Popular American dishes: recipes with photos

In the view of most people who live outside the US, American dishes are fast food, which is widely represented in McDonald's. Of course, fast food came to the world market from North America, but that does not mean that US citizens eat only hamburgers or french fries.

In order to dispel this erroneous opinion, the readers' attention is presented with information about what constitutes authentic American cuisine, whose national dishes have a long tradition and unique taste.

North America was discovered by Columbus only 6 centuries ago, and the first settlers from Europe arrived here only in 1620. Since that time, the history of American cuisine is taking shape.

American national dishes

The United States of America is a multiethnic state, the majority of its population are descendants of immigrants from England, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France. Accordingly, it was the natives of these countries who stood at the origins of the formation of the national cuisine of the United States.

American dishes, recipes from the photos shown below, absorbed all the best of European cuisine. However, over several centuries they have undergone changes that have affected their taste.

The most famous and popular American dishes are: baked in the oven, turkey, barbecue, chili concarne - an acute second course of meat with vegetables and lots of spices, jambalaya - a dish of meat, rice and vegetables, burgers - sandwiches with a chop and vegetables, Wings Buffalo - fried chicken wings, apple pie, cheesecake - desserts with cheese, pancakes - American pancakes, brownies - chocolate cakes, muffins - cupcakes with filling.

Presented in this article are some popular dishes of American cuisine, the recipe for their preparation, to be more precise, will be appreciated by lovers of delicious food, especially those who are fond of cooking.

Christmas turkey

Baked turkey is a must-have attribute of Thanksgiving and Christmas table. 85% of Americans in 2016 spent almost $ 1 billion on the purchase of almost 45 million turkeys in order to prepare a traditional holiday dish for Thanksgiving. At the same time, the average weight of the turkey was 7.5 kg, and its value was 22.47 dollars.

Try to cook traditional American dishes for Christmas, and the whole family, as well as the guests will be grateful for the time spent on mastering this recipe.

Main Ingredients:

• Turkey - weighing 4 kg, 1 piece.
• Celery - 1 stem.
• Carrots - 1 root.
• Onion - 2 roots.
• Drinking water - 550 ml.
• Butter - 40 g.

Ingredients for marinade:

• Apple juice-700 ml.
• Drinking water is 7.5 liters.
• Sugar sand - 500 g.
• Zedra 3 large oranges.
• Garlic - 5 denticles.
• Rosemary leaves - 55 g.
• Black pepper ground - 40 g.
• The salt is cooked - 350 g.
• Bay leaf - 4 pieces.

Preparation of marinade: put all the ingredients in a large saucepan and mix thoroughly. Put the container on the hot plate, boil the marinade, and then turn it off. The marinade should cool down.

Preparation of turkey:

The whole turkey should be placed in a cooled marinade and cleaned for a day in the refrigerator. After a day, the turkey needs to be pulled out of the marinade, and let it stand for 15 minutes in cold water. Cut turkey with a paper towel.

Onions, carrots and celery cut into large chunks. Turn on the oven and set the thermostat to 200 degrees. Half of the vegetables are stuffed with turkey, and the remaining half is spread over the baking tray. The legs of the turkey and wings should be bandaged with a strong thread. Grate the grill with vegetable oil and place over the brazier. Cover the turkey with melted butter and put the breast up on the grate. Pour 250 ml of water into the pan, and put into a hot oven for 50 minutes.

Periodically water the turkey juice, which is accumulated in the pan, add another glass of water. Continue to bake the bird for another hour and 45 minutes, every half hour watering the resulting juice, and slightly turning the turkey, so that it evenly browned. Add 1 more glass of water. Determine the full availability of turkey meat will help a meat thermometer: if the temperature inside the turkey thigh is 76 degrees, it can be extracted from the oven. Before you start to cut the bird, it must be kept on the dish for 20 minutes.

Recipe for toppings to turkey in American style

Classic American dishes, which include baked turkey, are characterized by an interesting serving and an unusual side dish. To a baked turkey, cranberry sauce and a filling made of corn bread with pecans are often served. To make it, you need the following ingredients:

• Corn bread - 1 kg.
• Pecan nuts - 200 g.
• Bacon - 6 plates.
• Onion - 3 pieces.
• Shallot - 3 pieces.
• Celery - 2 stems.
• Broth chicken - 2 cups.
• Eggs of chicken - 3 pieces.
• Butter - 80 g.
• Thyme (dried) - 15 g.
• Sage (dried) - 20 g.
• Pepper black ground - 1/2 teaspoon.
• 1 tablespoon of salt.

