Modern housewives are mostly working women who have no opportunity to stand for half a day at the stove.
But I still want to treat my family with something!
What to do? Of course, to cook various snacks in a hurry.
And for this, try to follow some rules.
General principles for cooking in haste
Firstly, it would be good to have a freezer or at least a fridge with a large freezer. You will be able to store in it a lot of healthy products and convenience foods, which can then be turned into a variety of tasty things in a hurry: frozen sweet peppers, Brussels sprouts, potatoes in slices, berries and fruits; minced meat, better already in the form of shaped patties or meatballs, puff pastry, ice cream, fish fillets, etc.
Secondly, canned food can also come in handy: peas, beans, corn, salmon in their own juice and similar supplies quickly turn into unsurpassed snacks in a hurry.
Thirdly, it is better to keep ready-to-use semi-finished products in your freezer. That is, having bought, say, a chicken, you do not immediately push it into the freezer until better times, but first wash it and cut it into pieces that you plan to use in the future. For example, separate the breast fillets, wings, thighs, skeleton, cutting it into convenient pieces. Fillets can be immediately cut into portions or just small pieces. Now, just a little you needed to cook the stew or baked chicken, you take out the package with the desired contents, thaw in the microwave and simmer or bake.
A microwave, by the way, like a slow cooker, is also capable of helping to reduce the time it takes to prepare quick snacks.
If you have a bag of whipping cream stored in the refrigerator, a pack of chocolate biscuits in the cabinet, and a package of frozen cherries in the freezer, you can prepare a delicious dessert in a matter of minutes!
Recipe 1. Tasty food: Omelet with crab sticks
One of the main reasons to cook a tasty meal in a hurry is, of course, breakfast. Time is short, but I would like to offer something tasty to my family. Use this recipe.
Ingredients
Eggs - 3 pieces
Sour cream - 2/3 cup
Crab sticks - 200 g
Cheese - 200 g
Butter for making omelet
Salt - to taste, but not very much
Dill or parsley
Method of preparation
Shoot eggs with sour cream, if desired, lightly salt (however, you can do without salt). Crumble sticks chop up, grate cheese. Cooked in butter (in a water bath or just fry) thin omelette. As soon as the top grabs, put crab wands, then cheese on half of the omelet. Immediately bend to the second cheese, empty, half an omelet, folding it in half so that the filling was inside.
Warm up for another minute, turn over carefully and hold for another two minutes.
When serving, sprinkle with dill or parsley.
Recipe 2. A quick whipping “Fake lasagna”
Ingredients
Thin pita bread - 2 sheets
Sausages (or sausage, or liver pate)
Cheese - 300 g
Sour cream (or mayonnaise) - half a cup
Tomato Sauce or Ketchup
Chopped greens
Lubricating oil
Method of preparation
Lavash to unwrap and carve out from it 6-8 pieces of approximately the same size.
Mix mayonnaise or sour cream with ketchup or tomato sauce, add chopped greens and a little water.
Chop cheese, sausage or sausages cut arbitrarily, but medium-sized.
In a form that must first be greased, put a piece of pita bread, a paste or sausage product on it, then a piece of cheese, the next layer of pita bread - and continue in this way until all the pieces of pita bread have run out. Pour the sauce and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Put in the oven or the microwave and cook until the cheese is melted.
Recipe 3. Deliciously quick-roasted chicken with cashews
And such a tasty thing in a hurry can be cooked up when guests unexpectedly descended into the house. It is better to cook it in a wok, but you can simply in a thick-walled frying pan.
Ingredients
Chicken fillet - from one breast
Green peas - 300 g frozen or canned
Sweet Bulgarian pepper - 300 g frozen or fresh
Green onions - bunch
Carrot - a pair of medium-sized pieces
Cashew - half a cup
Vegetable oil for frying - a little
Soy sauce - to taste
Method of preparation
Chicken fillet cut across the fibers into slices, and those, in turn, into strips. You can cover the package and slightly repelled.
Cut onions, pepper, if it is fresh, shred, carrots rub. Chop the cashews with a knife.
Put oil in the wok or in the pan when it warms up - chicken, carrot, pepper and peas, if it is frozen (canned must be put at the very end, along with onions!), And cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes over low heat .
Put nuts and onions to the chicken and vegetables and cook for another 5 minutes.
Arrange on plates and season to taste with soy sauce.
Recipe 4. Snack on the dumplings
Ingredients
Dumplings with meat, fish or cheese (you can also dumplings with potatoes) - 500 g
Mayonnaise - 3 tablespoons
Sour cream - 3 tablespoons
Ketchup - one tablespoon
Cheese - 200 g
Egg - 1 or 2 pieces
Salt - to taste
Butter - a piece of 50 - 70 g
Method of preparation
Dumplings or dumplings boil in a small amount of water for 2-3 minutes and remove them with a slotted spoon.
Grease the form with half of the butter and put the dumplings there.
Sour cream, ketchup and mayonnaise mix. Finely grate the cheese and mix half of it with the sauce. Beat in the same egg or two.
