What to cook for romantic dinner for a loved one at home on February 14? Everything from salad to dessert in our selection for your inspiration!
Salad with crab sticks remains one of the most popular for the holidays and on weekdays. Despite the fact that sticks are a rather dubious product in terms of their composition, they are actively used to prepare all sorts of goodies. We will try to choose a product from a trusted manufacturer and start preparing a salad for Valentine's Day. However, this salad will be good on any day when you want to create a romantic atmosphere.
Despite all the external complexity, such a salad for February 14 is very simple to make. We will prepare the salad in garnish forms to give it the shape of a heart. This is very relevant for Valentine's Day. The layers will lie one on top of the other evenly, nothing will jump out and will not violate our plan. For one such form, very few products are needed.
- crab sticks- 100 g;
- potatoes - 1 pc.;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- purple onion - ½ pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- salt, mayonnaise, pepper - to taste.
In advance, boil the carrots in their skins, potatoes in their “uniforms” and an egg.
Peel carrots, potatoes and eggs. Remove the packaging from the sticks.
Can be cut. Crab sticks are the main product. Let's not cut them too small.
The rest of the ingredients are best cut into smaller pieces. Let's start with potatoes.
And purple onions.
Grate carrots. We will put it on the very top of the salad in the form of a heart. From the thick part of the carrot, you can cut a thin ribbon and twist it in the form of a flower. It can be used to decorate appetizers.
The ingredients are ready: crab sticks, egg, potatoes, carrots, corn.
At the very bottom, put the potatoes in the form, grease with mayonnaise. Potatoes can be salted and peppered.
Lubricate with mayonnaise.
Put the onion on the potatoes.
Then testicles.
We'll smear it too.
Now it's the turn of the crab sticks.
Grease a layer of sticks with mayonnaise.
And again - mayonnaise. Let's tamp down the salad.
With the help of a smaller heart, lay out the heart of grated carrots on the salad.
Carefully remove both forms.
Let's decorate the salad with greens and boiled carrot decorations.
Your Valentine's Day Dinner is Ready! Have a nice celebration and good impressions!
Recipe 2: heart pizza for a romantic dinner on February 14
Heart-shaped pizza - it's all the same familiar to us italian dish, which differs from the classic only in design. Cooking it at home is quite simple, because you can use blanks. So, for example, you can buy frozen dough. Although its own preparation will not cause you any special problems, and even more so if you have ever done it at least once.
As a filling for such a pizza, we will use salami sausage and olives. The cheese component of the dish will consist of two types of cheese: parmesan and mozzarella. However, the filling in such a pizza can be absolutely any. You can adjust this at your own discretion.
This heart-shaped pizza is the perfect solution for a romantic dinner. It looks original and, besides, it is guaranteed to be tasty, and even those who have never stood at the stove can make it! In addition, perhaps there is no such person who would not love pizza. Such a dish will be a win-win.
So, if the hassle of preparing for romantic dinner is about to overtake you, then we suggest you start cooking heart-shaped pizza as soon as possible, and a recipe with step by step photos which is presented below. Let's get started!
We will make pizza ready dough, so first of all stock up on them. Then follow the instructions on the packaging of this product.
Sprinkle the countertop with flour, put the defrosted dough on it, and then roll it out in a thin layer and give it the shape of a heart. You can do this by eye, or you can pre-cut a template from paper. With the remaining scraps, you can seal the edges of the pizza, making the sides, as in the photo.
The finished layer of dough in the form of a heart must be very carefully moved onto a baking sheet.
Now we need salami. The sausage needs to be cut into circles, and if you took a ready-made cut, then the amount of work will decrease.
Part of this filling will be placed under the cheese, and part on it. Therefore, we will give the shape of hearts to those circles of sausage that will be on top. To do this, we use a cookie cutter. If there is none in the kitchen, then you can cut hearts out of salami with kitchen scissors.
Lubricate the dough tomato paste or any pizza sauce. Next, lay out the circles of salami and its trimmings, which are left over from cutting out hearts.
Sprinkle thickly with grated mozzarella. Place heart-shaped salami and halved olives on top of the cheese. Grease the pizza sides with olive oil and sprinkle them with grated parmesan.
Now the pizza is baked. Do this according to the instructions for baking the dough on the package (it will indicate the appropriate temperature regime and baking time).
Before baking, try to remove pieces of cheese from the baking sheet so that it does not burn.
Ready-made heart-shaped pizza should be served immediately, because it is especially tasty when warm. As you can see, the recipe is quite simple and quick. Your significant other will be very happy with this dish. Here you will see!
Recipe 3: salad on February 14 Secret passion (step by step photos)
- Beef 100 g
- Lettuce leaves 100 g
- Cherry tomatoes 100 g
- Dried tomatoes 5 pcs
- Parmesan 30 g
- Olive oil 2 tbsp. l.
- Vinegar 1 tbsp. l.
- Mustard 1 tsp
- Seasoning 1 tsp
For cooking, you can take any salad you want, I took the usual leaf salad. Wash and tear it to pieces.
Cut cherry tomatoes in half Sun-dried tomatoes cut into small pieces.
Combine lettuce with tomatoes.
