Very often, housewives puzzle over what to cook quickly and tasty. And the food should be to the taste of all family members - both children and adults. We have prepared for you a selection of recipes for snacks - both cold and hot, first and second courses, desserts.
Cold Appetizers: Shrimp Avocado Boats
Thinking about what to cook quickly and tasty on the holiday table? Among the best snacks are avocado boats, stuffed with tender shrimp filling. For four servings of this cold appetizer you will need:
- ripe avocados - 2 pcs.;
- quality shrimp - 200 grams;
- a little sour cream (it is better to take a low-fat product);
- some sea salt.
Immediately tell you about some of the difficulties that you may encounter when choosing avocado fruits. Please note - you need to choose according to softness and color. The avocado is light green in color - unripe, it will ripen no earlier than five days later. A dark green hue indicates that the avocado is ready to eat, the fruit is quite soft. Refuse to buy an avocado of a very dark green shade and very soft to the touch - this fruit has overripe.
Avocados need to be divided into two halves, while removing the stone, but leaving the peel. From the resulting boats it is necessary to pull out the pulp and chop it - in a blender, with a knife or simply with a fork. Shrimp and sour cream should be added to the pulp of avocado (by the way, it can be replaced with mayonnaise diluted with cream). You can add salt and spices to the filling - for example, freshly ground pepper. You can add a little chopped garlic. The filling should be laid out in boats and decorated with greens. The appetizer is ready!
Salmon and pita rolls
Another delicious appetizer that you can cook quickly and tasty is rolls with red fish. To prepare this dish you need to take only three ingredients:
- pita - 3 sheets;
- salmon (we advise you to take slightly salted fish) - 350-450 grams;
- creamy or cottage cheese - to taste (we recommend Philadelphia).
First you need to prepare pita bread - it should be spread with a thin layer of cheese. Top with salmon, cut into thin slices. Pita bread with the filling must be rolled up and put in the refrigerator for an hour. Before this, you can wrap the roll in polyethylene. After 60 minutes, you need to get the roll and medium-sized cut with a very sharp knife.
Vegetable salad
In a short time you need to set the table? What can be cooked quickly and tasty? What snacks to start the feast with? Try making a simple vegetable salad. He needs the following ingredients:
- lettuce - one small bunch;
- cherry tomatoes - 200-250 grams;
- sweet pepper (red or yellow) - 1 pc.;
- canned corn - one full can;
- cheese (the best option is hard) - 50-70 grams.
Among the most savory and delicious salads is Romano. We recommend using it for vegetable salad. You can replace it with Iceberg or Chinese salad. Radicchio is also suitable for this dish.
For refueling you need a little olive oil, pepper and salt. Cooking this appetizer takes minutes. Tomatoes need to be cut in half, peeled and cut into small cubes. In the salad bowl, put pepper and cherry, lettuce (they must first be cut or torn into small pieces), corn. Season the salad, add the cheese grated on a fine grater and mix thoroughly. Done!
Bacon, Red Bean and Cucumber Salad
What to do if you don’t want to make a long culinary feat, and the desire to enjoy delicious food is incredibly great? What kind of salad can be prepared quickly and tasty? Make a nutritious salad of the following foods:
- red canned beans - 200-300 grams (it all depends on your taste);
- bacon - 150-200 grams;
- red or white onion - 1 pc.;
- cucumber is not very large - 1 pc.;
- a bunch of greens - we recommend taking cilantro for this salad;
- dressing mayonnaise;
- pepper and salt.
It’s worth starting with beans - it needs to be washed and drained. Smoked bacon and cucumber need to be cut into small pieces. Grind should be onion. Cilantro can either chop or tear with your hands. All ingredients must be mixed in a salad bowl, season, add spices and mix. Bon Appetit!
Hot snacks: hot sandwiches
With cold appetizers sorted out, let's move on to hot ones. What to cook quickly and tasty? We recommend paying attention to hot sandwiches with chicken. To prepare them, you will need these products:
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- loaf or baguette - 1 pc.;
- pre-boiled and peeled chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- chicken fillet (you can take a breast instead) - 2 pcs.;
- favorite hard cheese - 100-120 grams;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves.
To taste, you can add greens, pepper (black or pink), sea salt. Eggs need to be cut into small cubes, the same cubes must be cut into a tomato. Boil the fillet, cool and take apart into fibers. The loaf should be cut into slices no thicker than one and a half centimeters. In a bowl, mix tomato, chicken, eggs, garlic, grated cheese. The ingredients for the filling need to be mixed, add salt and spices, herbs to them. The oven must be heated to two hundred degrees, put on a baking sheet a special sheet for baking, a silicone mat or parchment. Put the filling on slices of the loaf and put to bake for 15 minutes. Serve this snack right after you take it out of the oven.
Baked vegetables
Do your household like unusual dishes? What can be cooked quickly and tasty? The recipe for this hot appetizer will surely appeal to you and your family. Any housewife can cope with this dish, and its taste will turn out to be incredibly rich! For cooking you will need:
- 300 grams of zucchini and eggplant;
- goat cheese - 250-300 grams;
- olive or corn oil - 50 ml;
- chopped rosemary - 5 grams;
- to taste - coarse salt and peas, chopped which should be right before adding to the dish.
