For your family to be happy and healthy, it must be well-fed. During the day, any housewife begins to be tormented by the question: What to cook for dinner? And she wants to cook something enchanting and unusual, with minimal expenditure of money.
Today we will not cook foreign dishes, but will feed ourselves and our family with simple vegetables from our garden and inexpensive products from the store. Let me say right away that there will be meat.
Very often, the housewife serves salads for dinner; examples of their preparation with a detailed description can be found at this link.
You may have a desire to cook a second course in pots with meat. And your family will really like this hot dish.
What to cook for dinner using minced meat
You can make an original and non-standard dish from minced meat. In simple words - a surprise.
We will need:
- Noodles "Nest"
- 500 g mixed minced meat (pork + beef)
- 2 onions
- 1 carrot
- 1 potato
- cheese slices
- Salt, parsley, tomato paste, sunflower oil
Preparing the “Meat in Nests” recipe
1. Cut the onion and potatoes into pieces as small as possible, put them in a cup and mix with the minced meat. Add salt, pepper and meat seasonings. Mix everything well.
2. We prepared minced meat to fill the noodle nests.
3. Take the noodle nests and fill them with prepared minced meat, as in the photo.
4. Place the filled nests with minced meat on a plate.
5. To fry, cut the second onion into pieces and chop the carrots on a coarse grater.
5. Place the frying pan on the fire, pour in sunflower oil and fry the prepared onions and carrots. Let's add a little salt.
6. After a while, add tomato paste and fry for another 1 - 2 minutes.
7. Place the filled nests on top to fry.
8. Then pour hot water to cover the nests. Close the lid and cook for 20 - 25 minutes.
9. Place the finished nests with minced meat on a plate and cover the top with cheese from the plates.
You can eat it without cheese, at your discretion. Bon appetit !
Beef Stroganoff for the New Year
This dish is traditionally made from beef, but in 2021 you will have to make an exception and use pork. The final taste changes slightly, and the cooking time is reduced, which even makes the housewife happy when preparing for the holiday.
Ingredients:
- meat - 500-600 g;
- sour cream - ¾ cup;
- onions - 2 heads;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l.;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Add salt, pepper and herbs to your taste. Spicy herbs or cardamom will add a New Year's mood. It is worth taking care of greenery for decoration.
Step-by-step recipe with video:
- The pork is cut into thin pieces, lightly beaten, and then cut into strips as thin as possible.
- Chop the onion and lightly fry in oil until golden brown.
- Place meat in a frying pan, salt, pepper and season. Stir over medium heat for 7 minutes.
- Sprinkle with flour and fry for another 3 minutes.
- Pour in a glass of boiled water and simmer the meat for another 15 minutes.
- Spread the sour cream, mix and simmer again under the lid.
- Chop parsley, dill and cilantro, add to the prepared meat and let it boil. They turn it off immediately.
Attention!
Let sit for at least 10 minutes to allow the aroma of the herbs to absorb.
On weekdays, you can use rice, buckwheat or other cereals as a side dish. And for the holiday - only potatoes, boiled whole and generously sprinkled with dill.
How to whip up chicken wings with tomatoes for dinner
We will need:
- 10 pieces. chicken wings, cut in half
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 5 tomatoes
- Vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon ground red pepper
- 2 green onions, parsley, salt to taste
Preparation
1. Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and fry the chopped wings until crispy.
2. Peel the onion and cut into rings. Chop the garlic.
3. Wash the tomatoes and cut each into 4 parts.
4. In another frying pan, lightly fry the onion and chopped garlic in oil. Add tomatoes, peppers, chopped green onions and salt. Simmer, stirring, for several minutes.
Then add the fried wings to the stewed tomatoes and simmer for another 3 - 4 minutes.