Making olive oil dressing balsamic vinegar, mustard, seasonings "Italian herbs" and salt. Whisk everything with a whisk.
Dress the salad with dressing, mix. Lay out on a serving platter.
Cut beef jerky into thin strips.
Laying out the stripes beef jerky on top of the salad.
Sprinkle the top of the salad with grated parmesan. Bon appetit!
Recipe 4: caramel chicken by February 14 for lovers
- Chicken fillet 400 g
- Sweet red pepper 150 g
- Honey 25 g
- Wine vinegar 4 tbsp
- Butter 20 g
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Ground paprika to taste
Pepper cut into thin strips.
Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces.
Season the chicken with salt, pepper, paprika.
Melt butter. Fry the fillet for 3-4 minutes.
Mix vinegar with honey until honey dissolves.
Pour the vinegar into the pan.
Add pepper. Cook for about 5 more minutes.
Recipe 5: Valentine's Day Snack - Hearts on Crackers
Delicious snack on crackers for Valentine's Day! It is very easy to cook it!
- Pink salmon (boiled) - 100 g;
- Processed cheese (cream) - 1 pc;
- Mayonnaise (or sour cream) - 1 tablespoon;
- Salt and pepper (to taste);
- Horseradish with beets - 1-2 tsp;
- salted crackers;
- green onion (for garnish)
Let the boiled pink salmon pieces cool and remove all the bones. Chop into small pieces.
Processed cheese - creamy (it is soft) add to the fish.
Salt and sprinkle with pepper and beat with a blender until homogeneous mass.
Using a syringe or a plastic bag (cut off a corner), squeeze the heart-shaped mass onto the crackers. Lubricate the middle with a little fish mass too. And on top, in the middle, gently distribute the horseradish with a small spoon as well to make a heart. Decorate with a green bow. Very tasty snack! Enjoy!
Recipe 6: Strawberry St. Valentine Cocktail (Step by Step)
- 200 gr. ripe strawberries
- 200 gr. creamy ice cream
- 200 ml. milk
- 50 gr. strawberry syrup
- 1 tbsp sugar as desired
For a cocktail with strawberries, choose ripe juicy berries. We also need cream ice cream, a glass of milk and quite a bit of strawberry syrup.
We wash the strawberries in running water, remove the tails. If the berries are large, cut into several pieces. We put strawberries, ice cream in a blender glass, pour chilled milk.
Pour in some strawberry syrup. If Strawberry cocktail prepared exclusively for adults, then instead of syrup, you can add homemade liqueur from a rose, or any homemade fruit and berry tincture, for example, chokeberry tincture.
Strawberry smoothie is prepared in a blender. This will take no more than one minute. Don't try to crush the strawberry seeds, let alone remove them. These small strawberry seeds contain the most important micronutrient - zinc. It is zinc that activates the work of vitamin A, slows down the aging process of the skin, improves intellectual abilities.
We try the finished cocktail for sugar. Usually, if the strawberries are sweet, then there is no need to add sugar. Serve strawberry cocktail chilled.
Recipe 7: Almond Hearts for Dessert on February 14 (with photo)
Dessert has pleasant taste almonds, and lemon juice gives it a citrus tenderness. At the end of a romantic dinner on February 14, you can serve these cute hearts.
- Almonds (peeled and chopped) - 100 g
- Powdered sugar - 100 g
- Liquor (Amaretto, you can do without it, if prepared for children) - 1 tbsp. l.
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.
- Cocoa powder (optional) chocolate icing) - 3 tbsp. l.
Mix almond flour and powdered sugar. Add to the mass 1 tbsp. a spoonful of Amaretto liqueur. If you are preparing a dessert for children, omit the liquor. To the resulting mass add 2 tbsp. spoons of lyon juice. Knead the mass until smooth.
Here we have such a bun. Wrap it in cling film and leave it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Roll out the chilled dough (kolobok) 0.5 cm thick on a table slightly dusted with flour, it is better to roll it out with food paper.
Cut out heart shapes. Roll the remaining mass again into a bun and roll it out again with a thickness of 0.5 cm. Continue cutting out hearts.
Put the finished hearts on a plate and sprinkle with cocoa powder. Put the finished hearts in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. If desired, the hearts can be covered with chocolate icing, this is at your discretion. I also like the cocoa sprinkles.
Surprise and please your loved one on February 14th not only with gifts, but also with a delicious treat. The article offers you ideas for decorating and preparing a romantic dinner for Valentine's Day.
It is customary to celebrate the holiday of "all lovers" not only with gifts, valentines, congratulations and declarations of love, but also delicious treats, sweets, beautiful breakfasts and romantic dinners. The symbol of the holiday is the heart., which is present literally in everything: postcards, gift wrapping, balloons, decorations and, of course, food!
Any dish can be prepared for your “second half” and put it on a plate aesthetically (in the shape of a heart). However, resourceful chefs came up with not only a beautiful design of dishes, but also their original preparation. Yes, with the help simple tips, you can serve an unusual breakfast than to surprise and please your loved one.
Ideas for unusual dishes and treats:
The easiest recipe "hearty" toasts with jam or nut butter. Preparing them is very simple: first cut a heart out of a slice of bread with a knife, and then fry it in a toaster or in a frying pan without oil. Spread the finished toast with the selected jam and arrange beautifully on a plate. This dish is a must add a cup of coffee.
