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!
Pasta with cheese and pepper (Cacio e pepe) is a classic Roman dish. One of the oldest pastes. It was born not as a result of any gastronomic delights, but out of necessity. Roman shepherds, during long runs of flocks, took with them only those products that could be stored for a long time. So they always had macaroni, pepper, and hard cheese. It is from these three ingredients (plus a little sleight of hand) that the amazing Cacio e pepe is prepared.
One of the options for cooking asado, which allows you to quickly marinate large enough pieces of meat. And since the Argentine grill is a grill with a thousand thermal modes, it will be quite easy to implement the “low and slow” method necessary for cooking pieces of this size.
Simple and quick cheese quesadillas with ground beef. Quesadillas are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. We will also make a classic guacamole sauce for them.
There are a lot of recipes for zucchini casseroles, but try to cook this particular casserole. Casserole with zucchini and minced chicken turns out juicy, tender and very tasty. It will appeal even to those who do not like zucchini.
“Summer” – because the abundance and variety of vegetables, we use to the maximum. Of course, now it’s not a problem to buy vegetables in winter, but… the benefits are many times less, so enjoy today, in the summer.
Prepared shoots of young bracken are ambiguous in taste, but with companion ingredients they perfectly reveal their taste. The dish in the presence of mushrooms, vegetables and meat turns out juicy and fragrant with a unique bright taste sensation.