What can you cook from what you have at home? Simple and delicious meals using ingredients you have on hand

How unfair it is that only exotic products inspire us to create culinary masterpieces. It would seem, what can you come up with with the food that is stored on the shelves of almost every Russian refrigerator? Take, for example, butter or sour cream. If these products had a soul, they would definitely be offended by it, because they are usually perceived solely as an addition to the main dish.

In vain. Together with the ECOMILK company, we intend to turn your world upside down and prove that both butter and sour cream can turn from backing vocals into real soloists in your kitchen.

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Butter

Italian mustard oil

Modern fashion has done the almost impossible - from a wonderful spice it has turned mustard into a weight loss product. We are sure that it is time to destroy this stereotype and remind everyone that mustard is a wonderful sauce for a whole list of dishes. And if its taste is too strong for you, make a gentle ingredient for sandwiches from mustard and butter.

You will need:

• 180 g butter "ECOMILK"
• 2 tbsp. l. grainy mustard
• a pair of parsley branches
• 2 tsp. Dijon mustard
• 1 clove of garlic
• salt to taste

How to prepare:

1. Place butter, chopped parsley, grated garlic, mustard and salt in a bowl.
2. Knead and mix until smooth. You can use a mixer, but it is better to do it with a spatula or spoon to get a dense mass.
3. Store in the refrigerator and serve with toast, meat and generally any dishes that you want to add a little brightness in taste.

Chocolate salami (Italian version)

A recipe for those who are crazy about a cake with the usual Russian name “potato” and at the same time frantically want to escape to Italy. We tell you how to prepare chocolate salami the way the Italians do it.

You will need:

80 g butter (to avoid mistakes, use the weight gradation marks on the packaging of ECOMILK butter)
150 g dry cookies
100 g dark chocolate
1 egg
50 g sugar
1 glass of rum or cognac (at your discretion)⠀

How to prepare:

1. Knead the cookies into crumbs.
2. Dissolve the chocolate in a water bath and then soften the butter.
3. Remove from heat and let the mixture cool. Add egg, sugar, rum or cognac. Add cookie crumbs.
4. Place the finished mass on foil, roll it into “salami” and place it in the refrigerator overnight or in the freezer for a couple of hours.

Kentucky Butter Cake

A very delicate dessert, the main feature of which is the creamy dressing. The secret to the success of this “dessert sauce” lies in two things: a drop of alcohol and good butter. “Kentucky” is not a cupcake for those on a strict diet, so if you have just recently started losing weight for the summer, just scroll through this recipe and don’t torture yourself.

EKOMILC Peasant butter is ideal for dressing.

You will need:

250 g butter at room temperature
2 cups sugar4 chicken eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk (can be replaced with the same amount of low-fat kefir or yogurt)
3 cups wheat flour

Creamy dressing:

3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter
3 tbsp. l. water
3 tbsp. l. cognac or rum
2 tsp. vanilla extract

How to prepare:

1. Beat the butter and sugar for the dough until creamy.
2. Add eggs to the mixture one at a time and beat slowly with a mixer. Immediately add vanilla.
3. Mix together flour, soda and baking powder.
4. One by one, pour a little kefir into the butter mixture, then a little flour mixture and beat with a mixer at low speed. We alternate adding these ingredients.
5. Grease the cake pan with oil and pour out the mixture. Place in an oven preheated to 180°C. Reduce the temperature to 170°C and bake the cake for 50 minutes.
6. 10 minutes before it’s ready, start making the sauce. Mix sugar, butter, water, vanilla and alcohol. Heat everything in a small saucepan over low temperature until dissolved, but do not bring to a boil. Remove the dressing from the heat.
7. Remove the cake from the oven and pierce the top of the cake with a toothpick directly in the pan. Pour over the sauce.
8. When the cake has cooled completely, you can remove it from the pan onto a plate.

Balletproof coffee

This is not a scary, incomprehensible phrase at all, but the real name of the drink that three years ago the entire Silicon Valley got hooked on. Adherents of this coffee claim that it gives strength and energy for a hard day at work and even increases IQ. Another plus of the drink is that it is a hundred times easier to prepare than the most ordinary cappuccino, and its taste is absolutely amazing.

