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What to cook for February 23 on the table. Roast pork in sweet glaze with beer

On International Defender of the Fatherland Day, it is customary to give gifts to the representatives of the stronger sex, the most courageous and courageous. This day has long been a real men's holiday. Every woman on this day also tries to feed her protector well, to surprise and conquer with her culinary masterpiece. After all, it is not for nothing that there is a saying that the way to a man's heart lies through his stomach. So what is delicious to cook for your men on February 23?

Meat dishes

Most men are quite predictable in food: they just love meat dishes. Beef steak, pork chops, spicy homemade boiled pork under a mustard crust, dumplings will delight and delight any man. On a holiday on February 23, you need to take into account the preferences of your defender and cook something extraordinary.

Beefsteak for a real man

  • two pieces of beef tenderloin, approximately two hundred grams each;
  • half a glass of dry red wine;
  • two tablespoons of olive oil;
  • 80 grams of butter;
  • rosemary and salt to taste;
  • 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel)
  • ground black pepper.

Cooking process:

  1. Wash the meat pieces well and pat dry. Grate them with pepper, salt, herbs.
  2. Heat a frying pan, add olive oil or butter. Fry the meat on both sides over high heat for just a minute. Then reduce the gas and fry over low heat each side for another seven to eight minutes.
  3. Put the finished meat on a hot plate.
  4. Add the unpeeled garlic cloves to the pan where the meat was fried and bring the sauce to a boil. Then pour over the cooked meat.
  5. Beefsteak for a real man is ready. Can be served at the table.

For cooking we need:

  • kilogram of pork tenderloin;
  • about a kilogram of potatoes;
  • two bulbs;
  • two tablespoons of mayonnaise;
  • seasonings to taste;
  • salt, ground pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. Rinse pork tenderloin thoroughly with water, dry. Then salt, pepper, add seasonings. Spread with mayonnaise.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, put the meat to bake for about an hour.
  3. Peel potatoes and onions. Cut the potatoes into large cubes, the onion a little smaller. Fry potatoes and onions in a pan until golden brown.
  4. Then send the potatoes and onions to the oven for half an hour.
  5. Cut the finished meat and serve with potatoes, after decorating with herbs.

For cooking we need:

  • beef tenderloin;
  • flour;
  • sour cream-tomato sauce (a glass of sour cream, a tablespoon of flour, 1-2 tablespoons of tomato ketchup or juice).

Cooking process:

  1. Rinse the meat, dry and beat off. Cut into rectangles 5 cm long and 1 cm thick. Thin strips from 0.5 mm to a centimeter thick are cut from these rectangles. The meat is cut across the grain.
  2. Bread the pieces in flour and fry in a hot frying pan until shiny. Do not fry further, otherwise the meat will harden. Fry the onion in a skillet until golden brown.
  3. Then put the meat in a frying pan and pour over the sour cream and tomato sauce. Stew the meat for half an hour over medium heat.
  4. Beef stroganoff served with fried potatoes, tomato. It is recommended to consume the dish hot so that it does not lose its taste.

Fish dishes

Fish meat has a high nutritional value. It is perfectly absorbed by the body, besides it is very tasty. Fish can be fried, steamed, with vegetables, grilled, stuffed. Prepare an original fish dish on February 23, and your man will definitely appreciate it.

To prepare the dish we need:

  • 1200 grams of pollock;
  • a teaspoon of sugar;
  • 300 grams of carrots;
  • 500 ml of tomato juice;
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic;
  • two bulbs;
  • salt, pepper, herbs, olive oil to taste;
  • dill.

The process of preparing a fish dish:

  1. Rinse the fish, dry, cut off the fins.
  2. Wash and peel the carrots, cut them into rings.
  3. Heat up a frying pan and fry the onions and carrots.
  4. Salt the fish, roll in flour and fry on both sides until golden brown.
  5. Take part of the carrots with onions from the pan, put the fish there and cover with the second part of the vegetables.
  6. Prepare tomato sauce. Mix tomato juice with crushed garlic, pepper, seasonings, salt. Pour the fish with vegetables and simmer under a closed lid for forty minutes over low heat.
  7. Our original fish dish is ready.

To prepare this delicious dish, we need:

  • salmon steaks approximately 170 grams each;
  • 1.5 st. spoons of olive oil;
  • two cloves of minced garlic;
  • ½ teaspoon grated ginger;
  • a tablespoon of mustard;
  • a third of a glass of lemon juice;
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper.

Cooking process:

  1. Combine oil, mustard, lemon juice, ginger, garlic, sugar and red pepper in a small glass bowl.
  2. Put the salmon pieces in a bowl and refrigerate for an hour. Take the fish out of the fridge, turn it over and let it rest for another hour.
  3. Preheat grill to medium heat.
  4. Remove fish from marinade, drain excess liquid.
  5. Grill the steaks over medium heat for about seven minutes on each side. The finished fish should be easily pierced with a fork.
  6. Our delicious dish is ready. Can be served with vegetables.

Holiday salads

When laying the table on February 23, you need to pay attention not only to hot dishes and snacks, but also to original and tasty salads that men adore. As a rule, these are hearty dishes with meat, seafood, fish, ham, which can serve as a side dish or as a snack for various drinks.

Festive salad "Tank"

To prepare this dish we need:

  • 300 grams of chicken fillet;
  • 200 grams of pitted olives;
  • 100 grams of curd cheese;
  • 100 grams of mayonnaise;
  • 50 grams of vegetable oil;
  • two fresh cucumbers;
  • two celery;
  • pepper, salt to taste;
  • half an apple and a lemon.

Manufacturing process:

  1. Wash the chicken fillet, pat dry. finely chop and fry in vegetable oil until tender. Then put it on a paper towel to remove excess fat. Drizzle with lemon juice and place on a round plate in the first layer.
  2. Wash the cucumbers, remove the peel and cut into strips. Put the cucumbers in a second layer on the chicken. Brush thoroughly with mayonnaise.
  3. Finely chop the celery and put on the cucumbers, smeared with mayonnaise.
  4. Then cut the apple into strips, pour over the lemon juice.
  5. Top with cream cheese.
  6. Put the tank out of the olives cut into rings.
  7. Let the salad soak well. Our festive dish on Defender of the Fatherland Day is ready.

For cooking we need:

  • chicken fillet;
  • ham;
  • potato;
  • green onions;
  • cucumbers;
  • rye crackers;
  • mayonnaise to taste;
  • salt, pepper, mustard to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. Boil chicken fillet. Cut into strips.
  2. Cut a piece of ham into strips.
  3. Boil a couple of potatoes and finely chop into cubes.
  4. Take green onion and finely chop.
  5. Wash the cucumbers, peel and cut into strips.
  6. In a glass salad bowl, lay out two tablespoons of chicken fillet in layers, grease with mayonnaise mixed with mustard.
  7. We spread two tablespoons of chopped cucumbers and again grease with mayonnaise.
  8. Next, put two tablespoons of chopped potatoes. Coat with mayonnaise.
  9. After that, put two tablespoons of onions. Mayonnaise.
  10. Next, lay out two tablespoons of chopped ham. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
  11. Top with rye crackers (two tablespoons).
  12. Our cocktail salad should soak a little and can be served at the table.

To prepare this original masterpiece, we need:

  • chicken fillet;
  • Red caviar;
  • hard cheese;
  • sweet and sour apple;
  • mayonnaise.

Manufacturing process:

  1. Boil chicken fillet, finely chop, mix with mayonnaise and put on a star-shaped dish.
  2. Peel the apple, finely chop and lay out the next layer.
  3. Grate hard cheese and put on apples. Lubricate with mayonnaise.
  4. Put red caviar on top. It can also be replaced with boiled beets or carrots.
  5. On the sides of the plate, you can beautifully lay out the greens.
  6. Our original salad is ready.

Festive dessert

And, of course, I want to treat my defenders on February 23 with something sweet during a tea party. Here, every hostess can show all her culinary skills and imagination, delight and surprise with her masterpieces.

