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!
I don’t know about you, but I should always have a duck on my table. I cook duck in different ways – with apples, kiwis, tangerines, oranges… This year’s duck with cherry sauce.
Friends, we continue the mushroom theme! Well, who doesn’t love such potatoes! Everything is simple and delicious! What a smell! A great dish and a small price!
Delicious and quick gravy for any side dishes, provided that there is ready meat. Serve in two ways: as a sauce for baked or stewed vegetables; as a gravy for mashed potatoes, buckwheat porridge, rice or pasta.
A Bulgarian colleague shared the recipe for such a snack with me, saying that she eats it in hot weather. A very tasty snack or salad, but for me it is a self-sufficient hearty dish.