Before serving, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Cornmeal pancakes
Zucchini pancakes are a hit on the family menu. Making dough for them without wheat flour is as easy as shelling pears. It is enough to replace it with corn. The pancakes will turn out just as rosy, tender and tasty. Your family won't even feel the difference. If desired, you can make a dessert option by adding apples or a sweet variety of pumpkin to the zucchini.
Ingredients:
- zucchini - 2 pcs.
- corn flour - 3 tbsp. l.
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
- parsley - 4–5 sprigs
- garlic - clove
- salt - a pinch
- vegetable oil - for frying
Wash the zucchini well, grate it together with the peel and carefully squeeze out the excess liquid. Beat the egg with salt, pour it into the zucchini, add the garlic passed through a press and chopped parsley. Add corn flour and knead the dough well.
Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Using a spoon, form pancakes and fry on both sides until golden brown. Then place them on a plate with paper napkins. Serve zucchini pancakes with low-fat sour cream or Greek yogurt.
Pork chops - recipe in a frying pan with grapes
Required:
- 700 g pork meat
- 1 tbsp. spoon of melted butter, pepper, salt
- For the sauce: 200 g green and black grapes, 300 ml water, 1 onion, 1 clove garlic, 100 ml dry white wine, 70 ml broth, 1.5 tsp. starch
- For garnish: 160 g rice, 1 sprig of lemon balm, parsley, 1 tsp. curry
Cooking and solving the question: What to cook for dinner?
- As a side dish, boil the rice in boiling salted water.
- Cut the washed grapes in half and remove the seeds.
- Peel the garlic and onion and chop finely.
- Cut the meat into 4 pieces, lightly beat and fry in a frying pan in melted butter. Salt and pepper. Place onion, garlic and curry in a frying pan with meat. Mix everything and fry a little. Mix 4 tbsp. spoons of wine and broth, put grapes in this mixture and pour into the frying pan with meat. Boil for 5 minutes, then remove the meat and place in a warm place.
- Dissolve the starch in the remaining wine and pour this mixture into the sauce. Then bring to a boil.
Place chops, rice, sauce on plates, garnish with parsley and lemon balm leaves.
Chocolate cupcake with oatmeal
If you have an incorrigible sweet tooth inside you that won’t let you stick to a diet, this is not a reason to give up your favorite treats. After all, that’s why there are recipes for pies and cakes without flour. How about a delicious chocolate cake for tea?
Ingredients:
- finely ground oat flakes - 5 tbsp. l.
- dark chocolate - 100 g
- chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
- sugar - 3-4 tbsp. l.
- butter - 80 g
- soda - 0.5 tsp.
Melt chocolate and butter in a water bath. While they are cooling, separate the yolks from the whites. Beat the yolks with 2 tbsp. l. sugar into a light thick mass. Beat the whites with the remaining sugar until fluffy peaks form. Mix the yolks with the chocolate-butter base, add oatmeal and soda. Then use a silicone spatula to gently fold in the fluffy egg whites. Grease the mold with oil, fill it with dough and put it in the oven at 170°C for half an hour. The cake turns out crumbly and dense. So if there is a break in your diet, you can serve it with condensed milk or whipped cream.
A quick dinner made from simple ingredients - chicken fillet in the oven
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 700 g
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
- Sour cream - 4 tbsp. l.
- Hard cheese – 200 g
- Garlic cloves - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil, dill, pepper, paprika, salt to taste
How to cook chicken fillet in the oven for dinner
1. Cut the chicken breast across the grain into small pieces. The thickness of the piece is 5 mm.
2. Cut the onions into half rings.
3. Prepare the sauce. Place mayonnaise and sour cream in a cup. Squeeze the garlic and sprinkle in the paprika.
4. Add black pepper and grated cheese.
5. Mix all ingredients for the sauce in a cup well.
6. Add dill to the sauce and stir.
7. Pour oil into the bottom of the baking dish and brush the sides and bottom with a brush. Place chicken fillet pieces in the oil in an even layer. Salt and pepper it.
