Snacks for a picnic in nature in summer are distinguished by exceptionally fresh and healthy products. Light and tender snacks that will not cause unnecessary discomfort.
This includes salads, cuts of vegetables and fruits, sandwiches. The variety of such simple dishes allows you to be creative in cooking.
I would like to note that for this type of snacks, only fresh products should be used, and cooked on the day of the picnic itself. If the dish is cooked for a long time, then in the evening. Indeed, in nature, many snacks have the ability to quickly deteriorate.
Food should be laid out in separate containers so that the products not only stay fresh longer, but also for ease of use.
The fresh air always wakes up your appetite, especially if you devote a lot of time to active games. Therefore, in order to always remain full, you need to carefully choose the dishes on your dinner table!
How to cook snacks for a picnic in nature in the summer - 16 varieties
A simple and very interesting salad that will decorate your "dining table" in the fresh air. Delicious, natural and healthy!
Ingredients:
- Red cabbage - 250 g
- Red pepper - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Radish - 150-200 g
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Greens (dill, parsley, onion) - to taste
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Cooking:
1. Cut the cabbage into thin strips, put it in a separate bowl and pour boiling water over it.
After 30 seconds, drain the boiling water and fill with cold water. Squeeze out excess liquid.
2. Cut the apple into straws, initially peeled (the peel can not be removed).
3. Peel the inside of the pepper, cut into strips. Combine with apple and cabbage.
4. We clean the radish and rub it on a grater. It's much more convenient and faster.
5. Cut the greens. Mix all ingredients in one cup.
Salt and pepper if necessary.
Bon appetit!
At all times, a salad made from natural products has been an indispensable attribute of every table. In this case, it turns out an unusual and very tasty, and most importantly - a healthy snack!
Ingredients:
- Young zucchini - 300 g
- Carrots in Korean - 150 g
- Bulgarian pepper - 150 g
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Balsamic (wine or apple) vinegar - 2 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. if desired
Cooking:
1. Cut the zucchini into a thin strip.
2. We clean the bell pepper from the inside, cut it in any form convenient for you. Combine with zucchini.
3. Add carrots and a little vinegar to the common bowl. We mix. Season with vegetable oil if desired.
In order for the salad to become doubly tastier, it should be infused. Therefore, after playing badminton, an unusually tasty dish awaits you!
Bon appetit!
Where in the fresh air without meat snacks? In this case, small rolls of ham and cheese will save us! Fast and tasty.
Ingredients:
- ham - 300 g
- processed cheese - 200 g.
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.
- garlic - 2-3 cloves
- walnut - 100 g
- mayonnaise
- green onion - 100g.
Cooking:
1. Grate cheese and eggs (pre-cooked and peeled) on a fine grater.
2. Peel the nuts and chop finely.
3. Squeeze out the garlic.
4. Mix cheese, eggs, garlic and nuts, season with mayonnaise and mix everything thoroughly again.
5. Cut the ham into thin slices. Put a teaspoon of filling on the edge of a piece of ham. We turn everything into a roll and tie the onions or pierce them with a skewer (toothpick).
Bon appetit!
What makes this appetizer convenient is the speed of preparation and ease of use. The variety of possible ingredients makes this dish versatile, creative and indispensable!
Ingredients (for 20 pieces):
- hard cheese - 150-200 g
- fresh cucumber - 2-3 pcs.
- sausage - 20 pieces
- skewers (or toothpicks)
Cooking:
1. We wash and peel the cucumbers from the skin. We cut into circles.
2. In the same way we prepare sausage and cheese.
3. And, directly, we proceed to a creative activity: the formation of snacks. We plant cheese, cucumber and sausage. You can do this in any order convenient for you.
In addition to the main ingredients, the dish can be decorated with olives!
Bon appetit!
Original, tasty, satisfying and healthy! This is the motto of this salad, from which your family and friends will be delighted.
Ingredients:
- tomatoes - 3-4 pcs.
- cucumbers - 2 pcs.
- lettuce - 2-3 leaves
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- pitted olives - 1 can
- Feta cheese - 100 g
- olive or vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
- mustard - 0.5 teaspoon.
Cooking:
1. Cut cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes into large cubes.
2. Tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces, finely chop the greens.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the oil with mustard.
4. Put the vegetables on a plate, pour over the sauce.
5. The final stage - lay out the Feta cheese along with the olives.
Bon appetit!
Lavash roll - vegetable
Lavash dishes are now really universal and relevant. A wide variety of products can serve as a filling. So, by turning on your creative abilities, you can cook an original and tasty roll!
Ingredients:
- Lavash thin - 2 sheets
- Korean-style carrots - 150 g
- Fresh cucumbers - 3 pcs.
- Cheese - 150 g
- lettuce leaves - small bunch
- Mayonnaise - about 2 tbsp. spoons
- Dill greens - a small bunch
Cooking:
1. Rub the cheese on a fine grater. We do the same with the cucumber. Finely chop the dill.
2. Take one sheet of pita bread. We rub it with mayonnaise. We lay out cheese, dill and torn lettuce leaves around the entire perimeter.
3. We cover everything with a second sheet of pita bread.
4. We distribute carrots and cucumbers around the perimeter.
5. Roll up the salad, pressing the layers tightly. Seal in cling film and put in the fridge.
While you're packing for the picnic, the roll will soak and be ready to eat!
