It's time to pack your delicious sandwiches, salads and drinks and head out into nature for an unforgettable day outdoors with friends or family. We have prepared for you 10 simple and healthy recipes that will help you save time on cooking in order to spend it on entertainment and communication.

Snacks on skewers are perhaps the best idea for a picnic. Simple, fast and very tasty!

Ingredients

• Whole grilled bell peppers
• fresh basil leaves
• Bacon
• Mozzarella in balls
• Olive oil
• Ground black pepper

Cooking

Cut the grilled peppers into strips. Wrap the mozzarella balls in the basil, bacon, and pepper, then secure with a wooden skewer. Drizzle the finished appetizer with olive oil, season with salt and pepper.

Floyd Cardoz, chef at New York's North End Grill, suggests making a simple Asian salad by mixing fresh herbs and hot chili with crunchy cucumber and radish.

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

• Radish
• cucumbers
• Cherry tomatoes
• fresh basil
• fresh mint
• fresh cilantro
• Olive oil
• lime juice
• fish sauce
• Chopped chili pepper
• Ground black pepper

Cooking

In a large bowl, add and mix all ingredients. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

This salad combines the best summer foods with salty feta and zesty arugula.

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• Corn (boiled or canned)
• fresh arugula
• Tomatoes
• fresh oregano
• Olive oil
• Vinegar
• Ground black pepper

Cooking

Combine corn kernels, arugula, sliced ​​tomatoes, feta and oregano. Add olive oil and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking time: 20 minutes

The classic egg salad sandwich takes on a new flavor with a Greek yogurt dressing. Substitute Greek yogurt for mayonnaise to make your meal healthier without losing its flavor.

Ingredients

• Greek yogurt
• dried dill
• Ground black pepper
• Grilled baguette
• fresh arugula
• Tomatoes
• Avocado

Cooking

Boil the eggs and let them cool. Make the egg salad: In a large bowl, mash the eggs with a fork along with the Greek yogurt. Add dried dill, salt and pepper.

Arrange arugula, tomatoes, avocado and egg salad on half a baguette. Top with second half.

Grilled Zucchini in Lemon Garlic Sauce

Whatever the main course, we assure you, grilled zucchini with lemon garlic sauce will be a great addition.

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• A few cloves of garlic
• Italian herbs
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Ground black pepper
• zucchini
• fresh parsley

Cooking

Whisk olive oil, garlic, Italian herbs and lemon juice in a small bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Lubricate the sliced ​​zucchini with the resulting dressing. Place the zucchini on the grill and cook for 2 minutes on each side. Decorate the finished dish with parsley.

Grilled vegetables with balsamic and red wine dressing

No outdoor trip is complete without grilled vegetables. However, with a dressing of balsamic sauce and red wine, their taste will sparkle in a new way.

Ingredients

• Balsamic vinegar
• Red wine
• Fresh vegetables of your choice (e.g. tomatoes, carrots, radishes)
• Olive oil
• Pepper
• Thyme
• Asparagus

Cooking

Dressing: mix balsamic vinegar with red wine in a small saucepan and put it on the fire for 25 minutes.

Brush the chopped vegetables with olive oil, season with salt and pepper and grill them until golden brown. Carrots and radishes will take about 10 minutes, onions and asparagus about 5 minutes, and tomatoes 1-2 minutes per side. Put the prepared vegetables on a dish, add 2-3 tablespoons of dressing and season with thyme.

Everyone's favorite fresh and easy to prepare Greek salad in a new version, which is ideal for a lunch in nature.

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• Lemon juice
• Garlic
• Chopped fresh dill
• fresh parsley
• Sea salt
• Ground black pepper
• Olives
• Cherry tomatoes
• Cucumber

Cooking

Marinate the feta cheese: In a small bowl, combine the feta, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, dill and parsley. Season with salt and pepper, then whisk until the cheese has completely absorbed the marinade. Let stand 15 minutes.

Alternately thread a cube of marinated feta cheese, an olive, a cherry tomato and a cube of cucumber onto a skewer.

Grilled salmon in lavash

If you want to reduce the calorie content of the dish, replace the sour cream sauce with Greek yogurt.

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• whole grain lavash
• sour cream sauce with lemon and dill
• Arugula
• Grilled salmon
• cucumbers
• alfalfa sprouts

Cooking

Unfold the pita bread and evenly spread the sauce of sour cream, lemon juice and dill over it. Then, neatly arrange arugula leaves in a row, and sliced, grilled salmon on top. Add alfalfa sprouts and julienned fresh cucumbers.

Wrap the bottom of the pita so that it covers all the ingredients, and then start wrapping the pita from the side. For easy storage, you can cut the finished dish in half diagonally and wrap each half in parchment paper, foil, or plastic wrap. If desired, serve with some baked potatoes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• Apple vinegar
• Several spoons of honey
• Dijon mustard
• Chopped fresh dill
• Teaspoon of poppy
• Olive oil
• Ground black pepper
• White cabbage
• red cabbage
• Carrot

Cooking

Dressing: Mix apple cider vinegar with olive oil and add 2 teaspoons honey and 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard. Finely chop and mix the white cabbage, red cabbage and carrots. Add the resulting dressing to the salad, as well as salt and pepper to taste.