Corn bread cut into small pieces and leave on the table at night, without covering, to dry.

In a hot frying pan, melt the butter and fry the strips of bacon for 10 minutes. Toast the bacon into a plate, and pour the shallots, shallots, onions, celery stalks, sprinkled with small pieces, sprinkle with sage and thyme. Stew vegetables for about 20 minutes on low heat.

Nuts fry and put together with bread in a frying pan with vegetables. Then add the eggs, the remaining oil and pour the chicken broth. Fill the resulting filling with pepper and salt. Refract the refractory form with oil, transfer the prepared filling into it, close it with foil and send it for half an hour to a hot oven (180 degrees). After 30 minutes, remove the foil, add 100 ml of broth and place the form again in the oven. 10 minutes later pour the rest of the broth and send the form to the oven for 20 minutes.

What else can I cook?

In addition to the famous baked turkey, American cuisine is rich and other wonderful dishes that are presented in this review. Among them - recipes for main and second courses, snacks and baking. Many of them are easy to prepare, as the recipe consists of available products and spices. Dishes of American cuisine, recipes from the photos of which you will find below, are prepared from a set of products that can be purchased on the American, European, Russian or Uzbek market. As a result, these delicious dishes are different from one another.

American dishes, whose recipes have been tested for many decades, will take a worthy place in the daily and festive menu.

Barbecue Ribs

Americans are industrious people who can not only work, but also have a rest. Usually they like to spend their free time outdoors, far from the city bustle. And of course, a good rest is inseparable from delicious food.

Barbecue ribs - American dishes, the recipes of which are mainly created in the southern states of the US, are traditionally cooked while relaxing in nature. For most Americans, barbecue has the same significance as May shish kebabs for residents of the countries of the former USSR. Ideally, the barbecue is fried on an open fire with a grill, but this dish can also be cooked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• Veal ribs - 2 kg.
• Honey natural liquid - 100 ml.
• Worcestersky sauce - 1 tablespoon.
• Sauce Tabasco - 1 teaspoon.
• Soy sauce - 50 ml.
• Garlic - 4 cloves.
• Lemon - 2 pieces.
• Table salt - 2 dessert spoons.

For this dish, it is important to choose the right ribs - they should have a fat layer at least 2 cm and not more than 6 cm.

Preparation:

1. The first thing to do is make a barbecue sauce. To do this, mix the Worcestersky, soy and Tabasco sauce, add honey, juice 2 lemons, grinded with salt crushed garlic. Prepared marinade is heated in a water bath to a temperature of 45 degrees.
2. Cut the ribs into 3-4 pieces and completely immerse in the marinade for 12 hours, keeping the temperature regime +5 to +10 degrees.
3. After the ribs are marinated, you need to heat the oven to 220 degrees. Ribs removed from the marinade and put in a pan-grill, pour the remainder of the marinade and send to the oven for 25 minutes. Then reduce the thermostat to 180 degrees and continue baking for another 20 minutes.

The finished dish has a dark caramel crust, and the bones usually acquire an almost black color. Inside, they are very juicy, and crispy on the outside.

The barbecue ribs are served on a table with Tabasco sauce or any other spicy sauce. Onions are fried in onion as a garnish. Not bad with barbecue grilled vegetables: zucchini, eggplant, potatoes. Drink American dishes cooked on an open fire, beer or wine.

Wings of Buffalo

The most favorite American dishes of American cuisine (shown below) include in their list of chicken wings Buffalo. Homeland of this recipe is the city of Buffalo.

