Delicious instant food saves our precious time and delights the stomach and taste buds. When time trouble comes, quick dishes serve as a real lifesaver for the hostess and her beloved household. After all, everyone wants to eat tasty and satisfying, and if you stay idle at the stove for days on end then the hostess herself will miss most of her time. It’s great when cooking is a hobby, but not everyone likes to spend their lives standing by the stove. To free up more time for you to do your favorite activities, we offer a review and recipes with photos of fast and tasty food.
The recipes below will be easy to apply in a real kitchen. For someone, one is considered tasty, but someone prefers something completely different. We will be tolerant of each other and in the preparation of delicious and fast food at home. Someone thinks the dish is quick when it is ready in ten minutes, and someone is ready to wait half an hour. In any case, we will try to give recipes for dishes that take less time to prepare than for creating many familiar dishes.
Soup is the head of everything
Open our selection of delicious instant food soup recipes. Not one full-fledged family dinner is complete without first courses. Soups help keep you healthy. How great it is to eat a plate of fragrant, hot dishes! And if the soup in our case is fast and tasty food, then this is even more interesting.
With egg whipping and tomatoes
We will need:
- 3 ripe tomatoes;
- 3 eggs of chicken (raw);
- several teeth of garlic and a bunch of greens (onions, dill);
- butter or lean;
- salt.
How will we cook?
The recipe for delicious and fast food will be remembered and loved even by a novice cook. We arm ourselves with a frying pan and chop tomatoes into it, if you have any difficulties with the perception of small products, use large vegetables. Cut the tomatoes coarsely or finely - to your taste. Pour in oil or put a piece (larger) of cream. We put on the stove - to warm up. Finely chop the whole garlic and introduce it to the tomatoes. For four to five minutes, fry the food over moderate heat.
We take a small saucepan and fill it with three glasses of boiling water - this will be the broth for our soup. Put the contents of the pan in boiling water. Salt and pepper according to your own preferences.
Beat the eggs slightly in a separate bowl and in small portions, pour the mass into the soup in a thin stream. If you did everything right in this recipe for a quick and tasty meal, then egg flakes will begin to surface on the surface of the soup. Stir the egg whisk lightly. We give a minute to boil and, falling asleep chopped greens, serve to the table with sour cream. You can diversify this light soup with croutons, suddenly you have some ready-made ones.
Sausage Soup
In this case, delicious instant food will be cooked a little longer due to the fact that the soup has potatoes. However, cooking time is not critical.
Soup composition
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 4 pieces;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 piece;
- a handful of vermicelli;
- 3-5 sausages;
- half a can of green peas;
- salt, bay leaf and vegetable oil for frying.
We do not waste time and translate into reality a recipe for a quick and tasty meal at home.
Peeled and chopped potatoes into a pot of boiling water. To salt. Grind carrots and onions in any way convenient for you and fry in oil until golden. When the vegetables are slightly podgoloten, cut into them sausages "coins." Meanwhile, the potatoes should boil and have almost cooked. Put the resulting fry in a pan. Boil the soup for half a minute and cover with small vermicelli. After two or three minutes, as soon as the vermicelli is soft, the soup can already be served for lunch.
Macaroni and cheese - a favorite duet
Here's how to make a quick meal for lunch or dinner. At first glance, this is banal pasta, but they often help the hostess when it is necessary to feed everyone tasty, inexpensive and satisfying.
Before you start cooking, check your bins for the following ingredients:
- pasta - 300-450 grams (depending on the number of eaters);
- 1 liter of milk;
- flour - 4 tablespoons;
- butter - 4 tablespoons;
- soft cheese.
Pasta prepared according to this recipe is not only a quick and tasty meal, it often goes into the category of favorite fast food.
We put the pasta to cook, and in the meantime, proceed to the preparation of the sauce. In a pan, heat the oil. It is better to take a piece of creamy, but also lean, without aroma, is quite suitable. Pour the whole norm of flour into the melted butter, in small portions. Fry the flour until slightly golden in color and, as soon as you have the necessary shade, pour in small portions of milk, stirring the sauce. Add cheese a little and, without stopping stirring, cook until it is completely melted. Try the sauce on the salt, if necessary, salt it.
Serving pasta with cheese sauce
This instant food is served as follows: put a portion of pasta in a plate and pour the resulting cheese sauce.
Pasta should be cooked al-dente - a little hard inside. It is also perfectly acceptable to use the "yesterday" pasta, preheating them.
Daily snacks
Tasty and fast food for every day is a variety of high-speed snacks. Here are recipes for some of them. Try to cook them all, you may have a new favorite snack.
