5 great picnic food ideas

Take out your children and family or fellows! We are heading outdoors for having a picnic.

This everyday humdrum home eating within four walls should be replaced, at least occasionally. Warm summer is just what you need.

With our easy-to-make picnic recipes you will turn your meal into marvelous event. It’s a brilliant trigger to improving relationships with your near and dear ones. Perhaps, you’re interested in organizing a really cool event, then you may need a help of professional caters.

What’s more, it’s a chance to come off of the TV and computer screens. Al fresco eating enables you to combine the useful and the pleasant.

Get a bit of sun tan and breathe fresh air while enjoying delicious food. Plan your outing right now and let it be a wonderful pastime.

You won’t face any cooking problems. Our list includes only simple dishes that you can readily prepare and take out.

Check out the best easy cooking and packing picnic food ideas. Read our recipes to cook creatively and don’t waste your time in order to catch the precious sunny days.

Top 5 picnic recipes

1. Wild rice salad

   This dish is considered to be one of the easiest to make. It will take approximately 20 minutes of your time.
   You won’t need any special components. At the same time the salad is nutrient rich and tasty.

   Ingredients: 400g mixed wild rice, 150g nuts, ½ a wisp of fresh basil and mint, 75g dried apricots and olive oil.
   Directions:  First, cook the rice as you usually do. You can use directions on the pack. Then let it cool.
   Next, cut the nuts, mint and basil leaves and apricots. Put all this to rice and add some salt and pepper.
   Stir the dish and sprinkle a bit of extra virgin olive oil. Actually, you can also use soy sauce or honey to add even more zest to it.

2. Strawberry bars

   After the main dish it’s naturally to have a bite. So this sweet dish befits especially to children and adult dessert man.
   Ingredients: 300g strawberries and plain flour, ½ lemon zest and juice, 1 ½ tsps. cinnamon, 250g butter, 180g caster sugar, 1 vanilla pod, 4 tbsp. rolled oats, 3 tbsp. chopped hazelnuts and2 tbsp. strawberry jam
   Directions: Start with heating your oven to 160-180 degrees C. Next, combine the previously sliced strawberry with 4 tbsp. lemon juice.
   Macerate all this by putting it into the sieve above the bowl. Now mix flour, caster sugar (leave 3 tbsps. for the topping), 1tsp. salt and ½ tsp. cinnamon into your kitchen machine.

   Add the seeds of the vanilla pod and 200g softened butter and mix. Pour the quarter of this mixture to the bowl while the rest part should be filled into the tin covered with backing parchment.
   Spread your mixture evenly and bake for 25 minutes. Put the remaining 50g cold butter, sugar, the oats, hazelnuts, cinnamon and the lemon zest into the bowl.
   Mix it with the ingredients you reserved with you hand. You should get a crisp mixture.
   When the base is ready, put sliced strawberry and jam on top. Add the topping from the bowl and cook for more 30 minutes.
   Allow the dessert to cool and then cut it into bars.

3. Green beans with almonds

   Don’t miss this extremely nutrient green dish. Beans will provide you with energy and by this, they are easy digestible.
   Ingredients: 1 lbs. (green beans, ¼ cup slivered almonds, 1-2 shallots, olive oil, salt and pepper.
   Directions: Parboil the beans, drain them and put in cold water. For more convenience you can cut them into smaller parts.

   Throw almonds, shallots and sprinkle some olive oil. Season your beans with salt and pepper.
   As you see the dish is super easy to cook. You can make it fast and off the top of your head.
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4. Grilled wraps with hummus and vegetables

   Grilled wraps is one more perfect picnic idea. Cook it quickly (about 20 minutes) and enjoy the variety of summer vegetables.
   Ingredients: 1 container plain hummus, 4 slices red onion, 1 quartered red bell pepper, 1 eggplant, cut into slices, ¼ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, 4whole-grain flatbreads, 2 tbsp. olive oil, a pinch of salt, ½ cup crumbled feta cheese.
   Directions: You will need a big frill pan to be heated at the medium heat. Sprinkle 1tbsp. oil.  Put pepper and onion into pan and cook for 3 minutes on both sides.

   Do the same with the eggplant. Then cut vegetables into large pieces and mix them with remaining oil and parsley and salt.
   After that, spread a quarter of cup hummus over the flatbreads and divide vegetables evenly.
   Put 2 tbsp. cheese on top and roll up the flatbreads. You can easily carry your dish outdoors. Besides, cut the wraps and make them more practic for eating.

5. Pasta salad

   Pasta salad is just another tasty dish, which is suitable for your al fresco. Easy to cook and well-loved pasta combined with salami and vegetables tops record levels among gastrophilists.

   Ingredients: 1 package spiral pasta, ½ pound provolone cheese, and salami both cubed, 3cups cherry tomatoes, ¼ pound pepperoni, sliced, 1 big bell pepper, a can of black olives, 1 jar pimentos.
   Directions: Put pasta to a boiling water and cook not more than 10 minutes. When cooked, rinse in cold water.
   Take a big bowl in order to mix pasta with all rest ingredients. Stir all components.
   To create more Italian taste, HireRush.com recommends you to add some Italian salad dressing. Enjoy the light-tasting dish.