What to cook outdoors, except for kebabs

Fresh air, a friendly company and fire - that's the typical picnic. The main dish on it, of course, barbecue.

We invite you to vary the menu. After all, the coal can be cooked many delicious dishes. Soup, side dishes and even desserts!

Ready to write prescriptions? Fine! But first repeat materiel:

• 20 sauces shashlik.
• How to cook on the grill.
• 8 ways to marinate skewers.

shurpa

This dish of oriental cuisine, which has a variety of different nations, but the consonant names: shourpa, chorba, shorpo, sorpa and others. But whatever you call it beef rich soup with vegetables. Especially tasty it turns out, if you cook it over a fire. The dish is time consuming, but if you have a whole day in the nature, it warms and recharge your batteries.

Shurpa traditionally prepared lamb (better to take fresh loin or tenderloin). But you can use beef or pork. Let us turn to the classics.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg lamb (possible with bone);
• 100 g of the sheep fat;
• 1 kg of onion;
• 1 kg potato;

• 500 g of fresh tomatoes;
• 5 medium carrots;
• 5 medium bell peppers;
• 5 liters of water;
• salt, pepper and other spices;
• herbs (parsley, basil, coriander, and so on).
For the marinade:
• 500 ml of vinegar;
• 500 ml of water;
• salt and sugar to taste.

preparation

First zamarinuem onions. Take half of the existing bow (500 g), cut into rings, and pour salt water mixture, vinegar, salt and sugar. Put under the press and leave for 1-2 hours.

To prepare shurpa need a kettle or pan with a thick bottom. Melt it kurdjuchnyj fat. Lamb cut into large chunks and cook with spices (it can be cumin, barberry, coriander - to your taste). Roasted lamb at a time, remove from the cauldron. On the remaining fat fry the chopped carrots and onions second half. Return the lamb to the cauldron. I add the coarsely chopped tomatoes and bell peppers. Simmer meat and vegetables a few minutes.

Then fill them with water, cover the kettle lid and simmer for about two hours. When boils, remove the foam. At the end, add coarsely chopped potatoes and bell pepper. Stir in salt and spices to taste.

After another 20 minutes shurpa can be poured on the plates. Here's how. The broth is poured into a dish, and the meat and vegetables are placed in the other. Each add yourself as lamb and vegetables as he wants. Broth sprinkled with finely chopped greens and put it pickled onions (required!).

burgers

Sandwiches with a chop and vegetables are considered to be fast food. However, cooked their own hands, and even in nature, they are very different in taste. Besides cooking burgers is quite simple.

Ingredients:
• 5 hamburger buns;
• 3 medium onions;
• 5 slices of processed cheese;
• lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables;
• mayonnaise, mustard sauce, or to taste.
For the meatballs:
• 500 g of beef;
• 100 g of bread crumbs;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 2 medium onions;
• salt and black pepper to taste;
• olive oil;
• Worcestershire sauce.

preparation

The amount of ingredients depends on how much you want to make hamburgers. In this case, she designed for five people.

First, prepare the stuffing. Pork for him to be too fat, so it is best to use beef or turkey. Pass the meat through a meat grinder. Onions finely cut and fry in olive oil until golden. Cheese rub on a grater. Mix all ingredients, salt, pepper, add a little Worcestershire sauce and meatballs sformuyte. Attention! Burgers should be commensurate with the buns. Also in the middle of each of them need to make a hole, so that they do not lose shape during frying.

It is more convenient to make cakes at home, freeze and bring them with you on a picnic. But can be formed and in place. The main thing - in advance to prepare the stuffing.

Cutlets neatly laid out on the lattice barbecue and fry on both sides. Buns, cut across and drain on the grill, so they are not softened when they will fall juicy burgers. If desired, in addition to the cutlets can fry bacon.

