10 Delicious Dinner Side Dish Recommendations from Various Ingredients, Easy to Make!

Kapanlagi.com - Choosing a dinner menu is not an easy task. Especially if you have to cook it yourself. It's understandable if you feel confused and look for recipe inspiration for dinner side dishes.

Sometimes, boredom can also affect your difficulty in determining the menu. You may be slightly helped by reading some delicious dinner side dish recommendations from various ingredients.

Moreover, this dinner side dish recommendation is equipped with delicious and easy-to-make recipes. You can cook it for yourself or for the whole family.

1. Dinner Vegetable Side Dish Recommendations

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Vegetables are interesting ingredients to be processed as a dinner menu. However, if you run out of ideas to cook them, just take a look at some delicious dinner side dish recommendations made from vegetables.

1. Seafood Capcay

Ingredients:

- 2 large carrots, clean and cut diagonally or as desired

- 100 grams of cabbage, cut as desired

- 3 stalks of Chinese cabbage, cut into pieces

- a handful of snow peas

- 5 young corns, cut diagonally

- 5 fish balls, cut in half

- 100 grams of shrimp, peeled and cleaned

- 100 grams of squid, cut into squares

- 5 mushrooms, cut into small pieces

Seasonings:

- 3 cloves of garlic, crushed

- 1 onion

- Tomato sauce as needed

- Soy sauce as needed

- 1/2 teaspoon of pepper powder

- 250 ml of chicken broth

- Sugar and salt as needed

- 2 teaspoons of oyster sauce

- 2 teaspoons of cornstarch dissolved in water

Cooking instructions:

1. Sauté the onion and garlic until fragrant, then add the squid and shrimp.

2. Add the vegetables, fish balls, and mushrooms.

3. Stir well, then add oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt, and sugar to taste.

4. Stir until smooth then add other seasonings such as pepper and chicken broth until boiling.

5. Add the cornstarch solution until cooked and thickened.

6. Capcay seafood is ready to be served.

2. Clear Spinach Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:

- 2 bunches of spinach

- 2 carrots, thinly sliced

- 1 liter of water

- 3 shallots

- 2 cloves of garlic

- 2 cm of galangal

- 2 bay leaves

- Sugar and salt to taste

How to make:

1. Boil the water, then add shallots, garlic, and galangal.

2. After boiling, add the carrots and cook until half cooked.

3. Add the spinach, wait until boiling.
Serve warm.

3. Chicken and Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:

- 1 clove of garlic, finely chopped

- 1 shallot, finely chopped

- 100 grams of boiled chicken pieces

- 500 ml of chicken broth

- 1 potato, diced

- 2 carrots, sliced as desired

- 1 broccoli

- 5 medium-sized green beans

- Sugar and salt

How to make:

1. Sauté the shallots and garlic until fragrant.

2. Add the chicken pieces and stir until well mixed.

3. Pour in the chicken broth, wait until boiling.

4. Add the sliced vegetables until almost tender.

5. Add the ground spices, simmer over low heat.

6. Serve the chicken and vegetable soup while still warm.

2. Grilled Dinner Vegetable Side Dish Recommendations

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Enjoying grilled food at night is a popular choice. You don't have to go to a stall or restaurant, you can cook dishes like grilled fish, grilled chicken, and satay at home. If you don't know the recipe, you can follow the following recommendations for grilled dinner dishes.

4.Grilled Fish

Ingredients:

- 5 pieces of carp or pomfret fish

- 100 ml of water

- 1 teaspoon of lime juice

- 4 cloves of garlic

- 1 piece of ginger

- 1 piece of turmeric

- 1 teaspoon of coriander

- 1/2 teaspoon of powdered pepper

- Salt to taste

Marinade:

- 100 ml of sweet soy sauce

- 1 teaspoon of soy sauce

- 1 tablespoon of honey

- 2 tablespoons of butter

Cooking instructions:

1. Marinate the fish with the ground spices, lime juice, and tamarind. Let it sit in the refrigerator for a while.

2. Mix sweet soy sauce, soy sauce, honey, and margarine, then stir well.

3. Heat the marinade mixture in a pan, then grill the fish until cooked.

4.Grilled fish is ready to be served.

5.Honey Grilled Chicken

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilogram of city or village chicken, cut as desired

- 3 cloves of garlic, crushed

- 1 piece of ginger, crushed

- 1/2 teaspoon of powdered pepper

- Salt to taste

- 100 ml of boiling water

- 4 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce

- 3 tablespoons of honey

Cooking instructions:

1. Heat a pan, then cook the chicken with garlic, pepper, ginger, and water until tender.

2. Add soy sauce, then stir well.

3. Cook until the marinade is absorbed and prepare a place to grill the chicken.

4. Grill the chicken over the fire, brush with honey. Grill until cooked.

5. Honey grilled chicken is ready to be served.

6. Peanut Sauce Satay

Ingredients:

- 5 pieces of chicken thighs, cut into small pieces and remove the skin

- 5 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce

- 20 skewers

Peanut sauce:

- 250 grams of peanuts, roasted and then ground

- 2 chili peppers, fried

- 3 candlenuts

- 2 tablespoons of brown sugar

- Salt to taste

- 500 ml hot water

How to make:

1. Grind the peanuts, chili peppers, brown sugar, and salt. Cook until cooked and thickened. Set aside.

2. Skewer the chicken pieces on the skewers, grill until half cooked. After that, coat with a little peanut sauce. Grill again until cooked.