To prepare a sweet dessert, we need:

  • half a glass of flour;
  • a glass of sugar;
  • two eggs;
  • bitter chocolate bar;
  • 150 grams of oil;
  • a teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
  • some salt;
  • cream: beat 100 grams of butter and condensed milk.

Cooking process:

  1. Break the chocolate into small pieces and melt it in a water bath.
  2. Add vanilla sugar to the melted chocolate mass and slowly add one egg at a time, stirring constantly.
  3. Pour flour, salt, sugar into the chocolate mass, mix thoroughly.
  4. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 180 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with oil, cover with baking paper. Pour out the dough. Bake thirty minutes. The crust must cool down.
  5. In the meantime, prepare the cream. To do this, beat the butter with condensed milk well and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
  6. Cut the cake into rectangles the size of army shoulder straps. Round off the corners on one end.
  7. Fill a pastry bag with cream, put a thin nozzle. Apply with cream the necessary military insignia. Spread the rest of the cookies with cream and fold in two rows.
  8. Our themed cookies are ready.

Let's start with not tricky, but very tasty snacks. For example, let's cook tartlets. If you are preparing snacks for a small buffet at work, buy ready-made tartlets and prepare the filling at home. You can start tartlets with your favorite salad or pate. As an alternative, we will make crispy crostini with tomatoes and feta. For them, fry slices of loaf in a toaster or in a dry frying pan.

Your men will love it for sure. You can also add chicken pieces to skewers. This appetizer can be served both hot and cold. And ready-made puff pastry will significantly speed up the process of preparing such an appetizer.

Most often searched for salad recipes. Please note that you can sort the types of salad recipes in the menu on the right - with meat, with chicken, without mayonnaise, etc. Perhaps for men, I recommend cooking puff salad with mushrooms, usually it is the first to disappear from the table.

Meatloaf with eggs is very easy to make. You will need ready-made puff pastry, minced meat and boiled eggs. As a result, you will get a tender and juicy meatloaf in a crispy dough, incredibly smelling. Seems difficult? Not at all. Even a schoolboy will prepare such a roll, and without reading the baking time, you will spend no more than 20-30 minutes preparing it.

But chicken stuffed with pancakes is an unusually spectacular holiday dish, but it requires certain culinary skills. This chicken will decorate any table. Surprisingly tasty and spectacular in the cut, it will surprise even the most picky eaters.

You can't do without a hearty side dish for men. I recommend cooking gratin, fragrant cheese crust will clearly pave the way to the heart of your men. To shorten the cooking time, you can boil the potatoes a little first. This trick will save you an extra 40 minutes of cooking in the oven.

If your men have a sweet tooth, when planning what to cook on February 23, do not forget about dessert. You can find many cake recipes on my website. I recommend making an uncomplicated, but very effective cherry-chocolate cake. Cherry and chocolate is perhaps the most delicious dessert you can think of.

Everyone knows that men love to eat delicious food. And of course everyone knows that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Is this really so, you be the judge. But any woman wants to cook delicious food for the most important men's holiday on February 23. And I think not so much to pave the way, but simply because all of us women love our men very much. Therefore, we want to feed them deliciously every day, and even more so on holidays.

On the festive table on Defender of the Fatherland Day, you need to cook what men like to eat. What do they love?

It is generally accepted that men prefer meat to all other dishes. It is true, but no less than that they love poultry, fish, pasta, dumplings, pies, pancakes, hamburgers ... In addition, I will tell you a secret, they also have a big sweet tooth, although they try to hide it carefully. In general, I think that men just love delicious food, and it can be completely different.

Therefore, preparing for the holiday, you can cook any food, you just need to do it with love, with desire, sometimes with creativity, and always with a good mood!

And today's menu is made up of the simplest and no less delicious recipes, according to which it will not be difficult to cook. And it won't take too long either. These recipes are perfect for both the holiday and the weekday.

It's no secret that almost all men love hamburgers. Therefore, for breakfast, we prepare this simple and delicious foreign sandwich.


We will need:

  • smoked, boiled, baked meat (any) - 500 - 600 gr
  • buns with sesame seeds for a hamburger - 3 - 4 pcs
  • cucumber - 1 pc.
  • lettuce

For sauce:

  • egg - 2 pcs
  • olives - 10 -15 pcs
  • parsley - 3 - 4 sprigs
  • mayonnaise - 3 - 4 tbsp. spoons

Cooking:

1. First we need to boil the eggs for the sauce. They should not be cooked for long, as they boil, only two minutes. In finished form, they should be with a liquid yolk inside. After they are cooked, lower them into cold water so that they cool as quickly as possible, otherwise the liquid yolk will not work.

2. In the meantime, the eggs are boiled and cooled, let's take care of the buns. We cut them in half and fry in a hot pan without oil until golden brown.



3. You can use any meat - pork, beef, chicken, turkey will do. When you go to the refrigerator in the meat department, you always look at the appearance of the meat. So here is what we liked from that and we will cook. I liked the turkey. It is not greasy, not dry, slightly smoked and very tasty. So the hamburger will be the same.

If I have time and minced meat, then I fry special flat cutlets. I make them thin, and thanks to this they fry very quickly. Then the burgers are obtained, as in McDonald's.

But today is a quick recipe using cooked meat. We need to cut it into flat pieces, as for sandwiches. For one bun, count on 3 - 4 pieces 0.5 cm thick. Yes, not one at a time, but exactly 4, we are preparing - after all, for the holiday!

4. Cucumbers cut into thin slices. Wash lettuce leaves and pat dry with paper towels.

5. Prepare the sauce. Break the eggs with a fork. Grind greens and olives, by the way, they can be replaced with capers. Mix all ingredients.



6. Put the sauce on the bottom of the bun.


Put meat on it in a random order, cucumbers and greens on top. Cover with the top of the bun.



7. Serve with tea or coffee. Whether cold or hot. But always with good and warm words and wishes. Eat with pleasure!

Optionally, in the middle you can put a circle of tomato, bell pepper.

Hot dog in a hurry

A homemade hot dog is always tastier than store-bought. And you can cook it very quickly, especially if you buy everything you need ahead of time.


We will need:

  • hot dog buns - 3-4 pieces
  • sausages - 3 - 4 pieces
  • or any smoked and boiled - smoked meat, or chicken - 300 gr
  • tomato - 1 - 2 pcs
  • cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs
  • cheese - 200 - 300 gr
  • ketchup spicy
  • salad

Cooking:

1. Cut the hot dog bun on one side so that it is convenient to put the filling in it.

2. Wash and dry cucumbers and tomatoes. Then cut them into slices. Cheese cut into slices of the same size.

3. For hot dogs, sausages are usually used, they must be of good quality. Unfortunately these are hard to find these days. Therefore, I will not use sausages, but smoked chicken breast. Here you can already see exactly what is in the composition. Cut the breast as desired, either into strips, or, as I do, into a long layer about 1 cm thick.

4. Put a lettuce leaf, meat or sausage in a bun, then vegetables, cheese and pour ketchup on top. If a man likes spicy food, then it is best to add spicy ketchup.


Unfortunately, I didn’t have lettuce leaves at that time, so for color and aroma, I put a sprig of dill. But, I promise that I will prepare better for the holiday.

5. Put in the microwave or oven, heat until the cheese is melted.

6. Serve with hot tea or coffee.

Hot sandwich with cheese, meat and vegetables

Hot cheese sandwiches are one of the simplest and most delicious. And for the holiday, you can diversify it by adding meat, vegetables and an egg. In addition, you can cook it from bread crumbs. What is not a replacement for foreign fast food.

We will need:

  • bread crumbs - 3 - 4 pcs.
  • meat any smoked or smoked - boiled - 300 gr
  • boiled egg - 1 - 2 pcs.
  • cheese - 100 gr
  • cucumber - 1 - 2 pcs.
  • tomato - 1 - 2 pcs.
  • radish - 3 - 4 pcs.
  • salad
  • ketchup - optional

Cooking:

1. Wash vegetables, pat dry with paper towels and cut into slices or half slices. So that they can be conveniently laid out on the edges.

2. You can take any meat for sandwiches, the one that is in the refrigerator, or the one you buy. I use boiled smoked beef for sandwiches. We cut it into a large flat piece about 1 cm thick.