Getting to assemble burgers. There is nothing to limit your imagination. options a bunch of. For example, on the bottom bun lay lettuce leaves (to protect it from disintegration), pour them with ketchup, mustard or mayonnaise (any sauce to your taste), put a patty on it - cheese. Further, fresh or pickled cucumbers, tomatoes and pickled onions at home. Top cover with the second half rolls. Burger is ready!

Kebab

Kebabs in the Caucasus and Central Asia called the dish of fried meat. There are many varieties of this dish. Lula - a kebab of minced meat threaded on skewers and roast on the grill. According to the classic recipe kebab made from lamb, but you can use beef and pork and even chicken. Feature stuffing for kebab that do not add the eggs and bread in it. Only meat, onions and spices. However, first things first.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg pulp lamb;
• 300 g of sheep fat;
• 100 g of onion;
• 100 g of green onion;
• greenery;
• salt, pepper and spices to taste.

preparation

Stuffing for kebab can be prepared at home in advance. Then all you have to do in a fire - it strung on skewers.

Mutton, rinse and mince with a large grid. Separately miss kurdjuchnyj fat. It must be at least a quarter of the amount of meat. Onion cut into small cubes. It is not necessary to pass it through a meat grinder or blender to grind, as it will be too much juice. Green onions and finely crumble. Combine all these ingredients, salt, pepper and add spices and herbs to your taste.

An important point - for kneading mince kebab. More precisely, it is necessary to fight off. To do this, collect the resulting ground meat into a ball and throw with force into the bowl. Repeat the process for 10 minutes. With each blow the stuffing will lose juice and become more malleable. So that during kneading it does not lindens to the hands, wetting them in salted water. After that, remove the stuffing in the refrigerator for an hour.

When coals will gain heat, mince need to string on skewers in the form of sausages width of 3-4 cm and a length of about 15 cm. Moisten hands with water and pressed firmly to the stuffing skewer, the shape sausage on a skewer. Fried kebab quickly and served with adzhika or other sauce, pita bread and vegetables.

Grilled salmon

On the whole there Layfhakere article with recipes for grilled fish. Today will talk about how roasted salmon steak. It's tasty and nutritious a fish perfect for barbecue.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg of salmon.
For the marinade:
• olive oil;
• lime or lemon;
• salt, pepper and other spices.
For the sauce:
• 200 g sour cream;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• greenery.

preparation

If the fish whole, then it is necessary to eviscerate, washed and cut into pieces of about 3 cm thick. Thereafter, each piece of grease olive oil, pour lemon juice, salt, pepper and sprinkle spices (for salmon well suited thyme, basil and fennel). Let stand for 20-30 minutes.

Then lay out the fish steaks on the grille. On top of each of them can put the remaining lemon slices. Broil salmon on charcoal for approximately 20 minutes until golden brown. Constantly upside.

Serve steaks with creamy garlic sauce. To prepare it, chop herbs, garlic skip through the press and mix it all with sour cream.

Shrimp on skewers

Many of you have probably already done shrimp on the grill. This is a very tasty dish, and most importantly, easy to prepare. The easiest option - sprinkle shrimp with lemon juice, sprinkle with coarse salt (preferably sea) and on the grill. We offer you a little more sophisticated, but very tasty recipe.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg prawns;
• 1 purple onion;
• Bank of canned pineapple.
For the sauce:
• 100 g teriyaki sauce;
• 1 tbsp. l. roasted sesame seeds.

preparation

As long as the fire burns, prepare all the ingredients. Mix the teriyaki sauce with sesame seeds; pineapple slice, if they ring; Clean the shrimp (tails can be left).

Alternately skewered shrimp and pineapple slices on wooden skewers. Then generously lubricate Get your sauce. Keep the shrimp over the heat for 8-10 minutes until a crust. Optionally lubricate them periodically sauce during cooking.

Stuffed pepper

Many in addition to the shish kebab is fried vegetables. Most often, they are simply cut, smeared with oil, strung on skewers, or put on a wire rack and weary on the coals. So you can cook any vegetables: tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, and so on. Layfhaker, for example, said, how to cook corn on the grill.

