After a long and hard working day, I want two things - eat something delicious and get some rest. And there is no desire to stand at the stove for hours. What to cook for dinner to get tasty, but not take a lot of time and effort?
To help - our recipes are simple and hearty dishes for the whole family.
General principles for making a quick and tasty dinner
The evening meal should not be too dense and plentiful. Heaviness in the stomach will not give a good sleep at night. Consumed extra calories will not go ahead, and will be postponed where you would not want to. However, dinner should be hearty enough so that at night there is no desire to make a sortie to the fridge. Therefore, choosing foods for evening meals, we give palm to the protein food and fiber, not too leaning on carbohydrates. Good for dinner:
• a fish;
• chicken meat;
• dishes using lean minced meat;
• steamed, baked or fresh vegetables;
• rice or buckwheat as a side dish;
• cottage cheese and casseroles from it;
Choose for dinner dishes consisting of a small amount of ingredients. It will allow not to spend a lot of time for cleaning and cutting. Do not forget about such an assistant hostess as a slow cooker. It is good because you do not need to look after the dish. Significantly simplifies the process and the sleeve for baking - put all the ingredients, and tied in the oven. It will not burn anything, then it is not necessary to wash the mold or baking sheet, and thanks to a pair inside the sleeve everything is prepared very quickly.
Quick and tasty dinner - recipe for baked mackerel with vegetables
Very easy option - and in terms of cooking, and calorie. For speed bake our fish in the sleeve.
Ingredients
2 mackerel;
2 tomatoes;
2 large onions;
2 large carrots;
lemon juice;
30 grams of butter;
olive oil;
herbs: basil, thyme, rosemary - to taste;
salt - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Mackerel wash, remove the head and entrails. Sprinkle fish with lemon juice inside and out, rub with salt. 2. Onions clean and cut into half rings, carrot three grated. Cut the tomatoes into rings, sprinkle with olive oil.
3. Mix onions and carrots, add spicy herbs. We put half of this mixture on each fish. Inside we also put on a small piece of butter.
4. We cut off the sleeve a little more than the size of our fish, we fasten it on one side. We put a vegetable pillow in the center of the sleeve - a mixture of onions and carrots, then tomato rings. Top fish.
5. Tie the sleeve, pierce a couple of small holes to release steam, put in the oven for 30-40 minutes.
6. Get the finished fish out of the sleeve, while gently let off the steam so as not to burn yourself. Serve with vegetables.
Quick and tasty dinner - a recipe for buckwheat porridge in a slow cooker
From the usual buckwheat can make a full dish. To do this, add some vegetables and minced meat. Multicooker will help to prepare without unnecessary trouble.
Ingredients
1 cup buckwheat groats;
3 glasses of water;
1 onion;
1 medium carrot;
200 grams of ground beef or pork;
50 grams of butter;
salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Clean the onion, chop finely. Grate carrots.
2. We wash the buckwheat well, put it in the multicooker bowl, fill it with water.
3. Add minced meat, onions and carrots. Salt, season with pepper. Put a piece of butter.
4. Mix all ingredients well. Select the appropriate multicooker mode, for example, “Porridge”. We go about our business and wait for a delicious dinner, about which a smart device will report in 40 minutes.
Quick and tasty dinner - a recipe for spaghetti with zucchini and ground beef
Zucchini is cooked very quickly. A dish with it is very tender, and ground beef makes it nourishing.
Ingredients
Half a bag of spaghetti (200-250 grams);
300 grams of ground beef;
1 small squash;
50 grams of grated cheese;
olive oil;
salt, spices, herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. We clean the zucchini from skin and seeds. Cut it into thin straws, 4-5 centimeters long.
2. Boil spaghetti in salted water.
3. While the pasta is boiling, we take the pan, heat the olive oil on it. Fry the ground beef for about 5 minutes. 4. Add sliced zucchini. Season with salt and spices to taste. Ground black pepper or dried basil is good. Cook the zucchini with minced together for another 15 minutes.
5. With ready-made spaghetti, drain the water, recline in a colander. Add the pasta in the pan, stir. We warm everything together for about 5 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with grated cheese and finely chopped greens.
Quick and tasty dinner - recipe for fish stew in sour cream sauce
For this recipe, white fish is especially well suited - cod, haddock, pollock, hake. And in order to save time, we will take a ready-made fillet, the blessing is now easy to buy. Serve with rice.
Ingredients
700 grams of cod fillet;
2 large onions;
1 large carrot;
half a cup of sour cream;
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
salt, pepper, greens - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Wash cod fillets, dry well with paper towels. We cut into rather large pieces.
