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For a light lunch or dinner, make fluffy and healthy zucchini pancakes. Fortunately, zucchini now - heaps! We will add sour cream to the dough, chop the greens, and fry the pancakes in a pan in oil, 2 minutes on each side. Fritters can be served as a side dish for meat or as an independent dish with sour cream. Cold pancakes are also good!
Ingredients (3 servings):
1 large young zucchini or 2 small ones; 200 g sour cream; 1 egg; 2-3 tbsp. l. flour (depending on the juiciness of the zucchini); a small bunch of greens; a pinch of salt; vegetable oil for frying (a couple of tablespoons).
Wash and grate the zucchini, cutting out the part with the seeds. Press lightly. Add chopped greens, egg, sour cream, salt and a couple of tablespoons of flour to the zucchini. The dough should be the consistency of thick fat sour cream. If it is liquid, add another tablespoon of flour. Fritters should be fried immediately so that the zucchini does not let out even more juice. Heat up the pan, pour in the oil. Spread the dough with a large spoon, forming pancakes. Fry until golden brown, 2 minutes on each side. Ready pancakes can be laid out on a paper towel, and then in a plate. Serve with sour cream or sour cream sauce (with fresh cucumbers, herbs and garlic, for example). Bon appetit!
Hot sandwiches with sausage, tomatoes, viscous cheese are good for breakfast, a snack (including a night one), in the form of a side dish. You can cook them from everything that is in the refrigerator: vegetables, sauces, sausage, meat or ham - everything will work and fit. In our recipe, we suggest baking them in the oven, so hot sandwiches are the most delicious.
You will need (for 8 sandwiches):
3 sausages; 1 tomato; 8 slices of white bread; clove of garlic; a couple of sprigs of parsley; 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise; 100 g of hard yellow cheese.
Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees. We cut the tomato and sausages into small cubes, grate the cheese, finely chop the garlic and parsley. Mix everything except cheese in a bowl with mayonnaise. We spread the filling on slices of bread and sprinkle generously with grated cheese. Sandwiches on a baking sheet covered with parchment, send to a hot oven for 15 minutes.
If desired, additionally grease the bread with ketchup or mustard, add other vegetables - bell pepper rings, canned corn, etc.
In the season of tomatoes, cucumbers and sweet peppers, you can’t do without a real Greek salad! In the classic recipe, tomatoes, cucumbers, purple onions, a large piece of feta cheese, olives and olive oil are mandatory. All vegetables are cut coarsely, and the whole family can enjoy one serving. If you don’t have feta, then replace it with another pickled cheese - cheese, for example. It is better to choose olives with pits, they are tastier, select the pits when assembling the salad. Serve Greek salad with dinner, before the main course.
To prepare the Greek salad you will need (3 servings):
1 cucumber; 3 tomatoes; 1 bell pepper; half a purple onion; 100 g feta cheese (other pickled cheese); 50 g olives; half a small lemon; 2 tbsp. l. olive oil; a pinch of oregano
Rinse the vegetables, remove the seeds from the bell pepper, remove the husk from the onion. Cut the olives in half, if there is a stone, choose. Coarsely chop the cucumbers and tomatoes, cut the onion and pepper into half rings. Mix everything in a bowl, add oregano, crumble the cheese with your hands or cut into cubes. Mix olive oil with freshly squeezed lemon juice, beat with a fork and pour over the salad.
Juicy soft dough, favorite toppings, a lot of cheese - cook a quick pizza in a pan for dinner. The recipe will appeal to those who do not have an oven, but I really want to try homemade pizza. Anything you like is suitable as a filling: chicken, mushrooms, sausage, onions, pineapples and so on.
Ingredients for instant pizza (1-2 servings):
2 tbsp. l. sour cream and mayonnaise; 2 eggs; 5 st. l. flour; to taste sausage, tomatoes or other stuffing; grated cheese.
In a bowl, lightly beat the mayonnaise, sour cream and eggs. Add flour and stir until you get a smooth, viscous dough of sour cream density. Prepare the filling: cut the sausage and tomatoes into slices, grate the cheese. Put the dough into a well-heated pan, smooth with a spoon. Top with filling and grated cheese. Reduce heat to low and cook pizza covered for 5 minutes. By the way, you can cook such a pizza only with cheese (or with a mixture of cheeses). It will turn out great!
From cheese, a couple of eggs and a pack of crab sticks, excellent crispy cutlets are obtained, which can even be served on a holiday! Definitely try it for your next lunch or dinner! Very tasty, original and budget hot. You can serve crab cakes with any side dish.
Ingredients for crab stick cutlets (for 5 cutlets):
200 g crab sticks; 2 eggs; 120 g of hard yellow cheese; you can add a clove of garlic.
Grate the cheese, chop the crab sticks with a blender. Combine the sticks and cheese in a bowl, beat in the eggs and, if you like, add the crushed garlic. Stir. Form cutlets and fry in a hot pan with a spoonful of oil. Depending on the size, fry the cutlets on each side for a minute and a half. Enjoy!
Boats can be eaten both hot and cold. This is a hearty snack that includes crispy dough, juicy meat, pickles and even mashed potatoes! By the way, first of all we recommend this recipe to those who have leftover mashed potatoes. You can choose any meat - better, of course, with fat. We recommend a dish for dinner or as a luxurious snack on the festive table.
You will need (for 4 boats):
600 g of ready-made puff pastry; 150 g of meat (pork with fat); 250 g of mashed potatoes; bulb; 2 pickles; a spoon or two of vegetable oil for frying; 1 egg (for brushing)
Turn on the oven to heat up to 180 degrees. Cut raw meat into small cubes, you can use minced meat. Peel the onion and chop finely. Put the meat in a preheated pan with a spoonful of oil and fry until the meat changes color, then add the onion, fry, stirring, until tender. Defrost the dough, cut into rectangles, roll out a little. On each of the narrow sides of the rectangle, make an incision, departing from the top and edges by 2.5 cm. Cut the pickles into small cubes.
Put a spoonful of mashed potatoes in the center of the rectangle, meat fried with onions on it, cucumber on top.
Fold one end of the rectangle over so that the filling is in the hole. Do the same with the other edge.
Brush the boats with beaten egg. Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. Serve hot as a main course, or as an appetizer, like pies.