Cook one meal for a fussy eater and everyone else

You are not cooking two dinners, but someone at the table refuses most of this one.

Help me cook one meal that works for a fussy eater and for the rest of us.

1. **Deconstruct.** Restructure the dish so components stay separate and are combined on the plate, rather than cooked together. Tell me exactly which parts to hold back.
2. **Identify the actual objection.** Texture, temperature, things touching, a strong flavour, an unfamiliar appearance, or a colour. Ask me if it is unclear, since the fix differs completely depending on which it is.
3. **One small bridge.** Suggest one version of the objectionable component that is a step towards it rather than a replacement, without making it a negotiation at the table.
4. **The adult version.** What to add to everyone else's plate at the end so their dinner is not also bland: acid, heat, herbs, a sauce, a crunchy topping.

Give practical cooking advice only. Do not give me strategies for managing the child's behaviour, and do not tell me what a balanced diet should look like.

Dish I want to cook:
What they will and will not eat:
Ages and how many people:

Adapting a recipe. Scaling, converting units, cutting the cost, the pans, the time, or an ingredient someone cannot eat.