Cooking unusual dishes in nature. TOP-9 step-by-step recipes with photos on the grill, on the grill, on the fire. Subtleties and useful tips. Video recipes.
Grilled food has a special aroma. The main dish in nature is the widespread, everyone's favorite kebabs. But besides them, you can cook many different other tasty and unusual dishes on charcoal. For example, chicken, vegetables, sausages, sausages, fish, mushrooms, fruits, sandwiches, desserts … This review offers the most interesting and unusual recipes on the grill.
Secrets of cooking on the grill
- The brazier should have holes for air intake at the bottom.
- The distance between embers and food should be less than 15 cm.
- Open fire should not be allowed - wooden embers should smolder, but have a good heat.
- If "tongues" of flame appear on the coals, extinguish them with a spray of marinade residues or just water. Or sprinkle some salt on the flames, which is considered the best option. But do this in moderation so as not to completely extinguish the heat of the coals.
- Keep marinated food out of the refrigerator warm for half an hour so that the temperature is equalized and the food is evenly fried.
- Place marinated food on a wire rack or skewer, but do not place on the grill. Since the marinade flows down and falls on the coals, from which they will die out and the products will not brown well and will not cook well.
- It is better to turn dishes on the wire rack with tongs. The fork will pierce the product and juice will flow out.
- Do not turn over anything skewered or laid on the wire shelf before 2 minutes. Otherwise, a crust will not form, and juice will flow out through the puncture.
Charcoal trout
Red fish baked on the grill will decorate a festive and everyday table. Trout steaks are marinated for no longer than 20 minutes, and fried for no longer than 15 minutes. Therefore, a delicious and aromatic lunch or dinner will not cause any trouble.
See also how to grill baked sweet bell peppers.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 185 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 35 minutes
Ingredients:
- Trout - 2 steaks
- Fish sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Green onions - 2 feathers
- White balsamic vinegar - 1 tsp
- Dried basil - to taste
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Freshly ground black pepper - to taste
Cooking trout over charcoal:
- Wash the fish, pat dry with a paper towel and place in a bowl. If the fish is whole, gut it, rinse and cut into 3 cm thick pieces.
- Wash the tomatoes, dry them, cut into circles and put them on the fish.
- Finely chop the washed and dried green onions and place in a bowl with food.
- Pepper the products, sprinkle with chopped basil, sprinkle with fish sauce, balsamic vinegar and stir.
- Leave the trout to marinate for 20 minutes.
- Put the fish and tomatoes on a wire rack on hot coals.
- Cook the trout on charcoal for 10-15 minutes until golden brown, turning occasionally and pouring over the remaining marinade.
Lula kebab on the grill
According to the classic recipe, lula is made from minced lamb, but you can also use other varieties: beef, pork, chicken. Therefore, there are many varieties of this food. But the peculiarity of all kebab recipes: eggs and bread are not added to the minced meat.
Ingredients:
- Lamb (pulp) - 1 kg
- Chicken fat - 300 g
- Onions - 100 g
- Green onions - 100 g
- Greens - a bunch
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp
- Spices (any) - to taste
Cooking kebab on the grill:
- Rinse the lamb, dry it with a paper towel and pass it through the auger of a meat grinder with a large grid.
- Twist the fat tail fat through a meat grinder.
- Peel the onions and cut them into small cubes. Do not grind it in a meat grinder or blender, because a lot of juice will stand out.
- Finely chop the green onion.
- Combine all the products, salt and pepper, add spices and herbs.
- Knead and beat the minced meat well. This is an important point for Lula. To do this, collect the minced meat into a lump, pick it up, lift it up and forcefully throw it back into the bowl. Repeat this action for 10 minutes. Thanks to this process, the minced meat will lose its juice and become more plastic. Then put it in the refrigerator for an hour. So that during kneading the minced meat does not stick to your hands, moisten your palms in salted water.
- String the minced meat on skewers, pressing tightly against it, and forming sausages 3-4 cm wide and 15 cm long.