3. Peel the egg and cut it into flat slices as well. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

4. Put all the ingredients in any order on the bottom of the crust.


I laid out in this sequence - cucumber, tomato, meat, radish, egg, cheese. You can add spicy ketchup to the middle, if desired.


5. Cover with the top of the crust and bake in the microwave until the cheese spreads and soaks all layers.


6. Serve with tea or coffee.

All these Russian and non-Russian sandwiches for breakfast were invariably met with delight! Therefore, you can safely cook, men will certainly appreciate it!

Vegetables and meat can be wrapped in pita bread, and then breakfast can be served. This is one of the favorite men's dishes.

However, breakfast can be cooked and more complicated! For example, you can cook pancakes. A large number of recipes are given in a special article. But today we will cook them according to the recipe, which is not in this article. My husband loves this dish very much.

Pancake pie with butter and eggs

We will need:

  • flour - 1.5 cups
  • milk - 500 ml
  • eggs - 3 pcs
  • vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
  • sugar - 0.5 tbsp. spoons
  • salt - 0.5 tsp

For filling:

  • butter - 100 gr
  • eggs - 3 pcs
  • salt - to taste
  • berries or fruits for garnish

Cooking:

1. Mix eggs with a fork, add milk, salt and add sugar. Mix thoroughly until smooth.

2. Sift the flour into a deep bowl and gradually pour the liquid component into it, mixing thoroughly. Pour half first, mix until the lumps disappear. Then, continuing to stir, pour in the remaining part. You can use a whisk for this.

3. When the mixture becomes homogeneous and completely ready, add the oil, and mix again.

4. Let the dough stand for 20 minutes, then grease the pan with oil and bake pancakes.

5. While the pancakes are baking, melt the butter in a water bath and beat the eggs into it. Salt and stir.

6. When all the pancakes are ready, let's start collecting the pie.

7. Put one pancake on the bottom of the pan, brush it with butter and egg. Then put the next pancake and grease it. And so, spread until the pancakes run out.

8. You can cut the cake into 4 parts, or leave it whole. Cover with foil. Put in a hot oven for 20 minutes.

Or leave it in the pan. Cover with a lid and put on a very slow fire for 15 minutes.

During this time, the pancakes will be soaked with butter and egg and will be very tasty. If you simmer them in a pan, then the bottom pancake will be baked, it will become fried and crispy. This is my husband's favorite.


Decorate the top of the pancake pie with any fruit or berries, canned.

This is a recipe that is called in Russian. But you can cook with a foreign accent.

French pancakes "Suzette"

We will need:

  • cream 10% - 350 ml
  • wheat flour - 350 gr
  • eggs - 6 pcs
  • sugar - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
  • salt - a pinch
  • liquor - 0.5 cups
  • butter
  • Orange juice

Cooking:

1. Sift flour, mix with eggs, salt and sugar. Gradually pour in the cream, while stirring continuously.

2. When the mass becomes homogeneous, put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

3. Bake thin pancakes. Each roll up or just fold in four.

4. Warm orange juice in a water bath, pour into a gravy boat.

5. When serving, drizzle with melted butter, liqueur and orange juice.


This is such a simple and delicious recipe. And with such a name, it will be a real surprise for all men.

Another great breakfast idea is this. I already told how to cook it in one of the articles using the example of 22 recipes. Therefore, in order not to repeat myself, I propose to cook today a frittata, or an omelet in Italian.

Italian frittata with mushrooms and spinach

Frittata is cooked first in a frying pan, and then comes to readiness in the oven. Various vegetables and ingredients can be used as fillings. As well as in, but the cooking technology must be observed.


We will need:

  • eggs - 4 - 5 pcs
  • champignons - 200 gr
  • spinach (can be frozen) - 150 gr
  • hard cheese - 50 gr
  • sour cream - 4 tbsp. spoons
  • onion - leek, or regular - 0.5 pcs
  • salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Finely chop the mushrooms, cut the onion into small cubes. In Italy, leeks are used, they are more tender and not as bitter. So see for yourself which one you will use.

2. Fry the onion in a small amount of vegetable oil until it is slightly softened and browned. Add mushrooms and simmer all together for 5 minutes.


3. Add spinach, and simmer all together for another 3 - 4 minutes. If there is no spinach, it is still winter, then you can add parsley. It will also be delicious.

4. Beat eggs with sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. Then add grated cheese to the mixture. In Italy they use parmesan, but we use Russian hard cheese.

5. Add spinach with mushrooms and onions to the egg mixture, mix everything.


Pour into prepared and oiled baking dish. And you can, as I bake in muffin molds.


6. Bake the frittata in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

7. Ready-made frittata exceeds all the wildest expectations in terms of taste. Delicious, incomparable to anything, and very satisfying!


As mentioned above, you can use tomatoes, bell peppers, and even boiled potatoes left over from dinner as a filling. Everything that only suffices your imagination.

So, we got a pretty extensive breakfast. When I cooked such breakfasts, all my family refused lunch and we had an early dinner that day. That's why I won't stop for lunch. But still, if you decide to cook it, I highly recommend thick soups of oriental cuisine - or. All my male acquaintances always eat them with pleasure.


Well, or if, for some reason, you won’t cook oriental soups, cook Russian or cook. All men also love them and always eat with pleasure.

In the meantime, I propose to move on to the evening program. Where I will also offer some simple and delicious homemade recipes. I prepared two different salads especially for the holiday, and I propose to start with them.

Salad "Gift" with chicken and mushrooms

This salad is primarily striking in its beauty when served. And then the taste. It is prepared very simply and quite quickly. Therefore, I highly recommend it. He will not leave anyone indifferent.

We will need:

  • boiled chicken fillet or meat - 250 gr
  • canned or fried mushrooms - 250 gr
  • boiled eggs - 3 pcs
  • small apples - 2 - 3 pcs
  • onion - 1 pc.
  • boiled carrots - 1 pc.
  • melted cheese - 100 gr
  • mayonnaise - 200 gr (but less can be)
  • apple cider vinegar - 1 teaspoon
  • liquid honey - 1 teaspoon
  • salt - to taste

For decoration:

  • cucumber - 1 pc.
  • parsley - 1 - 2 sprigs (or lettuce leaves)

Cooking:

1. Peel the chicken breast and cut into small pieces, you can also cook from boiled beef.

2. Cut the onion into half rings and pour boiling water over it. Leave for 15 minutes to release the bitterness. Then drain the boiling water and rinse the onion with cold water.

3. Let the water drain, then pour apple cider vinegar, add honey, a little salt and mix. Leave the onion to marinate.

4. Put the chopped meat or breast into a large flat plate in the form of a square.


Next lay out the pickled onions.


5. Grind pickled mushrooms. And put it on the next layer.


If the mushrooms are frozen, then they can be fried along with part of the onion, cut into cubes.

6. Grate carrots on a coarse grater and put on mushrooms. This layer should be smeared with mayonnaise.


7. Peel the apples and rub on a coarse grater and lay out the next layer. So that they do not darken, also lightly grease them with mayonnaise.


8. Peel and separate boiled eggs into proteins and yolks. Rub the yolk on a fine grater and put on a layer of mayonnaise.

9. Processed cheese can also be rubbed, you can on a coarse grater and put on the yolks. To make it easier to rub the cheese, you need to hold it for some time in the freezer.


10. This layer must also be smeared with mayonnaise, and not only the top, but also the side walls should be smeared.

11. Rub the protein on a medium grater and put it on top and on the sides.

12. In order to decorate the salad with festive ribbons, we need a knife for cleaning and slicing vegetables and a medium-length cucumber. With a knife it is necessary to cut thin long cucumber plates in the amount of 5 - 6 pieces.

13. Decorate the salad, as if we were tying a gift with ribbons.


14. Tear off leaves from parsley or lettuce and decorate on four sides.

15. Let stand in the refrigerator for 1 - 2 hours so that the salad is soaked, then serve to the table to the admiration of all those present.

16. Eat with pleasure!

As you can see, the salad turned out very beautiful, as well as very tasty!

