Picnic food is an extremely important food for your own family picnic. After a stressful and tiring working period, your family often schedules a picnic to relieve stress and enjoy the fresh, smoke-free atmosphere. So do you know what to prepare for that trip that is quick, convenient, easy to prepare, easy to store and easy to transport? In the following article, Dried Agricultural Products will bring you 7 quick, convenient, and cost-effective picnic foods for your family’s short trip.
1. What is picnic food?
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2. Picnic food is quick – convenient – easy to prepare?
2.1 Grilled dishes when camping
2.1.1 Grilled meat skewers with vegetables
Grilled vegetable skewers is the first dish that you need to think about when going on a picnic. With aromatic flavor from spices marinated sauce. Plus there’s the taste of the vegetables you use. Meat and vegetables are combined together and are grilled fragrantly on a charcoal stove. Everyone can contribute their own efforts and have fun chatting with each other.
- 500g lean pork shoulder
- 2 bell peppers
- 1 onion
- 1/2 carrot
- 2 lemongrass plants
- 1 teaspoon five spices
- 1 tablespoon cashew oil
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- Spices: sugar, seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper
- Use salt to rub pork shoulder to disinfect
- Rinse pork shoulder meat under clean running water. Using a clean towel, pat the meat dry and drain
- Slice pork shoulder into pieces just enough to eat
- Put the sliced pork in a bowl with: minced lemongrass + five spices + seasoning seeds + monosodium glutamate + sugar + ground pepper + cashew oil + fish sauce. Mix well and marinate for about 60 minutes for the meat to infuse
- Buy bell peppers, cut off the stalks and tails. Halve the chili, filter out the seeds. Cut bell peppers into squares
- Onions peeled, washed, cut into triangles
- Peeled carrots, washed, cut into squares
- Using skewers, skewers of meat and vegetables alternately alternately
- Grilled meat skewers with vegetables and fruits evenly on the coal wharf
2.1.2 Grilled pork belly
Grilled pork belly is the next dish you cannot forget in your family picnic. This is a very familiar dish indispensable in any barbecue party. Each piece of pork belly is marinated with enough grilled spices. After that, the meat will be grilled on a burning charcoal stove. The fat will melt when grilling, the meat begins to turn yellow, very eye-catching and stimulating to eat.
- 1kg pork belly
- Salt
- Fish sauce
- Minced garlic
- Purple onion, minced
- Honey
- Road
- Seasoning: seasoning, main noodles, ground pepper
- Raw vegetables: lettuce, tweezers,…
- Use salt to rub pork belly
- Rinse pork belly under clean running water. Use a clean towel to dry the meat
- Put in a bowl including: Fish sauce + seasoning seeds + spices + main noodles + sugar + honey + minced garlic + minced shallot. Mix it all together
- Dip pork belly into the sauce mixture
- Marinate pork belly for about 1 hour for the meat to absorb the sauce
- Prepare a charcoal fire stove
- The meat has been marinated, take out the meat and proceed to grill the meat on the prepared charcoal stove
- Bake the meat for 45 minutes, while grilling and flipping it with your hands to avoid burning
- After grilling the meat, take the meat down and cut it into pieces then roll it with raw vegetables and enjoy
2.1.3 Grilled shrimp on skewers
If you are a lover of grilled seafood dishes, you definitely cannot ignore this grilled shrimp dish on skewers. Grilled shrimp on skewers is not only a delicious bait in every family meal but also a “delicious bait” for weekend picnics. The big black tiger shrimp, skewered on a stick and grilled to golden brown on a charcoal stove, the meat is very chewy and sweet, and is served with chili sauce or chili lime salt.
- 350g fresh shrimp
- 2g green onions, chopped
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon seasoning
- 1 spoon of satay
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- When you buy shrimp, you wash it with fine salt
- Using the small end of a spoon to eat rice, scoop out the excrement from the shrimp head
- Rinse the shrimp again under clean running water. Let the shrimp dry and drain
- Put in a bowl including: chopped scallions + minced garlic + sugar + seasoning seeds + satay + fish sauce. Whisk all the spices together
- Dip the cooked shrimp above into the sauce mixture. Marinate shrimp for about 45 minutes to infuse
- Remove shrimp from sauce and use bamboo skewers to skewer each shrimp
- After the shrimp is skewered, use an oil brush to brush a layer of cooking oil along the shrimp body
- Arrange each shrimp skewers on the charcoal fire stove
- Bake the shrimp until golden brown for 25 minutes. While grilling, turn over with your hands to avoid burning shrimp
2.1.4 Honey grilled chicken
The last simple, convenient, easy-to-carry barbecue dish on this picnic of yours is definitely not to be missed this hot honey grilled chicken. A whole chicken is cleaned, skewered on a bamboo stick and grilled directly on a burning charcoal stove. Iridescent golden skin, chewy and juicy meat will definitely be a dish you can’t miss on this trip.
