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!
Porridge of lentils and rice with mushrooms – a simple dish, delicious, nutritious, and also very useful. It has an interesting taste with a piquant zest due to the addition of cumin. You can serve this dish as an independent dish, or with various snacks. It is prepared very quickly and will diversify your menu!
Guvech is a simple and hearty dish, it can be served either independently or as a side dish. The dish belongs to the Moldavian, Bulgarian and Romanian cuisine. Guvech is prepared both with meat and only from vegetables. Today I offer a lean version with beans and rice. Vegetables can be combined to taste.
Bigos is a dish typical for many European cuisines: Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarusian, German. As a rule, this is a combination of stewed sauerkraut with meat. The idea of cooking bigos with buckwheat was given to me by Zhenya Klopotenko. But my husband does not like sauerkraut in any heat treatment. So I got out of it with a fresh one. It turned out very tasty. I recommend it to everyone
A wonderful dish in the days of Great Lent-light, but satisfying, from simple and affordable products. Rice saturates, and juicy pieces of eggplant add flavor, making it delicious. Rice with spicy eggplant can be served as an independent dish, and as a side dish to meat.
Pilaf with wild mushrooms (buttermilk, aspen and porcini mushrooms)is a great alternative to traditional pilaf during lent. Very nutritious and flavorful.
This is my second recipe with the Jamaica Jerk marinade – the first was pork. Let me remind you that it is based on a combination of herbs, soy sauce and spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and cayenne pepper. For chicken, the spice composition is slightly different, but the main components remain unchanged.
A delicious, flavorful and simple dish from the Moldovan cuisine. Beans are a side dish, an appetizer, and a main dish. It is good in warm and cold form.