Twenty years ago, the meager assortment of shops very much limited the housewives in drawing up the menu, both everyday and festive. Now you can afford to fantasize, and dishes with pineapple often appear on the table, even on a completely festive day. Today you can please yourself and loved ones with delicious exotic at any time. The main thing is that in the treasured little book recipes of dishes with pineapple should be presented in assortment.
On breakfast
Let's start small and make the first meal so that it provides us with strength and good mood for the whole day. And in this good undertaking, dishes with pineapple will help us. Even if for the sake of their preparation it is necessary to get up half an hour earlier.
Thin slices of white bread (or halves of a bun) should be grated on both sides with garlic and fry in a skillet until a tan is even. Ham and cheese should be layered and put on croutons in the following order: meat product - a circle of canned pineapple - a slice of cheese. The pyramid is crowned with a sprig of greenery. Now it is placed on a baking sheet and baked for seven minutes in the oven. If there is a microwave, then it is suitable for the last stage.
Shrimp Eating
The most favorite and popular dishes with canned pineapple are salads. We will not change the prevailing traditions and prepare an appetizer that will conquer everyone who tastes it.
A pound of shrimp is boiled in slightly salted water, cooled, cleaned and laid out in a container. Then four chopped eggs are smeared. And after - chopped smaller pineapple from a jar. Still need fresh herbs, cucumbers (or avocados) and lemon juice with olive oil for dressing. Mix. On top of the dish you can sprinkle with grated cheese and then send for impregnation in the refrigerator. Before serving, it is advisable to wait at least two hours. And it's better to leave the salad cool all night.
Salad "You can’t drag by the ears"
Nobody will refuse this dish with pineapple: it turns out tasty, juicy, aromatic and beautiful. And cooking is nowhere easier: chopped pineapples from a jar, chopped large bell pepper, preferably red, diced Golden apple and a third kilo slices of good ham are mixed. For dressing, light mayonnaise or natural unsweetened yogurt without additives is used.
For real foodies
Among salads there are dishes with fresh pineapple. The recipes are varied, able to satisfy even the most refined taste. Evaluate, for example, the following.
A pound of chicken should be grated with salt with selected seasonings, wrapped in foil and baked, then chopped into cubes.
The medium-sized pineapple is peeled according to all the rules, with the removal of the "eyes" and the core. Fruit is required as much as chicken, the rest can be eaten just like that or put on some other interesting dish. Pineapple is cut in the same way as meat, or slightly finer. A 300-gram jar with canned champignons is opened, the liquid is drained, small mushrooms are added to the whole salad, large ones can be cut. A gram of a hundred leaf lettuce is torn and added to other ingredients, a can of canned corn, strained from the liquid, is also poured into the salad bowl. It remains to salt, if necessary, pepper, if desired, season with mayonnaise and mix.
Another version
This version of a fresh pineapple dish also involves the use of natural mushrooms, without industrial processing. It is proposed to cook the fillet in the recipe, although baking is not forbidden: many cooks believe that chicken cooked in the oven has a more vivid taste. Finished meat is cut in small sized sticks.
At the same time, the onion is crushed and stained in butter. When the squares reach goldenness, chopped champignons, about a quarter kilogram, are poured into the frying pan to them. Mushrooms must be brought to readiness.
Pineapple is enough and two hundred grams. Fruit slices should be proportionate to pieces of chicken. All ingredients are mixed: pepper, salt and season with mayonnaise should be just before serving so that the salad does not lose its attractive appearance.
For cheese lovers
It also comes in handy boiled and chopped chicken breast. Hard cheese is added to it, about 200 grams, diced, not grated. Pineapple can be taken either fresh or canned, with a total of 300 g. The role of dressing, again, is played by mayonnaise. For beauty, it is proposed to lay out the salad in the form of pineapple, and give the plausibility of the installation using halves of walnut.
However, if it is not aesthetics that matters to you, but the taste, you can chop the nuts and add them to the salad. In this case, greenery will be enough for decoration - chopped or laid with whole branches.
Nonstandard Salad
Salad has become almost traditional - this is a dish with chicken, with pineapple and various additions. But chicken is not an obligatory component at all, smoked pork in all its variety “sounds” much more interesting in salads. To it you need to add a little fried bacon, fresh cucumber and canned pineapple. Cutting - in any form, the ratio - at the discretion of the cook, dressing - juice from a jar with pineapple, combined with soy sauce and grated ginger. If the pineapple is too sweet, you can add balsamic vinegar to the dressing. And lovers of wealth of taste can supplement the list of products with canned corn.
