On Valentine's Day, you don't have to go to a restaurant - you can have a great romantic evening at home. Candles, relaxing music and delicious food will help you create the right atmosphere.
Shrimp in spicy sauce
Shrimp, like many other seafood, is considered a natural aphrodisiac. Therefore, the idea of making a Valentine's Day dish out of them can be very successful.
You will need:
- 36 large raw shrimps;
- 1 tbsp. rice;
- 1 lemon;
- 2 tbsp. paprika;
- 3 tbsp. coriander seed coriander;
- 3 tbsp. peanut butter;
- 5 tbsp. tomato paste;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tsp soy sauce;
- 2 tsp wine vinegar;
- half a hot red pepper;
- salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Instead of hot pepper, you can add a little tobasco to the sauce.
Cut the hot pepper lengthwise and peel the seeds out of it, and then chop the pulp. Combine vinegar, soy sauce and tomato paste, add hot pepper and finely chopped garlic. Leave the sauce in a cool place. Remove the shrimp heads and peel them, preserving the tails. Put the paprika on a plate and roll the shrimp carcasses in it. Heat peanut butter in a skillet, add coriander and cook for 1 minute. After that, add the shrimp, salt and pepper, mix everything and fry for 5 minutes.
Boil the rice separately in salted water. Serve the shrimp with rice and lemon wedge, accompanied by pre-cooked hot tomato sauce.
Chocolate kisses
You will need:
- 75 g of white chocolate;
- 75 g of dark chocolate;
- 120 g butter;
- 120 g icing sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- 250 g flour;
- some sugar for decoration.
Additionally, you can add ground nuts to the cookie dough.
Melt white and dark chocolate separately in the steam bath or microwave. Remove the butter from the refrigerator, wait until it softens, and beat with a mixer with powdered sugar. Add eggs there and mix again. After that, gradually add flour, achieving uniformity of the dough and the absence of lumps.
Divide the dough into two equal portions. Add dark chocolate to one of them, white to the other. Stir each part of the dough until smooth, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour. Roll out the finished dough and cut out heart-shaped cookies from it. Grease a baking sheet with oil, put cookies on it, sprinkle each of them with a pinch of sugar and bake in a preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. Remove the finished cookies from the sheet, cool and serve with tea or coffee.