Salad "Star" on February 23

I thought for a long time what to come up with a themed salad, and did not find anything better in design than a star. As they say, it turned out simply, but with taste. Such a salad can be prepared using any of those that you like as a base. I took it as a basis, everyone certainly loves it.

We will need (for a small portion, for about 4 people):

  • canned saury - 1 can (or other fish)
  • boiled potatoes - 2 pcs
  • boiled carrots - 2 pcs
  • boiled egg - 2 pcs
  • mayonnaise - to taste
  • pomegranate for decoration
  • lettuce leaves - for decoration


Cooking:

1. Peel vegetables and eggs. Grate vegetables on a coarse grater. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. And rub on a fine grater.

2. Put the lettuce leaves in a large flat plate as a base and decoration for the salad.

3. Put the grated potatoes in the first layer, giving it the shape of a star. This will take most of the cooked potatoes, leaving a smaller part for the next layer.


4. Open a jar of saury, put 2/3 of the jar without juice into a separate bowl and mash with a fork. Since the salad is small, there will be a lot of the whole jar. But sometimes there is more liquid in the jar than fish. In this case, use the entire saury.

You can use not only saury, but also any canned fish. And you can also take boiled, fried. baked or salted fish, such as red. In this case, the salad will actually turn out to be festive.

5. Put the fish on a layer of potatoes, keeping the shape of a star.


6. Lay out the remaining potatoes with the next layer. And although it is quite a bit for a layer, it is quite enough to partially cover the fish and pour it all over with 3 teaspoons of fish juice from a jar. Less mayonnaise.


7. The next layer of carrots. This layer should be smeared with a small amount of mayonnaise. It's a matter of taste here, someone likes salads with a lot of it, someone with less. Therefore, coat the layers to your liking.


8. Then egg white. We also grease this layer with mayonnaise.


9. Well, the yolk will go with the last layer. We distribute it by star. We try to sprinkle the side walls as much as possible.

10. Decorate as you wish. You can get creative with decorations. Lay out, for example, not only the number 23, but also all the side walls with pomegranate seeds.


If you make a salad with red salted fish, then you can decorate with red caviar. Such a salad can be called the “General Star”, and in this case, the husband should be addressed only as “My General!”

You can think in advance and come up with some original salad design of your own, this will be a special sign of attention on this day!

By the way, in our family it always enjoys great success, it is beautiful and very tasty. True, it will take a little more time to prepare it, and it should be infused for 10 - 12 hours, but you can cook it in advance. And then there will be more time to prepare the main dish.


If these salad ideas are not enough, because it’s quite difficult to offer more of them in one article, then follow the link where they are given a wide variety. There will be.

The same goes for snacks, you will find simple and easy-to-prepare snacks.

And I suggest moving on to the main dishes.

Armenian plov with dried fruits

Almost all men love pilaf, I know this firsthand. I often cook pilaf and often for various holidays and events. There are several on my blog pages. If you wish, follow any of the proposed recipes and you will cook such pilaf as real Uzbeks cook it.

But in order not to repeat myself, today I want to offer a version of the Armenian holiday pilaf with dried fruits. I hope that this pilaf will find its admirers.

We will need:

  • rice - 2 cups
  • raisins - 100 gr
  • dried apricots - 100 gr
  • pitted dates - 100 gr
  • almonds - 70 gr
  • melted butter - 0.5 cups
  • thin pita bread - 1 pc.
  • pomegranate seeds - for decoration, optional
  • salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Rinse dried fruits thoroughly, dry with a paper towel. Then put in a saucepan and put in a water bath for 30 minutes.

2. Add 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons of melted butter, let it melt, mix and remove the fruit from the bath.

3. Pour 6 cups of water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Salt the water to taste by adding about 1 tbsp. spoon and pour the washed rice into it.

4. Cook the rice almost until tender, leaving it slightly undercooked. Then put the rice in a sieve and rinse with cold water.

5. Now the fun begins. Grease the bottom of the cauldron with 1/3 of melted butter. Cover it with pita bread and lay out 1/3 of the rice. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon melted butter.

6. Then put 1/3 of the rice back in and drizzle with oil again. Then lay out the remaining rice and drizzle with the remaining oil.

7. Wrap the lid of the cauldron on the inside with a towel and cover the cauldron with it. If water remains in the cauldron, the towel will absorb excess moisture.

8. Put the cauldron on a small fire and simmer the rice for 15 - 20 minutes.

9. Then put the rice on a large dish and decorate with stewed fruits and nuts. You can use any nuts, not just almonds! Top for beauty, you can sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.


Such a pilaf is not often prepared. And you will be able to surprise all the men present at the celebration.

However, we remember that for many men, a holiday is not a holiday if there is no meat on the table. Therefore, you can separately cook meat for such pilaf. And then I will tell you how to cook delicious meat.

Well, firstly, since pilaf is an oriental dish, you can also cook meat with oriental flavor for it. I just wrote in the last article,. And it is not at all necessary to wait for the summer, it can be cooked in the oven, or in a pan. Follow the link, and there you will find a complete description of how to cook it.


Here are some more meat recipes.

Beef marinated in cognac

Such a dish, even because of one name, should appeal to men. And in appearance, he is at his best - who would refuse a whole piece of meat, or a steak. Moreover, it turns out so appetizing and tasty that it will be difficult to stop until you eat everything that is cooked.

We will need:

  • beef, tenderloin - 1 - 1.5 kg
  • cognac - 70 ml
  • dry red wine - 2 cups
  • olive oil - 50 - 70 ml
  • onion - 2 pcs
  • garlic - 2 - 3 cloves
  • thyme - 2 sprigs
  • black peppercorns - 6 - 8 pcs
  • salt - to taste

Cooking:

1. Wash the beef, dry it and cut into large chunks.

2. Chop the onion and garlic. Crush the pepper in a mortar.

3. In a separate container, mix cognac, wine, oil, onion, garlic, salt and pepper. Remove thyme leaves and add them to the mixture. Stir to combine all ingredients.

4. Put the meat in a bowl, pour each layer with marinade and so on until the meat runs out. Pour the rest of the marinade on top. Put in the refrigerator for 2 - 3 hours.

5. Fry the meat in the oven on a wire rack on the grill mode for 4 - 6 minutes on each side, periodically pouring marinade over it. Place a baking sheet under the meat so that the juice flows there and does not stain the oven. If possible, the meat can also be baked on the grill using a wire rack.


If there is no “grill” mode in the oven, then the meat can be baked in foil until cooked. It will also be delicious.

6. Serve hot, with fresh or baked vegetables and fresh herbs.

Japanese tonkatsu pork chops

Many men love pork chops, and it turned out that not only with us. In Japan, they cook pork chops in such an interesting way.

We will need:

  • pork pulp (without fat) - 400 - 500 gr
  • eggs - 2 pcs
  • dry white bread - 50 gr
  • flour - 50 gr
  • oil - for frying
  • salt, pepper - to taste

For sauce:

  • soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons
  • balsamic vinegar - 1 teaspoon
  • ketchup - 2 tbsp. spoons
  • sugar or preferably honey - 1 tbsp. spoon
  • ready-made mustard - 1 teaspoon
  • ground ginger - 0.5 tsp
  • garlic - 1 clove
  • ground spices - cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg - a pinch each

Cooking:

1. Cut the pork into thin flat portioned pieces and lightly beat it with a hammer. Pork meat is tender, and therefore it is better to beat it off, wrapping it in cling film.

2. Then remove the film and sprinkle each piece on all sides with salt and pepper. Let it lie down a bit.

3. In the meantime, grind dry bread with a blender into large crumbs, or you can use ready-made breadcrumbs. Lay them out on a flat plate.

4. Pour flour onto another plate.

5. Separately, in a bowl, beat the eggs with two tablespoons of water, you can use a fork for this.

6. Put the pan on the fire and warm the oil in it.

7. Roll the pork pieces in flour, then dip in the egg mixture and then in the breadcrumbs.

8. Fry the chops in a pan for 7 - 9 minutes until golden brown. Turning back and forth several times is not recommended, you only need to turn it once.

