Garnish: how to make it tasty and original?


Typically, domestic problems with side dishes does not arise. Porridge - crumbly or gruel, potatoes - fried, steamed, whole and pieces, baked, mashed, vegetables - in the form of salad, just raw, marinated, pickled, fried, boiled. In general, everything your heart desires, and everything that they prefer pets.

The problems start when on the horizon showing guests. All is not satisfied. Everyone - their taste preferences. Adjust to each guest is simply unrealistic, otherwise the entire table will be piled hundreds tarelochek. You have to find a compromise.

Typically, this compromise is reflected in the boiled potatoes. Actually, really easy side dish. Fits almost any meat dish. Sausages and burgers, fried poultry, fish - but anything with sauce or without, with gravy and without it, everything can be eaten with boiled potatoes.

That's just my long experience shows this trend: first, peel potatoes ... long, hard, especially when the young potatoes (once had to scrape kartofelinki size a little larger fasolin), then varish, then in company with something to proudly bear meat dish to the table - all the admiration and gasps ... not eat! No, well on potato on each plate can be squeezed. And still is not eaten a lot of potatoes. At the same time, if done at the rate of 1 things to rights, it just is not enough. This really is a clever side dish.

A much better result is obtained if the same potatoes served in a puree. His eating is much more active, and, even better for the mistress - peeling potatoes have less. In addition, the puree is not required for a particular aesthetic appearance of potatoes, that is very relevant to the spring, when the old crop of potatoes is not enough, and until the new even to survive.

A good option for a side dish is steamed rice. The main thing is he has not been digested and sticky. Rice should be crumbly, so do not forget to rinse it before cooking with cold water very carefully. And, of course, be careful not to raspolzsya in the pan - either from too much water, either from a simple overexposure to heat.

A variety of vegetables, including trendy now mixed vegetables (Hawaiian, Mexican, etc.) - is served on an amateur. Not everyone will eat it. Moreover, the set of mixtures, and not at all pleased.

Buckwheat - is a traditional garnish for grilled pig. That's just not always possible to get this same pig to serve. Pork - is not it. Buckwheat is fed to the pig. Dairy. Pink. With crackling crust. With apple in its mouth. Boar on the holiday table in a modern apartment will look a bit out of place and with buckwheat inconsistency.

If you'd like to try to please all guests, or at least - to the majority. Erecting served "Volcano." This is - boiled cauliflower and mashed potatoes, which are laid on a dish in the form of a mountain (a small, alternating triangles). At the top of the mountain is hollow, which pours ketchup - the fiery magma. Downstairs - decor of greens and fried onions - wood. But meat can decorate as you like, right in the same dish or separately.

"Volcano" can be done from the other components. Rice with vegetables. Green peas and potatoes. Vegetable mixes - several sectors of the different mixtures. Options - set. This side dish is another plus - it is very decorative.


Bon Appetit!