Cooking delicious French meat with potatoes

In fact, the French prepare this dish quite differently - without mayonnaise, and sometimes even without meat. Everyone's favorite snack under a cheese crust does not apply to French cuisine, but in our country it is the most popular recipe. Although there is no recipe as such, most likely, this is a cooking method in which housewives make changes to their liking.

Festive meat recipe in French with new potatoes

Soviet cooks laid out the potatoes into pieces of meat, poured them with mayonnaise sauce, sprinkled with cheese chips and called the hot appetizer "French meat."

It will take:

• 1 kg of beef pulp;
• 600 g young potatoes;
• 230 g onions;
• 100-150 g grated cheese;
• mayonnaise to taste;
• 50 g of Peasant oil;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Preparation: 40 min. Portion value: 284 kcal.

Cooking:

1. To prepare, take a large form, brush with oil, salt a little surface. Boil potatoes in their skins for 10 minutes. Drain, cool slightly and peel. Cut potatoes into slices. Put potatoes overlapped in the prepared form.
2. Cut beef across meat fiber into chunks, the thickness of which is no more than 1.5 centimeters. Beat off the meat, season, put on the potatoes.
3. Shred onion half rings. In a skillet, melt 50 g of butter, put onions and then stir slowly, stirring. Transfer the stewed onions (with butter) to the meat.
4. Grease well with mayonnaise and send in a hot oven (170 degrees) for 40 minutes. Then sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven, cook until the surface is reddened.

Interesting to know: in fact, in France they prefer to cook gratin - thin slices of potatoes, baked in thick cream.

Excellent recipe for meat in French with potatoes and mushrooms

Plain potatoes with meat is best left for everyday life. But if you want a holiday, then in French with mushrooms is exactly what you need.

It will take:

• 700 grams of pork;
• 200 g of champignons;
• 3 potatoes;
• 250-300 g of cheese;
• 100 g of mayonnaise;
• seasoning to taste;
• greens to taste.

Cooking: 55 minutes. Calories: 287 kcal.

Cooking:

1. Well beat off the pieces of pork on each side, season to taste.
2. Fry the meat over high heat from 2 sides until golden brown. It is important that the meat only redden, and not burnt!
3. Put the fried pieces on a baking sheet. On top spread out sliced ​​champignons.
4. Chop the potatoes into slices, put them on the mushrooms.
5. Grate grated hard cheese. Connect it with mayonnaise. Season to taste.
6. Cover the potato layer with cheese. Send the dish to the hot oven (180 degrees) for 25 minutes.

Tip: decorate the dish with herbs, serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.

Easy meat recipe in French with tomatoes

For cooking, you need a rectangular shape, for lack of which you can use a baking tray with high sides.

It will take:

• 0.5 kg of veal;
• 250-300 g of tomatoes;
• 250 g onions;
• 300 grams of grated cheese;
• to taste seasonings.

Time: 40-50 minutes. Calorie: 269 kcal.

Cooking:

1. Cut veal into slices (1 cm thick). Well beat off the meat pieces.
2. Spice up sliced ​​off slices to taste and fry without oil.
3. Chop the onion into half rings and brown in butter until soft.
4. Place the meat in a cooking dish, put onions on it, then tomatoes chopped with ringlets. Cover the entire surface with mayonnaise.
5. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for 30 minutes at 200 degrees.

Tip: this dish can be prepared not only from veal, but also from any other type of meat: pork, chicken.

Baked French Chicken Potatoes "For Family Dinner"

No doubt, the meat under mayonnaise is tasty, but hard. In the same recipe, the meat remains dietary and acquires a special tenderness from stewing in sour cream.

It will take:

• 500 g chicken fillet;
• 250 g leek or 2 bulb onions;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 3-4 potatoes;
• 150 grams of hard cheese.

Time: 55 minutes. Calories: 299 kcal.

Cooking:

1. Thinly chop the fillets, wrap with cling film and gently repel. Grate slices of meat from both sides with a mixture of black pepper and salt. Put on a greased baking sheet (in the form).
2. On top of the fillet, lay out the leek, chopped with ringlets, put thin slices of potatoes on it, sprinkle with cheese chips, smear with sour cream.
3. Put the pan in the heated oven (180-200 degrees). Cook 45 minutes. Serve hot.

Dietary meat recipe in French with potatoes

You can prepare a dish with the least harm to the figure. You just need to replace the mayonnaise with natural sour cream. Despite the high percentage of fat content, it is more useful than even the lightest mayonnaise sauce.

It will take:

• 600 grams of chicken meat;
• 300 grams of potatoes;
• 150 g onions;
• 120 grams of cheese;
• 200 grams of tomatoes.

The composition of the sauce:

• 150 g sour cream;
• 150 g of cheese;
• spices to taste.

Time: 45 minutes. Caloric content: 230 kcal.

Cooking:

1. Fillet cut into plates across the fibers. Fry the meat plates, grease with mustard a little, roll in flour and fry in hot oil until golden brown. Fry each side for 30 seconds. Salt after frying.
2. Prepare the sauce: mash the cheese, add sour cream, spices. Perfectly ground black pepper, basil.
3. On a baking sheet (or in the form) spread out onion rings. Place meat, thin slices of potatoes and sliced ​​tomatoes into layers of onion cushion.
4. Pour over the sauce. You can put olives, slices of pineapple, apples or lemon. Sprinkle with cheese chips and send to the oven for half an hour.

It is interesting to know: that mayonnaise was created as a cold sauce, so it cannot fully replace sour cream or cream in hot main dishes.

Good advice

Most often, novice chefs bake meat that has not been defrosted until the end, and cut it into small pieces, which will necessarily lead to dry meat slices. This misstep hostess successfully mask mayonnaise sauce.

There are other options to preserve the juiciness of the meat: fry in egg batter or breaded in hot butter, which will create a crust and preserve the meat juice inside.

Little tricks

The taste of meat in French will change significantly if:

• salt the meat after roasting;
• use different types of cheese;
• add other ingredients (a combination of tomatoes and potatoes are perfect);
• chop potatoes and tomatoes into thin slices;
• instead of the usual mayonnaise take sour cream or thick cream, adding a little mustard;
• instead of onions, use leek;
• put the onions down and the slices of meat up;
• sprinkle the battered meat with other spices;
• add vegetables.

Using these tips, you can easily cook meat in French, fry a slightly broken off breaded piece of meat in a hot frying pan, then bake it in the oven until cooked, adding potatoes, onions, tomatoes and mushrooms, watering with mayonnaise or sour cream.