To cook sharp chicken wings, you will need the following products:

• Wings of chicken - 10 pieces.
• Any sauce (spicy) is 65 g.
• Butter - 50 g.
• Ground spices (paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic, black pepper) - 5 g each.
• Wheat Flour Extra Class - 150 g.
• Iodized salt - 15 g.
• Sunflower oil - 250 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Chicken wings are washed, cut into parts by joints.
2. In a deep dish, prepare a mixture of flour, cayenne pepper, paprika and salt. Wrap the wings in this mixture and send them to the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. In the saucepan, bring the vegetable oil to a boil and fry the chicken wings 10 minutes to a light brown crust. Each lot of wings is put on paper towels to remove excess oil.
4. In a separate container, prepare a mixture of hot sauce, butter, garlic and black pepper. Stir this mass thoroughly and heat it on low heat.
5. Pour the resulting spicy sauce of wings, so they are well soaked in it. Serve the prepared dish on the table hot.

Cooked on this recipe wings Buffalo - a great snack, which is well combined with beer.

Chile Concerne

This hot American dish of Chile is of Mexican origin. It is particularly loved by the people of Texas. The name of the dish in Spanish means "chili with meat". The main component of this hot second dish is chili pepper. To cook chili with meat, you need these products:

• Minced beef -600 g.
• Onion bulb - 1 piece.
• Beef broth - 450 ml.
• Pepper sweet red - 2 pieces.
• Chile pepper - 1 piece.
• Canned beans (red) - 2 cans of 200 g.
• Canned tomatoes - 350 g.
• Ground spices (chili, black pepper, cumin, paprika) - each for 5 g.
• Marjoram - 3 g.
• Sand of sugar -10 g.
• Table salt - 20 g.
• Sunflower oil - 0.1 liters.
• Tomato paste - 20 g.

Cooking process:

1. All vegetables should be cut into cubes, and garlic squeezed through garlic.
2. In a sauté pan with vegetable oil fry the onion until cooked.
3. Add the chopped peppers, garlic, ground chili and paprika to the onions and fry for 5 minutes on not too strong fire.
4. Increase the fire on the stove to a strong one, put the ground beef in the saucepan and fry until ready, constantly mixing, so that the mass remains homogeneous, without lumps.
5. Pour the beef broth, put the crushed tomatoes, add the tomato paste, sugar, black pepper, marjoram and salt.
6. The canned beans can be washed under the tap to remove excess salt and add to the saucepan to meat with vegetables, 10 to 10 minutes on low heat and chili.

The dish, whose American recipe is cited above, is ready. On top of it, decorate with fresh herbs and rubbed cheese. Sour cream is added to taste. It is best to combine with chili boiled rice. Americans also like to eat chili with nachos chips or tortilla.

Instead of stuffing, you can also use diced meat, in some regions of the US to the main spices are added oregano, coriander.

Burger

In the view of many foreigners, American national dishes are fast food, for example, hamburgers and cheeseburgers.

Indeed, burgers are popular not only in America, but all over the world. Very many people at least once in their lives ate this sandwich, which includes cutlets, vegetables and cheese. To try such American dishes as a real burger, it is not necessary to go to the US, anyone can easily prepare it.

What will it take for a burger?

• Beef tenderloin - 1 kg.
• Beef fat -250 g.
• Table salt - 2 dessert spoons.
• Onion - 1 large root vegetable.
• Black pepper ground - 1,5 teaspoons.
• Sunflower oil - 0,1 liters.
• Butter - 3 dessert spoons.
• Burgers for burgers - 6 pieces.
• Pickled cucumbers - 3 pieces.
• Tomato - 1 large fruit.
• Salad leaves - 6 pieces.
• Bulb red - 1 root.
• Mustard dining room, ketchup or mayonnaise - to taste.

Algorithm of preparation:

1. Peeled and washed onion finely chopped. Within 5 minutes, let onion on vegetable oil and let cool.
2. Meat with fat, twist with a food processor, add the cooled onion, a tablespoon of salt and pepper. The resulting minced meat should be mixed thoroughly.
3. From the stuffing with wet hands, cut 6 round cutlets, 2.5 cm thick. Cut the cutlets for half an hour in the fridge.
4. During this time cut into rings a red onion, thin circles of tomato and cucumber. Each bun is divided into 2 halves and grease on the inside with butter.
5. In the barbecue, kindle coals, grease the grill with butter and spread the cutlets, fry, turning every 2 minutes, until cooked. Within 10 seconds fry the inside of the buns, make sure that they are not burnt.
6. Collect the burger from the prepared ingredients: lay a lettuce leaf on the lower half of the bun, then cutlet, onion rings, tomato circle, cucumber circles and cover with the top half of the bun, greased with mayonnaise, ketchup or mustard.

