What are you preparing for a side dish?

This is my problem. I don’t know what to cook for a side dish. Potatoes are already tired of all kinds. Pasta too. I hardly ever eat rice with buckwheat. They don't like vegetables either. I don't know what to do anymore. I want variety. Help me please.

And at some point I had this problem. Tired of alternating boiled potatoes with pasta. I found such a way out for my family - I cook rice and buckwheat with different fillings. For example, mushrooms, corn, fried onions, etc. Sometimes I cook rice as for pilaf (only without meat).
I also found an interesting recipe for cooking potatoes on the site 🔗... It is called "Accordion Potato": Raw peeled potatoes are cut 2/3 of the depth, bacon is placed in the pockets, sprinkled with spices and herbs on top. Each potato is wrapped in foil and in the oven. 180C for 45-55 minutes. Instead of (or with) bacon, you can use cheese. Or experiment with other ingredients. It turns out original and tasty

Well, for example, these options:
White cabbage or cauliflower - stew.
From rice, make risotto (or a la risotto) with various ingredients (I like onions / tomatoes / herbs / cheese).
Wheat porridge (Uvelka in bags).

Why I asked what the side dish was, I have several traditional combinations, for example:

- to the chicken fillet "Chinese salad" or "iceberg", it can be with curry sauce, it can be with mayonnaise, you can dry it ..

- fried chicken just with pita bread, no garnish

- frozen green peas, if there are questions with other vegetables, then they always eat it

- broccoli or cauliflower goes well with steamed fish, but not overcooked, but slightly stewed. You can mix frozen vegetables;

- for fried pork, soaked lingonberries or cranberries, it is possible with pickled vegetables;
- another oriental version: a lot of greens and cut the tomatoes into quarters;

about potatoes, rice (not only white, also brown) in different guises have already been written here, I join), yet for me a recent discovery - barley cooked in SV, and fried with cracklings, as an alternative to pasta.

- Lentils, also several different options for how to cook them.

And if without a side dish?
I often have no side dish. Even more often, fresh cucumber + fresh tomato + blue onion. Or some salad. Potatoes in all kinds. Pasta and cereals do not go For fans - sauerkraut (neat or with onions). I love carrots very much (unfortunately, I am the only one) - grate the carrots, in a frying pan with a drop of oil and hold on medium heat until semi-soft, salt, squeeze the garlic and pepper. Do they like onions? Stew-baked?

Oh thank you. Advise more, advise, I like everything.
A husband cannot moget without a side dish, there is no side dish - consider him hungry. Greens, tomatoes - the same trouble.
They don't like onions, in general.
Girls, don't ask me what they like, because I don't know myself. To be honest, they gored already. I love everything and will try to cook everything. And let them sit hungry.

Yes, indeed, the great "no side dish" thing. When it gets completely dull, I cook something that does not require a side dish. Casseroles, all kinds of dishes "in pots", spaghetti based on Italian motives, false hares, etc. I also remembered beans. It can also be baked in a pot with spices.

On some especially fastidious and voracious ones, they sometimes roll an option with mixtures - potatoes (boiled, mashed potatoes, baked) + vegetables or herbs, rice + vegetables (even corn from a jar), pasta + carrots (onions, slightly stewed tomatoes). The trick is to add more vegetables to your plate, and dilute pasta for voracious vegetable lovers
It's so good that I can get by with tomatoes and salads))))) "there is no side dish - consider yourself hungry" - this is not about us)))))

very tasty boiled beans (I love brown) fry and simmer with onions - an excellent dish!
you can also experiment with peas in the same way (chickpeas or whatever they call it ...)
millet porridge, crumbly, also fried with onions, very tasty!
vegetables, salads - this is all wonderful, of course, but men can't get enough of them, that's for sure! try to combine: there are pasta like large seashells. so if you boil them and then fill them with a salad (for men it is better to have something more satisfying, such as olvier), then a very interesting dish will turn out, it seems that I read the idea in a burda, well, sooooo long

Well, what are you all great. My husband cooked dinners for 8 years. And now I have to. I forgot everything so much that I have to learn everything anew. It was very embarrassing when it turned out that I do not know where we have pasta. The husband laughed for a long time.

