Basic rules for a delicious dish
How to cook beef stew? It’s not difficult to make a delicious stew; even a person far from culinary arts can handle it. The main thing is to take into account a few simple secrets:
- All products for the stew should be cut into pieces of the same size - approximately 2-3 cm.
- It is advisable to marinate the beef first. An ideal marinade would be wine or a mixture of sparkling water and lemon juice.
Attention: metal containers cannot be used for this purpose, as the meat will acquire an unpleasant aftertaste.
- Before frying the beef, it must be breaded in sifted flour. Then the meat pieces will not stick together during stewing.
- If your stew recipe contains tomatoes, you should remove the skins from them before adding them to the dish. To make this easier, pour boiling water over them and then dip them in cold water.
- When adding eggplants and zucchini, remember that they cook faster than other vegetables. To prevent them from turning into an unattractive mush, add them to the stew last.
- The eggplants must first be sprinkled with salt and left for ten minutes, and then rinsed. This will rid them of the bitter taste.
Hearty and flavorful stew
Traditionally, it is a stew of beef with vegetables and potatoes. This dish will be a complete lunch or dinner, as they say, two in one: both meat and side dish. If you wish, you can add other vegetables not listed in the recipe.
Compound:
- 1 kg beef;
- 5-6 potatoes;
- 5-6 tomatoes;
- 3-4 onions;
- 3-4 bell peppers;
- salt;
- blend of spices;
- refined vegetable oil;
- greenery.
Preparation:
- Let's prepare all the products. Wash and dry the beef, cut into small pieces. Salt the meat and season with spices.
- Peel and wash the vegetables. Chop the onion into half rings, bell peppers and potatoes into slices, and tomatoes into slices.
- Grease the bottom of a thick-walled pan with vegetable oil, lay out ½ of the vegetables in layers in the following sequence: onions, bell peppers, tomatoes.
- Distribute the meat pieces on top.
- Place potatoes on top of the beef.
- Repeat the vegetable layers in the same sequence.
- Salt and add spices to taste, cover the pan and simmer the stew on the lowest burner level for two and a half hours.
- Garnish the finished stew with herbs if desired.
On a note! Using this recipe as a basis, you can prepare beef stew in a slow cooker. To do this, select the appropriate option – “Quenching”.
Stew and roast beef with potatoes - recipes
We bring to your attention the most delicious recipes for cooking roast beef.
Roast beef with potatoes
Products:
- Beef meat - 0.4 kg;
- Potatoes - 0.7 kg;
- Onions - several pieces;
- Vegetable oil;
- Bay leaf;
- Salt, spices, pepper;
- Water - half a glass;
- Broth - half a glass
Cut the meat into pieces. Chop the onion finely. Cut the potatoes into slices or small pieces. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan and pour the onion into it, then fry it a little, stirring constantly. Now place the onions in a separate bowl. Then place the meat in the same frying pan where the onions were fried and fry a little. When the water from the pan evaporates, you need to add more oil. Then add half the fried onion to the meat and add salt. Top with potatoes, and the remaining onion on top, then a bay leaf, then pour in water or broth, then increase the heat. Now cover everything with a lid and simmer the dish for about 45 minutes until cooked.
Roast beef with potatoes and carrots
Ingredients:
- Beef meat - 650 g;
- Potatoes - 700 g;
- Rendered lard - 50 g;
- Greenery;
- Salt, spices;
- Carrots – 300 g
Beef must be rubbed with salt, spices, and pepper. Then place on a baking sheet or baking dish, greased. Then place in the oven and bake. When the meat is fried, you need to place sliced potatoes and chopped onion in half rings between the pieces. From time to time, the meat must be turned over and basted with the juice that is released during cooking.
Beef stew with potatoes
To prepare you will need:
- Beef meat - 650 g;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Potatoes - 350 g;
- Carrots - several pieces;
- Pepper (Bulgarian) - 1-2 pieces;
- Tomatoes - a couple of pieces;
- Greenery;
- Bay leaf;
- Spices, salt
First you need to cut the beef into thin pieces, then mix it with spices (you can use various seasonings for meat). Now the meat needs to be fried in vegetable oil. Then peel the carrots, potatoes and chop into cubes. The onion must be peeled and cut into thin half rings. Peel the pepper from seeds and cut into four parts, then chop into strips. Now take the tomatoes and cut them into cubes.