Bon appetit.
Where is a picnic without a taste of childhood? Of course, sausages in dough are an essential attribute of children's joy!
Ingredients:
- puff pastry - 1 kg
- sausages - 15 pcs.
- pickled cucumbers - 4-5 pcs.
- hard cheese.
Cooking:
1. Cut cucumbers and cheese into thin slices.
2. Defrost puff pastry, roll out and cut into long strips. Size is approximately 30x4 cm.
3. We clean the sausage and wrap it in a strip of dough, together with cucumber and cheese.
4. Put everything on a baking sheet. Brush with egg. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Bon appetit!
Amazingly tasty dish, and most importantly - simple and satisfying! Ideal when you need to quickly cook something hot and unusually traditional.
Ingredients for 6 servings:
- Minced meat - 300 g
- Lavash thin - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 120 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Water - 50 ml
- Pepper and salt (to taste)
Cooking:
1. Cut pita bread into squares.
2. Finely chop the onion. Combine minced meat, onion, salt and pepper. We add water. Mix everything thoroughly.
3. Beat the egg in a separate cup.
4. Take a piece of pita bread. On one half diagonally lay out the minced meat. Brush the other end with egg. Cover with the second half of the pita bread and press the edges with your fingers. It turns out a triangle.
5. In a preheated pan with vegetable oil, fry pita bread over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.
6. Put the cheburek on a paper towel so that all the excess oil is soaked.
Bon appetit!
It should be remembered that the result of cooking this dish will be not only delicious pasties, but also a dirty kitchen, because everything around the stove will be stained with grease. To avoid further procedures for thoroughly laundering your workplace, lazy pasties can be cooked on the grill!
Nothing replaces simple sandwiches like a snack in nature. But what better way to surprise the whole company with an ordinary dish!
Ingredients:
- Sandwich bun - 2 pcs.
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- White onion - 0.5 pcs.
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Canned tuna - 200 g
- Mayonnaise - 2 tbsp. l.
- Celery stalks - 3 pcs.
- Pepper and salt - 1 pinch
- Fresh dill - 0.5 bunch
Cooking:
1. Remove the tuna from the jar and knead with a fork into a homogeneous mass.
2. Finely chop the dill, onion and celery. We rub the lemon on a fine grater, the zest should turn out exactly 1 teaspoon.
3. Mix tuna with vegetables, add mayonnaise and mustard.
4. Add pepper, mix thoroughly.
5. Put lettuce leaves on bread, and then spread the main mass with a teaspoon.
Bon appetit!
A little gourmet fast food will only decorate your table! Original and tasty, and most importantly - satisfying.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Chicken breast (fillet) - 1 pc.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Cherry tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Baguette - 1 pc.
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Breadcrumbs - for breading
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Cooking:
1. Cut the chicken breast in a form convenient for you.
2. Break the egg (both the yolk and the protein) into a separate bowl. Salt.
3. First, wrap the breast in an egg, and then in a crumb crumb.
4. In a preheated frying pan, pour in the oil and fry the chicken nuggets.
5. Cut the baguette, tomatoes and cucumber.
6. We collect all the ingredients and pierce with a skewer or toothpick. The order can be any, but as a rule: bread, cucumber, nugget and tomato.
Bon appetit!
Do not know how to surprise family and friends, and even sushi lovers to boot? Healthy rolls made from fresh vegetables will satisfy even the most ardent connoisseurs of Japanese cuisine.
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Rice paper - 8 pcs
- Green onion - 100 gr
- Radishes - 100 gr
- Salad - 100 gr
- Parsley (greens) - 30 gr
- Olive oil - 50 ml
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 pcs
- Coriander - 2 gr
- Salt (to taste)
Cooking:
1. Take a sheet of rice paper and dip it in cold water for just one second. Next, put on a towel and cover with another sheet of paper on top. Cover all this with a towel and let it soften, it will take 2-3 minutes.
2. Finely chop the radish, lettuce. Wash and dry herbs.
3. Prepare the sauce: put half of the green onions and parsley, coriander, garlic into the blender, pour in the lemon juice and olive oil. Salt. It should make a thick sauce.
4. Let's start assembling the rolls. Gently place the lettuce, radish, onion and parsley on the soaked rice paper leaves.
5. Pour over the sauce, also carefully, it is better to do this with a spoon. We turn the roll.
6. Let it brew for 20-30 minutes and cut into small pieces.
Bon appetit!
One of the universal snacks is cheese. And if you submit it in an unusual and original form, you can leave friends and family impressed for a long time.
Ingredients for 6 servings:
- Hard cheese - 400 g
- Garlic - 1-2 cloves
- Mayonnaise - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
- Coconut flakes - 50 g
- Salt (to taste)
Cooking:
1. Grate cheese into a cup on a fine grater.
2. Squeeze out the previously peeled garlic.
3. Salt (to taste), add mayonnaise.
4. Mix thoroughly.
5. Take the filling with a teaspoon and roll it into a ball with your hands. Next, dip in coconut.
Leave in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
Bon appetit!
An original and quick snack with such sandwiches is guaranteed! Delicious, satisfying and healthy!
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Bread - 4 Slices
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Mayonnaise (to taste)
- Cucumber - 1 pc.