9. Put on a plate, cut into narrow strips if desired.


10. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients. Serve along with chops.

Roast pork in sweet glaze with beer

A truly festive and very tasty dish that will impress anyone present at the festive table. Cooking it is not fast, but everything can be done in advance.

We will need:

  • pork ham - 1.8 kg
  • potatoes - 800 gr
  • onion - 4 pcs
  • meat broth - 250 ml.
  • dark beer - 6 tbsp. spoons
  • orange jam
  • vegetable oil
  • clove - handful
  • thyme
  • Bay leaf
  • salt pepper

Cooking:

1. Fill the ham with cold water at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon per liter of water. After 12 hours, drain the water and replace it with fresh, also salty. Leave for another 12 hours.

2. Then place the meat in fresh water, bring to a boil, salt to taste and cook for 4-5 hours. 2 hours after the start of cooking, put 2 onions into the water. whole. At the end of cooking, add pepper and bay leaf. Take out the meat and refrigerate.

3. Make cuts in the form of rhombuses on the meat, stick a clove into the middle of each rhombus.

4. Peel the potatoes and cut into slices. Onion cut into half rings.

5. Fry in oil in a thick-walled pan until half cooked. Add salt and pepper to taste.

6. Pour in the broth, sprinkle with thyme leaves, and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

5. Mix beer and jam.

6. In the form in the center, make room for the meat, lay it out and grease with the resulting mixture.

7. Bake for 30 minutes, brushing the meat with a mixture of beer and jam every 5 to 7 minutes. The surface will gradually be covered with a layer of glaze.

8. Remove the cooked meat with potatoes and let it rest for 10 minutes, then cut into pieces.


9. Serve hot with potatoes.

Meat according to the recipe of the Empress

With this recipe, you can quickly prepare a delicious main dish of meat.

We will need:

  • ground beef - 600 gr
  • smoked sausage - 70 gr
  • grated cheese - 50 gr
  • egg - 2 pcs
  • garlic - 1 clove
  • olive oil - 30 gr
  • tomato paste - 40 gr
  • chopped greens - 30 gr
  • lemon juice - 20 gr
  • salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Pass the sausage, egg and garlic through a meat grinder. If there is ready minced meat, then we will use it, if not, then twist it into the total mass.

2. Add grated cheese. Salt and pepper the minced meat to taste, mix everything thoroughly.

3. Form a cake in the form of a pan, roll on both sides in flour and fry it in olive oil on both sides.

4. Mix tomato paste with chopped herbs and lemon juice. 5 minutes before readiness, pour the meat cake with this sauce and simmer everything together.

5. Serve hot, cut into portions.


This is such an interesting and unusual dish.

In addition to meat, you can cook fish and chicken. Quick and easy to bake in the oven.

Whole oven baked chicken

We will need:

  • chicken - 1 pc.
  • spices
  • salt, pepper - to taste
  • baking bag

Cooking:

Chicken baked in the oven in any way is just a lifesaver for all festive events. When you need to quickly set the table, but there is no free time, this dish will always come to your rescue.

1. Wash and dry the chicken with a paper towel.

2. Rub it inside and out with salt, pepper and any chicken spices. Let lie down for 30 minutes.


3. Then seal it in a bag and send it to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 1 - 1.5 hours, depending on the size of the chicken and the degree of baking. In this case, the bag must be pierced in two places so that hot air can freely escape and the bag does not burst.


4. Serve the chicken hot with any side dish.


Fast, tasty and very appetizing! And always festive!

Just as quickly, you can bake any fish. Very good in such cases, it always turns out very tasty and looks beautiful when served. If you want to cook it, then I invite you to a special article for this occasion, where you will find 14 different recipes.

But even faster you can bake any fish in sour cream. Let's take a carp today. The fish is tasty and healthy. In addition, it is almost always possible to buy fresh.

Carp in sour cream, baked in the oven

We will need:

  • carp - 1 pc.
  • spices
  • salt pepper
  • sour cream
  • lemon
  • pickled cucumber and tomatoes

Cooking:

1. Clean the fish, cut off the head or leave it with the head, especially if the fish is not very large. In this case, it is imperative to remove the gills so that they do not give bitterness to the pulp.

2. Thoroughly rinse the carcass. Then let the water drain and dry it inside and out with a paper towel. Grate with spices for fish, salt and pepper, rub the mixture into the skin and flesh.

Let it rest for 20-30 minutes so that the fish is slightly marinated.

3. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with oil and put the fish on it.

4. Put sour cream, chopped pickled cucumber and tomato on the back. Bake fish for 30 minutes.

5. After that, take out, remove the cucumber and tomatoes, by that time they had given their juice to the fish, they themselves were fried and we don’t need it anymore.


6. Put a chopped lemon on the back of the fish. Put it on a dish, decorate with fresh herbs and vegetables.

7. Serve with any side dish.

In addition to meat, poultry and fish, men are very fond of various dough products. These are belyashi, pasties and. All selected dishes are very widely represented in my articles. If you decide to cook them, then follow the links. On them you will find a lot of delicious and not at all difficult to prepare dishes.

And today I would like to offer two more recipes that are not in these articles.

Belyashi with meat on kefir

If there is no time to deal with yeast dough, then you can always offer a replacement - kefir dough. It cooks quickly, but it turns out no less tasty.

We will need (for 18 pieces):

  • minced meat - 400 gr
  • onion - 2 heads
  • spices for meat
  • salt pepper
  • boiled water, or broth - 0.5 cups
  • vegetable oil - for frying

For test:

  • flour - 4 cups
  • kefir - 1.5 cups
  • egg - 1 pc.
  • soda - 0.5 tsp
  • salt - 1 teaspoon

Cooking:

1. Knead the dough. To do this, sift the flour through a sieve into a bowl. Add salt and beat the egg into the middle, shake with a fork.

2. Dilute soda in half a glass of kefir, and let stand for a while until bubbles appear on the surface.

3. Add kefir to flour, mix. Then slowly pour in the remaining kefir.


4. Knead the dough first in a bowl and then on the table. Knead until plasticity and uniformity. Cover with a bowl or paper towel and let sit for 30 minutes.

5. Prepare minced meat. Cut the onion as small as possible, into cubes, add it to the minced meat. Salt, pepper, add broth or boiled water. You can add spices if you wish. Mix thoroughly and let stand for a while.


6. When 30 minutes pass and the dough is infused, we will start making whites. Cut off a piece from the dough, roll up the sausage and divide it into several equal parts.


7. Roll up rounds 1 cm thick and 12 - 15 cm in diameter.

8. Put a full tablespoon of minced meat in the middle and blind the whites.


9. In a cauldron or a frying pan with high sides, heat the oil to a bluish haze. The oil should reach the middle of the belyash. Put the whites with the hole down and fry over medium heat until golden brown.


10. Then turn over with a slotted spoon to the other side. It is no longer necessary to turn it back over, otherwise all the juice will flow out.


11. Put the finished whites on paper towels. to absorb excess fat.


12. Serve with sour cream, kefir, hot broth or tea. Eat with pleasure.

If the whites remain uneaten, then they can be eaten even cold, or you can warm them up in the microwave.


Most recently, I published an article with a lot of . And there are recipes where. But this recipe was not included there, so I include it in today's selection.

Pizza in Russian from yeast dough

We call this pizza so because we cook it most often from what is in the refrigerator. And since you can always find a lot of things in the refrigerator, it always turns out thick and tasty! At the same time, you can buy the dough in the store, but you can cook it yourself. But since there are a lot of fillings, it is better to have yeast dough.

We will need:

  • ready-made yeast dough - 1 kg
  • meat, sausage or chicken - 200-300 gr
  • cheese - 300 gr
  • soft-boiled egg - 2 pcs
  • any mushrooms - 150 -200 gr
  • pickled cucumber - 2 pcs
  • tomatoes - 3 pcs
  • ketchup - optional

Cooking:

I wrote those products from which we cook pizza today. You may have a different composition and quantity may also vary.

