Delicious and simple food for every day. Second courses for every day: recipes

The crisis has already touched us in full, and more and more people are looking for cheap recipes for every day from simple products on the Internet. When there is no money, and more and more money earned is spent on food, then, naturally, you want to cook budget-friendly inexpensive meals in order to save the family budget. You can often hear the expression: all the money goes "down the toilet." And yes, the products are expensive, but you still want to get dressed, put on shoes, take a break at least somehow from everyday work, teach children, etc.

Therefore, on our website you will find many simple recipes from which you can make a menu for every day and for holidays. You will learn how to save on groceries, and yet cook tasty and easy without spending a lot of money on food. This is important now. And indeed, you can buy inexpensive offal, and cook a delicious liver pate, cook stomachs in sour cream sauce, just bake potatoes with spices in a sleeve or in foil, and feed your household deliciously and satisfyingly.


You will find recipes for cheap second courses for every day on the pages of the site, see step-by-step recipes with photos. And the team of our site will try to help you prepare budget, simple and inexpensive dishes for the second or first meal. Soups and side dishes, snacks and sandwiches, cereals and cottage cheese dishes will help your budget and you can reduce food costs without harming your family.


When there is no money (and now the majority of the population does not have it), recipes for simple and tasty cheap dishes will come to your aid, and you will be able to save at least a little money for various other needs, the same communal apartment, vacation, and so on. Inexpensive budget meals such as canned soups and various cereals can be a good help in saving money.


Our cheap recipes for soups and salads, main courses, pastries and snacks will help you feed your family not expensively and economically, but at the same time tasty and satisfying. We will also show you how to cook cheap holiday meals, how to economically celebrate a birthday or New Year. You will learn how to save money on groceries and survive in a crisis.

Look, delicious and fragrant, and save money on a store-bought, moreover, harmful product.

Quick recipes for every day should be in the arsenal of every cook. They are very helpful! Such recipes for beginners are especially good - simple, unpretentious, and the result is almost instant.

Chicken wings baked in lemon syrup

Ingredients:
500 g chicken wings,
200 g sugar
500 ml of water
3 lemons.

Cooking:
Prepare a syrup from water and sugar, add lemons cut in half to it, and cook for 20 minutes. Grate the chicken wings with pepper, place in a baking dish and pour over the prepared syrup along with the lemons. Bake the wings in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 35 minutes.

Quick fish pie

Ingredients:
1 stack kefir,
1 egg
1 stack flour,
½ tsp soda,
1 can of saury in oil,
2 boiled eggs
greenery,
cheese.

Cooking:
Open a jar of canned food, put its contents in a deep bowl and mash with a fork, add chopped eggs, greens (green onions and dill) to the fish and mix well. Mix kefir, flour, egg, soda until smooth. Pour the finished dough into a deep form, greased with oil. Put the filling on top of the dough, leaving 1 cm from the edge. Place the pie in a preheated oven at 180ºC and bake for 25-30 minutes until done.

Omelette with green beans

Ingredients:
300 g green beans (frozen)
1 onion
1 large tomato,
1 tbsp chopped parsley,
2 eggs,
50 ml of kefir,
vegetable oil,
salt - to taste.

Cooking:
Wash the beans, cut off the tails, cut into pieces, dip in boiling water for 5-7 minutes and drain in a colander. Chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Add beans, grated tomato and parsley to the onion. Salt, mix, put in a baking dish and pour a mixture of beaten eggs with kefir. Bake the omelette in an oven preheated to 180ºС until golden brown.

"Nests" with meat filling

Ingredients:
ready-made vermicelli "nests",
500 g minced beef,
1 onion
1 carrot
2 cloves of garlic
hard cheese, seasoning, tomato paste - to taste.

Cooking:
Stuff the vermicelli nests tightly with minced meat. Grate onions and carrots and fry in a pan with vegetable oil. At the end, add tomato paste, salt, pepper and simmer everything a little. Put the fried vegetables in a wide-bottomed pan, lay the stuffed “nests” loosely on them, sprinkle them with chopped garlic and seasonings on top and pour boiling water to the top level of the “nests”. Bring to a boil, add salt and simmer uncovered for 5 minutes, then covered for 5 minutes over low heat. Then turn off the heat and let the dish brew for 10 minutes under the lid. When serving, sprinkle the "nests" with grated cheese.

Curd and cheese fritters

Ingredients:
90 g cottage cheese,
2 eggs,
1 stack kefir or yogurt
2 tbsp Sahara,
4 tbsp flour,
50-70 g of hard cheese,
salt.

Cooking:
Beat eggs with sugar, add kefir and mix. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork directly in the bowl with the dough. Mix everything thoroughly, salt a little. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and add it to the dough. Pour in the flour. The dough should turn out like pancakes. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry pancakes on it on both sides until cooked.

Closed pizza with ham and cucumbers

Ingredients:
350 g flour
1 stack kefir,
100 g butter,
½ tsp soda,
½ tsp lemon juice
1 pinch of salt and sugar,
parsley.
For filling:
1 tbsp ketchup,
1 tbsp mayonnaise,
2 bulbs
3 pickled cucumbers,
200 g ham
200 g sausages
100 g of cheese.

Cooking:
Mix kefir with soda, pour in lemon juice. Beat eggs with salt and sugar, add to kefir and mix. Then pour in the melted butter. Constantly stirring the kefir mass, gradually pour flour into it. Knead a soft elastic dough. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. For the filling, cut the sausage, ham, onion and cucumber into small cubes. Roll out the dough into two equal circles, put them on a baking sheet. Lubricate one half of the circles with ketchup, the other with mayonnaise. Put the stuffing on the halves smeared with ketchup, sprinkle with grated cheese, cover with the second half and gently sizzle the edges. Bake the pizza in the oven at 200ºC for 15-20 minutes. Garnish the finished dish with herbs and cucumbers as desired.