Rinse the vegetables, cut them along. The thickness of the strips should be 1 cm. Fry these strips must be in a pan greased with oil - about a minute on each side.
Once the vegetables are soft, they should be laid out in a large dish. Then you need to take goat cheese, mash it with spices and butter, form a ball from the resulting mass. This ball must be placed in the center of vegetables, wrapped in the protruding edges of zucchini and eggplant. The ball must be put on a baking sheet and put in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. After 8 minutes, the finished dish needs to be laid out in a cup and garnished with fresh tomatoes and herbs. Serve the appetizer on the table in a hot form.
Crab sticks with cheese
Are guests on the doorstep and need an unusual snack? Or maybe you just decided to cook something to watch a movie? What can you cook at home quickly and tasty? Try making crab sticks in batter. To prepare you need:
- crab sticks - 30 pcs.;
- garlic - one or two cloves are enough;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cream - one glass;
- hard cheese (grated) - 2-3 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil for roasting sticks;
- herbs, spices to taste.
In a preheated dry pan, you need to slightly fry the crab sticks, add chopped garlic to them. In a bowl, beat the eggs, pour the cream and add spices. To stir thoroughly. Grease the pan with oil, dip the sticks in a mixture of eggs and fry in oil, turning over as needed. While the crab sticks are cooked in a pan, chop the greens and add it to the cheese. Ready sticks should be put on a dish and sprinkled with plenty of cheese. The cheese should have time to melt a bit, so the sticks should be hot. The finished appetizer needs to be decorated with greens. Bon Appetit!
Porridge: pumpkin and corn
Thinking about what you can make from pumpkin - fast and tasty? We suggest you make porridge from corn grits and pumpkins! For her you will need:
- half a glass of corn grits;
- two full glasses of pure water;
- three hundred grams of pumpkin;
- a tablespoon of brown or white sugar (if desired, it can be replaced with honey);
- butter - to taste.
Half the water and all the sugar should be mixed in a saucepan and boiled. As soon as the bubbles go through the water, pour the cereal into the water and mix. Cook corn grits for about twenty minutes, stirring occasionally. While porridge is boiling, the pumpkin needs to be washed, peeled and peeled, cut into medium-sized cubes. In a separate pan you need to combine the pulp of the pumpkin and the remaining water and simmer until the pumpkin is soft, then it needs to be mashed, mixed with ready-made cereals, butter. You can let it brew for about ten minutes.
Chicken broth decoy
What dish can be prepared quickly and tasty, if the main requirement for it is the ability to eat it for breakfast? Make an unusual semolina porridge! Many were tired of the sweet semolina even in childhood, but what if we make it more satisfying and cook it in broth? To prepare an excellent breakfast, you should take the following ingredients:
- semolina - three tablespoons without a slide;
- chicken stock - 1.5 cups;
- boiled chicken breast or fillet - 150-200 grams;
- butter (best to take homemade) - about 30 grams;
- some greenery;
- salt and turmeric.
What can be cooked easily, quickly and tasty? This porridge! You need to start with the chicken broth: it should be poured into a pan, add finely chopped or pulped chicken, turmeric to it. The broth must be brought to a boil, stirring constantly, add semolina to it and, stirring nonstop, cook for two minutes. After that, you need to reduce the fire, cook for 7 minutes, add greens and butter to the porridge. Unusual porridge is ready!
Soups: cheese with croutons
We offer you to talk about first courses. What soups can be prepared quickly and tasty? Cheesy! It will take a little time and products to cook them, and the taste will delight you with richness and tenderness. For it you need to take the following products:
- chicken fillet - 400 grams;
- medium-sized potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- small carrots - 1 pc.;
- processed cheese (necessarily soft) - 2000-250 grams;
- any vegetable oil - two tablespoons;
- salt and any spices you like;
- bay leaf - 3-4 pcs.;
- some fresh herbs.
For crispy and fragrant croutons, you will need a baguette or white bread, a little olive oil and garlic.
We start, of course, with the preparation of the soup. You need to boil one and a half liters of water in a saucepan, add chicken, finely chopped. When the water boils, you need to add salt and spices to it, cook for 20 minutes. While the soup is boiling, prepare the potatoes - wash and peel it, cut into cubes. Pull the meat out of the broth, but add the potatoes. Cook for 7-10 minutes. On low heat in a pan with oil, fry grated carrots, salt and pepper it, add to soup and cook another 5-6 minutes. Then add cheese to our first dish, mix everything well and remove from heat.
Next, you need to cook croutons. To do this, cut the baguette into long slices, dip each in olive oil - always on both sides, grate the garlic clove peeled and cut into two, and put in the oven for just a few minutes. Serve croutons to the soup still warm.
