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!
For all its simplicity, this dish can perfectly decorate a festive table, and emotions and impressions will go off scale. The recipe is very simple, the main thing is a good marinade, and the oven will do the rest for you.
For me, this recipe for quail is the most New Year’s recipe. The aroma of game, citrus and herbs creates a magical mood! Quails cooked according to this recipe are very tender and delicious.
A dish with the same name was treated by a friend on her birthday. Quite often, dumplings and manti are prepared for the New Year, for a change, you can cook this dish and freeze it for the future. “Cabbage rolls” turn out to be very tasty, satisfying, with a juicy fragrant filling.
Chicken thighs marinated in squash caviar, mayonnaise and mustard with garlic. Baked with fragrant potatoes with Provencal herbs, cayenne pepper and olive oil. This dish will not spoil the festive New Year’s table and it can be served hot. For this dish, it is not necessary to take the hips, you can take a whole chicken, breast or leg.
Do you cook hot dishes for the new year? Or maybe you are planning a festive lunch on January 1st? I suggest as a side dish to cook sweet potatoes, diced and baked in the oven. It looks like fried sweet potatoes and crunches almost as well. However, this side dish has an important difference from the popular fast food – it is baked in the oven, which means it is much healthier.
I propose to serve dolma as a hot dish on the New Year’s table! This dolma recipe refers to dishes of proper nutrition, not high-calorie and very tasty. The magnificent taste of this dish will complement the sauce of white walnut and pomegranate seeds.
Cutlets, the filling for which I will cook in a food processor from pork ham with a small amount of fat, with the addition of white breadcrumbs and mustard to the dough. Airy, tender, thanks to the fact that I ground the meat into minced meat in a combine on a pulsating mode. For a festive serving, I will beautifully fry them in strips in a grill pan.
The recipe for cooking these dumplings is lean. The filling is made from red beans. And thanks to the fragrant spices, these dumplings will compete with traditional meat. I invite you to join your family on New Year’s Eve and bake these delicious dumplings!