Stir-fry recipes for Valentine's Day

Stir-fry recipes for Valentine's Day

The most important thing about a romantic dinner at home on Valentine's Day is the lightness of all dishes, including roast ones. On such a day, duck dishes, pork steak, etc. will be unacceptable, because it’s important not to fill yourself up with goodies so that it’s hard to get up, let alone talk with your other half. That is why the main hot dish for such a dinner must be moderately satisfying, tasty and light. Dishes made from seafood, fish, lean meats and, of course, vegetables are ideal for this role.

When choosing ingredients for a hot dish on Valentine's Day, be guided by small tricks, and specifically choose aphrodisiac products. Among them there are not only strawberries, but also orange vegetables, asparagus, seaweed, celery, seafood, and almost all spices (red pepper, ginger, curry, nutmeg, etc.). We offer several regular recipes for hot dishes for Valentine's Day.

Trout with oranges baked in foil

To make it you will need:

• two trout weighing no more than 350-400 g;
• 1 orange;
• a mixture of herbs to taste (definitely rosemary and oregano);
• salt pepper.

Clean the fish, remove the insides, wash thoroughly under running cool water and dry with kitchen cardboard towels. Rub the trout on all sides with a mixture of pepper, salt and herbs. Leave it like this for 10 minutes. At this time, cut the orange into half rings.

Place the fish on the foil, place orange slices in a row on top (you can put a few inside). Wrap the fish in foil and bake in the oven at about 200 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Tip: serve the fish by placing it on a leaf of lettuce, garnishing with cherry tomatoes and any other vegetables of your choice; steamed vegetables sprinkled with a mixture of lemon juice and olive oil would also be a good side dish.

Chicken in sweet pepper sauce

To make it you will need:

• 800 g chicken fillet or other part of chicken as desired;
• 250 g reddish or orange sweet pepper;
• 2 medium tomatoes;
• small onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tbsp. l. sifted flour;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• salt, pepper, ground nutmeg.

Rinse the chicken, dry with a cardboard towel, add a little salt and roll in flour. The chicken fillet can be cut into pieces if desired, but the legs can be cooked whole. Fry the chicken in vegetable oil until golden brown (but not until cooked) and transfer to a thick-bottomed saucepan or casserole.

Make a small cross-shaped cut on the tomatoes, dip them in boiling water for a few minutes and simply remove the skin. In a food processor or blender bowl with a blade, grind the chopped peppers, tomatoes, onions and garlic until pureed. Pour this sauce over the fried chicken, add salt and pepper, add a small pinch of nutmeg, add 160 ml of hot boiled water and cover with a lid.

First simmer the chicken over medium heat until the sauce boils, then reduce the heat to low and simmer the chicken until cooked.

Mussels in creamy curry sauce

To make it you will need:

• 450-500 g mussels;
• 1 onion;
• 5 tbsp. l olive oil;
• 250 ml cream (at least 20% fat);
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• salt, pepper, curry.

If the mussels are frozen, they must be thawed in advance, but not in water or in the microwave, but simply at room temperature. Then carefully drain off the excess liquid. Peel the onion and garlic and chop finely.

In a frying pan with heated olive oil, lightly fry the onions and garlic for a few minutes, and when the onions are browned, add the mussels. Fry the mussels for a couple of minutes, and at this time, in a separate bowl, mix the cream with a small pinch of curry powder. The cream will acquire a wonderful yellowish color and a narrow taste.

Pour cream over mussels, salt and pepper the dish. When the cream boils, cook the mussels for about 5-7 minutes over medium heat.

Tip: mussels can be served separately or with a small amount of rice.

Chicken soufflé with broccoli

To make it you will need:

• OK. 800 g chicken fillet;
• 300 g broccoli;
• 1 slice of lemon;
• 2 testicles;
• 100-150 g sour cream;
• salt, pepper, butter.

Wash the chicken fillet under running water, dry with a cardboard towel and cut into small pieces. Divide the broccoli into small florets, wash and place in a pan of bubbling water, adding one slice of fresh lemon. Cook the broccoli for about 5-7 minutes, then discard in a colander.

Separate the yolks from the whites. In a food processor or blender, grind the chicken fillet, yolks and sour cream until smooth. Separately beat the whites with salt and pepper to stiff peaks. Gently add the egg whites to the chicken mixture, stirring only from bottom to top, and not slamming or stirring clockwise to create an airy mass.

If you have a small heart-shaped baking pan, this is an ideal option; you can use medium muffin pans to make a portioned soufflé right away. Grease the pan with butter, first lay out a layer of chicken mixture, then broccoli florets, cover with chicken mixture on top. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 30-35 minutes.

Tip: instead of broccoli, you can use sweet bell peppers, carrots and other favorite vegetables; also, for the best taste, add grated hard cheese inside the soufflé.

Dinner for lovers: what to cook on Valentine's Day

We asked the best chefs in the capital and collected 5 recipes for delicious and unusual dishes for a romantic dinner. We promise he won't resist!

