If you get creative, you can make a delicious soup, roast, beef stroganoff and a variety of dishes with vegetables from beef meat. Consider the recipes.
Beef first courses
So, what to cook beef at first? As a first dish of beef, you can cook kharcho. Of course, mainly it is made from lamb breast, but if you replace it with beef brisket, you will get a special dish. You can cook a hearty soup of beef ribs.
Beef brisket
Ingredients:
- beef brisket - 0.5 kg;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- 3 large slices of garlic;
- rice - ½ of a regular glass;
- tomato (or 1 tomato) - 40 g;
- sour plum (cherry plum tkemali) - ½ cup;
- to taste - cilantro or parsley or dill.
The cooking time is 2.5 hours, the caloric value of 1 serving is 335 kcal.
Prepare the meat - wash, remove excess fat. Put a piece of brisket in a pan with cold water, put on the stove. It is better to put the whole piece in the soup, and cut the already prepared meat into cubes.
But, if the piece does not fit in the pan, it can be cut into small pieces at the rate of 4-5 per serving. Further, as usual, when the broth boils, remove the foam, reduce the heat to a minimum.
Two hours later, they put in a saucepan: onions, finely chopped, crushed garlic, rice, cherry plum, seasoned with spices. It remains to wait half an hour. For information: it is better to use dried cherry plum puree, but you can also take fresh berries.
Remove a little fat from the broth and lightly fry a tomato or tomato puree on it. Fat is optional, any oil will do. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, lower the tomato dressing into the soup. Kharcho is served on the table, sprinkled with finely chopped greens, which is best chosen according to your taste preferences.
Hearty Beef Rib Soup
It will take:
- beef (ribs) - 500 grams;
- tomatoes - 2 fruits;
- onion - 1 head;
- potatoes - 4 pcs .;
- 1 sour apple;
- greens (cilantro, dill) - 1 bunch.
To cook the soup will take 1 hour 25 minutes, its caloric content - 310 kcal.
To cook this soup you will need a saucepan with a thick bottom or a cauldron. Fry ribs in butter, add chopped onion to them and lightly browns it. Chop the potatoes into large pieces, also add to the cauldron (or saucepan). Cook for 5 minutes.
Send tomatoes to the meat, pre-peeled and chopped, stew for 3 minutes. Now pour all over 1.5 liters of water, cook for 45-55 minutes at minimum heat. The soup is ready when the meat is soft. At the end of cooking add to the soup a very finely chopped apple, to taste greens. Just a couple of minutes on low heat and hearty soup is ready.
Beef entrees: cook quickly and tasty
What to cook beef quickly and tasty on the second? Beef with vegetables - a great option for the second dish. Especially if you have to cook for a large family - in 30 minutes you get from 4 to 8 servings at once.
Beef baked with tomatoes
Ingredients for cooking:
- beef meat (veal) - 500 grams;
- tomato - 3-4 fruits;
- clarified butter - 120 grams;
- to taste - greens, spices.
It will take 55 minutes to cook this dish, one portion - 300 kcal.
Cut the flesh into pieces (small), sprinkle with spices and put in a deep container, recommended for cooking in the oven. Put sliced tomatoes around meat, add hot water, only a little.
Veal will be stewed in tomatoes and in the juice that is released from them. Bake in the oven until tender, the recommended temperature is 175-190 degrees.
Quick: beef with mixed vegetables
For the dish must be purchased:
- beef (fillet portion) - 450-500 grams;
- a mixture of vegetables (frozen) - 1 package;
- for frying olive oil - 40 g .;
- to your taste - spices.
The time it takes to cook - 20 minutes, the dish calorie content - 320 kcal.
How to cook:
- Fillet cut into flat pieces, the thickness of which is 8 mm. Meat plates beat off with a hammer, cut into strips and season with spices;
- Put the meat in a bowl, close tightly. Leave for half an hour;
- You will need a frying pan with a thick bottom. Fry the beef strips in butter for 7-10 minutes until they turn red;
- Add the vegetable mixture to the meat. Cook over medium heat, after 5 minutes, beef with vegetables can be served.
Roast Beef with Potatoes
Ingredients Required:
- 600 grams of beef fillet;
- potatoes - 8 large tubers;
- bulbs - 2 pcs .;
- water or broth - 12 tbsp. spoons;
- sour cream - 250 grams;
- for roasting - 70 g of oil;
- bay leaf, dill, spices - to taste.
To cook roast it will take 35 minutes, one serving contains 330 kcal.
How to cook:
- Meat and potatoes cut into cubes. Cook separately in butter;
- Brown onions, chopped into half rings;
- Take ceramic pots and put prepared ingredients in them: meat, potatoes, onions. Spice up each layer;
- Add broth or water to the pots, put in the oven for half an hour.
- 6 minutes before the end of the quenching add sour cream (in each pot 1 tbsp. Spoon), bay leaf, sprinkle with chopped dill. Serve on the table in the same clay pots.
Beef: the easiest recipe
Ingredients:
- beef fillet - 1 kg;
- butter or margarine - 100 grams.
Meat will be ready in 1 hour 40 minutes, one portion will not exceed 300 kcal.