Toast for Valentine's Day
If you are not good at cooking or just don't have time to cook unusual dishes, you can go the easy way - just purchase in advance the dishes for serving food in the shape of a heart. You can fill it with sweets, fruits or berries. This will not only "please the eye", but also give your loved one pleasant emotions.
Moreover, such dishes can serve as a gift and be used in the future in everyday life.
Fruit salad Unusual feed You can give a heart shape to almost any dish. The most popular: spaghetti with sauce, pizza, sandwiches, various cereals and salads, snacks.
Heart shaped spaghetti and sauce 
Salad with heart-shaped vegetables 
Mini pizza with various additives
Holiday scrambled toast Not only dishes can help you, but also special kitchenware. In modern stores, you can find unusual molds for boiling and frying eggs, which, instead of the usual one, will give the egg a heart shape.
Salad with heart shaped eggs cook pizza for valentine's day very simple. You don't have to look for some special recipe, you can use any: familiar, simple without yeast or yeast. Also as a basis fit puff pastry , cut it out in advance so that the base takes the shape of a heart.
Heart shaped pizza 
Simple homemade pizza with sausages If you are good at baking, then this can "play into your hands", as they say. You can congratulate your loved one with sweet cookies, delicious buns, sweets, marmalade and chocolates. A person can eat such treats all day long, than to cheer himself up and get pleasant emotions.
delicious pastries heart shaped 
Simple shortbread with heart sprinkles 
Buns in the shape of a heart Menu for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
romantic dinner is needed in order to bring together hearts in love, give them the magic of tender feelings and delight them with joint minutes. Romantic dinner should be beautiful and tasty. Do not cook a lot of dishes, because you should not overeat (you will need strength for the night).
The best thing to do light salad and hearty meal meat or fish, complemented by an unusual sauce. You can also add fruits and sweets, because they will certainly bring pleasure, while drinking wine or champagne. Fruit slices can be shaped like a heart by sprinkling them through a sieve powdered sugar, and from sweets they will do pastries, cakes or chocolate candies-hearts.
IMPORTANT: A homemade romantic dinner will allow you to spend time usefully and not as expensive as in a restaurant. You can cook any food, play a movie about love and drink a light alcoholic drink.
Home romantic dinner Ideas for a romantic dinner:
fish salad in the shape of a heart canned tuna
Hot snack with shrimp and cherry tomatoes for a romantic dinner 
Unusual salad with declarations of love for the holiday 
Romantic dinner at home 
Fruit salad in half a pineapple 
Spaghetti and salad for a romantic dinner 
Baked fish or a piece of meat for a romantic dinner IMPORTANT: In the design holiday table for a romantic dinner, the main thing is not to be too lazy to decorate the table with elegant dishes and glasses, buy the necessary paraphernalia, candles and flowers.
Beautiful setting for a romantic dinner 
holiday food and paraphernalia 
A simple but soulful dinner for two A dish such as sushi. This food is often present on the tables of modern couples for dinner, especially for a romantic one. cook sushi and rolls you can do it yourself, or you can order in a restaurant. It's essential saves you time and energy.
Such food can be very beautifully arranged on serving plates, lay out in the shape of a heart or write in pieces a word. Besides, sushi and rolls- food made from seafood, which in turn have a very good effect on potency (as aphrodisiacs). Such an advantage of dinner will allow the couple to have a very sensual night.
Romantic Japanese dinner 
Sushi shaped like a heart on festive dinner
Rolls laid out in the shape of a heart 
Rolls for a festive romantic dinner Festive decoration table with rolls for a romantic dinner Salads for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
As already mentioned, romantic Dinner shouldn't be "heavy" And light salad- this is the best you can feed your “soul mate”. Of course you can use the recipe for any festive and everyday salad , the main thing is to present it unusually and solemnly.
The most popular "romantic" salad is considered to be "Caesar" with chicken breast. The dish has a lot delicious ingredients, unusual sauce, freshness of vegetables and satiety. It goes well with white, red and sparkling wines.
You will need:
- chicken breast- 2 pcs. (not large, can be replaced with a piece of turkey breast).
- lettuce leaves- 1 bunch (can be replaced with Beijing cabbage leaves without a hard part).
- Cherry tomatoes- 8-10 pcs. (can be replaced with any tomatoes, cut into small slices).
- Bread- 2 slices of white wheat loaf(useful for croutons).
- boiled egg- 2 pcs. (can be replaced with several pieces. quail eggs, also boiled). You will also need one raw yolk!
- parmesan cheese- 100 g (can be replaced with Grano Padano or any hard and fatty cheese).
- Garlic- 1 clove
- Mustard- 1 tsp (if the mustard is spicy, you can use a smaller amount, or replace with Dijon).
- Mayonnaise- 1 tbsp.
Cooking:
- First of all, one should prepare croutons: cut the bread pulp into cubes and send to dry in the oven. Make sure they don't burn. You can sprinkle the croutons with salt beforehand.
