Dinner for a bachelor. The simplest recipes for a bachelor

What is the life of a bachelor? Spending time in splendid isolation, and only sometimes in a female company; washing socks only on the full moon (just like shaving) ... Yes, such cases are not rare. But even a normal single man is completely alien to regular culinary exploits. Few bachelors will "bother" with cooking, because just to get enough, it's stupid to spend a lot of precious time, effort and energy. It is for such men that our selection of truly bachelor recipes!

hedgehog sausages

The recipe for this dish is ideal for a bachelor, because it is as simple as possible to prepare, and the result usually causes wild delight. Yes, and he has excellent satiety.

What do you need:

Spaghetti - preferably a pack of 900 g, so that it lasts longer;

Sausages or sausages - as much as you like (suitable with cheese);

How to cook. We cut sausages or sausages into circles 4 cm thick or in half. Now we take out the “spaghettis” and pierce them with pieces of sausages or sausages until we stuff their entire volume. Then we lower these “hedgehogs” into boiling salted water and cook for about 15 minutes. “Hairy sausages” look like a masterpiece, don't they?

Fillet with mashed potato garnish

“Also with a beer” flashed through my head ... But not this time. So, you wander from work with a sad thought that the last cockroach has already escaped from your apartment, because even he did not find what to eat in the kitchen. Your stomach rumbled treacherously... To save the situation, we invite you to treat yourself to the most delicious bachelor's dinner!

What do you need:

Potato - about 1 kg;

Chicken fillet or breast - half a kilo;

Onion - a couple of pieces;

Salt and spices for meat.

How to cook. To begin with, we put aside all things, completely devoting ourselves to cooking for 40 minutes. We turn on our favorite music, and, singing along, peel the potatoes. Mine, fill with water and put on fire. Now let's get to the meat. We wash it and cut it into small pieces. Mix it with salt, pepper and your favorite spices. Fragrant with seasonings, juicy meat spread on a heated pan with sunflower oil and fry, stirring occasionally.

It's time to chop the onion. After a short sob, put the onion half rings in a small saucepan, pour the fillets into the same place and let them stew for 6-8 minutes. Having made mashed potatoes from boiled potatoes, we can start the long-awaited dinner with a pure heart: mashed potatoes - 3/4 of the space on the plate, filet - 1/4, and the remaining space is ideal for a tomato or cucumber.

spaghetti carbonara

Any bachelor will need a couple of recipes with a beautiful artsy name. For these purposes, a delicious and easy-to-cook dish from traditional Italian cuisine is perfect. It's good that the Italians are as opposed to complexity as we are!

What do you need:

Spaghetti - a pack of 500 g is enough;

Cream with a maximum of 20% fat content - 300 ml;

Bacon - 300 grams (can be replaced with loin or brisket);

Hard cheese - 100 grams;

Eggs - 2 pieces and 2 more yolks additionally;

How to cook. First, cut the bacon into small and thin slices. Fry them in a frying pan with a little olive oil. Just don't miss it, because our goal is to melt some fat. Ready? Now lay out on a dish bacon mixed with fat. While the desire to cook has not yet evaporated, we quickly cook spaghetti and prepare the sauce. To prepare the sauce, the cheese must be grated on a fine grater and carefully mixed with cream, eggs and yolks until a homogeneous light mass.

The resulting sauce should be poured over bacon. The final chord: put the spaghetti in a colander so that there is no excess water left, and put the already prepared pasta on top of the meat with the sauce so that the dish acquires a complete taste. We leave our masterpiece for 10 minutes to thicken the sauce. Before you start tasting, mix all the layers of the dish. Now you can confidently exclaim “Belissimo!”

Beef liver in sour cream

If finding a common language with your liver is not an easy task, then learning how to wield beef is not difficult. A maximum of an hour of effort, and yummy is ready!

What do you need:

Beef liver - 1 kg;

Onion - a couple of things;

Sour cream 15-20% fat - 300 grams;

Garlic - 2 cloves;

Greens - a small bunch;

Green onions - a couple of branches;

Vegetable oil;

Salt pepper.

