Easy main courses: simple and tasty recipes

From time immemorial, second courses are daily present in our dinner. A huge number of options for their preparation, they can be not only tasty, but also healthy. All the recipes collected in this article are made from available ingredients, so they can be considered simple and cheap main dishes for every day.

Buckwheat with liver

Let's take a step-by-step look at how to cook a healthy dish, namely, buckwheat porridge with a liver in a slow cooker:

1. Vegetables (onions, a clove of garlic, carrots) are chopped into small pieces.
2. Groats (200 grams) should be thoroughly washed before cooking.
3. A half a kilo of liver is washed, cleaned of films and chopped into thin strips.
4. In the slow cooker set the mode for frying for ten minutes. Three tablespoons of vegetable oil are poured into a special bowl, onions are laid out, a little fried, then carrots are added.
5. When the vegetables are fried, add the liver.
6. After ten minutes, pour the garlic and a hundred milliliters of sour cream, mix thoroughly.
7. You can add cereals and 0.5 liters of water.
8. Salt and spices to taste.
9. Cover, it is necessary to set the mode of "porridge" for twenty minutes.
10. After this time, add chopped greens and mix. Everything, a hearty and light second course for lunch, is ready.

Rice in Tomato Sauce

We will analyze in stages another recipe based on cereals, because they are always popular on our table, because they contain many useful substances.

1. A glass of rice is thoroughly washed. It is placed in a pre-prepared pan and chopped garlic clove is added to it.
2. Carefully pour 250 ml of water and 50 grams of tomato paste.
3. Place the pot over high heat and bring to a boil.
4. Reduce heat, salt and boil until porridge is cooked.
5. Shredded basil is added two minutes before being cooked.

Lazy cabbage rolls

Such stuffed cabbage is one of the recipes for simple second courses, the preparation of which does not require a lot of effort.

1. We prepare vegetables. One onion is cut into small cubes, half a cup of small cabbage - with thin straws, carrots - in strips.
2. A pound of chicken fillet is washed well and cut into small cubes.
3. Lean oil is poured into the pan and sautéed onions, carrots are poured into the pan and after two minutes the fillet.
4. The meat should not be deep fried so that it is not overdried, five minutes is enough.
5. Gently place the cabbage in the pan, mix thoroughly, salt and add spices to taste. Cover and simmer over low heat for about fifteen minutes.
6. When the cabbage has reached half-preparedness, spread 50 grams of tomato paste.
7. If necessary, add a little water.
8. You still have to put out about twenty minutes.
9. When the cabbage has become soft, you can pour rice (one glass).
10. Pour water no more than two glasses and simmer on low heat until the porridge is completely ready, while occasionally stir the mixture in a pan.
11. Add greens, and all, a light second course can be served.

Tasty cutlets

Per kilogram of minced meat you will need:

• a pair of raw eggs;
• half a loaf (fresh);
• 50 grams of mayonnaise;
• one hundred milliliters of milk;
• two hundred grams of hard cheese;
• three small fresh tomatoes;
• some butter.

Step-by-step preparation of a light second course:

1. The cut loaf for fifteen minutes is poured with milk and mixed with minced meat.
2. Eggs are thoroughly beaten with mayonnaise and added to the existing mass.
3. Salt and add spices at your discretion.
4. Frozen butter is cut into small pieces, and a third of the cheese is cut into thin strips.
5. The minced meat is divided into ten parts and molded cakes out of it.
6. A piece of butter and cheese is placed in them, carefully wrapped so that the filling does not look out.
7. Cutlets on both sides are fried in a pan with preheated vegetable oil.
8. Gently spread on a baking sheet, on top of each cutlet lay a circle of tomato and grated cheese.
9. Add a little water and put in the oven for half an hour (temperature should not exceed 200 degrees).

Mexican Stew

A delicious light second course is stew with chicken and vegetables. To cook it, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:

• 0.5 kilograms of chicken;
• three fresh tomatoes;
• two bell peppers;
• one carrot;
• one jar of canned beans and corn;
• one onion.

Cooking.

