Are you looking for valentine’s day dinner ideas at home? I have come up with 10 romantic homemade valentines day dinner ideas that your significant other will love and cherish. Valentine’s day dinner at home does not have to be boring try these 10 romatic recipes. Homemade valentines day dinner will be easy on your pockets and you miss all the hassle booking reservations.
1. Prawns of Passion
Ingredients:
* 1 cup butter, divided
* 1 medium head garlic, peeled and minced
* 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
* 2 pounds or one kg large prawns - peeled, deveined and butterflied
* 1 medium head garlic, peeled and minced
* 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley Directions:
Melt 1/2 cup butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add 1 minced head of garlic and saute for 2 to 3 minutes until soft. Stir in the tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Continue cooking until reduced to a thick paste, about 60 to 90 minutes. In a separate saucepan, melt remaining 1/2 cup butter in a saucepan over low heat. Saute remaining garlic for 2 to 3 minutes. Toss prawns in garlic butter sauce and place on a baking sheet. Broil until pink, do not overcook.
2.Beef Tenderloin with Green Peppercorn-Brandy Sauce
Ingredients:
* 2 (8 oz. ea) beef tenderloins
* salt and pepper
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 3 tablespoons chopped shallots
* 1 Tbl. green peppercorns
* 1 cup beef broth
* 1 tablespoon whole grain Dijon mustard
* 2 tablespoons heavy cream
* 2 tablespoons brandy
* 2 tablespoons chopped chives for garnish Directions: Salt and pepper beef on both sides. Heat butter in medium skillet on medium heat. Add beef; cook 5 min; turn, cook another 5 min. Remove to platter; tent with foil to keep warm. In same skillet, add shallots and peppercorns. Cook 2 min. or until soft. Add broth, mustard, cream and brandy. Cook 5 min. or until reduced to 1/2. Place beef on serving plates. Top with sauce, garnish with chopped chives.
3.Champagne Shrimp and Pasta
- 8 ounces angel hair pasta
- * 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- * 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- * 1 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- * 1 1/2 cup champagne
- * 1/4 teaspoon salt
- * 2 tablespoons minced shallots
- * 2 plum tomatoes, diced
- * 1 cup heavy cream
- * salt and pepper to taste
- * 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley * freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Directions:
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook pasta in boiling water for 6 to 8 minutes or until al dente; drain.
Meanwhile, heat oil over medium-high heat in a large frying pan. Cook and stir mushrooms in oil until tender. Remove mushrooms from pan, and set aside.
Combine shrimp, champagne, and salt in the frying pan, and cook over high heat. When liquid just begins to boil, remove shrimp from pan. Add shallots and tomatoes to champagne; boil until liquid is reduced to 1/2 cup, about 8 minutes. Stir in 3/4 cup cream; boil until slightly thick, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add shrimp and mushrooms to sauce, and heat through. Adjust seasonings to taste.
Toss hot, cooked pasta with remaining 1/4 cup cream and parsley. To serve, spoon shrimp with sauce over pasta, and top with Parmesan cheese.
4.BBQ Lobster Tails
Ingredients:
* 4 lobster tails
* 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
* 1/4 cup of margarine or butter
* 1 teaspoon of grated orange or lemon peel Directions:
Snip through center of hard top shell with kitchen scissors. With sharp knife cut through the meat, but not through under shell. Spread open. Grill with the meat side up at start. Finish cooking with shell side up. While grilling, brush frequently with mixture of melted butter, lemon peel and juice.
Lobster is done when firm and opaque.
5.Baked Ham in Champagne
Ingredients:
* 1 (9-lb) boneless ham
* 1 pound Light brown sugar
* 2 Bottles extra-dry champagne
* 3 tbsps. Honey
* 1 1/2 teaspoon Ground ginger
* 1 1/2 teaspoon Dry mustard
* Pineapple slices (optional)
* Spiced apples (optional) Directions:
Score ham and place on rack in baking pan. Cover top with 1 cup brown sugar and pour over 1 bottle champagne. Bake at 325F 2 hours. Combine remaining bottle champagne, remaining brown sugar, honey, ginger and mustard and bring to rolling boil in saucepan. Lower heat and simmer while basting ham every 15 minutes until done. Garnish with pineapple slices, and spiced apples, if desired.