Rolls are very quick and easy to prepare, and also convenient to store, which is very important if you are going on a picnic. It only takes 10 minutes to make this hearty and healthy snack.

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 200 g pack of hummus
• Pita
• Carrot
• Lettuce leaf or arugula

Cooking

Spread hummus on pita bread. Slice carrots and place on top. Add a whole or chopped lettuce leaf, salt and pepper, and then roll up the pita bread. Ready!

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Before you start preparing snacks and barbecue at a winter picnic, you should take care of preparing a fire to heat your entire company, as well as arrange some kind of heating zone on the grill. After all, in the winter cold, hot dishes cool down just instantly. To do this, take a longer brazier with you and, at one end, make a barbecue or grilled goodies cooking area, and on the other side, put hot coals over which already cooked dishes will be heated. And so that your funny company not frozen, make a long fire: lay two long logs next to each other, on them - another one, and kindle them with brushwood or coal and a special liquid. This fire will burn for a long time. Now let's get to our menu.

Potato baked in foil. Camping version of baked potatoes with various fillers. Potatoes can be washed well with a brush or peeled. Make several cross cuts on each potato, not reaching the end, so that you get something like an accordion. Put any products that suit your taste into the cuts, salt, pepper, wrap in 1-2 layers of foil as tightly as possible and put on the grate over the fire. The baking time depends on the size of the potatoes and the degree of heating (at least 20-25 minutes). Filler options:

Bacon slices, onions

Thin scrap raw oily fish tiki, onion

Cheese, onion, bacon

Ham, onion, garlic

Smoked sausage, garlic

Appetizer of pita bread or pita with cheese. Another hot picnic appetizer, which is prepared from literally everything that was. Take thin Armenian lavash or pita buns, fill them with any filling and cheese grated on a fine grater, wrap in foil and bake on a wire rack for several minutes to melt the cheese. Cheese can be taken plain, solid, not sour taste, or opt for suluguni, for example. The fillings can also be anything - vegetables, greens, fish, seafood, meat, sausage, etc.

Peel large champignons, brush with vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Thread onto skewers and bake.

Prepare sandwiches: butter bread butter, put ham, sausage or baked meat, a slice of cheese and cover the whole structure with bread, smeared with butter. Lay 3-4 of these sandwiches in a row on foil, wrap and bake until the cheese is melted.

At all foil Perfect for a winter picnic. You can wrap and bake almost any dish in it. Before the trip, you can cook cutlets (and any - meat, fish or potato), fried fish or meat, boil dumplings or cook eggplant rolls. At a picnic, you just have to put the finished products on the foil, sprinkle with cheese, add herbs, spices or garlic to taste and wrap it tightly. And bake for a few minutes!

Another quick snack is waffle sandwiches. To prepare them, you need to buy ready-made waffles with a large pattern, spread them with minced meat or fish and fold in pairs. Cut into squares, dip in beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Fry in vegetable oil, and in nature, wrap a few pieces in foil and heat over a fire.

Prepare any toppings: mashed potatoes, cottage cheese mixed with herbs and garlic, minced meat or fish, cheese with ham, liver, egg with rice or green onions, boiled heart, cod liver with boiled rice - fantasize! Moreover, the fillings can be different. Roll out the finished puff pastry into a very thin layer and cut it into strips 7-8 cm wide. Place a spoonful of filling on the end of each strip and fold the triangle, pressing the corner. Continue wrapping the ribbon in triangles to the end. Spread the finished triangles on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, brush with an egg, loosened with 1 tbsp. water and place in the freezer for 10 minutes. Then place the baking sheet in the hot oven and bake until golden brown.

Barbecue sauces are one of the main conditions for a great lunch in the fresh air. You can make several sauces, your guests will appreciate your efforts. Moreover, not only meat can be dipped in these divine sauces. Sausages or even plain toasted bread with sauce and in the fresh air - this is something incredible!

Ingredients:
1 stack ketchup,
1/3 stack. applesauce,
¼ stack. apple juice
¼ stack. apple cider vinegar
¼ stack. brown sugar
¼ stack. grated onion,
2 tsp ground black pepper,
¾ tsp garlic powder,
¾ tsp ground white pepper.

Cooking:
Mix all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer covered for 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
2 stack pitted cherries,
2 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp sherry or dry white wine
1 tbsp Sahara,
1 tbsp cold water
2 tsp starch,
1 tsp orange peel,
¾ tsp dijon mustard,
¼ tsp salt.

Cooking:
Combine cherries, juice, sugar, orange zest, mustard and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. In a separate bowl, combine the water and cornstarch and carefully pour into the simmering sauce, stirring constantly. Boil the sauce until thickened.

Ingredients:
1 ½ stack ready mustard,
½ stack apple cider vinegar
½ cup brown sugar
1 tbsp tomato paste,
1 tbsp salt,
1 tsp ground black pepper,
1 tsp red ground pepper,
1 tsp white ground pepper.

Cooking:
Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 30 minutes over low heat.