Also vegetables baked on coals in foil. In this recipe, "vessel" is a sweet pepper.

Ingredients:
• 6 bell peppers.
For filling:
• 130 ml of olive oil;
• 250 g of Parmesan;
• 2 tbsp. l. ground walnuts;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• Bank of canned corn;
• basil leaves.

preparation

The amount of ingredients depends on how many people will be at the picnic. In this case, designed for eight people: four peppers, cut in half, give us eight servings.

Part parmesan (200 g) rub on a coarse grater. Garlic pass through the press. Connect olive oil, cheese, basil, nuts and garlic. Mix thoroughly.

Two bell peppers remove seeds, Cut into cubes and fry in olive oil over medium heat. When pepper is soft, add the corn and the previously prepared mixture thereto. Fry a few more minutes.

Stuffing should be done at home, it is possible on the eve of departure of the nature (fry and put in a refrigerator). The remaining bell pepper, cut across, to get a boat. Remove the seeds. Place the peppers on a lattice cut down and hold on the grill for 2-5 minutes, so that they propeklis inside. Then turn the starting and sprinkle the remaining grated parmesan cheese (50 g). Roast on the grill for 5 more minutes.

Champignon

Excellent side dish to meat can also be a fungus. We offer you a simple, but very tasty recipe - mushrooms on the grill.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg fresh mushrooms;
• 1 lemon;
• salt and pepper to taste.

preparation

Mushrooms better to take a fresh, still has not opened. Before you go into the woods or to the country, they need to marinate. Here's how.

Wash the mushrooms and pat with paper towels. Then fill them with the juice of one lemon, salt and pepper to taste, cover and send it in the fridge for 5-6 hours.

Place the mushrooms on a picnic on the skewers and cook on the coals. Mushrooms lose a little look, but inside will turn out very juicy.

Potatoes in foil

Baked potatoes - the taste is familiar from childhood. Who did not eat it, sitting by the fire and sprinkling with salt, who did not burn his fingers and getting dirty in the ashes, cleaning it! But due to the nature of potatoes can be cooked many dishes. For example, bake it in foil.

Ingredients:
• 5 medium potatoes;
• 1 medium onion;
• 100 g of cheddar cheese;
• 150 g butter;
• 1 tbsp. l. Worcestershire sauce;
• parsley;
• salt and pepper to taste.

preparation

For this dish you will need dense food foil: squares of 50 × 50 cm. Each of them plentifully grease with butter.

Potatoes wash and cut into thin slices. Onions clean and cut into rings. Cheese rub on a medium grater. Herbs crumble. Connect everything together, add the Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. All these procedures are best to do more at home.

When the coals are approached, put the stuffing on the foil and wrap the edges to a delicious escape. Simmer the dish on the heat for about 40 minutes, until the potatoes and onions are soft.

Potato skewer

It is even easier way of cooking potatoes at the May picnic. For those who love crisps.

Ingredients:
• 1 kg of potatoes.
For the marinade:
• olive oil;
• lemon juice;
• mustard;
• garlic;
• paprika;
• thyme;
• rosemary;
• oregano;
• parsley.

preparation

All the ingredients for the marinade are taken on the eye, it all depends on taste preferences. Potatoes are used in its entirety. It should be rinsed and boiled in their skins. The main thing - do not digest. Let the potatoes will be cooked enough inside - dogotovitsya on the grill.

Send your potatoes in the marinade for 1-2 hours. Then put on skewers and cook over charcoal until crisp.

banana boats

There are two versions of this simple recipe: in skin and no. In the first case, peel the foil substitute. For more information about how to prepare a crude banana to grill, read and watch here. And we'll show you how to cook banana boat without skin.