You will need:

• 1 serving of freshly brewed black coffee
• 2 teaspoons unsalted butter "ECOMILK"
• a little coconut oil (feel free to omit this ingredient if you don't like the coconut taste)

How to prepare:

Beat a cup of freshly brewed coffee in a blender along with two tablespoons of butter. Then add coconut oil and beat for a couple more seconds. Voila! A drink that is suitable not only for coffee lovers, but also for athletes. Despite the presence of butter, which is not at all associated with a healthy lifestyle, balletproof coffee contains the right amount of energy for one vigorous workout and will not remain an excessive burden on your sides.

Sour cream

Chicken with mushrooms in sour cream sauce

Despite its apparent simplicity, this dish is suitable for both a quiet family dinner and a celebration with a large number of guests.

You will need:

• 250 g chicken
• 150 g champignons
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 onion
• 150 g sour cream “ECOMILK” 20%
• 1 tbsp. l. flour
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• salt, pepper, herbs to taste

How to prepare:

1. Cut the meat into small cubes and lightly fry in vegetable oil. Those who are watching their figure, but really want to wrap meat in sour cream sauce, replace vegetable oil with coconut oil. By the way, it is the only one that does not lose its beneficial properties during heat treatment.
2. In another frying pan, saute (fry that is) the onion until transparent, add chopped mushrooms to it.
3. Cook the onions and mushrooms over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Then add flour and mix quickly.
4. Pour a glass of hot water or broth into the mixture of onions and mushrooms. Mix and add meat. Add chopped garlic to the almost finished dish.
5. The last step is to add fresh sour cream and cook over low heat for another 25-30 minutes.

Sour cream mayonnaise without eggs

This story is for everyone who cannot imagine their life without mayonnaise, but every time they reproach themselves for loving a rather harmful product. Your torment is over - we have found a recipe for light mayonnaise that will not cause remorse.

You will need:

200 g sour cream (you don’t have to bother with measuring and use a pack of 20% natural sour cream “ECOMILK”)
1/3 tsp. black indian salt
1/3 tsp. turmeric
1/3 tsp. ground black pepper
30 g vegetable oil
10 g mustard
1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
1/3 tsp. asafoetida (100%)

How to prepare:

1. Add mustard, turmeric, black salt, pepper and asafoetida to sour cream. Mix thoroughly.
2. Add lemon juice and mix thoroughly again.
3. Slowly pour in olive or sunflower oil and continue stirring our mayonnaise.
4. You won’t be able to store sour cream sauce in the refrigerator for weeks. But it will give even the most ordinary vegetable salads a magical taste. Most likely, you won’t need to store the sauce for more than a few hours - the delicious dressing will run out very quickly.

Sour cream toffee

Sour cream is as independent a dairy product as we are accustomed to considering cottage cheese. That is why you can make an incredible number of desserts from it. One of them is butterscotch, which will leave you speechless because of the wonderful taste, and not because it will be difficult for you to unclench your jaw.

You will need:

• 200 g sour cream "ECOMILK" (the author of the recipe advises buying 20% ​​store-bought sour cream)
• 200 g sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 30 g butter

How to prepare:

1. Mix sugar and sour cream, put on low heat.
2. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil, and then cook over low heat. The mixture will bubble a lot at first, but will gradually take on a caramel color and become sticky.
3. As soon as the caramel becomes thick enough, add butter and continue cooking until completely dissolved.
4. Remove the finished caramel from the heat, pour into several shallow molds or into one small baking dish lined with paper.
5. Let the toffee cool and harden.

Sour cream jelly

As we already said, sour cream is the main ingredient in many cool desserts. We tell you how to prepare the second of the most delicious and tender - sour cream jelly.

You will need:

Chocolate layer:

1.5 tbsp. l. cocoa
55 g sugar
6 g gelatin

Sour cream layer:

100 g 15% sour cream "ECOMILK"
55 g sugar
1 yolk
2 tsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla extract
6 g gelatin
100 ml cold boiled water

Fruit layer:

• 100 g 15% sour cream "ECOMILK"
• 100 ml fruit syrup (raspberry, strawberry, orange - choose any to your taste)
• 6 g gelatin
• 100 ml cold boiled water

How to prepare:

1. In three different bowls, pour gelatin with water for each layer.
2. For the chocolate layer, mix sour cream, cocoa and sugar. Heat the gelatin until completely dissolved and pour it into the sour cream mixture. Mix thoroughly, pour into bowls and put in the refrigerator for an hour and a half.
3. To make the sour cream layer fluffy and tender, first beat the yolk with sugar until a white mass is obtained. Pour in lemon juice and add vanilla extract.
4. Add sour cream and dissolved gelatin to the mixture. Pour the mixture into bowls onto the frozen chocolate layer.
5. For the fruit layer, add sour cream to the syrup and mix. Only then add gelatin, mix and pour the last layer into the bowls.
6. After an hour and a half, remove the very tender and tasty dessert from the refrigerator.