Ingredients:
2 stack finely chopped champignons,
1 cup beef broth
¼ stack of whiskey
3 tbsp butter,
2 tbsp flour,
½ bunch of green onions
1 tbsp parsley greens,
1 garlic clove
1 tsp hot sauce.

Cooking:
Rub the saucepan with a clove of garlic. Melt 2 tablespoons in it. butter, add flour, mix and gradually add the broth, stirring constantly so that no lumps form. Add parsley, boil and set aside. Fry mushrooms and finely chopped onion in the remaining butter until soft, add whiskey, spicy sauce and flour broth. Boil over low heat for a few minutes. This sauce is good for chicken.

Place a bag of large frozen shrimp in a large frying pan on the grate over a fire or barbecue, and let the liquid melt, draining it. As soon as all the ice has melted, pour vegetable oil over the shrimp, salt, add spices or just pour soy sauce and fry.

On skewers or skewers, you can cook not only a classic barbecue, but also simply fry sausages or sausages. Makes a great snack while waiting for the main course. If you don’t feel like messing around with skewers, buy special grills: the products on them are fried evenly and do not turn over at the most inopportune moment.
And, of course, the classics of any trip to nature - barbecue. It is easy to calculate the amount of meat for a trip to nature - 0.5 kg per eater. The fresh air whets your appetite! Our site offers you to cook barbecued pork, chicken or fish steaks on the grill.

Cut the meat into portions, salt, add spices to taste. Onion cut into rings. Lay the meat in the pan in layers, alternating with onions and pouring each layer with vodka. Let marinate for half an hour. Grill the skewers until golden brown. Vodka curdles the meat protein, so you should not keep the meat on fire for a long time, just brown the kebab over a good fire.

Ingredients:
1.2 kg chicken fillet,
1 tbsp sesame oil,
6 garlic cloves,
40 g fresh ginger root,
200 ml classic soy sauce
a piece of fresh hot pepper,
12 tablespoons sesame seeds.

Cooking:
cut into chicken fillet small cubes. Marinate the meat in a mixture of sesame oil, chopped ginger, hot peppers and garlic for an hour. Thread onto wooden skewers, wrap ends in foil to prevent burning, and fry on a wire rack. Sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.

In the preparation of fish, one should adhere to the classic “three Ps”: Salt-Sour-Pepper. You can add a little spice to taste, but do not overdo it, otherwise you will clog the taste and aroma of the fish. So, take salmon or trout steaks (trout is a bit dry), pour over them with lemon juice, salt and sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper. Black pepper can be replaced with ground white pepper. Place on the rack and bake. Serve steaks with pomegranate sauce.

As for drinks, it is imperative to take a sufficient amount of clean drinking water, hot sweet tea (or tea leaves and a teapot, which is not a pity to smoke on a fire) and something intoxicating with you to nature. In addition to the usual vodka and other spirits, try making mulled wine or hot toddy. And you can do it at home and pour it into a thermos. You will get warm guaranteed, and your head will not hurt (provided, of course, that you will not drink it in liters).

Ingredients per serving:
120 ml apple juice
50 ml red wine
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 cloves,
1 piece of sugar
a pinch of ground cinnamon.

Cooking:
Combine apple and lemon juice with wine, add spices and heat to a temperature of 60-70°C. Strain the finished drink and serve in warm mugs.

Ingredients:
1 bottle of red wine
150 ml cognac,
100 ml of vodka,
100 g sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon,
½ tsp ground cloves,

3-4 peas of allspice.

Cooking:
Pour the wine into an enamel saucepan, add sugar, spices and heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Do not bring to a boil, a temperature of 50-60 ° C is enough, add cognac and vodka and heat again. Pour into a thermos and soak mulled wine for 1-2 hours. This mulled wine is good to prepare before going out into the countryside.

Ingredients:
1 bottle of red wine
1 orange
5-6 cloves,
3-4 black peppercorns
1 tsp honey,
a pinch of ground cinnamon,
a pinch of salt.

Cooking:
Cut the orange into circles with the peel. Pour wine over oranges and heat to 60°C. Add honey and spices, soak for 10 minutes, strain and serve.

Hot Toddy cocktails differ from mulled wine in composition and method of preparation. If mulled wine is prepared on the basis of red wine, heated with spices, then for Toddy all the ingredients are simply mixed in a mug. Before preparing Toddy, rinse the mugs with boiling water.

Ingredients per serving:
40 ml gin
12 ml lemon juice
60 ml boiling water,
1 tsp Sahara,
cinnamon stick.

Cooking:
Pour all ingredients into a mug, stir and serve garnished with a cinnamon stick.

Hot toddy with tea

Ingredients per serving:
30 ml whiskey,
1 tbsp honey,
¼ lemon
150 ml boiling water,
1 bag of black tea.

Cooking:
Put honey in a mug, pour whiskey over it, add lemon juice. Separately, brew tea and pour into a mug for alcohol. Mix and serve.

Ingredients per serving:
1 glass of hot water
1 tsp dry tea brew,
1-2 tsp honey,
1 tsp lemon juice
¼ cup whiskey (you can use brandy)
a pinch of ground nutmeg
1 cinnamon stick
a slice of lemon.