- The chicken breast is rubbed with salt and pepper and can be baked in the oven, fried in a pan or boiled in water if you don't eat fried foods. Make sure the breast does not dry out. Cool the cooked breast.
- Lettuce leaves are laid out at the bottom of the serving dish, or Chinese cabbage without a hard part (head).
- Chicken breast should be cut into slices, carefully put on top of the leaves.
- Prepare the sauce: mix mayonnaise, yolk, mustard and crushed garlic clove. Mix thoroughly. Pour the sauce over the chicken pieces.
- Cut the cheese on a special grater with a knife into thin "ribbons". If the cheese crumbles, make a crumble and sprinkle over the meat. Even simple rubbing coarse grater will fit as well.
- Cherry tomatoes and eggs should be cut in half and carefully spread over the entire plate with festive salad. The dish is ready!
Caesar Salad "Caprese" in turn, it is distinguished by ease of preparation and a set of simple ingredients. The salad looks visually like cheese and vegetable slices. Salad is easy to eat, it goes well with any wine. Not "heavy" for the stomach and very tasty.
You will need:
- Mozzarella- 180 g. (Make your own cheese or buy it in a store. Choose small balls of mozzarella or baby mozzarella).
- Cherry tomatoes- 150-200 g (can be replaced with any other small tomatoes).
- Olives- 1 can (black olives without pits and additives are required).
- Olive oil- a few tablespoons for salad dressing.
- Mixture Italian herbs : dried basil, oregano, marjoram, etc.
Cooking:
- Mozzarella cut into slices
- The dry part from the leg is removed from the tomato, it is cut into circles in the size of the chopped cheese.
- On a serving dish, you can optionally put lettuce leaves, cheese and tomato are neatly laid out on top, alternating each other.
- Top laid out ingredients are decorated with black olives.
- Salad can be salted to taste (it is best to choose sea salt) and drizzle with olive oil.
- Sprinkle seasoning from natural dry "Italian" herbs on top of the salad.
- Garnish with green basil leaves
Caprese Salad "Nicoise" This is a delicious and satisfying dish, perfect for a romantic evening. It is not difficult to prepare it.
You will need:
- Canned tuna- 1 can (if you have fresh fish, replace with lightly fried tuna).
- black olives- a handful of
- Anchovies- 50 g. (810 pieces is enough)
- Green beans- 100-150 g.
- Egg- 2 pcs. (You can use chicken or quail. Depending on your preferences).
- Tomato- several pcs. "cherries" or one regular
- Salad leaves to decorate a serving dish
- Onion- 5 g green onion feathers
- Garlic- 1 clove
- Olive oil(for dressing) and 2 tbsp. wine vinegar.
IMPORTANT: Before you start preparing the salad, you must already have prepared the sauce. To do this, mix olive oil, vinegar, garlic and salt to taste.
Cooking:
- Serving platter garnished with lettuce leaves
- Boil eggs and green beans ahead of time
- Crumble or lick onion feathers on lettuce leaves. Drizzle with a couple of tablespoons of the sauce.
- Eggs and tomatoes are cut into slices, along with olives they are laid out in a circle of a plate.
- A slide of green beans is placed in the center of the plate
- A can of tuna is opened, the oil is drained. Neat, not large pieces the fish is laid out on top of the beans.
- Put a few anchovy fish on top of the tuna.
- The dish is generously poured with sauce before serving.
Nicoise Hot dishes for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
IMPORTANT: A romantic dinner assumes that you will prepare original and unusual dishes with which you can surprise and please your "soulmate".
Duck breast in caramel sauce:
You will need:
- Large chicken breast- 2 pcs. (for two servings)
- Soy sauce– 1 bottle of 250 ml.
- Natural honey- 2 tbsp.
- Garlic- 3 teeth
- Lemon- half a citrus
- Pickling spices to taste
- To decorate the finished dish, you can use black olives, grapes or capers (whatever you like), as well as fresh herbs.
Cooking:
- The breast is cleaned of excess films and fat, part of the skin should be left so that a beautiful crispy crust appears on it when frying.
- Prepare the sauce for marinating the breast: in a bowl, mix soy sauce with the juice of half a lemon, add pepper to taste (ground or mixture), squeeze out the garlic and add liquid honey. Stir the sauce and place the duck into it, cut into large cubes.
- Marinate the breast for at least an hour.
- After that, split the pan. Meat should be fried without oil. The remaining fat layer on the duck will release the necessary lard for frying.
- Fry the pieces of meat for about 5 minutes, while doing this, do not forget to shake the pan or turn the pieces on the other side with a spoon.
- After cooking, place the pieces of meat on serving plates. Add the remaining fat in the pan to a large number of marinade, melt it and wait until it becomes thicker. Sauce should be cooked for no more than three minutes.
- Pour the prepared sauce over the meat
- Decorate the dish with berries or olives, decorate with herbs before serving.
Caramel duck breast Dorada in the oven with vegetables:
You will need:
- Fish- 2 pcs. (dorado or any other, not too big fish e.g. carp).
- Tomato- 2 pcs. (medium size)
- Onion- 1 PC. large onion
- Pepper- 1 PC. sweet (any)
- Olive oil or any vegetable(a few tablespoons).
