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On Valentine’s Day, everything is about love. Especially the food.
Food has always been credited with miraculous properties: it is believed that certain foods can heal, energize, and even awaken passion. And these are not legends at all. Aphrodisiac foods do exist: they contain substances that sharpen the senses. In honor of Valentine’s Day, Wday.ru has collected several recipes that are ideal for a romantic evening.
Caesar salad with shrimps and caviar
The first place in the ranking of aphrodisiacs has long been held by seafood: thanks to phosphorus, iodine and high-quality protein in their composition, they awaken sexual activity. Red caviar is able to normalize hormones, and tomatoes are even called “apples of love” – very eloquently.
Ingredients: iceberg salad, 8 quail eggs, 300 g boiled shrimp, 4 tsp. red caviar, 8 cherry tomatoes, a clove of garlic. For dressing: 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons. lemon juice, 2 tsp. dijon mustard, 2 tsp. anchovy paste, 50 g grated Parmesan cheese, olive oil, black pepper.
Cooking: boil eggs hard-boiled, cool, peel and cut in half. Quickly fry the peeled shrimps with garlic in olive oil. Wash the salad, dry it and tear it with our hands. Preparing the dressing: mix all the ingredients in a blender. We collect the salad: put an iceberg, cherry halves, shrimps, eggs on the bottom of the plates, sprinkle with dressing and decorate with red caviar.
Toast with asparagus and parmesan
This is the perfect Valentine’s Day breakfast. Asparagus has a talent for increasing blood flow in the pelvic region, thereby increasing arousal. The ancient Greeks, by the way, were aware: they not only ate asparagus, but also decorated the bed of the newlyweds with it.
Ingredients: 12-16 sprigs of asparagus, 2 thick oval pieces of French loaf, a piece of butter and a little more to spread on bread; salt and black pepper; 25-50 g of grated Parmesan.
Cooking: cut the sharp ends of the asparagus twigs and break them at a distance of 2-4 cm from the hard end of the stem. Boil in boiling salted water for 2-3 minutes. While the asparagus is cooking, prepare the base for the toast: spread the bread with butter and fry until golden brown on both sides. After that, you can grate the bread with garlic – it will be even more piquant. Spread butter on the bread again. Drain the asparagus and put in another saucepan with a piece of oil. Season with salt and pepper, stir and put on bread. Sprinkle with Parmesan before serving.
Pear and avocado salad
Avocado, by the way, is also called an alligator pear. This is an incredibly healthy vegetable that contains phytosterols – substances that stimulate desire and increase libido. In addition, it contains many B vitamins, which increase testosterone production. And folic acid is very beneficial for the female body.
Ingredients: 3 pears, 3 avocados, red bell peppers, herbs to taste. For the sauce: 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tsp. mustard, olive oil, salt, pepper to taste, you can add a little chopped garlic and sugar.
Cooking: Pre-cool the avocado in the refrigerator for several hours. Then we clean, take out the bone and cut into cubes. Peel and cut the pears into cubes, pepper into strips. Prepare the sauce: mix all the ingredients until smooth. Season the salad, sprinkle with green onions and parsley if desired.
Quail with grape sauce
A dish from the “luxury” series – here all the best at once. Quail is a meat that has an ideal effect on men, invigorates and gives strength. And sauce with grapes and spices enhances the aphrodisiac effect. By the way, salt is only beneficial here: it regulates the production of dopamine, which is responsible for the perception of sexual arousal.
Ingredients: 8 quails, one and a half cups of seedless grapes, a glass and a quarter of chicken broth, 50 grams of bacon, 8 sprigs of rosemary and thyme, leeks (white part) olive oil, salt, pepper.
Cooking: rub the quail with salt and pepper, put a sprig of rosemary and thyme in each. Fry the birds on all sides in heated oil for about 3 minutes. Then we put them in a deep frying pan, breasts up, pour in half a glass of broth, simmer for about half an hour, take out. Cut half the grapes in half. Pour the remaining broth, finely chopped bacon, leeks into the pan, where the quails were stewed, add the grapes after a few minutes and simmer for another 3 minutes. We lay out the quail on plates, pour over the sauce, decorate with rosemary. For a side dish, a green salad made from fresh vegetables is suitable.
Pie with veal and porcini mushrooms
Meat and mushrooms are a combination of two powerful aphrodisiacs. Mushrooms, recall, due to protein, zinc and amino acids in the composition, enhance sexual stamina. Boletus and shiitake are especially good here, but white ones are also suitable. But oyster mushrooms and champignons will not work in this way.
Ingredients: for the dough: 1 kg of wheat flour, 400 ml of milk, 150 g of butter, 2 tbsp. sugar, 1,5 tsp. salt, 1 tbsp. dry yeast. For the filling: 700 g of veal (can be replaced with chicken), 500 g of frozen mushrooms, onion, 100 g of butter, 250 g of fat sour cream, 70 g of rice, a clove of garlic, a bunch of dill, salt, pepper to taste.
Cooking: knead the dough: melt the butter in warmed milk, add salt and sugar, after 5 minutes. – yeast. Break eggs into flour and pour milk. Knead the dough, leave for an hour in a warm place, covered with a towel. Divide the matched dough into 2 parts, roll each into a layer 1 cm thick.
Making the filling: cook the rice. We beat off the meat, chop finely, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Chop the onion, chop the garlic and finely chop the onion, cut the mushrooms into slices. Fry the onions and garlic in oil, add the meat, cook for 15 minutes, add the mushrooms and cook for another 15 minutes. Add rice, sour cream, dill and simmer for a minute. We put one layer of dough on a baking sheet, lay out the filling, cover with the second layer of dough, fasten the edges. We bake for 20-30 minutes at 180 degrees.
Chocolate fondue with fruit kebabs
Chocolate itself can cheer you up. And if you still look into the eyes of your beloved, then you can die of happiness. But even better is to put emotion in your partner.
Ingredients: 200 g dark chocolate (break into pieces), 140 ml heavy cream, 3 tbsp. molasses, banana, 250 g strawberries, 150 g marshmallows or marshmallows.
Cooking: peel the banana, cut into pieces and sprinkle with lemon juice, cut the strawberries in half. Pour cream over chocolate and molasses, heat in a water bath. we put bananas, strawberries and marshmallows on wooden skewers. Pour warm chocolate fondue into vases. Serve with fruit and crispy biscuits. For a special occasion, you can add a little brandy, rum or liqueur to the fondue.
Strawberry dessert with cottage cheese
Strawberries, like raspberries, have been shown to increase sex drive and fertility. All thanks to zinc, which is contained in the seeds of these berries. In addition, the very process of eating strawberries looks very tempting.
Ingredients: 250 g low-fat cottage cheese, 1/2 cup milk, a pinch of sugar, 250 g strawberries, 1 tbsp. butter, 10 g vanilla sugar.
Cooking: mix cottage cheese with milk, butter, sugar and vanilla into a homogeneous mass. My strawberries and cut them into quarters. Put some cottage cheese with milk on the bottom of the glass. Then a layer of strawberries. Repeat in layers until the glass is full.