On warm days, you just want to go out into nature and pamper yourself with delicious food. All dishes that are offered to your attention are suitable for a picnic. Some can be cooked directly in the fresh air, some require preliminary home preparation. But they are all quite simple to prepare and will give you a gastronomic pleasure at a picnic.
Picnic Snack & Salad Recipes
Cucumber salad
Cut long-fruited cucumbers with a vegetable peeling knife or a very thin sharp knife into thin strips. Roll a ring of 2 strips with an overlap of at least 3 cm, you can even fasten the strips with toothpicks. Toss with the olive oil and balsamic vinegar the medium-sized leaves of the salad mix, the peeled pears, chopped into strips, roasted almonds and dried cherries. Determine the proportions of these products at your discretion, you can add a little peeled cucumber, cut into cubes. Place the salad in a cucumber ring and sprinkle with goat or any other hard cheese petals on top. The petals can be cut with the same vegetable knife. Place the shrimp on top.
Fry 3 sliced bacon slices until crisp and place on a paper towel to remove excess grease. Combine a handful of lettuce mix, 2 finely chopped celery stalks, half a can of stuffed olives of your choice (you can add them whole or chop). Add toasted bacon, season salad with 1.5 tbsp. tablespoons of grape vinegar, very finely chopped onion quarters, 3 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Stir and serve.
Strain the canned tuna fillet from the liquid and divide into pieces with a fork. Boil the eggs so that the yolk is slightly undercooked. Cook frozen or fresh asparagus beans until tender. Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. Combine lettuce, fish, beans, minced chives, chopped walnuts, halved cherry tomatoes or regular tomatoes, add a little mayonnaise, stir, put in a salad bowl and garnish with boiled egg quarters.
Spread grated cheese, strained canned red beans and corn, tomato and avocado slices, sausage slices and corn chips in strips on a large platter. Drizzle over the beautifully arranged ingredients with a generous serving of equal amounts of sour cream and mayonnaise, to which are added minced garlic and a large bunch of finely chopped cilantro. Stir this salad on the table.
Wash and dry a bunch of spinach, put in a large salad bowl, add 50 g of any chopped nuts there, you can take almond petals, half a red onion, chopped very thinly, slices of avocado and strawberries cut in half (200 g), mix everything. Drizzle over the salad dressing with a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, salt and black pepper, all to taste, stir again and crush 100 g of blue cheese on top.
Form the minced meatballs, sauté them, stir in a little barbecue ketchup and simmer until tender. Cut a long French baguette into enough pieces to hold 4 meatballs each. Short French baguettes are sometimes sold and can be used one at a time. Half-cut the baguette lengthwise and place a few meatballs in the cut per serving. You can add lettuce leaves.
Cut the finished yeast-free puff pastry into triangles with a base slightly less than the length of the sausages. Make longitudinal cuts in the sausages, insert pieces of cheese into them. Wrap the nipples in batter and place on greased, thick foil. Place the hot dogs over coals, but not over an open fire. Turn the hot dogs over as the dough is baked.
For a vegetable pillow, thinly chop a peeled fennel fruit, a few potatoes (if you don't have fennel, increase the number of potatoes), an onion, chop a clove of garlic. Mix everything, put on a baking sheet, pour half a glass of water, a glass of dry white wine, salt and pepper.
Salt and pepper the fish, cleaned of scales, viscera and gills, put a sprig of rosemary, thyme, a few slices of lemon into the abdomen and put in a baking dish on top of a layer of vegetables. Wipe off 2 lemons and save the zest, cut the lemons into slices. Put some in the fish, add the rest of the mugs to the vegetables. Cover the tin with foil and bake in a preheated oven until fish and potatoes are cooked through. Serve straight in the pan, sprinkled with lemon zest and parsley.
Cut the loaf into slices, without cutting to the end. You should have 6 sandwiches. Mix 3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter with st. spoon Dijon mustard and brush the sides of the slices that will face the filling with this mixture. Place a slice of cheese, ham, ham, or sausage in each sandwich. Grease a piece of foil with vegetable oil, put a loaf on it, wrap the foil so that a little air remains inside. Bake the loaf in the oven under the grill or on the grill. Carefully so as not to burn yourself with the steam, open the foil and cut the loaf.
Toast the white sandwich bread slices on one side. Chop 3 large onions thinly and save in vegetable oil, sprinkle with half a beef stock cube, add 2 tbsp. spoons of water and simmer.
Fry the flat cutlets and bacon slices separately. Place the cutlet on the unroasted side of the bread, sprinkle with grated cheese, top with bacon and a generous serving of onions. Serve any ready-made sauce of your choice with the appetizer.
Prepare the filling: Hard boil 8 eggs, let cool and cut in half. Grind all the yolks and whites of 2 eggs in a bowl with a fork. Add a bunch of chopped green onions, a bunch of chopped cilantro, a chopped chive, 100 g of soft processed cheese and season with natural yogurt or mayonnaise. Salt and pepper, add other spices as desired.
Fry 4 small hot or sweet peppers in vegetable oil, cut in half lengthwise, remove seeds and partitions. Cut the cream tomatoes in half and remove the core, leaving only the cups. Fill the containers of eggs, peppers and tomatoes with the filling, garnish with herbs or slices of olives if desired. Refrigerate snacks for 2 hours before serving.
Picnic dishes on fire and grill
Sausage in bacon
Make cuts in the sausages and insert a slice of melted cheese into them. Swaddle sausages in strips of bacon, secure with toothpicks and fry on a wire rack over an open fire until tender.
Cut the potatoes into 1.5 cm thick circles and place in one layer on the grill. Chop the pork thinly, salt and pepper, sprinkle with the spices of your choice and place next to the potatoes. When the potatoes are ready, remove them from the wire rack, season with salt, add butter, chopped herbs to taste, cover and shake. Serve with pork.
By the way, if you bought young potatoes in a store, you don't need to peel them, but just wash them thoroughly. Instead of regular potato salt, you can use sea salt, "tasty salt" or a set of potato spices.