- Arugula - bunch
- Pepper and salt (to taste)
Cooking:
1. Boil the eggs. Clean and finely chop.
2. Lubricate slices of bread with mayonnaise.
3. Cut the cucumber into circles. We spread it on bread.
4. Tear the arugula into small pieces and put it in the next layer.
5. The last stage: put eggs on top of the greens.
6. Cover with a slice of bread and cut diagonally.
Bon appetit!
Delicate, original and amazing dish. Extremely tasty and unique! The best thing is to make an ordinary picnic a holiday!
Ingredients for 6 servings:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Mayonnaise - 50 g
- Salt and pepper (to taste)
- Sunflower oil - 3 tbsp. l
Cooking:
1. Cut the eggplant into strips, 0.5 cm thick.
2. Salt each piece and put in a cup for 15-20 minutes to get rid of excess juice.
3. After the time has elapsed, rinse and dip with a paper towel.
4. In a preheated pan, fry the eggplant on both sides until golden brown.
Take an eggplant and cut into strips, half a centimeter thick.
5. Cut the tomatoes into rings. We clean the garlic.
6. Put a slice of tomato and a little garlic in the center of the eggplant strip.
8. Carefully fold everything into a roll shape.
Bon appetit!
To avoid unnecessary unpleasant bitterness, it is necessary to sprinkle eggplant slices with salt and put under oppression (press down with something heavy) for half an hour. Drain the liquid and rinse the eggplant slices.
Salad "Fitness"
Fresh fruit salad - a guarantee of health and good mood! What else do you need outdoors?
Ingredients:
- Apples - 1-2 pcs
- Bananas - 1 pc.
- Nuts - 30 g
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Yogurt - 100-150 g
- Candied fruits (for decoration)
Cooking:
1. Wash, peel and cut the apples into “bars”.
2. Cut the bananas into cubes.
3. We clean the lemon from excess peel and films, cut it into small pieces.
4. Finely chop the nuts.
5. We combine all the ingredients and, adding yogurt, mix.
For decoration, you can add not only candied fruits, but also any other fruit.
Bon appetit!
An indispensable dish of our childhood - pies with onions and eggs. No family dinner is complete without them. In the fresh air, pies are perfect for a small but very tasty snack!
Ingredients:
For test:
- Egg - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
- Milk - 0.5 l
- Dry yeast - 1 pack
- Flour - about 1-1.2 kg
- Salt - ½ tsp
- Butter - 60 g
- Vegetable oil - 100 g
For filling:
Green onions - 3 large bunches
Boiled eggs - 8 pcs.
Cooking:
1. Beat eggs and sugar, add warm milk and mix thoroughly.
2. Dilute the yeast, add a glass of flour, mix. Cover with a towel and leave for half an hour.
3. Add butter (first heated), vegetable oil, salt to the dough. Pour in the rest of the flour. Remember that the dough should be soft and elastic.
4. Lubricate the cup with vegetable oil and put the dough there. In heat, it will insist about 1.5 hours.
Of course, in order to avoid such rather lengthy procedures, you can purchase ready-made yeast dough in advance.
Fresh air, friendly company and a fire - this is a typical picnic. The main dish on it, of course, is barbecue.
We offer you to diversify the menu. After all, you can cook a lot of delicious dishes on the coals. Soup, side dishes and even desserts!
Ready to write down recipes? Great! But first, let's repeat the materiel:
Shurpa
dnaumoid/Depositphotos.comThis is a dish of oriental cuisine, which has different but consonant names among different peoples: shurpa, chorba, shorpo, sorpa and others. But, whatever you call it, it's a rich meat soup with vegetables. It is especially delicious when cooked over a fire. The dish is time-consuming, but if you spend the whole day in nature, it will warm and energize.
Traditionally, shurpa is made from lamb (it is better to take fresh). But you can use beef or pork. Let's go back to the classics.
Ingredients:
1 kg of lamb (possible with a bone);
100 g fat tail fat;
1 kg of onion;
1 kg of potatoes;
500 g fresh tomatoes;
5 medium carrots;
5 medium bell peppers;
5 liters of water;
salt, peppercorns and other spices;
greens (parsley, basil, cilantro and so on).
For marinade:
500 ml of vinegar;
500 ml of water;
salt and sugar to taste.
Cooking
Let's pickle the onion first. Take half of the onion (500 g), cut it into rings, salt it and pour it with a mixture of water, vinegar, salt and sugar. Place under pressure and leave for 1-2 hours.
To prepare shurpa, you will need a cauldron or a pan with a thick bottom. Melt fat tail fat in it. Cut the lamb into large pieces and fry with spices (it can be cumin, barberry, ground coriander - to your taste). Remove the fried lamb from the cauldron for a while. On the remaining fat, fry the chopped carrots and the second half of the onion. Return the lamb to the cauldron. Add chopped tomatoes and bell peppers. Simmer the meat and vegetables for a few more minutes.
Then fill them with water, cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer for about two hours. When it boils, skim off the foam. At the end, add coarsely chopped potatoes and peppercorns. Salt and add spices to taste.
After another 20 minutes, you can pour the shurpa on plates. It is done like this. The broth is poured into one plate, and the meat and vegetables are put into another. Everyone will add as much lamb and vegetables as they want. Sprinkle the broth with finely chopped herbs and put pickled onions in it (required!).
