From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdish something ↔ up phrasal verbDFto put food for a meal into dishes, ready to be eaten Could you dish up the vegetables? → dish→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
dish up• Risa... get these dishes cleaned up.• He stretched and got up, then trotted over to his water dish and slurped up a great guzzling mouthful.• The last of the dishes were put up, and supper was in the oven.• Now their dishes make up in imagination and taste what they lack in meat.• She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth.• A local pub has installed a satellite dish to pick up U. 