Beef - meat is not only nutritious and rich in minerals, protein and vitamin B, but also very tasty. Beef is cooked in various ways: stewed, boiled, baked, but perhaps the most tender, soft and tasty dish can rightly be called beef in sour cream.
Beef in sour cream is ideal for both family dinner and a solemn event. It can be prepared as the main ingredient and served with a side dish, or by adding additional ingredients, as an independent dish.
The only drawback of beef is that this meat is cooked for a rather long time, but even this process can be accelerated by first marinating beef in any favorite marinade.
Beef in sour cream - general principles of cooking
Of course, for the preparation of main dishes, it is best to use a beef sirloin (pulp), pieces with bones can be used to make soups.
It is best to buy young beef or veal, but if you already come across the meat of an old cow - it can be used for cooking aspic or grind into minced meat.
If the meat is of high quality, then the dish will turn out really tasty, nourishing and fragrant.
Before cooking, the meat is thoroughly washed, dried and cut according to the recipe - it can be large portions of the pieces or small pieces.
In some cases, the meat will need to beat off, in others - it is enough just to marinate.
Marinade for meat can be used any: sour cream, mustard, on the basis of oil and soy sauce. Only it is undesirable to use lemon in marinade, its acid can make beef harsh.
Beef in sour cream is either divided into two components - it is the meat itself and sour cream sauce, or these two ingredients are prepared together.
Various ingredients can be added to beef in sour cream: vegetables, mushrooms, cheeses. Also, beef goes well with greens, nuts and various spices.
Recipe 1. Beef in sour cream “Beef Stroganoff”
Meat and gravy for this recipe for beef in sour cream are prepared separately, connecting only at the very end of cooking. For the dish will suit only the sirloin of young beef without fat.
Ingredients:
• 650 grams of beef;
• half a pack of butter;
• two bulbs;
• 220 ml of broth;
• 80 grams of sour cream;
• 30 grams of tomato paste;
• ground pepper, salt;
• leaves of laurel;
• 30 grams of flour;
• 20 grams of spicy mustard.
Cooking Method:
1. Rinse beef thoroughly and cut into longitudinal strips. Usually for beef Stroganoff meat cut into a width of 1.5 cm, Dina - 7-8 cm.
2. Put the pieces of meat in a deep bowl, salt and pepper, cover the bowl with cling film, remove the meat for three to four hours in the refrigerator.
3. In an enamel pan, melt half of the specified amount of butter, add flour, mix well.
4. Pour in the broth, after boiling add salt, tomato paste, mustard, and ground pepper. After boiling again pour sour cream, bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until thick.
5. In the pan, heat the remaining butter, put the pieces of beef, stirring, quickly fry from all sides on high heat.
6. Add chopped onion, fry for another two minutes, then pour sour cream sauce.
7. Simmer, covered the pan with a lid, about 50 minutes, occasionally stirring all the ingredients.
8. Five minutes before the readiness to lay out bay leaves, after turning off the gas, the laurel will need to be removed.
Recipe 2. Beef in sour cream with vegetables
Beef - in principle, like any other meat, goes well with any vegetables. This recipe is proof of that. In addition to these products, you can add those that you have in the refrigerator, yet the presence and abundance of vegetables depends on the season.
Ingredients:
• pound of beef;
• 4-5 potatoes;
• two bulbs;
• sour cream;
• a spoonful of flour;
• 40 g butter; • two leaves of laurel;
• greenery;
• three glasses of water;
• 3-4 clove buds;
• ground pepper, salt, peppercorns.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the beef into several portions (approximately 80-100 grams each), salt, sprinkle with pepper, roll in flour and fry in butter until blush.
2. Pour in water, after boiling, reduce the gas to a minimum, extinguish two hours and 15 minutes under a closed lid.
3. 30 minutes before the end of cooking, put crushed onions, cut into small cubes potatoes, peppercorns, cloves.
4. 15 minutes before the readiness to add sour cream and laurel leaves.
5. Serve the dish, richly sprinkled with chopped greens (usually used parsley, green onions).
Recipe 3. Beef in sour cream with mushrooms in a pot
Beef and mushrooms - from these two perfectly combined products you can prepare a lot of tasty and delicate dishes. One of them is in a cream sauce, which gives the dish its own flavor.