Baked cauliflower with cream

Ingredients:
1 head of cauliflower,
200 g 10% cream,
1 garlic clove
1 tsp flour,
1 tbsp butter,
50 g grated cheese
greenery.

Cooking:
Disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences and dip them in boiling salted water for 3-5 minutes, then fold them into a colander and let them drain. Heat the butter in a deep frying pan and fry the cabbage in it over medium heat until golden brown. To prepare the creamy filling, mix the cream, chopped clove and flour in a deep container, stir well so that there are no lumps. Pour this mixture over the cabbage and heat until the sauce thickens. Put the cabbage in the filling in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and send to the oven to brown. Serve sprinkled with herbs.

Chicken meatballs with prunes

Ingredients:
400 g minced chicken,
100 g prunes,
1 egg
seasoning hops-suneli,
salt.

Cooking:
Add suneli hops, salt, egg to minced chicken and mix thoroughly. Form small cakes from minced meat, put 1 steamed prunes on each and wrap it in a meatball. Place the prepared meatballs in a greased baking dish and bake in an oven preheated to 180ºС until golden brown. Good meatballs with a salad of fresh vegetables.

Soup "Lightning"

Ingredients:
100 g potatoes
100 g cabbage
1 onion
1 carrot
2 bouillon cubes
40 g hard cheese,
100 g crackers,
1 garlic clove
greens - to taste.

Cooking:
Crumble bouillon cubes into boiling water, then add shredded cabbage, diced potatoes, grated carrots and onion half rings. After 10-15 minutes, remove the soup from the heat, pour it into bowls, sprinkle it with grated cheese, chopped herbs and serve with grated garlic croutons.

Solyanka with mushrooms and fish

Ingredients:
1 liter of water
400 g fish fillet,
1 onion
200 g champignons,
1 pickled cucumber
1 sour apple
1 tbsp flour,
3 tbsp tomato paste,
lemon slices, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the fish fillet into slices, dip it in cold water with spices and boil. Wash the mushrooms, cut into slices, cucumber and apple into cubes. Stew onion rings in vegetable oil along with mushrooms, cucumber, apple and tomato paste. After 10 minutes, add flour, mix everything well and put in the broth with fish. Boil the soup for 10 minutes, salt it and remove from heat. Let it brew for 30 minutes and, pouring the finished hodgepodge into plates, add lemon slices.

Meat muffins with rice

Ingredients:
500 g minced meat,
1 stack boiled rice,
3 eggs,
200 g cheese
7 olives
bacon, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Crack 1 egg into the mince, season with salt and pepper. In the boiled rice, also beat 1 egg and add the chopped bacon. Add diced cheese and chopped olives to minced meat. Put a portion of the minced meat in buttered muffin tins, put the rice filling on it, and the rest of the minced meat on top. Break the egg, grease the surface of the muffins and put in the oven preheated to 180ºС for 30-40 minutes. When serving, pour ketchup over the prepared meat muffins.

Beef "Onion Lak"

Ingredients:
150 g canned pineapple
1 sweet pepper
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
400 g beef fillet,
3 tbsp soy sauce,
1 tbsp Sahara,
3 tbsp vegetable oil,
ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the pineapple flesh into slices. Wash sweet pepper, remove seeds and partitions. Pepper and onion cut into pieces the same size as the pineapple. Pass the garlic through a press. Rinse the beef, pat dry and cut into medium-sized cubes. Pour soy sauce into a bowl, add sugar, stir until it is completely dissolved. Add half of vegetable oil, season well with black ground pepper. Pour the mixture over the beef and let it rest for 30 minutes. Put pineapples, vegetables and marinated meat in a pan with hot vegetable oil, mix and heat well. Serve the finished dish immediately, hot.

Chicken goulash

Ingredients:
500 chicken fillets,
1 onion
1 sweet pepper
1 carrot
2 tbsp tomato paste,
2 tsp ketchup,
pepper, seasoning for barbecue, salt - to taste.

Cooking:
Rinse the chicken fillet under cold water and cut into small pieces. Cut the onion into thin half rings, put in a preheated pan with vegetable oil and leave to fry over low heat. Grate the carrots on a grater for Korean carrots and add it to the pan about three minutes after frying the onion. Cut sweet pepper into thin strips. Add pieces of chicken fillet to carrots and onions, mix well and after 5 minutes put chopped pepper there. In a small bowl, combine tomato paste, ketchup, salt, pepper and mix well until smooth. When the chicken fillet pieces begin to turn golden, pour this mixture into the pan, stir, add 2 stacks. cold water, salt, pepper, add seasonings and put on a large fire. As soon as the goulash boils, reduce the heat and leave the goulash to simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. Stir the dish from time to time, if necessary, add a little salt.

Quick cutlets in Kiev

Ingredients:
4 skinless chicken breast fillets
50 g cream cheese with herbs,
75 g fresh bread crumbs
1 egg
25 g butter,
½ bunch of parsley
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Preheat the oven to 200ºС. On each chicken fillet, make cuts in the form of a pocket on the side. Fill them with cream cheese. Lay the chicken fillet on an oiled baking sheet. Wash the parsley, dry and chop. In a blender bowl, combine the bread crumbs, parsley, egg, softened butter, a little salt and pepper. Divide the cooked mass into 4 parts and put 1 part on each fillet. Bake the fillet in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.

lazy pasties

Ingredients:
2 Armenian lavash
500 g minced meat,
2 large onions
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Carefully cut each pita bread into squares with a side of 15 cm. Grate the onion on a coarse grater, add to the minced meat, salt, pepper and mix well. For each square, lay out 1 tbsp. minced meat and smooth it over the entire surface. Fold the squares into envelopes and fry on both sides in a pan with vegetable oil until cooked.