Hamburgers
ehaurylik/Depositphotos.com Sandwiches with meatballs and vegetables are considered fast food. However, cooked with their own hands, and even in nature, they are completely different in taste. Plus, hamburgers are pretty easy to make.
Ingredients:
5 hamburger buns;
3 medium onions;
5 slices of processed cheese;
lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables;
mayonnaise, sauce or mustard to taste.
For cutlets:
500 g ground beef;
100 g breadcrumbs;
100 g of hard cheese;
2 medium onions;
salt and black pepper to taste;
olive oil;
Worcestershire sauce.
Cooking
The amount of ingredients depends on how many burgers you want to make. In this case, it is designed for five people.
First we prepare the minced meat. Pork will be too fatty for him, so it is better to use beef or turkey. Pass the meat through a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion and fry in olive oil until golden. Rub the cheese on a grater. Mix all the ingredients, salt, pepper, add a little Worcestershire sauce and form into patties. Attention! Cutlets should be proportionate to buns. Also in the middle of each of them you need to make a recess so that when frying they do not lose their shape.
It is more convenient to make cutlets at home, freeze and bring them with you to a picnic. But you can also mold on the spot. The main thing is to prepare minced meat in advance.
Carefully place the cutlets on the barbecue grill and fry on both sides. Cut the buns across and dry on the grill so that they do not soften when juicy cutlets lie on them. If desired, in addition to the cutlets, you can fry bacon.
renamarie/Depositphotos.com Let's start assembling the burger. Nothing limits your imagination here. Lots of options. For example, put lettuce leaves on the bottom bun (to prevent it from getting soggy), pour them with ketchup, mustard or mayonnaise (any sauce of your choice), put a cutlet, cheese on it. Next, fresh or pickled cucumbers, tomatoes and onions pickled at home. Top with the other half of the bun. Hamburger is ready!
Lula kebab
CNRN/Shutterstock.com Kebabs in the Caucasus and Central Asia are called fried meat dishes. There are many varieties of this dish. Lyulya is a minced meat kebab strung on skewers and fried on the grill. According to the classic recipe, lula is made from lamb, but you can use beef, pork, and even chicken. The peculiarity of minced meat for kebab is that eggs or bread are not added to it. Only meat, onions and spices. However, first things first.
Ingredients:
1 kg of lamb pulp;
300 g fat tail fat;
100 g of onions;
100 g green onions;
greenery;
salt, pepper and spices to taste.
Cooking
Minced meat for kebab can be prepared at home in advance. Then all that remains for you to do at the fire is to string it on skewers.
Rinse the lamb and pass through a meat grinder with a large grate. Skip the tail fat separately. It should be at least a quarter of the amount of meat. Onion cut into small cubes. You should not pass it through a meat grinder or grind it with a blender, as there will be too much juice. Finely chop the green onion too. Combine all these ingredients, salt, pepper and add spices and herbs to your taste.
An important point is kneading minced meat for lula. More precisely, it must be beaten off. To do this, collect the resulting minced meat in a lump and throw it into a bowl with force. Repeat the process for 10 minutes. With each blow, the minced meat will lose juice and become more plastic. So that during kneading it does not stick to your hands, moisten them in salted water. After that, remove the minced meat for an hour in the refrigerator.
When the coals get hot, the minced meat should be strung on skewers in the form of sausages 3–4 cm wide and about 15 cm long. Moisten your hands with water and, pressing the minced meat tightly against the skewer, form sausages on the skewer. Lula-kebab is fried quickly, and served with adjika or other sauce, pita bread and vegetables.
Salmon steak
indigolotos/Shutterstock.com Also, vegetables are baked on coals in foil. In this recipe, the “vessel” is bell pepper.
Ingredients:
6 bell peppers.
For filling:
130 ml of olive oil;
250 g parmesan;
2 tbsp. l. ground walnuts;
4 cloves of garlic;
a can of canned corn;
basil leaves.
Cooking
The amount of ingredients depends on how many people will be at the picnic. In this case, it is designed for eight people: four peppers, cut in half, will give us eight servings.
Part of the parmesan (200 g) rub on a coarse grater. Pass the garlic through a press. Combine olive oil, cheese, basil, nuts and garlic. Mix thoroughly.
Ingredients:
1 kg of potatoes.
For marinade:
olive oil;
lemon juice;
mustard;
garlic;
paprika;
thyme;
rosemary;
oregano;
parsley.
Cooking
All the ingredients for the marinade are taken by eye, it all depends on taste preferences. Potatoes are used whole. It must be washed and boiled in uniform. The main thing is not to overcook. Let the potatoes be damp inside - cook on the grill.
Send the potatoes to the marinade for 1-2 hours. Then put on skewers and grill over charcoal until crispy.
banana boats
tablespoon.com There are two versions of this simple recipe: peeled and unpeeled. In the first case, the peel replaces the foil. For more information on how to prepare an unpeeled banana for the grill, read and see. And we will tell you how to cook banana boats without a peel.
Ingredients:
bananas (according to the number of people);
marshmallow;
chocolate;
cinnamon or coconut to taste.
Cooking
Peel bananas and cut lengthwise. Chop the chocolate into small pieces; cut the marshmallows if they are large. Stuff the banana with chocolate and marshmallows, as shown in the photo.
You get something like a canoe. If you like cinnamon, sprinkle it on the fruit. Wrap the banana in foil and fry on the grill.
