Nine best ideas for a romantic dinner ceremonial eating of delicacies – the indispensable attribute of any holiday. And Valentine’s Day – is no exception. Here are just a dinner under the sign of the heart, as it turns out in the second and third years of life together, not always a joy to strong floor.

Prawns on a piece of lettuce, strawberry mousse in a heart-shaped, decorated with whipped cream, chocolate fondue … Everything is beautiful and also consists of a continuum of aphrodisiacs. But the beloved, destroying ten minutes tenderly cooked delicacies, longingly looking at a business card left by a peddler of pizza. And in the eyes of his silent and mournful question: where, in fact, the food?

Really nice, reasonably well-fed man in the prime of his need to eat chocolate, cream and shrimp, which, although a caviar sauce, but do not pull a steak? We should not then wonder why it does not favor a strong half of Valentine’s Day and romance do not want to. To all went with a bang, man, you must first feed as it should, then, you see, and to candles, flowers and kisses it comes.

So, proceed to the Alternative- dinner: romantic enough, but tasty and nutritious.

Certainly something to eat

Salads, canapes and other fish in aspic – that’s what makes an ordinary table festive and happy man.

Classic: Boat avocado with cherry

Okay so, let them, shrimp, will be. But not as a main course, and as a snack. Shrimp, along with packaging packaging buy cherry tomatoes and a couple of good avocado. Good – it means no stains or cracks on the green skin, and soft enough – when pressed lightly mix fruit.

To prepare the salad avocado cut longitudinally into two parts, from the “shells” with a spoon remove the pulp. Do not throw the skin – it is still useful. Cut the flesh into cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice and mix with shrimp and chopped cherry tomatoes into quarters. (At one avocado will need about 30 grams of shrimp and 3-4 cherry). Mix with olive oil and spread back into the skin-boat.

Budget: a salad of string beans and mushrooms

Of course, the “original” bad salad of crab sticks – it’s tasty, but bad taste. As well as variations on a theme of purchased croutons, mayonnaise and all-you-in-the-fridge there. Therefore, give preference more natural ingredients.

For example, red beans and mushrooms. Soak the beans (200 grams) for three to four hours and cook until tender. (Or buy a canned and not to tell anyone.) Fry in a frying pan 150 grams diced onions and 300 grams of mushrooms until tender. Mix all ingredients with three hard-boiled eggs, grated on a coarse grater, season with salt, pepper and vegetable oil and lay out in the most beautiful salad bowl. Or on plates forming hearts.

Overnight: mozzarella with tomatoes

Sounds good, looks festive and contrast, in color almost like a strawberry with cream, only better fed. The main thing in this recipe – a tasty mozzarella to get the rest – matter of five minutes. Mozzarella (150 grams) cut into small pieces and arrange on a plate, in artistic disorder, add halved cherry tomatoes (need about 15 tomatoes) and pour a mixture of olive oil (2 / 3) and balsamic vinegar (1 / 3). Hot Italian relations Guaranteed!

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Once we decided to do without a steak, it is necessary to compensate for this loss of something if not meat, the hot, fragrant and delicious: a rabbit, fish or poultry.

Classic: rabbit with prunes

Rabbits, as we remember from childhood – is not only a valuable fur. And also a way to pass for a beautiful hostess, receive a gift of fur is not less valuable and inspire his friends loved. (”Why, yesterday ate a rabbit in wine” – “Oh wow, and my only knows how to cook dumplings out of the pack.”)

So, extract the local supermarket rabbit – fillets, 800 grams, we obtain from the box with dried prunes 100 grams, and from the bar – a bottle of dry white (need 200 ml).

Meat cut small, thin slices, mix with red onion rings (1 large onion), pour the wine and leave to marinate for 6 hours. Since Valentine’s Day falls on a weekend, all these manipulations can be done easily in the afternoon. Just before the dinner, extract the meat from the wine and fry in olive oil until golden brown. Salt, add the onions and pickles and chopped prunes in half – not for nothing that we were getting – and simmer it all the splendor of 50 minutes under a lid over medium heat.