2. Clean the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into rings, carrot three grated.
3. Fry the fish in vegetable oil, for 3-4 minutes on each side to brown.
4. Lay the onions and carrots on top of the cod pieces. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise, lightly add some salt, pepper. Fill this mixture with fish and vegetables.
5. Close the lid and stew until ready for about half an hour.
6. While the main course is being cooked, you can boil the rice and serve it to the garnish. Pour over the sauce in which the fish was doused.
Quick and tasty dinner - recipe for chicken fillet with garlic and cheese
Very tender meat with garlic flavor. Garnish can serve as a mashed potato.
Ingredients
400 grams of chicken fillet;
30 grams of grated cheese;
2-3 cloves of garlic;
2 tablespoons sour cream;
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
olive oil;
dill;
salt - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the fillets, dry them with napkins. Cut into strips.
2. Grind dill, skip through the press. We combine in a bowl dill, garlic, grated cheese. Add a little olive oil, mix.
3. Heat the olive oil in a skillet, fry the fillet strips to lightly brown.
4. Mix the mayonnaise and sour cream, pour out to the meat. Add cheese garlic mixture. We turn down the fire. Cooking for another 5-7 minutes, without ceasing to stir. Serve hot chicken fillet.
Quick and tasty dinner - recipe for cottage cheese casserole
Sweet and juicy casserole for dinner will appeal to both children and adults. Serve it with sour cream, jam or favorite jam.
Ingredients
400 grams of cottage cheese;
4 tablespoons of semolina;
2 eggs;
4 tablespoons of sugar;
half a bag of vanilla sugar;
100 grams of raisin seedless;
half a cup of sour cream.
Method of preparation
1. First, mix sour cream and semolina. Leave 20 minutes for the semolina a little swollen.
2. Wash the raisins, fill with hot water to become softer.
3. Beat eggs with sugar using a blender.
4. Add the cottage cheese, continue to beat until smooth.
5. Add to the curd semolina with sour cream. Pour raisins. Add vanilla sugar. Mix everything well again.
6. Grease the baking dish with vegetable oil, lightly sprinkle with semolina. We spread our curd mixture and send in the oven for 30-35 minutes. Check the readiness with a skewer or toothpick - as soon as it comes out of the dry casserole, you can get it out of the oven.
Quick and tasty dinner - chicken recipe with vegetables in the sleeve
This dish will require a little more time to prepare the ingredients, but it will help a lot if guests are expected in the evening. Here at once and meat, and a side dish. In the sleeve, the chicken cooks quickly, it turns out soft and juicy - it's not a shame to serve on the table. And while the hostess does not need to constantly monitor the oven.
Ingredients
1 chicken weighing 1-1.5 kg;
1 medium zucchini;
6-8 medium potatoes;
1 large carrot;
2 -3 cloves of garlic;
half a cup of soy sauce;
olive oil;
Provencal herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the chicken, cut into portions. We lay out in a strong package. Suitable, for example, a package for freezing.
2. Mix soy sauce and Provencal herbs in a bowl. Pour in the package to the chicken. Tie, shake, so that the mixture covered all the pieces. Leave a little marinate while cooking the rest of the ingredients.
3. Peel potatoes and carrots, cut them into rings. Zucchini cut into quarters, remove the seeds, peel, cut into small slices. Garlic chopped. 4. Mix in a large bowl all the vegetables and garlic, sprinkle with olive oil. You can add a little salt, but do not forget about the salty soy sauce in our marinade!
5. Take the sleeve for baking. Cut off a little more than the size of the baking sheet in which the dish will be prepared. Tied with one hand.
6. At the center of the sleeve lay out the pieces of chicken. Pour the remaining sauce to the vegetables, mix. Now we put vegetables in the sleeve, surrounding them with chicken from all sides.
7. Tie the sleeve, pierce 2-3 small holes in it to release excess steam. We put in the oven for 40-50 minutes.
8. At the end of the allotted time, remove the pan from the oven. Carefully cut the sleeve - the steam is very hot! Serve chicken with vegetables a la carte or lay out on a large dish, decorated with greens.
Secrets and tricks of cooking a quick and tasty dinner
• Excellent help will be frozen vegetables. Diced zucchini or pumpkin, cauliflower inflorescences are beautifully stored in the freezer. By freezing them in the fall, in the winter we will ensure an easy and quick preparation of vegetable garnish.
• Save time during the work week will help blanks made on weekends. For example, pre-peeled onions or carrots are perfectly laid for several days in special plastic containers.
• Need to cook rice or buckwheat? Select the cereal bag for cooking. It prepares quickly, does not burn, and therefore does not require close attention. Also, cereals without problems can be cooked in a slow cooker.
