The combination of meat and fruit is an excellent idea for preparing various exquisite and interesting dishes for a festive menu, for a romantic dinner or a light lunch. For example, you can prepare a salad with beef baked in the oven with pineapple and cheese.
Salad with beef and pineapple
Ingredients:
- young beef, and better veal (tenderloin) - about 400-600 g;
- pineapple - 1 pc. (You can use canned pineapple, even rings, at least in pieces, you need 1 pot);
- pepper sweet red - 1-2 pcs .;
- onion red or white salad - 1 piece;
- garlic - 1-3 cloves;
- hot red pepper - 1 pc .;
- cheese - about 200-300 g;
- olives without pits (young) - 20 pcs .;
- Extra Virgin olive oil;
- vinegar natural light and / or lemon juice;
- fresh fresh herbs (parsley, coriander, rosemary, basil).
Preparation
Meat pre-baked in foil in the oven (you can boil). Finished cold meat cut into small pieces or short strips.
We divide the pineapple , remove the core and cut it into pieces (arbitrarily) or use canned pineapple, then we drain the liquid from the jar (it can be used in cocktail preparation). Cheese finely chopped with a knife or rubbed on a large grater. Sweet peppers cut into short straws, and onions - half rings or quarter rings, olives - circles. Garlic and almost all the greens are crushed with a knife. We put all the ingredients in a salad bowl. Mix olive oil with lemon juice and / or vinegar and season with hot red pepper. Pour this dressing salad and mix. We decorate with greens and serve to the table. You can immediately serve in a portioned dish.
In this dish, pepper, pineapple, onions and garlic were not subjected to heat treatment, so we will get the maximum benefit, since vitamin C and other useful substances contained in ingredients of plant origin will be preserved. In addition, the salad will be pleasantly crunchy. Serve this salad best with light white or pink wines.
For all the wonderfulness of this recipe, it suits, alas, not for everyone for various reasons. In this case, you can cook stewed beef with pineapple (more dietary option).
Braised beef with pineapple
The ingredients are the same, vinegar and lemon juice are excluded.
Preparation
Passer in a saucepan or cauldron on oil finely chopped onion. Add the chopped meat and stew by closing the lid on low heat, stirring and adding water if necessary. When the meat is almost ready, add chopped sweet peppers and pineapple (if canned, you can add at the very end), stew for another 8-12 minutes. Now add the rest of the ingredients.