What to cook in nature, except kebabs

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Shrimp on skewers, marinated potatoes and even orange muffins - this and not only can be done on the grill. Are you drooling? Pull yourself together and read to the end!

Fresh air, friendly company and a fire - this is a typical picnic. The main dish on it is, of course, shashlik.

We invite you to diversify the menu. After all, you can cook many delicious dishes on charcoal. Soup, side dishes and even desserts!

Ready to jot down recipes? Fine! But first, let's repeat the materiel:

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Shurpa

This 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, this is a rich meat soup with vegetables. It turns out to be especially tasty if you cook it over a fire. The dish is time consuming, but if you spend the whole day in nature, it will warm you up and energize.

Traditionally, shurpa is made from mutton (it is better to take fresh). But you can use beef or pork. Let's turn to the classics.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of lamb (can be with bone);

• 100 g of fat tail fat;

• 1 kg of onions;

• 1 kg of potatoes;

• 500 g of 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 the marinade:

• 500 ml of vinegar;

• 500 ml of water;

• salt and sugar to taste.

Preparation

First, marinate the onion. Take half of the onion (500 g), cut into rings, salt and cover with a mixture of water, vinegar, salt and sugar. Place under a press and leave for 1-2 hours.

To prepare shurpa, you need a cauldron or a saucepan with a thick bottom. Melt the 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. In the remaining fat, fry the chopped carrots and the other half of the onion. Return the lamb to the cauldron. Add coarsely chopped tomatoes and bell peppers. Simmer 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. Finally add coarsely chopped potatoes and peppercorns. Season with salt and spices to taste.

After another 20 minutes, you can pour the shurpa into plates. This is how it is done. The broth is poured into one plate, and the meat and vegetables are placed in 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!).

Burgers

Cutlet and vegetable sandwiches are considered fast food. However, cooked with your own hands, and even in nature, they are completely different in taste. Plus, making hamburgers is pretty easy.

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 of ground beef;

• 100 g bread crumbs;

• 100 g of hard cheese;

• 2 medium onions;

• salt and black pepper to taste;

• olive oil;

• Worcester sauce.

Preparation

The number of ingredients depends on how many burgers you want to make. In this case, it is designed for five people.

First, prepare the minced meat. The pork will be too fat 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 brown. Grate the cheese. Combine all the ingredients, season with salt and pepper, add a little Worcester sauce and shape the patties. Attention! The cutlets should be in proportion to the buns. Also, in the middle of each of them you need to make a depression so that they do not lose their shape during frying.

It is more convenient to make cutlets at home, freeze and bring them with you to a picnic. But it can also be molded in place. The main thing is to prepare the minced meat in advance.

Place the patties neatly 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 the bacon.

Let's start assembling the burger. Nothing here limits your imagination. Options. For example, put lettuce leaves on the bottom bun (to prevent it from getting soaked), pour ketchup, mustard or mayonnaise on them (any sauce you like), put a cutlet, on it - cheese. Further, fresh or pickled cucumbers, tomatoes and onions pickled at home. Cover the top with the other half of the roll. The hamburger is ready!

Lula kebab

Kebabs in the Caucasus and Central Asia are called fried meat dishes. There are many varieties of this food. Lula is a minced meat kebab skewered 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 of fat tail fat;

• 100 g of onions;

• 100 g of green onions;

• greens;

• salt, pepper and spices to taste.

Preparation

Minced meat for kebab can be prepared at home in advance. Then all you have to do by the fire is to string it on skewers.

Rinse the lamb and pass it through a meat grinder with a large wire rack. Skip fat tail fat separately. It should be at least a quarter of the amount of meat. Cut the onion 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. Chop the green onion finely. Combine all these ingredients, salt, pepper and add spices and herbs to your taste.

An important point is kneading the minced meat for the lula. More precisely, it must be beaten off. To do this, collect the resulting minced meat in a lump and throw it with force into a bowl. Repeat the process for 10 minutes. With each blow, the minced meat will lose juice and become more plastic. To prevent it from sticking to your hands during kneading, soak them in salted water. After that, put the minced meat in the refrigerator for an hour.

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 to the skewer, shape the sausages on the skewer. Lula kebab is fried quickly, and served with adjika or other sauce, lavash and vegetables.