Gratetv.com After 5-6 minutes, it will be possible to remove from the grill, open the foil and, sprinkled with coconut flakes, enjoy the dessert. You can take more ice cream with you for a picnic and eat baked bananas with it.
orange cupcakes
cupcakeproject.com "Baking in nature" sounds like masochism. In fact, everything is very simple and aesthetically pleasing.
Ingredients:
4-5 oranges.
For test:
225 g sugar;
180 g flour;
160 ml whole milk;
60 g butter;
80 g sour cream;
2 chicken eggs;
1.5 tsp baking powder;
0.5 tsp salt;
1 st. l. vanilla extract;
sachet of vanilla sugar.
Cooking
Make dough and blanks for cupcakes at home.
For the dough, mix regular and vanilla sugar. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Beat eggs, sour cream and vanilla extract separately. Pour flour and sugar into the resulting mixture. Keep whisking. Add softened butter. Whisk. Then slowly add milk to the dough and continue beating at low speed. As a result, the dough will turn out not steep, but not liquid. You can also make the dough for any cupcake recipe you like.
Wash oranges and cut in half. Scoop out the flesh from each half with a spoon. Do not carefully clean the fruit, let the pulp remain on the walls of the peel. This completes the home cooking.
All that remains to be done in nature is to prepare the coals and arrange the oranges in foil nests, or you can use an old metal cupcake pan. Three-quarters fill each half with dough and send them to the coals.
cupcakeproject.com The speed of baking cupcakes depends on the heat. This usually takes about 10 minutes. You can check the readiness of cupcakes with a toothpick.
Serve cupcakes directly in orange cups.
Baked apples
magone/Depositphotos.com Another dessert option for a May picnic is baked apples.
Ingredients:
5 large apples;
5 tsp honey;
20 g cranberries;
5 walnuts;
cinnamon (optional).
Cooking
Wash the apples and remove the core with a knife. But not entirely - about half. In each apple, put one teaspoon of honey, one walnut (can be crushed) and a little bit of berries. If desired, you can add cinnamon.
Wrap each apple in foil and bake on the coals or on the grill until the fruit is soft.
You can serve with ice cream.
Grog
Sofia Andreevna/Shutterstock.com Of course, a picnic is not complete without drinks. Although May pleases with warmth, the weather is often capricious. Therefore, it is important that there is something warming.
Grog is an alcoholic drink invented by English sailors and named after Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog. It was he who came up with, in order to save money, to give the sailors not pure, but diluted rum. And so the grog recipe was born.
Ingredients:
water;
tea (brewing);
cognac;
rum.
Cooking
The amount of ingredients depends on the size of the pot and the company. First, brew strong tea, and then add cognac and rum to it in a ratio of 5 teaspoons of cognac and 5 tablespoons of rum to 1 liter of tea.
When the drink boils, pour it into mugs and enjoy the pleasant warmth.
Camping coffee
Pi-Lens/Shutterstock.com You can take a thermos with you, or you can cook a fragrant drink right on the fire.
Ingredients:
5 tsp instant coffee;
1 liter of water;
100 g of chocolate;
sugar to taste.
Cooking
Turkish coffee can be brewed on the coals. This requires a Turk and skill. An easier option is to make coffee right in a pot or kettle on a campfire.
Pour water into the pot, bring it to a boil and add coffee. After a couple of minutes, add the chopped chocolate. Make sure the drink doesn't run away.
When the chocolate has completely melted, pour the coffee into mugs. Sweetens each to taste.
We hope that we have inspired you to diversify the menu for the May picnic.
What do you cook outdoors? Let's discuss in the comments.
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
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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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Many of us like to celebrate significant events in life in nature: in a forest clearing, by a lake or river, near the sea on the sand. What could be better than to escape from the boring city bustle for at least a few hours, and preferably for the whole weekend. Whether it's a tent, a wooden house in the forest, a car as a place to sleep, a five-star apartment - for many there is no significant difference. The main thing here is to walk around barefoot, sing songs by the fire, chat with friends, swim in the river, and you never know the pleasures you get from the trip? But an important question: "What to cook in nature?" is also very relevant. After all, even for a one-day picnic you can’t take everything ready with you, especially if the trip is long and in the hot season. And even more so if a three-day communication with nature is supposed. In this material, we will try to dream up with you what to cook on the table in nature so that the holiday spent in the "field conditions" is a success.
Natural menu
As a rule, on purpose, when planning to go on a short forest vacation, the menu is rarely thought out so scrupulously. Usually they rely on intuition and Russian maybe. But you still need to imagine the main dishes and snacks, at least in order to take the right products with you and in the right amount. Therefore, it is useful to sketch out a rough list of dishes on a piece of paper. Usually, the list of what to cook for a holiday in nature may consist of one or two main dishes and several appetizers and salads. All kinds of sandwiches and their derivatives are well used: canapes, tarts, tartlets, sandwiches (we will talk about their great variety and quick ways to feed a whole crowd a little later). It is also worth considering drinks, especially if you are going to nature trips with children. But let's talk about everything in order.
Main dishes
You should think about what you can cook on in advance. The top of the most popular dishes, of course, includes dishes made on live fire, on the grill or other frying devices. But the variations of these dishes can be very different: barbecue, meat on the grill, barbecue, baked fish, kebab. Grilled vegetables and baked potatoes as a pioneer side dish are also popular among the people. In order to prepare all this, it is necessary to carry out some preliminary actions, without which the holiday will certainly be incomplete.