- Chicken cleaned: 1 chicken
- Honey: 2 tablespoons
- Ground pepper: 1 teaspoon
- Minced garlic: 3-4 cloves
- Chili powder: 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
- Cooking oil: 1 tablespoon
- Fish sauce
- Salt
- When you buy chicken, you wash it thoroughly under the tap
- Use your hands to strongly bend the chicken’s back so that the chicken manure is completely braked
- Put all the ingredients into a bowl including: seasoning seeds + main noodles + honey + minced garlic + chili powder + turmeric powder + ground pepper + fish sauce. Whisk all ingredients together
- Spread the finished sauce mixture evenly over the chicken
- Marinate the chicken for about 40 minutes so that the meat infuses the flavors evenly
- Clip the marinated chicken into the barbecue grill and cook the chicken for 20 minutes
- While grilling, flip the chicken evenly so that the chicken is cooked evenly, avoiding burning
2.2 Picnic cold dishes
2.2.1 Korean Rice Roll (Kimbap)
Korean rice rolls are also known as Korean Kimbap. This is a very convenient cold dish for picnics. This rice roll dish is made from white rice, sesame oil sauce, carrots, eggs, cucumbers,… and is rolled into bars with dried seaweed shells. This is a very nutritious dish that the little ones in the family will love. Korean rice rolls can be dipped with chili sauce or eaten directly.
- Seaweed shell
- 1 instant sausage
- 1 carrot
- 1 cucumber
- 3 chicken eggs
- Sesame oil sauce
- White sesame
- Crab stick
- Cooking oil
- Peel the carrots, wash them and cut them into long strips
- Wash the cucumbers, halve them and remove the seeds. Slice the cucumber into long strips
- Crack the eggs into a bowl, beat the eggs well
- Put cooking oil in a pan and bring to a boil
- When the oil is hot, pour the egg mixture in and fry the eggs until golden brown
- Take the eggs out on a cutting board and cut them into long thin slices
- Ladle hot white rice into a bowl. Put in a bowl of rice including: white sesame + sesame oil sauce. Mix the rice well
- Spread the seaweed peel on a cutting board. Using plastic gloves, pick up the rice and spread a fire on the surface of the dried seaweed shell
- Arrange ingredients in turn: sliced egg + cucumber + carrot + crab stick + sausage
- Roll up the seaweed shell tightly so it doesn’t burst
- Then, cut the kimbap into small circles and enjoy
2.2.2 Fried Dumplings
Another Korean dish that is very convenient and easy to prepare that you can take with you is the Fried Dumplings. Fried dumplings with golden shell, very crispy and stimulating. The inside is ground pork, minced shrimp, scallions, soy sauce, … and many other additives. All are beaten together to create a delicious, stimulating cake.
- 1 bag of dumplings
- Cooking oil
- Put the cooking oil in the pan and put the cooking oil pan on the stove and bring to a boil
- When the oil is hot, peel the bag off the dumplings and fry them in oil over medium heat
- While frying, flip and turn over so that the dumplings are golden brown, the shell is not burnt
- Dumplings are cooked, take out the paper towels to absorb oil, wait for the cake to drain the oil and then enjoy
2.2.3 Stewed Beef Spaghetti
If water noodles are difficult for you to bring when traveling, why don’t you enjoy Stewed Beef Spaghetti. Stewed Beef Spaghetti with each chewy noodle soaked in sweet and sour sauce, soft and sweet beef with a wonderful blend of tomatoes and onions will be a dish that young children will love. favourite.
- Spaghetti: 250g
- Minced beef: 200gr
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 carrot, finely chopped
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 tomato, diced
- 350g ketchup sauce
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Ground pepper
- Put 500ml of water in a pot and bring to a boil
- Boil water, add spaghetti and cook for 10 minutes
- When the noodles are cooked, take them out and drain the water
- Put minced beef in a bowl with: ground pepper + fish sauce. Mix well and marinate the beef
- Put the pan on the stove, put the olive oil in the pan and bring to a boil
- Hot oil, add minced garlic and fry until golden brown, fragrant
- Pour in the bowl of minced beef and sauté for 5 minutes. Draw out a bowl
- Continue using the pan, put the olive oil in the pan to boil the oil
- When oil is hot, add minced garlic + minced shallot and fry until golden brown, fragrant
- Add diced tomatoes and saute for 10 minutes on low heat
- Then, add the ketchup + beef and stir together for 5 minutes
- Put the spaghetti on a plate, scoop the minced beef sauce into the pasta plate and enjoy