Whether your family has returned from a camping trip, or from a country outing to the cottage.
The cook stayed at work, or there is another reason.
But a quick main dish is the very thing that you have to cook often and here any variety is appropriate.
Well, if there is a ready-made side dish, then the time will be even less.
But, otherwise, it is possible without spending unnecessary efforts to quickly lay the table with delicious dishes.
One more so pleasant feature of the “fast” dishes - some dishes are used. Usually this is a pan and a couple of bowls, and therefore there will be less sinks.
The second in a hurry - the general principles of preparation
• Since the main dishes we select on the principle of quick cooking, then the recipes should be simple. First of all, no “complex” products, as far as possible, technologies too.
• Potatoes, rice, chicken flesh fit best. You can use semi-finished and partially prepared foods - canned food.
• Meat in fast dishes is usually grilled without breading at maximum temperature. But the stuffing is rarely used, unless in the form of semi-finished meatballs or meatballs.
• “Fast” dishes have their own special advantages. So, the greens in them are almost not thermally processed. And it equally saves time and keeps the vitamins in the dish.
The second dish in a hurry - scrambled eggs “Nomad”
Ingredients:
• 8 eggs;
• salted lard - 120 gr .;
• tomatoes - 3 pcs. large, very ripe;
• green onions - half a bunch;
• smoked sausage, thin in a natural casing - 100 gr .;
• stewed pork, beef - jar 250 ml .;
• butter, unsalted butter - table. spoon;
• hard cheese - any, you can cheese, 150 gr.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the lard and sausage into small cubes with a side of 1-1.5 cm and arrange on a large plate. Set the microwave to medium power and heat the bacon with sausage for 4 minutes.
2. In the melted smaltse and fat from the jar, heat the stew over medium heat.
3. Remove the pieces of meat from the pan, and instead, put the coarsely chopped tomatoes. Cover with a lid and at maximum heat bring to complete evaporation of the juice. 4. Put the sausage, bacon, stew into the pan and mix, spread over the surface so that there are free places for the eggs.
5. Add a little butter to each “well”, pour in the eggs and sprinkle it all together with grated cheese.
6. Under the lid bring eggs to readiness. Serve, generously sprinkled with chopped green onions.
The second in a hurry - “The quick roast of the wings”
Ingredients:
• 500 gr. chilled chicken wings
• potatoes - 2.5 kilograms
• three carrots;
• lard - a tablespoon;
• rast. oil - 0.25 cup;
• small head of garlic;
• fragrant peppers - pinch.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the wings, let the moisture drain and tar over an open fire. Cut in half.
2. In a separate skillet, melt the lard and fry the wings on a strong heat. Constantly hook them with a spatula, preventing them from sticking and burning.
3. Peel potatoes, wash and divide into 2 parts. Cut one half into large lobules, cover with boiling water and put on medium heat until half cooked. The rest of the potatoes, cut into centimeter cubes and divide approximately equally.
4. Fry a portion of small potatoes in vegetable oil at maximum heat until roasted. Remove the potatoes and fry the onions in the same oil.
5. Remove the potato slices from the decoction with a slotted spoon and set it aside, and bring the broth back to the boil. Dip the carrot sticks and the remaining potatoes into it. Cook until half cooked, remove and mash the decoction do not drain.
6. In a large pot fold layers: large slices of potatoes; wings; fried onion; boiled potato cubes with carrots; fried potatoes.
7. Sprinkle with pepper, slightly deepen in the roast peeled garlic cloves, salt. Put on moderate heat, gently pour 0.5 liters along the walls. boiling water and potato broth so that the liquid does not show through to the surface.
8. Cover with a lid and soak with an average heat of 15 minutes, focusing on the softening of large slices of potatoes. Stir.
The second dish in a hurry - “Pilaf with mussels”
Ingredients: • 300 gr. mussels;
• long grain rice - 100 gr .;
• 1 onion;
• average carrot;
• to taste - black pepper, ground turmeric.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the onion into quarters of rings, chop the carrot into thin strips. Fry for 3 minutes in a frying pan in a small amount of refined oil.
2. Add thawed washed mussels. Stir and continue to fry.
3. After 5 minutes, add the washed rice to clean water. Season everything with turmeric, salt and pepper to taste.
4. Pour boiling water into the pan so that the water covers 2 cm of rice. Cover with a lid and simmer until cooked.
5. At the end of cooking, stir the dish well and let it stand for 10 minutes.
“Homemade Potatoes” - second in a hurry
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of potatoes;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• white onion;
• garlic - 3 teeth;
• 100 grams of boiled ham;
• 1 tomato.
Cooking Method:
1. Peel the potatoes and boil almost until cooked in a little salty water. Drain broth, cool and cut into thin round slices.
2. In oil, lightly fry the onion half rings with finely chopped garlic. Add the chopped ham.
3. After two minutes, add small cubes of tomato. Salt to taste and keep on medium heat until tomatoes give juice.
4. Add potato slices and protomite. Cook in the same mode until the potatoes soften.
5. Serve hot with fresh or pickled vegetables, salad.
The second dish in a hurry - potato “crushed” with smoked chicken breast
Ingredients:
• one kilogram of potatoes;
• fresh fat - 50 grams;
• 100 grams of boiled sausage;
• 150 grams of smoked chicken breast;
• large onion;
• a tablespoon of ground white crackers;
• a spoonful of flour;
• Two small pinches of baking soda.