Cooking:
Brew tea in a glass of boiling water and let it brew for 3-4 minutes. Put honey in a mug, pour in lemon juice and whiskey, pour over tea and let stand for 2-3 minutes. When serving, sprinkle with nutmeg, put a cinnamon stick and a slice of lemon.

Happy weekend!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Summer is the time for vacations, rest and relaxation, a warm time when you can go to the sea, mountains or forests. If you do not have the opportunity right now to pack your suitcase and go to the resort, why not have a little picnic in nature leaving the city limits?

It is not surprising that the first picnics appeared during the time of the ancient Romans, and still exist. The European aristocracy loved to go on picnics and often combined them with hunting.

Residents of every big or small city probably know the places where you can take a break from the bustle of the city, cook delicious grilled dishes, take a walk in the forest or swim in a lake or river. If you are planning a picnic in nature, perhaps our helpful tips will help you.

Picnic in nature: what to take on a picnic?

Picnic fees - troublesome business. Who did not catch themselves thinking about taking everything they needed, and upon arrival at the place, found out that this important, it turns out, left at home. For example, many people forget such important things as matches, salt, knives.

In order not to get into a similar situation, make a habit of yourself every time before a trip or hike write a list of what to take with you especially focusing on the most important things. Referring to the list, neatly stack all things.

The list could be as follows:

- Knives(better a few and better if they are well sharpened in advance)

- Opener/corkscrew

- Cutting board(Better plastic and light, you can have several, if a lot of people, so that several people cut food)

- Dishes(usually for a picnic they use disposable or plastic utensils that do not break and are easy to transport)

- Forks / iron tongs / spatulas(Take at least one iron fork or tongs with you in order to turn some dishes during frying or check their doneness. It is more convenient to remove vegetables or meat from the grill with iron accessories, rather than plastic forks)

- Napkins and towels

- Brazier(Folding braziers are a handy invention that will help you cook food on the grill and will not pose a fire hazard like regular fires. It is much easier to place skewers and nets on the brazier than to look for any frying devices in the forest)

- Skewers, nets(Indispensable if you are grilling)

- Bedding, bedspread, pillow or rug(In summer, the ground usually warms up well, but it's better to play it safe and use extra bedding to keep warm)

- Disposable tablecloths or oilcloths(Convenient for placing dishes on them)

- Folding furniture(Useful if you don't like to sit on the ground)

- Garbage bags(Optional: you can put the garbage in the empty grocery bags)

- Matches/lighters

- Coals or firewood(Optional if you will not make a fire, and also if you go to the forest - dry firewood is usually enough there)

- Hatchet or saw(for chopping wood)

- Paper or means to light a fire more easily(With the help of old newspapers, it is much easier to light a fire in a fire)

- Jar of salt/pepper(These spices are indispensable, especially if you are grilling something or eating fresh vegetables. Salt is most often forgotten)

- Spray or ointment against mosquitoes and other insects(May come in handy in the evening when flying vampires are especially bloodthirsty)

- Sun protection(If you go to the forest, where there is enough shade, sunscreen, glasses, hats, umbrellas are not necessary, but on the banks of a river or lake, these things may come in handy)

- Mini first aid kit(Absolutely! Many people forget or do not want to take medicines with them, in particular, iodine and bandage, although in nature these things can come in handy. If you are driving, the driver usually has a first aid kit. Check its contents in advance and supplement if something is missing)

- Games(Think about how you will entertain yourself in nature in advance. If you take children, be sure to think about what to do with them, otherwise the children will seek their own adventures and may get into trouble. For example, take balls, toys, badminton or other accessories for outdoor games)

- technical water(Useful for washing hands if there is no nearby body of water)

- Soap, antibacterial liquid or wet wipes(Soap can be taken liquid in a small bottle)

- Warm clothes(Outside the city, where there is no asphalt and concrete, the temperature is usually somewhat lower than in the city, so warm clothes can come in handy, especially if you plan to stay on a picnic until late in the evening)

Picnic furniture

Picnic Furniture - a highly indispensable thing. You can sit right on the grass or sand on the bedspread and it is not necessary to take chairs and a table with you. Of course, it is much more convenient to sit at a small table.

First of all comes to mind folding furniture. When choosing it, remember three important things: it must be durable, easy to fold and unfold, and be comfortable to use. To do this, when buying, you should carefully check all fasteners, spread out the chairs, determine whether it is comfortable for you to sit on them. Here are some examples of picnic furniture:

Original set of picnic furniture: chairs and a table in one suitcase:

Ordinary folding chairs with an iron base and rag seats.

By the way, these folding chairs can be found with additional pockets for a bottle and personal items:

If you're lucky, you can find such a chair without legs, but with a comfortable back:

original idea- a table-suitcase built into the bike:

Instead of a chair, for example, you can use a hammock by strengthening it between the trees:

picnic utensils

An important detail for a picnic - dishes in which the products will be transported. They must not hesitate along the way, maintain a fresh look and smell. It is better to place each product in a separate small container - sausage, cheese, vegetables.

You can cook some meals at home, and then take them with you if kebabs in nature do not appear in your plans. To keep the product, on the contrary, warm, you can use ordinary foil or special thick foil containers.

