Picnic Salads - Recipes for the Whole Family

Natalya Kaptsova

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Fresh air generates an incredible appetite. And that’s why it’s worth taking something tasty for a picnic with family or friends. In this article you can find simple recipes for appetizers, salads and main dishes for outdoor recreation.

The best recipes for picnic snacks - pita snacks, sandwiches, canapes

When choosing food, avoid perishable products even if you have a thermal bag. Many people like to take ordinary sandwiches with them on a picnic. It's simple and satisfying. Each of us loves sausage, cheese or meatballs on black bread. But in order to surprise guests and households, it is worth fulfilling a new recipe.

For example, you can make a mozzarella sandwich, tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. Such a snack will not bring extra calories. A sandwich with pear, ham and brie cheese on a light grain bun will impress people.

And for lovers of solid snacks, you can offer sandwiches with tuna and tomatoes .
Ingredients:

• can of canned tuna
• Hard boiled eggs - 2 pieces
• Bulgarian pepper -1pc
• Tomato -1pc
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• lettuce leaves
• Olive oil with lemon juice or balsamic vinegar
• Greens and salt and pepper to taste
• White bread

It is worth refilling in advance and boil the eggs until tender. Post products layers : bread soaked in dressing, lettuce, tuna mashed with a fork, chopped eggs, pepper and tomato.

Lavash roll with Korean cabbage

Ingredients:

• Lavash - 3 sheets
• Mayonnaise - 100g
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Dill -1 bunch
• Smoked chicken breast - 300g
• Hard cheese -150g
• Korean carrot - 200g

To prepare the filling, you need to grate the garlic on a fine grater and the cheese on a coarse grater. Separate the meat from the bones and cut into cubes, and chop the greens. Mix all ingredients with mayonnaise. Put a sheet of pita bread on a hard surface, and half of the filling on it, cover with another pita bread and lay out the rest of the filling. Cover everything with the last sheet and carefully twist the roll. After an hour of cooling in the refrigerator the roll must be cut into circles.

Diet roll of lavash and avocado
Ingredients:

• Lavash - 3 pieces
• Tomato - 1pc
• Avocado - 1pc
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Soft cream cheese - 50g
• Greens - 1 bunch

Cut the peeled avocado into cubes and mix with chopped tomato, add cream cheese and herbs. Lay the filling on pita bread, as in the previous recipe.

For a picnic, a dish loved by many summer residents is ideal. stuffed loaf. To prepare it, you need a long crispy baguette. It can be stuffed with ham, cheese, herbs with tomatoes and peppers, boiled chicken and garlic. In general, everything that you love.

For an aperitif, children can be given a large juicy apple or pear. And as an appetizer sweet skewers from bananas, pears, kiwi and apples, watered with condensed milk. It's no secret that kids love beautiful food. Make the simplest mini sandwiches and decorate them in an original way.

Picnic Salads - Recipes for the Whole Family

For a holiday with the whole family, you can do vegetable salad from tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, radishes, dill, parsley and other greens that you can find. It is better to fill such a salad with olive oil with lemon juice or balsamic vinegar.

Similar prefabricated fruit salad kids will love it. Bananas, pears, apples, oranges, kiwi, grapes, melon and watermelon are traditionally added to it. Avoid grapefruit, lime and other bitter fruits , they will spoil the delicate taste of the salad. And the dressing for this dish is natural yogurt without additives.

Spicy lovers will prefer Salad "Country"

Ingredients:

• Smoked sausage -200g
• Can of corn - 1 pc.
• Dill greens - 1 bunch
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• A pack of rye crackers with smoked flavor

Mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise. Seafood lovers will appreciate salad with salted salmon.

Ingredients:

• Cucumbers - 200g
• Eggs -3pcs
• lettuce leaves
• Salmon, trout or pink salmon lightly salted -150g

Cut cucumbers, fish and eggs into cubes. Arrange on lettuce leaves and drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Interesting chicken liver salad will require prior preparation.

Ingredients:

• Chicken liver - 500g
• Tomatoes - 4pcs
• Lettuce, arugula and basil - large bunch

Fry the liver until done. Mix with halved cherry tomatoes and finely torn greens. Dress the salad with vegetable oil, garlic, salt and pepper.

Simple and delicious picnic recipes - for family outdoor recreation

In addition to barbecue, you can cook a lot of interesting and tasty dishes at a picnic.

Surprise your loved ones with a large 800 gram carp on barbecue .

The fish practically does not need to be marinated. It only needs to be gutted, the head removed, divided into 2 layers and generously spread with sauce, which will require:

• Vegetable oil - half a glass
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• Lemon juice - a few drops

Cooking time of fish on fire is about 15 minutes. It turns out a very tender, juicy and fragrant dish.

Cheese zrazy – great picnic dish. They are baked or fried like ordinary meatballs, only a piece of cheese is added inside, which, when melted, gives piquancy to the dish.

You can prepare in advance stuffed potatoes.

Ingredients:

• Potato - 7-9 large tubers
• Cheese - 200g
• Smoked ham - 300g
• Greens - 1 bunch
• Tomatoes - 2pcs
• Mayonnaise, salt and pepper to taste

Boil potatoes in their skins, peel and cut in half. Remove the pulp with a spoon to make a deepening. Mix diced ham, herbs and tomatoes and season everything with mayonnaise and spices. Sprinkle generously with cheese on top. And the food is edible. But for the best look, bake the potatoes in the oven or microwave to melt the cheese.

Pork in soy sauce delight with oriental notes.
Ingredients:

• Pork - 500g
• Soy sauce - 200g
• Sesame - 1 tsp
• Red pepper - a pinch
• Ground ginger - 1 tsp

In a marinade of soy sauce, sesame, pepper and ginger, dip the meat for 2-3 hours and refrigerate. After the time has elapsed, pull the pork out and bake in the oven at a temperature 180⁰С 50-60 minutes.

On the grill, you can bake not only meat or fish, but also potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini. Mushrooms are perfectly baked on the grill without any spices. Before serving fried mushrooms need only be sprinkled with soy sauce.

Can do grilled cauliflower . It is baked in foil envelopes in a special marinade, which requires:

• Soy sauce
• Mustard
• Garlic
• sweet paprika
• Salt
• Pepper

Cauliflower with onion cut into half rings should be poured with marinade and packed in a foil envelope. Then put the dish on the barbecue grill. Cabbage is cooked in 20 minutes.

Remember that picnic dishes should be nutritious yet light so that you don't feel like heaviness. After all, you need to relax and have fun in the fresh air.

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