There is no wish to spend much time at a plate in the hot summer afternoon and a bit different requirements, than in cold season are imposed to food: it has to not only satisfy hunger, but also refresh. For this reason during a hot time light and simple dishes in preparation are so popular.
As a main course cook cold soup for lunch. There is a lot of recipes of similar dishes: okroshka, beetroot soup, gazpacho, tarator and many others. Preparation of such soups doesn't demand a lot of time and efforts, and their advantage is undoubted. Cold soups sate, liquids in an organism fill shortage, refresh during a heat. Besides, thanks to a fresh vegetables and greens which are a part of the majority of such soups they are rich with cellulose, vitamins and minerals.
Use a variety available in the summer of vegetables, fruit and greens. It is the best of all to use them fresh as a part of salads, thermal treatment destroys the most part of vitamins. However you shouldn't dress with their mayonnaise, try to refuse in the summer it at all. As gas station it is possible to use more useful products: olive oil, lemon juice, sour cream, natural yoghourt, wine vinegar.
However vegetables can be used not only fresh. The most useful ways of their processing is a preparation on couple, suppression and roasting. The vegetables made in this way are tasty as in hot, and cold so add to the summer menu various vegetable stews, caviar from eggplants or squash, ratatouille. One more advantage of such dishes is that you can constantly experiment with ingredients.
Do you prefer more rich dishes, but you don't wish to potter long at a plate? Bake into oven meat or fish. For this purpose wash up and dry meat, salt, strew with pepper and rub with favourite seasonings. Inwrap in a leaf of a foil and send to the warmed oven. That the ready-to-eat meal turned out softer, it is possible to pickle a product previously. For meat as marinade it is possible to use wine, a soy-bean sauce, kefir, wine vinegar, mineral water, a kiwi. For fish – a lemon, a soy-bean sauce, white wine. Consider that fish, unlike meat, can't be pickled long, otherwise she will lose the taste and will collapse when roasting. For decoration of ready-to-eat meals use greens.
Please members of household with light fruit and berries desserts: jelly, smoothie, mousses, fruit soups and salads. In the presence of the blender or the food processor their preparation will take only a few minutes. Having cooled similar desserts in the fridge, you will be able to offer house a healthy alternative to ice cream from shop.
Don't forget that it is necessary to drink more in the summer. If usual water bothered you, you can make up for losses of liquid the compotes made at home, fruit drinks, lemonades. However you shouldn't do them too sweet. Also well tea – grassy or green without sugar satisfies thirst.