If it is very hot outside, and it is far enough to go to the picnic place, you can build homemade fridge bag, shifting food containers with bottles of pre-frozen water.

Sandwiches with butter, sausage and cheese can easily go bad in the heat. They should not be wrapped in plastic bags, but in parchment paper and then foil. You can even find it in the supermarket special paper, which does not tend to be impregnated with fat.

Picnic utensils are usually chosen to be non-breakable and easy to transport. Ingenious invention - disposable tableware made of plastic or cardboard, which does not need to be washed, which does not break and does not take up much space.

As it turned out, not everyone loves such dishes, since they are quite fragile, quickly break in the hand, bend easily and does not allow you to keep a lot of things on a plate. Moreover, it can even melt if you keep something hot in it. Therefore, you can use hard plastic or even iron plates.

Useful little things for a picnic

We offer you some original picnic ideas that will make your vacation much more comfortable:

1. Refrigeration of beverage bottles at times a big problem in nature, but not where there are bodies of water. For example, you can use children's inflatable sleeves and ropes to keep the bottles in the water and not let them get hot:

2. Fruit basket from a cardboard plate. Don't want to bring bulky fruit bowls with you? You can make comfortable and roomy containers for fruits. Take one cardboard disposable plate, cut about 1 centimeter from the edge, and then draw a square in the central part with a pencil and a ruler.

Do four notches as shown, then lift the edges up and secure with paper clips. Seal the edges with double tape or glue to make a box. Glue colored tape around the perimeter so that the box holds and does not fall apart.

3. Afraid to keep food on the ground so as not to attract a large number of insects? Use umbrella hanging on a tree branch, in which you can put products:

4. Homemade picnic tent. A great idea for those who want to hide from the sun. In order to hang a light curtain, you can use a plastic circle and ropes or clothespins. Hang the circle on a tree branch, and attach the curtain to the circle.

5. Original idea to prepare portion boxes with products for each picnic participant, for example, if you go for a walk in the forest or on the beach. In order not to get food and share it on the spot, you can simply make such blanks like "rations":

6. Cup holder. Do not like to drink drinks from plastic disposable cups? You can take a small glass cup for a picnic and make such an unusual holder for it from thick wire and a wooden skewer:

7. Napkin for storing cutlery. This original thing can be sewn with your own hands from scraps of cotton fabric. For work you will need:

- A rectangular piece of material (several pieces of different colors are possible)

Lace

Satin ribbon

Scissors

pins

Sewing machine

- Threads

Let's get to work:

1) Finish a piece of fabric around the edge and fold three quarters as shown in the picture, this will be the envelope for your appliances.

2) Pre-sew to the top edge lace ribbon.

3) From one edge inside the envelope, sew satin ribbon folded in half.

4) Sew the edges on the sewing machine to get this envelope:

5) Attach to the envelope the devices that you are going to store in it and mark the borders so that you can do matching pockets.

6) Sew on a typewriter smooth vertical lines of pockets.

Your picnic napkin bag is ready! It can be tied into a roll.

8. So that your cover on which you will sit does not become damp from damp earth, lay an oilcloth under it. This is especially important if it has only recently rained and the earth and grass have not yet had time to dry.

9. To transport and carry glass bottles, you can wrap them in a kitchen towel like this:

10. To prevent insects from getting into your drinks, glasses can be cover like this:

11. Disposable packaging may not always be disposable. For example, egg packaging perfect for a picnic:

12. From an ordinary large sieve, you can make something like this tent from flies and other insects, which are enough in nature:

Picnic area: where to have a picnic?

A place for a picnic, of course, I want to choose cozy, clean, away from the highway, noise and bustle of the city. If possible, head out of town first to find such a place if you have nothing in mind. You can ask friends and acquaintances where they usually relax.

Sometimes within the city there are special places in parks and near lakes, where you can make barbecue and relax, but usually such places attract large crowds of people, and the noisy fun of the neighbors can be annoying. The best option would be to find your secluded place outside the city limits where you could visit more than once.

Residents of large cities often complain that everything good places for picnics have long been known so a lot of people want to go there. Then you will have to take a seat in advance (for example, arrive early in the morning).

You can have a picnic even within the city on the roof of your apartment building! If you do not have the opportunity to go out of town, why not go up to the roof? By the way, some lovers beach holiday even sunbathing on rooftops.

Picnic menu

No picnic does not do without food and drink: after all, you will spend more than one hour in nature, so about delicious menu, of course, it is worth taking care in advance. Find out in advance what each of the participants of the banquet prefers. If the company is large, agree on who will take with them, who will cook what dishes.

If you have little time to pack, you can of course take raw vegetables, greens, bread, cuts (sausage, cheese, cheese), and marinated meat from the shop. However, there are hundreds of recipes for wonderful dishes, partially cooked at home which will be perfectly absorbed in nature.

The most popular picnic dishes and products:

2) Grilled fish

3) Grilled vegetables and mushrooms

4) Fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits

5) Sandwiches

6) Cookies and pastries

8) Potato baked in a fire

9) Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks

Dishes for a picnic in nature

Many of you are most likely roasting at picnics exclusively kebabs or other meat dishes, however, there are many other delicious and healthy meals Grilled. For example, they are very tasty grilled vegetables. IN summer time these vegetables abound: zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, sweet peppers, and mushrooms.