Pour the dumplings with the sauce, cover with the rest of the cheese, put the sliced butter on top and bake for 5-7 minutes in the oven or microwave until the cheese is browned (in the oven) or melted (in the microwave).
Recipe 5. A quick whipping “Omelette mince pie”
Ingredients
Minced chicken or mixed - 400 g
Chinese cabbage (or just young) - 300 g
Sorrel, spinach, parsley, dill in any proportions or one of these - 100 g
Eggs - 4 pieces
Flour - 5 tablespoons
Sour cream - half a cup
Mayonnaise - half a cup
Vegetable oil
Garlic - 2 cloves
Cheese - 200 g
Method of preparation
Cabbage, sorrel, spinach finely chop, chop the dill and parsley. Cheese grate.
Beat eggs with mayonnaise, sour cream, flour and half grated cheese.
Put mince into a frying pan with hot oil and cook it for 5 minutes, constantly breaking lumps and stirring. Put cabbage and greens to mincemeat and cook another 3 - 4 minutes.
Squeeze the garlic through the press in the stuffing, mix and immediately pour the egg-flour mixture. Sprinkle with cheese on top, cover with lid and cook on the smallest fire until the dough is ready.
If there is no forcemeat, you can prepare such a tasty meal in a hurry from sausage or bacon with canned beans (the liquid from the beans must be drained). Only in this case you need to add another spoonful of tomato in the dough.
Recipe 6. Quickly tasty “Instant cupcakes”
This sweet yummy whip is being prepared in the microwave.
Ingredients
Flour - 150 g
Butter - 100 g
Liquid honey - 50 g
Granulated sugar - 75 g
Eggs - 2 pieces
Milk - 75 ml
Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon
Cinnamon, ginger and other spices - 1 teaspoon whole
Raisins, dried cherries, candied fruits or chopped dried apricots - to taste, about 50 - 60 grams
Method of preparation
Mix with a mixer or whisk butter (75 g) with honey and sugar. Beat in the eggs, pour the milk, and then knead the flour, spices and baking powder. Last but not least add dried fruits or candied fruits.
Place the dough in the molds, oiled, filling them only 2/3 of the volume. Microwave and cook at full power for 4 - 5 minutes until cooked.
Recipe 7. A quick whack of “Black copse”
Ingredients
Chocolate Cookies - 200 g
Cream 30% fat - 300 ml
Frozen cherry - 300 g (you can, of course, use fresh)
Sugar - to taste, 100 grams
Bitter Chocolate - 50 g
Method of preparation
Chocolate cookies to break and spread on creamer.
Cream with a little sugar or without it.
Defrost the cherry and cover it with sugar.
Put the berries on top of the cookies. Place whipped cream on top, sprinkle with grated bitter chocolate.
Recipe 8. Snack on the “Dear guests”
As the name implies, you will not cook such a tasty meal every day: this dish is not cheap and at the same time fatty, so it is more suitable for a festive table.
Ingredients
Ricotta or mascarpone cheese - 220 g
Cream 30% fat - 150 ml
Zest of one lemon and one medium lime
Icing sugar - 50 - 70 g
Mint and fresh berries for decoration
Method of preparation
Remove lemon zest from lemon and lime and chop it immediately.
Beat cheese with powdered sugar. Add crushed zest and mix again.
In a separate bowl, whip the cream. When the foam becomes stable, very carefully mix it with the cheese mixture.
Cream spread on ice cream bowls and decorate with mint and berries, such as strawberries.
Recipe 9. Snack on ice cream
Ingredients
Bananas - 2 pieces
Sweetie - 1 piece
Strawberries - a couple of handfuls (the number of fruits and berries is conditional, in fact they can be taken in any quantities and combinations)
Bitter chocolate - 100 g
White chocolate - 50 g
Cream 30% fat - 200 ml
Method of preparation
Peel bananas, cut them into circles and spread them on ice-cream bowls.
Wash strawberries and clean the sepals. Put on bananas.
Sweep clean, disassemble into slices, remove the film and break into pieces. Put also in the bowls.
Cream whipped so that they do not fall. Put half of the cream on the fruit. White and bitter chocolates melt in the microwave. Pour the white into the bitter and slightly stir the stick, but so that the mass remains two-color. Sprinkle with a “striped” chocolate dish. Decorate with the remaining cream, releasing them from a cooking syringe or pouch.
Delicious snacks in a hurry: tricks and useful tips
- The simplest sauce can transform any dish. For example, by mixing in equal proportions lemon juice and broth, seasoning with soy sauce and garlic and thickening with a small amount of starch, we will get an excellent gravy for our snacks in a hurry.
- When cooking broth, make it bigger and freeze partly in small molds or in a shallow baking sheet. Then remove from the mold and store in the freezer, placing in a plastic bag. When you need some broth for the sauce, break off a slice.
- Frozen berries can be filled with hot melted chocolate without thawing. The berries will thaw, and the chocolate will harden slightly.
- You can fry bananas in butter, and in this form they are perfectly combined with ice cream, cream cheese or whipped cream, which will be an excellent quick dessert.
- It is better to melt chocolate in the microwave in several stages, including baking for a minute, then stirring the chocolate.
- Cold cream is whipped faster and better than tepid.