Chicken cutlets "Baby"

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken fillet,
3 melted cheeses
1 egg
3 tbsp mayonnaise or sour cream
2 cloves of garlic
1 bunch of green onions
1 bunch dill or parsley
spices.

Cooking:
Pass the fillet, cheese, greens and garlic with green onions through a meat grinder, mix everything thoroughly. Add egg, mayonnaise or sour cream, salt and pepper to taste. From the cooked minced meat, form small cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides until cooked. If desired, replace the green onions with regular ones, and you can also add basil to the total mass.

Chops in puff pastry

Ingredients:
pork tenderloin,
ready puff pastry,
sesame seeds, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the meat into small pieces, beat as thin as possible, salt and pepper. Roll out the finished puff pastry into a rectangular layer and cut into squares about twice the size of the pork pieces. In the center of each square, put a piece of chop meat and wrap it in the form of an envelope. Line a baking sheet with foil or parchment paper and brush lightly with oil. Lay the envelopes seam side down on a baking sheet. Sprinkle each envelope with sesame seeds and place in an oven preheated to 180-200ºС for 40 minutes.

Fish in Greek

Ingredients:
any fish,
onion,
tomatoes,
boiled eggs,
cheese,
sunflower oil,
mayonnaise,
salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Cut the fish into portions and fry in a pan on both sides. Carefully place the fish pieces in the dish, salt and pepper to taste. Cut the onion into rings and fry it a little in a pan with vegetable oil. Cut the eggs into slices. Put a circle of boiled egg on a piece of fish, on top - a circle of tomato, then - onion, mayonnaise and grated cheese. Place the fish dish in the oven. When the cheese is melted, the Greek fish is ready.

We hope that these simple and quick recipes for every day will find a worthy place in your culinary arsenal and diversify your everyday home menu, as well as help save time.

If you have your own interesting quick recipes, share them below in the comments. Thanks!

Bon appetit and new culinary discoveries!

Larisa Shuftaykina

In many families, the basis of the standard diet is the second course, which is great not only for a daily meal, but also for dinner. Today there is a huge range of first and second courses that are quick and easy to prepare. Find out how to freshen up your menu for family or guests with a variety of main course recipes.

What to cook quickly and tasty for the second

Most of us love to spoil our family and friends with something tasty, but not everyone has the necessary time to prepare a meal. Next, a list of recipes will be offered that will help you make second courses for every day quickly. You can cook various culinary goodies using a slow cooker or stove, using meat, fish, and vegetables for this process.

In a slow cooker

In the modern world, household kitchen appliances have long been used to create a variety of dishes. The slow cooker does its job well and saves a lot of free time on preparing lunch or dinner. Here are some well-known step-by-step recipes with which you can create a delicious dish for the second.

Merchant-style buckwheat porridge with meat is a food designed for every day, it turns out crumbly and delicious in taste. Essential ingredients for a nutritious second course:

  • veal - 350-400 g;
  • water - 2 glasses;
  • buckwheat - one and a half glasses;
  • onions - 1 pc.;
  • carrot - 1 pc.;
  • vegetable oil.

Cooking:

  1. We clean the onions and carrots, rinse with water, cut into half rings.
  2. We cut the meat into large squares.
  3. Pour oil into the multicooker cup, turn on the “Baking” program for 40 minutes.
  4. After a couple of minutes, when the oil warms up a little, put meat, chopped vegetables into the bowl, close the unit.
  5. After the signal, add buckwheat to the rest of the products, fill everything with two glasses of water, salt, pepper.
  6. It remains to install the program "Buckwheat" or "Porridge" for half an hour.
  7. The second is merchant-ready.

Even with a low calorie content, second courses in fasting can be tasty and satisfying. For example, you can make a tender and fragrant vegetable stew that you can eat at least every day. For the recipe for the second dish you will need:

  • potatoes, carrots - 2-3 pieces each;
  • cauliflower or broccoli - 6 inflorescences;
  • lettuce sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
  • canned corn and peas - a few tablespoons each;
  • greenery.

Cooking:

  1. Cut vegetables into medium cubes or cubes. We disassemble the cabbage into small pieces.
  2. Pour the oil into a slow cooker, lay out the vegetables in layers.
  3. We select the "Extinguishing" mode for 40 minutes.
  4. Add chopped greens, peas, corn, salt, mix well.
  5. We close the lid of the unit, leave the second dish for every day, so that it brews a little.

In the oven

If you want to quickly cook the second dish and get the most delicious result, then you can use a conventional oven. There are many variations of second course recipes with a minimum of products. Let's start with the garlic cheese casserole. You will need simple ingredients:

  • potatoes - 6-7 tubers;
  • cheese - 150 g;
  • two eggs;
  • garlic - 2 teeth;
  • mayonnaise - 4 tbsp. l.;
  • dried herbs.

Cooking:

  1. Grind garlic and cheese on a fine grater.
  2. Mix part of the cheese with herbs and one egg. We set aside.
  3. The rest of the cheese is combined with the second egg, garlic and mayonnaise.
  4. We rub the potatoes on a coarse grater, mix with the rest of the ingredients, salt, add pepper.
  5. Put the mass with potatoes and other products in a baking dish. Distribute evenly, top with cheese-egg mixture with herbs.
  6. Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake for 30-40 minutes. Juicy, savory second course is ready to eat.

