Second courses are the basis of every family’s diet. There are hundreds and thousands of such home cooking options in every kitchen in the world. Meat, vegetable, cereal and mixed with herbs and sauces, cooked from a steamer, oven, slow cooker, and just from the stove.
Delicious recipes for second courses in a hurry or for a festive table are infinitely diverse. Simple recipes with photos will help even novice cooks in cooking.
The second course to the table is traditionally served after the soup – in other words, the main ones are the “second” dishes that are familiar to us, which are the central element of the meal. Most often, the main second course is prepared from meat, poultry, fish and seafood, to which cooked or raw vegetables, legumes, cereals, pasta and mushrooms are necessarily served as a side dish.
Fish or meat main dishes are the most satisfying, nutritious and large in volume. For every day, modern chefs, as a rule, serve simple main dishes that are easy to prepare. Cutlets, meatballs, schnitzels, sausages, cabbage rolls, fried fish or fish in batter, which do not require much time for heat treatment and serving. On the occasion of the solemn events, a festive main dish is being prepared, which should surprise the guests and become the culmination of the banquet. Here, each cook is already trying to show her culinary skills, choosing from the most delicious recipes of the main dishes what suits the tastes of the guests and the budget of the hosts.
Here you will find a rich selection of photo-recipes of main dishes – bean rolls with cheese, white fish meatballs, rabbit in orange marinade, pork stuffed with prunes, chicken with peaches and Scottish eggs. The main dishes prepared according to our recommendations will definitely become the star of the dinner party!
A long time ago, in one of my recipes, I promised that I would share with you the preparation of these delicious cabbage rolls. I tried them for the first time at a rural wedding, about 35 years ago… and I still remember the taste and aroma. For real, these cabbage rolls languish in a wood-burning oven for almost 12 hours. They are placed in a large cauldron or clay jars with a wide neck – clay, and covered with dough on top. Oh, and the cabbage rolls were delicious, I’ll tell you! I have adapted the recipe to suit my conditions and taste, I hope you will like it. Well, if you get to the Ukrainian Bukovina, be sure to try cabbage rolls from sauerkraut, I recommend it!
This dish could be called a lamb roll, but the slicing was too thick for a roll. The heavy hammer I wielded mercilessly didn’t help either. I didn’t want to mess with this case for a long time. I really bent it into a RAM’s horn, but roulette in the full sense of the word did not work. It turned out what happened. The main thing is that it was delicious!
Juicy, healthy, flavorful dish! Bright vegetables make it festive and elegant! With chili pepper for lovers of spicy! Even children can cope without pepper.
Potato balls with a crust of grated potatoes and parmesan cheese, inside with a juicy stuffing of ground beef and fresh spinach – one of the popular snack dishes. It is prepared in many cuisines of the world, where, depending on national traditions, it is stuffed with cheese, minced meat, seafood and served with hot sauces.
For my sons, when it comes to meat, it’s meat cooked in chunks! Well, how not to cook meat for the festive table? This means that it should be festive, that is, different from the options that we prepare on other days. I found it, where the variety in taste is brought by a sauce of rosemary and red wine with jam and honey, which is served with steaks.
I cook meat sticks for holidays, birthdays and New Year. My whole family really likes it, and the smell too… This fragrance attracts all relatives and I want to set the table as soon as possible and start eating as soon as possible…
Chicken breast marinated in homemade mayonnaise with bean sauce, Georgian tomato sauce with garlic and lots of onions with mustard. Juicy and delicious, fresh from the oven, warm and cold! A great dish for a New Year’s holiday table.
Just a little bit of your work and time, and a festive portion of baked cod is on the table. Do not be lazy, we will please our dear guests during the New Year holidays.