Salmon steak

Lifehacker has a whole recipe for grilled fish. Today we'll talk about how to fry a salmon steak. It is delicious and nutritious great for barbecue.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of salmon.

For the marinade:

• olive oil;

• lime or lemon;

• salt, pepper and other spices.

For the sauce:

• 200 g sour cream;

• 2 cloves of garlic;

• greens.

Preparation

If the fish is whole, then it must be gutted, washed and cut into pieces about 3 cm thick. Then grease each piece with olive oil, pour with lemon juice, salt, pepper and sprinkle with spices (thyme, dill and basil are good for salmon). Let stand for 20-30 minutes.

Then place the fish steaks on a wire rack. On top of each, you can place the remaining lemon slices. Grill salmon over charcoal for about 20 minutes until golden brown. Turn over constantly.

Serve the steaks with sour cream and garlic sauce. To cook it, chop the herbs, pass the garlic through a press and mix it all with sour cream.

Shrimp on skewers

Many of you have probably already made grilled shrimp. This is a very tasty dish, and most importantly, easy to prepare. The easiest option is to sprinkle the shrimp with lemon juice, sprinkle with coarse salt (preferably sea salt) and grill. We offer you a slightly more intricate, but unusually tasty recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of king prawns;

• 1 purple onion;

• a can of canned pineapples.

For the sauce:

• 100 g teriyaki sauce;

• 1 tbsp. l. roasted sesame seeds.

Preparation

While the fire burns out, prepare all the ingredients. Mix teriyaki with sesame seeds; cut pineapples if they are rings; peel the shrimp (you can leave the tails).

String shrimp and pineapple wedges alternately on wooden skewers. Then brush them generously with your sauce. Hold the shrimp over the heat for 8-10 minutes, until a crust forms. If desired, you can grease them periodically with sauce and during frying.

Stuffed pepper

Many in addition to barbecue grill vegetables. Most often they are simply cut, greased with vegetable oil, strung on skewers or put on a wire rack and simmered over coals. So you can cook any vegetables: tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, and so on. Lifehacker, for example, told,.

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;

• can of canned corn;

• basil leaves.

Preparation

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.

Rub part of the Parmesan (200 g) on a coarse grater. Pass the garlic through a press. Combine olive oil, cheese, basil, nuts and garlic. Mix thoroughly.

Cut two bell peppers into cubes and sauté in olive oil over medium heat. When the pepper is soft, add the corn and the mixture you prepared earlier. Cook for a few more minutes.

The filling should be done at home, it can be done on the eve of going out into the countryside (fry and refrigerate). Cut the remaining bell pepper across to make boats. Remove seeds. Place the peppers on a wire rack, cut side down and let sit on the grill for 2–5 minutes to bake from the inside. Then turn over, start and sprinkle with the remaining grated Parmesan (50 g). Grill on the wire rack for another 5 minutes.

Champignon

Mushrooms can also be an excellent side dish for meat. We offer you a simple but very tasty recipe - grilled champignons.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of fresh mushrooms;

• 1 lemon;

• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation

It is better to take champignons fresh, not yet opened. Before going to the forest or to the country, they need to be pickled. This is how it is done.

Rinse the mushrooms and pat dry with a paper towel. Then fill them with the juice of one lemon, salt and pepper to taste, cover and refrigerate for 5-6 hours.

At a picnic, skewer the mushrooms and grill them over charcoal. The mushrooms will lose their appearance a little, but inside they will turn out to be very juicy.

Potatoes in foil

Baked potatoes - a taste familiar from childhood. Who did not eat it, sitting by the fire and sprinkle it with salt, who did not burn their fingers and did not get dirty in the ash while cleaning it! But you can cook many dishes from potatoes in nature. For example, bake it in foil.

Ingredients

• 5 medium potatoes;

• 1 medium onion;

• 100 g of cheddar cheese;

• 150 g butter;

• 1 tbsp. l. Worcester sauce;

• parsley;

• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation

For this dish, you need thick food foil: squares measuring 50 × 50 cm. Grease each of them generously with butter.

Rinse the potatoes and cut them into thin slices. Peel the onion and cut into rings. Grate the cheese on a medium grater. Chop the greens. Put everything together, add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. All these procedures are best done at home.

When the coals are close, place the filling on the foil and wrap the edges so that the tasty doesn't run away. Simmer the dish over the heat for about 40 minutes, until the potatoes and onions are tender.

