What an easy main dish to prepare for a birthday

Meat dish

Easiest holiday meal to cook in the oven. After you have prepared the ingredients, and put them to bake, with the dish almost did not need to follow. The main thing — time to remove it from the oven.

For example, in birthday you can cook meat on potato "pillow" under a cheese crust, one of the many beloved variations of meat in French. Tender and juicy, it will surely please guests. In addition, it is not necessary to separately prepare a side dish.

For this dish you will need:
- 2 large onions bulbs;
- 3-4 large potatoes;
- 500 g fillet of beef or pork;
- 600 g of tomatoes;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- 300 g low-fat sour cream;
- 150 ml of water;
- salt, pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil for lubrication.

First, take training products. Meat rinse under the tap and carefully dry it with a napkin. Slice it across the grain into pieces as thick as a finger and lightly whisk with a special hammer or back of knife. If you are sure that the meat is young and tender, the last action can be skipped. Salt and pepper the steaks.

The best meat to beat on the thick wooden Board, previously moistened with cold water. And in order that the spray is not scattered all over the kitchen, cover it with cling film.

Peel and chop onion half rings, remove the skin of potato and cut it into thick slices of about 1 cm. Grate the cheese. Take a deep baking tray and grease it with vegetable oil. Place on the bottom flat layer of potatoes and lightly season with salt. Then put the meat. The dish was more succulent, steaks put close to each other. Then evenly distribute the onion, on which place a layer of sliced tomatoes.

Spread the sour cream with water. For consistency, it should resemble yogurt. Add salt, pepper and evenly pour the contents of the pan. Put the meat in a preheated 190оС oven for about half an hour. When time passes, remove the pan, sprinkle the dish with grated cheese and send in the oven for around another 15 minutes.

Before finally to remove the dish from the oven, check it for readiness with a fork. It should easily pierce the meat and potatoes.

Fish dish

If you or your guests prefer meat, seafood, prepare a similar dish with fish. It will require the same ingredients as for the previous meals with the only difference that instead of meat you need to take 600 grams of cod fillet or other fish.

The process of making this hot dish is almost identical to the above recipe. On oiled baking pan lay a layer of sliced potatoes, season with salt. Next you need to arrange the pieces washed and sprinkled with salt and pepper fish fillet, roughly chopped onions, slices of tomatoes. Pour over diluted with water sour cream and bake for half an hour at 190оС, then sprinkle with grated cheese and cook for another 15 minutes.