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of beef;
• a pound of fresh mushrooms;
• two bows;
• butter;
• a glass of thick cream;
• peppercorns, salt;
• shredded dill.
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the beef in small pieces, slightly beat off.
2. Peel the bulbs and cut them into thin ringlets.
3. Fry the meat with onions in butter until a light blush.
4. In a separate container, fry the washed and sliced mushrooms until golden.
5. Put the beef in the pots first, then the mushrooms, then salt, pepper, sour cream.
6. Simmer for 2 hours in an oven preheated to 155 degrees.
7. Sprinkle the finished dish with dill.
Recipe 4. Beef in sour cream, baked in the sleeve
Thanks to the baking sleeve, many housewives can afford to pamper their family with tasty and healthy dishes, while spending a minimum of time in the kitchen. Beef is unusually juicy and tender. You can serve vegetables and cereals as a side dish.
Ingredients:
• 780 grams of beef;
• large onion; • half a cup of sour cream;
• 20 ml of olive oil;
• 10 grams of paprika;
• ground pepper, a pinch of salt;
• 60 ml of soy sauce.
Cooking Method:
1. Onion cut into half rings.
2. Cut the meat into small pieces, repel.
3. Put beef and onion in a deep bowl, pour soy sauce, sour cream, olive oil, spices. Mix everything well and put in the fridge for an hour and a half to marinate.
4. Put the pickled meat in a baking sleeve, secure the sleeve from the sides, put on a baking sheet.
5. Cook 50 minutes at 200 degrees.
6. Garnish can serve as a salad of fresh or pickled vegetables.
Recipe 5. Beef in sour cream “Beefsteak in sour cream-garlic sauce”
It may seem that the steak is the steak and it is almost impossible to come up with something interesting, but if you try to cook a piece of beef in a juicy cream-garlic sauce, you will understand that even an ordinary piece of meat can be served in completely different ways and in any case get gorgeous delicious.
Ingredients:
• 430 grams of beef;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• 100 ml of milk;
• a few cloves of garlic;
• salt, spices;
• 100 g butter;
• fresh parsley.
Cooking Method:
1. Mix sour cream with milk and salt in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, put the peeled, but not chopped garlic cloves. To languish, stirring all the time, about 10 minutes, until thick. Put 50 g of butter, as soon as it is melted, remove the pan from the heat, remove the garlic cloves, and set the sauce aside.
2. Rinse meat thoroughly, remove film and grease if necessary. Cut into thin slices, beat off, rub with spices and salt.
3. Fry the beef in a hot frying pan in butter on both sides, giving each side about 5-7 minutes.
4. Put ready steak on a plate, pour sour cream-garlic sauce, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Recipe 6. Beef in sour cream “Chops in the oven”
Sour cream, tomatoes, herbs, succulent meat - all that makes the dish memorable and loved. If desired, the dish can be supplemented with grated cheese, chopped nuts, sesame seeds.
Ingredients:
• kilo of beef;
• two bulbs;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• two tomatoes;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• spices, greens bunch.
Cooking Method:
1. Chop onions and fry, put in a plate.
2. Cut the meat into pieces, carefully beat and smear with spices. Quickly fry on both sides in the same pan, where the onions were fried.
3. Grease a baking sheet or chafing dish with butter, put the fried pieces of meat.
4. Put fried onions and tomato rings on top of the chops.
5. Sprinkle all chopped herbs and pour sour cream.
6. Simmer at 240 degrees for 15 minutes.
Beef in sour cream - useful tips and tricks
• If you are going to bake beef in the oven, then take into account the following fact: in order to make the meat juicy and soft, put it for baking, not in a cold oven, but in a preheated oven.
• To make large pieces of meat juicy, they must first be quickly fried in butter or vegetable oil on high heat until it forms a crust, which will prevent the juice from leaving the meat.
• If a piece of beef is too greasy and it is not possible to cut off all the fat, then to neutralize excess fat, rub the meat with dry mustard powder.
• Beef sour cream can be used in pure form or mixed with spices, salt, greens.
• Cereals, vegetables, pasta will be a great side dish for beef with sour cream.