6.Parmesan Chicken
Ingredients:
* 2 Boneless chicken breasts
* 1/2 cup "Oven Fry" for Pork or chicken(No Substitutions)
* 1/2 tablespoon Italian seasoning
* 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
* 1 egg
* Olive oil Directions:
Flatten chicken to about 1/4 to 3/8 of an inch thick. in a shallow bowl, combine bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning. in another bowl, beat the egg. Dip chicken into egg, then coat with crumb mixture. I use a spoon to coat chicken with the crumb mixture gently pressing crumbs onto chicken. Preheat a frying pan with about a 1/2 cup of olive oil. add more when necessary. brown on medium heat until nicely browned and juices run clear.
This is one of our favorite chicken recipes. It is very moist and full of flavor! you can add a slice of tomato on top when chicken is done, then add some mozzarella on top of that. I sometimes serve with spaghetti and a nice loaf of fresh bread. or mashed potatoes and stuffing. The possibilities are endless.
7.Heart Shaped Valentine Pizza
Ingredients:
* 1 large Pizza shell; pre-baked
* 1/3 cup Pizza sauce
* 1/3 cup Mozzarella or Jack cheese; grated
* 12 large Shrimp; cooked
* 1 medium Red Bell Pepper
* 3 Pieces artichoke hearts; frozen and thawed, sliced
* Olive oil
* Minced Basil Directions:
Trim the pizza shell(s) or foccacia bread into heart shape, place on pizza pan or baking sheet. Spread pizza sauce on shell to near edge.
Sprinkle cheese over sauce, not quite to edge of sauce. Place shrimp, in pairs, tails touching, to make hearts, on top of cheese. Do the same with some slices of red bell pepper, using the top, where it curves, for the top of the heart. Put a few slices of artichoke heart here and there. drizzle a little olive oil over top. Sprinkle with minced basil (optional). Bake at 375^ degrees until cheese melts and pizza is piping hot. Serve hot.
8.Lobster Scampi
Ingredients:
* 4 tablespoons butter
* 1/2 cup garlic olive oil
* 1 tablespoon hot pepper oil
* or * 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
* 16 garlic cloves, minced
* 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
* 1 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
* 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
* 1/2 cup dry white wine
* 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
* 1/2 pound cooked lobster meat Directions:
Melt butter and oils in a large pan over low heat. After it has melted, add the garlic and brown slightly over medium heat. Whisk in the mustard, paprika, Worcestershire sauce, and wine. Simmer gently for 5 minutes. Add lemon juice and lobster, and cook until meat is heated through. Serve over yellow rice.
9. Lobster Alfredo
Ingredients:
* 2/3 cup lobster hornemeat
* 2 ounces melted butter
* 8 ounces heavy cream
* 2 teaspoons garlic
* 2/3 cup grated Parmesan
* 4 tablespoons chives
* 1/8 teaspoon salt
* 12 ounces pasta Directions:
Ladle butter into heated pan. Add lobster hornemeat, saute until lobster meat turns white. Add the cream and garlic, lower the heat and stir with rubber spatula. Add grated Parmesan and chives and stir until Parmesan is melted.
Sprinkle over top of the sauce and stir in. Add pasta and saute until light in color. Serve hot in a 12 ounce rarebit.
Top with 2 tablespoons of chives.
10.Salmon Steaks
Ingredients
- 2 salmon steaks
- * 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced thinly
- * 1 tablespoon butter
- * 1/3 cup sherry
- * 1 cup cream
- * 1/2 cup chicken stock
- * 2 ounces capers
- * 2 tablespoons parsley
Directions
Saute the mushrooms in the butter until thoroughly cooked but not yet browning.
Add the sherry and let simmer until the alcohol has evaporated. Add the cream and chicken stock. Thoroughly rinse the capers (they’re usually purchased in brine and you don’t want the acidic taste) and add to sauce Broil the salmon steaks – about 5-7 minutes a side, depending on thickness. The sauce should simmer while the steaks are cooking, to thicken it a bit. when the salmon is cooked pour the sauce over to serve. Extra sauce is great on potatoes.
Enjoy these 10 valentine’s day dinner ideas at home with your lover.