Mix 0.5 kg of pork and minced turkey meat, add onion, garlic, soaked in milk and squeezed bun, salt, pepper, spices of your choice. Form large meatballs, keep them in the refrigerator for 2 hours to freeze a little, string on skewers or wooden skewers soaked in water, alternating with pieces of sweet pepper. Roast over an open fire or bake in the oven, smearing with sweet sauce from time to time.
For the sauce, mix half a cup of apricot jam, a teaspoon of cornstarch, salt, pepper, nutmeg - to taste. Dilute with a few spoons of boiled water. Use a cooking brush to grease the meatballs.
Grind the meat from the beef ribs through a fine mesh grinder, salt, pepper and add the spices you usually use for beef (you can add a teaspoon or tablespoon, depending on the amount of minced meat, any barbecue sauce). Form large flat patties and grill them over a fire or grill. Serve on a bun or on plates, as long as the burger juice is not lost.
From a kilogram of lamb with fat, prepare minced meat, adding beef lard, a large onion and a slice of unsoaked bread (no crust) to the lean lamb to make the kebabs easier to sculpt. Salt the minced meat, add spices, stir, put in the refrigerator for two hours. If you mold minced meat kebabs at room temperature, they will fall apart when cooked. Shape kebabs - elongated sausages, string them on skewers with tomato circles and grill over an open fire until tender. Remember that kebabs cook faster than kebabs - don't overdry them.
For children and those for whom real barbecue is not suitable for medical reasons, you can cook a barbecue at home in the oven from meatballs, slices of onions and peppers. For the meatballs, it's best to use minced turkey. It is not necessary to add spices to it, just salt is enough. Even if you won't eat onions and peppers, skewer them anyway, they will add aroma and taste to the meatballs.
Vegan kebab
If you are an ardent opponent of meat, prepare a kebab with mushrooms, zucchini, peppers and onions. Because vegetables lose some of their flavor and juice, if salted beforehand, cook them unsalted, and after cooking, drizzle with a mixture of soy sauce and lemon juice, or serve with the sauce of your choice.
Beef liver shashlik with vegetables: pepper, mushrooms and zucchini will cook very quickly over an open fire. Since all these vegetables can be eaten raw, it is okay if they remain slightly damp after baking, so they retain more juice and vitamins.
Cut the liver into slices thinner than you would normally cut meat. You can pre-soak these pieces in milk for 2 hours, then remove and wipe them. Salt and pepper the liver and brush with vegetable oil. until the liver pieces are firm to the touch.
Prepare chocolate cream: Mix 4 raw yolks of large eggs with melted chocolate bar and the contents of a can of condensed milk. Beat with a mixer and dilute with cognac or vodka until the consistency of sour cream of medium density. Transfer the cream to a jar and refrigerate.
Make curd cream. Beat with a mixer 500 g of cottage cheese 9% fat with a glass of sour cream, 0.5 glass of sugar and vanilla. Divide the cream into 4 parts.
Prepare 2 cups of strong instant coffee without sugar. Dip “Baked milk” cookies in cooled coffee and carefully place in a glass dish with sides in layers of 8 pieces. Spread half of one part of the curd cream evenly on top of the cookies, on it - a layer of chocolate cream and the remains of the first part of the curd. Then add another layer of cookies, cottage cheese and chocolate cream and a third layer of cookies. Put the remaining curd cream on the top layer of cookies, smooth, sprinkle with grated chocolate and cocoa powder. Refrigerate for several hours.
If desired, replace the chocolate cream with a layer of strawberry, kiwi, orange, or raspberry slices.
It is very easy and quick to make a dessert if you have thin waffle cookies or cakes bought from the store.
Mix 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sour cream, 100 ml of cream with a fat content of 33%, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and beat until sugar dissolves. Add a bar of lukewarm white chocolate softened in a water bath to the cream and beat again. Layer the waffles with cream and slices of fresh strawberries or raspberries. For beauty, the top of the dessert can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. Any berries that are not very acidic can be used.
We hope you find our "arsenal" of snacks and picnic dishes useful. Happy outdoor recreation!
Birthday is a special holiday. On this day, I want to have fun and feel a little sad. The joy of meeting friends and family, a large number of gifts and surprises sometimes overshadow the understanding that the years go by.
This can occur to both young people and adults. Whatever feelings visit the birthday man and his guests on this day, you need to take care of the treats.
Lucky for those people who have a birthday in the summer. There are a lot of opportunities to celebrate the name day, because there is plenty to choose from! Lake, sea, nature, forest or cottage? You can go anywhere, because the weather conditions are not terrible.
Even if summer rain falls on a holiday, it will only make it easier, because it will bring the long-awaited coolness.
Summer menu: be careful!
Let's look at the features of making a birthday menu in the summer in nature. The insidiousness of summer lies in the fact that food in nature without a refrigerator deteriorates very quickly or loses its shape. Of course, you can take a mini-refrigerator with you and get at least salads from there, but if a large company of people is planned, then there may not be enough of them for all of them due to the small dimensions of the unit.
Mayonnaise and other fatty sauces are categorically contraindicated in the heat. A dish with them in a matter of minutes will turn into a source of danger, and no one wants to spend the rest of the day in the bushes. It is better to use vegetable oil as a dressing, at least it will definitely not disappear.
Of course, no holiday is complete without a barbecue. If a decision has already arisen to cook it, then it must be done almost immediately upon arrival in nature. So the meat will not have time to turn sour in a large amount of marinade, and the finished pieces will last longer.
All food should be covered with towels or paper. Wasps and bees can flock to the aromas of food, and guests risk eating them along with the dish, while getting a lot of problems. It's good if just redness appears at the site of the bite, but there are people prone to allergies. In this case, the larynx or nasopharynx may swell and then there will already be a real threat to human life.
To keep the guests from becoming thirsty, you need to find a place for the holiday next to a spring or take a sufficient amount of water with you. Juices and fruit drinks are also a great option, but carbonated drinks are not recommended. They will make you want to drink even more.