Another unusual step-by-step recipe for a very simple second course is chicken in a bacon shell. Well-fried chicken meat with a crispy crust will not leave anyone indifferent. Ingredients for the dish:

  • medium-sized chicken carcass;
  • smoked bacon - 7 layers;
  • spices.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the carcass thoroughly, dry with a paper towel.
  2. Grate the meat with spices, salt and ground pepper. Leave for half an hour.
  3. Cover the chicken with bacon, place on a baking sheet lightly greased with butter, cover with foil.
  4. We heat the oven to 200 degrees, prepare a dish for every day for 1.5-2 hours. 20 minutes before the bird is ready, remove the foil to get a delicious bacon crust.
  5. Serve second with bacon.

On the stove

We turn to the usual type of cooking, for which the stove is used. Below are two great recipes for a hearty second for every day, created using hotplates. Make melt-in-your-mouth mushroom potatoes or gourmet Italian-style pasta, both daily main courses are insanely delicious. For potatoes with mushrooms, you need to stock up on the following products:

  • champignons - 450 g;
  • potatoes - 4 kg;
  • onions - 2 pcs.;
  • sour cream + tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • spices.

Cooking:

  1. We cut the peeled potatoes into cubes, put them in a deep bowl (stewpan or cauldron). Fill with water (so that it barely covers), put on gas.
  2. While the potatoes are cooking, cut the mushrooms and onions into cubes.
  3. According to the recipe, sauté the onion in a pan, then add the mushrooms to it. Fry until the liquid disappears.
  4. After the potatoes boil, we throw lavrushka, peppercorns into the pan.
  5. When the dish is half cooked, mix it with onions and mushrooms. Cover the second with a lid, leave on low heat until cooked.

The recipe for pasta with canned tuna will be interesting. Such a second dish for any day will definitely turn out spicy and pleasant to the taste, if you strictly follow the recipe. Ingredients:

  • pasta (large spirals) - 200 g;
  • tuna - one can;
  • sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
  • carrot - 1 pc.;
  • large bulb;
  • tomato sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons;
  • spices.

Cooking:

  1. Boil pasta in slightly salted water.
  2. We cut the vegetables, lightly fry them in butter in a deep frying pan for 10 minutes.
  3. Tomato sauce and fish are added to them, from which the liquid must first be drained. Simmer for 5 minutes.
  4. We put pasta, seasonings, spices in the pan. We mix the products, cook for another 15 minutes. The second original dish is ready.
Watch the video and find out what else you can cook in the oven and in the pan.

Simple and delicious recipes for second courses for every day

The second of meat or fish is often found on the menu of most families. These products give an excellent chance to cook a wide range of dishes for an adult or a child. All recipes for second meat dishes cannot be listed. We offer several simple options that even a novice cook can cook. Try to make a brizol with minced meat or a hodgepodge with meat for the second, as well as a couple of delicious fish dishes.

From meat

Brizol is a dish that has migrated to us from French cuisine. Translated from French, "brizol" means "fried in an egg." This dish can be prepared from any minced meat: beef, pork, veal, chicken and even fish! In fact, this is minced meat fried in an omelet. Preparing this second dish for every day of the week is very easy. Products for the recipe:

  • minced meat (any) - 150 g;
  • eggs - 3 pieces;
  • milk - 1 glass;
  • vegetable oil;
  • pepper, salt.

Cooking:

  1. In a deep container, beat the eggs with milk, salt and pepper.
  2. Heat a frying pan with oil a little, pour the resulting egg mass into it.
  3. We spread the minced meat in a thin layer on one part of the omelet, and close the ground meat with the second part.
  4. Fry the brizol on both sides.
  5. The second course can be served.

Fragrant Georgian hodgepodge will be a great addition to the diet for every day. It is worth preparing this hodgepodge once and close people will ask you to include this second one in the menu more than once. Products:

  • beef - 800 g;
  • pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
  • onions - 2 pieces;
  • garlic - 5 teeth;
  • tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
  • seasonings, spices.

Cooking:

  1. The beef is cut into medium cubes, placed in boiling water. Cook the meat for about 60 minutes.
  2. We cut the onions into rings, fry until golden brown, mix with tomato paste.
  3. Cucumbers need to be chopped on a grater or cut into strips. Add them to the onion.
  4. Mix cooked beef with onions and cucumbers.
  5. Pour the ingredients with broth, salt, pepper, pour pressed garlic, seasonings. We mix everything.
  6. Stew meat with vegetables under a closed lid for half an hour.
  7. Sprinkle the dish with herbs before serving.

From fish

The second daily dishes made from fish always successfully diversify the diet. Consider two good, simple recipes for every day. For example, you can cook sea fish with rice. You will need the following products:

  • rice - 250 g;
  • fish fillet - half a kilo;
  • leek - 1 pc.;
  • meat broth - half a liter;
  • garlic - 1 clove;
  • half a lemon;
  • fresh herbs, salt, pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Finely chop the garlic and onion, fry in oil.
  2. We spread the rice in the pan, mix the ingredients, pour the hot broth.
  3. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
  4. Cut the fish into medium pieces, sprinkle with lemon juice, put on rice 10 minutes before it is ready. Mix, add pepper, salt.