Bon appetit!

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What to cook from nothing?! It is this pressing issue that we will talk about in our article today!

We all have moments in life when the refrigerator is empty, the closet shelves are sparkling clean and there’s a whole week until payday. But you always want to eat. In this article we will look at what to cook from nothing! Read on.

What to cook from nothing?

In fact, there is always something in our refrigerators and shelves. Take a closer look. What's there? A couple of eggs, vegetable oil, a piece of dried cheese, half a jar of jam, a stale loaf, a single potato or sausage. The set of products may, of course, differ, but at least everyone has something for sure.

And what can you cook from this - what can you cook from nothing? It turns out a lot.

What to cook from nothing if you have a stale loaf, an egg, water, butter and sour milk?

For example, make a wonderful fruit lazy pie. Exactly. We will need:

• stale loaf
• egg (but you can do without it)
• jam
• water or sour milk 1 cup
• mold lubrication oil

Cooking method:

1. Take a baking dish, grease it with vegetable oil, margarine, and butter. Which one do you have now?
2. Cut the loaf into slices, as for sandwiches. Soak the loaf pieces in warm water or milk.
3. Place half of the slices in the pan.
4. Lubricate the loaf layer with jam and spread the top of the pie with the rest of the loaf.
5. Next, if you have an egg, beat it with the remaining milk or water.
6. Pour over the pie and place in the oven for 15-20 minutes. The pie will turn out lush and satisfying.

This recipe is universal and will save you in any situation. Anything can be used as a filling: sprats, canned fish in oil, cheese, boiled potatoes, minced meat, stewed meat, cottage cheese, etc. It depends solely on what is in the house and your imagination.

What to cook from scratch if you have potatoes?

If you have potatoes, at least a couple, then you can cook potato cutlets.

Grind the boiled potatoes in a blender with an egg and a couple of pieces of stale loaf. Add salt, form into cutlets and fry in vegetable oil.

If you have sausage and potatoes, you can cook light soup. Finely chop the sausage and potatoes, add water and cook until the potatoes are almost pureed. Don't forget to add salt. And the soup is ready.

What if it’s lying around in the closet? a jar of canned fish, then this will be a whole fish soup.

Chop the potatoes very finely, boil until tender and place the canned food in the same pan. Boil and can be served.

You can make fish croquettes from canned fish and boiled potatoes.

Drain the oil from the fish and mash it with a fork. Boiled potatoes, grate on a fine grater. Mix fish, potatoes, egg. Grate the stale loaf on a medium grater until it looks like breadcrumbs. You can dry them in a dry hot frying pan.

Form croquettes with minced fish and potatoes, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil.

Try experimenting with the following: potatoes, canned fish, eggs and prepare potato zrazy.

Video recipe for potato zrazy

What to cook from nothing, if only crab sticks?

If you look in the freezer, there’s probably something lying around there too.

Did you find crab sticks? Prepare the crab cakes. Below, watch the original video recipe for making crab stick cutlets.

Instead of fresh fish, use canned fish. It is better to grate the crab sticks as finely as possible. The same loaf is perfect for breadcrumbs.

In the summer you can always find, for example, a head of cabbage dying from inattention in the house. So let's make schnitzels from it.

Cabbage schnitzel recipe

1. Disassemble the cabbage into sheets, cut out the nubs and lightly beat them.
2. Then boil the half-cooked ones in salted water and remove with a slotted spoon.
3. Beat the egg. Prepare breadcrumbs from the loaf.
4. Fold each cabbage leaf into an envelope. Dip in egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in hot oil.

You probably have the same side dish. Some rice or pearl barley is most likely waiting in the farthest corner of the kitchen cabinet. Boiling them is not difficult and is accessible to anyone. Just to make the boiled cereal more satisfying, it is better to fry it in vegetable oil.

Video recipe for making cabbage schnitzel

What to make from nothing - drinks!

