9 meat dishes and more – what to fry in nature or a summer cottage if you are tired of barbecue?

Grilled steaks, baked potatoes, shurpa – but you never know the dishes that can be cooked over the fire while relaxing! Tired of kebabs? We will show you how to prepare a new dish in nature while taking a break from pork on skewers.

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Everything you need for a family picnic – check the list!

1. Shurpa

Delicious oriental dish, which is a rich meat soup. Fiction and “lick your fingers” if cooked over a fire.

So, let’s take …

• Fresh lamb – 1 kg (approx. – tenderloin, but also on the bone).
• A pound of fresh tomatoes (not “plastic”, but normal juicy tomatoes).
• Fat tail fat – 100 g.
• Carrots – 5 pcs and bell peppers – 5 pcs.
• A kilo of onions and the same amount of potatoes.
• 5 liters of water.
• Seasonings, salt, etc.
• Various greens (approx. – cilantro and / or basil, parsley, etc.).
• For the marinade, take half a liter of water and vinegar, as well as sugar and salt.

How to cook?

1. Pickle the onion. Cut half the onion into rings, add some salt, fill with marinade (mix vinegar with water, salt and sweeten to taste) and put under a press (a stone, a saucepan with water, or another heavy object at hand) for a couple of hours.
2. Melt the fat tail fat in a saucepan (preferably in a cauldron or other vessel with a thick bottom) and easily fry the mutton cut into large pieces on it, adding spices (coriander, barberry, cumin or something else to your taste).
3. How to fry – remove from the vessel and pour the chopped carrots and the rest of the onions into it.
4. Browned? Throw the lamb back to the onions and carrots, add the tomatoes and peppers, chopped into large pieces, and simmer all this beauty for 5 minutes.
5. Next, fill everything with water, completely cover with a lid and wait for about 2 hours. Do not forget to remove the foam when boiling and add peppercorns, prepared salt / spices and pre-cut potatoes 20 minutes before cooking.

Ready? We wait 20 minutes and pour into plates. Moreover, the broth is separately (sprinkled with herbs and flavored with pickled onions), and vegetables with meat – separately.

Everyone will put in the amount of vegetables and meat that he needs.

2. Hamburgers

If you have been relaxing in the country for a month now (between digging out weeds and painting fences), and you dream of your favorite hamburgers at night, you can make this dish yourself.

You may be surprised, but homemade burgers in nature are many times more delicious than those that are served in well-known fast food “canteens”.

We need:

• Sesame buns (large) for hamburgers – 5 pcs.
• Processed cheese (squares) – 5 slices.
• Homemade minced meat – half a kilo.
• Onions – 1-2 pcs.
• Garlic – a couple of cloves.
• 1 egg.
• Breadcrumbs.
• Green salad.
• A pair of juicy tomatoes.
• 100 g of hard cheese.
• Pickles from granny’s cellar.
• Ketchup and mayonnaise.

How to cook?

1. First – cutlets. Add salt and pepper to the minced meat, finely chopped and fried in olive / oil onions (2 pieces, you can use regular oil), finely grated hard cheese (it is fashionable to do without it), 50 g of bread crumbs and an egg. Mix, sculpt the cutlets according to the diameter of the buns and fry from 2 sides on the barbecue grill. Press down periodically with a spatula to keep the patties flat.
2. Cut the buns with sesame seeds across and dry a little on the grill.
3. Next, assemble the hamburger: pour mayonnaise or ketchup (to taste) on the bottom bun, then put a leaf of green (washed!) Salad, then 2-3 slices of pickled cucumber, then a cutlet, a square of processed cheese, a small circle of a large tomato, again ketchup / mayonnaise ( this is optional) or mustard. Then cover it all with sesame half buns and crush it deliciously.

What else can you cook for a picnic and take with you from home?

3. Lula kebab

For those who have tasted this dish only in the form of freezing from shops, it is highly recommended for cooking!

It is recommended to prepare minced meat in advance at home so that you do not waste time on this outdoors.

We buy:

• 1 kg of lamb pulp (other meat is possible, but according to the classic recipe – it is lamb).
• Green onion – 100 g.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Greenery.
• 300 g fat tail fat.
• Salt / pepper / spices.

How to cook?

1. We wash the meat and pass the pieces through a meat grinder (with a larger grill!).
2. Then we skip fat tail fat (approx. – separately!) In the amount of about 1/4 of the total amount of meat.
3. Chop the onion into small cubes and finely chop the green onion.
4. We combine and mix everything, salt, pepper, add crumbled greens there.
5. Next – we beat off the minced meat. Yes, don’t be surprised. The process is as follows: a lump of ready-made minced meat with an effort is thrown into a bowl. Then one more time. And further. And so – about 10 minutes until the maximum plasticity of the minced meat and loss of juice.
6. Been repelled? Put in the refrigerator for an hour.
7. Cooking kebabs: string the minced meat with sausages on skewers. The length of each kebab is about 15 cm on average, with a thickness of 3-4 cm. Then press this minced meat tightly against its skewer to form a dense sausage.
8. Fry on charcoal and serve with pita bread, fresh juicy vegetables, adjika.

4. Salmon steak

This dish for true gourmets is incredibly juicy and tasty. Ideal for white wine.

Cooking on the grill.

What to buy?