- Sea salt (to taste)
- Garlic- 1 clove
Cooking:
- Onions should be cut into neat and not thick half rings.
- After that, start cooking the fish. Remove the eyes and entrails from the fish, thoroughly wash the carcass with the cut tummy.
- Place a sliced tomato, half of a fried onion and a few rings of pepper into the cut tummy. Add garlic.
- The fish is poured with a small amount of oil, it should be peppered and salt should be added (you can a small amount, taste).
- Put the fish on a baking sheet and send it to the oven.
- The fish is baked for half an hour, while the oven temperature should be about 200 degrees.
Baked sea bream Snacks for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
Snacks for a romantic dinner can serve a full meal, because they can include a wide variety of ingredients: cheese, vegetables, fruits, meat. They must be beautifully arranged, prepared canapes or tartlets.
Fish salad in small portions with red caviar: beautiful serving
Salad "Caprese" in miniature on skewers in the form of an appetizer 
Aspic of meat with cheese and vegetables: appetizer 
Vegetable skewers with boiled shrimp 
Sandwiches with caviar and olives 
fresh salad with tomato and cheese for a snack 
Cheese canapes with nuts and grapes 
Baked cheese tartlets: appetizer 
Mini canapes for a snack for a romantic dinner 
Puff pastry appetizer with tomato The best appetizer for a romantic dinner - cheese fondue. Fondue is a pot heated by a candle, which contains cheese sauce. Using skewers or special forks, you should string any piece of sliced \u200b\u200b(ham, vegetables, nuts, potatoes, shrimp, croutons) and dip in hot sauce.
cheese fondue Sweets for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
Sweets play a very important role for the "holiday of all lovers." They set a good mood, delight with their taste, complement a romantic dinner. It is not at all necessary to cook sweets on your own, because any pastry shop will certainly offer for the holiday great amount desserts and treats.
You can choose sweetness for every taste: chocolates, heart-shaped cakes, glazed cookies, artistically painted gingerbread, cakes, truffles, marmalade, jelly and much more. Having bought a dessert, of course, you will save your personal time preparing for the holiday.
IMPORTANT: Modern housewives often offer homemade cakes for sale. Cakes, cupcakes, muffins and handmade gingerbread with icing, marzipan and sugar figurines are very popular.
Muffins for the holidays 
Cupcakes with marzipan and mastic 
Cookies with icing 
Caramel candies in the form of hearts 
Gingerbread with glaze painting 
Cakes for February 14 
Heart shaped macaroons 
homemade cookies on February 14 If you are watching your figure or just do not want to buy holiday sweets in the store, you can do fruit cutting with berries. You can decorate such a cut with fresh mint leaves, powdered sugar, cinnamon and melted chocolate.
IMPORTANT: It is very popular as a dessert on February 14 chocolate fondue. You can dip a banana, orange, strawberry, kiwi, pineapple into it. If you don't want hot fondue, chocolate-covered strawberries can be made ahead of time.
Chocolate fondue 
Strawberries in chocolate 
Strawberries in chocolate with chocolate and nut crumbs Baking for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
cook sweet pastries for Valentine's Day is quite realistic with your own hands. It is in your power to make delicious pastries and cakes from biscuit and cream. Make delicious and fluffy biscuit very simple.
You will need:
- Sugar- 1 glass (measured). If you're watching your figure, use less sugar.
- Flour- 1 cup (coarsely ground and premium, replace with any other if desired).
- Eggs- 4 things. large chicken
- Salt- pinch
Cooking:
- Egg whites should be separated from the yolks. Pour the whites into a separate bowl and beat with a mixer (blender) with a small pinch of salt for 5-10 minutes. You should get fluffy foam This is the key to a good biscuit.
- After that, gradually add sugar and continue beating until you get elastic protein mass.
- Without stopping the beating, add the yolks, gradually stir in the flour.
- Grease a baking sheet or deco with oil, pour out the dough. Bake a biscuit about 25 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Check readiness with a toothpick.
IMPORTANT: You can make cakes or a cake from a cooled biscuit by smearing the cakes with any cream (purchased or prepared on your own). If you want to bake chocolate biscuit just add some cocoa to the dough.
Cake for February 14 You can also please your “soul mate” with your own made panna cotta (creamy or chocolate). It is not difficult to make it and sugar, gelatin and cream.
Panna cotta on February 14 
Biscuit cut with hearts in chocolate icing IMPORTANT: If you have a special waffle iron, on February 14 you can bake delicious waffle hearts and add them with any sauce.
Waffle hearts for February 14 Breakfast ideas for February 14 - Valentine's Day
You can surprise your loved one in the morning by preparing a delicious and unusual breakfast for him. It will be unusual only because you will decorate it in an original way by adding holiday symbols - heart.
Toast with scrambled eggs holiday breakfast
Fancy pancakes 
Original breakfast Video: “A SIMPLE BREAKFAST on St. Valentine"
Valentine's Day means a special mood. Therefore, this holiday is not complete without a romantic dinner for two: ideally, in a calm, intimate atmosphere and dishes prepared with love and a piece of the soul.