Bacon Rolls
Ingredients:
- bacon - 1 pack;
- processed cheese;
- a lot of garlic;
- a bunch of greens (onions, dill);
- black bread.
Cooking method
Lubricate loaves of bread generously with crushed garlic. Cut bread into thin strips. Cut greens into medium-sized strips. Cut the bacon into strips and grease it with cream cheese.
We collect rolls: we put a thin bar (strip) of garlic bread on the greased part of the bacon. We apply strips of greens to the bread and, wrapping it in a roll, pierce with a skewer.
If the previous version of the snack was not quite tasty or too spicy for you, here is another recipe for a quick and tasty meal. For dinner or breakfast, you can safely cook it. Fans of red fish will especially be pleased.
Sandwiches with red fish
Product Composition:
- fillet of any red fish (salted);
- 1 orange and lemon;
- butter;
- sliced ​​bread.
Cooking technology
Cut the fillet into thin slices and place in a suitable dish. Salt, fill with orange and lemon juice, olive oil (or vegetable without aroma). Leave on for 15 minutes.
While the fish is pickling, prepare the bread. Spread it with butter. Place slices of fillet on slices of bread and, if possible, sprinkle with herbs.
Omelette Sandwich
This sandwich can be safely called fast and tasty food for the lazy. Cooking it is very simple, but it saturates for a decent period. Suitable for lunch, breakfast and dinner. In general - a versatile, inexpensive sandwich.
We will need these products:
- bread - 2 slices;
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- milk - 1 cup;
- soft cheese;
- garlic tooth (optional);
- greens, salt.
Cooking method:
- Fry the bread on both sides in a toaster or in a skillet with a small amount of butter.
- Grate the pieces with garlic.
- Beat eggs with milk and add salt to the mixture.
- Heat the pan with oil and pour the omelet into it. When the bottom side is seized, put the cheese on top (sliced ​​or grated). Turn the omelet on the other side and cook a little more.
- Grease the bread with ketchup or mayonnaise (which is found in the refrigerator) and put an omelet on top of it. Sprinkle with herbs.
With tomato
In the summer season, sandwiches with tomatoes and mayonnaise help out well. This is a truly quick and easy meal. Serving sandwiches is not a shame, even when guests suddenly rushed to you.
Ingredients:
- white rifled baguette;
- fresh, medium sized tomatoes;
- mayonnaise;
- garlic.
Cooking fast sandwiches. Peel and crush the garlic through a press. Add it to mayonnaise and grease each piece of loaf with garlic mayonnaise. We cut the tomatoes into plastics and put them into pieces. Top you can garnish with a sprig of fresh dill or cover the sandwich with a second slice of bread.
Salads for yourself and for sudden guests
Without this tasty and fast food, we would have to be tight. A quick salad is good in that, again, it can be served when unexpected, but very welcome guests appeared in the house. These salads can also be enjoyed at a family dinner. Here are some simple recipes from simple and affordable products.
With chicken and crackers
Product Composition:
- boiled chicken breast;
- a jar of canned corn kernels;
- hard cheese - 100-200 grams;
- 1-2 packs of crackers;
- mayonnaise.
Cooking a quick salad:
- Chop breast into small pieces.
- Grate a piece of cheese and add to the prepared chicken meat.
- Drain the liquid from the corn and pour the grains into the salad bowl.
- Add Mayo. Stir the salad. 5-10 minutes before serving, you can add crackers (namely crackers, small from a pack) and mix the dish again. If you think it is necessary, then slightly add the ready-made salad.
Tender Cheese and Pineapple Salad
Prepare the products:
- pineapples canned in their own juice - 1 can;
- hard cheese - 100-200 grams;
- mayonnaise - 2 parts;
- 1 part sour cream;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves.
Cooking method
Grate cheese on a coarse grater and mix with sour cream and mayonnaise. Squeeze garlic through the press here. Remove the pineapples from the juice and cut into cubes. Mix everything and put in a beautiful salad bowl. Optionally, the salad can be showered with herbs.
Warm Bean Salad
You should have the following products:
- a large can of canned beans; it doesn’t matter - with or without tomato, the color of the bean kernels does not matter either;
- large onion - 1 piece;
- large carrots - 1-2 pieces;
- hard cheese - about 100 grams;
- You can use mayonnaise for dressing, but salad and without it is quite high-calorie.
Technology for making warm salad
We clear onions and carrots from inedible elements. Three carrots in Korean. Chop the onion as you like. In a frying pan we heat the odorless vegetable oil and fry vegetables on it.
While vegetables undergo heat treatment, we rub one hundred grams of cheese and leave in a separate bowl.