Jam and boiling water will make an excellent compote to drink with it. If you dilute the jam with cold water, you get a refreshing fruit drink.

From seemingly unnecessary, tasteless and inconspicuous products you can cook a complete meal from nothing.

Bon appetit!

Familiar to everyone since childhood. Minimum products, maximum nutrition. An excellent solution when you want something tasty, but the refrigerator is empty.

Ingredients

• 4 medium potatoes;
• 2 small onions;
• 1 egg;
• 3–4 tablespoons flour;
• salt and pepper - to taste;
• sour cream - for serving.

Preparation

Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater. You can do the same with the onion, or you can just chop it finely. Add egg and flour to potatoes and onions. You can add chopped herbs or fried mushrooms, or play with spices. Salt, pepper and mix everything thoroughly.

Place the resulting dough on a well-heated frying pan and watered with vegetable oil. The most convenient way to do this is with a tablespoon, slightly pressing each pancake on top. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

Serve with sour cream. Draniki are delicious both hot and cold.

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If yesterday you had baked or boiled potatoes for dinner, then this recipe will help you.

Ingredients

• 2 sausages;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 1 small onion;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 teaspoon rosemary, oregano or other seasoning of your choice;
• 4 boiled or baked potatoes;
• ¼ cup sour cream or yogurt without additives;
• 100 g hard cheese.

Preparation

Cut the sausages into cubes and fry them in vegetable oil. Once golden brown, place them on paper towels to remove excess grease. In the same pan, fry the chopped onion. When it becomes transparent, add garlic passed through a press, diced pepper and seasonings.

Cut the potatoes in half, remove the core with a spoon, leaving the walls about 5-7 mm thick. Inside each half, place a little sour cream or yogurt and a filling of sausages and vegetables. Grate the cheese on top.

The dish can be served as is, or you can place it in the oven or microwave for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese.

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Seasonal dish: cheapest after harvest. There can be as many variations of this dish as you like - it all depends on your culinary imagination. Here is one of them.

Ingredients

• 1 medium zucchini;
• 1 medium eggplant;
• 2 small hot peppers;
• 2 medium sweet peppers;
• 2 small onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 cup beans;
• 1 can of canned corn;
• 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• salt, ground black pepper, oregano - to taste.

Preparation

Prepare the vegetables by peeling and dicing them. Don't forget to remove the bitterness from the eggplants and remove the seeds from the peppers. Beans in lightly salted water.

Place vegetables (except hot peppers and beans) in a well-heated frying pan or saucepan with a thick bottom, greased with vegetable oil. Simmer everything over low heat.

When the vegetables are soft and liquid, add tomato sauce, salt, pepper, oregano and other spices to your taste. Instead of tomato sauce, you can use finely chopped tomatoes in their own juice. Now comes the main highlight of the dish - chili pepper. The more you add, the spicier the stew will be.

Close the lid and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve with sour cream and bread.

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A burrito is a Mexican flatbread filled with a variety of fillings. Since our selection of dishes is an economy option, you can use Armenian lavash instead of tortilla.

Ingredients

• ½ cup beans;
• salt - to taste;
• lettuce leaves;
• 1 large tomato;
• 1 thin pita bread;
• 2 tablespoons hot sauce;
• 100 g hard cheese.

Preparation

Boil beans (preferably white) in salted water. Wash and chop the lettuce and tomato. Winter option - tomatoes in their own juice and Chinese cabbage.

Warm the pita bread slightly and brush it with hot sauce. Place vegetables and sprinkle with grated cheese. Roll the pita bread into a tube or envelope.

You can serve with sour cream or other sauce of your choice.

5. Veggie burgers

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Who said a burger patty has to be made from meat? On a budget, it can be made from vegetables.

Ingredients

• ½ cup beans;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 1 bunch of cilantro or other greens;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• ½ cup flour;
• salt and ground black pepper - to taste;
• 2 burger buns;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 1 tablespoon of ketchup;
• 1 tablespoon green curry paste.

Preparation

Grind the boiled (or canned) beans in a blender, but not too much. Add chopped nuts, herbs, garlic, onion and egg white to it. Mix thoroughly, gradually adding flour. If it turns out a bit runny, add more flour.

