Recipes for the day of all lovers. Ideas for unusual dishes and treats
Before proceeding valentine's Day Prescriptionwell, let's look at the history of the holiday. In the distant Middle Ages in France, the life of a priest named Valentine began to grow into legends. They are associated with a secret wedding of couples in love. In those days, the cruel emperor Claudius II lived, who created a decree that young people should not marry. Since a free man can better fight on the battlefield. St. Valentine, a priest and a field doctor, contrary to the decree of a cruel despot, secretly married the young people in love with their beloved girls, in the dark of night. Soon he was exposed and thrown into prison. In it, he met a beautiful girl - the daughter of a warder. Before his death, he wrote her a love letter and signed “Your Valentine”.
It was the first valentine. It was discovered after his execution, which took place on February 14, 269. After many centuries, people have not forgotten about this holy man, and now, as 16 centuries, in memory of St. Valentine, they celebrate Valentine's Day all over the world. This holiday came to us relatively recently, but we are very eager to give valentines with love inscriptions and gifts to our dear people.
Chocolate and cottage cheese dessert. Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese 200 gr.,
- Dark chocolate 200 gr. (Dark chocolate can be replaced with milk chocolate)
- Vanilla sugar 1 sachet,
- Fruits:
Kiwi 2 pcs.,
-½ part of a large pear.
Chocolate Hearts Recipe. Master Class
We break dark chocolate into pieces and fill it with vanilla sugar.
Melt chocolate with sugar in a water bath.
To prepare a dessert of chocolate and cottage cheese, we need to take 4 silicone molds in the shape of a heart and a silicone brush. 
Grease each mold inside with melted chocolate. We are trying
brush with chocolate molds as thick as possible. Put the molds in
freezer for 10 minutes.
Cooking the filling for dessert. Put the cottage cheese and sugar in a blender (you can use a mixer).
Beat the curd mass with sugar until smooth.
Peel the kiwi and pear from the peel, and then cut into cubes.
Divide the curd mass into two parts. Add kiwi to one part of the cottage cheese and pear to the other.
Mix everything thoroughly. As a result, we get two curd masses with different fillings.
We take the molds out of the freezer and fill with cottage cheese.
In two molds, spread the cottage cheese with kiwi, and in the remaining two - cottage cheese with a pear. Lubricate with melted chocolate on top.
When all the molds are filled with cottage cheese with fruits and smeared with chocolate, we send them to the freezer for 1 hour.
We take out the dessert from the freezer, remove it from the molds. We spread the dessert of chocolate and cottage cheese on a plate and let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Decorate and serve. We hope that this Valentine's Day recipe will pleasantly surprise your soulmate.
Valentine's Day Recipe Ideas
Valentine's Day recipes: a chocolate dessert specially prepared for
Have you already chosen a place for a romantic evening, thought out decorations and surroundings, and bought lovely gifts? Now is the time to think about refreshments. And it does not matter where the festive breakfast, lunch or dinner takes place, the main thing is not to miss the selection of dishes. Thinking through the menu for Valentine's Day, you need to pay attention to aphrodisiac products. This is understandable, because, most likely, dinner will end in bed. Dishes for a romantic menu should be both hearty and light. The task is almost impossible if you go on beaten paths and prepare a regular holiday table with mayonnaise puff salads, plentiful meat dishes and side dishes ... Therefore, pay attention to seafood dishes. Now in any store and on the market you can buy almost any marine delicacy. Perhaps the most affordable seafood, literally stuffed with aphrodisiacs, is shrimp. Culinary Eden offers you a Valentine's Day menu for a romantic dinner.
Ingredients:
200 g boiled shrimp,
150 g imitation of crab meat,
200 g of hard cheese
4 boiled eggs
3-4 cloves of garlic,
green onions
mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Set aside a few shrimp for decoration. Grate cheese, eggs and garlic on a grater. Add shrimp and chopped crab meat. Stir and season with mayonnaise. Garnish with shrimp and chopped green onions.
Ingredients:
400 g shrimp
4 eggs,
1 small jar of canned pineapple
1 mango
1-2 green apples
300 g celery petioles
parsley
olive oil, white dry wine - for frying shrimp.