- Place the skewers over the coals when they are hot.
- Grill the kebab on the grill, turning it over so that it bakes evenly on all sides. It is prepared quickly, no longer than 12-15 minutes.
- Serve with adjika, pita bread and vegetables.
Shrimp on skewers
Many probably ate boiled or fried shrimp, and not all of those cooked on the grill have tasted. This is a delicious dish, but the main thing is very easy to prepare. The easiest way to grill shrimp is to sprinkle it with lemon juice, sprinkle it with coarse salt and grill it. This recipe offers a more interesting and unusual recipe.
Ingredients:
- Boiled-frozen king prawns - 1 kg
- Purple onion - 1 pc.
- Canned pineapples - 1 can
- Teriyaki sauce - 100 g
- Roasted sesame seeds - 1 tablespoon
Cooking shrimp on skewers:
- Combine teriyaki with sesame seeds.
- Cut canned pineapples into cubes.
- Pre-defrost the shrimp and peel off the shell, leaving the tails.
- On wooden skewers, alternately string shrimp and pineapple slices.
- Spread the sauce liberally over the food.
- Place the shrimps on a charcoal grill and keep them over the heat for 8-10 minutes until a crust forms.
Champignons on the grill
Baked mushrooms on the grill are an excellent side dish for potatoes cooked on skewers or in foil. They will also be a good snack in the form of an operative before a shish kebab.
Ingredients:
- Fresh champignons - 1 kg large
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - pinch or to taste
Cooking mushrooms on the grill:
- Rinse the mushrooms under running water and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Wash the lemon, dry it, cut it in two and squeeze out the juice.
- Pour lemon juice over the mushrooms, salt and pepper.
- Stir, cover and refrigerate for 5-6 hours.
- Place the champignons on skewers and fry over charcoal. They will lose their appearance a little, but inside they will turn out to be very juicy.
Potatoes on a skewer in foil
Everyone knows the taste of baked potatoes since childhood. Everyone in childhood ate it sitting by the fire, burning fingers, sprinkling with salt and getting dirty in ash! Today, you can make many dishes from potatoes in nature, for example, bake them in foil.
Ingredients:
- Potatoes - 5 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Lard - 150 g
- Butter - 150 g
- Worcester sauce - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Cooking potatoes in foil:
- Rinse the peeled potatoes well and cut into 1 cm rings. You can peel the tubers if you wish.
- Peel the onion and cut into rings.
- Cut the bacon into thin slices.
- Alternately string the products on the skewer: rings of potatoes, onions and slices of bacon.
- Cut thick food foil into squares of 50 × 50 cm and grease liberally with butter.
- Place a skewer with potatoes on a piece of foil.
- Season the kebab with salt and pepper, pour over the Worcester sauce and wrap tightly in foil.
- When the coals are ready, roast the potatoes on a skewer in foil and simmer for about 30-40 minutes to soften the tubers.
Charcoal eggplants and bell peppers
In addition to kebabs, vegetables are an excellent snack. Usually they are simply sliced and served fresh. But baked vegetables on charcoal will become very tasty and unusual.
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 2 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.
- Olive oil - 4 tablespoons
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Cooking eggplant and bell pepper on charcoal:
- Wash the eggplants, cut off the stalk and cut into long tongues of 5-7 mm.
- Peel the bell pepper from the seed box, cut off the partitions and cut into slices into 4-6 pieces, depending on the size.
- Combine olive oil, minced garlic cloves, freshly squeezed lemon juice, salt and black pepper in a deep bowl.
- Brush peppers and eggplants on both sides with the prepared mixture and place on a wire rack. Leave them on for 5-10 minutes on each side to bake well.
Shurpa at the stake
Rich meat soup with vegetables is a dish of oriental cuisine, it turns out to be especially tasty if it is cooked over a fire. Cooking a chowder is a time-consuming process, but if you are relaxing in nature all day long, then such a meal will warm and energize.