After this, put all the vegetables in a saucepan and add a little water so that they are 3/4 full. If desired, you can add a bouillon cube to them. Now add the meat to the vegetables and mix everything well. Now cover with a lid. In this form, simmer over low heat for about 23 minutes, while stirring the dish. Add salt if necessary. When the vegetables and meat are almost cooked, you need to add bay leaves, spices, and herbs. Serve the roast beef with potatoes hot. This dish is best eaten with fresh vegetables.
Homemade roast beef
This recipe is truly homemade and can make even the simplest dinner festive and unforgettable. To prepare you will need:
- Beef meat (it is advisable to use boneless flesh) - about 600 g;
- Potatoes - about 5 pieces;
- Onion - 1 piece;
- Garlic - a couple of cloves;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt, spices, ground pepper
It should be noted that the preparation time for this dish will take you on average about 40 minutes.
First you need to peel the onion and cut into thin half rings or rings, as you like. Peel the carrots and potatoes, rinse and chop into cubes. After this, the onions, potatoes and carrots need to be fried a little in vegetable oil, adding salt and spices. Now cut the meat into pieces and simmer a little over low heat. Then put all the vegetables and meat in a pan for stewing. Fill everything with water, add bay leaf, salt, spices. After this, chop the parsley, squeeze out the garlic and sprinkle it over the roast. Place in the oven and bake for half an hour until fully cooked. Homemade roast beef with potatoes is ready!
Cooking stew in pots
Stew with beef and potatoes baked in pots turns out incredibly tasty. And to give the dish sophistication and aroma, add chopped cheese. Minimum hassle, maximum taste and satiety!
On a note! The taste of the stew can be complemented with mushrooms. Fry them in a separate frying pan and place them in pots on top of the meat and vegetables.
Compound:
- 0.4-0.5 kg of beef;
- onion;
- 3-4 potatoes;
- carrot;
- 200 ml broth;
- 100 g cheese;
- salt;
- greenery;
- refined vegetable oil;
- ground black pepper.
Preparation:
Advice! The broth must be cooked in advance. You can use purified water instead.
- Let's prepare the vegetables: peel, wash, and chop.
- We also wash the meat, dry it and cut it into cubes.
- Fry the beef in vegetable oil until golden brown. Salt and season the meat with pepper, and then add the onion to it.
- After 2-3 minutes, add the grated carrots to the pan and simmer everything together for five minutes.
- Divide the beef and vegetables into pots.
- Place diced potatoes on top.
- Pour the broth into the pots. It should fill 1/3 of the pot.
- Grind the cheese and place the last layer in the pots.
- Bake the stew in the oven for an hour at a temperature threshold of 200 degrees.
- Serve the finished dish in pots, garnishing with herbs on top.
Attention! Place the pots in a cold oven.
Vegetable stew with beef, eggplant and zucchini in a pot
Even before the invention of the multicooker, there was a way to preserve the maximum of nutrients during their preparation. This is stewing in an oven in closed clay pots. Dishes made from pots differ from those prepared in the usual way not only in the content of vitamins, but also in taste. You can verify this by preparing vegetable stew with beef.
Ingredients needed during the cooking process:
- 500 grams of beef;
- 300 grams of potatoes;
- 500 grams of white cabbage;
- 1 piece each: eggplant, zucchini, onion, carrot, bell pepper, tomato;
- salt, pepper and dry herbs - to taste.
Cooking time: 30 minutes to prepare the vegetables and fill the pots with them, and 1 hour to bake the stew in the oven.
Calorie content: 107.3 kcal/100 grams.
Progress:
- Wash the beef, remove veins and films, cut into pieces;
- Wash, peel and cut the vegetables into pieces;
- Place the meat on the bottom of 6 pots, salt, pepper and sprinkle with herbs;
- Place vegetables on top of the meat in layers in the following order: onions, tomatoes, cabbage, eggplants, carrots, peppers, zucchini, potatoes;
- Lightly salt and sprinkle with spices on top. Place the covered pots in the oven for an hour. Baking temperature – 220 degrees.