Cooking:
Fry the prawns in a red-hot mixture of olive oil and dry white wine. Cut celery, apples and boiled eggs into thin strips. Drain the pineapple juice, pour a little into a bowl and mix with mayonnaise. Add chopped pineapples and mangoes to the rest of the products and season with mayonnaise. When serving, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Ingredients:
1 can of pitted olives or olives,
300 g shrimp
3-4 boiled eggs
mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Boil the shrimp in boiling salted water, peel and chop with a blender (or mince). Mix with the yolks from the boiled eggs, carefully rub and add as much mayonnaise to make a rather sticky mass. Dry the olives or olives. Protein boiled eggs grate on a fine grater. Roll small balls from the shrimp mass, press in on the olive and roll in the protein. Serve on green lettuce leaves.
Ingredients:
300 g large shrimp,
150 g decoction of shrimp,
200 ml 35% cream,
100 ml of dry white wine,
100 ml of milk
3 tbsp with a hill of flour
4 eggs,
1 tsp Dijon mustard
4 tbsp butter
3-4 peas of allspice,
½ tsp ground nutmeg,
salt, black pepper - to taste,
sour cream.
Cooking:
Boil the shrimp in boiling salted water, pour 150 ml of broth, cool the shrimp, peel and cut into small pieces. On a slow fire, dissolve the butter in a frying pan and fry the flour in it until creamy, then add the shrimp broth and wine, warm for a minute and pour the milk and cream. Add allspice, mustard, salt, black pepper and nutmeg and simmer for 5 minutes over low heat. Meanwhile, separate the yolks from the proteins. Add a little sauce from the pan to the yolks, mix well and add to the rest of the sauce, mixing well so that no lumps form (better with a mixer). Put shrimp in the sauce, mix and remove from heat. Cool and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt, gently inject the mass into the shrimp sauce and mix. Arrange the resulting mass into molds and put in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Serve by pouring sour cream.
But man doesn’t live alone with shrimp - you can also prepare a light snack from other products!
Ingredients:
250 g of boiled tongue,
4 eggs,
2 apples
150 g of prunes,
150 g of hard cheese
100 g of walnuts,
mayonnaise.
Cooking:
Tongue cut into strips, grated boiled eggs on a coarse grater. Rinse the prunes well, dry it and cut into thin strips. Peel the apple and grate Korean carrots on a grater. Stir all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise. When serving, sprinkle with grated cheese and chopped nuts.
Ingredients:
6 large champignons
2 eggs,
1 medium onion,
100 g of hard cheese
2 tbsp sour cream or mayonnaise,
salt, parsley, vegetable oil.
Cooking:
For washed mushrooms, carefully remove the legs and clean the hats inside. Onion and mushroom legs cut into small cubes and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Cut boiled eggs into cubes, add chopped greens, add fried onions and mushrooms, mix and season with sour cream. Add half the norm of cheese grated on a fine grater, mix and stuff the hats. Place in a baking dish, sprinkle with the remaining cheese and bake at 200 ° C for 20 minutes. Garnish with greens when serving.
For the main dish, you can choose low-fat fish, lean meat or cook classic chicken wings. And do not forget to cook fresh vegetables for garnish, they will not create heaviness in the stomach.
Ingredients:
2-2.5 stack. flour
100 g butter,
1 egg
1 stack water.
For minced meat:
500 g shrimp
1 small onion,
2 tbsp chopped parsley
ginger, black pepper - to taste,
a pinch of salt.
Cooking:
The dough for these dumplings is prepared in a custard way: Boil water with butter, remove from heat, pour 1 stack. flour and mix quickly until smooth. Cool, beat in an egg and add as much flour to make a smooth dough. Let it stand under the plate for 10-15 minutes. In the meantime, peel the shrimp and onions, mince them, add greens, ginger, salt and pepper and knead the minced meat well. Roll the dough into a thin layer and cut the circles with a thin glass. Make very small dumplings and cook in salted water. Serve with hot sauces.
Ingredients:
400 g fillet of pike perch,
100 g of rice
2 onions,
2 tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic,
100 ml of dry white wine,
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 buds of cloves,
½ bunch of parsley,
thyme, salt, black pepper - to taste.
Cooking:
Pour the washed rice with salted water and set on fire. Pike perch fillet cut into small pieces. Chop greens and garlic. Scald tomatoes with boiling water, dip in ice water and remove the skin. Grind tomatoes with a blender. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, put onion and spasser until golden brown. Add tomatoes, garlic and greens, salt a little and simmer over low heat for 3–4 minutes. Then add cloves, thyme and pepper and continue to simmer. Throw the cooked rice in a colander, put in a pan with sauce and add wine. Put fish slices on top of rice, cover and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes. Serve sprinkled with herbs.