You can take a little of these vegetables and fry the pieces of vegetables between the frying of the meat. Vegetables make a great side dish for barbecues.

Recipe:

Champignon mushrooms should be marinated beforehand. Take 0.5 kg of champignons, wash and dry them, place them in a regular plastic bag without holes (preferably in several bags), then pour in 1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup olive oil, add a little pepper to taste. Then tie the bag tightly and mix the contents well. Place in the refrigerator overnight.

sweet peppers place immediately after cooking in a plastic bag for 5 minutes so that the skin comes off easily. Tomatoes on the grill, they cook quickly enough, they can be cut into 2 halves, or put whole over the coals. After cooking, they acquire a rich sweet taste.

You can put vegetables on the grill, or you can thread the pieces onto the skewers like barbecues. Also, sometimes vegetables, cut into pieces and oiled, are wrapped in foil in portions, then, as it were, baked over coals. The main thing here is to withstand the right amount of time so that everything is well baked. Don't worry if the vegetables are a little crunchy. If you like soft vegetables, keep them longer.

Potato often taken with them to bake in a fire, however, together with fatty meat, it may seem too heavy. It can be offered to cook for vegetarians who do not eat kebabs.

Also easy to grill fish, but for her it is advised to use a lattice. Especially tasty salmon, trout, sardines and other oily fish species. Before frying, the fish must be marinated: you can simply roll in spices for fish, salt, pepper. The coals for frying should have a white coating, and the heat should not be as strong as for meat, since the tender meat of the fish cooks very quickly. Typically, 2 cm thick fillets are cooked for about 5-6 minutes on each side.

Picnic snacks

sandwiches- Another indispensable dish for those cases when you go on a picnic, not intending to fry a barbecue there. However, sandwiches can be useful and for those waiting for grilled meat, since this is a very long business: after all, you need to prepare everything, collect firewood, light a fire, wait until the firewood turns into coals, and only then fry the meat.

In order not to die of hunger while waiting, you can take with you pre-made sandwiches or make them on the spot.

An interesting recipe is offered for big company. Such a sandwich can be prepared at home, and just cut at a picnic. It is convenient to transport it.

Recipe:

For this wonderful sandwich you will need: A loaf of bread (preferably round and tall), favorite toppings for sandwiches (sausage, cheese, mayonnaise or pesto to taste, green salad, tomatoes, cucumbers, boiled chicken meat or turkey meat).

Cut off the top of the bread roll and scoop out all the flesh, leaving just a crust.

Then start layering your ingredients, smearing them with sauces.

When the bun is filled to the top, cover with the top. Your puff picnic sandwich is ready!

By the way, sandwiches will be especially tasty if you grill bread right over the fire. Before cooking the meat, place a few slices of bread on the grate and fry them until crispy:

You can also try filling sandwiches stuffed with cheese, vegetables, meat, and only then bake them over the coals. You will make a great hot sandwich:

Picnic sandwiches can be made in the form canape, cutting a large sandwich into small portions and stabbing them with toothpicks. To do this, you can take a long French loaf, cut it in half, and then stuff it with your favorite ingredients. Cover with the top layer and cut into pieces.

Prick each piece with toothpicks or skewers so that they do not fall apart and place in a suitable dish.

If you would not like to make the usual sausage and cheese sandwiches, you can use other useful recipes. For example, this unusual sandwich can be made with avocado:

Recipe:

You will need: French long loaf of bread, boiled chicken breast pieces, ripe avocado, onion rings (pickled or fried), pesto, arugula, soft goat cheese.

Cut the loaf lengthwise into two rugs, grease the bottom with cheese and lay all the ingredients on it in layers. Then cover with the top of the loaf.

Cut into serving pieces.

Great sandwiches can be made in the form of lavash rolls. All ingredients can be prepared at home, wrapped in pita bread, and then slightly heated on the grill before serving.

But such rolls will turn out tastier. with grilled vegetables.

Recipe:

You will need: Raw chicken breast, soy sauce, a couple of spoons of honey, eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, bell peppers, salt, pepper.

Cut the chicken breast into pieces about 1 centimeter thick, pour in soy sauce, honey, salt, pepper and leave to marinate for 15 minutes. Cut the vegetables into thin rings (0.5 centimeters). Fry everything on a grate, greased with vegetable oil, over the coals until golden brown. Put everything on pita bread and wrap it in a roll.

Ready rolls again put on the grill for a couple of minutes and fry on both sides. You can add fresh herbs and sauce to the roll.

Picnic Games

1. Water paintball. In nature, you usually want to play active funny Games. If beach volleyball or badminton are already tired, you can come up with something more original, for example, water paintball.

This game is similar to regular paintball, but instead of expensive paint guns, it is enough to take simple water pistols. Unlike ordinary paintball, where you can end up with serious bruises, water paintball is completely safe and can be played with children.

The rules are simple: you can split into several teams, and then try to hit your opponents with a jet of water. The team whose members are the least "wet" wins.

