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!
Spicy rice cooked with vegetables with added spices for Uzbek pilaf. Very tasty dish. As you know, spices whet the appetite, especially spicy ones. According to my diet, I can salt food and add spices for the taste, but in a reasonable amount, and this is not much, especially pepper. This rice can be cooked for every day as a side dish, not only for those who follow a diet. Try it! It’s delicious!
A dietary and healthy dish for those who want to lose weight. I went on a calorie-counting diet. You can eat everything boiled, baked, stewed, only reduce the portions. It’s going to be dinner.
On the days of fasting, you also want to eat delicious and varied food. I suggest you prepare a very tasty and beautiful dish-eggplant rolls stuffed with lentils with fried onions and carrots. And to make the rolls have an even more refined taste, I suggest cooking them in an oriental style, i.e. pour them with a sweet and sour sauce, which is traditionally used in various dishes of Chinese and other Asian cuisine.
A traditional dish of Mexican cuisine. Enchilada is a thin tortilla (tortilla) made of corn flour, in which the filling is wrapped. The filling is most often meat (usually from chicken)
The recipe for meatballs is taken from the book “Russian home cooking” and interpreted under home conditions by me and my mother. (In the book, the dish is called telny) All illustrations for the recipe are made in our kitchen by my mother and are not plagiarized. When cooking, it is advisable to use bread soaked in milk.
Hot meat dish for two.. Very bright taste. Beauty on the plate and a large set of cooking options from existing products. The dish is built on the contrast of Very hot and very spicy meat, followed by the taste of juicy cold vegetables. The sauce gives a special piquancy.. Within a few seconds, your receptors will feel the whole range of salty sweet spicy sour… The closest association is the explosion of taste “ala cranberries in powdered sugar”..
Very tasty chicken with buckwheat. This dish is great because you can prepare the main course and side dish at the same time and you will have time for yourself or your family. Simple, fast, and most importantly very tasty.
Chicken is cooked in the juice of sauerkraut, then buckwheat is cooked in this broth, saturated with useful macro-and microelements of cabbage and carrots. Boiled green beans enrich this dish with fiber and other useful elements. If you use lean meat for this dish, then avocado is good for healthy fats here. Tomatoes moisturize buckwheat well, making this dish not only even more useful, but also very tasty.