Many names of American dishes, which are a type of burger, are unfamiliar outside the United States. Their main difference is in the filling:

• Cheeseburger - necessarily includes cheese.
• Veggieberger is vegetarian and does not contain meat.
• Tofuburger - tofu replaces meat filling.
• Eggburger - instead of meat an egg is used.

Apple pie in the American recipe

American dishes can not be imagined without numerous pastries and desserts. The most favorite sweet dishes are the famous apple pie, New York cheesecake, chocolate brownies, a banana split - a dessert, based on ice cream, cookies with pieces of chocolate.

Recipes for pies with apple stuffing are available in many kitchens, but only in the US this dessert has become as popular as other traditional American dishes. Apple pie is one of the symbols of American cuisine.

So, the following ingredients will be needed for the preparation of the real epp-share:

• Apples - 1 kg.
• Brown sugar - 230 g.
• The highest grade of wheat flour is 400 g.
• Butter - 225 g.
• Ground cinnamon - 15 g.
• Chicken eggs - 2 pieces.

Cooking method:

1. First you need to mix half of the sugar and melted butter, and then beat with a whisk or a food processor.
2. To the received weight to drive in 1 egg and yolk of other egg, beat up weight 1 minute. Add 350 g of flour and knead the dough, then wrap it in a cellophane bag and remove the refrigerated refrigerator for 40 minutes.
3. Prepare the filling: remove the washed apples from the skin, cut out the core and remove the seeds, cut into thin slices. Sprinkle apples with a mixture of flour (50 g), sugar (150 g) and cinnamon.
4. Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 180 degrees. While it is warming up, you need to roll out 1/3 of the dough and put it on a greased form, not forgetting the side edges. On the rolled out dough, put the prepared stuffing, cover with the rest of the dough and patch the edges. Pie the cake with a fork or knife, in order to leave the steam and do not swell the dough. If there are scraps of dough, you can decorate them with a pie.
5. The top of the apple pie is coated with the remaining protein, sprinkled with powdered sugar and sent to bake in the oven for 40 minutes until the appetizing crust appears. Bake the cake from the oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes.

Cut the apple pie into portions and serve for tea.

American pancakes - punkcakes

Popular American dishes are difficult to imagine without punk pies, so called round lush fritters. Many Americans include them in their breakfast and usually eat at least 6 pieces, watering them with maple syrup, jam or chocolate butter.

Pancakes, unlike ordinary fritters, have a porous structure due to prolonged whipping of proteins. When preparing the test for pancakes, you can add any fruit puree, for example, banana. If you add cocoa to the dough, you will get chocolate punkcakes.

Ingredients for pancakes:

• Wheat flour is the highest grade - 255 g.
• Eggs of chicken - 4 pieces.
• Milk - 235 ml.
• Iodized salt - 4 g.
• Sugar - 30 g.
• Ground cinnamon - 5 g.
• Hydrated soda - 6 g.

Steps to prepare:

1. Separate the yolks from the proteins that need to be removed to the refrigerator. In a deep bowl, grate the yolks, sugar and cinnamon until smooth.
2. In a bowl with yolks pour a glass of milk, then gently whisk the resulting mixture.
3. Pour the sifted flour into the bowl with the egg-milk liquid, whilst continuing to whip the formed mass. Add the same slaked soda and mix the contents of the bowl thoroughly.
4. Corolla bring the resulting dough to a homogeneous state, preventing the formation of lumps. The resulting mass must be thick.
5. Remove refrigerated proteins from the refrigerator, pour in salt and beat into a strong foam with a mixer for 1 minute.
6. Carefully insert the whipped protein mass into the dough, mix with a wooden spatula.
7. Preheat the non-stick frying pan and melt the teaspoon of butter.
8. Put a small ladle of pancake on a heated pan with non-stick coating and bake for 2 minutes on each side. Put pancakes into a plate and continue baking the next serving. By the way, the pan does not need to be oiled any more, since pancakes should not be fat, and then they are baked in a dry frying pan.

Ready punkakes to pour on your own taste syrup, jam or smear with butter.

American dishes, photos of which can not convey their extraordinary taste, are sure to please everyone who cooks them.