Ingredients:
600 g chicken wings,
2 tbsp lemon juice
50 ml of vegetable oil,
3-4 cloves of garlic,
sprig of rosemary,
salt, pepper - to taste.
Cooking:
Combine lemon juice and vegetable oil, add chopped garlic and rosemary leaves and lay the chicken wings in the resulting marinade. Leave to marinate for 30-40 minutes. Grease a baking sheet with butter, put the wings and pour the marinade. Put in the oven with medium heat for 40 minutes to make the wings brown. Serve with fresh vegetable salad.
Ingredients:
2 carcasses of squid,
2 potatoes
200 g of fresh mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms),
2 tomatoes
1-2 cloves of garlic,
grated hard cheese.
Cooking:
Make mashed potatoes from boiled potatoes. Sauté the onion into small cubes until golden. Fry the mushrooms separately in a dry pan until the liquid has completely evaporated and add to the onion. Combine mashed potatoes with mushrooms and onions. Peel and boil squid in salted water for 2-3 minutes, no more, otherwise they will become rubber. Fill the squid with the potato mass and place in a greased form. Peel and chop the tomatoes. Chop the garlic, fry in vegetable oil for 30 seconds, add the tomatoes, simmer over medium heat, salt and pepper. Pour squid sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese. Put in a hot oven and bake until the cheese is melted.
Ingredients:
250 g peeled shrimp,
250 g of crab meat,
½ stack. dry white wine
2 tbsp olive oil,
2 tbsp butter
1 sprig of marjoram,
2 stalks of celery,
3 bay leaves,
4 branches of basil,
5 thyme leaves
6 peas of black pepper
7 leek feathers,
8 drops of table vinegar,
9 drops of lemon juice.
Cooking:
Put shrimps and crab meat in a saucepan, pour them with wine, add olive and butter and bring to a boil. Then witchcraft begins: alternately, with an interval of one minute, add all the spices: marjoram, celery, bay leaf, basil, thyme, black pepper, leek, vinegar and lemon juice. After adding the last ingredient, boil the dish for 9 minutes and serve. In France, this dish is called "appetizer of passion."
If you have never cooked fondue, it makes sense to try to surprise your soul mate with cheese fondue or make chocolate fondue for dessert. And what a delicious crust is formed at the bottom of the bowl of fondue soup when you cook fondue from cheese!
Ingredients:
250 g of Gruyere cheese,
150 g Emmental cheese,
150 ml of dry white wine,
1 clove of garlic
½ tsp lemon juice
1-2 tbsp starch
ground white pepper, nutmeg - to taste.
For dipping: cubes of white bread, shrimp, olives or olives, etc.
Cooking:
Grate the cheese on a grater. Rub the walls of the fondue with a clove of garlic, pour in the wine and set on fire. When the wine warms up, gradually add a mixture of cheeses, constantly stirring with a wooden spoon, moving the "eight". Add pepper and nutmeg, lemon juice and mix. If the mixture turns out to be liquid, add starch; if, on the contrary, it is thick, add a little wine. When the mass becomes homogeneous, rearrange the fondue in the center of the table on a stand above the candle. Pour snacks onto the forks and dip in the bowl.
Ingredients:
400 g shrimp
200 g of crab meat,
400 ml of milk
50 g cheddar cheese,
2 tbsp sherry
spicy pepper.
Cooking:
Boil the shrimp in 1 stack. boiling salted water, peel and grind in a blender. Dilute the resulting mass with hot milk and bring to a boil with constant stirring. Add cheese and mix with a wooden spoon “eights” until it is completely melted. Add pepper, sherry and crab meat, bring to a boil and serve. Serve white crackers and sherry to the fondue.
Ingredients:
1 stack 35% cream
2 bars of quality dark chocolate,
20 g cognac
1 tbsp liquid honey
1 tbsp chopped almonds,
1 tbsp chopped walnuts.
For dipping:
slices of fresh fruit, biscuit cubes, nuts, etc.
Cooking:
Place the fondue bowl in the water bath. Pour in the cream, add the grated chocolate, add honey, cognac and nuts. Stir constantly, melt the whole mass until smooth. Then set the bowl on a stand with a candle and enjoy an amazing treat! Dip in melted chocolate pieces of fresh fruit, biscuit or cookies, nuts or dried fruits.
A romantic dinner is unthinkable without champagne, and in combination with strawberries it turns into an amazing treat.
