One of the best ways to surprise and honor your loved one is to prepare a special meal. Therefore, the Cooking Guide will teach you some recipes for a simple homemade romantic dinner. Your loved one will be delighted with the extraordinary taste of these recipes. Check it out now!
Recipes for a simple homemade romantic dinner
Spaghetti carbonara
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 2 servings
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 3 gems
- 100 g of grated Parmesan cheese
- 200 g of diced bacon
- 200 g of cooked pasta
- 100 ml of pasta cooking water
- Salt and black pepper to taste
Method of preparation
In a bowl, combine the egg yolks and Parmesan and set aside. Heat a skillet over medium heat and fry the bacon until golden brown. Add the cooked macaroni and mix. Add the parmesan mixture, cooking water, salt and pepper and mix well until incorporated. Serve immediately.
Rump in Madeira sauce with cassava puree
Time: 1 hour
Performance: 4 servings
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 4 rump steaks
- 2 crushed cloves of garlic
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 1 tablespoon of wheat flour
- 1/2 glass of dry red wine
- 1 tablespoon of seasoning for powdered meat
- 1 cup (tea) of water
- 1/2 cup of sliced ​​mushrooms
cassava puree
- 1 kg of peeled cassava
- 2 liters of boiling water
- 1 box of sour cream (200 g)
- Salt to taste
Method of preparation
Season the steaks with the garlic, salt and pepper. In a thick-bottomed skillet, heat the oil over high heat and brown the steaks on both sides. Remove and reserve.
In the same pan, melt the butter over medium heat, sprinkle with flour and mix. Deglaze with the wine, seasoning, water and cook over low heat, stirring until slightly thickened. Add the mushrooms, mix and season the steaks with the sauce.
For the puree, cook the cassava in boiling water until soft, over medium heat. Drain, pass through the juicer, mix with the cream and season with salt. Serve the meat with the sauce accompanied by the puree, to taste, garnished with parsley sprigs.
Risotto with peppers with mozzarella
Time: 30 minutes
Performance: 4 servings
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons of butter
- 1 sliced ​​onion
- 2 slices of sliced ​​Calabrian sausage
- 2 cups of uncooked arborio rice
- 1/2 cup (tea) of white wine
- 2 cubes of beef broth
- 5 cups of hot water (tea)
- 1/2 cup grated mozzarella
- 1 cup (s) of grated Parmesan cheese
- Salt and chopped parsley
Method of preparation
Over medium heat, heat a skillet with half the butter and sauté the onion and peppers until golden brown. Remove and reserve. Return the same pan to medium heat, melt the remaining butter and saute the rice for 3 minutes. Add the wine and let it evaporate.
Using a ladle, add the meat broth dissolved in hot water, a little at a time, stirring constantly until the rice is al dente. Add the onion, peppers and cheese. Season with salt and chopped parsley, mix until incorporated and turn off. Serve immediately.
Cannelloni with ham with 4 cheeses
Time: 40 min
Performance: 12 units
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups grated mozzarella
- 1 cup of grated provolone
- Salt, pepper and oregano to taste
- 1 cup (tea) of Catupiry® cottage cheese
- 12 fresh lasagna
- 12 slices of ham
- 1 can of tomato sauce
- 1 box of sour cream (200 g)
- 50 g of grated Parmesan to taste
Method of preparation
In a bowl, mix the mozzarella, provolone and curd. Season with oregano and mix to form a dough. On each lasagna lay 1 slice of ham and a portion of cheese. Roll up like a swiss roll and set aside. Mix the tomato sauce with the cream and season with salt and pepper. In a large refractory, spread some sauce, lay the cannelloni, cover with the remaining sauce, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and bake in a preheated medium oven for 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
Traditional stroganoff
Time: 30 minutes
Performance: 4 servings
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon of oil
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 500 g fillet mignon, rump or soft coxão, cut into strips
- 1 diced onion
- 1/2 cup of sliced ​​mushrooms
- 4 tablespoons of ketchup
- 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 can of sour cream (300 g)
Method of preparation
Heat the oil and butter in a large, large skillet over medium heat. Add the meat in 2 steps so as not to add water. Fry the meat until golden brown.
In the same pan, with the meat, add the onion and brown for 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.
Cook for 3 minutes, pour in the cream and bring to the boil. Serve with white rice and potato sticks.
Vegetable lasagna with bechamel sauce
Time: 1 hour
Performance: 6 servings
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 1 eggplant
- Salt, olive oil and oregano to taste
- 1 courgette
- 3 sliced ​​tomatoes
- 300 g of sliced ​​ham
- 300 g of sliced ​​mozzarella
- grated parmesan to sprinkle
white sauce
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 3 tablespoons of wheat flour
- 1/2 cup (tea) of cream
- 3 cups of milk (tea)
- Salt and grated nutmeg to taste
Method of preparation
Thinly slice the aubergines on a mandolin and spread them in a pan.
Drizzle with olive oil, salt and cook in a preheated medium oven (180ºC) for 15 minutes.
Reserve.
Slice the courgettes of the same thickness and set them aside.
For the bechamel, melt the butter in a pan over low heat and sprinkle with flour.
Fry for 2 minutes.
Pour in the milk and stir until it thickens.
Add the cream and season with salt and nutmeg.
Let it cool down.
In a medium refractory, spread the béchamel and make a layer of eggplant, one of tomato, seasoned with salt and oregano, and one of ham and cheese.
Make the second layer in the same order using the zucchini instead of the eggplant.
Repeat the layers alternating eggplant and zucchini.
Complete with béchamel and grated parmesan.
Bake in a preheated oven (180 ° C) for 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
Serve immediately.
Source: Terra
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