I always want to cook something tasty, but so that it does not take much time. Unfortunately, in everyday life it is not always possible to allocate a sufficient period of time for cooking. This is probably why fast dishes are especially popular with housewives. In our article we want to present a number of recipes that will help you prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even something for the festive table, because it happens that guests come unexpectedly, and you need to treat them with something.
Oven baked cheesecakes
If we talk about what fast dishes for dinner can be prepared, then cheesecakes will probably be number one option. You can make them in many ways. Very well they are obtained in the oven. Yes, and time is saved. A large portion is laid out on a baking sheet. In the dough, you can put a banana or pieces of chocolate, nuts. So, we need to prepare:
- Cottage cheese - two hundred grams.
- One egg.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
- Flour - 3 tablespoons.
- Semka - 2 tablespoons.
- Sour cream.
From these ingredients you get only eight cheesecakes, so if you need more, feel free to increase the number of products.
Mash the cottage cheese a little and add the egg, sugar and semolina to it. Mix it all well and leave for about fifteen minutes so that the semolina swells. Then add flour and, if desired, vanilla. And mix everything again.
With wet hands we make cheesecakes and roll them on two sides in flour. Spread on a baking sheet. From above, be sure to grease them with sour cream. Bake at 180 degrees for fifteen minutes.
Homemade meatballs
When considering recipes for quick dishes, it is impossible not to recall homemade juicy meatballs. They are quick and easy to prepare.
Such products will be useful to us:
- Stuffing - 0.5 kg.
- Onion - 100 g.
- Milk - 150 ml.
- White bread - 200 g.
- Egg - 1 piece.
- Breadcrumbs or flour - 100 g.
- Vegetable oil, salt, pepper.
Cutlets are tastier if minced meat is pork and beef. White bread is better to take stale. So, let's begin. Soak the bread in milk. Peel and finely chop the onion, and then fry in vegetable oil until golden.
Put the minced meat in the pan, add the egg and the squeezed bread. Salt and pepper, and then mix the mixture with your hands until smooth. Stuffing is better to beat off a little. To do this, throw it in parts into the pan. Then you can add one protein, whipped into a steep foam.
Having formed the patties, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs. Then fry on both sides until a crust forms. And at the end, you need to add water to the pan, cover it with a lid and simmer until ready.
Pizza cooked in a pan
Fast food recipes are good because it takes a little time and effort to cook, and the result is pleasing.
Imagine that guests unexpectedly came to you and you need to cook up treats as soon as possible. But what can be cooked in fifteen minutes? Right, pizza! Fast and tasty dishes in such cases are just salvation.
Ingredients for Pizza:
- Sour cream - 4 tablespoons.
- Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons.
- Eggs - 2 pieces.
- Flour - 9 tablespoons.
- Sausage, mushrooms, hard cheese, tomatoes - in a word, everything that you like as a filling.
Let's start by making the pizza dough. Mix the flour, mayonnaise, eggs. The dough should turn out liquid, like thick sour cream. In this recipe, the most important thing is to add the flour correctly. See do not overdo it. The consistency should be such that the mass does not stick to the hands and at the same time does not pour too much. The dough will need to be leveled with your hands in a pan, so as to cover the entire surface.
We smear a cold frying pan with oil, heat it and lay out the base. The thickness of the reservoir should not exceed one centimeter. We put the cake on the fire. He should grab a little.
Put the filling on top of the dough. She can be absolutely anyone. Use the one you love. For example, meat, sausage, ham, olives, tomatoes, etc. Sprinkle everything on top with cheese.
We cover the pan with a lid - and again to the fire. Cheese should be completely melted. As soon as this happened, then the pizza is ready.
Fast food is good because you don’t need to devote a lot of time to them - instead, it is better to chat with guests. As they say, both friends are full, and you are not tired, and even managed to do everything like a good housewife.
Mushroom Soup
A little time is needed to prepare the first. These are also quick dishes. Yes, do not be surprised! Let's look at how to make champignon soup puree. We will need:
- Champignons - 0.5 kg.
- Onion - two pieces.
- Chicken, vegetable broth - 0.75 l.
- Cream - 200 ml.
- Eggs are two.
- Parsley, salt, butter, crackers, hard cheese.
Wash the mushrooms, clean and finely chop or chop in a blender. Onions should also be finely chopped. Next, mushrooms with onions need to be fried in vegetable oil. Add flour and mix well. Put the resulting mass into boiling broth. To taste, salt and boil for about ten minutes. After that, you can again grind everything with a blender to a homogeneous mass. And do not forget to add cream. Before serving, add chopped egg and chopped greens. Each serving can be sprinkled with grated cheese. Here is the soup puree and ready.
What other fast food are there? Next in line are salads.
Carrot and cabbage salad
Everyone knows carrot and cabbage salad. It is light and rich in vitamins. It can be cooked throughout the winter, as well as in the spring. You can fill it with lemon, vegetable oil, mayonnaise. It all depends on your taste.
So, we cut the cabbage into thin strips, salt it and remember it with our hands. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. The bullseye needs to be peeled and grated too. Mix all the ingredients. And now we will season the salad with oil and lemon juice.
Such simple and quick dishes are very good to cook for dinner. They are very light, which means there is no risk of gaining extra pounds.
Chicken and Vegetable Salad
To prepare such a wonderful salad, take:
- Brynza - 100 grams.
- Tomatoes - three pieces.
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Jar of olives or olives.
- Blue bow.
- Green onion.
- Vegetable oil, pepper, salt.
Tomatoes need to be cut into large cubes, cucumbers too. Blue onion is chopped with rings. We cut the feta cheese into cubes. Mix all the ingredients, salt and pepper. Do not forget to add the olives, after removing the seeds from them. Salad season with vegetable or olive oil. You will spend no more than five minutes on cooking. You must admit that such salads are truly fast and tasty dishes!
Baked red fish
We want to offer you a recipe for baked red fish. She will prepare solo, without any additives, because in itself she is already a real delicacy.
In general, fast food is such a fertile topic, there are a lot of variations today. And any housewife can delight the household with something tasty every day. Well, red fish is perfect for a special occasion.
Let's make a reservation right away: preparing a treat is quick, but it will take some time to prepare. So, take the salmon, wash it and dry the slices. Next, pepper, salt and put marinated in dry white wine (aged for at least an hour). Take the baking foil and divide it into as many parts as we have steaks. On each of them you need to grate a little butter. Put a fish on top, sprinkle with wine, and then a little more oil. Each piece is carefully folded. We put all the bags on a baking sheet and bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes. Such fish is well served with sauce or lemon.
As you can see, quick dishes are not only banal scrambled eggs with sausages, if you wish, even a modest dinner can be turned into a feast of the stomach. And it is subject to everyone!
Instead of an afterword
Each housewife has her own little secrets of cooking this or that treat. Including in their arsenal there are also fast dishes that save at the right time. As they say, the craftswomen are able to literally make something tasty and wonderful out of nothing, each time at the same time delighting their households. Try it and you!