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!
This is not exactly a recipe, but rather the idea of cooking healthy and fast potatoes! Well, as a rule, we will not reduce the calories, but we will definitely not add, well… maybe just a little. In fact, the whole secret is in this cooking technology, which does not allow the oil to be absorbed, and it is prepared in a matter of minutes.
For all meat and potato lovers! Or-when there is mashed potatoes left) Very tasty baked dinner with pork in sour cream sauce and toasted mashed potatoes! Cooking is not troublesome, the dish is very flavorful and cute!
To be honest, I didn’t like goulash since school days – hard meat with veins, and flour liquid. But after visiting Hungary, I discovered this dish again, I cook it often, use a variety of additives. In autumn, goulash with pumpkin is especially good.
There are a lot of options for cooking chicken legs. By right, chicken leg is a very popular product on our tables. I want to show you how else you can cook chicken legs with stuffing.
This recipe for chicken in a hot and sweet sauce was brought by me from Qingdao. A quick recipe without difficulties, just like it is prepared at home in ordinary Chinese cuisine. It is especially nice that the meat in the marinade can be prepared in advance and then cooking will take a few minutes.
I offer a wonderful vegetable stew of eggplant with the addition of canned beans. The dish is very tender, flavorful and spicy. It can be used as a main dish or as a side dish for meat.
Capellini with cod in cream sauce is a great option for a family lunch or dinner. Tender white fish in cream with olives and pasta, sprinkled with Parmesan. You can choose any pasta, as well as fish. Both hake and Pollock will do.
Delicious quiche turned out! With a very interesting sweet and salty taste-tender cottage cheese dough, creamy filling with bacon, nuts and grapes, with a subtle aftertaste of pink pepper. And if here and a glass of wine – mmmm… You should try it!