Important menu: choosing suitable recipes for holiday dishes
There is more than enough entertainment in nature. Guests will find something to entertain themselves with, the weather will not let anyone get bored. So, what can you cook for your birthday in the summer outdoors for a cheerful company of guests? How to feed them? The main thing is that it is tasty, fast and simple, because the guests will arrive as if hungry.
Tomatoes stuffed with vegetables
| Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| round tomatoes - | 8 pcs. |
| bulgarian yellow pepper - | 1 large |
| cucumbers - | 2 large |
| greenery - | bundle |
| white onion - | 1 large |
| vegetable oil - | 2 tbsp. l. |
| garlic - | 2 cloves |
| radishes - | 150 g |
| salt - | taste |
| cheese - | 150 g |
| Cooking time: 40 minutes | Calorie content per 100 grams: 87 Kcal |
Wash vegetables and herbs. Cut off the tops from the tomatoes, take out the pulp with a spoon. Dice the peppers, cucumbers, onions and radishes. Finely chop the greens. Pass the garlic through a press, and grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Combine chopped vegetables, herbs, garlic and cheese in a bowl, add salt and butter. Stuff the tomatoes and you can treat the guests.
This appetizer will look beautiful on the table. Even if the juice from the vegetables flows, the tomatoes will keep their shape and look quite appetizing.
"Snow Snack"
To prepare a snack for 2 persons you will need:
- 6 small tomatoes;
- 2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
- 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 200 gr. cheese;
- Ground pepper to taste.
Wash the tomatoes and cut into medium rings, place in one layer on a plate.
Peel and grate the garlic, mix in a bowl with mayonnaise and sour cream.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Sprinkle tomato slices with pepper, brush with garlic sauce, sprinkle with plenty of cheese.
Spread the tomato slices, grease and sprinkle with cheese until you get a small slide.
The main thing in this dish is to sprinkle it well with cheese. It looks interesting, and everyone will like the taste.
Baked potatoes with a surprise in foil
What is a holiday without potatoes? Standard mashed potatoes in nature cannot be made, and potatoes baked in charcoal have long become boring. An interesting option can be potatoes with mushrooms and carrots (they will be the very surprise) in foil.
For 4 persons of delicious potatoes you will need:
- 8 potatoes;
- 2 large young carrots;
- 8 large mushrooms;
- Salt and pepper to taste;
- A bunch of greenery;
- 50 ml of olive oil.
Wash potatoes, carrots, mushrooms and herbs. Cut the tubers into 4–6 pieces, cut the carrots into medium rings, and the mushrooms into halves. Finely chop the greens.
Season vegetables and mushrooms with salt, pepper and butter. Mix gently and place on foil in portions.
Wrap the foil on all sides so that food does not spill out when turning the dish.
Place the foil envelopes on the coals of the fire and cook for about 20 minutes, during this time you need to turn the dish over 2 times. Unroll the finished potatoes and sprinkle with fresh herbs.
Potatoes may well go as a main course, and together with mushrooms and carrots, it will also be beautiful.
"Miracle fish": we bake deliciously on the grill
Another main dish is grilled fish. What kind of fish to cook depends on personal preference. Red fish cooks quickly and looks delicious.
For 2 persons "Miracle fish" you need:
- 4 salmon steaks;
- 2 tbsp. l. seasonings for fish;
- 2 tbsp. l. grated ginger root;
- 1/2 lemons;
- Salt to taste;
- 60 gr. olive oil.
Mix the spices, oil and ginger root, squeeze the juice from half a lemon and marinate the steaks in this mixture for about 40 minutes. During this time, melt the brazier.
Place the salmon on a wire rack and fry for 3 minutes on each side. The fish will turn out to be tender, even if it is a little damp, the principle “there is no raw salmon” works for everyone.
Fish is a light product, you can eat it in between entertainment and swimming in the pond.
You can serve fresh vegetables or herbs with the fish, but alcohol is suitable both strong and containing few degrees.
Sauce - guests will rate it 5+
Sauce for meat and fish is important, it will emphasize the taste of the dish. It should be chosen based on the ingredients of the main course, tomato sauce is more suitable for meat, and mayonnaise for fish. If you experiment and add different herbs and spices, you get the original mixture.
For a sauce for meat kebabs you need to take:
- 1 can of Krasnodarsky sauce;
- A bunch of greens (parsley, dill, cilantro);
- Several sprigs of tarragon;
- Ground black pepper to taste;
- 1 onion.
Peel the onion and chop finely. Rinse greens, also finely chop. Add greens and onions to the sauce, season with pepper and mix well. Herbs will complement the flavor of the meat.
Dessert "Sweet Tooth"
There is no birthday without dessert. Of course, taking a cake or cream cakes outdoors without a refrigerator is very dangerous. It is quite possible to cook sweetness without cream and an oven while guests are enjoying nature.
For dessert "Sweet Tooth" you need to take the following ingredients:
- 1 pack of wafer cakes;
- 1 can of condensed milk;
- 2 bananas;
- 1 sour apple;
- 1 tsp citric acid.
Wash the apples, remove seeds and skins, cut into thin slices. Peel the banana and cut into slices. Grease each waffle cake with condensed milk, put a few slices of apples and bananas, sprinkle them with lemon.
Continue this way until all layers are laid. Leave the top cake clean. Let the dessert stand for at least a couple of hours. Then cut it into pieces and offer it to guests.
Dessert prepares quickly, but it takes time to soak. The top cake remains clean so that the pieces can be picked up and eaten neatly. Nothing will happen to the cake in 2 hours. If you put it in the shade, it will not spoil, but the birthday person will have a real birthday cake.
And what will the guests drink, alcohol? - No, refreshing lemonade!
To quench your thirst, you can put bottles of drinks in a pond, they will keep cool for a long time. And if there is an opportunity to take a mini-refrigerator with you to nature, then you can put a large amount of ice in it.
By adding it to drinks, there is a real way to not die of thirst when making lemonades.
To make lemonade for 2 persons, you need to take:
- 0.33 l each sprite and drink "Tarhun"
- 1/2 lime;
- 2 sprigs of peppermint;
- 160 g ice.
