Beef itself is not very suitable meat for frying. Unlike pork, beef is tough and less fatty. Therefore, after roasting, it can sometimes resemble rubber in consistency. But following some tricks, any housewife can easily cook juicy and soft beef.
It is necessary
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- Beef meat
- condiments
- a few onions or lemon juice
- soy sauce
- vinegar
- wine
- foil
- meat grinder
- gauze or sieve.
Instructions
Step 1
Freshness is essential to ensure that cooked beef is tender and juicy. In any meat department, choose only fresh meat. It will cook faster and will not taste like an old rubber tire (that is, it will not be hard and dry).
Step 2
When buying meat, pay attention to its color. It should be bright red. If the beef has begun to darken, it means that it has stuck in the display case (the exception is vacuum-packed meat). Ask the seller to showcase the pieces of your choice (ribs, sirloin, and so on) before buying them. Visually assess what you want to take, and do not grab whatever is horrible (fortunately, the times of scarcity are over).
Step 3
Arriving from the store, be sure to put the meat in the refrigerator so that it does not deteriorate and wilt. If you will be cooking meat eight hours or more after you bought it, then put the beef in the freezer (pre-packed in a plastic bag). But don't forget: if the meat is frozen, be sure to defrost it in cool water.
Step 4
Before you start cooking the beef (whichever recipe you choose), marinate it first. This is the most proven and best way to make beef meat softer and juicier. Moreover, the marinade for meat is very simple to prepare. To do this, take and peel a few large onions, and then pass them through a meat grinder (this will give the onion more juice needed for the marinade). After that, squeeze the juice through cheesecloth or a sieve. Add aromatic spices to it. The marinade is ready.
Step 5
Now dip the pieces of beef into the marinade and let it soak. The acid in the juice will soften the meat, partially destroying its fibers. To reduce the marinating time to a few minutes, cut the beef into thin strips. If it should be in the form of large pieces according to the recipe, marinate for an hour. For the marinade, you can use not only onion juice, but also lemon juice, soy sauce, vinegar or wine.
Step 6
If you bake beef in the oven, cover it with cling foil to keep it juicy. This will bake the meat in its own juice.
