The hostess always wants to cook something original to amaze family and friends with her culinary skills. But what about those who do not have enough experience yet, and only the most ordinary products are available? It is easy to achieve the desired result if you cook the meat with plums. Moreover, this can be done in different ways, using any kitchen technique.
The fruits of the plum tree have long been used in cooking. In addition to jams, preserves, compotes and various desserts, this fruit has found its application as an original flavoring additive to meat dishes. The most common cooking method in this case is stewing. The finished product is juicy, aromatic and very tasty. How can you make meat with plums at home? In practice, everything turns out to be very simple. For work, you need 0.5 kilograms of beef, 1 carrot, 2 onions, a tablespoon of tomato paste, salt, 100 grams of black plums, a celery stalk, pepper, a glass of water (or broth) and 35 grams of vegetable oil.
Cooking meat with plums is easy:
The best side dish for such a flavorful beef would be fried potatoes.
Oven baked meat with plums will be no less original. For example, you can consider an interesting one in which the following components are used:
800 grams of fresh plums and the same amount of pork loin, 35 grams of vegetable oil, a bunch of green onions, 220 grams of canned water chestnuts, 2 cloves of garlic, 4 sweet potatoes, a couple of small plates of ginger root, 8 grams of sugar, chili pepper and 2 tablespoons of rice wine ...
It usually takes no more than an hour to prepare a dish:
Traditionally, a Chinese dish is served with rice.
How else can you cook meat with plums? There are various recipes. It all depends on which product will act as the main ingredient. Take, for example, an option for which an unusual set of products is needed: 4 chicken fillets (you can also take legs), salt, 6 large plums, 35 grams of lime honey, 1 head of red onion, pepper, one teaspoon of rosemary , curry and turmeric.
You can cook this dish without much difficulty:
Thanks to this recipe, you can always cook an original juicy chicken in an oriental style at home.
Meat cooked with plums is also very popular among the peoples of Transcaucasia. The fruit can be used both fresh and as a tkemali sauce. How do local chefs prepare meat with plums? Georgian cuisine is rich in various recipes. Traditionally, lamb is the most popular meat in this country. If you use special methods and culinary tricks, after cooking it turns out to be no worse than pork, chicken or beef. Chakapuli is considered one of the most popular dishes in Georgia. To prepare it, you need the meat of young sheep, herbs (dill, basil, parsley, tarragon and tsitsmat), as well as fresh plums and some cold water.
Cooking chakapuli is very simple:
In just 40 minutes, the aromatic and very tasty dish will be completely ready.
The meat turned out to be tasty and aromatic, but a little dry. I think to avoid this, you need to stew it not in a whole piece, but in small flat chunks.
The sauce is very interesting - sour, with a bread-plum aroma.
The acidity of the sauce must be adjusted directly for yourself by adding the right amount of sugar or honey.
Frozen plums will be more acidic than fresh plums.
Coarsely chop the onion.
Put 1 ~ 2 slices of rye bread on the bottom of a clay pot or cast iron - if possible, it is better to use "Borodinsky".
Sprinkle in half the onion and half the plums.
Add meat.
Cover with remaining onions and plums.
Sprinkle with salt, sugar, pepper and add water.
Put to simmer in the oven at t = 200 ~ 220 ° C.
After about an hour and a half, poke the meat with a knife. If the meat is soft, remove the cast iron from the oven. If the meat is not stewed, leave for another 20 ~ 30 minutes.
Remove the meat on a plate. All that remains in the iron pot (onions, plums, bread and juice) put into a blender and beat.
Give it a try. Add sugar to taste if necessary.
Pour back into the iron pot and put the meat there.
To prevent the meat from drying out, it must be kept in a sauce before serving.
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While there is fresh plum on sale, be sure to cook the meat with it! It will turn out to be delicate, with a balanced sweet and sour taste and truly divine. It is not for nothing that in the Caucasus, meat is served with the spicy Tkemali sauce, which is prepared on the basis of plums or cherry plums, and there they know a lot about meat dishes.
For cooking meat stewed with plums, beef is completely optional. You can use this recipe to cook a dish of pork, lamb, and every time it will be delicious.
At first I wanted to cook a dish only from beef, but then I decided to add fatty lamb to the beef, and it turned out to be a real fairy tale!
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat. Arrange the slices of chopped beef.
Fry the meat in a skillet for about 10 minutes, so that it is practically cooked. You can add a glass of water and simmer the meat to soften it. It is necessary to extinguish until the liquid has completely evaporated.
While the meat is cooking, you need to prepare everything for exactly that divine taste... Chop the onion finely. Chop the chili and garlic finely. Wash the plum, cut into halves and remove the seeds. Take different greens. It's good if you have mixed herbs: basil, celery, dill, parsley, cilantro.
When all the liquid has evaporated and only fried meat and oil remain in the pan, add the prepared onions, garlic and chili peppers. Fry for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Then add the plum. It is not necessary to keep the plum on the fire for a long time, 3-4 minutes will be enough.
Pour the greens last, stir and salt to taste.
Immediately lay out the meat stew with plums on plates. Fantastically delicious!