Mix drinks, add sliced lime and torn mint leaves. Crush the ingredients slightly with a fork or mortar. Pour the drink into tall glasses and add ice. Decorate with a cocktail tube or umbrella.
The drink will quench your thirst and come in handy for a non-alcoholic party. But you should drink it carefully, as there is a risk of getting sick. In the heat, ice drinks can play a cruel joke on the human body.
- When preparing food in nature, you need to think over their composition. Snacks and salads with fatty sauces should be offered first of all so that they do not have time to disappear;
- In the summer you want to drink constantly, so you need to take a lot of drinks, but less alcohol. The heat does not affect the tipsy person in the best way, you need to be careful;
- All vegetables and fruits should be washed before adding to meals or simply eating. A large number of insect vectors of diseases can get on food and subsequently cause disease;
- Dishes on skewers are considered an ideal snack for the summer menu. Cheese, sausages, olives, gherkins, mini-corn and other products in various variations will quickly satisfy hunger and will look spectacular on the table.
A birthday in the summer in nature gives free rein to imagination about entertainment, but you need to be careful with treats so as not to get poisoned by missing products and ruin your holiday.
In addition to the indispensable barbecue, the menu of a country trip certainly includes snacks for a picnic. You can prepare picnic snacks right in nature, or it is better to prepare them in advance, even at home.
Ideal picnic snacks are made from thin pita bread. Just grease the surface with any filling, roll tightly into a roll and refrigerate, and in nature, pieces of such a roll can be fried or eaten cold - it’s delicious either way. There are countless options for fillings for such rolls. Mayonnaise, soft cream cheese or processed cheese, as well as soft cottage cheese and avocado are used as a binder. For example, here are some options for pita bread fillings:
- Cottage cheese, grated cheese, herbs, garlic, black pepper, mayonnaise;
- Crab sticks, boiled egg, grated cheese, garlic, herbs, mayonnaise;
- Cottage cheese, garlic, pickled cucumber, herbs;
- Smoked chicken, fried mushrooms, soft cream cheese, hard grated cheese;
- Fried champignons, onions, soft processed cheese, pickled cucumber;
- Korean carrots, Adyghe cheese or feta cheese, herbs, mayonnaise;
- Canned fish in oil, grated cheese, herbs, mayonnaise;
- Sprats, grated cheese, eggs, garlic, mayonnaise;
- Lightly salted salmon, sausage cheese, onions, green salad, mayonnaise;
- Boiled egg, boiled rice, mayonnaise, herbs, salt;
- Ham, hard cheese, fresh cucumber, garlic, mayonnaise;
- Ham, Korean carrots, mayonnaise;
- Separately fried minced meat, onions and bell peppers, grated cheese;
- Boiled shrimp, butter, garlic;
- Shrimps, lightly salted salmon, soft cream cheese, salad, mayonnaise;
- Spicy herring, fresh cucumber, boiled eggs, avocado, Dijon mustard, mayonnaise, lemon juice;
- Tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, avocado, herbs, lemon juice, mayonnaise, salt, black pepper.
And the list is endless! In principle, you can wrap the ingredients of any layered mayonnaise salad in pita bread, since there are a lot of recipes for such salads, and every year there are more and more of them.
Another option for lavash snacks is crispy envelopes. The principle of preparation is simple: the filling (1-3 tablespoons) is placed on the lavash cut in half or in four parts, the lavash is wrapped in an envelope and fried in vegetable oil. The envelopes can be dipped in a beaten egg beforehand. The filling can be varied:
- Minced meat stewed in a pan with onions, salt and pepper, cooled and mixed with a raw egg. You can add boiled rice;
- Fried chicken fillet, sliced, Chinese cabbage, onion, hard cheese, mayonnaise, herbs, salt;
- Boiled sausage slices, cheese slices, some mustard. Put on each envelope several slices of sausage and cheese, alternating them and adding mustard;
- Grated cheese (one grade or a mixture of 2-3 types of cheese, to taste), herbs, mayonnaise, garlic;
- Cheese, tomatoes, garlic, mayonnaise;
- Boiled rice, fried chicken, fried mushrooms, fried carrots, herbs, mayonnaise.
Lavash envelopes can be made at home, and then fried over a fire in a pan, but they are incomparable in cold form.
"Cigars" from lavash
Ingredients:
3 thin pita bread,
200-250 g of chicken hearts,
200-250 g chicken ventricles,
150-200 g of hard cheese
2 eggs,
greens, black pepper, salt - to taste.
Preparation:
Boil chicken giblets, cool and mince or grind in a blender. Add chopped herbs, grated cheese, salt, pepper and raw egg yolks. Mix well. Cut the pita bread into triangles (it is convenient to cut with scissors) and brush with loose protein. Put the filling on the wide part and roll up the "cigars" (tuck the tips of the "cigars"). Fry in vegetable oil.
Pita rolls or French baguettes can be used as a base for snacks. They can also be stuffed with ready-made foods or baked.
Ingredients:
1 baguette,
200-250 g of boiled sausage,
2-3 pickled cucumbers,
100 g butter
1 bunch of green onions
mustard, black pepper, lemon juice - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the baguette lengthwise from the bottom and take out the crumb. Crumble the crumb and dry in the oven or in a dry frying pan. Cut the sausage and cucumbers into cubes, add chopped herbs, softened butter, lemon juice, black pepper, mustard and dried crumb. Mix the filling well and fill the baguette with it. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Cut into slices when serving.
Stuffed baguette with herring
Ingredients:
1 baguette,
1 large spiced herring (or mackerel),
2-3 boiled eggs
100 g butter
a bunch of greens,
ground black pepper, tomato paste or ketchup, mayonnaise - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the baguette lengthwise from the bottom, remove the crumb and dry it. Fillet the fish, remove all bones, and cut into cubes. Grate the eggs on a coarse grater. Chop the greens. Mix half of the crumb with herbs, combine the remaining crumb with tomato paste. Divide all food into two parts and mix one part with the green crumb, the other with the red crumb. If dry, add mayonnaise. First put the green filling in the baguette, then the red filling, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator.