Ingredients:
- Lamb with bone - 1 kg
- Fat tail fat - 100 g
- Onions - 1 kg
- Potatoes - 1 kg
- Tomatoes - 500 g
- Carrots - 5 pcs.
- Bulgarian pepper - 5 pcs.
- Drinking water - 5.5 l
- Greens (parsley, basil, cilantro) - over a medium bunch
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Allspice peas - 5 pcs.
- Table vinegar - 250 ml
- Spices (cumin, barberry, ground coriander) - to taste
Cooking shurpa over the fire:
- Peel onions (500 g), cut into rings, salt, fill with water (500 ml) with vinegar, season with salt and sugar. Stir and marinate under a press for 1-2 hours.
- In a cauldron, melt the fat tail fat cut into large pieces.
- Cut the lamb into large pieces, fry in a cauldron with spices and remove from the fat for a while.
- In the remaining fat, sauté the coarsely chopped carrots with the remaining onions.
- Then return the lamb to the cauldron and add the coarsely chopped tomatoes and bell peppers. Simmer the food for 5 minutes.
- Pour water into the cauldron, boil, remove the foam, cover and simmer for about 2 hours.
- Add coarsely chopped potatoes and allspice peas 20 minutes before cooking. Season with salt, pepper and spices to taste.
- After this time, serve the shurpa cooked over the fire. To do this, pour the broth into one deep plate, sprinkle with finely chopped herbs and put the pickled onions. This must be done! Put meat and vegetables in another dish. Give each eater a plate so that he can add as much lamb with vegetables and broth as he wants.
Hamburger on the wire rack
Sandwiches with cutlet and vegetables - fast food. But cooked with your own hands, and even in nature, it has a completely different taste. In addition, making such sandwiches is quite simple. The amount of food can vary depending on how many hamburgers you want to make. In this recipe, the ingredients are for 5 people.
Ingredients:
- Hamburger buns - 5 pcs.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Processed cheese - 5 slices
- Lettuce leaves - 5 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 5 rings
- Cucumbers - 5 rings
- Mayonnaise - to taste for dressing
- Mustard - to taste for dressing
- Ground beef - 500 g
- Breadcrumbs - 100 g
- Hard cheese - 100 g
- Olive oil - for frying
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Black pepper - a large pinch
Grill hamburger:
- For minced beef, mince the beef with a medium wire rack.
- Peel the onion, chop finely and fry in a cauldron in olive oil until golden brown.
- Grate hard cheese.
- Combine all the ingredients, season with salt, pepper, stir and shape into round patties the size of buns. If you wish, make cutlets at home, freeze and bring with you to the picnic.
- Place patties on a BBQ wire rack and brown on both sides until golden brown.
- Cut the buns across and cut them down on the grill so that they do not get wet when they are filled with the filling.
- Collect the burger. To do this, put lettuce leaves on the bottom bun. They will prevent the bread from getting wet.
- Top the leaves with ketchup, mustard or tasteful mayonnaise and place the cutlet.
- Next, lay out a slice of processed cheese, cucumbers, tomatoes and cover with the second half of the roll on top.
Banana dessert on the wire rack
You can cook this dessert in two ways: in a peel and without. In the first case, the peel replaces the foil, and for the second, read in detail below to learn how to cook a peeled banana so that it does not stick to the grill.
Ingredients:
- Bananas - 2 pcs.
- Chocolate - 50 g
- Marshmallows - 50 g
- Cinnamon or coconut flakes to taste
Cooking banana dessert on the wire rack:
- Peel and slice the dense and firm bananas.
- Chop the chocolate into small pieces.
- Cut the marshmallows into medium pieces.
- Put chocolate with marshmallows on one half of a banana and sprinkle everything with cinnamon or coconut.
- Place the other half of the banana on top and wrap the treat in foil.
- Fry the banana dessert on the wire rack for 5-6 minutes.