Preparatory work
- At a minimum, you will need a barbecue. Very popular today are simple small folding barbecues that are easy to install almost anywhere. Attention: when using the barbecue in the forest (and not only), you must follow the fire safety rules and keep small children away from the burning fire: this is fraught with the fact that your holiday may soon end unsuccessfully.
- You also need to take care of the wood and coal that you will use to start the fire. We should not hope that, they say, we are going to the forest anyway and there is always a lot of firewood. Firstly, there may be a lot of people like you, and natural firewood can simply be sorted out. And then you will spend a certain amount of time trying to find them all the same. And secondly, good fried meat can not be obtained on any firewood, keep this in mind. Therefore, we buy a couple of good bundles of firewood and, in addition to them, a bag (sold in many supermarkets or gas stations), especially if cooking is supposed to be for a large company. It is advisable to buy a bottle of quick-lighter, so as not to mess with all sorts of newspapers and forest needles and bark. No, there are, of course, fans of lighting a fire in a pioneering way, from improvised means, but believe me, meat on such a fire may turn out to be not entirely edible and not soft enough.
cooking barbecue
What to cook in nature if you are going to go there with a fairly large company? This popular and beloved dish is the first thing that comes to mind. Kebabs are distinguished by the choice of meat, additional ingredients and seasonings, the marinade in which the meat was soaked. Today we will try to cook a traditional pork skewers.
Choosing meat
This procedure, accordingly, must be done in advance. The choice of part of the carcass is up to you. Someone loves kebabs from the neck - they turn out to be fat and ruddy. Someone loves tenderloin (it turns out to be rather dry, but it is cooked, especially after soaking, for one, two or three). Some people prefer the back. Yes, and another tip on this topic: try to calculate the amount of raw materials with a margin. It will be embarrassing if there is not enough ready-made barbecue or if someone simply does not get yummy.
Soaking
Professionals say: the success of the barbecue directly depends on the marinade in which it was soaked. Therefore, this issue should be given more attention. Here are a few marinade options for a successful barbecue (tested in practice):
- The fastest and easiest way is in kefir. This is if the meat was bought immediately before the picnic and it needs to be soaked quickly. We take 1% kefir - such an amount that it completely covers the chopped meat in the pan. Add chopped onions and spices. Mix everything thoroughly and cover with a lid. In just a couple of hours, the meat will be successfully marinated.
- Meat soaked in light beer or dry white wine (sour) with the same spices and onions has a good taste. In the Caucasus, they even produce special ordinary wines for soaking barbecue. But in this case, the semi-finished product should be marinated for at least three or four hours, and preferably all night. Then the meat becomes very tender and cooks quickly enough.
- Mayonnaise, but not too greasy, will also work for the marinade. After pouring mayonnaise and adding spices with onions, you need to knead the meat thoroughly with your hands in a saucepan and only then set aside to marinate. And one more thing: it is recommended to add a couple of drops of vegetable oil to mayonnaise (preferably olive oil).
- French mustard marinade. You need to buy French (not spicy) mustard, add a spoonful of lemon juice, spices. Mix everything thoroughly with the meat.
- Some use mineral water with lemon juice and spices as a marinade.
Choose any marinade to your taste (on purpose, the Soviet version with the use of vinegar is not given here, since the meat still has a characteristic vinegar flavor from it).
The task of what to cook in nature is practically already solved. It's up to the small: fry the barbecue itself.
- Firewood or coals should burn well. Never cook over a blazing open fire: the meat will burn on top, but the inside will be damp.
- An ordinary spray gun helps to bring down the fire (as for ironing clothes). Some craftsmen constantly water the meat, thus creating, as it were, a steam bath over the fire. And the meat is very tender.
- Remember to constantly turn the skewers. This will brown the steak evenly on all sides.
- Readiness can be checked by cutting a piece of meat to the skewer. If there is no pinkish tint, then the kebab is ready.
Add-ons
Now let's talk about what to cook for a barbecue in nature. So, one of the main dishes is produced. But you won't eat naked barbecue. Appetizers, side dishes, salads rely on it. What to cook for a barbecue in nature? Let's try to offer several options without unnecessary frills - very simple in execution, just suitable for the category of rough food in nature:
Cooking at the stake
By the way, what to cook outdoors on a fire, so to speak, open, without the participation of such devices as a barbecue? Excellent options - Cossack kulesh, lagman, pilaf, fish soup. The latter option is more suitable for those who combine business with pleasure: when going out on a picnic, they also took a fishing rod with them. For all of the above dishes, you need to have a good and roomy cauldron (preferably with a tripod, on which it can be hung over a fire). For the rest, on the topic "What to cook for a picnic in nature?" recipes can be different (each has its own secrets).
Pilaf
For a real Uzbek pilaf, of course, you need lamb, but not everyone likes its characteristic flavor. In this case, you can cook on pork ribs - just delicious! By the way, instead of fat-tailed lamb fat, regular pork fat is perfect. So, let's start cooking:
- On a tripod we place a cauldron over it should be, but not strong. Pour a little vegetable oil into the cauldron.
- Put the fat in a bowl and melt it. We remove the greaves. Separate the ribs one by one and put them in a cauldron. Mix and fry until crusty.