Cooking is easy:
- Wash with cold water beef fillet and put a whole piece in a cauldron or in any suitable dish with a thick bottom;
- Add butter to the meat, put the cauldron on a very slow fire, close the lid tightly;
- An hour later, salt the meat, season with pepper, leave for another half an hour to stew;
- Beef, cooked, according to this recipe, you can eat hot or cold, in any case will be delicious.
What to cook for dinner from beef
The best option for dinner - beef with sauce, and additional ingredients - nuts, apples, raisins will give the dish a savory aroma and taste.
Beef stroganoff from beef
Required Products:
- boneless beef - 1 kg;
- pork belly - 100 grams;
- pork fat (can be replaced with butter) - 30-40 g;
- light beer - ½ liter;
- 2 carrots;
- onion - 1 head;
- gingerbread - 1 pc .;
- raisins - 1 handful;
- grated almonds - 15 grams;
- ginger (optional);
- spices - to taste.
Beef stroganoff can be prepared in 1 hour and 20 minutes, its calorie content is 280 kcal.
How to cook:
- Beef meat cut into long strips, and pork belly slices. Connect the meat, fry in a bowl with a thickened bottom, three minutes will be enough. Add sliced vegetables to meat - carrots, onions. Cook the dish, stirring occasionally for another 2 minutes. Season with salt, pour light beer;
- After boiling, reduce the temperature of the plate to the very minimum. Close the dishes in which the meat is cooked with a lid. Simmer meat for one and a half hours, the main condition is that the liquid should barely boil. Take the finished beef on a plate;
- Add the crushed gingerbread to the remaining liquid in the pan, cook for 10 minutes with it;
- In a sauce send a handful of raisins, grated almonds, sprinkle with spices to taste or add ginger. Boil for 3 minutes. After that, pour them beef, immediately put on the table.
Spicy beef
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- Beef - 450 grams;
- rice (basmati) - 320 grams;
- canned tomatoes in their own juice - 6 pieces;
- green apples - 2 fruits;
- white onions - 1 large head;
- red onions - 1 large onion;
- cashew (or peanuts) - 1 handful;
- broth - 3 cups;
- flour - 75 g;
- olive oil - 40 g .;
- sea salt - two pinches;
- curry - 1 pinch;
- black pepper - to your liking.
To prepare the dish will take 1 hour and 35 minutes, per calorie per 1 portion will be 320 kcal.
Cooking recommendations:
- Rinse a piece of meat with water, dry on a towel. Cut the fillets into small squares and roll them in flour;
- Heat the oil in a deep frying pan (with a thick bottom). In it fry the meat pieces. When they acquire a golden color, they must be put on a plate;
- Chop the apple and chop the red onion, put it in a frying pan, where the beef pieces are fried, sprinkle with curry, mix, fry until the onions are transparent;
- Sprinkle onion, apple, flour, mix well, add half of the broth, boil over minimal heat, stir constantly. Pour more broth, mix well to dissolve the flour, then season with spices;
- To these ingredients add fried beef, tomatoes, mix everything. The main thing is that the meat was completely covered with sauce. Cover the pan with a lid, simmer for one hour on low heat;
- White onions chopped into small squares, fry in butter until transparent, season with pepper, salt;
- Add rice to the onions, mix, fry for 1 minute, pour boiling water, cook until rice is fully cooked;
- Grind nuts (cashews or peanuts) in a mortar. The pieces should turn out small;
- Put cooked rice on the finished meat (in the very center), sprinkle the whole dish with nuts.
Beef roll for dinner
Need to take:
- pork beef - 450 grams;
- onion - 2 heads;
- 5 eggs;
- carrot - 2 pcs .;
- 1 bunch - green onion feather;
- 2 dry pieces of bread;
- 20 g of mayonnaise or sour cream;
- season with spices - to taste.
Cooking time will be 50 minutes, the calorie content of the dish will not exceed 300 kcal.
Recommendations for cooking meatloaf:
- For the filling, boil 2 hard boiled eggs, chop, mix with chopped green onions, grated carrot. Add to this mixture a raw egg, season with salt;
- Grind beef in a meat grinder along with bread, onions (or take ready minced meat) soaked in milk. In the meat pour 2 tbsp. spoons of water, two raw eggs, salt, sprinkle with pepper, knead the minced meat well;
- On the table, unfold the plastic wrap, lay the mince on it in the form of a rectangle 1 cm thick. Put a stuffing of eggs, onions and carrots in a wide strip;
- Raise one part of the film with minced meat to cover it with stuffing. To form a roll so that the filling was closed on all sides. Transfer with a film on a baking sheet (seam down). Lubricate the roll with mayonnaise or sour cream, put in the oven for 40-45 minutes. The recommended cooking temperature is 200 degrees.
Five good advice
- To make the meat soft, it must be fried in a hot frying pan on each side for 2 minutes;
- During cooking, close the container in which the meat is cooked with a lid so that the moisture does not evaporate;
- Another good way to make juicy meat is to pickle beef in mineral water or tomato juice; you can use wine;
- For marinating it is better not to take vinegar, it makes the meat hard;
- Veal does not need to fry, in any case, it turns out soft.
Thus, from beef you can make delicious soups, savory and juicy main dishes for the whole family. Any dish made with beef is nourishing and healthy. Each of them can feed the whole family.
The recipe for delicious beef dishes - in the next video.