How to cook. We wash the liver and cut into small cubes. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Finely chop the greens. Now fry the onion in a frying pan with vegetable oil until golden brown. We spread the chopped liver on it. Cover with a lid, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Then mix and leave for another 15 minutes so that the liver gives juice.

If you are tired of dumplings and Chinese noodles, it's time to put on an apron and stand at the kitchen table. Moreover, we have collected dishes for you that are as simple as possible to prepare. And yet very tasty.

Vegetable stew from improvised products

Any vegetable will go into the stew. Photo: pixabay.com

This dish is not only tasty, but also healthy. The good news is that you can put almost any vegetable in it.

What you need:

You can put anything you find in the fridge into the stew.

It's better that they be:

• Large onion - 1 pc.
• medium carrot - 1 pc.
• beets - 1 pc.
• potatoes - 7 pcs.
• small zucchini - 1 pc.
• tomatoes - 3 pcs.
• bell pepper - 1 pc.

How to cook:

Heat a large frying pan, pour sunflower oil on the bottom, throw onions and carrots. Saute until the onion is translucent and the carrots are soft.

Then sequentially add beets, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, potatoes to the pan. Let each new ingredient sit for a few minutes before adding the next one. Remember to salt and pepper the dish, and also stir it and pour a small amount of water into the vegetables so that they do not burn.

When the potatoes are soft, remove the pan from the heat. Ragout can be eaten as an independent dish, or used as a side dish for a piece of meat, for example.

First and second of the chicken

You can make two dishes from one chicken at once. Photo: pixabay.com

Buying a whole chicken from the store, you can kill two birds with one stone and forget about cooking for a few days. Because we will teach you how to cook both soup and main dish from it at the same time.

What you need:

• Whole gutted chicken - 1 pc.
• carrots - 1 pc.
• bulb - 1 pc.
• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• milk - glass
• eggs - a dozen
• pasta - half a pack

How to cook:

Wash the chicken and boil it in a large saucepan (it will take about 30 minutes after the water boils). Put the finished carcass on a plate and let it cool. Never throw away the broth! This is the basis for our soup.

Now cut the chicken into small pieces. Put about a third of the meat back into the broth, throw the potatoes in the same place and put the pan on the stove. After boiling, let it boil for 5 minutes, salt to taste, throw half a pack of pasta into the boiling soup, as well as fry carrots and onions. Cook for another 8-10 minutes until the pasta is soft. Pepper. You can throw finely chopped greens - dill, parsley. The soup is ready.

Now it's time for the rest of the chicken. The meat should be put in a baking dish or in a frying pan without a handle. Using a fork, beat the eggs with milk (add a pinch of salt) and pour the chicken pieces with the resulting mixture. Sprinkle chopped onion on top, salt, pepper and put in the oven to bake. As soon as the egg mixture hardens, the dish can be served.

spaghetti carbonara

Just 20 minutes - and a popular Italian dish on your table. Photo: pixabay.com

Despite the complicated name, this delicious Italian dish is prepared very quickly and simply.

What you need:

• Spaghetti - a pack of 500 g.
• cream from the store - pack of 250 g.
• bacon, brisket, loin or any other meat of your choice - 300 g
• hard cheese - 100 g.
• eggs - 2 pcs.

How to cook:

Cut the meat into small slices, fry them in a pan in vegetable oil. Ideally - olive, but the usual sunflower is also suitable. Set the pan aside. We put water on the stove in a saucepan and, when it boils, we pour spaghetti. Spaghetti cooking time should be indicated on the package itself.

While they are cooking, prepare the sauce. To do this, grate the cheese on a fine grater and mix it with eggs and cream.

Drain the water from the spaghetti, put them in a pan on the bacon, pour the sauce on top and put everything on the stove for just a couple of minutes, stirring.

The dish is ready.

Potato with bacon

Potatoes and meat are the perfect combination for real men. Photo: pixabay.com

The most simple and very satisfying man's dish.