Strawberries in champagne. Arrange fresh strawberries in tall glasses and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cover each glass with cling film and place the glasses in the refrigerator. When the time comes for dessert, pour the strawberries with champagne and serve.
Ingredients per Serving:
20 ml of Curacao liquor
20 ml lime syrup
20 ml of vodka
5 ml of lemon juice
champagne,
7-8 ice cubes.
Cooking:
Fill the mixing container with ice cubes, add lemon juice, liquor, vodka and lime syrup, close and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Then pour through a strainer into a pre-chilled glass and add champagne. For clear ice cubes, use boiled water.
Bon appetit and romantic mood!
Larisa Shuftaykina
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Valentine's Day is a very special holiday. Not only because he glorifies our everything - the sincere love of two hearts. It also gives an excellent occasion to cook something unusual, it is pleasant to surprise your loved ones. On this day, everyone becomes culinary - women and men, many couples create in the kitchen together in order to arrange a romantic evening. Isn't this the perfect setting to try out the new Valentine's Day recipe?
So what to cook on this holiday? The main dishes are ideally baked fish or tender chicken in the oven. You can make pizza in the shape of a heart, vegetable sauté, french fries, aromatic seafood skewers on skewers.
A tender morning: what to serve for breakfast on Valentine's Day
Start with a morning surprise. It is very nice when a man makes it. Yes, not all representatives of the strong half understand complex recipes. But for them there are saving simple types of dishes on February 14:
- Classic fried eggs. It can be made in the form of a heart - there are special silicone molds and even pans. All that needs to be done: gently break the egg and lightly salt it. Or another option: cut out a heart in a large piece of bread, fry the toast on one side, turn over and pour the egg into the prepared “bed”. It turns out very romantic. So you can cook a classic fried eggs or nutritious omelet.
- If your soulmate does not eat eggs or just prefers light breakfasts, arrange for her a curd declaration of love. Cottage cheese should be mixed with sour cream, add 2 teaspoons of sugar per 100 g, form a heart and pour jam on top or sprinkle with grated chocolate. Very gentle and helpful.
- If at home there are molds of hearts of different sizes, they can be used for a simple canape of sausage, cucumber and tomato. Or take a sausage, cut in half, fold two halves to make a heart, and fasten with a toothpick.
An apple with a "heart" insert looks very romantic. Take 2 apples - red and green. Cut on their sides over the heart. The size should be the same, if possible, it is better to use the form. Insert a red heart into a green apple and a green heart into a red one.
Valentine's Day Salad Selection
For a festive lunch or dinner you need a serious culinary creation. It’s worth starting with salads. The collections have a whole series of salad recipes for the Valentine's Day menu with eloquent names a la “Secret Passion”, “First Love”, “Tenderness”, etc. Here are a few examples.
Salad "Tenderness of a young man in love" is being prepared:
- canned tuna (240 g);
- hard cheese (150 g);
- 1 carrot;
- 1 juicy apple;
- 3 eggs;
- mayonnaise (you can cook it yourself, it will take 80 g).
Boil carrots and eggs, peel the apple, grate the cheese. It is laid out in layers (again, you can form a symbol - a heart): first tuna, then grated eggs, grated carrots, applesauce and cheese. All layers are shifted by a grid of mayonnaise. Salad is infused for at least 2 hours.
If you want to add brightness, you can take the recipe for the passionate passion salad. It is also flaky, therefore it should be cooked in advance (2-3 hours before dinner). We take:
- 100 g of ham;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g pineapple rings (canned);
- 100 g of hard cheese (parmesan, mozzarella);
- 100 g canned corn;
- 80 g of mayonnaise.
This salad is more convenient to eat from small dishes - bowls or salad bowls. Cook only eggs. The order of the layers: corn - eggs - small ham cubes - strips of pineapple - grated cheese. Everything is smeared with mayonnaise, cream or yogurt.
Health Romance: Passionate Italian Salad
If salads with mayonnaise are a little tired after the New Year, prepare a vitamin “bomb” with olive oil, Italian cheese and spices. This is a joint French-Italian cuisine, although the name "Passionate Italian" is silent about the participation of Provencal herbs in it.
And so what you need:
- 150 g mozzarella;
- 2 large tomatoes or 5-6 small cherry;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
- salad, 3 leaves;
- 1 teaspoon of balsamic vinegar;
- ¼ teaspoon of provence herbs;
- salt to taste.