Main dishes with pineapple: mouth-watering “pockets”
Kohl overseas fruit is now available, do not confine yourself to salads. In the preparation of the second, he also appears to be very helpful.
We take pork chop and chop it across the meat fibers. We beat it off a bit, cut “pockets” in each slice with a sharp knife, which we coat with horseradish from the inside (sold in any store) and fill with chopped canned pineapples. We roll the pork so stuffed in this way in flour mixed with pepper and salt, then in a beaten egg and finally in breadcrumbs. Fry in vegetable oil, over low heat, until a steady blush. And bring to readiness within half an hour in an oven heated to 180-200 degrees.
Pineapple, Chicken and Coconut Milk
Those who are interested in dishes with fresh pineapple, recipes can please a noble variety. And if you are not too limited in means, you can treat yourself with exotic dishes, appropriate even on the solemn table.
To prepare a masterpiece, two fillets, cut into bars, are required. In garlic or olive oil, two garlic cloves are fried with slices or plates. In the oil, nourished by their aroma, cuts from green onions are allowed, and already after giving them their aroma - strips of chicken. The process should not last long, so make the fire stronger. When the degree of “tanning” will satisfy you, add a couple of spoons of chili paste (or something just as sharp) to the pan and mix.
Fresh pineapple is cut according to the instructions and cut into pieces in harmony in size with chicken. They pour into it, after which the container is covered with a lid for several minutes. The final touch: in a jar of coconut milk, a spoonful of starch is kneaded, the liquid is poured into a bowl, and it is left to languish until the contents of the container are ready. With this dish with pineapple rice is most in harmony. Especially - cooked in Thai.
Turn to the oven
If you liked dishes with canned pineapples, recipes can provide you with the widest field for testing proven methods, as well as for testing your own inventions. It is very easy to cook chicken with exotic in the oven. Breast is usually used, but if you value the legs more, you can put them into action. The peel will still have to be removed, and the meat will need to be separated from the bones. It should be cut, and not too finely, grated or sprinkled with salt and spices and left in the cold for pickling for a third of an hour.
The form in which the chicken is supposed to be placed is carefully smeared with butter, and a suitable piece of cheese is rubbed. The standard ratio is 200 grams of cheese per medium breast, then recount yourself, because everyone has their own views on culinary harmony.
The meat is laid out in a container so that it does not touch the edges, and is poured with liquid from a jar of pineapple. Fruit rings are cut in sectors no wider than a centimeter and laid out on chicken. A baking sheet (or shape) is put in the oven for 20-30 minutes; shortly before cooking, the meat is sprinkled with cheese to make a charming "hat".
Pork?
Chicken meat, of course, is healthy and dietary, but without native pork, life seems bland. And cooking dishes with pineapple and the most common meat is easy. It is enough to cut it into cubes and fry, you can - with chopped onions. The next step will be stewing in pineapple juice. The fruits themselves are added to the dish a quarter of an hour before its readiness. Of all the seasonings, curry will be the most harmonious, and of the side dishes - rice.
Another recipe is highly appreciated by culinary experts and eaters - pork baked in a single piece. She goes to the oven, stuffed with garlic, coated with salt and pepper, lined with pineapple mugs and wrapped in foil. Alternatively, garlic plates along with slices of exotic fruit are placed in the incised pockets. In this case, either fried or baked potatoes are served in the dish. Taste - specific, unforgettable and longed for.
A treat for last
When preparing dishes with fresh pineapple and recipes for a variety of desserts, you should pay attention. The easiest way to introduce pineapple in a fruit salad. Simpler, but not more interesting. It’s better to make ice cream. Besides the fact that it is tasty, the delicacy is also distinguished by its increased usefulness, and it is also a low-calorie product.
First of all, we are engaged in syrup. For him, a glass of sugar is dissolved in one and a half volumes of water, brought to a boil and boiled until lightly thickened.
The chopped pineapple (300-400 grams) makes its way to uniformity with a blender, combines with lemon juice (about three tablespoons) and syrup. Another whipping - and in the freezer for the night. It is advisable to spill over beautiful creamers. In the morning, a birthday man, even a child, even an adult, will enjoy an unexpected delicacy that is thousands of times superior in taste to everything that a retail network can offer.
If you want to experiment in cooking, pay attention to pineapple. This is a very fertile ground!