Add salt and pepper, mix well again and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, toast the burger buns in a dry frying pan. Then pour in the oil and fry the shaped bean cutlets in it. They should be about the size of a bun, but not too thick. You need to fry until crispy.

Grease the bottom bun with green curry paste, place a bean cutlet on it, pour ketchup on it and place the second part of the bun. If desired, you can add lettuce and tomato slices to the burger.

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This is a great solution when you want something hot, but don’t have time to prepare a full-fledged soup. At the same time, the dish is very, very dietary.

Ingredients

• salt - to taste;
• 2 large potatoes;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 2 large onions;
• sour cream - for serving.

Preparation

Take a three-liter saucepan and fill it about three-quarters full with water. Bring to a boil. When the water is about to boil, add salt. Place peeled and diced potatoes into boiling water. Rinse and add bay leaf.

When the potatoes are soft, the soup is ready! Pour it into plates, adding a handful (or even more) of chopped onions to each of them. Whiten the soup with sour cream (the more, the tastier) and start the meal.

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This is both an independent dish and an excellent one. It is prepared very quickly, and the set of products is so basic that it can probably be found in any home.

Ingredients

• 3 large onions;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 100 g flour;
• salt and pepper - to taste;
• vegetable oil for deep frying.

Preparation

Peel the onion, cut into rings and separate them. To get rid of the excess bitterness of the onion, pour boiling water over it. It is most convenient to do this in a colander, so that you can immediately place the rings under cold water and prevent them from cooking.

Prepare the batter. Beat the eggs until foamy, add sour cream, flour and salt and whisk everything together. If you like it spicy, you can add pepper or mustard to the batter. In addition, grated cheese is sometimes added to make the rings crispier.

Dust the onion rings with flour, then dip into the batter and place in well-heated vegetable oil. When a golden crust appears, you can remove it. Place the finished onion rings on paper towels to remove excess fat.

Can be served with any tomato.

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The cheapest thing you can buy in the fish department of the store is pollock. At the same time, it can be prepared in such a way that it tastes no worse than elite varieties.

Ingredients

• 500 g pollock fillet;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 2 small tomatoes;
• 1 bunch of green onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt and pepper - to taste.

Preparation

Rinse the fish fillet, make sure there are no bones in it, and cut into small pieces. Each of them needs to be rolled in flour and fried in a hot and oiled frying pan. It takes about 7 minutes.

Then add coarsely chopped tomatoes and chopped green onions (the more the better) to the same pan. Season with salt, pepper and squeeze a clove of garlic onto the fish and vegetables. Stir and simmer for about 10 minutes. If you see that there is little liquid in the pan and the contents are starting to burn, add a little water.

At the end of cooking, you can sprinkle everything with grated cheese. This fish goes well with pasta.

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Another dish familiar to everyone since childhood. Many housewives are experimenting with (or cottage cheese). Others believe that the classic version is ideal.

Ingredients

• 500 g cottage cheese;
• ¼ teaspoon salt;
• 2 tablespoons sugar;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 1 egg;
• 30 g butter;
• sour cream or jam - for serving.

Preparation

In a deep bowl, mash the cottage cheese with a fork. Add salt, sugar and flour to it, break the egg. Knead the dough. It should be soft, but not sticky to your hands. If the cottage cheese is too greasy and wet and the dough does not stick together, add a little more flour.

Form cutlets about 2 cm thick from the resulting cheese mass. Fry the cheesecakes in butter for about 5 minutes on each side.

It is better to serve cheesecakes hot, although they are very tasty when cooled. They can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or jam. Those who like a less sweet option eat cheesecakes with sour cream.

This recipe puzzles many people: chicken, salt and that’s it?! But once you try it, you just become too lazy to bake chicken in the oven. Moreover, in this case the result is simply a breathtakingly crispy crust!

Ingredients

• broiler chicken weighing 1.5–2 kg;
• 1 kg table salt.

Preparation

The chilled chicken carcass should be rinsed and dried with paper towels. If desired, the chicken can be rubbed with dried herbs and lemon juice, but this is not at all necessary. If the chicken is fatty enough, it will already be juicy and flavorful.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment and sprinkle salt on it in a layer of about 2 cm. Place the chicken on the salt, back down, and place in an oven preheated to 200 °C for 1.5 hours. You can check for doneness by piercing the chicken with a toothpick. If clear juice comes out, the chicken can be removed.

What quick dishes do you know? And are there people among the readers who can cook a tasty dish out of literally nothing?

