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Top 5 Products for a Delicious and Easy Weeknight Dinner

We’re waving goodbye to dull weeknight dinners this year. You won’t ever have to endure a boring meal again thanks to the pastas, seafood dishes, poultry dishes and more. The best part? Everyone wants to have that wonderful meal, but after a busy and long day, nobody wants to spend hours making it. You’ll be sitting down to dinner in no time with these top five products for a delicious and easy weeknight dinner. 

Poultry

The best option for a simple, delectable and speedy dinner is poultry. There are countless ways to prepare our selection of duck, making it ideal for a relaxing weeknight supper. The possibilities are unlimited, whether it’s cooking up a comforting pot of duck and vegetable curry or a juicy roast duck with garlic mashed potatoes. Even making just enough for lunch the next day is an idea. You could even give batch cooking a shot. Either way, you’ll never grow tired of the endless options available with poultry. 

Beef

A succulent steak seared on the grill, a rich spaghetti bolognaise or even just frying up a traditional cheeseburger will swiftly liven up any weeknight if you’ve fallen into an unavoidable cooking rut or are reaching for the takeout menu. You can’t deny how adaptable beef is, regardless of the cut you choose or even if you go with the incredibly straightforward ground beef option

Steak

There is no more magnificent dinner option than a steak, as we can all agree. They’re a great option for casual midweek dinners and the pinnacle of romantic date nights. While many enjoy the ambiance at their local steakhouse, it’s beneficial to be able to prepare restaurant-quality meals at home as well. Your favourite cut may become the hero of sandwiches, tacos, salads and kebabs with the help of simple steak recipes.

Although a steak dinner may seem intimidating, it can be prepared in about 25 minutes and is surely flavourful. Smearing a sugar and paprika rub to your meat will give it an appealing sweet and smokey flavour that goes great with fresh cherry tomatoes and blanched green beans. 

Salmon

We’ve all been there – you’re stuck making the same dinner every night and if you might just run away if you have to cook one more chicken breast. So why not explore the world of tasty, delicate salmon? The best part is that salmon is actually fairly difficult to mess up and when you bake up an entire salmon fillet with essentially little effort, your family will believe you’re a secret chef. With options including pan-seared salmon, Asian BBQ salmon and garlic butter baked salmon, it’s difficult to grow bored of this versatile fish. The majority of these dishes also come together rather quickly, making it the perfect meal to make after a long day at work. 

Seafood

If you’ve never prepared healthy seafood at home, it could seem frightening, but you don’t have to let restaurants have all the fun! Everything from salmon to shrimp, scallops to lobster to calamari and everything in between, may be prepared quickly and easily at home. If you’re not sure whether to substitute seafood for your usual poultry and red meat recipes, think about this – Omega 3 fatty acids, iron, protein and vitamins B and D are all abundant in seafood. The best thing though? The majority of seafood cooks in less than 15 minutes, so you can get dinner on the table in no time.

Try simple, whole fish recipes, like baked cod, chilli butter roasted kingklip or garlic parmesan sole, if you’re new to preparing seafood. They don’t taste particularly fishy and are really difficult to mess up. Looking for something a little more complex? Try a coconut curry seafood stew or tomato and garlic mussels. Looking for a less formal weeknight supper? Choose lemon fish tacos, beer battered fish and chips or a healthy chilli and lime squid salad. 

 

The focus of Blake’s Fine Foods is on delicious food and the intimate moments shared between and during meals. It makes sense to buy from our excellent meats and delectable seafood, which provide both locals and tourists with South African flavours and freshness. To find out more about our wide range of premium meat and seafood products, for your tasty and easy weeknights dinners, get in touch with us right away.