Therefore, each representative fair half humanity, which decides on such a culinary feat for her beloved man, on the eve of the holiday, begins to frantically search for recipes with a photo for February 14th. On the basis of them, to create your own menu rich in taste impressions, designed to surprise, win and finally subdue your loved one. Several of these original and at the same time simple, but very delicious recipes for Valentine's Day, we will offer you.
Salmon baked in honey-mustard sauce
If you are in deep thought about what to cook for a fish lover on February 14, and at the same time still have time to properly prepare yourself for dinner, our recipe will come in handy for you.
To please your prince like this juicy dish with spicy shades, take the following ingredients:
salmon - 1 kg
honey - a couple of tablespoons
lemon juice - 4 tsp
mustard - 1 tsp
salt - half or a third of a tsp.
pepper.
We prepare the original salmon like this:
1. We clean the fish, you can even remove the skin, cut into portioned pieces and dip them well in a mixture of lemon juice, honey, mustard, pepper and salt
2. line the form in which we will cook the fish, line it with foil, grease with vegetable oil, sprinkle lightly with flour, lay out the pieces of salmon and forget about them for 15 minutes
3. put the form with the fish in an oven preheated to 250C and bake for 17-25 minutes (depending on how thick your portioned pieces salmon).
It is better to serve such salmon framed by greenery.
Salad with shrimps and fruits
So unusual in its flavor combinations salad - great option for those who are looking for a recipe for what to cook on February 14th. The dish is guaranteed to be tasty, light and appetizing.
So, let's go through the recipe step by step:
1. take products:
shrimp (cocktail) - 24 pcs.
fruits (grapefruit, pear, mango, lime) - 1 pc.
lemon - ½ piece
cinnamon - ½ tsp
honey - 3 tsp
dry dill - 1 tsp
olive oil - 3 tbsp. l.
arugula
salt pepper
2. squeeze the juice from the lime and lemon and mix it with honey, salt, dill, pepper and olive oil, whisk until smooth with a whisk - this will be our sauce
3. peel and peel the grapefruit slices, cut the pear into slices
4. lightly fry on olive oil shrimp (about 2 minutes)
5. put the arugula, grapefruit slices and chopped pear, shrimp on the dish and pour over the sauce (leave a little sauce)
6. Sprinkle the diced mango with cinnamon, grease with the remaining sauce and spread on the shrimp.
We decorate our salad extravaganza with arugula and serve to the festive table.
Cake "Velvet Heart"
And this one sweet recipe on February 14 with a photo of a heart-shaped cake will become a lifesaver for hostesses who do not like or have not yet mastered the oven.
To make a super chocolate dessert, prepare the following ingredients:
bitter chocolate - 0.5 kg
butter - 0.3 kg
eggs - 8 pcs.
coffee (strong) - 0.1 l
cognac - 5-6 tbsp. l.
vegetable oil - 100-120 g
salt
heart shape (detachable purchased or homemade cardboard).
It is better to cook this cake in the evening so that it freezes properly overnight. And we will start by soaking the raisins in cognac and separating the whites from the yolks. Let's make mousse:
1. pour coffee into a saucepan and add 350 g of chocolate, put it on low heat and stir until the latter dissolves, then add to it butter, stir again and remove from heat;
2. one by one, mix in 6 yolks, raisins and cognac;
3. beat all 8 egg whites with a pinch of salt until firm, shiny foam and very carefully mix them into the chocolate mixture.
4. Now lay out the form with parchment, and carefully place the resulting mousse into it and refrigerate overnight.
5. The next day, you can make the glaze: melt the remaining chocolate and mix it with vegetable oil.
6. We free the already frozen cake from the mold, put it on a beautiful plate, pour it abundantly with icing and again put it in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
The finished chocolate and coffee miracle can be additionally decorated as you like.
Love and be loved!
Option number one
Salmon and chicken would be good for the main dish. For dessert - beautiful ice cream, and as the end of the evening - an exotic cocktail.
Chicken rolls with cheese
You will need:
chicken fillet;
vegetable oil;
feta cheese, feta cheese or Adyghe;
pepper;
seasonings or a mixture of herbs to taste.
The meat must be cleaned of fat and cut into thin pieces, no more than 1 cm thick. Pieces must be covered cling film and gently beat off with a hammer on one side. If the pieces turned out to be large, you can cut them in half, and then grease with vegetable oil. Salt if the cheese is bland. Add pepper and a mixture of herbs to taste. Then we cut the cheese into pieces and wrap it in chicken meat in the form of a roll. Wrap the top of the roll with bacon. We put all the rolls in a mold and sprinkle with olive or other oil and add pepper. Rolls are baked for 50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
"Royal Love"
Required:
slightly salted salmon;
avocado;
lemon;
vegetable oil;
spices.
The salmon fillet is cut into thin strips about 10 cm long and no more than 3 cm thick. We make stuffing for fish. Avocados need to be peeled and ground in a blender. Add lemon juice, spices and olive oil to the avocado puree. Then beat in a blender again. After that, spread the resulting puree on pieces of salmon - one teaspoon for each strip of fish. We make a roll and fasten with a skewer. The dish is ready.
"Unique" ice cream
Required:
dark chocolate (bar 200 g);
sugar (100 g);
cream (200 g, high fat);
coffee liqueur (about 50 g);
a pack of gelatin;
two tablespoons of cocoa;
vanilla.
