Recipes from beef for the second

When we go through the cooking books in search of simple recipes or in general what to cook from beef for the second course, we involuntarily recall what our mother prepared for us. And now we present you three simple recipes on this topic.

Recipe for gravy from beef

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Preparation

Of course, to sink or, as they say - the beef sauce was tender, you need to choose the meat suitable, the cut will work fine, or a good veal pulp. The absence of veins in meat will bring you closer to the desired result, since the main condition of meat sauce - the meat should almost melt in the mouth.

So, wash the meat well, remove all that is not needed - films, veins, fat. After drying and cut into long narrow slices, then lightly, do not overdo it and cut it once more in half perpendicular to the length. The resulting pieces roll in flour and gently, without overdrying the fry. Now in the frying pan to the meat, add very finely chopped onions, carrots and chopped garlic cloves into four pieces. After the addition of vegetables, all the ingredients should be held in a frying pan for no more than 10 minutes, then transfer everything to the extinguishing dishes, adding tomato puree and a bay of ¾ hot water. Readiness is determined by meat, if a test piece is falling apart in your mouth, then add the spices, but only ground or well-ground, squeezed garlic, salt and wait another 10 minutes. Now you need to separate the meat from the resulting broth with vegetables, cover the dish so it does not cool down, beat the vegetables in the broth with a blender or use the old method of rubbing through a sieve. Gently enter 30 grams (1 tablespoon) of the sautéed flour in a dry pan before boiling the resulting sauce, then transfer the meat there.

Cutlets from minced beef

Ingredients:

Preparation

Pre-turn the oven to 200 degrees. Slices of a loaf is broken and peremnite hands, after a bay hot milk. Rinse the meat, remove the film and cut into pieces approximately equal to a matchbox, and cut the onion into 4-6 lobules. Cut the chopped onion with meat, and garlic in a meat grinder, thus making minced meat. There, too, add egg, salt, ground spices, by the way, you can add some more to your taste. To them attach the pieces of the loaf from the milk. Thoroughly mix everything and check for salt, then form a cutlet no more than 2 cm tall and roll it in breadcrumbs, just do the rest of the stuffing. On the baking tray with not very low sides pour the vegetable oil and spread the kitchen brush throughout the working area, except for the sides. Cut the cutlets on a baking tray and carefully, avoiding the cracks, closing the top with foil put in the oven for a third of an hour. Then divide the oil into pieces by the number of produced cutlets and, removing the foil put the butter on the cutlets leaving them in the oven for another same period of time.

Roll of beef

Ingredients:

Preparation

Meat should be beaten, covered with food film, so as not to punch holes in the future roll, then salt and spice the resulting large chop from both sides. Pre-soaked dried apricots with prunes chop (not in puree) with the help of kitchen appliances, do the same actions with cheese and butter, then all combine and diligently mix. Distribute the resulting creamy-fruit mass over the chop, tightly roll into a roll and bandage with a kitchen twine. Transfer to foil, you should get an envelope with seams at the top, so the juice will in any case remain inside. Send it to the preheated oven for 1 ½ hours at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees, in the finale, carefully unfold the top of the foil, letting the juice flow out and raise the temperature to 210 degrees for 10 minutes.