From contact with metal, vegetables lose half of the useful elements, so cutting the ingredients is very large. It is advisable to tear the salad with your hands. We cut cheese and tomatoes coarsely, tear the salad, mix it all. The sauce must be prepared 30-60 minutes before dressing. To do this, mix vinegar with oil and herbs. Salad should be before serving.
Sweet moments of love: dessert on February 14
What kind of romance can there be without sweets? Of course, the dessert on this special day should be given the closest attention. The most popular solutions are chocolate covered strawberries, heart cookies, (in this case, confessions).
If you want to be original, you can take hotter dishes. For example, a flaming (literally) banana romantic dessert on Valentine's Day. It will require:
- 4 bananas;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- 2 oranges;
- 0.5 lemons;
- 50 g of brandy.
Bananas should be cut in half (lengthwise). Butter - melt in a portioned pan (the dish will be served in it). Put bananas in ghee and fry a little on both sides (1-3 minutes).
We remove the bananas from a separate bowl, and add sugar to their oil, after 2-4 minutes (when caramel is obtained) - the juice of oranges and lemon. All this together languishes over medium heat for 7-8 minutes. Then we return the bananas with the sauce, pour cognac on top, set fire and immediately serve. The light in the room should be dimmed to make the effect even brighter.
Cool for hot hearts
It may be cold February outside the window, but do not love hearts glow with a bright flame? In order not to burn out in feelings ahead of time, it is worth them to “cool” slightly. To prepare it, take:
- a bag of vanilla;
- 100 g of sugar;
- a bar of dark chocolate (200 g);
- 200 g cream;
- gelatin (pack).
Dissolve the gelatin, add sugar, vanilla, cream. We mix everything well and put it overnight in special molds. Before serving a dessert for a romantic dinner, you need to melt the chocolate or grind it and fill in the balls (hearts, straws) of ice cream. It turns out very gently and tasty.
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Surprise and delight your loved one on February 14th not only with gifts, but also with a delicious treat. The article offers you ideas for decorating and preparing a romantic dinner for Valentine's Day.
To celebrate the holiday of “all lovers” is customary not only with gifts, valentines, congratulations and declarations of love, but also delicious treats, sweets, beautiful breakfasts and romantic dinners. Holiday symbol - heart., which is present in literally everything: postcards, gift wrapping, balls, jewelry and, of course, food!
Any dish can be prepared for your "second half" and put it on a plate aesthetically (in the shape of a heart). However, resourceful chefs came up with not only a beautiful decoration of dishes, but also their original preparation. So, with the help of simple tips, you can serve an unusual breakfast, than to surprise and please your loved one.
Ideas for unusual dishes and treats:
The easiest recipe is Hearty toasts with jam or peanut butter. Cooking them is very simple: first cut a heart out of a slice of bread with a knife, and then fry it in a toaster or in a frying pan without oil. Spread the finished toast with the selected jam and put it on the plate beautifully. To such a dish is necessary should add a cup of coffee.
Valentine's Day Toasts
If you are not good at cooking or simply don’t have time to cook unusual dishes, you can go the simple way - just buy your heart-shaped food in advance. You can fill it with sweets, fruits or berries. This will not only “delight the eye”, but also give your loved one pleasant emotions.
Moreover, such dishes can serve as a gift and be used later in everyday life.
Fruit Salad Unusual Serving You can give a heart shape to almost any dish. The most popular: spaghetti with sauce, pizza, sandwiches, a variety of cereals and salads, snacks.
Heart shaped spaghetti and sauce 
Heart shaped salad with vegetables 
Mini pizza with various additives 
Toast with fried eggs for the holiday To help you can come not only dishes, but also special kitchen utensils. In modern stores you can find unusual molds for cooking and frying eggs, which, instead of the usual, will give the egg a heart shape.
Heart shaped egg salad Cook valentine's Day pizza very simple. You don’t have to hiccup any special recipe, you can use any: familiar, simple without yeast or yeast. As a basis also puff pastry will do, Cut it in advance so that the base takes the shape of a heart.
Heart shaped do-it-yourself pizza 
Simple homemade sausage pizza If you are good at baking, then it can “play into your hands,” as they say. You can congratulate your loved one with sweet cookies, delicious buns, sweets, marmalade and chocolates. A person can eat such treats all day long than to cheer himself up and get pleasant emotions.
Heart shaped delicious pastries 
Simple heart-shaped shortbread cookies 
Heart shaped buns Menu for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
Romantic dinner needed to bring hearts in love together, to give them the magic of tender feelings and delight in joint minutes. Romantic dinner should be beautiful and tasty. Do not cook many dishes, because you should not overeat (you will need strength at night).