Potatoes on a skewer

This is an even easier way to cook potatoes for the May picnic. For those who love.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of potatoes.

For the marinade:

• olive oil;

• lemon juice;

• mustard;

• garlic;

• paprika;

• thyme;

• rosemary;

• oregano;

• parsley.

Preparation

All ingredients for the marinade are taken by eye, it all depends on taste preferences. Whole potatoes are used. It needs to be washed and boiled in a uniform. The main thing is not to digest. Let the potatoes be damp inside - cook on the grill.

Send the potatoes to the marinade for 1-2 hours. Then skewer and grill over charcoal until crusty.

Banana boats

There are two variations 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 grilling, read and watch. We'll show you how to make peeled banana boats.

Ingredients

• bananas (by number of people);

• marshmallows;

• chocolate;

• cinnamon or coconut to taste.

Preparation

Peel and slice the bananas. Chop the chocolate into small pieces; chop the marshmallows if they are large. Stuff the banana with chocolate and marshmallows, as shown in the photo.

It will look like a canoe. If you like cinnamon, sprinkle on the fruit. Wrap the banana in foil and fry on the wire rack.

After 5-6 minutes you can remove from the grill, open the foil and sprinkle with coconut, enjoy the dessert. You can take ice cream with you to a picnic and eat baked bananas with it.

Orange cupcakes

Baking in nature sounds like masochism. In fact, everything is very simple and aesthetically pleasing.

Ingredients

• 4-5 oranges.

For the test:

• 225 g of sugar;

• 180 g flour;

• 160 ml of whole milk;

• 60 g of butter;

• 80 g sour cream;

• 2 chicken eggs;

• 1, 5 tsp. baking powder;

• 0.5 tsp. salt;

• 1 tbsp. l. vanilla extract;

• a bag of vanilla sugar.

Preparation

Make the dough and cupcake blanks at home.

For the dough, combine sugar and vanilla sugar. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Whisk eggs, sour cream and vanilla extract separately. Pour flour and sugar into the mixture. Continue whisking. Add softened butter. Whisk. Then slowly add milk to the dough and continue whisking at low speed. As a result, the dough will not turn out steep, but not liquid either. You can also make any cupcake dough you like.

Wash the oranges and cut in half. Spoon the pulp out of each half with a spoon. Do not peel the fruit thoroughly, let the pulp remain on the walls of the crust. This is where the home cooking ends.

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 muffin pan. Fill three quarters of each half with dough and send them over the coals.

The speed at which the cupcakes are baked depends on the heat. This usually takes about 10 minutes. Use a toothpick to check if the cupcakes are ready.

Serve cupcakes directly in orange cups.

Baked apples

Another dessert option for the May picnic is baked apples.

Ingredients

• 5 large apples;

• 5 tsp. honey;

• 20 g of cranberries;

• 5 walnuts;

• cinnamon (optional).

Preparation

Wash the apples and remove the core with a knife. But not entirely - about half. Put one teaspoon of honey in each apple, one walnut (you can chop it) and a little bit of berries. Add cinnamon if desired.

Wrap each apple in foil and bake over charcoal or wire rack until the fruit is tender.

Serve with ice cream.

Grog

Of course, you can't go without drinks at a picnic. Although May pleases with warmth, the weather is often capricious. Therefore, it is important that there is something warming.

Grog is an alcoholic beverage invented by English sailors and named after Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog. It was he who invented, in order to save money, to give the sailors not pure, but diluted rum. The recipe for grog was born.

Ingredients

• water;

• tea (brewing);

• cognac;

• rum.

Preparation

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

You can take a thermos with you, or you can brew a fragrant drink right on the fire.

Ingredients

• 5 tsp. instant coffee;

• 1 liter of water;

• 100 g of chocolate;

• sugar to taste.

Preparation

You can brew Turkish coffee on coals. This requires a Turk and skill. An easier option is to make coffee directly in a pot or kettle over a fire.

Pour water into a pot, bring it to a boil and add coffee. Add the crumbled chocolate after a couple of minutes. Make sure the drink doesn't run away.

When the chocolate is completely dissolved, pour the coffee into the mugs. Everyone is sweet to taste.

We hope we've inspired you to diversify your May picnic menu.

What do you cook outdoors? We will discuss it in the comments.