Another interesting, healthy second dish for any day is mackerel baked with kiwi. It is equally suitable for a family dinner or festive gatherings with friends. For cooking, the following ingredients are useful:

  • fresh-frozen mackerel - 3 pcs.;
  • kiwi - 5 pcs.;
  • Bulgarian red pepper - 1 piece;
  • processed cheese - 100 g;
  • sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.;
  • leek;
  • juice of half a lemon;
  • pepper, salt;
  • parsley.

Cooking:

  1. We cut the fish carcasses, wash them well, dry them and open them with a boat.
  2. Sprinkle each mackerel with lemon juice, pepper, sprinkle with salt.
  3. We cover the baking sheet with foil, put the fish on it.
  4. We start the “boats” with the following mixture: onion + sweet pepper + melted cheese + kiwi + sour cream.
  5. According to the recipe, bake stuffed carcasses for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.
  6. The fish dish for the second is ready.

Video: simple recipes for second courses in a hurry

To greatly simplify the procedure for preparing second courses and constantly surprise loved ones, it is better to use video recipes. Thanks to the detailed, understandable algorithms provided below, you can make a variety of culinary masterpieces on any day. The videos explain in detail how to properly make a vinaigrette, pie or casserole, cook meat or vegetables.

salad vinaigrette

pasta casserole

Azu in Tatar from beef

Chicken breast in Omsk

Lazy pita pie with minced meat

Fried rice with vegetables for garnish

Delicious barbecue in the oven - the recipe has been repeatedly tested! Meat is indistinguishable from grilled meat! Guests always ask where I fried the barbecue, because we live in an apartment)). The preparation is elementary, and the kebab in the oven turns out to be tender, juicy, slightly fried. Delicious! Try it! I recommend!

Pork, onion, vinegar, sugar, lemon juice, spices, salt, pepper

French-style chicken rolls with mushrooms and cheese are a great hot appetizer for any holiday table.

Chicken fillet, mushrooms, cheese, sunflower oil, milk, seasoning, mayonnaise, lemon, vegetable oil, salt, allspice, bay leaf, turmeric

Great pizza recipe. In just half an hour you will have two pizzas. The filling can be any, according to your taste. The only condition is that it must be ready. Pizza bakes so fast! :)

Flour, milk, salt, sugar, dry yeast, vegetable oil, bell pepper, sausage, smoked meat, tomatoes, hard cheese, ketchup, mayonnaise

Delicious casserole with minced meat and mushrooms, shifted with cabbage leaves.

Fresh mushrooms, butter, seasoning, milk, flour, amber cheese, onions, carrots, smoked cheese, hard cheese, minced meat, tomato paste, tomato sauce, vegetable oil, salt...

Lavash is simply a miracle of cooking. You can do so many delicious things with it! And most importantly, quickly, if there is a piece of boiled or fried chicken in the refrigerator. I recommend a quick dinner - pita bread with chicken and vegetables.

Lavash, chicken legs, chicken fillet, white cabbage, Korean carrot, carrot, mayonnaise, ketchup, butter, salt, pepper

It has long been recognized by all, "folk" recipe. Naval pasta has not lost its popularity over the years. A simple recipe - naval pasta is prepared from a minimum amount of products, any meat (or mixed minced meat) can be used. Plus, this is a hearty and delicious recipe. Naval pasta can gather a whole army of its fans.

Pasta, meat, margarine, onion, broth, salt, pepper, herbs

What do grandmothers cook for dinner for their grandchildren? That's right, all sorts of goodies. And what do Tatar grandmothers cook for dinner for their grandchildren, and even if it's frosty outside the window? Of course, Azu in Tatar!

Beef, lamb, potatoes, onions, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, canned tomatoes in their own juice, tomato paste, melted butter, meat broth...

Do you already have unexpected guests? Well, let them go, we are always glad to have guests :) Crab salad with croutons "Instant". Up! And already on the table!

Crab sticks, croutons, canned corn, Chinese cabbage, hard cheese, mayonnaise, garlic, salt, ground black pepper

I often cook meat in French with mushrooms for the holidays. Its advantage is that it does not require a side dish at all. Easy to prepare and select ingredients, but very tasty.

Pork, beef, champignons, tomatoes, sweet pepper, onion, cheese, garlic, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, butter, herbs

Chicken always comes to my rescue. Quickly prepared, but delicious as, mmm! I present a recipe for beef stroganoff from chicken breast, I think you will like it. With a beautiful design, it will also go as a hot dish for the New Year 2016.

Chicken fillet, onion, flour, cream, tomato juice, mustard, salt, pepper, vegetable oil

I want to show how I cook chakhokhbili. And this recipe of mine is a fusion of recipes from at least three different inhabitants of the North Caucasus region - my mother, my father's mother and one Tuapse Georgian who cooked chakhokhbili so spicy that molten lead seemed cool water compared to it.

Chicken, onion, tomatoes, red pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper, coriander seeds, zira, cilantro, salt

French-style potatoes baked in the oven with meat and onions. A very simple recipe, but French potatoes are always very tasty and appetizing. Yes, and it looks quite - why not hot dishes for the New Year 2016?

Potatoes, butter, pork, onion, mayonnaise, hard cheese, salt, pepper

Instant Salad! By the time unexpected guests take off their coats and sit down at the table, you will already have a delicious hearty snack ready. And if the guests didn’t come, prepare a sprat salad for yourself;)

Canned sprats, canned corn, canned beans, hard cheese, garlic, croutons, herbs, mayonnaise

Cooking potatoes baked with vegetables is easy and simple. Put all the vegetables in a sleeve with spices and ... rest until cooked, because you do not need to stand over the pan and mix. You can just mind your own business.

Potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, garlic, vegetable oil, salt, spices

You can quickly cook a pie with cabbage according to this recipe without yeast and, believe me, it will be very tasty! Making yeast dough takes time and skill, and even a novice cook can make a pie without yeast.

