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!
If you start with French, then the word “Gratin” has an infinite number of meanings… “The base and fillings can be any… the main thing is “gratin”, which gives the bechamel sauce a certain temperature regime and crust … (Speak French) I took as a basis different recipes and sweet and sour sauce, which are “traditional” for continents and “unconventional”, but, nevertheless, delicious for most! I hope you enjoy this recipe.
Gratin in French means “crispy crust”, which is formed when the cheese melts. I want to offer a variant of this dish made from seasonal vegetables – potatoes and pumpkins. The dish turns out to be satisfying, despite the absence of meat products, as well as very tender and fragrant.
This year, an unprecedented harvest of zucchini, did not have time to process. I offer you a gratin recipe or, more simply, a casserole, peeped from my beloved Jamie Oliver, with the addition of your favorite soy sauce. The author himself notes that the recipe refers to the village cuisine.
Neither white wine nor just a casserole pulls on a classic gratin. The option is summer, hearty and delicious. Great for kids to get to know chicken liver so that it falls in love. Continue?
A peasant dish with a royal name – “Dauphin” – from Dauphin, which traditionally belonged to the heirs to the French throne, the Dauphins. Gratin Dauphin is served as an independent dish or as a side dish. Treacherously tasty, but high in calories…
Very tasty tomato casserole with meat.. Those who like stuffed vegetables.. I think you will appreciate this option.. Worry less.. the result…… Well, you understand))You can’t not eat)))
Casserole of pasta and chicken breasts in Italian. The set of basic products in this gratin is familiar to everyone. The simplicity and speed of cooking this dish is very pleasing. But a few “Italian” nuances will give the usual combinations a new charm and will please you and your loved ones. Help yourself to a familiar Italian casserole!