Garnish is an addition to meat or fish, emphasizing the taste of the main dish. It is made from vegetables, cereals or pasta. In today's publication, we will present several original recipes for holiday side dishes.
Cheese Puree
Chopped potato tastes good and goes well with French meat. To prepare it, you will need:
- 2 egg yolks.
- 1 kg of potatoes.
- 80 g of cheese chips.
- Ground nutmeg, pepper and salt.
The peeled root vegetables are put in a deep pan and boiled until tender. The softened potatoes are mashed and then mixed with salt, seasonings, egg yolk and cheese chips. To beautifully decorate the festive side dish, the resulting mass is transferred to a pastry bag with a special nozzle. With this device, roses are made from mashed potato puree. The resulting products are greased with the remaining yolk and baked on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at 200 degrees. As a rule, twenty minutes is enough to cover them with a beautiful crust.
Spaghetti with pesto
This exquisite festive side dish will be a great addition to the feast, designed in the French-Italian style. Despite the simple composition, it has a piquant taste and goes well with poultry dishes. To create it, you will need:
- ½ pack of durum wheat spaghetti.
- 100 g of fresh basil.
- 2 cloves of garlic.
- 2 tbsp. l peeled walnuts.
- Grated Parmesan.
- Salt and olive oil.
Spaghetti is loaded into a pot of boiling water. Salt and a tablespoon of olive oil are sent there. Cooked pasta is thrown into a colander, and then laid out on a plate so that a kind of nest is obtained. Each serving of spaghetti is poured with pesto made from basil, whipped with garlic, salt, walnuts and 1/3 cup olive oil, and then sprinkled with grated parmesan.
String Beans with Cheese Sauce
Vegetable lovers will surely pay attention to another festive side dish for meat. It has a pleasant, moderately pungent taste, emphasizing the quality of the main dish. To create it, you will need:
- 300 g of green beans (can be frozen).
- 100 g of cream cheese.
- 1.5 tbsp. l flour.
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- Oregano and salt (to taste).
Beans are immersed in a pot of boiling water and boiled for twenty minutes. Then it is thrown back into a colander and sent to a deep frying pan. Grated cream cheese, salt, oregano and crushed garlic are added there. Then all this is combined with flour diluted in half a glass of broth left over from cooking. All this is heated over moderate heat for no longer than three minutes.
Fried vegetables
This is one of the easiest and most popular holiday garnish recipes. A photo of this treat can be found below, but for now let’s clarify what is needed for its preparation. It includes:
- 2 bell peppers (preferably red and green).
- Crimean onion.
- Fleshy ripe tomato.
- Onion.
- ½ hot pepper pod.
- 2 cloves of garlic.
- Zucchini.
- Olive oil, olive herbs and salt.
This lightweight holiday garnish is surprisingly quick and easy to prepare. All vegetables are washed, if necessary, peeled and peeled, and then crushed. In a pan greased with olive oil, load onions and garlic. After a few minutes, zucchini sticks, chili peppers, tomato cubes, Provencal herbs and salt are added to it. As soon as the tomatoes make juice, the pan is removed from the heat, and its contents are laid out in plates and served with fried pork or kebabs.
Rice balls
We offer you to pay attention to another simple option for a festive side dish. It is a vibrant combination of cereals, eggs and vegetables. To create it, you will need:
- ½ cup round rice.
- 2 boiled eggs.
- ½ yellow, green and red peppers.
- Fresh cucumber.
- 2 tbsp. l mayonnaise.
- Salt and greens.
The washed rice is boiled until tender and seasoned with spices. Then add mayonnaise and chopped eggs to it. Small balls are formed from the resulting mass and roll them in a breading made of chopped vegetables.
Brown rice with bell pepper
Using the technology described below, an original holiday garnish is obtained, a photo of which can be found in this article. He extremely successfully emphasizes the taste of the main dishes made from meat or poultry. To create it, you will need:
- 200 g of brown rice.
- A small onion.
- Bell pepper.
- 450 ml of filtered water.
- 2 cloves of garlic.
- Zest of half a lemon.
- Salt and green basil (to taste).
- Vegetable fat.
In a stewpan, greased with vegetable oil, chopped chopped onions. As soon as it is browned, finely chopped pepper is added to it. After five minutes, washed rice is poured into the general container and almost all of it is poured with the right amount of water. The future side dish is salted, brought to a boil and simmer under the lid for forty minutes. If necessary, add settled water to the stewpan. As soon as the rice is fully cooked, it is sprinkled with chopped basil, crushed garlic and chopped citrus zest.
Baked potato
This simple but delicious side dish has an unusual look. Therefore, it can be safely put on the festive table. In addition, it combines well with complex dishes prepared on the basis of poultry or meat. To create it you will need:
- 8 medium potatoes.
- 50 g of butter.
- 100 g of parmesan.
- Salt and any aromatic spices (to taste).
- Refined vegetable oil (for lubricating the mold).
Pre-cleaned and washed root crops are wiped dry with paper towels. In each of them, neat cuts are made, the distance between which is about five millimeters. The resulting “fans” are laid out on a baking sheet, greased with vegetable fat, and watered with melted butter. All this is sent to the oven and baked at 180 degrees for an hour. Ten minutes before the heat treatment is complete, the tubers are sprinkled with grated Parmesan. Serve such a side dish exclusively in hot form. After cooling, it loses not only its external attractiveness, but also most of its taste.