When the vegetables have turned golden and soft, add the beans to the pan and cook for two to three minutes, stirring the contents periodically.
Turn off the stove and let the salad cool slightly. After five to seven minutes, put it in a salad bowl. It is better if the dishes are not made of plastic. We send all the grated cheese to the beans and gently mix the whole salad. Salt and pepper according to your own preferences. You can add a little mayonnaise, it will give a slight sourness to the dish. You can use lemon juice for this purpose.
A selection of quick desserts and pastries
Any lunch made with quick and tasty food recipes will not be complete if it does not have dessert and pastries. Dessert is the logical conclusion to a delicious home feast. We offer some simple recipes. Perhaps some of them will become your lifesaver.
Speed ​​cheesecakes
First, make sure that you have all the right ingredients:
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- 5 large spoons of flour;
- 5 large spoons of sugar.
Cooking
Stir the cottage cheese with sugar in a deep bowl. Add the egg and mix again until smooth. The next step is to add flour. It is also necessary to intervene in the mass, make sure that there are no flour lumps. The result should be a not very dense curd mass of medium humidity.
In a frying pan, heat butter or lean (refined, without aroma) oil. Roll the balls with your hands and fry them until golden brown. Ready cheesecakes can be served with jam, jam or sour cream.
Fritters fast
Ingredients for their preparation:
- half a liter of kefir;
- flour - 3 cups;
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- 1-2 large tablespoons of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a teaspoon of baking powder.
Cooking technology
In a deep bowl, combine kefir, sugar and a pinch of salt. If you have vanilla sugar in your bins, you can use it in this recipe. Now beat the eggs in kefir and mix the mass vigorously with a whisk. Mix flour with baking powder and enter into a liquid base for pancakes. We stir the dough again. Once the mass is viscous and uniform, you can start baking.
The oil pan must first be heated and put into it with a tablespoon. Then you get nice pancakes, medium diameter. Fry them until golden brown on both sides. When serving, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar. Also, sour cream, jam or condensed milk is suitable for pancakes.
Fast Sesame Cookies
We will need the following ingredients:
- flour - seventy grams;
- butter - sixty grams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- sugar - 3 large spoons;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- sesame seeds - 160 grams;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a teaspoon of baking powder.
How will we cook?
The oil must be placed in the microwave or softened in any other way convenient for you. Once you have made it soft, mix it with granulated sugar and vanilla sugar. Now it’s the turn of the egg and lemon juice, we intervene in the oil mass.
It will be more convenient to use a mixer (beating for a minute). During the process, we introduce small portions of flour. Then we interfere with sesame seeds.
Preheat the oven. Place baking paper on a baking sheet and lay out future cookies on it using a tablespoon or dessert spoon. The time spent in the preheated oven is 10-15 minutes. As soon as the cookies turn golden, take it out and boil the tea.
Unsweetened fast baking
Not everyone loves sweets, but this selection will appeal to those who prefer savory pastries.
Cheese muffins with bacon
Product Composition:
- jar (small) of soft cream cheese;
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- baking powder - large chips;
- milk - 1 cup;
- flour - 300 grams;
- bacon - a little;
- the cheese is soft.
Cooking method
Toast the bacon. Beat the eggs with half a teaspoon of salt and add the fat from the bacon. Now in the eggs you need to add flour mixed with baking powder. Pour a glass of milk in small portions. Make sure that the consistency of the composition does not turn out to be too liquid. Flour has a different level of stickiness.
Grate soft cheese. Finely chop the bacon. Add these ingredients to the dough. At the end of the batch, add soft cream cheese and mix thoroughly again.
Grease a mold for muffins (portioned cupcakes) with vegetable oil and put the resulting cheese dough into it.
In a oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake portioned cupcakes for 20-25 minutes.
Speed ​​pizza
Before you start making this pizza, check your bins. Here are the products we need:
- tomatoes - 3 pieces;
- two types of cheese - soft and hard;
- sausages (smoked sausage or boiled or sausages, sausages).
- pita;
- bulgarian pepper;
- ketchup and mayonnaise - grease the base of our pizza.
Cooking pizza
- Heat a sheet of pita bread in a frying pan, lightly oiled.
- We lay out the filling of the remaining ingredients as follows: first, grease the base with a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. Then grate two varieties of cheese on a grater and sprinkle with 1 part pita bread.
- Add slices of finely chopped sausage and tomatoes on top. Paprika too finely chop and sprinkle on top.
- Now we fill the pizza with the rest of the cheese on top and, having closed the lid, we keep it in the pan under low heat. Once the cheese has melted, the quick pizza is ready. Enjoy your meal!