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 hearty, tasty, appetizing and hot dish will decorate your festive table. The dish consists of stewed cabbage, sweet and sour apples and chicken meatballs. And all this is stewed in a spicy sour cream and tomato sauce.
I present to your attention an elegant potato gratin with beetroot for the New Year’s table! Thanks to an additional layer of beetroot, the dish is not as difficult to digest as an ordinary French gratin. And when they found out that beetroot was in the composition, the children looked at the new dish with apprehension, however, after trying a piece, they asked for additives, which I was pleasantly surprised at)
Duck is the queen of the Christmas table! In this version, as for me, the perfect combination of spices, fruits, as a result – excellent taste and amazing aroma!
A simple soulful dish. Fragrant and somehow very homely. It is cooked quickly, eaten even faster. Serve potatoes with porcini mushrooms as a main dish or as a side dish, for example, with meat.
Cutlets on the Christmas table are present in almost every home. I want to share my version with you. A few years ago I found it on the Internet, I still use it. The uncomplicated and unusual taste of these cutlets will surprise and delight you and your guests.
Chicken cutlets with broccoli and cauliflower are delicious, juicy. They are suitable for dietary nutrition and for children, as they are not at all fatty. Our family loves such cakes very much.
It was under this name that I met this recipe for baked potatoes with cheese and garlic in the book of festive dishes. A very tasty, tender, interesting potato is obtained from a minimum of products.
Fillet cooked according to this recipe turns out to be incredibly tender, very juicy and fragrant. If you do not take into account the pickling time, then this dish is prepared quite quickly. Very tasty, try it!