Best done light salad and a hearty meal of meat or fishcomplemented by an unusual sauce. You can also add fruits and sweets, because they will certainly bring pleasure while drinking wine or champagne. Fruit slices can be shaped like a heart by sprinkling them with powdered sugar through a sieve, and sweets will work. cakes, cakes or chocolate candy hearts.
IMPORTANT: Home-made romantic dinner will allow you to spend time with benefit and not as expensive as in a restaurant. You can cook any food, include a film about love and drink a light alcoholic drink.
Homemade romantic dinner Ideas for a romantic dinner:
Canned Tuna Heart Fish Salad 
Hot appetizer with prawns and cherry tomatoes for a romantic dinner 
Unusual salad with declarations of love for the holiday 
Home-style romantic dinner 
Fruit salad in a pineapple half 
Spaghetti and salad for a romantic dinner 
Baked fish or piece of meat for a romantic dinner IMPORTANT: In the design of the festive table for a romantic dinner, the main thing is not to be too lazy to decorate the table with elegant dishes and glasses, buy the necessary paraphernalia, candles and flowers.
Beautiful decoration for a romantic dinner 
Festive food and paraphernalia 
A simple but “soulful” dinner for two A dish such as sushi. This food is often present on the tables of modern couples for dinner, especially romantic. Cook sushi and rolls You can do it yourself, but you can order in a restaurant. It is essential save your time and energy.
Such food can be very nicely decorated on serving plates, lay out in the shape of a heart or write the word in pieces. Besides, sushi and rolls - food made from seafood, which in turn very well affect potency (like aphrodisiacs). This advantage of dinner will allow the couple to spend a very sensual night.
Romantic Japanese Dinner 
Heart shaped sushi for a festive dinner 
Heart shaped rolls 
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As already mentioned, romantic dinner should not be “heavy” and a light salad is the best way you can feed your soulmate. Of course you can use the recipe for any holiday and everyday salad, the main thing is to submit it unusually and solemnly.
The most popular "romantic" salad is considered Caesar with chicken breast. The dish has many delicious ingredients, unusual sauce, fresh vegetables and satiety. It goes well with white, red and sparkling wines.
You will need:
- Chicken Breast - 2 pcs. (not large, can be replaced with a piece of turkey breast).
- Lettuce - 1 bunch (can be replaced with leaves of Beijing cabbage without a hard part).
- Cherry tomatoes - 8-10 pcs. (can be replaced with any tomatoes cut into small slices).
- Bread - 2 slices of a white wheat loaf (useful for toast).
- Boiled egg - 2 pcs. (can be replaced with several pcs of quail eggs, also boiled). Just need one raw yolk!
- Parmesan Cheese - 100 g (can be replaced with Grano Padano or any cheese from a number of hard and fatty).
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Mustard - 1 tsp (if the mustard is spicy, you can use a smaller amount, or replace it with Dijon).
- Mayonnaise - 1 tbsp
Cooking:
- First of all, it should prepare croutons: Cut the pulp into cubes and send to dry in the oven. Make sure that they do not burn. Croutons can previously be sprinkled with salt.
- Chicken breast rubbed with salt and pepper, you can bake it in the oven, fry in a pan or boil in water if you do not eat fried foods. Keep your breast dry. Cool the prepared breast.
- At the bottom of the serving dish, lettuce leaves, or Peking cabbage without a hard part (head of cabbage) are laid out.
- Chicken breast should be cut into slices, gently lay on top of the leaves.
- Prepare the sauce: mix mayonnaise, yolk, mustard and crushed garlic clove. Mix well. Pour chicken into the resulting sauce.
- Cut the cheese on a special grater with a knife into thin “ribbons”. If the cheese crumbles, make crumbs and sprinkle the meat. Even a simple rubbing on a coarse grater is also suitable.
- Cherry tomatoes and eggs should be cut into halves and gently spread over the whole plate with a festive salad. The dish is ready!
Caesar Caprese Salad in turn, differs in simplicity of preparation and a set of simple ingredients. Salad looks visually, like cheese and vegetable slicing. The salad is convenient to eat, it goes well with any wine. Not "heavy" for the stomach and very tasty.
You will need:
- Mozzarella - 180 g (prepare cheese yourself or purchase in a store. Choose small balls of mozzarella or baby mozzarella).
- Cherry tomatoes - 150-200 g (can be replaced with any other small tomatoes).