Meat okroshka
What can you cook for lunch - fast and tasty? On a hot day, the ideal option is meat okroshka. It perfectly satisfies hunger and at the same time does not leave a feeling of heaviness. You will need the following products:
- boiled beef - 500 grams;
- boiled potatoes - 4 pcs.;
- boiled eggs - 3 pcs.;
- small-sized salted cucumbers - 4 pcs.;
- fresh radish - 10 pcs.;
- a large bunch of greens - parsley, dill and onions;
- kvass - one liter;
- sour cream and salt - to taste;
- horseradish (finely grated) - two teaspoons.
Vegetables need to be cut into small cubes, grate the radish, and the greens should also be chopped. The meat for okroshka needs to be cut into thin strips. All ingredients must be mixed, add salt and horseradish, mix and pour in kvass. Sour cream should be added to the okroshka spread on plates.
Chinese cabbage soup
Looking for the easiest soup recipe? We bring to your attention a delicious broth soup with brisket, peas and cabbage. To cook it, you need to take:
- brisket - 200 grams;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - a pair of cloves;
- small potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- Beijing cabbage - one head of cabbage;
- one and a half liters of broth;
- green peas - 30-40 grams.
Let's start with the brisket. It should be coarsely chopped, mixed with finely chopped onions and garlic and fry for five minutes. Potatoes should be cut into cubes, added to the brisket and fry for another 7-9 minutes. Then add the broth. While the potatoes are cooked until cooked, you need to cut the cabbage in neat strips, then add it to the soup with peas, cook for only two minutes and remove from heat.
Second courses: thighs in a marinade with pumpkin and potatoes
The main ingredient in this dish that can be cooked quickly, simply and deliciously is chicken thighs. Delicious mustard marinade will give them a special piquancy. To prepare a dish according to this recipe, you will need the following products:
- large-sized potatoes - 3 pcs.;
- ripe pumpkin - about 150 grams;
- hips - 600-700 grams;
- some olive oil;
- pepper and salt to taste;
- ready mustard - four tablespoons is enough;
- mustard seeds - one spoon.
In the baking dish, put the potatoes, previously peeled and cut into circles, pumpkin - in a cube, drizzle with oil a little and add spices. Then we will prepare the marinade: for it, mix the onion, cut into small pieces, with mustard and butter. Chicken should be grated with this marinade and left in a warm place for half an hour. After that, the chicken should be laid out on vegetables, put the remaining marinade on top and put in the oven, preheated to 190 degrees, for 40 minutes.
Pork in apple sauce
Think you can make apples quickly and tasty? Treat yourself and your loved ones with pork in a fragrant apple sauce. For this dish you need the following ingredients:
- pork - 500 grams;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- small carrots - 1 pc.;
- celery stalk;
- beef broth - a full glass;
- two glasses of freshly squeezed apple juice;
- your favorite spices to taste;
- salt;
- any vegetable oil.
Cut the pork into small cubes, add salt and add a little black pepper. Then fry it in hot oil until a pleasant golden crust appears. Then add onion, celery and carrots, medium-sized chopped to the meat. You need to cook all this until the onion becomes transparent. After that, juice must be poured into the meat, which must first be squeezed. Boil. After this, you need to make the broth and bring it to a boil again. Within an hour, the dish should simmer over low heat under a slightly ajar lid. Twenty minutes before cooking, you need to add spices to the meat.
Desserts: apples with cottage cheese
Often, novice housewives think: what can be cooked quickly and tasty from cottage cheese? There are many options: these are lazy dumplings, and cheesecakes, and cheesecakes. But today we offer you a dessert of cottage cheese and apples. To prepare two servings, you should take the following products:
- medium-sized sweet apples - 2 pcs.;
- cottage cheese (those who follow the figure, we recommend taking fat-free) - 100 grams;
- semolina - 25-30 grams;
- one large chicken egg;
- fructose - 2 teaspoons;
- zest of half a lemon.
To prepare this sweet and healthy dessert, you need to cut the apples in half, remove the seeds. Mix cottage cheese with semolina, egg and fructose, mix and add zest. The resulting filling must be put in apples. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, place apples there and bake for 20 minutes. By the way, instead of the zest, cinnamon and vanilla are perfect. You can add any berries to the dessert.
Kefir Smoothie
What can be cooked quickly and deliciously from kefir? For example, smoothie! There are many options for preparing this drink. You can add greens and beets, oatmeal and fruits to kefir. Today we offer a dessert smoothie option that needs the following products:
- kefir - one full glass;
- ripe peach - 1 pc.;
- a tablespoon of berries.
The preparation of this dessert will not take very long: you just need to peel the peach, remove the stone from it, put the fruit and berries in a glass to beat, pour kefir. Beat the mixture and pour into glasses. Done!
Cream sticks
Unplanned guests arrived? Can't do without baking? What sweet can be made quickly and tasty? Make the Creamy Sticks Cookies! For him you need to take:
- one glass of flour, sugar and starch;
- half a glass of sour cream;
- butter - 100 grams;
- two egg yolks;
- a pinch of soda;
- juice of half a lemon.
All ingredients need to be mixed well. From the resulting test, you need to make 5x1 cm rollers. You need to bake the sticks in the oven, heated to 180-190 degrees.