What you need:

How to cook:

My potatoes, peel, cut into large slices. We put it in a saucepan, fill it with water and put it on fire. In the meantime, finely chop the onion and fry it on another stove in a frying pan in a small amount of vegetable oil. When it becomes transparent, add the bacon cut into slices to it, now fry everything together.

We check the potatoes, they should have been cooked by now. Drain the water from the pan, put our roasted potatoes on the potatoes and mix. Sprinkle finely chopped dill on top. Bacon potato is ready.

Dessert croutons

The basis of a delicious dessert is ordinary white bread. Photo: pixabay.com

“Necessity is cunning for inventions,” says the well-known proverb. Even if there is practically nothing in the refrigerator, you can prepare a delicious and satisfying dessert. There would be butter, tea, sugar and bread.

What you need:

• Butter or vegetable oil
• loaf or white bread
• cup of strong brewed tea
• sugar

How to cook:

Gradually add sugar to a cup of tea. They poured - stirred, added more - stirred again. You should have a fairly thick sugar syrup.

Now heat up the pan. You can use whatever oil you want. We're not at the dietitian's. Slice the bread. Dip slices of bread in tea syrup and fry until golden brown. A simple and surprisingly delicious dessert is ready.

weekly supply
Beef brisket - 3 kg
Carrots, onions - 1 each
Celery - 1 stalk
Beef broth (a cube is also suitable) - 1 l
Vinegar (balsamic or red wine) - 3 tbsp. l.
Worcestershire sauce - 1 tbsp. l.
Ground smoked chili - 1 tbsp. l.
Olive oil - 2 tbsp
Tabasco sauce, salt to taste
Thyme - a couple of sprigs
Laying the groundwork
Carrots, celery and onions must be cut into cubes, and then fried with oil in a frying pan over low heat and put the finished vegetables in a large deep baking pan. Rub the beef well with a mixture of salt and chili, sprinkle with thyme sprigs and put the meat on the fried vegetables in a bowl. Then you need to pour the brisket with vinegar, sauces and broth. Cover the dish tightly with foil on top, put it in an oven preheated to 130ºC and leave to bake for 4-5 hours.
Checking the meat
Once the time is up, very carefully remove the foil. The beef should look dark brown. Pierce the brisket with two forks to make sure it shreds easily. If the meat is tight, cover it again with foil and put it in the oven for half an hour. When it's ready, take it out and leave to cool.
We remove fat
If there is fat on the cooled meat, it must be removed and discarded. It is advisable to keep the beef in the liquid in which it was baked so that the meat does not dry out. Now you can safely remove the main ingredient of your diet in the refrigerator for the next 5 days and take out the meat in those cases when you are hungry and decide to eat normally, and not be interrupted by sandwiches.

Monday: quick dinner
Beef with curry sauce and fresh vegetable salad
Main Ingredients:
Ready-made brisket - 200 g (cut into large pieces)
Onion - 1 white and 0.5 red (finely chopped)
Potatoes - 3-4 jokes (cut into cubes)
Tomato, cucumber - 1 pc (cut into small cubes)
Chile - 1 pc, small (cut into thin strips)
Curry sauce - 2 tbsp. l.
Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
Lime - 1 piece (squeeze juice)
cilantro - a little (finely chopped)
Pepper, salt - to taste
How to cook:
1. Heat the frying pan over low heat, pour in the oil, fry the onion, add potatoes and curry sauce to it. Cook this mixture over low heat for 10 minutes. At the end, add beef, stir and leave on fire for another 5 minutes.
2. Pour chopped vegetables into a deep plate, pour lime juice on them, add salt, pepper and mix everything. At the end, put the salad on a plate near the meat mixture, sprinkle cilantro on top and you can start dinner.
Tuesday: squirrel hoard
Beef with cabbage in lavash
Main Ingredients:
Cooked brisket - 400 g (cut into small cubes)
Lavash - 4 pieces (preferably corn)
Red cabbage - a quarter of a medium head (chopped)
White cabbage - a quarter of a medium head (chopped)
Carrots - 1 piece (grate)
Gherkins - 4 pcs (cut into small cubes)
Celery - 4 tbsp. l. stems (cut into thin strips)
Olive oil - 2 tbsp
Wine vinegar - 2 tbsp. l. (preferably white)
Parsley, pepper and salt - to taste
How to cook:
1. Pour all the vegetables, parsley into a deep bowl, pour over them with oil and vinegar, sprinkle with pepper and salt, mix.
2. Pack beef, the resulting salad and pita bread in different lunch boxes, and you can safely take them to work. As soon as you get hungry, spread the meat with vegetables in pita bread, wrap it up and have lunch. And don't forget about your colleagues!
Wednesday: energetic day
Beef with spicy tomato sauce
Main Ingredients:
Finished brisket - 400 g (cut into large pieces)