Familiar to everyone since childhood. Minimum products, maximum nutrition. An excellent solution when you want something tasty, but the refrigerator is empty.

Ingredients

• 4 medium potatoes;
• 2 small onions;
• 1 egg;
• 3–4 tablespoons flour;
• salt and pepper - to taste;
• sour cream - for serving.

Preparation

Peel the potatoes and grate them on a coarse grater. You can do the same with the onion, or you can just chop it finely. Add egg and flour to potatoes and onions. You can add chopped herbs or fried mushrooms, or play with spices. Salt, pepper and mix everything thoroughly.

Place the resulting dough on a well-heated frying pan and watered with vegetable oil. The most convenient way to do this is with a tablespoon, slightly pressing each pancake on top. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

Serve with sour cream. Draniki are delicious both hot and cold.

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If yesterday you had baked or boiled potatoes for dinner, then this recipe will help you.

Ingredients

• 2 sausages;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 1 small onion;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 teaspoon rosemary, oregano or other seasoning of your choice;
• 4 boiled or baked potatoes;
• ¼ cup sour cream or yogurt without additives;
• 100 g hard cheese.

Preparation

Cut the sausages into cubes and fry them in vegetable oil. Once golden brown, place them on paper towels to remove excess grease. In the same pan, fry the chopped onion. When it becomes transparent, add garlic passed through a press, diced pepper and seasonings.

Cut the potatoes in half, remove the core with a spoon, leaving the walls about 5-7 mm thick. Inside each half, place a little sour cream or yogurt and a filling of sausages and vegetables. Grate the cheese on top.

The dish can be served as is, or you can place it in the oven or microwave for a couple of minutes to melt the cheese.

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Seasonal dish: cheapest after harvest. There can be as many variations of this dish as you like - it all depends on your culinary imagination. Here is one of them.

Ingredients

• 1 medium zucchini;
• 1 medium eggplant;
• 2 small hot peppers;
• 2 medium sweet peppers;
• 2 small onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 cup beans;
• 1 can of canned corn;
• 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• salt, ground black pepper, oregano - to taste.

Preparation

Prepare the vegetables by peeling and dicing them. Don't forget to remove the bitterness from the eggplants and remove the seeds from the peppers. Beans in lightly salted water.

Place vegetables (except hot peppers and beans) in a well-heated frying pan or saucepan with a thick bottom, greased with vegetable oil. Simmer everything over low heat.

When the vegetables are soft and liquid, add tomato sauce, salt, pepper, oregano and other spices to your taste. Instead of tomato sauce, you can use finely chopped tomatoes in their own juice. Now comes the main highlight of the dish - chili pepper. The more you add, the spicier the stew will be.

Close the lid and simmer for 20 minutes. Serve with sour cream and bread.

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A burrito is a Mexican flatbread filled with a variety of fillings. Since our selection of dishes is an economy option, you can use Armenian lavash instead of tortilla.

Ingredients

• ½ cup beans;
• salt - to taste;
• lettuce leaves;
• 1 large tomato;
• 1 thin pita bread;
• 2 tablespoons hot sauce;
• 100 g hard cheese.

Preparation

Boil beans (preferably white) in salted water. Wash and chop the lettuce and tomato. Winter option - tomatoes in their own juice and Chinese cabbage.

Warm the pita bread slightly and brush it with hot sauce. Place vegetables and sprinkle with grated cheese. Roll the pita bread into a tube or envelope.

You can serve with sour cream or other sauce of your choice.

5. Veggie burgers

jacqueline/Flickr.com

Who said a burger patty has to be made from meat? On a budget, it can be made from vegetables.

Ingredients

• ½ cup beans;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 1 bunch of cilantro or other greens;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• ½ cup flour;
• salt and ground black pepper - to taste;
• 2 burger buns;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 1 tablespoon of ketchup;
• 1 tablespoon green curry paste.

Preparation

Grind the boiled (or canned) beans in a blender, but not too much. Add chopped nuts, herbs, garlic, onion and egg white to it. Mix thoroughly, gradually adding flour. If it turns out a bit runny, add more flour.

Add salt and pepper, mix well again and refrigerate for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, toast the burger buns in a dry frying pan. Then pour in the oil and fry the shaped bean cutlets in it. They should be about the size of a bun, but not too thick. You need to fry until crispy.

