Stew - meals for favorite male

Number of dishes that can be prepared from meat, simply incalculable, but one of the most popular and favorite has always been the stew. Each experienced hostess there are a few recipes such dishes, and each prepares it in their own way, but what we tell you about the most popular versions of stew, the most delicious and mouth-watering.

You can put out any meat: beef, pork, and poultry - will relish in any case, if put out the meat properly. Stew, usually involves two stages - roasting and cooking, it is thus prepared dish will turn out really tasty.

The main task at Stew - make it soft, juicy, tender. To do this, first it is fried in a pan until browned: fiber "sealed" and then to extinguish the meat is juicy but bland. Fry the meat need to shift into a saucepan and pour water or broth, and then simmer, covered over low heat, stirring occasionally, or shaking the pan (this is done to ensure that it is not burnt).

It is believed that the best utensils for cooking meat is a cast-iron pan, and fit any pan.

How to put out the meat

Stew meat can be one large piece or cut into large chunks - it will stew, and if finely chopped meat, the dish will be called goulash. It is important not to overdo the meat in the pan so that it does not seethe, so in the process should ensure that, when the meat is tender, and upon reaching the desired softness in time to remove it from the stove.

When putting in a pan under the lid generated vapor is retained in the tank under the hood and thereby soften the meat, penetrating into the fabric.

If you meat properly extinguished, it will retain its shape, and the resulting thick sauce is - this is due to the fact that the films are converted into boiled soft and combined with water in the sauce.

If you decide to put out the meat in one piece, the piece should take no more than 2 kg in weight, but more often in our country housewives prefer stew meat, cut it into pieces. Also very popular option in which the meat to extinguish added vegetables, especially potatoes is a common option, a little less popular option, in which the meat is stewed cabbage.

Recipe for making beef stew with potatoes

You will need: 700 g beef pulp, 8 potatoes, 2-3 tomatoes, 1 onion, carrot, 1 tablespoon sour cream, bay leaves, chili powder and sharp black pepper, peppercorn and salt.

How to put out the meat and potatoes. Medium-sized cut meat, put in a saucepan with the butter and fry until browned, add the chopped onion and fry, put the carrots, cut into circles, fry, put the chopped tomatoes, a little more all the fry. Pour into skillet 3 cups water, simmer without a lid 1:00 on low heat, put the sliced potatoes, put up his half-beside the water, if necessary, put sour cream and spices, salt the, put all until tender.

It is very easy to vary this dish, simply add the mushrooms (add them better after the carrot), and can be added at the end after the suppression of carrots frozen or canned peas. Add any other vegetables of your choice, you can also vary the composition of spices.

Perfect dish - pork, stewed cabbage.

Cooking recipe braised pork with cabbage

You will need: 350 grams of pork, 1 kg of cabbage, 1 onion, 2 tablespoons tomato paste, 1 tablespoon flour, vinegar, sugar, pepper, peas, bay leaf, salt.

How to put out the pork with cabbage. Finely chop the pork and place in a saucepan with hot oil, browned over high heat, put the onion, fry, then put the chopped cabbage and cover all cover, reduce heat to medium plate, simmer 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir tomato, flour, sugar and vinegar, put in a saucepan with spices, salt the, mix and put out all further 10 minutes.

Likewise, you can put out and beef and chicken with cabbage.

You can choose to extinguish the meat with any parts of the carcass, including the elderly and meat animals.

If you want all at once, then you can put out both beef and pork, ground beef, adding to them also smoked.

Recipe for stew meat platter with vegetables

You will need: 300 grams of beef, pork and minced meat (any, including the possible use of minced chicken), 200 g smoked meat (ribs, bacon, or other.), 200 g heavy cream, 100 grams of sauce to taste (ketchup / Tabasco / Barbecue / BBQ or others.), 100 g smoked bacon, onion 2-3, 1-2 sweet pepper, 2 tablespoons tomato paste or 400 g tomatoes in juice, spices to taste, salt.

How to cook a stew of cold meats with vegetables. At the bottom of a skillet put chopped bacon, put the top layer of chopped onion (half) put forth chopped beef, season with salt and spices, put it coarsely chopped sweet pepper on it - cut into large sausage, bay leaf, then minced and it - the remaining onions. Next, put the chopped pork, mixed with tomato paste and spicy sauce cream close as tightly as possible saucepan lid to extinguish all in the oven at 190-200 degrees for 2-2.5 hours after extinguishing mix gently.

This dish will certainly be very happy to men, it will be a very fragrant and appetizing.

If you want something lighter, you can put out with vegetables and chicken.

Cooking recipe braised chicken with vegetables

You will need: 1 chicken carcass weighing about 1.2 kg, 6 tomatoes and sweet pepper, 1 cup of chicken broth, 1 onion, black pepper, salt.

How to extinguish a chicken with vegetables. Remove the skin from the tomatoes, showering them with boiling water and finely chop, chop the peppers into strips, put vegetables in a deep frying pan or cauldron, over low heat put out with constant stirring. Cut into small pieces chicken, fry in a pan with vegetable oil until browned onions first, then add the chicken, all quickly fry until brown, put in a cauldron to vegetables. Pour in chicken broth with vegetables, add seasoning, salt the under lid bring to a boil, turn down the heat to a minimum, put about 60-80 minutes.

Thus prepared stewed chicken out very soft and gentle.

Of unusual varieties of dishes with the braised meat - ribs, braised with prunes.

Recipe ribs stewed with prunes

You will need: 1.5 kg pork ribs, 150 g of prunes, 50 g smoked bacon, 1-2 onions, 1 tablespoon tomato paste and sour cream, pepper, peas, bay leaf, allspice, salt.

How to cook ribs braised with prunes. Between the rib bones cut the meat into pieces, fry in a pan with hot oil until golden brown, to shift into a saucepan, pour in the water (it should almost cover the ribs), add seasonings, put out under the cover to almost complete evaporation of the liquid. In a frying pan fry the bacon cut into small strips, put the onion, fry until browning, put tomato paste, mix, pepper, warm, put zazharku to the