Natural low-fat yogurt - 2 tbsp. l.
Ginger root - 2 tsp (grate on a fine grater)
Wine vinegar - 2 tbsp. l. (red)
Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
Garlic - 1 clove (crush)
Tabasco sauce - 1 tsp
Parsley - a handful (chopped)
How to cook:
1. Put the frying pan on a quiet fire, pour out the sugar and heat it until it acquires a golden hue. Add grated ginger. After half a minute, add tomatoes, tabasco, garlic and meat, simmer for 15 minutes. Then drizzle with vinegar. This dish goes well with any side dish.
2. The rest of the meat with the sauce can be removed in the refrigerator, and warmed up in the microwave in the morning. If you add a little yogurt to it, you will get an unusual but healthy breakfast that energizes you for the whole day.
Thursday: pre-workout reinforcement
Mexican sweet potato
Main Ingredients:
Ready-made brisket - 200 g (cut into small cubes)
Gherkins - 4 pieces (finely chopped)
Potatoes - 6-8 pieces
Yogurt - 2 tbsp. l. (natural and non-greasy)
Chili or pickled jalapenos - 4 pcs (finely chopped)
Parmesan or other cheese - half a glass (rub)
cilantro or watercress - a small handful
How to cook:
1. Potatoes must be baked in an oven preheated to 200ºC for 25 minutes, then cut each tuber lengthwise and cool.
2. Add the brisket to the potatoes, pour Parmesan on top and wrap in cling film.
3. Before going to the gym, warm the potatoes in the microwave, stuff them with all the other ingredients, and you can start eating - your endurance during training will increase significantly.
Friday: feed the muscles
Chile con carne
Main Ingredients:
The recipe indicates the proportions for three. So:
Ready-made brisket - 800 g (cut into small cubes)
Tomatoes in their own juice - 1 can
Beans - 1 bank
Beef broth - 1 l
Onion - 1 piece (finely chopped)
Sweet pepper - 2 pcs (finely chopped)
Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.
Tomato puree - 2 tbsp. l.
Black bitter chocolate - 5 cubes
Garlic - 4 cloves (crush)
Ground chili - a pinch
How to cook:
1. Heat the pan over medium heat, pour in the oil and fry the onion in it for 5 minutes. Then add pepper, ground chili and garlic, mix well and leave for another 3 minutes.
2. Now add meat to the pan. Fill it with broth mixed with tomatoes and tomato puree. Boil all this mixture, pour beans and chocolate into it, stir. Done, ready to serve!

How familiar is that, right? When you live alone, you don’t really want to cook for yourself, but you also need to eat right, health is still expensive.
We offer some simple recipes that can help you out and not only in a bachelor's life :)

Pizza in 5 minutes

Ingredients:
Tomatoes
onion
garlic
cheese
carrot
pepper
milk 1/2 cup
egg
flour
salt.

Cooking:
Finely chop all the vegetables, grate the cheese on a fine grater, fry in vegetable oil in a frying pan. Egg, milk, salt, a little soda, beat the flour, pour the fried. Close the lid, after 5 minutes you can serve, sprinkled with dill.

Pies in a hurry
Ingredients:
1 pack of cottage cheese (200 gr) mixed with 2 eggs
salt
soda to taste.