Oyster tartare with lychee from Le Restaurant chef Jeremy Uryuti

Oysters are considered a traditional aphrodisiac, and they are also a source of the “pleasure hormone.” Oyster tartare with lychee, chili, green onions, lemon jelly and emulsion is a colorful, unusual dish that will set a romantic mood and is perfect for February 14th.

Ingredients:

• oyster – 1 pc.;
• lychee – 1 g;
• green onions – 1 g;
• chili – 1 g;
• rice chips – 2 g;
• lemon jelly – 3 g.

For emulsion:

• ginger – 40 g;
• milk – 300 g;
• sugar – 15 g.

Mix ginger and a little sugar with milk, bring to a boil and cover with duralumin paper for 20 minutes. Beat everything in a blender and you can create an emulsion.

For lemon jelly:

• water – 110 ml;
• sugar – 45 g;
• gelatin - to taste;
• lemon juice – 25 ml.

Heat the water and sugar, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves. Then cook for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add gelatin. Cool. Add lemon juice and sugar to taste. Refrigerate until set, mixing once.

Manufacturing method

Open the oyster, take one half and remove the oyster meat. Cut into small cubes. Also cut lychee, green onion and chili into small cubes and combine with oyster tartare. Take the shell from under the oyster, drain the juice, and place the resulting filling in the shell. Place lemon jelly on top and sprinkle with rice crispies. Before serving, decorate with emulsion.

Salmon poke from Christian restaurant chef Christian Lorenzi

You can prepare a lot of tasty and healthy dishes from salmon – from the most common to the quite exotic. February 14 is a good reason to experiment! And, by the way, salmon is a real aphrodisiac! It contains omega-3 fatty acids, which have a beneficial effect on the heart and blood vessels, and also stimulate the production of hormones.

Ingredients:

• salmon without skin – 120 g;
• pumpkin seeds – 10 g;
• sesame – 3 g;
• green onion – 8 g;
• Crimean onion – 10 g;
• Kenyan beans – 20 g;
• coconut milk – 20 g;
• pumpkin oil – 10 g;
• lime juice – 5 g;
• soy sauce – 10 g;
• radish – 20 g;
• cucumbers – 20 g;
• mango – 50 g;
• Romano salad – 10 g.

Manufacturing method

Chop salmon, vegetables and peeled mango. Add crushed pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, beans. Season with soy sauce, coconut milk, add a few drops of lime juice and pumpkin oil. Mix everything and serve in a coconut shell.

White Sea mussels in snow-white wine from the chef of station #2 SHRIMPCRABLANGOUSTINE of the Zaryadye gastrocenter Pavel Petukhov

Mussels in snow-white wine are one of the most favorite dishes in the south of France. They are fried in huge frying pans right in the open air... If you and your lover can’t be in the south of France right now, create the atmosphere of this paradise in your kitchen!

Ingredients:

• mussels – 600 g;
• snow white wine - 150 g;
• olive oil – 20 g;
• shallots – 80 g;
• garlic - to taste;
• fresh basil – 10 g;
• butter – 20 g.

Manufacturing method

Pour olive oil into a heated frying pan, add pepper, garlic, butter. Add mussels, stir, add dry white wine, evaporate. Add herbs, salt to taste, simmer for 2-3 minutes.

Chopped veal rib BBQ from the chef of the restaurant “Pub Lo Picasso” Svetlana Yugay

If your man is a meat eater (and men usually adore meat in all forms), please him with an extraordinary veal dish. Tender calf meat contains many vitamins and essential substances, and most importantly, it is absorbed much better than any other meat.

Ingredients:

• bull rib for soup – 1200 g;
• Barbecue sauce – 400 g;
• garlic chips – 20 g;
• chili pepper – 20 g;
• watercress – 4 g;
• reddish oil – 12 g;

• raisins – 12 g;
• prunes – 24 g;
• Demi-glace sauce;
• Heinz ketchup – 8 g;
• tomato paste – 8 g;
• table vinegar 9% – 12 g;
• soy sauce – 16 g;
• drinking water – 400 g;
• sweet sand by weight - 8 g;
• watery smoke – 8 g;
• chicken broth – 8 g.

Manufacturing method

To make the sauce, boil the raisins and prunes until tender, puree in a blender and strain. Separately mix drinking water, dry demi-glace, watery smoke, dry knor broth, tomato paste and ketchup. Add the prepared raisins and prunes, put on low heat, and add vinegar at the end. Salt and pepper the beef ribs, brush with olive oil, and fry in a josper. Place the finished ribs on the board. To serve, garnish with thyme, rosemary, mini chillies and flower salt.

For lovers

Very good biscuit! quite ordinary and quickly prepared, but VERY TASTY.

Ingredients for “For Lovers”:

• Wheat flour / Flour - 5 tbsp. l.
• Sugar - 200 g
• Chicken egg - 5 pcs
• Cream - 250 g
• Sweet powder - 100 g

Production time: 40 minutes

Number of servings: 6

Nutritional and energy value:

Recipe “For Lovers”:

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Romantic dinner for two on Valentine's Day: menu and recipes

February 14 marks our country's favorite holiday - Valentine's Day. But everyone celebrates this day differently. Naturally, you can go to a comfortable restaurant on this day. But not all lovers will want to spend Valentine's Day in a restaurant setting. Therefore, it goes without saying that the best solution for dinner for two is your own walls.

