Ten Best Dishes for Your Next Picnic

Picnics are an excellent way to spend quality time with your friends and family. Sitting under the gorgeous, clear sky, with green grass serving as a cushion to your legs, and watching your loved ones play freely in the surrounding open space is truly a heart-warming delight. What could you do to make this experience more enjoyable for you and the people accompanying you? The answer is, of course, simple: pack delicious picnic snacks! Excellent food positively adds to one's experience and makes it more memorable. Thinking what dishes you could prepare that everyone would love? Find attached below the ten best dishes for your next picnic.

1.  Stuffed Picnic Eggs

Let us start the list with some cheesy delight. Who doesn't love cheese? Therefore, if you want to make everyone's lives better, you must have cheese stuffed picnic eggs on your list of snacks. These deep-fried, golden-brown, crispy, crunchy eggs stuffed with ham, cheese and onions are perfect as picnic dishes. You can pair them up with a chutney side to complement their flavour. You'll be needing the following basic ingredients:

1. Eggs
2. Ham
3. Cheese
4. Onions
5. Chilies

2.  Four Cheese Pasta

You don't want to ignore any of your vegan friends/family members' special needs on the trip. Therefore, to ensure that they are fully included and incorporated in your plans, make sure to have a yummy vegan item on your dish. And what can be better than an easy-to-cook, cheesy vegan pasta? A combination of four different kinds of cheese, this pasta is mouth-watering and hassle-free, and so tempting that even your non-vegan friends won't spare it! You'll be needing the following basic ingredients:

1. Fettucine
2. Parmesan
3. Cheddar
4. Brie
5. Emmental

3.  Stromboli

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Stromboli is a popular and flavourful picnic snack that originated in the United States of America. It is a type of a stuffed pastry packed with delicious items. It is cheesy; it is delicious; it is convenient to bake and easy to eat. And perhaps more importantly, it can be customised for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian companies based on different stuffing. What else could you want from a picnic dish? You'll be needing the following basic ingredients:

1. Pastry dough
2. Mozzarella
3. Tomato sauce
4. Vegetables of your choice or cold cut Italian meats

4.  Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cupcakes

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Cupcakes are usually a show's topper with young kids, and that is rightfully so. What are cupcakes, if not cute little, miniature cakes that are easier to eat? Plus, you get to customize each of them based on individual preferences, such as adding extra frosting/sprinklers, etc. Since peanut butter and chocolate are two of the most loved items on every child's menu, preparing cupcakes of this flavor is an excellent idea. You'll be needing the following basic ingredients:

1. Eggs
2. Butter
3. Peanut butter
4. Flour
5. Chocolate pieces and molten chocolate

5.  Chicken Sandwiches

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We all grew up eating sandwiches, and our next generations will grow up eating them too. They are there to satisfy our midnight hunger pangs or serve our random cravings. They have also been picnicking staples for as long as one can think. Easy to prepare, convenient to eat, and delicious to the last crumb, sandwiches complete every picnicking experience. Here's what you need to make a typical chicken sandwich:

1. Bread
2. Boneless, skinless chicken breast
3. Tomatoes
4. Lettuce
5. Onions
6. Mayo and tomato sauce

6.  Chicken Minced Salad

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If you're looking to please your crowd, you should look into preparing a chicken minced salad. Salads are perhaps the most versatile dish on the planet. They are timeless, suited for all seasons, and have impeccable presentations. Plus, they allow you to feel the freshness, crunchiness, and textures of all the individual components. If you include some meat in them, the overall flavor gets an immense boost. All these things make salads very loved. And since they are not hard to prepare, you wouldn't have to put in extra effort for them. To prepare chicken minced salad, you would need the following ingredients:

1. Grilled chicken thighs
2. Celery
3. Green onions
4. Avocado

7.  Macaroni and Cheese

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Mac and cheese is a cheesy, comfort delight. It is inexpensive and an easy and quick fix as a picnic dish. And the fact that people of all ages seem to love it only adds to its appeal. While you have the option of purchasing boxed mac and cheese, you can always choose to opt for a home-made, irresistibly creamy, cheesy, and smooth recipe. All you need are ten minutes, four ingredients, and lots of love for your family, and you'll have a show's topper prepared for your picnics. You'll be needing the following ingredients to prepare this dish:

1. Elbow macaroni
2. Shredded cheddar cheese
3. Milk
4. Butter

8.  Garlic Bread

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So, you're having pasta on your picnic menu and are looking for something to go with it? Garlic bread should be your first choice. You don't need to be a food expert to know that garlic adds a unique flavour to dishes and makes everything taste several folds better, even bread! It would not only make lunch more fulfilling but also more delicious. You'll be needing the following ingredients:

1. Butter
2. Garlic cloves
3. French bread
4. Minced fresh parsley

9.  Chicken Sesame Noodle Bowl

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What makes a bowl of chicken sesame noodles an ideal dish for picnics, other than its delicious flavour? The fact that it meant to be served cold! With this dish, you don't have to worry about food, not tasting as good after a while, and wouldn't have to rush people to have food first. You would need the following to prepare this:

1. Spaghetti
2. Sesame oil
3. Soy sauce
4. Sesame seeds
5. Brown sugar
6. Skinless, boneless chicken breast

10.  Vanilla Peach, Mango, and Strawberry Sangria

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Looking for a way to end the picnic on a very positive note? Prepare this delicious delight and surprise everyone. You'll need the following:

Vanilla powder

Peaches

1. Mangoes
2. Strawberries

So, that was the list! Hopefully, you would find some inspiration from it and be able to pull off amazing dishes for your next picnic and make your loved ones incredibly joyful. Happy picnicking!