2. funny football. Playing football, it turns out, can be a lot of fun, for example, if you pair up the players and tie one of the player's legs to the leg of a partner. Then play like normal football, except for the presence of a goalkeeper, which will not be needed, since scoring goals will be quite difficult anyway.

3. Pantomime. A very popular game for parties and picnics, which is also called the Crocodile game. The more people play, the more interesting. Split into 2 teams. One team selects one person to show pantomimes, the other team comes up with a word that the first participant must show using gestures and facial expressions without using speech and sounds. His team guesses the word. Then the teams change. The team that guesses the words the fastest wins.

Snacks with an alluring smell, crackling coals of a barbecue, smoke from barbecues - sometimes a picnic is better than a meal in an expensive restaurant. But how to diversify the menu for a picnic if simple sausages fried on a fire are bored? First of all, food in nature should satisfy the appetite. It should be convenient to eat and transport, the less utensils spent, the better. Here are the generic recipes.

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Cold snacks

Cold appetizers are easy to prepare, which is why they are in high demand during the picnic season. The difference in the complexity of the recipes allows you to cook outdoors for a birthday party for a large company, as well as for yourself if you got out to the nearest park. Consider the most common ideas for cooking outside the home.

The combination of the first fruits that come to hand does not guarantee you a pleasant taste of the finished dish. These have good taste and will attract children to cooking. For cooking, you will need two types of grapes, strawberries and small marshmallows. String fruit, alternating colors as you like, and add marshmallows at both ends.

This appetizer is perfect for meat lovers. But prepare yourself for its preparation at home: grate the cheese and peeled boiled eggs, finely crush the nuts and crush the garlic cloves. Mix all products with mayonnaise to get the filling of mini-rolls. On the ham, cut into slices, lay out a teaspoon of the filling. Roll up the pieces of meat and tie them with green onions. For reliability, you can stab each roll with a toothpick, like.

These canapes are suitable for people on a vegetarian diet. You need to plant a cube of cheese on a skewer, followed by a slice of cherry tomatoes, champignon and a piece of bell pepper. For greater brightness, you can use two types of tomatoes and peppers: yellow and red.

This recipe is perfect if you have extra grilled chicken left over. Cut the pita into two halves, hollow inside.

Prepare vegetables: any will do, but traditionally use fresh cucumber, bell pepper and lettuce. All this must be cut: cucumbers - in circles, peppers - in strips, and finely chop the lettuce.

Mix vegetables and chicken, carefully spoon into pita. You can make a sauce using unsweetened yogurt, curry, table salt, and crushed peppers. It is only necessary to combine all the products and knead until smooth.

For this recipe, you need salami sausages, olives, sweet peppers (it is advised to roast them on a fire in advance) and marinated artichokes. Italian canapes are easy to make. It is enough to alternately string pepper, a thin piece of sausage, olive and artichoke on sticks.

Sandwiches with herring

Sandwiches with soft curd cheese are easy to prepare both at home and outdoors. Needed: 10-12 slices of black bread, one lightly salted herring, 150 grams of curd cheese, as well as herbs and salt to taste. Even at home, cut the fish (remove the head, tail, fins and internal organs), rinse the greens.

Mix cottage cheese and dill in advance, salt or add a little ground pepper. Then put a teaspoon of the mixture on slices of bread, and on top - a slice of herring. Decorate the dish with onions and pierce each sandwich with a skewer for better preservation.

Snacks with lavash

When you are on a picnic in the summer, and the barbecue is already grilled on the coals, time almost stops. To diversify the expectation, make one of their light but hearty snacks based on everyone's favorite pita bread. There is a whole collection of recipes suitable for out-of-town meals. Especially for you, we have prepared 7 of the best.

Create filling for pita bread in advance, bring it to a picnic in a container. To do this, simply grind 200 grams of suluguni cheese, mix it with melted butter and herbs. You can add some ground pepper.

Already at the picnic, spread the mixture over pita bread, wrap it in an envelope or roll. After greasing with oil, such an appetizer can be baked over a fire until a thin crust appears.

Chop the egg as finely as possible, and finely grate the cucumbers. How saltier cucumbers, the more piquant the taste of the finished roll will be. Lubricate the sheet with a dense layer of mayonnaise and let it soak. Spread pita bread with pate, not forgetting the dry edges. Sprinkle the pate with a chicken egg, and then put pickled cucumbers on it. Carefully cover the pita bread (the most convenient way is to make an envelope) and cut it into portions.

To prepare a warm snack, you need: a sheet of Armenian lavash, 75 grams of cream cheese or processed cheese, 300 grams of low-salted trout, cucumber and a little greenery to improve taste. Cut the skin off the cucumber and make thin strips out of it. Spread soft cheese on pita bread, put trout and cucumber on top. Sprinkle with herbs or spices as desired, and then send for baking on fire.

Use thin pita bread, spices and vegetable oil. Stir the salt, Provence herbs and oil in a small bowl. Pour the pita bread cut into triangles with this solution. Mix it well so that each piece is soaked in liquid.

Put the chips on the grid in one layer, dry on fire for about 6 minutes. If the chips are more than normal, lay them all on the grill at once. But don't forget to stir them.

