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!
Rice is the main national product, the bread of Asian cuisine. Only its neutral taste is able to soften the sharpness of Oriental cuisine. Try to cook spicy crumbly rice according to the recipe of the popular chef and TV presenter Jamie Oliver. In this recipe, it is better to use long-grain basmati rice or jasmine rice. The use of lemon and cloves in the preparation of porridge gives it an unusual and interesting taste.
Bright healthy side dish in oriental style. Rice is cooked the longest in the recipe, the rest is done very quickly! We cook in parallel with the main product, for example, I have chicken.
This recipe is about how I cook pork chops. Everyone probably has their own recipe and their own little tricks. So, I have my own! Come and find out! Maybe there are recipes for chops in something similar. The chops are very juicy, fragrant, delicious. The perfect pair for them today I will cook from cabbage baked in the oven. Not stewed, not fried, but baked and only one cabbage with spices without any vegetable additives to it.
Pilaf occupies an honorable place in the national cuisine of Uzbekistan. This dish is served on all holidays and family celebrations. There are more than 150 varieties of rice, and until now, makeup artists (specialists in cooking pilaf) are inventing something new. Add dried fruits to the pilaf: raisins, dried quince, peaches, apricots or prunes, they give the dish an unusual sweet and sour taste. In my recipe, I will share tips on cooking crumbly fragrant pilaf. And it is not necessary to buy special rice, fat or cottonseed oil.
Chicken is very suitable for mushroom fricassee, which, in my case, is prepared separately from mushrooms, but served together. Which gives both dishes sophistication, unique taste and aroma. You can take both the whole chicken and its individual parts. Cooking chicken is not difficult at all, the chicken is cooked quickly, not counting pickling, which can be done in advance. Chicken cooked in such a marinade of starch and rice flour will turn out to be very soft, juicy and tender, unlike an ordinary casserole.
The perfect pair for chicken wings is a mushroom fricassee in a delicate, fragrant cream sauce. It is prepared quickly, with a minimum of ingredients, and the taste is amazing. You can take any mushrooms, both fresh and frozen, as well as assorted different types of mushrooms.
Pieces of stewed pork (ham), marinated in hot spices on ketchup. Ketsa is a Georgian frying pan made of red clay or stone, which can be put in the oven and baked in the oven. If there is no such frying pan, pork can be cooked in any other dish or ceramic form. This is a very flavorful meat and easy to prepare. In addition, it is cooked completely without oil and baked in 100% environmentally friendly dishes.
Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms and vegetables, stewed with them in one pan. A very satisfying and delicious dish. This is done very simply, but with excellent taste and result. The perfect match for it is, of course, meat. I cooked ham on pieces of ketsi, marinated in spices and stewed in its own juice.
Hashbrown is a classic American dish, which is a potato tortilla. In a modern kitchen with its experiments, you can find potato pancakes produced with the addition of meat. That is exactly what I am suggesting to your court – the wrong thing. They don’t look like cutlets, more like pancakes with meat. Potato pancakes are ideal for lunch or dinner in combination with some juicy salad.