Grease the bottom bun with green curry paste, place a bean cutlet on it, pour ketchup on it and place the second part of the bun. If desired, you can add lettuce and tomato slices to the burger.

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This is a great solution when you want something hot, but don’t have time to prepare a full-fledged soup. At the same time, the dish is very, very dietary.

Ingredients

• salt - to taste;
• 2 large potatoes;
• 1 bay leaf;
• 2 large onions;
• sour cream - for serving.

Preparation

Take a three-liter saucepan and fill it about three-quarters full with water. Bring to a boil. When the water is about to boil, add salt. Place peeled and diced potatoes into boiling water. Rinse and add bay leaf.

When the potatoes are soft, the soup is ready! Pour it into plates, adding a handful (or even more) of chopped onions to each of them. Whiten the soup with sour cream (the more, the tastier) and start the meal.

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This is both an independent dish and an excellent one. It is prepared very quickly, and the set of products is so basic that it can probably be found in any home.

Ingredients

• 3 large onions;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 100 g flour;
• salt and pepper - to taste;
• vegetable oil for deep frying.

Preparation

Peel the onion, cut into rings and separate them. To get rid of the excess bitterness of the onion, pour boiling water over it. It is most convenient to do this in a colander, so that you can immediately place the rings under cold water and prevent them from cooking.

Prepare the batter. Beat the eggs until foamy, add sour cream, flour and salt and whisk everything together. If you like it spicy, you can add pepper or mustard to the batter. In addition, grated cheese is sometimes added to make the rings crispier.

Dust the onion rings with flour, then dip into the batter and place in well-heated vegetable oil. When a golden crust appears, you can remove it. Place the finished onion rings on paper towels to remove excess fat.

Can be served with any tomato.

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The cheapest thing you can buy in the fish department of the store is pollock. At the same time, it can be prepared in such a way that it tastes no worse than elite varieties.

Ingredients

• 500 g pollock fillet;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• 2 small tomatoes;
• 1 bunch of green onions;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt and pepper - to taste.

Preparation

Rinse the fish fillet, make sure there are no bones in it, and cut into small pieces. Each of them needs to be rolled in flour and fried in a hot and oiled frying pan. It takes about 7 minutes.

Then add coarsely chopped tomatoes and chopped green onions (the more the better) to the same pan. Season with salt, pepper and squeeze a clove of garlic onto the fish and vegetables. Stir and simmer for about 10 minutes. If you see that there is little liquid in the pan and the contents are starting to burn, add a little water.

At the end of cooking, you can sprinkle everything with grated cheese. This fish goes well with pasta.

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Another dish familiar to everyone since childhood. Many housewives are experimenting with (or cottage cheese). Others believe that the classic version is ideal.

Ingredients

• 500 g cottage cheese;
• ¼ teaspoon salt;
• 2 tablespoons sugar;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 1 egg;
• 30 g butter;
• sour cream or jam - for serving.

Preparation

In a deep bowl, mash the cottage cheese with a fork. Add salt, sugar and flour to it, break the egg. Knead the dough. It should be soft, but not sticky to your hands. If the cottage cheese is too greasy and wet and the dough does not stick together, add a little more flour.

Form cutlets about 2 cm thick from the resulting cheese mass. Fry the cheesecakes in butter for about 5 minutes on each side.

It is better to serve cheesecakes hot, although they are very tasty when cooled. They can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or jam. Those who like a less sweet option eat cheesecakes with sour cream.

This recipe puzzles many people: chicken, salt and that’s it?! But once you try it, you just become too lazy to bake chicken in the oven. Moreover, in this case the result is simply a breathtakingly crispy crust!

Ingredients

• broiler chicken weighing 1.5–2 kg;
• 1 kg table salt.

Preparation

The chilled chicken carcass should be rinsed and dried with paper towels. If desired, the chicken can be rubbed with dried herbs and lemon juice, but this is not at all necessary. If the chicken is fatty enough, it will already be juicy and flavorful.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment and sprinkle salt on it in a layer of about 2 cm. Place the chicken on the salt, back down, and place in an oven preheated to 200 °C for 1.5 hours. You can check for doneness by piercing the chicken with a toothpick. If clear juice comes out, the chicken can be removed.

What quick dishes do you know? And are there people among the readers who can cook a tasty dish out of literally nothing?