Next, add half of our sauce and spread it over the surface of the fillet.
8. Place chopped onions on a layer of sauce. Lightly pepper and add salt to taste.
9. Place the remaining pieces of fillet on the onion layer, which we spread with the remaining sauce.
10. Cover again with a layer of onion, which we cover with grated hard cheese.
11. In this finished form, place it in an oven heated to 190 degrees C for 25 minutes.
12. The chicken fillet is ready in the oven.
Making chicken fillet for dinner is quick and easy.
Chicken in an unusual marinade
The New Year has the traditional taste of oranges and tangerines. Lemons are also a citrus fruit, so for a festive mood you should definitely use them in some dish, for example, for chicken.
Ingredients:
- hips - 1.5 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc.;
- sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
- honey - 3 tbsp. l.;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
- pepper and salt to taste.
To remove bitterness from lemon peel, citrus is first dipped in boiling water for 15-20 minutes.
Step by step recipe:
- Coarsely chop the lemon, salt and pepper.
- Dressed with honey. If it is thick, melt it in a water bath or in the microwave.
- Rub the chicken pieces, wrap in film and leave in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Add sour cream and vegetable oil, evenly distributing over the surface of the workpieces.
- Place in a mold, pour in juice and arrange pieces of lemon.
- Bake at 220°C for 40-50 minutes.
It is better to serve on a common platter, garnished with herbs. Let everyone take a piece for themselves. Any side dish will do, but vegetables or rice are better. The latter tastes better with sweet and sour sauce.
Minced meat and vegetable casserole recipe
Ingredients:
- 300 g minced meat
- 6 potatoes
- 2 onions
- 1 carrot
- 1 zucchini
- Mayonnaise, cheese, vegetable oil, pepper, salt - to taste
How to cook a casserole for dinner - recipe
- Chop the onion and carrots and sauté in vegetable oil.
- Separately, fry the diced zucchini.
- Pour a little oil into a deep frying pan, layer half of the chopped potatoes, onions and carrots, salted and peppered minced meat, fried zucchini, and potatoes.
- Pour mayonnaise over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees C for 30 - 40 minutes.
Casserole is a filling and quick meal. What is your opinion?
Watermelon Gazpacho
Another super easy recipe that is a must try this summer. Watermelon gazpacho will refresh you and help you survive the heat. The soup is tasty and low in calories.
Required ingredients:
- 6 cups diced fresh watermelon
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 1 small red onion
- fresh basil leaves
- garlic to taste
- salt to taste
Place the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerate for about one hour. Your delicious watermelon gazpacho is ready!
Fish in the oven - a delicious fish recipe for dinner
In this recipe you will learn how to cook crispy breaded fish for dinner. This method is suitable for fish from any fillet. The fish turns out juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside. We prepare the recipe without oil.
Ingredients:
- Fish fillet – 600 g
- Mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. spoon
- Marjoram - 1 teaspoon
- Dry ground garlic - 1/2 teaspoon
- Dry bread crumbs - 1/3 cup
- Sweet paprika - 1 teaspoon
- Salt and black pepper - to taste
How to cook fish in the oven for dinner
1. Wash the fish and dry it, pressing it with a paper towel.
2. Cut the fish fillet into portions. Then salt and pepper the fish on both sides.
3. Add dry garlic and marjoram to the cup with mayonnaise. Mix everything until smooth.
4. Pour paprika into dry bread crumbs and mix.
5. Spread each piece with sauce and roll in the dry mixture.
6. Place the breaded fish pieces on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and place in the oven preheated to 190 degrees C for 20 minutes.
7. We take the finished fish out of the oven and see a beautiful crispy crust.
You can serve salad or mashed potatoes as a side dish for the fish.
Pot of seafood
A baking pot is a real lifesaver, with which you can prepare a full dinner, consisting of a hot dish and a side dish. Fish variations in pots turn out to be especially delicious.
