What are the most good things about dishes cooked in pots? Most importantly, they are very easy to prepare. No special witchcraft is required: a long and tedious presence in the kitchen. This is especially valuable for those who are busy at work, as well as for young families who may be unexpectedly visited by parents.
Having the necessary ingredients, you just need to distribute them to the pots in the correct sequence, close and … voila - you are free and you can cook something else in order to completely finish off unexpected guests with your skill and ingenuity. By the way, in this recipe, of course, everything is important, but there is one small touch that adds a cute uniqueness - what you will use to make a lid for your pots: a crispy tortilla, which, according to a long-standing village tradition, can replace bread.
Ingredients
For 6 medium ceramic pots you will need:
- about 500-600 grams of beef;
- fat tail fat;
- 2-3 onions;
- 2-3 carrots;
- 250-300 grams of chickpeas (Central Asian peas)
- 6-8 potatoes;
- half a small fork of cabbage;
- 2 heads of garlic;
- 2 eggplants;
- 6 tomatoes;
- greens: a bunch of cilantro, parsley, basil;
- red or black pepper to taste;
- water;
- 0.5 pack of margarine;
- 1 egg;
- 1/2 glass of water;
- 1-1.5 cups of flour;
- 1, 5-2 teaspoons of salt.
Stage 1
To begin with, from a pack of margarine and eggs, we will prepare an early ripening puff pastry - if you do not have one ready. This is done quickly and simply: pour 2/3 of water into a glass, add one egg and salt there, stir everything with a fork, as if whipping. Three margarine on a coarse grater, add flour and rub the contents with your hands until fine crumbs. Pour the prepared mixture into this crumb, and knead the dough. Divide the finished dough into 6 koloboks, put them on a board and put them in the cold - in the freezer.
While the dough is freezing, let's take care of the pots.
Stage 2
On the bottom it is necessary to lay out a medium piece of fat tail fat. In principle, you can replace it with any vegetable oil, but fat tail fat, whatever meat it is used with, gives the dish a subtle aftertaste. Then everything is laid in layers and it is very important to follow the sequence, because if you put tomatoes on top of the potatoes, then the potatoes will turn out to be firm and tasteless.
On top of fat tail fat or vegetable oil, lay out several pieces of beef, cut slightly larger than a walnut, about 4-5 pieces. Then chopped onion rings and a few cloves of garlic. Sprinkle them sparsely with chickpeas - about about the grist.
After the chickpea, it's time for carrots and coarsely chopped potatoes - one medium potato per pot. And here, for the first time, the dish needs a little salt and pepper - a pinch of salt and pepper on the tip of a knife on a pot. Fill with water so that it slightly covers the potatoes.
Divide half of a small fork of cabbage into six parts. Place each piece on top of the potatoes. There is just a little left: put chopped greens on top of the cabbage, a couple of eggplant rings, a tomato and again greens. Salt again.
Stage 3
Turn on the oven. Remove the dough, roll out 6 cakes and cover the pots with them, and cover the top with lids. Place them on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Everything - for 1 hour 20-30 minutes, you can forget about them. After 1 hour 20-30 minutes, remove the lids and leave in the oven for another twenty minutes so that the dough has time to bake.
First advice
If there’s no time at all, then you don’t have to bother with the dough. Cover the pots tightly with foil and lids on top. The main thing here is density. The fact is that the lids from the pots do not guarantee the tightness of the closure, and then the moisture will evaporate and the dish will turn out to be dry.
Second tip
If you forgot about the dough and have already put your beef with vegetables and chickpeas in the oven - don't worry! But now you have a dough for a small cake: roll out six cakes, bake each of them, brush with any cream and place them one on top of the other, sprinkle with crumbs from the edges of the same cakes and … voila - dessert is ready.