Eggs, kefir, flour, soda, salt, cabbage, onion, vegetable oil, salt, pepper, eggs, eggs, mayonnaise, cheese

I somehow found these on the Internet, either puff pastry pies with minced meat, or minced meatballs in dough ... But delicious! whatever you call it)

Every day, simple housewives, whose budget is small, have to cook something for their family. If on holidays each of us tries to do something special, while buying more expensive products, then on ordinary days not everyone has such an opportunity. Therefore, as a rule, budgetary dishes for every day are more in demand. It is about them that we want to talk in our article. A selection of good recipes will help any housewife determine what to cook from nothing quickly and tasty.

hearty breakfast

From potatoes and eggs, you can cook a delicious and unusual breakfast or dinner. Such a cheap dish for every day in a new version will pleasantly diversify your menu.

Ingredients:

  • cheese (45 g),
  • two or three eggs
  • potatoes (4-5 pcs.),
  • garlic,
  • vegetable oil,
  • salt,
  • pepper.

This dish is very budget and at the same time unusual. Peel the potatoes and cut into pieces, you can circles. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the garlic. We also shift the potatoes there and fry them until golden brown.

In parallel, you need to prepare the eggs. Whip them up by adding salt and pepper. As soon as the potatoes are almost ready, pour the egg mass to it. Cover the pan with a lid and continue to simmer the dish for another seven minutes. Grind the cheese and sprinkle it with potatoes, cover with a lid and let it brew for five minutes. The dish is ready.

Stuffed Baked Potatoes

There is a fairly large assortment of budget dishes for every day, which are quite easy to prepare. We just don't always remember them. In the daily bustle, we forget about simple things in the face of eternal lack of time. So, what to cook from nothing tasty and fast? Of course, baked potatoes. Depending on the filling used, the dish can easily become a festive option.

Ingredients:

  • vegetable oil,
  • a couple of sausages
  • bulb,
  • salad pepper,
  • garlic,
  • rosemary and oregano (teaspoon)
  • a quarter cup of sour cream
  • hard cheese (125 g),
  • 4 boiled potatoes.

We cut the sausages into cubes and fry them a little in a pan in vegetable oil. After the appearance of a golden crust, they must be removed from the heat and put on paper towels to remove excess fat.

Next, in a frying pan, you need to fry the onion, garlic, sweet pepper with spices. We cut the potatoes into two halves and take out the core, leaving the walls no more than 5 millimeters. In each of them we put a little sour cream, then vegetables with pieces of sausage. Sprinkle grated cheese on top. Next, put the dish in the oven for 5 minutes so that the cheese has time to melt.

Zucchini pancakes

What to cook from zucchini? Of course, fritters. This simple and light dish will make a great breakfast or dinner on a summer day.

Ingredients:

  • a couple of eggs
  • zucchini (0.6 kg),
  • milk (1/4 cup)
  • thyme,
  • salt,
  • pepper.

Cheap meals for every day are easier to cook in the summer, when we are surrounded by seasonal vegetables. These include zucchini, from which you can make excellent pancakes.

We wash the zucchini, remove the skin from them and grind them on a grater in the form of straws. If the fruits were watery, then it is worth squeezing the pulp with your hands so that the excess liquid is gone.

In a bowl, mix eggs and milk to make a batter. Add chopped zucchini to it, mix the mass, adding salt and a little pepper.

Next, heat the oil in a frying pan and pour the batter with a spoon. Fry the pancakes on each side for three to four minutes. The finished dish can be sprinkled with thyme and served with sour cream. Knowing what to cook from zucchini, you can always tasty and quickly feed your family.

Potato pancakes

Let's think about what you can cook for lunch from potatoes? This vegetable is almost always present in our house. Draniki can be offered as a quick and budget option.

Ingredients:

  • potatoes (5 pcs.),
  • eggs (2 pcs.),
  • flour (3 tablespoons),
  • bulb,
  • pepper and salt,
  • vegetable oil.

Peel the potatoes, wash and chop on a grater. Finely chop the onion and add it to the potatoes. We introduce eggs, pepper, salt and flour there. In a frying pan, heat the vegetable oil well and fry the pancakes on it.

Grated potatoes tend to darken quickly. To avoid such a nuisance, you can immediately fill it with water. However, after that, you will have to squeeze it carefully so that the dough is not too liquid.

garlic soup

What to cook delicious from simple products for lunch? After all, you simply cannot do without the first course. As an option, we offer a light garlic soup.

Ingredients:

  • olive oil,
  • onions, potatoes (5 pcs.),
  • chicken broth (1.5 liters),
  • lettuce pepper (1 pc.),
  • bread,
  • garlic,
  • thyme,
  • hard cheese (120 g),
  • ground pepper,
  • greenery.

Pour a little olive oil into the bottom of a thick-walled pan and put the onion, then cook it over low heat until transparent. After that, pour 1.5 liters of broth into the container, bring it to a boil and add potato cubes to the boiling liquid. Then add chopped lettuce.

While the soup is cooking, you can pass the garlic through a press and mix it with thyme. We send the seasoning to the soup.

Cut the bread into cubes and fry it in olive oil in a pan. The crackers should be golden brown. Serving soup on the table in bowls, you need to add chopped cheese, parsley and crackers to each of them. Such a cheap dish for every day is especially good to cook in the summer.

Soup with homemade noodles

Considering delicious dishes for every day, it is impossible not to think of chicken soup with homemade noodles. Fragrant broth combined with the delicate taste of homemade noodles is something amazing. Of course, making homemade pasta on your own will take some time, but it's worth it. The dish has a beautiful yellow color due to chicken broth and noodles.