1. Meat, mushrooms, cucumbers and eggs cut into small strips or cubes.

2. Rub the cheese on a fine grater.

3. Cut the tomatoes into rounds.

4. Roll out the dough. You can roll out all the dough at once, then the pizza will turn out magnificent. But I leave part of the dough for the second small pizza. Therefore, I roll out most of the size of the baking sheet.

5. Lubricate the baking sheet with oil and lay out the rolled layer. Lightly stretch it with your hands.

6. Lubricate the top with ketchup if desired. Then lay out the prepared filling in the following sequence - meat, mushrooms, cucumber, egg.

7. Then a layer of tomatoes and sprinkle with cheese on top.


8. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 25-30 minutes until crust is browned.


9. Take out the pizza and brush the edges of the pizza with butter to make them soft.


This pizza is my husband's favorite. And therefore, if I decide to cook it for February 23 in this form.

And for the son of a vegetarian, this pizza turned out, there is no meat in it. The rest of the ingredients can be left the same.


The article turns out to be not at all small, it would be time to finish already. And we haven't made dessert yet. Here is a very simple pie recipe.

Pear pie with whipped cream

We will need:

  • egg - 4 pcs
  • flour - 1 cup
  • sugar - 5 tbsp. spoons
  • powdered sugar - 3/4 cup
  • vegetable oil - for lubrication
  • milk - 1/3 cup
  • soda - 0, 5 teaspoons
  • pears - 2 - 3 pcs

Cooking:

1. Separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolks with powdered sugar into a foam.

2. Add oil while continuing to beat. Then milk and flour mixed with soda.

3. Lubricate the baking dish with butter, lightly sprinkle with flour and put the dough into it.

4. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees until slightly golden. Then take out the form and put the pears cut into thin slices on the cake.

5. Beat the whites with sugar until stable peaks. Spread cream over pears.

6. Put in the oven and bake until golden brown.


7. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar.

This is a very simple pear pie recipe. And if you want more difficult, then there are such. For example, a selection of recipes , or , or .

And what's a party without cake? Holiday cake is a must!

Cherry Kiss Cake

Such a cake will surely please all men. It is good for everyone - both in appearance, and filling, and most importantly, in taste. Composed of three cakes, soaked in "drunk" syrup and custard; decorated with biscuit, chocolate icing and cherry. It will undoubtedly become a fat point of a festive dinner.

And you can also serve such a purely masculine dessert.

Fruits with cognac

We will need:

  • apple - 1 pc.
  • pear - 1 pc.
  • plum - 3 pcs
  • lemon or grapefruit - 1 pc.
  • cognac - 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons
  • sugar - 1 teaspoon

Cooking:

1. Remove the core from the apple and pear, the seeds from the plums. Cut the lemon into slices, peel the grapefruit and disassemble it into slices.

2. Coarsely chop the fruit. Pour in cognac and sprinkle with sugar.


3. Let stand a little and soak.

So many different goodies! Everything and immediately want to cook for our men. But it won't work. And we do not despair, February 23 will be 24, 25, 26 ... And every day we will be able to please them with all the dishes that we did not have time to cook on this holiday.

After all, everything that I have proposed for you today, men always like to see on the table. Whether it's a holiday or a weekday.

May our men always be full and satisfied. After all, for us they will always be the most important defenders of the Fatherland, and the family, and our well-being.

And we will be happy to help them with this - with our delicious food, kind words, smiles, kindness and love. Have you already prepared a gift?

By the way, if you find it difficult to choose a gift for your beloved men, then I invite you to an article specially written for this occasion. It gives more than 300 ideas and gifts, thanks to which you can easily pick up presents for your husband, boyfriend, and work colleagues.

I congratulate all men on the upcoming holiday! I wish you all a peaceful sky above your head, well-being and happiness in every family!

Snack decorations

To decorate the festive table, various canapes are perfect, which can be made with fish and fresh cucumber, with tongue or ham and cheese (the cheese is grated and mixed with garlic). You can also take cherry tomatoes, cut a “hole” in them, into which the same mixture of cheese and garlic is placed. It turns out a very tasty and spicy snack. You can decorate a canape, for example, in the form of a boat, by making a sail from cheese, planted on a toothpick.

Salads.

You can cook your favorite salad of the defender of the fatherland, perhaps it will turn out to be the usual “olivier”, but you can also surprise with an original dish like chicken salad with pineapples (pieces of boiled chicken breast, mushrooms, canned pineapple, mustard, mayonnaise are mixed). This salad is especially liked by lovers of sweets.


Second courses:

Meat in French. Perhaps this dish will seem banal to someone, but nothing is better than meat for a man, and it cannot be. You will need a baking sheet, on which potatoes are placed in thin layers, followed by a layer of meat, then a layer of onions, pepper, salt. After that, put another layer of potatoes, sprinkle it with cheese and spread with mayonnaise. Bake it all in the oven for about half an hour.


- Shashlik. This is a truly masculine dish that can be cooked at home in an electric barbecue. Pre-marinated meat will pleasantly surprise your beloved man.


— Chicken with apples. A whole chicken stuffed with apples baked in the oven will turn out simply and tasty.


— A lover of fish and fishing will like baked trout or salmon. It tastes best in its own juice. It turns out such a fish if it is cooked in the sleeve.


Dessert will be a wonderful addition to the festive table:

— The original and very tasty chocolate fondant will definitely please those who will sit at the table. This dessert is prepared simply, but it looks like a masterpiece.


- Ice cream, homemade, usually turns out much tastier than the one sold in the store. If you add fruits to it, sprinkle with chocolate chips, or sprinkle with honey, then it will turn out even better.


- Pie with berries, more to the taste of those who do not like very sweet desserts.


- Cake. You can cook a man's favorite cake, for example "Napoleon". It is prepared, of course, for a long time and difficult, but the result is worth it. On the cake, you can write a congratulation yourself or draw an original picture.


The most important thing is to cook for a beloved man with a soul, then he will appreciate the efforts and thank you on March 8!

Winter is full of holidays! And, perhaps, the latest in a series of holidays loved by the people will be the date on which we all congratulate the strong half of humanity. If earlier February 23 was a purely professional holiday for the military of all branches of the armed forces, now it has unofficially become a day of honoring all men, young and old - after all, they are all our defenders in one way or another.

But at least once a year (not counting the birthday) you really want to please your dear and beloved man with a festive menu compiled especially for him. It just so happens that men prefer hearty dishes, so we offer you a menu option of all kinds of dishes (from snacks to a special drink) that you can safely prepare.

And if for some reason such a menu does not work out, but you want to feed a man heartily in any case, see our last article about army food -.

You don't have to spend all day in the kitchen, trying to recreate a complete menu in order to dump a man on the couch with calories. You can choose the most preferred of the proposed recipes and, having tied a beautiful apron, get down to business.

Menu:

1. Combined meat hodgepodge for men on Defender of the Fatherland Day

The combined meat hodgepodge is very popular at all times. The real recipe is said to contain 7 types of meat (including horse meat), which make this amazing soup very nutritious and rich. For a daily dinner, this dish comes out a little expensive, but on a holiday it will be the most suitable and the man will appreciate your efforts.

Ingredients:

  • Water - 4 liters.
  • Veal on the bone - 500 gr.
  • Pork - 300 gr.
  • Smoked ribs - 200 gr.
  • Raw smoked sausage - 200 gr.
  • Boiled pork - 200 gr.
  • Boiled sausage - 200 gr.
  • Sausages - 100 gr.
  • Canned capers - 30 gr.
  • Canned cucumbers - 2 pcs.
  • Olives - 100 gr.
  • Onion - 2 pcs.
  • Tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
  • Sour cream - for dressing when serving.
  • Black pepper - 5 peas.
  • Fresh lemon - 1 pc.
  • Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. Thoroughly wash all types of fresh meat. Pour water into a large saucepan and put the veal on the bone.

2. We peel one onion from the husk and send it to cook in the same pan along with smoked ribs and pork slices.

3. During cooking, be sure to remove the foam so that it does not settle, does not spoil the transparency of the broth and does not begin to float with lumps. Also, during cooking, you need to salt the broth. 15 minutes before the meat is ready, throw in bay leaves and peppercorns.