3. Serve the satay with the peanut sauce and other complements.

3. Delicious Dinner Vegetable Side Dish Recommendations

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In addition to the menus mentioned above, you still have many delicious dinner side dish recommendations to try. With the recipes explained in sufficient detail below, you can cook them yourself at home.

7. Beef Steak

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kilogram of lean beef

- 2 eggs

- 1 teaspoon of ground pepper

- Salt to taste

- 2 tablespoons of flour

- 1 tablespoon of butter

- 1 onion, finely chopped

- 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce

- 1 tablespoon of sweet soy sauce

- 1 teaspoon of ground nutmeg

- 150 ml of water

How to cook:

1. Cut the beef into small pieces or blend until smooth.

2. Mix the beef pieces with eggs, flour, pepper, and salt. Shape it like a steak according to taste.

3. Grill until cooked on a pan with butter.

4. Make the sauce by sautéing onion, butter, tomato sauce, soy sauce, nutmeg, salt, and water.

5.Add flour until thickened, cook the sauce until done.

6.Prepare the cooked steak, then pour the sauce on top.

7.Serve with vegetables and french fries.

8.Low-Calorie Tempe Steak

Ingredients:

- 1/2 tempeh

- 6 tbsp ground chicken

- 1 egg

- 2 tbsp tapioca flour

- 1 tbsp cornstarch

- 3 tsp garlic powder

- 2 tbsp granulated sugar

- 3 tbsp salt (to taste)

- 1 tbsp ground white pepper

- 1 grated nutmeg

- 1 tsp olive oil

Sauce Ingredients:

- 5 tbsp oyster sauce

- 4 tbsp tomato sauce

- 3 tbsp granulated sugar

- 1.5 tbsp salt

- 1 tsp ground black pepper

- 1 sliced onion

- 8 sliced button mushrooms

- 3 sliced wood ear mushrooms

Instructions:

1.Cut the tempeh into small pieces, then steam until soft for about 10 minutes, once done, remove and mash.

2.Add ground chicken and egg to the mashed tempeh and mix well.

3. Add cornstarch and tapioca, then stir until well combined.

4.Add seasoning, such as salt, sugar, pepper, and nutmeg.Shape the dough into round shapes, then flatten. Bring the water to a boil.

5.Don't forget to grease the surface of the steamer so that the dough doesn't stick. Place the flattened dough.

6.Steam for about 5 - 10 minutes, or until it turns white with a soft texture, and remove the tempe steaks.

7.For the sauce, sauté the onions until fragrant, add the wood ear mushrooms and button mushrooms. Then pour in oyster sauce and tomato sauce, and sauté until cooked and boiling.

8. Add sugar, salt, and pepper to taste. Once the taste is right, mix cornstarch with water and add it to the sauce ingredients to thicken.

9.Next, prepare a non-stick pan and brush the surface with olive oil. Grill the tempe steaks until they turn brown. Once cooked, remove from heat and serve with the sauce.

9.Sambal Goreng Ati Kentang

Ingredients:

- 500 gr potatoes, washed, peeled, and diced. Fry until half cooked.

- 10 pieces of chicken liver, washed and boiled until cooked. Fry until dry

- 250 ml coconut milk

- 2 large red chili, sliced diagonally

- 2 pieces of galangal, crushed

- 1 bay leaf

- Sufficient amount of cooking oil

- Ground Seasoning Ingredients

- 5 shallots

- 3 cloves of garlic

- 1 tsp sugar

- 5 red bird's eye chili

- 3 large red chili

- 1 piece of shrimp paste

- 2 tsp salt

- 1 tsp white peppercorns

How to Make:

1. Grind the ground seasoning ingredients, then sauté with a little oil until fragrant.

2. Add red chili, galangal, and bay leaf. Cook until wilted.

3. Pour in the coconut milk, cook again and stir until boiling.

4. Add potatoes and chicken liver. Stir again until the sauce is absorbed, serve.

10. Sautéed Sardines

Ingredients:

- 1 large can of sardines

- 4 cloves of garlic, sliced

- 5 shallots, sliced

- 1 tbsp sugar

- Sweet soy sauce to taste

- Salt to taste

- Mushroom broth to taste

- Sufficient amount of water

- Thinly sliced scallions

How to Make:

1. Sauté garlic and shallots until fragrant, add water and canned sardines.

2. Season with sugar, salt, mushroom broth, and soy sauce. Stir well and adjust the taste.

3. Sprinkle with scallions, serve.

Well, KLovers, those are some delicious dinner side dish recommendations that you can easily make at home.

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