Soup Ingredients:

  • vegetable oil,
  • Bay leaf,
  • carrot,
  • Dill,
  • two bulbs,
  • a couple of chicken thighs
  • potatoes (4 pcs.),
  • black pepper.

Noodle Ingredients:

  • flour (120 g),
  • egg.

Cooking chicken broth with spices. After that, it is necessary to separate the meat from the bones. Cut the flesh into small pieces. And we certainly filter the broth. After that, we shift the meat into it. We put the pan back on the fire, bring the broth to a boil and send the diced potatoes into it.

Chop the onion and carrots and fry in a pan, adding vegetable oil. Then we transfer the vegetables to the pan with the broth. When the potatoes become soft, add homemade noodles and greens to the soup. After ten minutes, the container can be removed from the heat, since the soup is ready.

How to cook homemade noodles? The recipe is quite simple. Noodles can be classified as cheap dishes for every day. But it will take a little fiddling with it. Sift the flour into a wide but deep container, put the egg in the same place and knead the dough. It should be elastic and soft. After we roll it into a thin layer and leave it to dry a little on the table (for at least an hour). Next, cut the dough into thin long strips. Homemade noodles are ready.

Stuffed zucchini

Summer time pleases us with fresh vegetables, from which you can prepare budget meals for every day. After a cold winter, the first vegetables seem especially tasty and fragrant. The favorite of the summer season is the zucchini. It can be used to make delicious meals. Very good zucchini stuffed with meat. They turn out juicy, tasty and incredibly fragrant. Remarkably, the dish can be served both hot and cold. By the way, stuffed zucchini is a very good option for a festive table if you are planning a celebration in the summer.

Ingredients:

  • tomato paste (two tablespoons),
  • dill bunch,
  • minced pork,
  • ground pepper,
  • salt,
  • bulb,
  • hard cheese (230 g),
  • sour cream (120 g),
  • zucchini (3 pcs.).

To prepare a simple dish for every day, it is recommended to take young zucchini, as their incredibly tender flesh gives a special taste to the dish. The food literally melts in your mouth.

We cut the zucchini lengthwise into two parts and clean the pulp and seeds from each half, making a kind of boat. We put the blanks in a baking dish. Now you can prepare the filling.

To do this, add chopped onion and dill to minced meat. It is also worth adding suitable spices. With the resulting mass, we fill the blanks from the zucchini. Now you can make a sauce of sour cream, tomato paste and shredded cheese. Spread the mixture on top of the zucchini. We send the dish to the oven. It is very tasty to enjoy it with a vegetable salad, which perfectly complements it.

By the way, in the summer, tomato paste should be replaced with fresh tomatoes, which makes the dish even tastier and more aromatic.

Potatoes with chicken

What to cook from chicken quickly? An excellent and satisfying dish is puff potatoes. It is prepared quite simply and it turns out incredibly tasty and fragrant.

Ingredients:

  • onion (4 pcs.),
  • potatoes (15 pcs.),
  • chicken, but you can also take pork (15 drumsticks),
  • mayonnaise (450 g),
  • spices,
  • salt,
  • greenery,
  • cheese (380 g).

Any meat is suitable for cooking. We cut the onion into half rings and smear it with mayonnaise so that it marinates. Next, cut the potatoes and also grease it with mayonnaise. We also marinate chicken drumsticks or any meat. Of course, it is difficult to call this dish dietary, since it contains too much fat due to the use of mayonnaise. It can be replaced with good sour cream with the addition of mustard.

After forty minutes, all the ingredients can be laid out in layers on a baking sheet in the following order: potatoes, onions, meat. Now we send the dish to the oven. We will cook it at 220 degrees. The process takes at least an hour. Before the end of cooking, you can sprinkle the meat on top with grated cheese and herbs, and then send the baking sheet for another couple of minutes in the oven so that the cheese has time to melt. Now you know what to cook from chicken quickly, while getting a full dinner or lunch.

Pasta casserole with chicken

As a budget dish for every day, you can offer pasta casserole with chicken. A delicious and satisfying dish is prepared from what is available in the house. Pasta left after dinner can be used.

Ingredients:

  • chicken - fillet or other parts (780 g),
  • carrot,
  • mayonnaise,
  • garlic,
  • ground pepper,
  • cheese (180 g),
  • ketchup.

We cut the carrots into circles. We wash the chicken fillet and dry it with paper towels, then cut the meat into cubes. Be sure to salt and add freshly ground pepper.

Onion, cut into rings, brown in a pan, then add the fillet to it, fry until half cooked. Now we take a baking dish, put half of the meat and vegetables on its bottom. Put boiled spaghetti on top. You can use the ones that you have left after the meal. Next, grease the pasta with ketchup, and put a second layer of meat on top with onions and carrots. Bake the dish for 25 minutes, then sprinkle with chopped cheese and put in the oven for a couple of minutes. Here is a delicious and simple dish for every day. It can be served on the table.

French cutlets

Delicious dishes for every day are not only soups and side dishes, because you always want something meaty. We are offering instant cutlets. Their advantage is that you do not need to make stuffing, which takes a lot of time. So, the recipe for every day is suitable even for busy housewives.

Ingredients:

  • a few eggs
  • chicken fillet (480 g),
  • flour (two tablespoons),
  • salt,
  • mayonnaise,
  • pepper.