4. When the meat is cooked, take it out to cool on a plate. We remove the onion and spices. If you still didn’t follow the foam, then it’s better to strain the rich broth and pour it into a clean saucepan.

5. Cut one pickled cucumber into strips or small quarters.

6. Grate the second cucumber for the thickness of the hodgepodge.

7. The second onion is peeled, chopped into strips and sautéed in sunflower oil until half cooked.

8. Add chopped cucumbers to the onion and season with tomato paste.

9. Mix everything well and simmer for 10 minutes.

10. We clean the boiled veal and ribs from the bones and chop into strips that are convenient for eating.

11. We clean the boiled pork cut from films and cartilage and also chop it into strips. We grind sausages, sausages and boiled pork.

12. We send sausage and meat slices to the broth and after a few minutes add canned capers.

13. As soon as the pieces of sausages emerge, they are ready. By the same time, all the cold cuts will be saturated with the aromas of the broth with dressing.

14. Cut the olives into beautiful rings or cut them into halves and send them to the pan to the hodgepodge. Cook for about two more minutes and leave the finished dish to infuse for about half an hour under the lid.

Olives can be added along with the brine in which they were preserved. You can also add half a glass of cucumber pickle.

15. When serving, be sure to put a slice of fresh lemon on a plate, sprinkle with herbs and add a spoonful of sour cream.

Bon appetit!

2. Beef stroganoff with mashed potatoes for February 23

Tender meat that melts in your mouth, cut into thin strips and stewed in a creamy sauce after frying. Have you imagined its amazing taste? This is exactly what “beef Stroganoff” turns out to be, or as it is more often called, beef stroganoff. It was precisely tender beef that Count Stroganov wanted, and his French chef applied maximum ingenuity to satisfy the demand of the gourmet and his guests.

Although now this dish is prepared from both animal meat and poultry, the original recipe called for beef. Lamb is not suitable due to its fat content and specific taste.

Meat strips must be rolled in flour before frying, so that the juice remains sealed inside.

Another secret of the wonderful taste of this meat dish, so loved by men, lies in the creamy sauce of sour cream and cream. It is he who gives a sweet aftertaste with unexpected sourness and tenderness to the fried pieces.


Ingredients:

  • Beef pulp - 0.5 kg.
  • Cream, sour cream - 100 ml each.
  • Potatoes - 0.7 kg.
  • Milk - 3 tbsp. l.
  • Butter - 2 tbsp. l. + 2 tbsp. l.
  • Sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. l.
  • Flour - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Onion - 2 pcs. (medium size).
  • Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. We clean the onions and cut them into half rings.

2. From the beef tenderloin, we cut slices 1 cm thick across the fibers, which we lightly beat off, and then cut into five-centimeter strips of centimeter thickness.

3. Roll the resulting meat sticks in flour directly on the board and shake off the excess flour so that it does not burn during frying, but just wraps the meat well.

4. Pour sunflower oil into the pan and add butter. When the oil mixture is hot, send the chopped onion to fry for literally 1 minute.

5. Put the boned meat sticks on top and stew the meat on the onion pillow for about 5 minutes.

6. Mix well so that the meat is well fried on both sides to a beautiful brown crust and does not give juice. It should look like it is in a delicate glaze.

7. Salt and pepper to your liking, mix. First, add sour cream and, stirring slowly, let the meat soak in it for a couple of minutes, and then pour in the cream and simmer for ten minutes with occasional stirring.

8. Wash the potatoes thoroughly and peel and cut into pieces.

9. Boil in lightly salted water. As soon as it is ready, drain the water and knead with a crush.

10. You can directly in the process of kneading or already when the potatoes are in a mushy state, add milk and 2 tbsp. l. butter. Mix well to form an air mass.

11. We beautifully lay out a side dish of mashed potatoes in a serving plate, make a small hole in the middle, into which we lay out a beautiful slide of beef stroganoff. If desired, you can decorate with chopped pickled cucumbers and chopped or whole herbs.
Bon appetit!

3. Salad "Revnivets" to the Defender of the Fatherland

What can we hide, but all men, to one degree or another, have a sense of possessiveness and are periodically hidden or explicit, but still jealous. It turns out a kind of explosive mixture of a prickly hedgehog and a dangerous tiger cub. That is, almost incongruous character traits are combined.

So in salads, it turns out you can be able to create a prototype of the character of a jealous man: a mixture of spicy with sour, meat, cheese, sweet and crunchy. The flavor combination is so incredible that you want this dish again and again.

Ingredients:

  • Fresh chicken fillet - 200 gr.
  • Fetax cheese - 50 gr.
  • Chinese cabbage - 80 gr.
  • Slice of bread - 2 pcs.
  • Red bell pepper - 35 gr.
  • Canned corn - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Onion - 1 pc.
  • Mandarin - 4 slices.
  • Garlic clove - 3 pcs.
  • Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l.
  • Sunflower oil - 2 tbsp. l.
  • Soy sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
  • Provence herbs - ½ tsp
  • Sesame - 3 tsp
  • Dried basil - ½ tsp
  • Salt, pepper, dill - to taste

Cooking:

1. First, let's prepare bread crumbs with impregnation. To do this, cut the bread slices into one and a half centimeter cubes.

2. Grind a clove of garlic with a garlic press and combine in a bowl with vegetable oil and Provence herbs. So that the croutons do not turn out “fresh”, lightly salt the resulting sauce and whisk well with a fork or spoon.

3. Dip the bread cubes in butter sauce and put them in a baking dish or on a small baking sheet, and then dry them in an oven preheated to 170 degrees. It will take about 20 minutes to get beautiful fried crispy pieces. And so that they do not burn on one side - periodically mix them during the drying process.

4. Cut fresh chicken meat into beautiful small cubes. Salt and pepper to your taste and roll in sesame seeds so that they look like breaded. We send the rolled sticks to fry in heated sunflower oil and, with occasional stirring, cook them for about 5 minutes so that the meat has time to fry and not to fry. It is very important that it remains juicy inside.

5. Cut the cabbage into short strips.

6. Similarly, chop the bell pepper with straws.

7. Cooking cheese balls with spices. To do this, grind the clove of garlic with a garlic press and finely chop the fresh dill. We combine them with cheese and dry basil. Blend well until smooth.

If the cheese mixture turns out to be too dry, then you can literally add a teaspoon of cream, which can “tie” all the components together.

8. We sculpt balls from the cheese mass, simply rolling pieces of the mixture between the palms.

9. Preparing a gentle salad dressing. To do this, squeeze the juice from the tangerine slices in any convenient way. Grind a clove of garlic. Mix them with mayonnaise and soy sauce.

Mandarin can be mashed in a blender and used in sauce along with tender pulp.

10. Finely chop the onion. If the onion is too bitter, then the slices can be doused with boiling water and the bitterness will go away.

11. In a large deep bowl, combine cabbage and onion slices, fried meat sticks, bell pepper straws and canned corn. Mix everything well so that the ingredients are evenly redistributed among themselves.

12. Put the mixture into portioned plates or a beautiful dish, sprinkle with toasted crackers on top and put cheese balls with spices. We complete our masterpiece by pouring a fragrant sauce.

Bon appetit!

4. Snack "Stuffed breaded dryers"

Who would have thought that from ordinary dryers you can make a great stuffed snack! It turns out a rather unusual, but very tasty breaded combination of dryers with cheese and chicken.


Ingredients:

  • Drying - 30 pcs.
  • Minced chicken - 350 gr.
  • Milk - ½ liter.
  • Onion - 1 pc.
  • Garlic clove - 1 pc.
  • Egg 3 pcs.
  • Cheese - 150 gr.
  • Breadcrumbs - 100 gr.
  • Flour - 200 gr.
  • Sunflower oil - 1/4 cup.
  • Spices, salt, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:

1. So that the snack does not have to be chewed, it is necessary to soak the dryers in cold milk. To do this, we leave them to soften for about half an hour and keep an eye on them so that they do not become limp, but simply slightly swollen and softened on the outside, and remain hard inside.