- Peel a couple of onions and cut into half rings. Let's go to the meat. Fry.
- There - grated carrots and simmer it until softened. Then we fill it with water to cover the meat with vegetables, and simmer for another 30 minutes. Then we add salt.
- Rice, pre-soaked (it is better to take a long one, not sticky), put it in a cauldron. Fill with water. The ratio of water and rice is 2:1.
- Later, in the middle of the mass, we make a large hole to remove air and excess water. We cook for 20-30 minutes (until the rice is ready, but it can be different). Just before the final, we stick garlic cloves around the perimeter.
Such a delicious dish that smells of fire smoke is one of the best options for cooking outdoors (photo above). Pilaf is eaten hot, spread out in portions. You can sprinkle with fresh herbs as a useful decoration.
What to cook for a picnic in nature: snacks
Regarding snacks in the fresh air, one simple rule can be deduced: they should be simple and uncomplicated. Because, firstly, everyone wants to relax and talk, and not fool themselves with too complicated a performance. And secondly, nature itself disposes to simplicity and a minimum of sophistication.
What to cook for a picnic in nature? Snacks can be very different. The simplest thing that comes to mind is sliced smoked meats and cheese, decorated with vegetables. Everything is simple here. You need to take several types of smoked meat and lard, cheese, cucumbers with tomatoes with you to nature. Then we proceed as follows: we take a huge dish (so that it is enough for the whole company), cut all this stuff into thin slices and arrange it artistically in random order, decorating it with sprigs of dill and parsley.
Pickles are also one of the quickest and tastiest outdoor cooking options. Everyone's recipes are different. It can be rolled cucumbers or tomatoes, oriental eggplant with garlic and pepper, plums in a spicy sauce. We act quickly and simply: open the jars, put them in prepared containers, decorate with fresh herbs. You can make a mix of pickles: arrange cucumbers with tomatoes, for example, or make a salad of pickles by adding fresh onions and seasoning with vegetable oil.
Birthday
If you decide to spend your birthday in nature, what to cook? Photos and recipes for main dishes were presented above. They can be successfully used by everyone. But the most convenient and hassle-free option for this holiday, which usually has a lot of guests, is sandwiches, tartlets and canapes. What is their charm and significance for a picnic? On a small piece of hard bread or in a small basket, you can place almost anything. Yes, and preparing these dishes for one bite is quite simple and fast. As fillings, you can use cheese paste, ham, slightly salted fish, vegetables and even fruits. And most importantly, there are a lot of them! You can safely feed a whole large company with snacks.
So decide for yourself, if you are going to spend your birthday in nature, what to cook. Photos and recipes of these simple and delicious dishes will help you in cooking, but it is not forbidden to use your own imagination.
Menu for a picnic in nature for a birthday
A trip to nature is always a long-awaited event for residents of large and stuffy cities, and if there is also a significant reason for this, for example, the birthday of a friend or loved one, then there is no limit to joy.
In nature, each person relaxes, becomes more alive and mobile, and what is also very important, everyone in the fresh air wakes up a good appetite. This is what should be remembered by those who organize a birthday celebration in the form of a picnic.
It is very important to carefully consider the menu and take everything you need so that guests can enjoy freshly prepared dishes with pleasure. The organizers of the holiday can choose two options: either cook all the food at home and just take it with them in containers, or take a barbecue, prepare food and cook all the dishes in front of the guests. So the cooking process will be even more fun, and it may even become part of the entertainment program. But no matter how the food is prepared, it is important that it is convenient to eat it in nature, because often only a bedspread or tablecloth, laid out in a clearing, serves as a table. Here are some ideas for those looking for a birthday picnic menu:
Snacks
After the guests have arrived for the holiday, they should immediately be treated to something. And simple snacks are best for this. It is advisable to make them at home before leaving, because in nature it is not so easy to cut meat and vegetables beautifully. You can make meat, cheese or vegetable plates with various sauces. It is advisable to cut the meat nut, carbonate, smoked bacon and several types of sausage.
On another plate, you can put ordinary hard and soft cheese, pigtail cheese, as well as processed and curd cheese. Vegetable cuts should also be as diverse as possible. In addition to cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers, you can cut carrots and onion rings. Also, many people love greens, olives, beans, so you should stock up on these products.
In addition to bread and sandwich buns, take pita bread with you, and as soon as the grill is ready, prepare a delicious snack with tomatoes and cheese in a few minutes. In this way, guests will satisfy their hunger a little and will be able to wait for the main festive dishes. For more details, see the link on our website.
Salad with tomatoes and champignons
You can also make a salad as an appetizer. It is also better to cut it at home in advance. This salad is just right for standing for a while before being eaten. As an idea: it’s better to immediately spread the salad, for example, into plastic glasses with lids, then guests can easily eat it, and at the same time they won’t overturn anything or stain their clothes while they lay out the dish on disposable plates. In order to prepare such a salad with mushrooms and tomatoes, you will need:
- 400 grams of cherry tomatoes
- 200 grams of fresh champignons
- basil and green onion to taste
for refueling:
- four tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
- four tablespoons of olive oil
- ground pepper and salt to taste
- one and a half teaspoons of sugar
First you need to wash the tomatoes and greens, dry them on a napkin and cut them. Basil and onion are cut as small as possible, and tomatoes are cut in half. After that, you need to clean the mushrooms and cut them into several pieces along.