Lavash is liked by people of all ages, and the simplicity of this dish makes it one of the most popular solutions for gatherings in nature. Small resources make it possible to make sausages in pita bread for companies of 20-40 people.

Tear off a piece from the pita bread and wrap the sausage in it, sprinkle the roll with seasonings and boldly bake on the fire. It is better to serve sausages with sauce; ketchup, mustard sauce and mayonnaise are successful.

Mix cottage cheese, crushed garlic and herbs. Spread the filling and circles of tomatoes on the pita bread. Wrap the dish in an envelope. Grill in a charcoal grill on both sides. Remember to turn over often so that the cheese does not stop being hard and the base of the cheese does not burn.

Grilled dishes

Time outside of civilization, both in spring and summer, quickly awakens the appetite. Therefore, do not think that just kebabs for a snack in nature will be enough for you. If there is meat left from the barbecue or the desire to cook on coals is still not gone, these recipes are for you.

To cook champignons on fire, choose large and opened mushrooms. Roast them right away or marinate them. For the marinade, you need to pour the champignons with lemon juice, sprinkle with salt and pepper, leave to marinate in a cool place for 5 hours.

Pierce marinated champignons in nature with chopsticks and fry on coals. After heat treatment appearance meals will be unsatisfactory. Yes, and champignons with a photo can sow doubts about their own edibility. But do not be afraid that something went wrong: the dark crust does not affect the taste properties.

First of all, prepare the sauce. Mix together 1.5 cups of pineapple juice, 1.5 tablespoons of starch, soy sauce, a little salt and sugar. Stir the sauce until the starch dissolves. Bring the sauce to a boil. All components of the kebab itself must be prepared in advance.

Cut the pineapple, pepper and onion, and cut the bacon into even strips. Take the leftover marinated chicken as well. For one skewer, take 4 pieces of chicken, 3 pineapple and 2 pieces of the rest of the products. Chicken and bacon should go last. Bake the kebabs when you spread the oil over them. They should be served with sauce.

Treat four ears of corn with any kind of oil for better frying. Turn the cobs often and keep them on the grill for 15-20 minutes. Or until the formation of a characteristic crust. Lubricate the finished corn with vegetable oil, chopped herbs (dill, basil) and salt.

Stir in minced garlic and spices. It is better to use red and black ground pepper, cumin, ginger and coriander, as well as 2 teaspoons of turmeric. Then cut cauliflower into identical vertical steaks 20 millimeters wide. Brush them with oil before frying. Grill the cauliflower steak for 5 to 8 minutes on each side.

Add red pepper, oregano and cumin to the minced garlic, stir well. Thread the seafood onto wooden skewers (but don't forget to soak them in water for half an hour). Brush the shrimp with oil and fry for 3 minutes on each side. Stir in sour cream, fine parsley, salt, lemon juice and zest. Fill pre-baked or store-bought tortillas with red and cabbage, two sauces, and sautéed shrimp.

There is an extensive list of barbecue cooking technologies in nature. Some are trite, while others are suitable for the holidays. It's nice to sit with a barbecue in nature for a birthday. But all cooking methods end with the same thing: roasting meat on skewers. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the primary processing of meat: pickling.

For pork

When making a marinade for one kilogram of pork meat, you will need: a glass of red wine, 2 small spoons of coriander, cinnamon and salt at your discretion. Mix warm alcohol with spices, pour into a container with meat and let it soak in the marinade in a cool place for 4-5 hours. It does not matter if not all the meat is immersed in the marinade, but in this case you will have to stir it;

For chicken

Marinade for chicken weighing 1 kilogram consists of 500 milliliters of light weak beer, 1 large spoon of salt, 2-3 cloves of garlic and small cumin seeds. Pour in the beer, don't forget to add the chopped garlic and seeds, butcher the chicken and dip in the marinade. Leave the dish covered with a lid in a warm place for 2 hours.

Lemon, 1 teaspoon of black pepper, 3 large spoons of mustard, rosemary and 1 cup of white wine are needed to create a marinade for 1.5 kilograms of lamb. All products must be thoroughly mixed and pour marinade over pieces of meat. Lamb must be marinated for at least 6 hours, as the meat is tough and does not respond well to the solution.

To prepare "baby skewers", cut 1 kilogram of pork meat into even pieces, salt, pepper and add onion half rings. Put the mixture in layers in a bowl, pouring kefir. Leave to marinate for 5-8 hours. The recipe has such a name because neither vinegar nor alcohol is used during pickling. Such a barbecue is absolutely harmless to children's digestion;

If you miss winter picnics, there is a solution. And this is barbecue in a jar. Put the prepared meat on sticks and lightly fry. At the bottom of a three-liter jar (check it for cracks in advance), put crushed garlic, pour up to 8 drops of liquid smoke. Set the skewers vertically, no more than 6 will fit into the jar. Cover the jar with a double layer of foil and place it on a baking sheet in the oven. You need to bake such a barbecue for at least an hour. When opening the oven, be careful: due to the temperature difference, the bank runs the risk of bursting. The meat cooked in this way is soft and fragrant.

As you can see, to arrange gatherings with a fire or barbecue in nature, you do not need a lot of resources and funds. But a picnic will give you incredible memories for many months to come.

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