Interesting recipes for Valentine's Day

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  breakfast

• Cooking time:

  10-15 minutes

• Designed for

  2 servings

Ingredients

• sausages
• eggs
• greens
• vegetable oil
• spices

You can surprise your loved one on Valentine's Day by preparing a delicious dinner. If you don't know what to cook, we suggest using our selection of recipes for Valentine's Day. Something can be quite prepared the day before, for example, a dessert, and the rest directly on February 14th. Particular attention should be paid to the festive thematic serving of dishes.

Two hearts in love

A dish of your favorite sausages, prepared according to this recipe with a photo, and even in such a thematic version, will certainly delight your soul mate. You can prepare such an original dish both for breakfast on Valentine's Day and for dinner.

Ingredients:

• long thin sausages - 2 pcs.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil;
• greens;
• salt pepper.

Preparation:

1. We cut both sausages lengthwise into two halves, without cutting to the end.
2. We bend the halves to the outside and fix the edges with skewers. We get sausages in the shape of two hearts.
3. In a preheated pan with a small amount of vegetable oil, fry the sausage hearts on both sides.
4. We break one egg into each heart, salt and pepper. If the egg has leaked out a little, adjust the shape with a knife at the end of cooking.
5. Cover the dish with a lid and reduce the heat. As soon as the eggs are cooked, turn off the heat.

We put sausage hearts on a beautiful plate, decorate greens and serve them for breakfast or dinner.

Chicken wings in honey mustard sauce

Without spending too much time thinking about what you can cook for February 14, we are preparing a delicious dish in a slow cooker. Using this recipe, you can cook in the same way not only wings, but also chicken thighs.

Ingredients:

• chicken wings - 1 kg;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• salt pepper;
• honey - 1 tbsp. l;
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp l;
• mustard - 1 tbsp. l;
• ketchup - 1 tbsp l;
• Apple;
• greens.

Preparation:

• We wash the chicken wings, dry them with a paper towel. Salt, pepper, let stand for a while.
• Prepare the sauce in a small container, for which we mix mustard, honey, soy and ketchup. Add soy sauce to the mixture and mix thoroughly.

Peel and core the apple. Cut the apple into small cubes and leave it ready

Fry the wings in a well-heated skillet and over high heat until golden brown

We put the wings in the multicooker bowl, put the apple cubes on top and pour the sauce over everything

• We close the lid of the multicooker, turn on the pilaf mode and simmer until tender.
• Put the finished dish on a plate, pour the sauce remaining in the bowl and decorate with herbs.

Jelly dessert

The minimum amount of calories and a pleasant delicate taste. This dessert will please both your loved one and you yourself.

Ingredients:

• fruit jelly (cherry is better, for a more intense color) - 1 pack;
• gelatin - 1 package;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. l;
• sugar - 1 tablespoon

Preparation:

We dilute fruit jelly in water according to the instructions

Pour cherry jelly into the prepared glasses up to half the volume, put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. It is important that the glasses in the refrigerator should be tilted

While the fruit jelly hardens, prepare the white half of the dessert. For this we dilute gelatin in 150 mg of water until it is completely dissolved

• Mix sour cream with sugar. When the sugar is completely dissolved, add the cooled jelly to the mixture.
• Take the fruit jelly glasses out of the refrigerator and fill them with white jelly.

Once again we put glasses with dessert prepared for February 14 according to this recipe in the refrigerator, leave for several hours. Knowing that the dish for your beloved should be prepared at the right time, we calculate the time in advance.

"Heart in love" salad

The beautiful thematic presentation of this delicious and delicate salad is especially captivating. When composing a menu for a romantic light dinner on Valentine's Day, this salad is a very good choice.

Ingredients:

• slightly salted salmon - 200 g;
• vegetable oil;
• cherry - 500 g;
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• eggs - 5 pcs.;
• onion;
• pickled cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
• mayonnaise.

Preparation:

• Boil carrots and eggs, cool.
• Chop the onion finely and sauté in a little vegetable oil.

• Peel and rub the eggs on a coarse grater.
• Rub the carrots on a fine grater.
• Cut salmon and cucumbers into small cubes.

We put the mayonnaise in a bag, cut off the corner. Draw a heart of the required size with mayonnaise on a prepared beautiful plate for serving

We spread all the products inside the heart in layers. To do this, first fill in the form of mayonnaise with grated eggs

• Lay a layer of cucumbers on top, grease everything with a thin mayonnaise mesh.
• Place the salmon cubes in the next layer.

With the final layer, lay out the fried onions, which will give the salad a sweet, piquant touch

• Liberally grease the resulting heart with mayonnaise, cover everything with grated carrots.
• Decorate the salad with halves of cherry tomatoes, also laying them out in the shape of a heart.