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Spicy Tatar dish
If you like savory dishes, try preparing beef stew with gravy according to the Tatar recipe. It is better to stew it in a cauldron or cauldron.
On a note! In Tatar cuisine this dish is known as azu.
Compound:
- 0.5 kg beef;
- 2-3 onions;
- 4-5 tomatoes;
- garlic cloves to taste;
- 3-4 pickled cucumbers;
- 4-5 potatoes;
- refined vegetable oil;
- salt;
- ground black pepper.
Preparation:
- Prepare the beef as in previous recipes.
- Peel the onions and chop them into half rings.
- In a cauldron, fry the meat with onions in vegetable oil on a high burner level.
- Remove the skins from the tomatoes and grate them. Add garlic cloves passed through a press to the tomato mass and mix.
- Add tomato sauce to the cauldron and stir.
- Cut the pickled cucumbers into cubes and add to the rest of the ingredients. Add salt and ground black pepper, mix, cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer all together until the beef is cooked.
- In the meantime, peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes and fry them in a separate frying pan.
- All that remains is to add the fried potatoes to the cauldron and stir.
- You can serve the stew to the table.
Cooking process
- Divide the cooked meat into small pieces. Fry in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil or fat (at least twenty minutes).
- Then you should add a little salt.
- The onions are cut into small squares, the carrots are chopped and sent to the frying pan.
- After frying all the ingredients until golden brown, add a tablespoon of flour or half a spoon of starch. Mix everything quickly and thoroughly.
- Then pour boiled water there. Simmer for another ten minutes. Two or three minutes before it’s ready, add pepper and spices to taste into the beef stew with gravy. We insist for five minutes. After which the dish can be served. This type of stew goes well with mashed potatoes, rice porridge or buckwheat.
Unusual minced meat stew
Stew can also be made from ground beef. It’s better to twist it yourself, but in extreme cases, a store-bought one will do. You can easily prepare this dish in a hurry.
Compound:
- 0.5 kg minced beef;
- 0.8 kg potatoes;
- 2 carrots;
- 2 onions;
- refined vegetable oil;
- 3-4 tbsp. l. tomato paste or sauce;
- 400 ml purified water or broth;
- salt;
- greenery;
- blend of spices.
Preparation:
- Peel the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into cubes and grate the carrots.
- Peel, wash and chop the potatoes into small cubes.
- Sauté the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown. Attention: we need a frying pan with high sides.
- Then add the carrots and fry the vegetables for 3-4 minutes.
- Place the minced meat in the pan, mix and simmer everything together on a medium burner for five minutes.
- Now let's introduce the liquid base - broth or water, salt and a mixture of spices.
- Simmer the stew for ten minutes and add tomato paste.
- Add potatoes and stir. If necessary, add a little liquid.
- Cover the pan with a lid, set the burner to the lowest level and simmer the stew until all the ingredients are ready. Don't forget to stir the dish.
- Place the greens into the finished stew and serve it to the table.
On a note! Try making beef stew with white cabbage, eggplant and zucchini. It can be stewed in a cauldron on the stove or in pots in the oven.
Beef stew recipe in a slow cooker
With the advent of many electrical appliances in the kitchen, the life of modern housewives has become much simpler. How much faster and easier it is to cook beef stew in a slow cooker. In order to prepare a hearty and tasty dish without spending too much of your free time, cook beef stew in a slow cooker.
Required Products:
- 0.5 kg fresh meat
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 sweet pepper
- sour cream
- garlic
- flour
- salt pepper
How to cook stew in a slow cooker
1. Rinse the meat well and chop finely. We do the same with onions, carrots and peppers.
2. Turn on the multicooker and set it to a special mode.
3. Grind the meat with flour and lay it out as the bottom layer. It is better to pour a little vegetable oil on the bottom so that the dish does not turn out to be dry.
4. To obtain more tender beef when preparing beef stew in a slow cooker, cook it separately for about 20 minutes, see instructions. Vegetables are added later, as they cook much faster and can boil ahead of time, while the meat remains raw.
5. After the machine beeps, add salt and pepper to taste and cook for about 1-1.5 hours.
Ready!