[fugaska]

fugaska,
I just wanted to offer Boo Boo experiment with legumes, and you are ahead of me.
Boo Boo, in fact, what is not a side dish option! I cook for my own. I boil the beans (no matter which one) and mix them with frying (onions, carrots, bell peppers, spices can be used). Delicious both hot and cold!

that's for sure - when cold, such beans are also very tasty !!! and if you grind it then with butter in a blender, then the pate will turn out to be excellent, almost vegetarian!

[fugaska]

fugaska! Thank you very much for the idea with the pate! I somehow didn't think of it ...

Girls and even put mushrooms in these beans, it will be wonderful in general.

Chicken garnish:
Fry onions
add grated carrots, fry,
add red bell pepper, fry a little,
add a can of corn (you can drain the liquid, you can leave it),
pour in broth (about 0.5 tbsp.),
salt, pepper - to taste.
Put out everything for 10 minutes.
Tasty, bright, unusual. Good for boiled chicken.

Chicken garnish:

Super, sweet, for sure it will suit a turkey

[I hardly eat rice at all.]

This is my problem. I don’t know what to cook for a side dish. Potatoes are already tired of all kinds. Pasta too. I hardly eat rice at all. They don't like vegetables either. I don't know what to do anymore. I want variety. Help me please.

Try this. Even the notorious "rice-haters" eat this side dish with pleasure. Checked.

"Royal side dish".
If we bake something in the "sleeve"
Meat or poultry is all the same!
I offer you a royal side dish!
It is very tasty! I can say one thing!

Cook rice separately (but do not boil it!),
Three carrots and garlic on a fine grater.
Put hot vegetables in rice immediately,
And from the "sleeve" gravy (yes! All that juice!).

And green peas are also suitable here.
You, of course, should know about this too!
We open the jar, drain all the liquid,
And mix with rice (just do not mash!).

You can also chop paprika finely,
Throw the tomato (it won't bother us).
Warm up everything together, put it on a plate.
How many?! Well, let everyone decide for himself!

And we have recently been going with a bang Couscous. The main thing is that it is VERY quick to prepare it and it is easy to vary it with all kinds of vegetable additives. And it suits almost all types of meat and chicken.

And mine are very fond of vegetable stew.
Stew the cabbage. We make frying: onions, carrots, celery root, (grated), mushrooms, peas (I have frozen, but can also be canned), no peas, corn will do, but you can do both. In general, everything that is in the refrigerator is made of vegetables, everything is there. Mix with stewed cabbage. Salt, add your favorite spices, season with tomato paste and enjoy

I love green peas. Any - processed after freezing or simply from a can.

I don't really like meat with a side dish. I prefer greens (green salads, chopped cucumbers, tomatoes or all together, Greek, cabbage, carrots with radishes, etc.).So it is healthier and easier for the stomach ... But if you need to quickly (especially in the morning with an omelet or baked chicken), a can of green peas opens and a couple of tablespoons are poured onto a plate for everyone. Very picturesque and delicious.

And more ... Don't forget about polenta. Especially crispy polenta with rosemary or basil. Cook it in any way you like (corn grits in water with olive oil and salt), spread it on a 1 cm thick baking sheet, let it cool, cut into diamonds and fry in olive oil. Shine. Then I like to put salmon on it, as on bread. It goes with any product, as it has an almost neutral taste.

Polenta sounds beautiful, of course, but I propose to cook Moldovan hominy. Boil 1 liter of water in a cauldron, add salt (0.5-1 tsp), Pour in corn flour (400 gr). The consistency should turn out to be a thick semolina porridge. Pour in a small stream, stirring constantly. Part of the water can be replaced with milk, then the taste will be more delicate. Cook for about half an hour, stirring often at first, then every five minutes. The mass turns out to be thick, it can be compared with soft plasticine. Therefore, it is more convenient to stir at the end with a wooden rolling pin. Align the top and after five minutes, tip it onto a board or flat plate. We arm ourselves with a strong thread and cut into pieces. Very tasty with a variety of thick sauces, just melted butter and cheese, cracklings, garlic and other gravies. And if left the next day, fry in oil and get a crisp sandwich.

