The capricious autumn with its drizzling rains, gray skies and cold winds evokes melancholic thoughts. The best way to dispel them is to gather your family at the table and spend time with a cheerful sincere conversation. The warmth of a family dinner will be added by warming dishes that we offer to prepare together with the brand “National”.
Heated salad
A proper autumn salad should be warm, hearty and delicious. Therefore, as the main ingredient, we will take a large couscous “National”. Couscous is a delicious wheat cereal native to North Africa. As a side dish, it can be served cold or hot, it is also added to salads or used instead of bread crumbs to get a crispy crust.
Cook 200 g of couscous until tender in 400 ml of water with the addition of salt and butter. We steam 60 g of raisins in boiling water. Chop 300 g of chicken fillet into slices and fry in a mixture of olive oil, 1 tbsp soy sauce and a pinch of paprika. Peel the soft avocado and cut it into cubes. Onions cut into half rings and fry a little in the same pan as the chicken fillet. Combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl, salt to taste, season with olive oil and lemon juice. Be sure to serve the salad warm — so it will reveal its taste in all its glory.
Sunny porridge
Sweet bright juicy pumpkin charges with warmth every dish in which it turns out. Millet porridge with it and at all turns out amazing. Especially if you cook it from millet “National”. It is made from selected red millet, subjected to additional cleaning and calibration. So it turns out a product of the highest quality with a unique taste.
Scald with boiling water 300 g of wheat groats, mix with 400 g of pumpkin cubes and 70 g of dried apricots straws. Pour all 200 ml of water, gently bring to a boil, add 600 ml of melted milk, a slice of butter, honey and vanilla to taste. Simmer the porridge under the lid on low heat for 10 minutes.
The Pleasure Pot
Fragrant crumbly buckwheat with meat and mushrooms in a clay pot… What could be better than a gloomy autumn day? The deep rich taste of the dish will give buckwheat “National”. Thanks to careful calibration and deep cleaning, it will turn out delicious and incredibly useful.
We start with cooking a roast of 2 onions and carrots. We lay 500 g of pork pieces to it and fry until golden brown. Put in pots of 4-5 tbsp. l. meat filling, 100 g of washed buckwheat and pour water to the “shoulders”. Put the pots in a slightly warmed oven at 200°C for 30-40 minutes. Just looking at such a dish makes the inside feel warmer.
Pea miracle for lunch
Pea soup with smoked meat is created to warm and delight. And to do this, you need to prepare it from whole ground peas “National”. National peas undergo additional cleaning, calibration and careful quality selection at the company’s plant. Yellow peas contain a high percentage of antioxidants, protein, and essential minerals such as calcium and iron. Peas reduce the likelihood of cancer, heart attack, hypertension and inhibit the aging process of the skin.
Soak 300 g of peas overnight, then pour 5 liters of fresh water in a saucepan and cook for 20-25 minutes. Next, pour 4 potatoes into cubes and continue to cook until softened. Meanwhile, passeruem in vegetable oil red onion with carrots. Add 500 g of chopped pork ribs, browned on all sides. Put everything in a saucepan, salt and pepper to taste, stand under the lid for 5 minutes.
Cutlets with fire
Lean dishes can warm up just as well as meat dishes. Red lentil cutlets “National” leave no doubt about this. Unpolished lentils, thanks to the preserved shell, do not boil and in the finished form retains its shape, so it is suitable for both side dishes and salads.
Cook until ready 300 g of lentils and pass through a meat grinder with a head of onion and 2 cloves of garlic. Finely chop 150 g of honeydew and put it in salted water. Grate a large boiled potato. Combine all the ingredients together, add 4 tbsp olive oil, a handful of bread crumbs and 0.5 tsp ground chili. We make cutlets from the resulting minced meat, roll them in flour with sesame seeds and fry them until golden brown. Mashed potatoes and baked vegetables will complement them most organically.
Heart pies
Ruddy pies with rice and fish are the very embodiment of warmth. For the filling, the “Krasnodar” “National” rice is ideal. This white polished round-grain rice of soft varieties got its name in honor of the Krasnodar Territory, where round-grain rice is grown.
First of all, cook 250 g of rice and throw it in a colander. Now lightly passeruem in oil 5-6 chopped stalks of green onions. Cut 400 g of cod fillet into slices, roll in flour and fry on all sides. Add the rice, 1 tsp grated ginger, lime zest and a handful of chopped coriander.
Roll out in a thin layer of 500 g of ready-made puff pastry, cut into squares, spread on each 1.5 tbsp. l. filling, form pies. Grease them with beaten egg and bake at 200°C in the oven for 15-20 minutes. With the heat of the heat, such pies are especially good.
We hope that the proposed dishes will warm you and your loved ones more than once this fall. The products of the brand “National”will add a rosy mood and cozy warmth to them. Let them inspire you to create your own warming menu. Just do not forget to share your culinary discoveries with the readers of “Healthy Food Near Me”.