A romantic dinner is something special, unusual, causing butterflies in the stomach, and a smile on the face. Here, fried potatoes and pickles can not do. It is better to cook something thematic, unusual, light, but nourishing. Spoil the other half?
Romantic atmosphere
Even the most exquisite dishes with aphrodisiac products will fade on the dining kitchen table. In addition to food, for a romantic dinner you should prepare a beautiful tableware, candles, a nice tablecloth. You can put some accessories to make compositions. By the way, the table does not have to be installed at home.
Where to arrange a romantic dinner:
- on the roof;
- in the park or in the forest;
- on the waterfront;
- by the pool;
- on the balcony.
For some places you don’t even need furniture, you just need to bring a blanket with you. If it's cool outside, then you can bring along a blanket. Also, do not forget to take care of containers and other dishes in which food and drinks will be transported in advance.
Fish "Harmony" on the hot
For a romantic date, you do not need to cook heavy meat dishes. You can make a bird, but it is best to choose a fish. It is perfectly absorbed, does not cause heaviness in the stomach, quickly prepared. But the main thing is a natural aphrodisiac. Great for dinner salmon steaks.
Ingredients
- 2 steaks;
- 0.5 lemon;
- 2 spoons of butter;
- salt.
Method of preparation
- You can cook this fish simply in a frying pan or on a grill; we choose a convenient option. We put warm, do not need to grease the dishes.
- Wash and dry fish steaks, sprinkle with lemon juice, rub with salt. This can be done in advance, leave to pickle.
- Once the pan or grill warms up, grease the fish with oil, send it to a hot surface and fry for five minutes on each side. Cover is not necessary, the red fish quickly cooks
- Shift ruddy steaks onto a plate. Immediately decorate with greens, lemon slices or fresh vegetables.
It is possible to supplement such fish with garnishes of cereals or pasta, but they will make the dish heavier. It is more reasonable to give preference to fresh vegetables or salads based on them.
Seafood “Easy Flirt”
Instead of fish or with it, you can cook for a romantic dinner and seafood. A great solution is shrimp. Here is a recipe with soy sauce. Often they are also cooked with garlic, but this product is not always appropriate on the table.
Ingredients
- 5 spoons of soy sauce;
- 350 g shrimp;
- 3 spoons of butter;
- lemon and greens.
Method of preparation
- Heat the specified amount of vegetable oil in a pan. It is best to take an odorless sunflower or sunflower.
- Sprinkle the shrimp and fry for a minute. But we do it on the strongest fire. It is important that the shrimp are not too wet, you can slightly dry them with napkins.
- Squeeze the juice out of half a lemon and combine with soy sauce. Fill the shrimp. Now you can turn down the fire to an average level.
- Fry the shrimp with lemon and soy sauce for another two or three minutes, the liquid will practically evaporate.
- We shift the dish onto plates, we supplement it with greens and fresh slices of the remaining lemon.
It is possible to cook other seafood in this way, use squid or sea cocktail, it will also turn out delicious.
Salad “Simple Truths”
A variant of a very simple, but bright and tasty salad. It is great not only for a romantic dinner. Onions it is desirable to use purple. But you can also take white salad heads. A simple onion is also suitable, just scalded with boiling water. This technique removes bitterness.
Ingredients
- 3 tomatoes;
- 150 g of feta cheese;
- 1 red (purple) bulb;
- parsley and basil;
- 3 spoons of butter;
- 1 spoon of lemon juice;
- 1 can of olives;
- salt, pepper.
Method of preparation
- We take tomatoes that are thick and not very watery, otherwise the salad will flow quickly. Cut into slices, not finely. Sent in a bowl.
- Peel the purple onion, chop into thin half-rings and pour out after the tomatoes.
- Cheese is also cut large, we make cubes approximately by centimeter. Add to the rest of the ingredients.
- Next we introduce olives. You can cut in halves or quarters, or throws whole. But choose pitted olives.
- Greens, salt, pepper to taste. Sprinkle the salad with lemon juice, pour over vegetable oil and lightly stir.
Such salads look particularly impressive when sprinkled with nuts, seeds and sesame seeds on top. In addition, these products give a very pleasant aroma.
Dessert “Sweet Kiss”
Usually, there is not much time to prepare a dessert, so there is a very simple but effective thematic option here. For such cakes, you will need a ready sponge cake. If there is no strawberry jam, then you can use any other flavor.
Ingredients
- 1 cake;
- 6 strawberries;
- 2 scoops of strawberry jam;
- 70 ml of cream 35%;
- 3 tsp. powdered sugar.
Method of preparation
- Whip the cream first, without the icing sugar. As soon as the mass increases, thickens, we introduce powder. If desired, add vanilla to the cream.
- Cut four hearts out of the finished biscuit. You can make them cuttings for cookies or attach a pattern of paper, gently walk with a knife.
- We grease two hearts with jam, we stack on them one more time, we grease thinly from above with the same jam.
- We shift the cream into a bag, squeeze generous hats of butter cream onto cakes. Top decorate with strawberries, enough for three things per serving.
If you want, you can make cream with cheese. Or give it a pink color. To do this, simply enter a spoonful of jam or jam instead of powder.
Let's drink to love!
For a romantic dinner in addition to dishes you need to prepare drinks. When choosing, you should take into account only your own taste and preferences of the second half. Classics - champagne, liquor, wine, but you can buy beer. If it seems “coarse,” regular or ginger ale will do. By the way, now in stores fruit beer with a taste of citrus, cherry is sold. Why not?
If you want something original, you can make regular or alcoholic cocktails with your own hands. They have one big plus - the ability to independently choose the composition and build on the fact that there is in the house.