Crispy baguette
Ingredients:
1 baguette,
100-150 g butter,
2-3 cloves of garlic
½ bunch of dill greens,
a few sprigs of celery greens (to taste),
salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the baguette across, without cutting to the end, into slices 1.5-2 cm thick. Chop the herbs and garlic, mix, salt and pepper. Put pieces of butter and herbs with garlic in the baguette cut, wrap in foil and bake at 180 ° C for 15 minutes.
Crispy baguette with cheese
Ingredients:
100-150 g of cheese
100-150 g butter,
2-3 cloves of garlic
greens, salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Just as in the previous recipe, cut the baguette, fill the cuts with grated cheese mixed with butter, chopped herbs and garlic passed through a press. Wrap in foil and bake at 180-200 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
As picnic snacks puff pastry pies are perfect, as well as tortillas with various fillings.
Chinese tortillas with meat filling
Ingredients:
For the test:
400 g flour
240 ml warm water.
For filling:
800 g mixed minced meat
4-5 cloves of garlic
4 tablespoons soy sauce,
2 tbsp vegetable oil,
1 tbsp grated fresh ginger,
2 tbsp vodka,
melted butter - for greasing cakes,
green onions, salt, black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Knead the dough and cover with plastic wrap. Chop the green onions, pass the garlic through a press, mix all the ingredients for the mince and mix well. Divide the minced meat into 8 pieces. Divide the dough into 8 parts and roll each into thin flat cakes with a diameter of 22-25 cm. Put the filling on the flat cake, stepping back 1 cm from the edge and covering ¾ of the flat cake. Cut the dough from edge to center and cover ¼ part of the filling with the dough. Lift the covered part and wrap it over the filling to form a semicircle. Then fold the flatbread to make a quarter of a circle and pinch the edges of the dough on all sides. Fry the resulting triangles in a hot dry skillet under the lid for 4-5 minutes on each side. Grease the finished cakes with butter.
Bagels wrapped in bacon
Ingredients for one bagel:
1-2 tsp soft cream cheese
2 slices of bacon.
Preparation:
For this dish, you need to take large soft bagels. Cut each donut in half lengthwise, brush the cut with cream cheese, fold back and wrap in bacon slices. Store the blanks cold, and at a picnic, fry on a wire rack until golden crisp.
Excellent picnic snacks obtained from pickled products. They can not only satisfy hunger, but also serve them as a side dish for a barbecue.
Pickled onions with beets
Ingredients:
1 kg of onion
1 small beet
wine vinegar, salt, black pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the peeled onions into rings and tamp them into a jar, shifting the slices of raw beets. Dilute wine vinegar with cold boiled water in a 1: 1 ratio, add salt and pepper and pour onion. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
Pickled onion No. 2
Ingredients:
small onions,
500 ml 9% vinegar,
500 ml of water
2 tbsp salt,
1-2 tbsp Sahara,
sweet peas, rosemary, cloves, mustard seeds, herbs - to taste.
Preparation:
Peel the bulbs, blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes and cool in ice water. Place in jars and cover with marinade. For the marinade, boil water with spices, cool, mix with vinegar. The amount of sugar can be changed to taste.
Onions in caramel
Ingredients:
300 g small onions,
3-4 tablespoons Sahara,
1 tbsp butter,
2 tbsp vegetable oil,
2 tbsp wine vinegar
1 bay leaf
2 allspice peas,
3 cloves,
a pinch of salt.
Preparation:
Peel, rinse and dry the onion. Melt the butter in a skillet, add sugar and simmer over medium heat for about 6-7 minutes until caramelized. Place the onions in a skillet and fry on all sides until golden brown. Add spices and 5-6 tbsp. water, reduce heat and simmer for another 10-15 minutes. Place in a jar along with thickened sauce.
Onions in tomato sauce
Ingredients:
2-3 large onions,
2-3 tbsp quality tomato sauce or ketchup,
vegetable oil - for frying,
salt, sugar, red ground pepper - to taste.
Preparation:
Cut the peeled onion into rings (it is convenient to use a vegetable cutter). Pour vegetable oil into the pan (so that the bottom is completely covered), heat and place the onion rings. Stirring gently with a fork, trying not to tear the rings, simmer for 5 minutes until transparent, salt, add sugar to taste and red pepper. Simmer for another 5 minutes and place in a bowl. Add tomato sauce, stir with a fork and cover. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
Pickled cheese
Ingredients:
250 g cheese
1 lemon
1.5 tbsp liquid honey,
1 tbsp mixtures of dry herbs,
1 clove of garlic
100 ml olive oil
a pinch of hot red pepper.
Preparation:
Cut the cheese into cubes, remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice. Pass the garlic through a press. Combine all the ingredients for the marinade and pour over the cheese cubes. Refrigerate overnight.
Salted bacon pate with onions
Ingredients:
300 g salted lard,
½ - 1 stack. shelled walnuts,
1-2 tsp ground paprika,
1-2 tsp spices for meat (to taste and desire),
1-2 heads of garlic,
1 bunch of green onions.
Preparation:
Remove the skin from the bacon and shake off excess salt. Peel the garlic. Pass the walnuts and lard with garlic through a meat grinder, mix and scroll the mixture 2-3 more times. Mash lard with a fork and add chopped green onions and spices. Mix thoroughly with a fork until smooth and place in glass jars.
These are the picnic snacks you can prepare for a real outdoor feast! Just take care of safety: so that food does not spoil in the heat, wrap it in a blanket along with frozen drinks. Have an adequate supply of clean water or hand sanitizers. And remember the product compatibility rules. After all, the main dish on your picnic is still meat, and snacks play a secondary role.
Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!
Larisa Shuftaykina
Birthday barbecue snacks are the main filling of the festive table. Meat is a very satisfying product. Heavy side dishes are not suitable for him; therefore, the general impression of the holiday will depend on the appetizers.
Taking into account the peculiarities of such a feast, dishes should be prepared as simply and quickly as possible, and retain their original appearance for as long as possible. It is convenient to cook many snacks on the grill, between the preparation of barbecue portions.
