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 very tender, juicy cabbage casserole, which is prepared simply and naturally from available products. It goes well with any meat dishes, but it can also become a full-fledged dish for both lunch and dinner. Grandchildren love it with sour cream.
Crispy potato slices, and under them an abyss of flavors – vegetables, salmon, capers in a light, but at the same time rich milk sauce. This French-style dish will be appropriate both on a festive table and on weekdays. Also, you can put shrimp instead of part of the salmon.
Very simple, but very tasty dish. Duck breast is like seafood. It is prepared either very quickly or for a very long time. If you overdo it, it will become hard. And then it should be baked or stewed for a long time. I only have the fastest option. Tender, juicy duck breast with a wonderful green sauce based on coriander.
Salad of Italian cuisine. I saw the recipe on the Internet. I changed it a bit for myself. Instead of smoked chicken and fresh boiled green peas, I took boiled chicken breast and canned green peas. Very tasty and satisfying, beautiful. It can be consumed as an independent dish, for example: for dinner. For this salad, I will bake an Italian tortilla focaccia with dried tomatoes and fragrant herbs. The perfect couple!
Another Thai-style dish. The recipe is suitable for both everyday and festive table. You can reduce the amount of other ingredients by replacing them with rice.
Today I want to share with you a recipe for puff pastry with herbs, garlic and cheese. These tortillas can be fried and baked. In the recipe I will show both options. It goes very well with the first and second courses.