Cut 500 g fillet of any red fish into slices. We cut 3-4 potatoes into small neat cubes, 2 narrow carrots into washers, and an onion into half rings. Grease the bottom of the pots with butter, add potatoes equally, season with coarse salt and black pepper. Next, lay out the fish layer and sprinkle with lemon juice. Cover everything with onion half rings, place carrot circles on top, salt and pepper to taste. Fill the pots with hot water, close the lid, place in an unheated oven at 180 °C and leave for an hour. Before serving, sprinkle the fish pots with herbs and stir the contents.
Buckwheat according to merchant - a simple and tasty recipe
Ingredients:
- 200 g - buckwheat
- 300 g - meat
- 2 carrots
- bulbs - 2 pcs.
- 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons - ketchup
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Preparation
1. Cut the onion into small pieces. Cut the carrots into narrow strips. Fry with butter in a frying pan.
2. Cut the meat into small pieces and place it with the carrots and onions. We continue to fry everything together. Then salt, pepper and add a little ketchup.
3. Add buckwheat to the meat and vegetables and fry together for 2 minutes.
4. Then add water, cover with a lid, and simmer until the meat and cereal are cooked.
5. When finished, the contents look the same as in the photo.
This recipe solves the question: What to cook for dinner?
Curd cake recipe
Mix melted chocolate (300 g) and crushed muesli (200 g), spread the mixture in the form of a cake and put it in the refrigerator until it hardens. For the cream, melt 15 g of gelatin in water. Beat cottage cheese (500 g), yogurt (250 g), sugar (50 g) and the juice of two lemons. Add high-fat cream (300 ml), whipped to a stable foam, to the cream. Spread the cream mixed with gelatin onto the chocolate mixture in an even layer and leave the cake in the refrigerator for 3 hours!
Microwave Do you think it's only suitable for heating ready meals? You are wrong! In modern microwaves it is easy to prepare a wide variety of dishes, including baked goods (the REDMOND RM-2502D microwave with adjustable power and cooking temperature is perfect for this purpose). Usually, muffins and pies are prepared in the microwave, which can be classified as quick desserts. True, this applies mainly to those that are prepared in small portions - in a mug: for example, manna, chocolate cake or charlotte.
Cons : small portions, you can’t make shaped cookies and waffles.
Pros: quick and easy to cook.
Dinner is quick and tasty - pasta casserole
We will need:
- Pasta – 250 g
- Ham (meat) – 250 g
- Milk - 300 g
- Water - 300 g
- Egg - 2 pcs.
- Cheese - 150 g
- Salt, spices
How to make a pasta and ham casserole for dinner
1. Grease a baking dish with sunflower oil. Pour dry pasta into the pan. Cut the ham into small strips.
2. Sprinkle the chopped ham on top of the pasta. Sprinkle frozen green onions on top of the ham.
3. Make a fill. Break 2 eggs into a cup, add salt, turmeric, dry garlic and pepper. Stir everything.
4. Then pour in water and milk. Mix everything.
5. Pour the filling into the mold.
6. And top with grated cheese.
7. To prevent the cheese from browning ahead of time and the pasta to bake well, cover the pan with foil. Place the pan in the oven preheated to 200 degrees C for 40 minutes.
8. Then remove the foil and bake for another 10 - 15 minutes until the crust is browned.
Pasta casserole is ready.
White gazpacho
Gazpacho will undoubtedly amaze you with its divine taste. The recipe is quite simple and does not require great culinary skills. Your guests will definitely appreciate it!
Required ingredients:
- ¼ cup pine nuts,
- ½ cup almonds
- 2 cups white grapes
- 1 glass of white grape juice
- 3 slices of white bread
- 1 cup cream
- 2 tablespoons walnut oil
- 1 glass of water
- garlic to taste
Grind all ingredients except cream in a blender until pureed. Cool the resulting mass for 40 minutes in the refrigerator. Add cream.