With a side dish, I have an eternal problem - my husband actually eats nothing for a side dish except potatoes, although he claims that he eats everything :) That's just porridge and pasta frowning And I'm already tired of eating potatoes every day, I love variety, but I had to reconcile. Can someone tell me interesting recipes for potatoes? And here is my last recipe: cut raw potatoes in a peel into 6 slices, mix with chopped garlic, Provencal herbs (or your favorite seasonings), vegetable oil, put on a baking sheet, skin side down, salt, pepper, sprinkle with chopped dill and in the oven - the first 10 minutes to the maximum, then reduce the heat and another 40-50 minutes. So that it is not dry, you need to pour a little water on a baking sheet.

I also want to share a side dish, though a little time consuming, but delicious.

1) Cut the cabbage into a thick-walled dish, put a piece of butter, salt, pour water not to the top of the cabbage, but less than 3 cm. Close the lid, simmer.

2) 2-3 st. l. fry flour until golden brown and put to cool.

3) When the cabbage is almost ready, fry the onion, add 2-3 tbsp. l. sour cream and the same amount of tomato paste, mix pepper, leave on low heat. Dilute flour with water to the consistency of liquid sour cream, pour into a frying pan, stir. Here you have to look at the eye so as not to overdo it with flour.

4) Pour this sauce into the cabbage, stir, add the lavrushka, leave under the lid for 3-5 minutes.

Everything is ready, eat to your health

Parallel, potatoes - this is such a space and variety ... That you can not cook meat, potatoes + salad. And if you do not adhere to any diet - and even space. potatoes - in the course of the action, she herself comes up with how to cook (variety, size and shape of tubers, what else is there, why, is the oven / microwave free ...)

As for the potatoes ... Sometimes I make a salad from boiled potatoes (instead of a side dish). I cut the onion into the salad bowl, salt, pepper and add a little lemon juice (or vinegar, or you may not add it), stir with a spoon and at the same time slightly press the onion. Then I arbitrarily cut the boiled potatoes, it remains to add the butter, mix and you can serve. It is very beautiful if you also put a green onion there. They say it's very tasty to add pickles there, but I myself have never tried it. The salad is very simple and delicious.

Oh, the hottest topic! For me, since childhood, the word "side dish" is a potato, in any form, and I am even ready to eat it just like that .... But my husband is clearly not "potato"! He needs porridge-vermicelli-stewed cabbage. In general, it seems like a rather big choice, but I want something like that!
By the way, I also fell in love with vermicelli (when I tried real durum wheat), and before that it was not food for me! I love rice - I cook in a cast-iron enamel pot, inherited from my beloved grandmother - for 1 cup of rice (only of high quality!) I add 2 cups of water, salt, butter (or pork fat - we live in Ukraine!) And a pinch of turmeric. I cook either in the oven or on the stove on a cutter. In the same way, I cook wheat and buckwheat porridge (turmeric is no longer needed here!) Cabbage carcass. But I cook barley with homemade stew - my husband already squeaks - says that like a real stew "from those times" I also somehow made a side dish of fried semolina. Once in the kindergarten they gave this - nothing like, but so far they have not asked to repeat it ...
Oh, I also remembered the simplest side dish - to drain the liquid from the green peas and warm it up with butter - as old as the world, even in my favorite book "On tasty and healthy food" it was offered, but somehow I did not dare. For legume lovers like me, it's delicious. You can, by the way, take peas at a cheaper price, in the sense of a soup one, you just need to warm it up longer.
In general, girls, I took note of all your tips, and you write more ...

In general, girls, I took note of all your tips, and you write more ...

Write down, from the new side dishes with the advent of the multicooker have taken root:

Rice & fried noodles

Millet and potato garnish

Buckwheat with vegetables "Krasnaya Gorka"

Write down, from the new side dishes with the advent of the multicooker have taken root:

Rice & fried noodles

Millet and potato garnish

Buckwheat with vegetables "Krasnaya Gorka"

Thank you for reminding me - once my grandmother used to cook sweet vermicelli-rice for me in the then butter! And also sweet pilaf with raisins and prunes