1. Onions are cut into thin half rings and non-peaceful fried in vegetable oil.
2. Spread the diced carrots and fry for three minutes.
3. Peppers chopped into thin strips and chopped cubes of tomatoes are sent to fried vegetables.
4. Five minutes later, beans, corn and meat are spread in the pan.
5. Salt, add spices to taste and simmer on low heat for about twenty minutes.
6. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.

Original recipe

Consider a simple recipe for a second dish - beetroot patties.

1. One beet is boiled and rubbed on a coarse grater, transferred to a pan, poured one hundred grams of water and brought to a boil.
2. Gently spread a tablespoon of semolina into the beetroot mass and mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
3. They extinguish on low heat for about ten minutes, all the liquid should evaporate.
4. Remove from heat, cover and wait until it cools.
5. Finely chopped onions, a raw egg, chopped clove of garlic are spread to the resulting mixture.
6. Salt and pepper, all components mix well.
7. Cutlets are made from the prepared minced meat, crumbled in breadcrumbs and fried on both sides.

Turn over carefully so that the cutlets do not fall apart.

Vegetables on the second

Dishes from vegetables are not only healthy, but also very tasty. Consider some recipes.

Cauliflower:

1. A small head of cabbage is sorted into inflorescences and boiled a little in salted water, five minutes is enough. Water is drained, and inflorescences are allowed to drain from excess fluid.
2. One onion is finely chopped and fried with minced meat (0.5 kilograms) until cooked, while remembering to add salt and pepper.
3. A deep baking dish is greased with lean oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
4. Lay in layers: minced meat, inflorescences, a couple of beaten eggs, a thin mesh of mayonnaise, 200 g of grated hard cheese.
5. The mold is placed for twenty minutes in an oven heated to 180 degrees.

Zucchini boats:

1. One zucchini is washed and cut along, gently get rid of the pulp and rubbed with salt.
2. Filling. One hundred grams of mushrooms and one small onion finely chopped. Then fried in vegetable oil. Spread 200 g of raw minced meat, salt and add spices. Fry until half cooked.
3. The “boat” from the zucchini is smeared with mayonnaise, abundantly filled with filling, the rings of fresh tomato are laid on top and sprinkled with cheese.
4. For baking for twenty minutes, sent to the oven, heated to 180 degrees.

Potatoes

Many people like potatoes for the second, this dish can be prepared both on a casual table and on a festive table:

1. It takes ten medium potatoes. They are cleaned, cut into four parts and boiled in salted water until tender.
2. These vegetables are chopped into cubes: champignons (200 g), carrots and onions.
3. The mushrooms are slightly fried in vegetable oil, onions and carrots are added to them and stewed for about ten minutes under a lid over low heat.
4. Chopped garlic, 60 milliliters of sour cream, salt and spices are added to the pan. Mix everything thoroughly and simmer for 30 minutes.
5. Mashed potatoes are made from boiled potatoes, while three tablespoons of milk and one raw yolk are added there.
6. The baking tray is greased with vegetable oil and placed on it cakes made of potato cakes in the form of a "nest". In the middle there should be a recess for the mushroom filling.
7. The oven is heated to 180 degrees and for twenty minutes a baking sheet is placed in it.
8. Before serving, decorate with greens.

The recipe for cottage cheese in a pan

The following products will be needed for 0.5 kilograms of cottage cheese:

• a pair of raw eggs;
• one hundred grams of flour;
• three tablespoons of granulated sugar;
• 0.5 sachets of vanillin;
• 1/3 tsp salt.

Step-by-step recipe for cottage cheese in a pan:

1. Cottage cheese is poured into a prepared deep container and knead it with a fork.
2. Pour granulated sugar, salt and vanillin.
3. Drive in an egg and mix thoroughly.
4. Pour the flour carefully and mix well so that there are no lumps.
5. Small balls are formed from the curd mixture, they are pressed a little with the palms and rolled separately in the flour.
6. Fried in vegetable oil on both sides.
7. If desired, steamed raisins can be added to the curd mass.

Not all housewives have time to indulge their near and dear ones with a full dinner, which should consist of the first, second and dessert. But if desired, delicious light second courses can be prepared in a short period. This article presents such recipes.