My Main Dish Recipes
May 12th, 2012 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat by Julia Volhina Kefir based crepes have more tender than milk based ones, but they are also harder to do.
Amount of flour to use will depend on thickness of the kefir you have (an that will vary based on brand), somewhere between 2 cups and 2 and half that is what I usually use. If you have choice – use more runny kefir.
There are couple of things you can do if crepes tear when you try to flip them: one of them is to add more flour – but that will not work good if kefir you are using is too thick, then you can put more eggs, and the last resort it to use smaller skillet – then flipping will be easier.
Tags: breakfast, egg, flour, kefir, lunch, pancake, russian, sugar
May 5th, 2012 in Chicken, Main Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina Hens cooked by this recipe turn out juicy, seriously juicy. If you don’t have cornish hens – you can cook pieces of chicken like this with similar result.
About 3 hours of marinating is enough, but if you want it can be done overnight, just make sure that chicken is fully covered with marinade.
Leftovers can be stored and warmed up in the same pot with sauce, the meat will not lose its juiciness.
Tags: banana, chicken, dinner, pineapple, roast, romantic, wine
April 28th, 2012 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat by Julia Volhina These are zucchini based vegetable pancakes with a bit of fresh sheep cheese, which can be optional if you don’t like sheep cheese, but to my opinion it benefits a lot to the taste.
You can use zucchini or other kind of summer squash; remove seeds they already formed before cooking.
Vegetable pancakes are good choice for breakfast, brunch or lunch. Serve them warm with sour cream or sour cream and garlic dip how I did.
Tags: breakfast, dill, flour, fresh cheese, lunch, pancake, parsley, squash, yeast
April 14th, 2012 in Fish, Main Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina Salmon fried this way turns out juicy. All you need is salmon, eggs and flour to make batter. Amount of flour may vary – just add flour until batter gets desired thickness.
Fried battered salmon if good choice for lunch or dinner; tastes good with potato as a side dish: fried or boiled.
Serve fried salmon as soon as it is cooked – it tastes better straight from the frying pan.
Tags: dinner, egg, fish, flour, lunch, salmon
March 24th, 2012 in Chicken, Main Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina This is another recipe from “Modern homemade cuisine” book which I mastered. This dish goes great for dinner and leftovers can be warmed up for lunch.
Chicken is served with cauliflower so there is no need to cook separate side dish unless you want to.
Important note: when cooking chicken with sauce make sure it simmers slow, because sauce has flour and it will burn on high heat.
Tags: cauliflower, chicken, dinner, lunch, onion, romantic, russian, stew, tomato
March 3rd, 2012 in Beef, Main Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina If you are looking for a dinner roast recipe, this one is for you: juicy homemade veal roast with pureed sauce prepared from carrots, onions and tomatoes stewed in dry red wine and meat juices.
Pureeing vegetables makes sauce more homogeneous (and looking and tasting more like a sauce), however you can also pour cooked meat with cooked vegetable mix without pureeing it, that may save you some time if needed.
Meat roasted this way tastes great served straight from the oven as well as cooled down.
Tags: carrot, dinner, onion, roast, romantic, russian, tomato, tomato paste, veal, wine
February 25th, 2012 in Eggs, Main Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina This is a nice breakfast or lunch recipe for two: tender omelette stuffed with mushrooms and onions braised with a spoon of sour cream and seasoned with shredded cheese.
Amount of ingredients listed here is yields exactly 2 omelettes, if you want to cook more – just increase amounts of ingredients accordingly.
And if you fry omelettes one after another, use warm plates to make sure first one is still warm when the last one is cooked.
Tags: breakfast, egg, lunch, mushroom, no meat, onion, romantic, stuffed