- Black olives - 1 can (black olives without stones and additives will be required).
- Olive oil - a few tablespoons for salad dressing.
- Mix of italian herbs: dried basil, oregano, marjoram, etc.
Cooking:
- Mozzarella sliced \u200b\u200bin circles
- At the tomato, the dry part of the leg is removed, it is cut into circles the size of the sliced \u200b\u200bcheese.
- On a serving dish, you can optionally put lettuce leaves, cheese and tomato are carefully laid out on top, alternating each other.
- On top of the laid out ingredients are decorated with black olives.
- Salad can be salted to taste (it is best to choose sea salt) and sprinkled with olive oil.
- Top the salad with seasoning made from naturally dry “Italian” herbs.
- Garnish with green basil leaves
Caprese Salad "Nicoise" - This is a tasty and hearty dish, perfect for a romantic evening. Cooking it is not difficult.
You will need:
- Canned tuna - 1 can (if you have fresh fish, replace with slightly fried tuna).
- Black olives - a handful of
- Anchovies - 50 g. (810 pcs. Is enough)
- Green beans - 100-150 g.
- Egg - 2 pcs. (chicken or quail can be used. Depending on preferences).
- A tomato - a few pcs. "Cherry" or one ordinary
- Salad leaves for serving decor
- Bow - 5 g of green onion feathers
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Olive oil (for refueling) and 2 tbsp. wine vinegar.
IMPORTANT: Before you start preparing a salad, you must already have prepared sauce. To do this, mix olive oil, vinegar, garlic and salt to taste.
Cooking:
- Serving dish covered with lettuce
- Boil eggs and green beans in advance
- Chop or drip onion feathers on lettuce leaves. Pour a couple of tablespoons of sauce.
- Eggs and tomatoes are cut into slices, along with olives are laid out in a circle around the plate.
- In the center of the plate is a slide of green beans
- The tuna can opens, the oil is drained. Neat, not large pieces of fish are laid on top of beans.
- On top of the tuna, lay several anchovy fish.
- The dish is sprinkled with plenty of sauce before serving.
Nicoise Hot meals for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner
IMPORTANT: A romantic dinner suggests that you prepare original and unusual dishes that you can surprise and delight your “soul mate”.
Duck breast in caramel sauce:
You will need:
- Large chicken breast - 2 pcs. (in two servings)
- Soy sauce - 1 bottle in 250 ml.
- Natural honey - 2 tablespoons
- Garlic - 3 teeth
- Lemon - half of citrus
- Spices for pickling to taste
- For the decor of the finished dish, you can use black olives, grapes or capers (which you like best), as well as fresh herbs.
Cooking:
- The breast is cleaned of excess films and fat, a part of the skin should be left so that during frying a beautiful crispy crust appears on it.
- Prepare the sauce for marinating the breast: in a bowl, mix soy sauce with the juice of half a lemon, add pepper to taste (ground or a mixture), squeeze the garlic and add liquid honey. Stir the sauce and place the duck into it, cut into large cubes.
- Marinate the breast for at least an hour.
- After that, chop the pan. Fry meat without oil. The remaining fat layer on the duck will highlight the necessary lard for frying.
- Fry pieces of meat should be about 5 minutes, while do not forget to shake the pan or spoon, turn the pieces on the other side.
- After cooking, put the pieces of meat on serving plates. Add a small amount of marinade to the remaining fat in the pan, melt it and wait until it becomes thicker. Cook the sauce should be no more than three minutes.
- Pour the meat with ready-made sauce
- Garnish the dish with berries or olives, decorate with herbs before serving.
Caramel Duck Breast Dorado in the oven with vegetables:
You will need:
- A fish - 2 pcs. (Dorado or any other, not too large fish, for example carp).
- A tomato - 2 pcs. (medium size)
- Bow - 1 PC. large onion
- Pepper - 1 PC. sweet (any)
- Olive oil or any vegetable oil (several tablespoons).
- Sea salt (to taste)
- Garlic - 1 clove
Cooking:
- Onions should be cut into neat and not thick half rings.
- After that, start cooking fish. Remove the eyes and viscera from the fish, thoroughly wash the carcass with the cut belly.
- In a sliced \u200b\u200btummy, put sliced \u200b\u200btomato, half a portion of fried onion and a few rings of pepper. Add the garlic.
- The fish is watered with a small amount of oil, it should be pepper and add salt (it is possible in a small amount, to taste).
- Put the fish on a baking sheet and place in the oven.
