.

In Italy, there are so many traditional recipes of unique dishes, each region has its own recipe and, almost always, it is of peasant origin, mostly born from the need to bring to the table or to work a complete meal also made with very few ingredients. An example is the Pizza or the Romagna piadina but also i vegetable timballi, of potatoes, d rice you hate pasta. Abroad, the single dish it is a real cultural heritage that has given rise to recipes that are today very famous like the Fish paella (or that one mixed), The chicken couscous and vegetables (or that one vegetarian), theAmerican hamburgher, the sushi Japanese or le tortillas Mexican.

Did you feel like cooking? The ideas to compose a single dish they are truly infinite, not just for one dinner fast in the family or with friends, but also for the lunch to take to the office: take inspiration from Salt & Pepper recipes of this selection or try them all to find out which one is yours single dish favorite!