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!
Interesting Spanish version of vegetable stew. According to legend, it was prepared by poor people from the La Mancha region — the birthplace of don Quixote and one of the poorest Spanish provinces (hence the name “Pisto Manchego”). I don’t know what they served for the rich at that time, but it is very tasty, sharply piquant and bright in its variety. And with fried eggs, I assure you, the rich man will taste it for a sweet soul. Recommend.
Who among You will refuse a dinner with a delicious sea bass fish? The trump card of sea bass is the presence of a number of vitamins, as well as omega-3 and omega-6 acids. Additional benefits are the presence of protein and antioxidants in sea bass. Soon the Christmas fast, we will eat fish.
When the kitchen is filled with crazy flavors, family members one by one reach for the table in anticipation of something delicious, and their expectations are not in vain, a fantastic cheese pie with leeks is prepared.
Fish in crazy water (Pesce all’acqua pazza) – an old dish of the Italian poor. There are two similar theories about this strange name. According to one of them, due to the fact that salt was not affordable for the poor, fishermen began to cook freshly caught fish in a sauce of sea water and wine. According to the second theory, giving most of the wine produced to the landlords, the peasants began to make a certain drink from various remnants of wine production and water. They called it Acqua pazza (crazy water) and from it came the name of the fish. Whatever it was, the dish is simple, and the fish as a result is tender and juicy.
I suggest that you diversify the preparation of meatballs in the oven and form them in a rectangular shape with a pleasant cheese and mushroom surprise inside. This is an original alternative to the usual cutlets. They are quite satisfying and do not require a side dish, however, they can be supplemented with vegetables.
Recently I came across a recipe for chicken legs with persimmons, and immediately came up with the idea to bake the whole chicken, and not only stuff it with persimmons, but also apples, and cover it with an Apple-persimmon coat. It turned out very juicy and with a pleasant taste. Make sure to try it.
You can also call them chicken cutlets. But I like chicken fritters better. I cook them with the addition of green arrows of garlic and canned corn. Garlic arrows give the dish an incredible flavor, and corn makes pancakes colorful. It turns out a delicious and simple dinner.