We invite girls and ladies to take the initiative into their own hands and organize a real celebration on this day. Stock up on candles, choose musical accompaniment, formal attire and create a menu. The main thing to remember is that on Valentine's Day the emphasis is not on the word “dinner”, but on the word “romantic”. Because, as you know, for a romantic date to continue, a candlelit dinner should not be very filling.

So that the food on this day complements your feelings, we have collected noteworthy and delicious recipe ideas for an intimate dinner with a beautiful heart-shaped design. But, let's start with {romantic} dishes that you can prepare for your lover for breakfast. After all, any man will appreciate it if Valentine's Day begins with morning surprises.

Breakfast Recipes for Valentine's Day

1. Toast with scrambled eggs

To prepare such toast, you need to cut out a heart in the bread using a special mold. Place the toast in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil, crack an egg into the hole and season with salt. All that remains is to cover the pan with a lid and turn off the heat. When the egg whites have curled, remove the toast and serve the scrambled eggs with tomato sauce.

2. Scrambled eggs in sausage

Cut the sausage in half lengthwise, about 3 cm short of the first edge. Pinch off the cut edges of the sausage with a toothpick to make a heart. In a preheated frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the sausage on one side, then turn it over to the other and crack the egg inside. Season with salt, cover the pan and reduce the heat to low. Cook the scrambled eggs until the whites have curdled, then serve them with vegetables and herbs.

Recipes for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day

And now we offer a small list of dishes for a romantic evening dinner by candlelight. So that your other half does not remain hungry after a working day, but at the same time does not overload the stomach, snacks and salads made from vegetables, seafood, fish and other light goods are excellent.

1. Canapés for lovers

Cut out small hearts from toast, apply butter and reddish caviar on them in the form of a lady's bust, and black caviar in the form of a man's tuxedo.

2. Tomato heart

Take two cherry tomatoes, oblong in shape and uniform in size. Cut them diagonally at an angle of 45°C, so that one part is about 2/3, and the second is 1/3.

Attach huge parts of 2 tomatoes diagonally with a toothpick, in the shape of Cupid’s arrow, and you will get a heart. Do not throw away small pieces of tomatoes, but use them to decorate salads in the future.

3. Pizza “Heart”

Every man has a favorite pizza recipe, so prepare it specifically. But when baking, give the pizza dough the shape of not an ordinary oval or circle, but a heart.

4. Heart rolls

Boil the rice over low heat for 10 minutes. Pour rice vinegar over it and let cool to room temperature. Cut the fish, avocado and cucumber into strips. Place the nori sheet on the reed mat with the glossy side down.

Place the rice on it, departing 1 cm from the 1st edge, leveling it over the entire surface. Place the fish, avocado and cucumber in a line in the center of the sheet. Using a mat, carefully roll the nori sheet into a heart-shaped roll. Cut the roll into pieces and serve.

5. Heart cutlets

As a hot dish, prepare cutlets for your man according to his favorite recipe, also giving them the shape of hearts. The main thing here is that they keep their shape perfectly, so be sure to add an egg to the minced meat, and fry the cutlets in breadcrumbs.

6. “Heart” salad

Place foods on the dish in layers using a heart-shaped mold, coating them with mayonnaise: boiled chopped chicken meat, fried onions, grated eggs, cheese and beets. Place lemon seeds tightly on top.

7. “Heart” salad with salmon

As in the previous salad, lay out the ingredients in layers using a heart-shaped shape, coating them with mayonnaise: fried onions, chopped fresh cucumbers and grated eggs. Place the reddish fish in the outermost layer.

In principle, such salads can be prepared from anything, the main thing is to give it a heart shape, for which you can create a stencil from thick paper or use the sides of a springform baking dish. Then the salad must be decorated with reddish foods: sweet peppers, tomatoes, reddish fish, caviar, carrots, pomegranates.

8. Shortbread cookies “Heart”

What could be more pleasant than ending a romantic dinner with a sweet and savory dessert made with your own hands? No amount of hardship or wasted time can compare with the warm smile, admiring gaze and embrace of your lover.

Making shortbread cookies

200 gr. mix butter with 400 gr. flour. Add egg, 2 tbsp. sour cream, sugar, vanillin and slaked soda with vinegar. Knead the dough and roll it into a layer no more than 5 mm wide. Cut out the hearts using a special mold and bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes. Decorate the cookies with colored chocolate glaze and serve.

If you have your own proven recipes for cookies and cakes (sponge, puff, curd, cream, with jam, cream and icing), then prepare them. The choice of festive desserts is huge! The main thing is that they are prepared in the shape of a heart.

9. Coffee with hearts

At the end of a romantic meal with a sweet dessert, serve your beloved a cup of coffee with hearts. To do this, stock up on stencils in advance and pour cocoa onto the snow-white foam through a tiny strainer.

This, dear readers, is where we end the article. We hope that these recipes and ideas will help you decorate a gala table for Valentine's Day for your significant other. On this day, it is important to create pleasant surprises for your loved ones, so arrange an unforgettable evening for your men!