The chocolate is crushed in a blender, and the cream must be whipped with vanilla and sugar. Dissolve the gelatin and add to the slightly warmed liquor. Then all the resulting blanks are mixed and laid out in any molds. Leave the dish in the refrigerator until the ice cream hardens. Sprinkle each serving with cocoa powder before serving.
"Hot Feelings"
To prepare a cocktail, you need:
fresh berries strawberries (500 g);
juice of one lemon;
champagne;
orange syrup;
sugar (1 tablespoon);
ice cubes.
Wash the strawberries thoroughly under running water and place in a blender. Grind the berries until a puree is formed. Then add orange syrup, lemon juice, champagne, sugar and crushed ice to the resulting puree. The cocktail is stirred, and now it can be poured into glasses.
Option number two
All dishes in this version are exotic and unusual. Fruit starter, shrimp salad and banana dessert to end the evening.
"Passion"
To prepare a snack you need:
big pineapple;
salmon fillet (250 g);
lemon juice;
hot peppers;
soy sauce;
vegetable oil;
salt;
a few mint leaves.
Cut the pineapple in half and carefully scoop out the contents. We do not throw away the shell, we still need it. Cut the pineapple pulp into cubes, chop the salmon fillet and mix them together. Then add hot pepper, finely chopped mint leaves, soy sauce and vegetable oil to the salad. Salt and mix thoroughly. Put the resulting salad in the remaining halves of the pineapple and serve.
"First love"
peeled shrimp (200 g);
asparagus beans (100 g);
onion;
dill;
mayonnaise;
Chinese cabbage.
Shrimps and beans need to be boiled first. The onion is cut into thin halves of the rings, and the dill is chopped. Cabbage can be simply shredded. Combine shrimps, onion, beans and dill together in a large bowl, add mayonnaise and mix well. Leave the salad for 30 minutes. After that, put cabbage on a plate, on it - shrimp with vegetables. Salad ready.
Flame for dessert
You will need:
oil (100 g);
sugar (100 g);
cognac (100 g);
two bananas;
two oranges.
Dessert should be served in the same dish in which it was prepared. Therefore, it is better to take a frying pan. Melt the butter in a frying pan, peel the bananas and cut into several pieces. Fry in oil on all sides. Then the bananas are laid out in a bowl to dry a little. In the oil left after frying bananas, add sugar and orange juice. Fry the resulting mass until the consistency becomes more stretchy. Remove the pan from the stove and return the bananas to it. Before serving, the dessert is poured with cognac and set on fire.
Option number three
The most original and low-calorie dishes for a light romantic dinner. Salmon with sauce, exotic salad and meringue. At the end of the evening - unusual and delicious cocktail.
"Piquant" salmon
Required:
fresh fillet salmon (500 g);
honey (1 tablespoon);
lemon juice;
dry mustard;
ground pepper;
salt.
The fish is cleaned, washed and cut into small pieces. In one bowl, mix lemon juice, half a teaspoon of mustard, salt and pepper. Add the mixture to the chopped fish and leave to marinate for 20 minutes. Then grease the frying pan for baking fish sunflower oil and lay the salmon on it. Preheat the oven, and then bake the fillet in it for about half an hour.
"Tempted Lady"
To prepare the salad you need:
shrimp packaging;
lemon;
grapefruit;
mango;
pear;
honey;
cinnamon;
dill;
vegetable oil (it is better to take olive oil);
salad;
pepper;
salt.
Honey, pepper, chopped dill, lemon juice, olive oil and salt are mixed in one bowl. The mixture is whipped with a mixer. Lettuce leaves are laid out entirely on a plate. Grapefruit must be peeled, removed from the film and cut into small pieces. Then peel the pear, finely chop and add to the salad. My shrimp, clean and fry in olive oil. After that, briefly leave them on a napkin to stack excess fat. Add the shrimp to the salad and peel the mango. Mix mango pieces with cinnamon and put all the ingredients on plates with lettuce leaves. Ready meal pour over the sauce whipped in a mixer.
"Sweet Dreams"
To prepare meringue you need:
protein from four eggs;
raisins (100 g);
nuts (100 g);
powdered sugar (1 tablespoon);
dark chocolate bar (200 g);
candied fruits (10 g);
oil (50 g).
Egg whites are beaten with a mixer together with powdered sugar until foamy. We grind the nuts in a blender, after which we add them together with candied fruits and raisins to the proteins. Put on a baking sheet parchment paper. Using a pastry syringe or a regular spoon, lay out the mass with egg white in small portions on a baking sheet. Meringue is baked in a preheated oven at a low temperature for 60 minutes. Then the chocolate is melted in a water bath with butter and mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Meringue is dipped in chocolate icing and left to harden.
"Eternal love"
For a cocktail you will need:
strawberry liqueur (200 g);
champagne (500 g);
ice cream (100 g).
All ingredients are mixed in a blender. The cocktail is poured into glasses. You can put some ice in each glass.
Valentine's Day is a holiday on which you can cook the most unusual dishes for your beloved man. Will you cook something tasty for your husband or opt for more practical gifts for your husband on February 14th?
St. Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day has become one of the favorite and traditional holidays in our country. And, although in its essence, this is a foreign holiday not peculiar to our traditions, however, thanks to the idea of exchanging love messages and wishes, it has become popular with us the same.
Traditionally, valentines are given on this day - small cards with romantic wishes. Also, depending on the relationship between a man and a woman, the nature of the gift and its meaning can be varied.
Of course, if you are just friends, then, for example, items of clothing, bouquets of roses, etc. will look a little strange. And at the same time, if you are planning a more serious relationship that involves growing into something serious, then here you should think about what gift to choose.
There are many options, however, if you are going to offer your hand and heart to your chosen one, then, undoubtedly, a romantic dinner will be the most suitable.
1. How and where to have a romantic dinner
Let's start by choosing a place for your dinner. There are few options here, either you go to a restaurant, or spend it at home, as an option - in the country.
However, here again we proceed from the intention of your event.
If you intend to make a declaration of love, then it is best to do it individually, not in front of everyone. And don't be fooled by movies where characters give each other rings in restaurants. It's still a movie.
So try to find the right environment. Alternatively, if you do not want to organize such a dinner in the apartment, spend it in the country. If you have a cozy house, then there is nothing better than an evening in nature.
Having resolved the issue with the venue, we decide how to arrange it. If it seems to you that you can just organize a dinner and not bother about anything else, then this is not so.
Of course, if your idea comes down to just a feast in honor of Valentine's Day, then you don't even have to worry about the feast menu. Put whatever you love on the table.
But if you want a real romantic dinner with a declaration of love, then…..
It is necessary to take care not only of the menu, but also of the appropriate environment. Naturally, you can not do without candles. You can put them on the table, beautifully arrange them around the room, make a heart out of them - in general, there are many options.
2. What to cook for a romantic dinner
Well, we figured out the entourage. Now let's see which menu for a romantic dinner is best suited.
If we talk about what kind of food should be, then the answer is unequivocal - easy. You can also lay a very rich table, but I want to remind you that Valentine's Day is not the kind of holiday when they arrange a big feast.
In addition, it should not be either greasy or plentiful. It is not recommended to use onions and garlic.
There are products such as aphrodisiacs. These are those who, according to legend, are able to kindle love in the heart of a chosen one or chosen one. These include ginger, celery stalk, honey, sesame seeds, hot peppers, chocolate, asparagus, and red wine.
Thus, if not all of this list, then at least something must be present on the table.
In addition, the dishes that you prepare for dinner should not be ordinary. If you still want something substantial, then chicken meat is fine.
3. Recipes for a romantic dinner
- Stuffed chicken breasts with, say, strawberries and cheese will be especially delicious.
- Cooking chicken breasts and strawberries.
- We make cuts in the breasts, salt and pepper to taste.
- Cut cheese into cubes, mix with strawberries. It can be chopped or lightly crushed. Add melted butter to this mixture.
- Fill the incisions in the breast with stuffing and sew.
- Bake the finished breasts in the oven for about forty minutes.
- The finished dish needs to be decorated and can be served on the table.
Salads are good for a romantic dinner.
For example, tarts with cheese and tomatoes can decorate your table. You can prepare them as follows. Let's take ingredients like
- 500 g puff pastry,
- 4 tomatoes,
- 1 egg
- 100 g cheese
- 2 sprigs of basil
- 2 sprigs of thyme,
- olives, dill, parsley.
We roll out the dough in a layer and cut it into small squares, for example 6-7 cm. Lubricate the baking sheet with oil and put these squares on them. On top of each square we put a circle of tomato, and sliced olives, slices of cheese, thyme and basil leaves on it. Put the tray in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. After that, you can put it on the table.
Instead of dough, you can use a sliced loaf.
— If you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, you can cook cheese rolls with sprats.
For this you will need:
- 1 jar of sprats,
- 200 g hard cheese,
- tomato - 1 pc.,
- sweet pepper - 1 pc.,
- lettuce, parsley.
Cut cheese and tomatoes into slices, pepper into strips. We put one fish, a strip of pepper, a slice of tomato and a branch of parsley on the cheese. We roll it all up with a roll and fasten it with a skewer.
Or try light and tasty
4. Now the main thing - drinks
What is best for a romantic dinner. Classic variant– red dry wine. However, here we proceed from preferences. If you prefer white wines, then put them on. Champagne is good too. Moreover, using it, you can prepare such a wonderful cocktail:
- Strawberries - 300 gr.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Raspberry syrup - 3 tbsp. l.
- Champagne - 3 tbsp.
- Lime - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
Chop the strawberries and make a puree. Squeeze out the lemon juice and add it to the strawberries. Add sugar and ice, then raspberry syrup and cold champagne. Stir and pour into glasses.
Look at all kinds of other things, although they are written in New Year, from this they did not become worse. And also, suddenly you don’t want alcohol.
If your girlfriend loves sweets very much (however, who doesn’t love them), then a box of chocolates will always come in handy on the table. You can also dilute the dessert with a cake or pastries.
Here, perhaps, is all the advice. Have a nice dinner!
5. And finally, a short video on how to cook a romantic dinner on a modest budget