Cooking:
Add 2 tbsp. spoons with a hill of flour. Knead the dough and leave for about 0.5 hours.
During this time, prepare ANY filling.
Put the dough with a spoon into the flour, knead it a little and put the filling.
Fry in a pan.
Fast and tasty.

Ships (in haste)
Ingredients:
3-4 large fresh cucumbers,
400 gr. noodles,
50 gr. cheese,
2 tbsp canned corn
2 tablespoons chopped greens
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Cooking:
Take 3-4 fresh cucumbers, cut them into halves lengthwise and each half across into 3 parts. Remove grains.
Boil noodles in the form of spirals in salted water.
Pieces of sausage or fish (which can be found in the house) cut into strips. Grate the cheese. Place in cooked pasta. Add canned corn, chopped greens and mayonnaise. Mix all.
Instead of the removed seeds, fill the cucumbers with pasta with additives.

Chicken cutlets
Ingredients:
chicken meat - 100-125g
wheat loaf - 20-25g
chicken fat - 20g
egg - 1/4 part
garlic - 2-3 g
salt
ground pepper

Cooking:
Pass the meat through a meat grinder with a medium grate. Sharpen a loaf in boiled water, and then squeeze it out. Combine the meat with a loaf, crushed garlic, add 10 g of fat, mix and pass through a meat grinder with a fine grate. add raw beaten egg, salt, pepper to minced meat. To mix everything. Blind flat oval cutlets from the resulting mass and fry them on both sides in the remaining fat until almost cooked; then hold the cutlets under a closed lid in the same pan in the oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.

Onion and egg salad
Ingredients:
4-5 boiled eggs
4-5 small onions
1/2 cup vegetable marinade
1-2 tbsp. mayonnaise spoons,
salt and ground black pepper to taste

Cooking:
Boil hard-boiled eggs and cut them into circles. Pick up the onions so that the circles cut from them are about the same size as the egg ones. Cut the onion into thick circles and put in a deep bowl, pour over the marinade for vegetables, bring to a boil and cool quickly. Do not mix the onion if possible so that the onion rings remain intact. On a flat or oval dish, lay in a "tile", alternating among themselves circles of hard-boiled eggs and soft onion rings around the entire edge of the dish. In the middle, put a mixture of chopped onions and eggs, seasoned with mayonnaise, decorate with sprigs of greenery and put chamomile from the egg on top.

Vegetable salad with sausage
Ingredients:
200 g boiled sausage
50 g green peas
50 g salted or canned carrots
2 large canned cucumbers
150 g boiled cold potatoes
100-150 g mayonnaise
4 hard boiled eggs
salt
grated horseradish
ground pepper and herbs to taste

Cooking:
Cut vegetables into cubes, add green peas, salt and pepper to taste. Season with mayonnaise, adding grated horseradish to it, and mix. Peel the sausage, cut into circles and lay in a “tile” on a salad dish. Put a salad in the middle of the dish and decorate with an egg rosette. Along the edges of the dish, beautifully lay slices of boiled eggs, sprigs of parsley and winter dill.

Carrot salad with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
2-3 large young carrots
200 g fresh homemade cottage cheese,
2-4 st. spoons of fine sugar or powder,
1/2 cup light sour cream

Cooking:
Peel the carrots, rinse with cold water and grate on a coarse grater or chop with a shredder. Mix with non-acidic cottage cheese, season with sour cream and sugar, cool well.

Lunch in a hurry
Ingredients:
100-150 g boiled meat
30-40 g onion
50-60 g sour cream
salt
pepper to taste.

Cooking:
Large pieces of meat - the pulp of beef or lamb with a bone - pour cold water and cook shulpa. Once the meat is ready, remove it from the broth. The broth is used for the first course, and the second is prepared from the meat.
To do this, cut the chilled beef across the fibers with a thickness of 1-1.5 cm, and cut the lamb into portions with 2-3 bones. Salt and pepper the meat to taste and fry in a greased skillet. Then put in rows in a frying pan, place browned onions on top, pour sour cream and simmer for 8-10 minutes over low heat. Boiled potatoes can be served with meat. In the same way, you can cook dishes from chicken, duck, rabbit.

