THE BEST RECIPES FOR A PICNIC

The best recipe is a good mood. There is nothing worse when you come to the picnic, two or three people begin to cook and others are bored. As a rule, food in such conditions is long-awaited and quickly eaten up. It is necessary to find work for others. It may be mobile games, preparation of various snacks. Due to this the time will pass quickly and you’ll have tasty snack.

Of course, various sandwiches always help out in this situation. They can be done both outdoors and at home. But at the picnic you can fry over a fire. There are a lot of variants of different kinds of sandwiches from canapés to long loaves made in the form of a sandwich which they cut into pieces at the picnic. Filling is a matter of taste of each. Sandwich is a sandwich, put what you like on it and fire will do its job.

All sorts of cakes are well-timed for the picnic. Their cooking at home doesn’t take much time, and you will appreciate in the open air how they will be useful. As a rule, they are prepared with kefir. Add the flour, egg, salt and soda to the dough. The filling in these cookies can be such as you want. They are nice with herbs and cheese but you can add cheese and ham.

At the picnic a real life saver will be lavash with all sorts of fillings. Cook them better at home. But even if you decide to do it on the open air it won’t take a long time. They are baked quite quickly, for 3-4 minutes on each side. As a filling you may use mushrooms, ham, seafood (shrimps or crab sticks), cheese and herbs, vegetables (capsicum, cucumber, tomatoes and maize).

You can marinate vegetables at home, for example, tomatoes. For the marinade you can take greens, herbs, spices, mustard in beans, garlic and apple vinegar. All ingredients chop and mix. Tomatoes cut into slices and put them sparing with marinade. This snack can be cooked in just a half hour for a picnic. This time is enough for tomatoes to be soaked.

If you want to cook vegetables in the open air, maize will be unusual and quite nourishing snack. But you should marinate it at home, preferably in a few hours to picnic. So for marinade you need olive and sesame oil, lemon juice and peel, soy sauce, pepper and garlic. All these ingredients grind well, mix and marinate maize in this mixture. The important thing is that the vegetable should be raw. Also, it is desirable not to put a lot such component as a lemon. Upon arrival at the picnic, maize should be wrapped in foil and baked on a grill or barbecue. You must ensure that it got baked through equally well.

You can make a seafood shashlik. It is prepared in a moment and has interesting taste. Only at home you need to marinate the mussels and shrimps in a saucer with olive oil (it is very tasty to take peanut oil), onion, garlic and lemon juice. They need to marinate within 30 minutes, no more. Then begin cooking: impose seafood on wooden skewers, alternating with vegetables – capsicum or cherry tomatoes.

For those who like lighter meat than pork chicken shashliks will be good. You should marinate chicken meat an hour or an hour and a half in a sauce of lemon juice and peel, sugar, oil and pepper. Thread chicken pieces with slices of apples. It’s better to take the sour and sweet apples.

The main thing is a sauce. And remember: often marinade determines food taste. So do not underestimate this component in meat cooking on the fire or grill. You can remember some universal marinades suitable for meat and poultry. They don’t only improve the taste of food but make it unforgettable.

Garlic sauce includes garlic, lemon juice, green chilli (be careful with it), parsley, a pinch of sugar, salt and pepper.

Beer sauce consists of beer (it’s better to take unfiltered) honey, apricot jam, garlic, mustard (powder), paprika, ginger root, salt, pepper. Honey and jam heat a little, put there grated ginger and garlic and then put all other ingredients, except beer. Beer pour in after the complete cooling of spices mixture. Meat or poultry is marinating from 4 to 8 hours.