The main decoration for snacks for meat, of course, will be greens. It is she who will refresh the dishes and give the spring mood a feast on the occasion of the name day.
How to make BBQ snacks for your birthday - 15 varieties
This multinational appetizer will brighten up a festive kebab and add vibrant colors to the table.
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.;
- Tomato 1 pc.;
- Garlic - 4 cloves;
- Chilli;
- Vegetable oil - 70 ml;
- Suluguni cheese - 70 gr;
- Cilantro - 5 g;
- Parsley - 5 gr;
- Dill 5 gr;
- Tomato paste - 25 gr;
- Water - 50 ml;
Preparation:
Coarsely chopped eggplant is fried in a frying pan preheated with oil. Add tomato and tomato paste with water to it, stew for several minutes.
Then, grated on a coarse grater suluguni cheese, chopped garlic, chopped herbs are poured.
Before pouring the finished snack into the jars, they are sterilized for 15 minutes. The product is stored for up to 2 weeks.
A broccoli appetizer with an unusual sauce will help make the festive table much healthier. The taste of the salad will be complemented by pine nuts.
Ingredients:
- Broccoli - 330 g;
- Shallot - 1 tbsp. l. (shredded);
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons l .;
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp l .;
- Dijon mustard - 1 tbsp l .;
- Fresh thyme - 2 tsp;
- Pine nuts - 2 tbsp l.
Preparation:
Broccoli is disassembled into inflorescences and steamed for up to 5 minutes, then transferred to a bowl.
Chopped shallots, lemon juice, mustard, thyme and olive oil are mixed separately. The dressing is added to the broccoli and sprinkled with pine nuts before serving.
Onions are a classic barbecue appetizer that will even suit the table on the occasion of the name day. Correctly pickled onions will appeal to all guests, without exception.
Ingredients:
- Onions - 3-4 pcs.;
- Vinegar;
- Sugar, salt;
- Sumac;
- Sunflower oil;
Preparation:
Cut the onion into half rings and moisten it with vinegar. Depending on taste preferences, add salt and sugar, sprinkle with a small amount of sumac and add a couple of drops of oil.
Fattoush is a traditional Lebanese salad. Its variation of fresh vegetables and lavash will be an excellent snack for a barbecue on your birthday.
Ingredients:
- Thin lavash - 1 pc.;
- Tomatoes - 200 g;
- Cucumbers - 200 g;
- Radish - 150 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 150 g;
- Red onion - 100 g;
- Garlic - 3 cloves;
- Romano salad - 100 g;
- Parsley - 7 g;
- Mint - 5 g;
- Olive oil - 70 ml;
- Lemon juice - 3 tablespoons;
- Black pepper, salt to taste.
Preparation:
You should start cooking "Fattush" by baking small pieces of lavash in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees.
While the pita bread is baking, the rest of the ingredients are prepared. Tomatoes, radishes, cucumbers, bell peppers, lettuce, mint and parsley are washed, and the onions are peeled. Everything is finely chopped. Garlic is passed through a press, mixed with oil, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Season the resulting mixture with vegetables and herbs.
Before serving, "Fattush" is sprinkled with golden pieces of lavash.
The dish is very simple to prepare and can replace the classic bread, which is eaten with barbecue. It can be served both warm and cold.
Ingredients:
- Ready yeast dough;
- Butter - 100 gr;
- Cheese - 200 gr;
- Egg - 2 pcs.;
- Greens;
- Garlic - 3 cloves.
Preparation:
Start by rolling out the dough. It is cut into ribbons 8-10 cm wide. The butter is softened a little in the microwave, garlic and herbs, cheese and a separately beaten egg are added to it. The resulting mass is lubricated on each tape.
The belts are folded like an accordion on an oiled baking sheet and allowed to rest for a couple of minutes. In the oven, bake until cooked at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Fans of spicy taste will appreciate the combination of kebabs with spicy pork ears.
Ingredients:
- Pork ears - 2 pcs.;
- Onions - 1 pc.;
- Vinegar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- Soy sauce - 2 tbsp l .;
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
- Coriander - 1 tbsp l .;
- Sugar - 1 tsp;
- Allspice - 1 tsp;
- Korean seasoning - 1 pack;
- Garlic -1 head;
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.;
- A mixture of peppers, salt - to taste;
Preparation:
If there are hairs on the ears, they are scorched and cleaned with a knife. The washed ears are boiled for 2 hours. After the first hour, a bay leaf, an onion, a clove of garlic, coriander, pepper, and salt are placed in the water to the ears.
The resulting broth will not be used in the recipe, but later on it can be used to make soup or jellied meat.
To prepare the marinade, garlic, coriander, vinegar, sugar, Korean seasoning and soy sauce are added to the vegetable oil.
After cooling, the ears are cut into thin strips and seasoned with marinade. The resulting dish is placed in the refrigerator for 24 hours, after which it can be served.
Lavash is the most common barbecue snack. We offer one of the most delicious options for serving it for the name day.
Ingredients:
- Pita;
- Mayonnaise - 100 gr;
- Hard cheese - 100 gr;
- Greens - 1 bunch;
- Processed cheese - 2-3 packs.
Preparation:
Cheese and curds are grated on a coarse grater. The greens are chopped and mixed with cheese and mayonnaise.
The resulting filling is wrapped in pita bread, fried on the grill, in the oven or in a pan.
Has the barbecue become free for a couple of minutes? This is a great excuse to make a quick corn and lime snack.
Ingredients:
- Corn - 5 pcs.;
- Lime - 2 pcs.;
- Salt to taste.
Preparation:
Corn of the same size is peeled and washed. You can fry on the grill or fire for about 5 minutes.
The cooked corn is rubbed with lime and salt to taste, served warm.
For those who want to spend minimal time and effort on preparing a snack, the best option would be a snack based on chips with a filling.
Ingredients:
- Greens;
- Crisps;
- Mayonnaise or sour cream - 100 gr;
- Cheese - 100 gr;
- Tomato -1 pc.