In no case do not heat the milk, because drying in a warm liquid will simply turn sour!

2. Grind the onion along with your favorite herbs and garlic. You can do this with a blender or by hand.

3. Add minced chicken and pepper. We combine with chicken yolk and the previous chopped components. Mix well and leave in the refrigerator for 25 minutes.

4. We cut the cheese into cubes, which will fit into the drying hole in size. Approximately centimeter by centimeter for the number of snacks (30 pcs.).

5. We lay out the drying on a board moistened with cold water. First, on one side, fill it with half a teaspoon of minced meat, then turn it over. We put the cheese in the center and seal the top with the second half of a teaspoon of minced meat.

6. In three bowls, prepare the lezon (2 eggs and white are beaten with salt and your favorite spices), breadcrumbs and flour.

Instead of breadcrumbs, you can use a ready-made bag of breadcrumbs for chicken.

7. Roll each stuffed drying first in flour, then dip in lezon and roll in breadcrumbs. Then we fry the breaded “bombs” in a deep fryer or in hot oil in a deep frying pan.

8. Let the excess oil absorb into a paper towel for at least a minute and serve hot so that the inside of the cheese is still melted.

Bon appetit!

4. Cake "Napoleon" for February 23

I was surprised by the recent discovery that most men who are not very fond of sweets are still madly in love with the Napoleon cake. Crispy puff pastry with custard, it turns out, was to the taste of the stronger sex!

Ingredients:

Puff cakes:

  • Flour - 600 gr.
  • Cold water - 150 ml.
  • Butter - 400 gr.
  • Cognac - 3 tbsp. l.
  • Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
  • Vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. l.
  • Salt - a pinch.
Custard:

  1. Milk - 1.5 liters.
  2. Butter 82% - 200 gr. + 30 gr.
  3. Sugar - 360 gr.
  4. Yolks - 7 pcs.
  5. Vanilla sugar - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Carefully separate the yolks from the eggs and mix them with regular and vanilla sugar. We grind them to a homogeneous mass.

2. Pour in a third of cold milk.

3. Mix well until smooth.

4. Pour the sifted flour and stir gently so that no lumps are formed that we do not need.

5. Add another third of the milk and mix until a creamy homogeneous consistency.

6. Pour the remaining third of the milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil with occasional stirring. Then, in a thin stream with vigorous stirring, so that the yolks do not “brew”, pour it into the egg-milk mixture.

7. Pour the resulting mixture into a saucepan and over low heat, constantly stirring with a whisk or spatula, heat until thickened, without boiling.

8. Put the butter (a piece of 30 grams) into the hot mixture and cool to room temperature under a lid in a water bath. It is advisable to stir periodically so that the hard crust does not freeze.

9. In a separate cup, beat the melted butter (200 grams) with a mixer.

10. Beat the thickened egg-milk mixture with a whisk or a mixer.

11. Gradually add the egg-milk substance to the whipped butter in a couple of tablespoons.

12. Beat each approach with a mixer until smooth.

13. Gradually combining the components, we should get a lush, homogeneous, beautiful and very tasty custard that can be used immediately, even after storage in the refrigerator (but not more than 2 days, because the cream contains raw yolks!).

14. In a separate bowl, combine cognac with cold water and vinegar. Then, in a glass or a deep bowl, stir the eggs with salt and combine them with a cognac-water solution. Mix until smooth. No need to beat!

15. Cut the butter into cubes and spread on top of the sifted flour.

16. Using a knife, chop the butter with flour so that you get a small crumb.

This procedure can also be carried out in a food processor.

17. We collect the butter-flour mixture in a small hill, in the center of which we make a “crater” and pour the previously prepared solution into it.

18. Knead a dense dough that is pleasant to the hands. We divide it into 12 identical balls, which, having covered with a film, put it in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.

19. We send a baking sheet to a preheated to 220 degrees for literally 40 seconds, then take it out and, turning it upside down, sprinkle it lightly with flour. We put a ball of dough and press it slightly in the middle with a rolling pin.

20. Roll out each ball right on the baking sheet to the state of a thin cake.

21. Put a plate on top and cut off the excess dough along its edge. Slightly move it aside, but do not remove it.

22. So that we do not get swollen, clumsy cakes, we evenly apply punctures with a fork all over the circle.

23. We send the cake to bake for 7 minutes. You should get a beautiful slightly light golden brownish color.

24. Carefully pick up each cake with a knife or spatula and put it to cool on a flat surface, and put the baked dough scraps on a plate.

25. Cooled cakes can be stacked.

26. Grind the trimmings to the state of crumbs, which will serve as a sprinkling for the cake.

27. In a wide detachable form, line the bottom along with the edges with cling film or foil. We put the first cake in the center.

28. Apply 3-4 tablespoons of cream.

29. Spread the cream evenly over the entire cake. From above we lay the edge to the edge of the second cake and again coat with cream. So repeat the manipulations with the rest of the cakes.

30. When we lay out the last cake, it is necessary to slightly press down on the entire pyramid of smeared cakes so that the cream comes out slightly on the edges. And then well smear on top and him.

31. In order for the cake to be well soaked, cover it with a film on top and send it to cool in the refrigerator for the night or even better for the whole day.

32. Carefully remove the detachable form and cellophane, and transfer the cake to a beautiful dish. Lubricate the top and sides with cream.

So that the edges of the dish do not get dirty when decorating the cake, it is best to cover them with parchment, which, after completing all the procedures, is removed along with excess crumbs and drops of cream.

33. Evenly sprinkle the sides of the cake with crumbs.

34. The top of the cake is also covered with crumbs and, if desired, sprinkled with more grated chocolate or decorated with fruit or chocolate figurines.

Bon appetit!

5. Homemade cognac for men on February 23

For men, it is customary to serve strong drinks. And it's no secret that men really like cognac, rum, whiskey, etc. alcohol, but not every housewife can afford to buy these expensive beautiful bottles with strong contents.

But you can cheat a little and make cognac yourself. Moreover, if you do not say what they did themselves and from what ingredients, then many men will not even understand the difference and will appreciate your efforts. Moreover, the aroma will really resemble real French cognac with a touch of vanilla.

Ingredients:

  • Vodka - 3 liters.
  • Oak bark - 1 tsp
  • Sugar - 1 tsp
  • Nutmeg - 0.5 gr.
  • Vanillin - a pinch.
  • Leaf tea - 1 tsp.
  • Instant coffee - 1 tsp.
  • Black peppercorns - 3 pcs.
  • Prunes - 1 pc.
  • Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
  • Carnation - 2 pcs.
  • Coriander - 4 grains crushed
  • Raisins - 5 pcs.
  • Soda - 0.5 tsp

Cooking:

1. Pour the bulk ingredients into a deep stainless steel or glass pan.

Do not be surprised that the ingredients contain soda - its taste will not be felt at all, but it is she who helps to draw the necessary color from the leaf tea leaves.

It is better to replace sugar with glucose so that an enhanced grape note from raisins appears.

2. Pour vanillin literally at the tip of a knife so that you don’t get a taste of liquor instead of cognac with a hint of vanilla.

3. Pour in vodka and start heating over low heat, closing with a glass lid.

4. In order for the vodka to be saturated with all the necessary aromas and the alcohol does not evaporate when heated, it is best to seal the hole in the glass lid (if any) with a bread crumb.

5. As soon as we see that our “brew” is about to boil, we immediately turn off the fire and let it also cool under the lid.

Cognac is never boiled!

The temperature of the liquid can be measured with a special culinary thermometer. Should be around 90 degrees.

6. We filter the cooled drink through the filter material. In extreme cases, a regular strainer will do.

7. Pour into a beautiful bottle or decanter and you can serve it to the table!

Enjoy enjoying the divine drink of your own preparation!

Let February 23 be not only another holiday for your men, but also be remembered for an unusual and such a delicious dinner. After all, no matter how strong our men are, they also really want warmth and care.

Dear men, happy holiday to you! Let prosperity and comfort reign in your family, the house will be a complete hut, and health and masculine strength will be stronger than Siberian frost!

Bon appetit and a festive dinner that pleases men!