We include a beautiful and delicious salad prepared according to a simple recipe with a photo in the festive menu. Cooking for Valentine's Day and serving

Chicken chops in cheese batter

Such a hearty and beautiful dish will definitely decorate the festive table and cheer up your loved one and you.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 500 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 200 g;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• mayonnaise;
• starch - 1 tbsp. l;
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp l;
• salt pepper;
• flour for breading;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Cut the chicken breast into thin longitudinal plates.
2. We put all the plates of chicken fillet on a cutting board, cover with cling film and beat off.
3. Salt and pepper each chop, rub with crushed garlic and leave for a while.
4. We prepare the cheese batter, for which we lightly beat the eggs, add mayonnaise, sour cream and starch. Add soy sauce to the ingredients collected in one container, mix everything thoroughly.
5. Rub the cheese on a fine grater, put it in the prepared sauce, mix everything again.
6. Roll the chicken chops in flour, then in cheese breading.
7. Fry the chops in a pan with heated oil for 3 minutes on each side. When frying, put an additional small amount of batter on the chops.
8. We serve delicious chops prepared according to this recipe to the table. On February 14, your efforts will become proof that you love your soul mate, which will be the most pleasant gift for him.

Light chocolate dessert

This chocolate cake will be perfect for coffee to end a gala dinner.

Ingredients:

• flour - 100 g;
• cocoa powder - 60 g;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• baking powder - 1/2 tsp;
• kefir - 120 g;
• egg;
• vegetable oil - 50 g;
• Nescafe - 1 pack.

For the cream:

• fat cream - 150 g;
• icing sugar - 30 g.

For filler:

• frozen raspberries;
• mint leaves.

Preparation:

1. In one container we mix all the dry ingredients, sifting them through a sieve.
2. Pour kefir, vegetable oil into another container and break the egg.
3. We brew a prepared bag of coffee in a cup, cool it down.
4. Add the cooled coffee to a container with kefir, mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
5. Knead the dough by combining the dry mixture with the stirred liquid ingredients.
6. Put foil in a baking dish, lightly grease it with melted butter and pour out the prepared dough.
7. We bake in the oven at a temperature of 170 * C for 30 minutes.
8. While the biscuit is cooling, prepare the cream. Why beat the cream, gradually adding the icing sugar. Beat until thick and immediately turn off the mixer.
9. Cut the cooled chocolate cake into circles, for which we use any available tool, for example, a cut from a plastic bottle.
10. We take two mugs of biscuit and put the prepared cream on them using a culinary syringe.
11. Put raspberries on both biscuits and put one biscuit with cream on top of the other.
12. Decorate the top of the cake by putting a sprig of mint. We serve dessert to the table.

Spicy salad

This recipe can be used to prepare a light refreshing salad for a romantic dinner. Other dishes prepared for Valentine's Day should be presented in an equally spectacular presentation.

Ingredients:

• boiled or smoked chicken breast - 2 pcs.;
• cucumbers - 3 pcs.;
• apples - 2 pcs.;
• carrots - 3 pcs.;
• mayonnaise - 100 g;
• eggs - 6 pcs.;
• lemon - 1/2 pcs.;
• salt pepper.

Preparation:

1. Boil 2 carrots and eggs, cool and peel.
2. We also peel the apples.
3. Rub boiled carrots and apples on a coarse grater. Sprinkle everything with lemon juice so that the apple mass does not darken.
4. Divide the boiled eggs into whites and yolks and rub them on a fine grater separately.
5. Cut the breast into small cubes, cucumbers into strips.
6. Putting together our festive heart-shaped puff salad. Lay out the chicken breast in the first layer.
7. Lay out a layer of cucumbers on top of the chicken breast cubes and cover everything with a mayonnaise net.
8. On top of the first two layers greased with mayonnaise, lay out the carrots with grated apples. Apply the mayonnaise mesh.
9. The layer of egg yolks, the mayonnaise net, the layer of proteins go longer.
10. Let's start decorating the salad. Cut the remaining raw carrots and cucumber into thin slices.
11. Place one plate of carrots on the plate of cucumber. Cut a kind of fringe from these vegetables from one edge.
12. We fold both plates, fringed on top. We fasten the resulting flower with a toothpick.
13. We make two or three such flowers and decorate with green leaves. A beautiful spectacular salad, prepared according to this recipe with a photo for Valentine's Day, is served to the table.

Salad "Man's whim"

A festive table without meat will not be appreciated by any man, so we prepare a salad with beef.

Ingredients:

• beef - 200 g;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• onion - 2 heads;
• mayonnaise;
• vinegar 6%;
• hard cheese - 150 g;
• salt pepper.

Preparation:

1. Boil the beef until tender with spices and salt.
2. Chop the onion finely, put it in a container and fill it with a mixture of water and vinegar, leave to marinate.
3. Cool the beef and cut it into small cubes.
4. Rub boiled hard-boiled eggs on a coarse grater.
5. We collect the salad, for which we spread a layer of beef, then pickled onions, apply a mayonnaise mesh.
6. Lay out a layer of grated eggs on top. Cover with a cheese layer, after rubbing the cheese on a coarse grater.
7. We repeat the layers in this order two more times.
8. We decorate a salad prepared according to this popular recipe, at our discretion, serve it to the table.

From this short selection of recipes for various dishes, it is quite possible to compose a festive menu, having decided in advance what we will cook for a romantic dinner on February 14th. The main thing to remember is that dinner should not be too hearty and overloaded with delicacies. Leave your energy just for a good mood.