1, the first plate
The first course of Western food is the first plate, also known as appetizers. Appetizers are generally cold or hot appetizers, common varieties of caviar, foie gras, smoked salmon, cocktail cups, creamy chicken pastry box, the Bureau of escargot and so on. Because they are meant to be appetizers, appetizers generally have a distinctive flavor, mainly salty and sour, and are small in quantity and high in quality.
2, soup
With Chinese food is very different, the second course of Western food is soup. Western soup can be roughly divided into clear soup cream soup, vegetable soup and cold soup and other 4 categories. Varieties of oxtail soup, cream soup, seafood soup, American clam Chowder, Italian vegetable soup, Russian borscht, French Bureau of onion soup.
Cold soup is less varied, there are German cold soup, Russian cold soup and so on.
3, side dishes
Fish dishes are generally used as the third course of Western food, also known as side dishes. Varieties include a variety of fresh and saltwater fish, shellfish and mollusks. Usually aquatic dishes and eggs, bread, puff pastry dishes are called side dishes.
Because fish and other dishes of tender meat, easier to digest, so put in front of meat dishes, called and meat dishes on the main dish is different. Western food to eat fish dishes pay attention to the use of special sauce, varieties of tartare juice, Dutch juice, hotel juice, white cream juice, Archbishop juice, American juice and sailor fish juice.
4, the main course
Meat and poultry dishes are the fourth course of Western food, also known as the main course.
Meat dishes from the raw materials from cattle, sheep, pigs, small cowboys and other parts of the meat, which is the most representative of the beef or steak. Steak according to its parts can be divided into sirloin steak (also known as sirloin steak), Philly steak, "T" bone steak, thin steak and so on. They are often grilled, sautéed, or broiled. Meat dishes with sauces are mainly Spanish sauce, thick roasted juice, mushroom juice, white sauce and so on.
Food dishes from the raw materials of chicken, ducks, geese, usually rabbits and venison and other game is also classified as poultry dishes Poultry dishes are the most varieties of chicken, chicken, turkey, bamboo chicken, can be boiled, deep-fried, roasted, stewed, the main sauce has yellow meat sauce, curry sauce, cream sauce.
5, vegetable dishes
Vegetable dishes can be arranged after meat dishes, can also be served at the same time as meat dishes, so it can be counted as a dish, or called a side dish.
Vegetable dishes are called salads in Western cuisine. Served at the same time as the main dish salad, known as raw vegetable salad, usually made with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, asparagus and so on. The main dressings for salads are vinaigrette, French dressing, dry island dressing, cheese salad dressing and so on.
Salad in addition to vegetables, there is also a class of fish, meat, eggs, this kind of salad is generally not added to the dressing, in the order of meals can be done as a first plate to eat.
There are also vegetables that are cooked, such as cauliflower, boiled spinach, and french fries. Cooked vegetables are usually served on a plate with the meat dishes of the main course and are called side dishes.
6, dessert
Western desserts are eaten after the main course, can be counted as the sixth course.
In a real sense, it includes all the food after the main course, such as pudding, pancakes, ice cream, cheese, fruit and so on.
7, coffee, tea
The last course of Western food is on the drink, coffee or tea. Drinking coffee is generally added sugar and light cream. Tea is generally to add spiced peach pieces and sugar.