Category — main dishes

One of the latest trends in our civilized world is health and what does it take to improve and maintain it. More and more people just start realizing their kids get overweight because of all that junk food that’s so tasty and so convenient, yet so damaging for the health.

So, we all agree we want to eat healthy. However, when it comes to defining healthy eating recipes, many arguments and contradictory beliefs show up. Some nutritionists claim that cow’s milk, for instance, is highly detrimental to a baby’s normal development, because its formulation is completely different from the human milk one. They base their reasoning on the fact that a calf needs to grow much more than a human baby grows over its first year of life. I don’t really know what to say… we’ve grown up with cow’s milk and some of us are in an excellent shape and in good health.

One of the most appreciated meals in my group is the beef brisket. It’s never missing from our table whenever we meet for a small party, mostly over the weekends. Yet, there are so many beef brisket recipes out there, some of them healthier than others, that we can argue forever if eating this kind of food is actually healthy or not. Moreover, the beef brisket quality matters a lot: if you make sure to buy only high-quality, organic meat, coming from beef that’s been fed solely with grass, with no chemicals or artificial nutrients added, then you’ll probably be on the safe side with this kind of meals. There are some studies that have revealed that feeding an animal with grass leads to a higher level of good fatty acids like Omega 3, which are known to be a great helper in stopping the aging process.

I’d be happy to know what’s your take on that: can beef brisket recipes be considered healthy eating? Please just don’t tell me vegetarian is the way to go, because I don’t think I’m ready to drop meat from my diet, at least for the time being.

Salmon recipes are sought after quite a lot. I suppose this is due to the great taste salmon has and to its reputation of celebrity food. Being a big fish, salmon can be sliced in such a manner that your guests would never encounter an unexpected bone in their plate or in their mouth. Salmon is the kings’ dish. Cooked properly, it can make eating a pure pleasure. You can never get enough of a well-cooked salmon recipe.

Ingredients:

• 600 g. salmon
• 400 g. asparagus
• 300 g. tomatoes
• 100 g. leek
• 40 ml. balsam vinegar
• 50 g. rucola
• 20 g. fresh basil
• 10 g. fresh mint
• salt, pepper

The sauce:

• 80 ml. oil
• 400 g. cream
• 1 lemon
• 120g. butter
• 1 orange for decoration

How To Cook It

1. Put the salmon in the oven, at medium temperature, for 20 min.
2. Turn it on both sides.
3. Fry the tomatoes. Peel them off and cut them in thin blades. Leave part of them for the salad.
4. Cut the leek on its length in thin slices. Leave part of it for the salad.
5. Add the tomatoes and the leek with the salmon.
6. Put it in the oven for 15 min.
7. Blend the asparagus.

For the sauce:

1. Melt the butter.
2. Add the cream and the lemon juice. Stir.
3. Leave it to diminish for 5 min.
4. Cut the basil.
5. Add salt, pepper and the basil.

For the salad:

1. Cut the rucola, the mint and the basil.
2. Mix the up the slices of the tomatoes and the leek.
3. Add balsam vinegar.

On a plate put:

• The asparagus.
• On top the salmon.
• On top the sauce and the salad.
• The slices of orange, round about.

This is all you need for a delicious meal. If you wish, you can replace the salmon with any kind of dried fish, as it offers a special savor to this meal. By the way, I think you can even find dried salmon, so you can use it from time to time, just for a change in your salmon recipes.

Ingredients

• 600 g. spinach
• 750 g. calamari without the head
• 5 spoons of olive oil
• 3 onions
• 70 ml. of white dry wine
• 50 g. of dill
• 3 spoons of mint (cut small)
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the calamari 1 cm. thick.
2. Cut the onions and the dill small.
3. Fry the onions for 3 min.
4. Add the dill, the mint and the calamari pieces. Salt and pepper them.
5. Fry for 5 min.
6. Add 200 ml. of hot water and cover the pot.
7. Leave it on the fire, at low temperature, for 20 min.
8. Cut the spinach small.
9. Put it in the pot with the rest of the food.
10. Add 50 ml. of water and boil for 10 min.
11. Add the wine and boil for 5 min.

If you still don’t know how to cook calamari, you’d better go have dinner to your favorite sea food restaurant.

Lamb can be a delicious meal, if properly cooked. Moreover, if you can’t eat everything at one meal, you can use the rest for preparing some great leftover ham recipes. This is only a matter of creativity, to combine leftovers with fresh food, in order to create original meals. Ham is a great ingredient in such cases, as it helps a lot.

Ingredients

• 800 g. lamb pulp
• 150 g. butter
• 2 lemons
• 5 spoons of olive oil
• 500 g. of small potatoes
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the meat big. Salt and pepper the pieces.
2. Fry them in hot olive oil, for 10 min, on each side.
3. Take the pot off the fire.
4. Squeeze the lemons.
5. Pour the lemon juice over the meat.
6. Cover the pot and leave it for 5 min. like this.
7. Add ¼ l. of water.
8. Put the pot on the fire, at low temperature, for 30 min.
9. Cut the potatoes in cubes. Salt and pepper them.
10. Fry them for 5 min. and put them in the pot with the meat for the last 15-min.

