What to cook for a romantic dinner to surprise, enchant and bewitch your soul mate? There are plenty of recipes that are perfect for celebrating any event (alone or in the company) - a romantic anniversary, for Valentine's Day, birthdays. And even for a date.

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Best menu for a romantic evening

How to achieve the object of his benevolence sighs? A sure way - to prepare him or her to a romantic dinner with divine dishes, the recipes of which are described below. Simple and tasteful, satisfying and aesthetically - a specially selected menu of romantic make any celebration memorable.

These meals should be served several varieties of wine, a few roses to decorate the table - perfect for a romantic dinner, much is required!

The menu for the perfect romantic evening

Refreshment : Skewers with melon, mozzarella cheese and jamon.

Serve with a dry Riesling or Pinot Blanc.

Main dish : Quads Bob haircut - the progenitor of modern fashionable hairstyles   lamb with Provencal herbs and roasted tomatoes.

Serve with a Pinot Noir or a Shiraz.

Dessert : Mousse of chocolate paste.

Serve with port wine Port   or coffee.

After dinner : Champagne and fresh strawberries.

Serve ... in the bedroom.

This snack will serve simple, elegant and, of course, a delicious prelude to a romantic dinner. Kebabs cook faster, and therefore will have more time to prepare the main dish.

If the melon is hard to find on sale, or any reason you do not want to use it, it will replace the pack of cherry tomatoes - they are no less tasty! Ready skewers should be covered and put into the refrigerator (not more than 6 hours). Watering of sauce you can only directly before serve. The above ingredients are enough for two large servings.

Ingredients

For the sauce

• 1/3 Art. olive oil (extra virgin)
• 1/3 Art. fresh basil leaves
• 1 roughly chopped shallots
• ½ h. L. salt
• pepper to taste

For the kebabs

• 1 small melon
• 6 balls of mozzarella cheese
• 6 slices of Spanish ham jamon or prosciutto Italian
• toothpicks.

Recipe :

For the sauce, mix the olive oil, basil leaves, shallots and salt in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add pepper to taste.

Peel and clean the seeds from the melon, cut into several wedges. Each wedge is cut in half, to get large chunks.

Cut the slices of ham (or prosciutto) in half lengthwise.

Collect skewers in the following order: 1 piece of melon, 1 slice of jamon (pre-rolled into a wide tube), 1 ball of mozzarella Mozzarella: an authentic Italian taste 1 piece of ham and 1 slice of melon. Repeat until until consumed the entire stock of mozzarella and ham. Depending on the size of a melon, can remain unused pieces.

Place the skewers on a large dish and pour sauce. Serve immediately.

This rich, but very romantic recipe by loving person will not leave anyone indifferent. It may be replaced with fresh spices dry, but in this case a piece of refined taste of this dish will be lost.

When buying pork loin is better to choose a piece of eight bones (ribs), preferably stripped - it means that all the meat fins removed. This piece will look more aesthetically pleasing. The recipe is designed for two servings and includes as a main dish or side dish. This is one of the most simple and delicious romantic meals.

Ingredients

• 2 large garlic cloves (peeled)
• ¾ tsp salt
• ¾ tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tsp finely chopped thyme
• 3 tsp finely chopped rosemary
• ¼ Art. olive oil
• 2 ripe tomatoes, halved
• 1 trimmed rack of lamb (about 450 g)
• 2 shallots
• 2 peeled potatoes of medium size
• 2 tbsp white wine

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 200º C.

Chop the garlic, put it in a small bowl (better - a mortar) and season with ½ tsp salt and the same amount of pepper. Crush pestle until a paste. Add chopped herbs and half the olive oil. Takeout.

Wash the tomatoes, cut into halves. Grease a baking dish or baking sheet and put it up tomato pulp. Sprinkle 1/3 of cooked mixture of garlic and herbs. Takeout.

Wash rack of lamb and dry wipes. Cut in half.

Sprinkle with remaining ¼ tsp salt and the same amount of pepper.

Preheat a frying pan 1 tbsp olive oil. Fry the lamb on all sides. Takeout.

Cut the potatoes into thick slices about 0, 6 cm. Peel and finely chop the shallots.

Pour into the pan the remaining olive oil, heat, put the potatoes and onions and fry until golden brown (3-5 min.), Stirring occasionally. Add the wine and half mixture of garlic and herbs, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Takeout.

Rub the meat with a mixture of the remaining garlic and herbs.

Put the baking dish with tomatoes in the oven and bake 30-40 min. Until they are very soft.

Place the lamb in the pan, on top of the potatoes. You can put the bone vertically folded in the manner of pairs of cards.

Bake the meat and potatoes of 20-25 min., Until the meat is heated to 55º C (preparation - "blood").

When the meat is roasted to the desired degree, get it out of the oven and cover with foil. Leave on for 5-10 minutes.

At the request of lamb cut into slices. Serve with potatoes and tomatoes.

Chocolate paste like all exceptions, apparently do not exist. This mousse will serve as a worthy conclusion of a romantic dinner.

Recipe for 4 servings, because the two here just is not enough

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp. chilled whipped cream
• ½ tsp quality instant coffee granules
• ½ st. final chocolate paste
• whipped cream and fresh raspberries for decoration

Recipe:

In a medium sized bowl, combine whipping cream and instant coffee.

The resulting mass is put in the refrigerator for 5 min., Then stirred until complete dissolution of coffee.

Add the chocolate paste.

Beat with a mixer on medium speed until fluffy dough, occasionally scraping bowl wall rubber spatula.

No need to worry that the mousse will be too soft: ostynuv it hardens.

Arrange the resulting mousse into 4 bowls. Refrigerate at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.

Before you bring to the table, decorate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings or fresh raspberry taste.

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