Needless to say, there is not enough time in the evening after work. I would like to quickly cope with household chores in order to pay attention to the family. In addition, you need to eat faster so that dinner does not drag on - nutritionists advise eating no later than 18 hours.
How to cope with this task - to make dinner tasty and fast?
The importance of planning
Try not to heat up the semi-finished products bought in the store, but to cook something fresh. So you take care of family health. The best evening meal is a vegetable salad with lean meat, fish or poultry.
To prepare a quick dinner, you need to think about it in advance.
Mexican Chicken Recipe
Traditionally, the Mexican combination of products - tomatoes, corn and chili - is perfect for chicken.
- You need to have such products: 600 g of chicken meat (preferably a thigh), 3 cloves of garlic, a teaspoon of dried coriander, a pound of red tomatoes, one onion, half a teaspoon of red pepper, a teaspoon of salt and 125 g of frozen corn (canned can be used) .
- Fry chicken thighs in vegetable oil on all sides until a crust appears.
- Meanwhile, chop the garlic and onion finely.
- Remove the meat from the pan and fry the garlic and onions until soft.
- In the meantime, peel the peel from the tomatoes and cut them into cubes.
- Put chili and coriander in a pan with onions. Stew tomatoes with juice.
- Return the chicken to a skillet and cook for about 20 minutes.
- Add the corn and simmer another 5 minutes.
- Salt the dish.
Quick dinner is ready. Serve with rice or vegetables.
Another option how to quickly cook dinner - home pilaf
This recipe is just universal. It gets ready in minutes.
- You will need thick-walled dishes or a deep frying pan.
- A set of products: chicken meat (any parts) or beef goulash about 0.5 kg, onion, one large carrot; a cup of rice (approximately 200 g) and 2 cups of water, vegetable oil (3 tablespoons). Spices - curry, seasoning for pilaf or whatever you like, be sure to red sweet paprika (about a teaspoon), salt and a head of garlic.
- Place the skillet over the fire and pour oil into the bottom.
- Slice the onion and put on the fry.
- Peel and chop the carrots in large cubes and also fry with the onions. Do not forget to stir.
- Pour the spices into the carrots and mix.
- Wash the meat and lay the fry. Flip so that a crust appears.
- After 5 minutes, pour dry rice into the pan.
- Pour water (you can cold) in a strict proportion: 2 parts water to 1 part dry rice. Do not mix!
- Bring to an intense boil, salt, cover and reduce heat. Pilaf will be ready in 12 minutes.
- In the meantime, peel the garlic and 5 minutes before the end of cooking put it in rice. Do not mix.
- After the cooking time has passed, turn off the heat and wait 5 minutes.
- Stir and serve hot.
This recipe has one feature - using the same technology, you can cook a quick dinner from any other cereal (buckwheat, wheat, corn), but take the ratio of cereals and water 1: 3.
Pie a la “Quick dinner”
Incredibly tasty and satisfying pie in which you can put any filling.
It resembles a casserole.
- For the test you need: half a glass of kefir, 100 g of mayonnaise (low-calorie), 4 tablespoons of flour, 2 eggs, half a teaspoon of soda, a pinch of salt. Everything is whipped together until a uniform lush mass is obtained.
- Stuffing: boiled potatoes (3 pcs) chopped finely, boiled chopped chicken meat (200-300 g), mushrooms fried with onions (200 g). All components are put on the bottom of the mold and salt.
- Pour the filling with quick dough, garnish with several Cherry tomatoes and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes.
This cake will help you make a really quick dinner and will become a frequent dish of your home cooking.