Then the filling is ready. To do this, vinegar is mixed with oil and spices. Then the tomatoes are mixed with herbs, mushrooms, poured with dressing and everything is mixed well. After that, the salad can be divided into portions and left in the refrigerator for at least three hours. You can make this dish before going out into nature and put glasses with salad in a cooler bag.
Main course
Not one trip to nature is complete without a barbecue, and meat cooked on fire - of course, becomes the highlight of any holiday. Everyone has their own recipe for a delicious barbecue, and the most important thing in this matter is to marinate the meat correctly. Moreover, it does not always take a lot of time, if you use, for example, mayonnaise, spices and kiwi, then it will take a little more than an hour for the meat to be ready for frying - and during this time you can just get to the place of celebration. It remains only to light the grill. Step-by-step photos of how, see the link on our website.
Wings on the fire
By the way, you can fry on fire not only pork, but also chicken wings. They are very tasty and crispy. By the way, you can also marinate chicken in mayonnaise sauce. Or make soy-honey sauce. To do this, add 2 tablespoons of honey and mustard to the soy sauce. If the honey has thickened, heat it up a little. Salt and seasonings to taste.
Mushrooms on the grill
As a side dish for meat dishes, you can bake vegetables, or, for example, champignons. By the way, the cooked ones are very similar in taste to meat, so this dish can be made when there are those who don’t eat meat as guests, or when there are a lot of people, and there is a chance that not everyone will eat barbecue.
The best companion of meat dishes, of course, is potatoes. It can also be baked on the grill, but it will be faster to feed the guests if you prepare this side dish in advance. At home, you can boil potatoes, drain the water, add butter, herbs, onions, close the pan, wrap it in paper, then wrap it tightly with a large towel and put it in the trunk. So the potatoes will retain their heat, and it can be served with freshly cooked kebabs. If you don’t like plain potatoes, then you can mash potatoes, or stew potatoes with vegetables.
Hamburgers
As an addition to all meals, or at the end of the holiday, when everyone is hungry again, you can make fresh cutlet sandwiches that can be served hot. Here is what it takes to make hamburgers in nature, for example, for five people:
- 5 cutlets: 500 grams of ground beef, one large onion, 100 grams of any hard cheese, 100 grams of breadcrumbs, olive oil, pepper and salt
- 5 buns
- bulb
- 5 slices of processed cheese
- leaf salad
- big tomato
- sauces to taste
First you need to make meatballs. You can form them at home on the eve of the holiday, then freeze them and take them to the place of celebration in a cooler bag. First you need to grate the cheese and finely chop the onion. Then the onion must be fried in olive oil, cool slightly and mixed with minced meat and grated cheese. You can salt, pepper, mix the mixture well, form cutlets and roll them in breadcrumbs. In the middle of each hamburger blank, you need to make a small indentation so that the patties do not lose their shape.
Ready cutlets must be fried on a wire rack on both sides until a dark crust appears. It remains only to cut the buns into two parts, dry them and lay out the lettuce leaves. Then you can put cutlets, pour your favorite sauce, add cheese, onion rings, tomatoes and close the hamburgers with the top of the buns.
Stuffed pepper
You can cook vegetables very tasty on a real fire, and it will be very convenient to eat stuffed halves of bell pepper. Here's what you need for this dish:
- six peppers
- 300 grams of parmesan
- four cloves of garlic
- 100 milliliters olive oil
- 50 grams chopped walnuts
- canned corn
- fresh basil
In this case, it is better to make the stuffing for peppers at home, and fill the vegetables and bake them in nature. First you need to grate the cheese. It is better to put aside 100 grams immediately in a container, as the cheese will be needed for sprinkling already stuffed peppers. After that, peel the garlic and finely chop the cloves. Then you need to mix the oil with garlic, walnuts and finely chopped basil leaves.
Then you need to remove all the seeds from the peppers and cut them in half lengthwise. Eight halves must also be sent to the container, and four cut into small cubes.
After that, we finish preparing the filling. Fry the chopped pepper until soft, add the resulting mixture of cheese and corn. After five minutes, remove the pan from the stove. The finished filling must be cooled and put in the refrigerator.
In nature, all that remains is to put the halves of the peppers on the grill, bake them for several minutes on the inside, then stuff them, sprinkle with cheese and put on the grill for some more time until the peel darkens and becomes soft.
banana boats
You can even cook dessert on the grill. Bananas are the best for this. A delicious treat can be arranged in the form of boats, this will require foil. Here are the required ingredients:
Lemonade
Of course, a picnic is not complete without alcohol, but refreshing drinks are also needed. And you don’t have to buy them, because you can make real delicious lemonade. For this you need:
- five lemons
- 800 grams of sugar
- one and a half liters of water
First you need to peel the lemons. Then the skin must be finely chopped, put in a deep container, covered with all the sugar and set aside for one hour. After that, you need to boil water, pour it into a container with lemon zest and wait about thirty minutes. At this time, you can squeeze the juice of all the lemons, strain it and, after the time has elapsed, add it to the water with the lemon peel. If desired, the peel can be immediately laid out, or you can leave and pour the lemonade into transparent bottles.
Here is one example of a birthday menu, which is celebrated in nature, but, of course, you should always proceed from the wishes of the birthday man himself and the taste preferences of the guests.
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