Chop the onion into squares. We also try to finely chop the chicken fillet, the smaller the pieces, the better. Next, mix the products in a container, salt, add one or two eggs, pepper. We also add mayonnaise. Minced meat should have the consistency of thick sour cream. Using a spoon, spread the mass on a hot frying pan and fry the cutlets for four minutes on each side. Here is the dish and ready. Cutlets can be served with absolutely any side dish.

Cream cheese soup

Soups are an integral part of our daily menu. As a budget option, you can cook the first course based on processed cheese. The soup is tasty, and the cost of the products used to prepare it is low.

Ingredients:

  • potatoes (five to six pieces),
  • bulb,
  • vegetable oil,
  • carrot,
  • greenery,
  • spices,
  • two cheeses (melted),
  • vermicelli (105 g).

We fill the container with water and send it to the stove. While the water boils, grind the curds on a grater. Then we put them in a bowl. Stir the liquid until the cheese is completely dissolved.

Next, peel and chop the onion, potatoes, carrots. Fry the onion and carrot in a pan until golden brown. We send potatoes to the soup, and then fry. After fifteen minutes, you can fall asleep vermicelli, which is cooked in just a couple of minutes. Turn off the fire and let the dish brew.

Stewed cabbage

Of the recipes for every day, it is worth highlighting stewed cabbage. At the end of summer and autumn, they sell a lot of cabbage, and the prices for it are acceptable. Therefore, it is worth making not only salads from it, but also stewing. Braised cabbage can be used as a side dish, filling for pies and pies.

Ingredients:

  • cabbage (580 g),
  • carrot,
  • tomato paste,
  • vegetable oil,
  • salt,
  • spices.

Peel and cut the onion into cubes, fry it in a well-heated pan. Then add chopped carrots and finely chopped cabbage. Add ½ cup of water to the vegetables in a bowl and simmer, covered, for ten minutes.

After that, you can salt, add seasonings and tomato paste. Mix all the ingredients and continue to cook further. If necessary, you can add liquid if the existing one has evaporated and the cabbage is not yet ready. You should not get carried away with vegetable oil, as the dish will be too fatty.

Sweet pies

Sweet dishes, pastries and desserts are also on our menu. Homemade pies with various fillings are especially popular. In the summer, you can cook wonderful pies, say, with apricots (you can change the filling at your discretion).

Very quick and easy to make dough in a bread machine. If you do not have one, then you have to do everything by hand.

Ingredients:

  • milk (1/2 l),
  • yeast package,
  • butter (65 g),
  • one egg,
  • about a cup of sugar
  • vanilla sugar (two packs),
  • flour (as needed)
  • vegetable oil.

Melt the butter and add slightly warm milk to it. Next add yeast, vanilla and sugar. We also pour about half a glass of flour into the container. Opara is suitable for half an hour. As soon as foam appears in it, it is necessary to fill in the sifted flour (it is enriched with oxygen) and knead the dough. As needed, during the kneading process, it is necessary to add flour, but you should make sure not to overdo it. Otherwise, the dough may turn out to be too tight and not airy. As soon as it stops sticking to the hands, it must be lubricated with oil (vegetable) and covered with a damp towel. The dough should rest for about an hour and a half. During this time, its volume will double. After that, you can put it on the table and let it rise a little more.

In the meantime, it is necessary to prepare a delicious filling for our pies. We divide the apricots into halves, remove the seeds, after which the pulp is cut into smaller pieces. Be sure to put sugar in the filling to taste. We punch down the dough, divide it into small pieces, each of which is rolled into a circle. We spread the filling in the middle of the pancake, fasten the edges and fry the pies in a pan on each side.

Flatbread in a frying pan

Kefir dough is indispensable in the arsenal of housewives. From it you can cook not only cakes in a pan without filling, but also pies.

Ingredients:

  • flour (465 g),
  • soda (1/2 tsp),
  • some salt
  • egg,
  • kefir (210 g),
  • vegetable oil.

Kefir dough is a real find for housewives. On its basis, delicious cakes and even pies with filling are prepared. The amount of oil poured into the dough determines what the crust on the cake will be. If you use a lot of vegetable oil for frying, then the pies can generally be fried on all sides.

This dough is also suitable for pancakes and dumplings. Depending on the amount of kefir, you can get a thicker or thin dough.

Pour kefir into the pan, pour soda and stir. Next, add a few eggs, salt and sugar. Beat the resulting mass, adding vegetable oil. Gradually stir in the flour in small portions and get a pliable dough for cakes. After kneading the dough, put it in a bowl and cover with a towel on top. It should rest for ten minutes.

After that, we roll it into layers that are suitable in diameter for your pan. Fry the cakes on both sides in vegetable oil. We put them in a pile, smeared with jam or jam, or you can just butter.

Potatoes in kefir

Potatoes, cereals and vegetables are the foods we eat most and are not too expensive. Of course, many cannot imagine a diet without potatoes. And indeed, we very often use it for cooking various dishes. You should not get carried away with a fried vegetable, but baked and boiled - it is more useful. Potatoes baked in kefir, you will certainly like it.

Ingredients:

  • potatoes (980 g),
  • vegetable oil,
  • kefir (280 g),
  • salt,
  • pepper,
  • garlic,
  • greenery.

We prepare vegetables, clean them and cut them. Then fry the onion, potato cubes and pumpkin in a pan. After a couple of minutes, pour all the components with kefir, adding salt and spices, and continue to boil.

Next, we shift all the ingredients into a baking dish, put a bay leaf and send it to bake in the oven at 200 degrees. If the liquid has evaporated, and the potatoes are not yet ready, then you can add a little kefir. The dish will not get worse from this. It can be served with pickles and salads. It makes for an incredibly delicious combination.