Ingredients:
• Bananas (on the number of people);
• marshmallow;
• Chocolate;
• cinnamon or coconut taste.

preparation

Bananas are clean and cut lengthwise. Chocolate crumble into small pieces; marshmallow cut if they are large. Start a chocolate banana and zefirkami, as shown in the photo.

You get something like a canoe. If you like cinnamon, sprinkle her fruit. Wrap the banana in foil and cook on the grill.

After 5-6 minutes you will be removed from the grill, uncover and foil, sprinkle with coconut, enjoy dessert. You can grab a picnic and eat more ice cream with it baked bananas.

orange cupcakes

"Baking in nature" sounds like masochism. In fact, everything is very simple and aesthetically pleasing.

Ingredients:
• 4-5 oranges.
For the dough:
• 225 g of sugar;
• 180 g flour;
• 160 ml of whole milk;
• 60 g butter;
• 80 g of sour cream;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 1,5 hours. l. baking powder;
• 0,5 hours. l. salt;
• 1 tbsp. l. vanilla extract;
• packet of vanilla sugar.

preparation

Dough and blanks for cupcakes make at home.

Mix regular and vanilla sugar to the dough. In another bowl connect the flour, baking powder and salt. Separately, beat the eggs, sour cream and vanilla extract. Pour the resulting mixture into the flour and sugar. Continue beating. Add the softened butter. Beat. Then slowly enter into the milk and continue beating dough on low speed. As a result, the dough will not steep, but not liquid. You can also make the dough of any recipe for cupcakes that you like.

Oranges wash and cut in half. Spoon, remove the flesh from each half. It is not necessary to clean thoroughly vegetables, even on the walls will peel pulp. In this home cooking end.

All that is left to do in nature, - to prepare the coals and put Apelsinka in "nests" of the foil, or you can use an old metal cake pan. Three-quarters fill each half of the dough and send them to the coals.

Baking cupcakes speed depends on the heat. It usually takes about 10 minutes. Check the readiness of cakes can be with a toothpick.

Serve cupcakes right in the orange "cups".

Baked apples

Another option for the May picnic dessert - baked apples.

Ingredients:
• 5 large apples;
• 5 hours. l. honey;
• 20 g cranberry;
• 5 walnuts;
• cinnamon (optional).

preparation

Wash apples and remove the core with a knife. But not entirely - to about half. In each apple put one teaspoon of honey, one walnut (can be crushed) and a little fruit. If desired, you can add cinnamon.

Each apple wrap in foil and bake in the coals or grate until vegetables are tender.

Serve with ice cream.

Grog

Of course, a picnic can not do without drinks. May, though pleasing warm, but the weather is often capricious. It is therefore important that there is something warming.

Grog - a drink invented by the British sailors and named after Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog. It was he who came up with in order to save the sailors not to give a clean and diluted rum. Thus was born the grog recipe.

Ingredients:
• water;
• tea (tea leaves);
• cognac;
• rum.

preparation

The amount of ingredients depends on the size of the pot and the company. First brew a strong tea, and then add the brandy and rum in a ratio of 1 liter of tea 5 teaspoons of brandy and 5 tablespoons of rum.

When the drink is boiling, pour it into the mugs and enjoy the warmth.

Coffee in its stowed position

You can take a thermos, and it is possible to cook flavored drink directly on the fire.

How to take a delicious coffee

Ingredients:
• 5 hours. l. instant coffee;
• 1 liter of water;
• 100 g of chocolate;
• sugar to taste.

preparation

On the coals can be boiled Turkish coffee. This requires skill and a Turk. A simpler option - to make coffee directly in the pot or the kettle on the fire.

Pour into water pot, bring it to the boil and pour the coffee. After a couple of minutes, add the crumbled chocolate. Make sure to drink and escape.

When the chocolate is completely dissolved, pour the coffee into the mugs. Sweets every taste.

We hope that you are inspired to diversify the May picnic menu.

And what do you cook outdoors? We discuss in the comments.