Preparation:
The greens are finely chopped, the cheese is rubbed on a medium grater, the tomato is finely chopped into cubes. Mix the prepared ingredients with mayonnaise or sour cream.
The largest and most flavorful chips are chosen for the snack. Before serving, each chip is filled with filling and the "boats" are laid out in a fan.
The dish turns out to be not only healthy, but also preserves the taste of fresh peppers. And it, in turn, is successfully complemented by carrots and tomatoes.
Ingredients:
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 kg;
- Carrots - 3 pcs.;
- Onions - 2 pcs.;
- Tomato paste - 50 gr;
- Salt and spices to taste.
Preparation:
The peppers are washed and baked on a baking sheet at 180 degrees for 40 minutes, alternately turning over.
To make the skin easier to remove from the pepper later, cover the hot baking sheet with a bag.
Chopped onions are fried for several minutes in a pan, then grated carrots are added to it and cooked for another 5 minutes.
Tomato paste with water, salt and spices are poured over the vegetables. The resulting mass is extinguished for another 15-20 minutes over low heat.
Peel the pepper, put it on a serving plate and put the resulting dressing on top.
What could be better than fresh vegetables for meat? Garlic sauce gives them a special taste.
Ingredients:
- Mayonnaise - 100 gr;
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- Dill, parsley, cilantro;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
- Cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
Preparation:
To make the sauce, mayonnaise is mixed with chopped dill and garlic pressed through a press.
The vegetables are coarsely chopped and placed on a serving plate. Put sauce and bunches of greens in the center.
You can use any seasonal vegetables to prepare the snack.
An unusual way to serve pickles is to fry them in batter. The guests have definitely not tried this yet!
Ingredients:
- Pickled cucumbers - 400 gr;
- Vegetable oil - 200 gr;
- Kefir - 100 ml;
- Flour - 60 gr;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Salt, pepper and Italian herbs to taste.
Preparation:
Kefir is allowed to stand with soda for 5 minutes. After that, they drive an egg into it and, adding flour, beat the dough together with spices and salt.
Sliced pickles are placed in batter, and immediately after - in a hot pan. After frying, be sure to blot the cucumbers with a paper towel to remove excess fat.
A variant of the vegetable mix "Mangal" can be served both warm and cold. It goes well with meat and will decorate the festive table with bright colors.
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 4 pcs.;
- Tomato - 4 pcs.;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.;
- Onions - 1 pc.;
- Vegetable oil;
- Greens;
- Basil;
- Vinegar;
- Salt and pepper to taste;
Preparation:
Washed vegetables are cooked over an open fire and then peeled. Chop the greens and basil finely, chop the cooled vegetables into small pieces, removing the cores and draining the excess juice.
The garlic passed through a press is added to the herbs, the vegetables are poured into it. For dressing, use a mixture of vinegar with oil, salt and pepper.
Sandwiches with cheese and avocado will be able to set off the taste of barbecue in a special way. And they will also make the festive table more satisfying.
Ingredients:
- Hard cheese - 50 gr:
- Avocado - 1 pc.:
- Dill;
- White bread;
- Black pepper.
Preparation:
To begin with, cut the bread, chop the dill, rub the cheese on a medium grater. Peel the avocado, take out the pit and cut into slices half a centimeter in thickness.
On each slice of bread, put one plate of avocado, sprinkle it with dill, black pepper and cheese. If desired, you can repeat the layers several times. The sandwiches are served warm.
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 2 pcs.;
- Cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- Olives - 100 gr;
- Hard cheese - 100 gr;
- Vegetable oil - 100 gr;
- Garlic - 3 cloves;
- Greenery for decoration;
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
Eggplants are washed and cut into ovals up to 10 mm thick, placed in a container and sprinkled with salt. The released juice can be blotted with a napkin, then spread with a little oil and spread on a baking sheet. Eggplants are baked at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
At this time, other vegetables are cut into slices.
For serving, lay eggplants on a flat dish, on top of them tomatoes, cucumbers, halves of olives. Slightly grease the resulting "sandwiches" with mayonnaise with garlic. Decorate the dish with herbs.
Delicious food and cheerful company are the main components of a good holiday. Any housewife on the eve of the celebration asks the question of what to cook for a birthday in the summer? Especially if the celebration takes place in the bosom of nature. This wonderful time of the year gives us fresh, ripe fruits and vegetables, but of course, we can't do without meat either. There are many menu options. The main thing is to choose dishes that will suit the taste of both large and small guests.
Hot Summer
The lucky ones who were born in the summer do not experience any particular problems with the selection of dishes for the celebration. The best option is to go to barbecue. To do this, you need to take care of the most important thing in advance - meat! The traditional pork kebab marinated with onions and vinegar is already pretty boring. And children do not need such a dish at all. "And what to cook for your birthday in the summer outdoors?" - you ask. There is a wide variety of meat marinades.
Piquant sourness
If the holiday is planned on a budget, the pickles on the table are canceled. The main dish will be a fragrant, piquant shish kebab made from chicken and pork fillets. Meat should be immersed in the marinade 12 hours before frying. To prepare an exquisite shish kebab, you will need a kilogram of kiwi, salt, curry. Cut the meat into small portions. Put in a deep bowl, add a little salt and sprinkle with a thin layer of curry. Now you need the main, secret ingredient - juicy kiwi fruits. Finely chop the green fruits and add them to the cooked meat. After three to four hours, you need to mix all the ingredients well and leave in the refrigerator for a few more hours. When the coals are hot enough, place the fragrant pieces of meat on the barbecue net and fry until tender. Incredibly soft and juicy kebab is ready! Such exotic marinated meat needs a salad to match.
Cheese cloud
A light salad with an exquisite taste will complement the meat with sourness. Now you will not think about what to cook for your birthday in hot summer. Cut one ripe orange into cubes and discard in a colander. The excess juice will drain and then the salad will not float. Put the dehydrated orange on a dish, put a layer of finely chopped quail eggs on top. Salt quite a bit, one pinch will be enough. Now you should coat the egg pillow with a thin layer of light mayonnaise. From above, like a cloud, cover the salad with a fur coat of grated hard cheese. You can decorate the salad with orange slices. Such products that do not go well together will give you an unforgettable taste and enjoyment.