Quick Lasagna
Ingredients:
2 tbsp olive oil
2 courgettes zucchini
finely chopped
500 gr minced meat
550g store-bought bologna sauce
250 pack of ready-made lasagne sheets
cut in half
495g store-bought white sauce
50 gr grated Parmesan cheese.

Cooking:
Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the zucchini for 1-2 minutes.
Add minced meat, fry until brown, then add Bologna sauce, cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.
Preheat grill to medium heat.
Meanwhile, place the lasagne sheets in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave for 10 min.
Slightly warm the white sauce.
Take an oven dish measuring 30x20 cm. Place a layer of dough on the base, then a layer of half the sauce with meat and 1/3 of the white sauce. Then put another layer of dough, the remaining meat sauce and a third of the white. Cover with the remaining pastry sheets and pour over the white sauce.
Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and cook under a hot grill for 5-10 minutes until golden brown. For 4 servings. Calories: Per serving: 743 calories, 36 grams of fat. Cooking time: 5 min 40 min.

Cheese snacks
Ingredients:
350-400 gr. cheese
2 tbsp mixed greens
2-3 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
1 tomato
cut into small cubes
1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise,

Cooking:
Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Add mixed herbs to the cheese (parsley, dill, whatever you like), garlic cloves (finely chopped), 1 tomato, cut into small cubes, mayonnaise.
Spread the cheese mass on salted crackers, on black rye bread, which can be cut into shapes.
You can stuff the Bulgarian pepper with this cheese mass, put it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes. Then cut the stuffed pepper across into rings 1 cm thick. Arrange on a dish.
5) You can wrap the cheese cape in lettuce, like cabbage rolls.

Draniki (potato pancakes)
Ingredients:
4-5 large potatoes
1 st. a spoonful of flour
1 egg
salt
pepper to taste.

Cooking:
Take potatoes, peel and grate them on a fine grater.
Add flour, 1 egg, salt, pepper to taste to potatoes. Mix everything thoroughly. Spread the potato mass in a frying pan with a tablespoon and fry until golden brown on both sides. oil.
Serve hot, with sour cream.

Instant roast
Ingredients:
100 g meat
150 g potatoes
30 g onion
salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking:
This dish is prepared when guests suddenly arrive. Cut lamb or beef into pieces 1 cm thick and 3-4 cm long, put in a saucepan and cook until tender. Strain the broth. Make soup from the broth, and roast from the meat. To do this, salt the meat, sprinkle with pepper and fry on both sides in oil, and then lay it in an even layer in a pan. On top of the meat, put onions in half rings and sliced ​​\u200b\u200bin slices, potatoes, sprinkle with salt, pepper, pour the broth. Close the pan with a lid, put on fire and simmer until tender. After 30-35 minutes, hot roast is served on the table.

Potato casserole(hastily)
Ingredients:
1 kg of peeled potatoes,
1 onion
4-5 garlic cloves,
salt
pepper.

Cooking:
Cut peeled potatoes into thin slices. Blanch (cook in boiling water) 3-5 minutes. Take out and dry on a towel.
Finely chop the onion, finely chop the garlic, add everything to the potatoes, salt, pepper and season with grated nutmeg. Mix.
Lay potato slices in a heat-resistant form tightly to each other (in the form of roofing tiles).
Drizzle potatoes 2 tbsp. spoons of rast. oil and "plant" in the oven for 15-20 minutes. The casserole is ready when the surface of the potato slices is browned.

garlic croutons
Ingredients:
3-4 garlic cloves
125 gr. softened butter and 2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped herbs
1 long white baguette (loaf),

Cooking:
Take the garlic and mash them, mix with softened butter and chopped herbs. 1 long white baguette (loaf), cut into slices. Brush the slices with herb butter, fold them back into a loaf shape, wrap in foil and bake for 15 minutes.

Enjoy your meal!