Dishes that you can take with you to nature should meet several conditions: firstly, not to be perishable, and secondly, not require special difficulties during transportation. So, for example, meat, salads and snacks can be packed in plastic containers with tight-fitting lids, sauces and drinks in airtight bottles, and fruits and bread in the most ordinary cellophane or paper bags.
Pick your recipe
Chicken Breast Salad with Apples and Radishes
Ingredients:
- 600 g chicken breast fillet
- 4 radishes
- 2 stalks of celery
- 1 small green apple
- 100 g rucolla green salad
- 50 ml low-fat sour cream
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise
- salt pepper
Cooking step by step:
1. Rinse the fillet, free from films, if necessary. Place in a pot of water and boil until cooked. Then wait until the meat has cooled, and disassemble it with your hands into fibers or cut into thin strips.
2. Combine sour cream and mayonnaise, add sliced chicken. Cut vegetables, let dry - for this, you can lay a colander with paper towels and put vegetables there. Finely chop the celery stalks, cut the radish into round slices. Cut the peeled apple into small pieces.
3. Stir the vegetable mixture into the chicken, add the washed, dried and hand-torn green salad, mix and add spices to taste.
Tip: you need to eat such a salad, laying it on pieces of bread, gray or buckwheat is ideal for sandwiches.
Canapé snack
Ingredients:
- 200 g hard cheese
- 150 g ham
- 1 fresh cucumber
- 4 radishes
How to do it:
1. Cut all products into cubes of the same size. Take wooden toothpicks or special plastic racks and string the ingredients alternately.
Tip: instead of cucumber, radish and ham with cheese, some fruits also combine well, for example, grapes and pears - they can also be used in cooking canapes, it will turn out very tasty.
Coleslaw and Shrimp Salad
Ingredients:
- 300 g fresh white cabbage
- 1 cup boiled shrimp
- 2 sweet red bell peppers
- 1 small bunch of fresh dill
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of mayonnaise
- salt
Cooking in stages:
1. Wash the cabbage, let it dry and cut into thin strips. Salt and remember with your hands to make the cabbage softer and give a certain amount of juice.
2. Wash peppers, pat dry with paper kitchen towels to get rid of excess moisture. Then remove the stalk, seeds and septum. Cut the peppers into very thin rings, if not, then into half rings.
3. Wash the green dill. shake off drops, chop. Stir all the components of the salad, season with the sauce, sprinkle with dill on top.
Tip: you can cut into slices a thick soft pita bread, roll it with cones and fill it with shrimp salad - you get an interesting light snack.
Pork in onion marinade
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of pork
- 1 kg onions
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- salt pepper
Cooking in stages:
1. Rinse the meat thoroughly, dry with paper towels, then cut across the fibers into pieces about the size of a box of matches. If you cut the pork along the fibers, then it will bake worse and will curl during cooking.
2. Peel the onion and pass it through the meat grinder. Put the resulting mashed potatoes on the bottom of a deep pan, put the meat on top, then another layer of onion, then again the pork and chopped onions. Put in the refrigerator and store for a day under the lid.
3. 60 minutes before cooking, remove the meat, remove excess onion pulp, season with spices, add oil and mix. String the meat on skewers along the fibers and fry on the grill until cooked.
Tip: the classic kebab recipe uses squeezed onion juice instead of mashed potatoes.
Stuffed pita bread
Ingredients:
- 1 thin Armenian lavash
- 100 g butter
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of chopped fresh herbs
- 6 slices of cheese
- 6 slices of boiled ham
- 1/2 fresh cucumber
- green lettuce
- salt pepper
Cooking step by step:
1. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance to make it soft. Peel the garlic, cut in half, remove the green middle - then the taste of garlic will be less harsh, and even such a trick will save you from a strong garlic smell from the mouth. Pass the pulp of garlic through a press.
2. Combine softened butter, garlic, herbs and spices. Cut the pita into 4 parts, grease each part with green oil. Top with green lettuce, finely chopped ham, cheese and cucumber.
3. Roll the pita roll, then wrap it with cling film, place in a plastic container and put in the refrigerator. Remove the film before serving, and cut the pita bread into pieces. This simple recipe can be varied by adding another filling.
Onion rings in the dough
Ingredients:
- 3 large onions
- 1 cup + 1 tbsp. spoon of sunflower oil
- 150 g wheat flour
- 330 ml of light beer
- 1 egg
- a pinch of salt
Cooking in stages:
1. For dough, combine wheat flour, yolk, 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil and salt. When stirring, carefully pour in the beer. Beat the mass with a whisk - you should get a fairly thick mixture. Whisk the protein in the foam and gently mix into the dough.
2. Wash the onions, peel and cut into rings. Dip the onion rings into the dough, and then fry in a deep pan with vegetable oil on both sides until a beautiful golden crust appears. If the rings stick together, carefully disconnect them with a spatula. Place on paper towels to absorb excess fat. It is better to serve this appetizer in a warm form with sauce.
Onion Rings Sauce
Ingredients:
- 200 g mayonnaise
- 100 g ketchup
- 40 ml brandy
- fresh greens
- salt pepper
How to do:
Wash greens, chop. Mix all the components of the recipe in the right proportion, season with salt and ground pepper to taste. Serve the sauce to the onion rings.
Sandwiches with nuts
Ingredients:
- 10 slices of bread
- 50 g cream cheese
- 50 g butter
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of thick mayonnaise
- salt
Cooking step by step:
1. Soften the butter. Rub the cream cheese on a coarse or fine grater. Grind the walnuts. Peel and finely chop the garlic or mince through a garlic squeezer.
2. Stir the processed cheese, butter, garlic, nuts and mayonnaise, salt to taste. Spread the cheese and nut paste on the bread. You can decorate with fresh herbs.
Club sandwiches
Ingredients:
- 6 slices of wheat toaster bread
- 180 g chicken breast
- 6 slices of salami
- 3 boiled eggs
- 2 tomatoes
- green lettuce
- 8 tbsp. spoons of sour cream
- 2 teaspoons mustard
- salt pepper
Cooking in stages:
1. Brown the slices of bread in the toaster, in a dry frying pan or in the oven on a baking sheet so that they lightly brown. Cut in half diagonally to make triangles.
2. Stir sour cream and mustard (it is better to take sweet) and spread on slices of bread. Grate chicken breast with spices and fry until tender, cut into slices. You can pre-cook the meat, and then lightly fry in a pan until blush.
3. Put the chicken slices on half the bread, lay the salami on top, sprinkle with chopped egg, cover with lettuce and a cup of tomato. Fold the triangles of bread in pairs, fasten with wooden skewers.
Tomato Sandwiches
Ingredients:
- 8 slices of wheat bread
- 3 large fleshy tomatoes
- 1/3 cup thick creamy mayonnaise
- 1/2 lemon
- fresh greens
- salt pepper
Cooking step by step:
1. For lemon, grate the zest (half a teaspoon) and squeeze the juice (it will take 1 teaspoon). Wash greens, chop, mix mayonnaise, greens, lemon juice and zest, season with spices to taste.
2. Wash the tomatoes and cut into slices. Brown bread in a pan without adding oil or in a toaster. You can also do this on the grill. Slices of bread with mayonnaise sauce. Put slices of tomatoes on 4 slices, collect 4 sandwiches - mayonnaise should be inside.