Variegated appetizer
What to cook for your birthday in the summer as a snack? The answer is very simple. Skewered vegetables are a simple but delicious dish. Chop tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, zucchini, potatoes and mushrooms into large pieces. Skewer or skewer each vegetable in turn and send it straight to the grill. There is no need to pre-salt and pepper, the guests themselves will add seasonings to taste. Such beautiful and tasty skewers will decorate and diversify the table. After all, the notorious sliced cucumbers and tomatoes can be eaten at home. Now you don't have to think about what to cook for your child's birthday in the summer. Kids will sweep such bright skewers in a minute. Just be sure to exclude mushrooms from them!
Delicious chicken
Summer is a wonderful time, filled with aromas of ripe fruits, vegetables, and the scent of flowers. Lightness is felt in everything and everywhere. Fatty, nutritious foods just don't go into your mouth. If a solemn moment is approaching, and you do not know what to cook for your birthday in the summer in nature, opt for stuffed chicken thighs on the grill. The workpiece can be done at home, but if it is not possible, you can do everything on the spot. We will start the hips with herbs and garlic. Finely cut everything in a bunch: dill, regan, cilantro. Then grind the head of garlic, add a few tablespoons of mayonnaise or sour cream and mix thoroughly. Fragrant minced meat is ready. We cut the thigh of the chicken, as if we were making a pocket, and put a spoonful of minced herbal meat in it. The chicken should lie down for forty minutes and absorb the smell of herbs and garlic. Now you can send meat to coals. In ten minutes the guests will salivate from the aromas exuding the meat.
It is better to serve fresh vegetables and an unusual salad with such a dish.
Orange mood
Now you need to decide what to cook for your birthday in the summer with fragrant chicken thighs. A light salad works well. Put the vegetables in heaps on a large round plate, and pour the sauce in the middle. The salad will turn out to be colorful and delicious. Observing the order of the piles, lay out green peas, corn, Korean carrots, finely chopped cabbage, beets. One pile of greens is a must. Pour mayonnaise seasoned with garlic in the middle. The salad is mixed in front of the guests when serving. It turns out delicious, spectacular and unusual.
Home holiday
The fashionable trend of the season is to serve okroshka on the festive table! But not simple, but slightly modernized. Do not rack your brains on what to cook for your birthday in the summer at home - cut okroshka. You will need boiled eggs, radish, cucumber, boiled chicken fillet, a set of herbs, kefir and narzan. Finely chop all ingredients and put in a deep saucepan. Salt, pepper and fill it all with kefir and narzan in a one-to-one ratio. The dish should be slightly infused in the refrigerator. A luxurious dinner will delight all guests without exception. Okroshka is especially good in summer heat!
Small guests are very difficult to please. But knowing the recipe for such okroshka, you don't have to think about what to cook for a birthday in the summer for children!
Gift for those with a sweet tooth
But don't forget the dessert for the little ones. Not everyone is allowed to eat ice cream, so opt for fruit jelly. A bright glass of jelly will cool the ardor of the children and give them new strength for playing in the fresh air.
Buy instant gelatin to make jelly. One glass of compote has a teaspoon of gelatin. Bring this mixture to a near boil and remove from the stove. Pour a handful of pitted raspberries and cherries into a glass or plastic glass. Now fill this whole fruit cocktail with boiled jelly. Leave it in the refrigerator overnight. Garnish the jelly with berries and a mint leaf before serving.
Fish platter
The fish day Thursday has long been forgotten by everyone. And very much in vain. Try to revive the tradition and serve a fish menu to your guests. You won't have any problems thinking about what to cook for your birthday in the summer quickly and tasty. We free the carcass of raw mackerel from the entrails, rinse and put two slices of lemon and a sprig of dill in the belly. Salt the fish well and seal in foil. We carry out the same manipulations with pollock and several pieces of fillet of any sea fish. We send this whole company, wrapped in foil, to coals. The fish is baked for about half an hour. Unroll the shiny rolls gently and place the fish on a platter. Everyone will like this assortment, offer the fillets to the children. Now you know what to cook for your birthday in the summer. Photos will help you festively decorate and serve the table. Guests will be amazed at your culinary skills, although everything is as easy as shelling pears. The fish will turn out to be incredibly tasty!
We do not break traditions
Complementing fish Thursday - cod liver salad. Set aside the puff boring salad for later. Gently chop the cod liver and put it in a deep dish, add a jar of canned corn and a few chopped potatoes here. Don't forget to add the finely chopped onion. You can season the salad with the oil left over from the liver. The neighbors will come running to the smell of such a salad! Here's what to cook for your birthday in summer!
Everyone's favorite
You rarely meet a person who doesn't like potatoes. All dishes are good from this delicious vegetable. But potatoes baked in foil are the best you can think of. Wash large potatoes thoroughly with a sponge. Carefully cut the potato in half and insert a generous piece of bacon into the cut. Now we wrap the potatoes well in a foil coat and send them to bake. Here's what to cook for your birthday in the summer quickly and tasty. The potatoes are very tasty and beautiful. It is very convenient to eat it - unfolding the foil, slightly nip the potatoes with a fork and salt! Delicious hot appetizer served!
Gatherings in the yard
At home, in your favorite kitchen, you want to cook and create! There are no restrictions here. Try to surprise your guests with festive cutlets from Coco Chanel herself. Pour a liter of milk into a saucepan and add the onion sautéed in butter. Cook over low heat for ten minutes, then pour four dessert spoons of flour into the pan. Cook for about forty minutes until the consistency of sour cream. Finely chop the pre-cooked chicken breast or divide it into fibers by hand. We put the meat in the cooked sauce and mix thoroughly. You can add spices and herbs to taste. This is your imagination. Now form small balls, roll them in breadcrumbs and deep-fry them! Having tried these cutlets once, you will never again think about what to cook for your birthday in the summer at home. The balls are appetizing, tender and very tasty!
Experiment, create masterpieces, surprise and indulge your loved ones with delicious food!