When planning your dinner menu, try making a new dish using familiar foods - meat and potatoes. You can use tenderloin or minced meat, pork or beef, add sauces, wine or original spices to the dish.
Beef stew with vegetables
For this dish, not only tenderloin is suitable. Use any part of the carcass - long cooking will allow even the toughest meats to boil.
You will need:
- 750 g boneless beef;
- 150 ml of dry red wine;
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil;
- 6 potatoes;
- 4 carrots;
- 2 medium-sized onions;
- 370 g of tomatoes canned in their own juice;
- 130 g of mushrooms;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped parsley;
- salt;
- freshly ground black pepper.
Wine can be replaced with strong meat broth.
Rinse the beef, pat dry with a paper towel and cut into cubes. Mix flour, salt and pepper in a bowl, roll the meat in the mixture and fry it in hot oil until golden brown. Remove the beef with a slotted spoon and transfer to the roasting pan.
Peel carrots, potatoes and onions. Cut the onion into quarters, the potatoes into slices and the carrots into slices. Chop the garlic, coarsely chop the mushrooms. Add vegetables and mushrooms to the meat, add tomatoes, parsley. Pour wine into a pan with meat juice and heat it for a few minutes. Pour the contents of the roasting pan with the resulting sauce. Close it with a lid and place in an oven preheated to 140 ° C for 5-6 hours.
Irish stew
This tasty and aromatic dish requires lamb - preferably a shoulder or neck.
You will need:
- 750 g of lamb;
- 2 medium-sized onions;
- 500 g of medium-sized potatoes;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped parsley;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of thyme;
- 300 ml of water;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Rinse the lamb, cut into chunks and beat. Cut the potatoes and onions into slices. Grease the mold with vegetable oil and put in layers the meat and potatoes with onions, sprinkled with herbs. Salt each layer. Pour the contents of the form with water and send to the oven, preheated to 170 ° C, for 2 hours. Serve hot, garnish each serving with parsley sprigs.
Pies with meat and potatoes
Such an unusual cake will completely replace lunch or dinner. It can be served with fresh sour cream or tomato sauce.
You will need:
- 250 g lean pork without bones;
- 1 potato;
- 250 g wheat flour;
- 60 g butter;
- 60 g of pork fat;
- egg for lubrication;
- salt.
Instead of pork, you can use beef, rabbit or poultry.
Cut the meat and potatoes into cubes, finely chop the onion. Put everything in a bowl and stir. In another bowl, chop the pork fat and flour into crumbs. Add 2 tbsp. spoons of water and knead a tough dough. Knead it until smooth on a floured board. Divide the dough into 4 parts, roll each into a flat cake.
Spread the filling of meat, onions and potatoes on the tortillas. Moisten the edges of the pie with water, lift to the center and pinch thoroughly so that the juice does not flow out. Place the cakes seam side up on a baking sheet. Grease the products with a beaten egg and place in the oven preheated to 220 ° C. Bake the cakes for 40-45 minutes, remove from the baking sheet and chill on the board.