• Fresh salmon – 1 kg.
• Sauce: a can of sour cream, garlic and herbs.
• Marinade: lemon, olive oil and spices.

How to cook:

1. We cut the fish into steaks with a thickness of 3-4 cm.
2. Coat each piece with olive oil, then pour it with lemon juice, salt and pepper, sprinkle with spices if desired (for example, thyme, dill or basil – whichever is closer to you).
3. Leave to “soak” for 20 minutes.
4. We carefully and beautifully lay out our steaks on the wire rack, put lemon slices on top of the steaks and fry on charcoal, turning them regularly, for 20 minutes, until an appetizing golden crust appears.

Steak sauce we do it quickly and simply: chop the herbs, add the crushed garlic and mix everything with sour cream.

5. Shrimp on skewers

An exquisite and amazingly tasty dish for lovers of experiments in nature and just fans of shrimp.

So, we need:

• King prawns – about 1 kg.
• A jar of pineapples (canned food).
• Purple onion.
• Sea coarse salt (food!).
• For the sauce you will need: 6 garlic cloves, soy sauce – 8 tbsp / l, 4 teaspoons of grated ginger and 4 teaspoons of dry wine, a couple of tsp sesame oil.

How to cook?

1. Sauce first: crush the garlic, stir in soy sauce, sesame oil, wine and grated ginger.
2. Next, clean the shrimp and cut the pineapple into slices.
3. And now we string on wooden skewers in turn – shrimp, pineapple slice, etc.
4. Pour everything skewered with ready-made sauce generously and set over the coals for 8-10 minutes until golden brown. Do not forget to sprinkle the sauce on the shrimp while frying.

6. Stuffed pepper

Who said that stuffed peppers are good only at home in a cauldron? Feel free to write down the recipe – in nature you will like them even more!

Moreover, even without meat (you can serve them as a side dish with steaks or kebabs).

We will bake in foil and on coals.

We need:

• Bell peppers – 6 pcs.
• For stuffing: a can of sweet corn, 250 g of Parmesan, garlic – 3-4 cloves, fresh ground walnuts – 2-2.5 tbsp / l, basil – leaves, olive oil – 130 g.

How to cook:

1. Rub coarsely Parmesan (4/5 of the total), crush the garlic, mix them with basil, nuts and olive oil.
2. Clean a couple of peppers, cut into cubes and fry in olive oil until the pepper is soft, then add the mixture and corn. Fry for another 5 minutes.
3. Cut the remaining 4 peppers in half and clean (Roman – we make “boats”), put on the grill, glossy up and bake from the inside for 2-3 minutes.
4. Next, we turn our boats over, put the minced meat in them, sprinkle with the remnants of grated Parmesan and wait another 5-7 minutes.
5. Don’t forget to sprinkle with herbs!

7. Potato kebabs with bacon

A great idea to replace a kebab. Even children will love it!

It is prepared quickly (over charcoal), “rare” ingredients are not required.

So, let’s take from the refrigerator …

• 5-7 potatoes.
• Salt / pepper / spices.
• Bacon – 200-300 g.
• Cherry tomatoes.

How to cook?

1. We wash the potatoes with a brush (do not peel them!), Cut them in half, salt to taste and pepper as desired.
2. String on skewers, alternating with cherry tomatoes and bacon slices.
3. Cook by constantly scrolling for an even crust.

Important rules for a successful picnic

8. Carp in wine sauce

This dish is also cooked over charcoal (approx. – on the wire rack). The dish turns out to be surprisingly tasty and very juicy. Do not forget to serve white dry wine with carp!

As for the side dish, an omelet with herbs cooked in nature is perfect.

What do you need?

• 3-4 large (not the largest) fish.
• 1 lemon.
• Onions – 5 pcs.
• Salt and pepper.
• Flour.
• Dry white wine.

How to cook?

1. We clean the fish, gut and, of course, remove the gills (approx. – so that the fish does not taste bitter).
2. Cut the onion into rings.
3. Mix the juice of 1 lemon, cooked spices, salt with black pepper, white wine.
4. We spread a layer of onion rings on the bottom of the vessel (better than a saucepan), put the fish on top of it, pour the prepared marinade over it, cover with onion rings, then another layer of fish, again the marinade, then the onion and so on until all the products will fit. The top should also be topped with onions and sprinkled with marinade.
5. We leave for 2 hours – let it marinate!
6. Next, we take out the fish, roll it in flour, and also grease it with oil and lightly dust the grate itself with flour.
7. We fry the fish over coals, constantly turning it over.

9. Charcoal mushrooms

This dish can be used as a side dish for kebabs. Although in itself it goes very well.

You can also add cheese salad to your table.

What do you need?

• Fresh whole mushrooms – about 1 kg.
• Salt pepper.
• 1 lemon.

How to cook?

1. Thoroughly rinse the mushrooms and dry on a paper towel, fill with lemon juice, pepper and salt at your discretion, cover with a lid and hide for 5-6 hours in the refrigerator.
2. Then all that remains is to string the mushrooms on skewers and, of course, fry them on charcoal.
3. You can add bell pepper rings and, additionally, pickled onions to the skewer (this will be even juicier).

Of course, they will lose their appearance a little, but inside they will be very juicy and tender.

Bon appetit and great summer vacation!

What kind of dishes do you cook outdoors?

We’ll be very happy if you share your recipes in the comments below!