Ingredients:

• 600 g. pork pulp
• 4 onions
• flour
• semoline
• 2 eggs
• paprika
• tomato juice
• vegetable oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Cut the meat in medium pieces.
2. Cut the onions small.
3. Fry them for 3 min., than add 1 cup with hot water.
4. Stir from time to time until the water evaporates.
5. Salt and pepper the meat and the onions.
6. Add 50 ml. of vegetable oil.
7. Continue to fry for 3 min.
8. Add 500 g. of hot water.
9. Leave the food, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
10. During this time, scramble the eggs. Salt them.
11. Add, bit by bit, flour and semoline (equal shares) and stir until you obtain a thick cream.
12. Boil 400 g. of water.
13. Put, spoon by spoon, the cream in it.
14. Don’t stir.
15. Wait for the cream to become hard.
16. Boil it for 5 min.
17. Take them out and put it in the meat and onion sauce.
18. Add the paprika.
19. Put the food in the oven, at medium temperature, for 10 min.
20. Add the tomato sauce and put the food back in the oven for 5 min.

If you want, you can replace the pulp with bone-in pork chops, thus creating original pork chops recipes for your dinner guests.

Ingredients

• 400 g. of lentil
• 400 g. of sausages.
• 2 carrots
• 2 onions
• 1 laurel leaf
• 200 g. of tomatoes sauce
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

1. Boil the lentil.
2. Grate the carrots and the onions. Salt and pepper them.
3. Fry them for 2 min., then boil them with the lentil, until they are ready.
4. Add the tomato sauce and the laurel leaf 10 min before the finish.

Ingredients

• 600 g. of chicken frankfurters
• 200 g. of ham
• 1 celery (150 g.)
• 3 carrots
• 2 avocados
• 1 nut
• 50 ml. of lemon juice
• 100 g. of mayonnaise
• salt

Cooking Procedure

1. Boil the chicken frankfurters.
2. Cut them small.
3. Grate the celery and the carrots. Salt them.
4. Mix up the celery and the carrots and pour the lemon juice on top.
5. Leave it for 10 min.
6. Cut the avocado and the ham in cubes.
7. Add the avocado on top of the celery and the carrots and stir.
8. Leave it for 2 min. Stir.
9. Smash the nut’s heart.
10. Mix up the chicken frankfurters with the ham the avocado, the carrots, the celery, the nut and the mayonnaise.

Ingredients

• 800 g. of veal meat (from the shoulders)
• 600 g. of potatoes
• 2 onions
• 130 g. butter
• 200 ml. tomato sauce

The salad:

• 20 g. cucumbers
• 4 garlic cloves
• 400 g. yogurt
• 4 spoons of olive oil
• 20 g. dill
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure

The salad:

1. Cut the cucumbers.
2. Crash the garlic.
3. Mix them up with the yogurt, the olive oil, the salt and the pepper.
4. Cover the plate and leave it in the refrigerator for one hour.

The meat:

1. Cut the meat and the onions in cubes.
2. Mix them up and pour ½ l. of water to boil them in, until the water evaporates.
3. Then, add the butter, the salt and the pepper and fry them for 5 min.
4. Cut the potatoes in cubes and put them over the meat and onions.
5. Fry them for 3 min.
6. Add 500 g. of hot water.
7. Put the food in the oven, at medium temperature, for 30 min.
8. Add the tomato sauce, the salt and the pepper.
9. Put it back in the oven for 10 min.

Special note from the cook: Start the preparation one-day before you want to eat the food.

Ingredients

• 600 g. pork chops
• 400 g. potatoes
• 6 garlic cloves
• 200 ml. vinegar from white wine
• 4 spoons of vinegar
• 100 ml. olive oil
• few olives for decoration
• salt

Cooking Procedure:

1. Peel off the garlic.
2. Put it in the 200 ml of vinegar and leave it over the night.

The next day:

1. Cut the potatoes in medium cubes and boil them.
2. Blend them with the garlic.
3. Add the 4 spoons of vinegar and the salt.
4. Then, add, bit by bit, the olive oil.
5. Put the garlic cream in a bowl and decorate it with the olives.
6. Slice the pork chops. Salt them.
7. Fry them how you like.
8. Serve the steak with the garlic cream.

I hope you enjoy this pork steak recipe. If you prefer, I can give you a BBQ version: baby back rib recipes.

Ingredients

• 600 g. of chicken liver
• 2 eggs
• 1 spoon of mineral water
• 1 tea spoon with flour
• dry crust
• vegetable oil
• 800 g. of Mexican mixed vegetables
• olive oil
• salt, pepper

Cooking Procedure:

1. Boil the chicken liver for 3 min.
2. Leave it to chill up. Salt and pepper it.
3. Scramble the eggs and add the mineral water and the flour.
4. Lubricate the chicken liver in it.
5. Then pass them through the dry crust.
6. Fry them in hot vegetable oil.
7. Salt and pepper the vegetables.
8. Fry them in olive oil, for 10 min, at medium temperature.
9. Serve the chicken livers with the vegetables.