- Baked fish for half an hour, while the temperature of the oven should be about 200 degrees.
Baked dorado Valentine's Day Romantic Dinner Snacks
Snacks for a romantic dinner can serve as a full meal, as they can include a wide variety of ingredients: cheese, vegetables, fruits, meat. They should definitely be beautifully designed, cooked canapes or tartlets.
Small fish salad with red caviar: beautiful serving
Caprese salad in miniature on skewers as an appetizer 
Jellied meat with cheese and vegetables: appetizer 
Vegetable skewers with boiled shrimp 
Sandwiches with caviar and olives 
Fresh salad with tomato and cheese for a snack 
Cheese canapes with nuts and grapes 
Baked Tartlets with Cheese: Appetizer 
Mini Canapes for a romantic dinner snack 
Puff pastry with tomato The best appetizer for a romantic dinner is cheese fondue. Fondue is a pot, heated by a candle, which contains cheese sauce. Using skewers or special forks, you should string any piece of slicing (ham, vegetables, nut, potatoes, shrimp, croutons) and dip in hot sauce.
Cheese fondue Sweets for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
Sweets play a very important role for the "holiday of all lovers." They are set a good mood, delight with their taste, complement a romantic dinner. It’s not necessary to cook sweets on your own, because any confectionery store certainly offers a huge number of desserts and treats for the holiday.
You can choose sweets for every taste: chocolates, heart-shaped cakes, iced cookies, gingerbread cookies with artistic painting, cakes, truffles, marmalade, jelly and much more. Having bought dessert, you certainly save your personal time preparing for the holiday.
IMPORTANT: Modern housewives often offer homemade cakes for sale. Handmade cakes, muffins, muffins and gingerbreads with glaze, marzipan and sugar figures are very popular.
Holiday Muffins 
Cupcakes with marzipan and mastic 
Icing cookies 
Heart-shaped caramel candies 
Glazed Gingerbread Cookies 
Cakes on February 14 
Heart shaped macaroons 
Homemade cookies on February 14 If you follow the figure or just do not want to buy sweets for the holiday in the store, you can do fruit sliced \u200b\u200bwith berries. You can decorate such a cut with fresh mint leaves, powdered sugar, cinnamon and melted chocolate.
IMPORTANT: Enjoys great popularity as a dessert on February 14 chocolate fondue. You can dip a banana, orange, strawberry, kiwi, pineapple in it. If you do not want hot fondue, strawberries in chocolate can be prepared in advance.
Chocolate fondue 
Chocolate covered strawberries 
Chocolate covered strawberries with chocolate and nut crumbs Baking for a romantic dinner on Valentine's Day
To make sweet pastries for Valentine's Day is quite possible with your own hands. It is in your power to make delicious pastries and cakes from biscuit and cream. Making a delicious and lush biscuit is very simple.
You will need:
- Sugar - 1 glass (measured). If you follow the figure, use less sugar.
- Flour - 1 glass (coarse and premium, replace with any other if desired).
- Eggs - 4 things. large chicken
- Salt - pinch
Cooking:
- Egg whites should be separated from the yolks. Pour the proteins into a separate bowl and beat with a mixer (blender) with a small pinch of salt for 5-10 minutes. You should get lush foam - This is the key to a good biscuit.
- After that, gradually add sugar and continue whisking until you succeed. elastic protein mass.
- Without stopping the whipping, add the yolks, gradually stir in the flour.
- Grease a baking sheet or deco, pour the dough. Bake biscuit about 25 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. Check readiness with a toothpick.
IMPORTANT: From a cooled biscuit, you can make cakes or a cake by lubricating the cakes with any cream (bought or prepared on your own). If you want to bake a chocolate biscuit, just add some cocoa to the dough.
Cake on February 14 To please the “soul mate” you can also do it yourself, cooked Panacotta (cream or chocolate). Make it not difficult and sugar, gelatin and cream.
Panacota on February 14 
Chocolate glazed sponge cake IMPORTANT: If you have a special waffle iron, on February 14 you can bake delicious waffle hearts and add them with any sauce.
Waffle Hearts on February 14 February 14 Breakfast Ideas - Valentine's Day
You can surprise your loved one in the morning by preparing him a delicious and unusual breakfast. It will be unusual only because you originally decorated it by adding symbols of the holiday - a heart.
Toast with fried eggs for a festive breakfast 
Fancy pancakes 
Original breakfast Video: “SIMPLE BREAKFAST on St. Valentine "