Stewed potatoes with meat and green beans
Please don't be surprised. Now let’s solve the problem of what to cook for dinner quickly and according to a neighbor’s recipe from Greece. According to him, we take products by sight, if desired.
We will need:
- Pork meat
- Carrot
- Tomatoes
- Bulb onions
- Green beans (young)
- Potato
- Tomato paste, salt, pepper - to taste
How to cook Greek stewed potatoes and meat for dinner
1. Cut all ingredients into small pieces with a knife: tomatoes, carrots, green beans, and cut the onion into half rings.
2. Cut the pork meat into pieces and put the cauldron on the fire.
3. Pour sunflower oil into the cauldron and begin to fry the pieces of meat.
4. Salt the meat and add all the vegetables cut with a knife. Fry everything well and add dry spices. Add tomato paste and continue to simmer vegetables and meat.
5. Then add the chopped potatoes and mix.
6. After a few minutes, pour hot water and simmer until done.
We taste the broth and test the potatoes and meat for doneness. Turn off the fire and sit down to dinner.
Recipe for cottage cheese pie with oranges
Add a pinch of salt to the whites of 5 eggs and beat them until stiff foam. Cut orange without peel and strawberries (50 g) into thin slices. In a separate container, using a mixer, mix 500 g of cottage cheese (9%), 5 egg yolks, 50 g of sugar and 40 g of flour. Add the whipped whites to this mixture and mix with a spatula. Grease the multicooker bowl with butter, lay out half the curd mass, layer oranges and strawberries on top, then add the curd mass again. Close the lid. Set the BAKING program, cooking time 45 minutes (for SkyCooker M800S). Leave the finished pie in the slow cooker for 15 minutes. When serving, decorate with berries and powdered sugar.
Multi-baker This universal pancake master is REDMOND know-how. He makes baked goods in a wide variety of shapes. More than 40 options! To name just a few - Viennese and Dutch waffles, ice cream and custard cones, muffins and sponge cakes, puff pastries with fruit and savory fillings, potato pancakes and cheesecakes, sausage rolls and cutlets, sandwiches and grilled dishes, curly gingerbread cookies and cookies. The special feature of the REDMOND Multibaker is its removable panels – there are more than 40 sets of them. Each set of panels together with the Multibaker replaces a separate device for baking and frying. It allows you to cook dishes with a minimum amount of oil, since all panels have a non-stick coating. Feel free to experiment using dietary ingredients and adding fruits, nuts and berries to the dough. And then your baked goods will be as tasty and healthy as possible! You can purchase a REDMOND multi-baker in Belarus in the TECHNO Plus retail chain.
Cons: not suitable for making voluminous and large-sized pies and cakes.
Pros: the device has no restrictions - it makes healthy baked goods of any shape, it also prepares pancakes, cheesecakes, sandwiches and grilled main dishes.
Healthy curd treat
Here is another version of the dish without flour, this time from cottage cheese. The result is an incredibly tender casserole that literally melts in your mouth. And this is one hundred percent dietary dessert. So you don’t have to worry about extra calories and your figure.
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 250 g
- milk - 100 ml
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.
- vanillin - a pinch
- lemon juice - 1 tsp.
- salt - a pinch
- butter - for greasing
Separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the yolks with cottage cheese, milk, honey and vanilla into a homogeneous mass. The consistency will be like thick sour cream. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt and lemon juice into strong peaks. Using a silicone spatula, carefully stir them into the curd mass. Place it in a greased pan and bake at 170°C for half an hour. When the casserole has cooled completely, cut it into portions and serve.
You can easily repeat these simple recipes without wheat flour in your kitchen. Of course, this is not all. Find even more ideas on this topic on the “Eating at Home” website. What do you usually substitute for flour if the need arises? What recipes do you have in your culinary collection? Share your proven recommendations and interesting finds in the comments.