Budget: Chicken with garlic and ginger

Maybe not quite chicken and poultry, but dishes it obtained quite a while nourishing the lungs (ham with mayonnaise does not count). And in this case – and still quite inexpensive. The main costs – is itself a hen and a special sleeve for baking. You can do without the latter, but it turns the meat is particularly juicy. The secret of food in the marinade. For him, mix three tablespoons of soy sauce, lemon zest, grated ginger root (about 3 inches), two tablespoons of sesame seeds (available in the department of seasoning), three crushed cloves of garlic and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. The carcass of chicken rubbed with a mixture pushes the sleeve and placed for an hour in preheated 180 degrees oven. And then fed to the table with the refrain: “Lean and hostess can from simple products to cook a delicious dinner.”

Quick: under trout caviar sauce

If the favorite is the fish, and you want to impress him sweep and grandeur – a dish that is necessary.

Four hundred grams of trout fillet (you can of salmon and even salmon) cut into large pieces and sprinkle with lemon juice. Salt is not needed, it will be enough in the sauce. In principle, this process of preparing the queen of the seas ends – left to lay on a greased baking it and place in oven for 20 minutes (temperature 180C).

In those twenty minutes is quite possible to make the sauce, and even the “nose powder” time left. For the sauce mix 100ml whipping cream with a tablespoon of dry white wine and cook mixture until thick, stirring constantly.

Then cool the sauce, flavored with three teaspoons of caviar and pour in filing the finished fish. Man – the joy, the hostess and salmon – applause.

For dessert

When a man is well fed and happy, he favorably react to any dessert. So there will be further fantasies and natural romanticism.

Classics: Snow Tart with Chocolate

This dessert – a close relative of cheesecake, but, in contrast, less choosy in terms of ingredients – if lying around in the fridge for a jar, “Philadelphia” and the cheesecake you’ve never cooked, it will not spoil your holiday.

So, patience is stored and absolutely trivial products: biscuits a la “Jubilee” – 250 grams butter – 125 grams, cream for whipping – 400 ml, two lemons and the good old condensed milk in a number of banks.

Using a blender, a rolling pin or the power of thought to crush cookies into crumbs and mix it with softened butter. Crumbs tightly compacted with a thin layer at the bottom of a demountable form. Chilled cream whipped and mixed (by hand) with a can of condensed milk with lemon juice (you do not forget about lemons?). To ignore them in any case impossible – dessert will not work. Lush and delicious mixture is poured onto the base of the pastry, and it all fits in the oven for 8 minutes at 180C. Speed ​​of preparation is compensated by a long cooling – at least 12 hours in the refrigerator.

After that you can decorate Tart with chocolate (50 grams of melted butter, the same melted chocolate and a teaspoon of cocoa), or – here it is, the moment of truth – with chocolate hearts. Valentine’s Day, after all.

Budget: ice cream ice-cream

One of the benefits of this dessert – a long storage (more on February 23 and will remain). Second – you can use it in the love games (silk and candles because no one has canceled.)

Mix the whipped cream (400 ml) with a jar of boiled condensed milk and two tablespoons of brandy, stir well and remove the freezer. Half an hour later we obtain (but do not eat), stir and remove the freeze altogether. Exact – before Christmas dinner (or romantic foreplay).

Overnight: walnut cake in the microwave

Can I make a cake for 10 minutes, 5 of which goes to the dough? Cake! For this, ground hazelnuts or almonds (200 grams), 3 eggs, 80 grams of sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder, and a microwave. All products are mixed and poured into a greased and floured form. Fast-pine baked 5 minutes at 900 W power, followed by two minutes can be spent on its decoration – icing, whipped cream or powdered sugar (do not forget about the template, a heart). Now you can safely go to the salon itself cause the order to impress the men in the evening not only with food.