Cooking Method:
1. Rub raw potatoes with a large grater. Add finely shredded onions and chopped small fat.
2. Add the chopped sausage and chicken breast. Pour wheat flour, soda. Slightly salt and mix well. 3. Put the mass on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
4. Bake for half an hour, at 180 degrees.
5. Serve with sour cream.
The second in a hurry in a slow cooker - “Pork with vegetables”
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of pork (pulp);
• 1 carrot;
• large onion;
• two bell peppers;
• 100 grams of green beans;
• 50 ml of tomato sauce;
• 1 tsp. starch;
• two ripe tomatoes;
• three cloves of garlic;
• broccoli - 60 gr .;
• 50 ml of soy (light) sauce;
• to taste spices.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the carrots into slices, the flesh of the bell peppers and the tomatoes - in small pieces. Disassemble the broccoli florets and chop the onion.
2. Pork well washed, dried and cut into small cubes.
3. Turn on the processor in the “Hot” mode. Pour two spoons of oil into the brew bowl, place the onions. Roast until it turns red.
4. Add pork to onion and cook for 20 minutes, until half cooked.
5. Dip all the vegetables in the meat bowl and mix well.
6. In soy sauce, dilute the starch. Add tomato sauce and pour the mixture into the bowl. Put the spices, press-press the garlic. Mix everything up properly and continue cooking in “Quenching” mode, setting the timer to 20 minutes.
The second dish in a hurry - a recipe for hearty potato casserole with meatballs
Ingredients:
• 700 g potatoes;
• three large carrots;
• one small onion;
• two cloves of garlic;
• 650 gr. mixed (pig-beef) stuffing;
• 100 gr. ground long grain rice;
• cream of 22% - 300 ml;
• one chicken egg and yolk;
• a teaspoon of lemon peel, finely grated;
• 1 small pinch of nutmeg powder;
• white bread crumbs - 2 large spoons.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse the rice well and boil it until done in brackish water. Decant the broth, rinse the rice thoroughly again and leave to dry in a colander.
2. Mix the minced meat with boiled rice, finely chopped garlic and chopped onion. The smaller the onion crumbled, the juicier the meatballs will be. First add the breadcrumbs and then the lemon zest. Pepper to your taste, lightly salted. Add the egg to the minced meat and knead well, beating it lightly on the table. 3. Moisten hands with water and form small ground meatballs, about the size of a walnut, from cooked minced meat.
4. Carrot grate large, or shape the sticks in another way. Peeled potatoes cut into thin circles.
5. In a well-greased (vegetable oil or margarine) form put a layer of potatoes. On it lay a grated carrot, on top of which lay the prepared meatballs.
6. Add the yolk to the cream, add the nutmeg, pepper to taste, salt and whisk well. Pour the creamy mixture in the form to the vegetables with meatballs.
7. Place a sheet of foil on top of the form, lightly pressing its hanging edges against the container for tightness.
8. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees 50 minutes.
The second dish in a hurry - “Chicken Julien in a roll”
Ingredients:
• 4 medium round buns;
• one boiled ham;
• onions - 2 heads;
• 150 grams of 20% sour cream;
• hard or semi-hard cheese - 200 grams;
• a teaspoon of white flour of the first grade.
Cooking Method:
1. Thin half rings shred the onion. In a well-heated vegetable oil, fry it until transparent. Add flour, stir and remove from heat.
2. From the boiled chicken remove the skin and disassemble the meat into fibers. Grate the cheese into small crumb.
3. For each bun, cut the top off with a knife. Carefully remove the crumb so that only the walls of the centimeter thickness remain.
4. In each such “pot”, put onion, chicken meat sprouted with flour and fill with sour cream.
5. Add some salt, ground pepper and lightly mix. Sprinkle with chopped cheese.
6. Bake in the oven at 190 degrees until the cheese melts.
The second in a hurry in a slow cooker - chicken with vegetables “Fireworks”
Ingredients:
• two chicken legs;
• small onion head;
• one sweet pepper;
• five medium potatoes;
• three cloves of garlic;
• extra virgin olive oil or other oil - 50 ml;
• to taste table salt, thyme, ground pepper;
• 50 ml of white wine;
• a small bunch of lettuce.
Cooking Method: 1. In a large bowl, place the onion sliced in half rings. Cut the flesh of sweet pepper into large strips and send to the onion.
2. Add garlic and large slices of potatoes here with a knife. Pour all over with olive oil.
3. Season vegetables with salt, thyme and ground pepper.
4. Put the chicken legs in the vegetable mixture and mix well. Hold for 10 minutes.
5. Put the vegetables with the legs in the bowl and cook for 40 minutes, setting the option “Baking” on the processor.
6. Change the cooking mode to “Quenching”. Pour wine into the bowl and bring to readiness for 10 minutes.
7. Put spinach leaves in a plate. Lay the vegetables on top of the leaves. Put a leg on top and pour all the sauce from the vegetables.
The second in a hurry - tricks and useful tips
• If there are 10 minutes in stock and a device such as a marinator, do not forget to use it.
• Meat, to reduce cooking time, be sure to prepare. Cut into large pieces with a thickness of about 2 cm, and carefully beat off with a tip of a heavy knife across the fibers. Blows should be sharp and strong, but the meat layer should not break through. With a little dexterity, this is a snap.
• Even if it is not indicated in the recipe directly, almost all the listed dishes can be cooked in a slow cooker.
• Covering the dish with a special plastic cap, and placing instead of stewing in a microwave, you can save another ten minutes.
