It’s hard to imagine a full meal without a hot meat snack. One of the easiest to prepare, hearty and juicy meat dishes - pork stewed in sour cream. Cooked in this way, it turns out to be tender, soft, fragrant, combined with almost any side dish. Such a dish you want to eat at any time of the year, it will decorate the holiday table and is suitable for a family dinner.
Cooking Features
An experienced chef certainly knows how to extinguish pork in sour cream, but still the valuable advice will not hurt any housewife.
- The main secret of a delicious pork dish is the right choice of meat. For extinguishing more suitable tenderloin with a minimum amount of fat. In any case, a more tender dish will come from fresh meat from a young pig. If you see that pork fat has a yellow tint, it is better to take another piece where the fat is a light color.
- Before cooking, you should wash a piece of pork, remove the veins and excess fat, and then chop it. The size of the pieces depends on the recipe, but there is one general rule: meat should be cut across the fibers.
- Choosing spices, you can experiment, but not allowing yourself to deviate too much from tradition. Traditionally, all types of peppers are considered suitable for pork, including paprika, bay leaf, rosemary, garlic, nutmeg, marjoram, thyme, basil, and complex curry seasoning. Therefore, it is better to make a combination of two or three seasonings, while adding them in moderate quantities.
You can stew pork in portions or in small pieces, with or without vegetables. Most often it is stewed in a thick thick-walled pan or in a cauldron. At the same time it is necessary to ensure that the liquid does not evaporate, otherwise the meat will burn, it will become dry. You can stew pork in the microwave, using the program “Stewing”.
Pork stewed in cream a la carte
Composition:
- pork tenderloin - 0, 5-0, 6 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will it take to grill meat;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the prepared pork in portions of approximately one centimeter and a half width.
- Fry in oil for 5 minutes on each side.
- Cut the onion into cubes or half rings, coarsely rub the peeled carrots.
- Put the onions and carrots to the pork, fry them with the meat for 5-10 minutes.
- Season and salt pork, add sour cream. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the meat on low heat for 40 minutes. Add water if necessary.
It is best to serve pork stewed in sour cream with mashed potatoes or boiled potatoes. You can submit a vegetable salad instead of a side dish.
Pork stewed in sour cream in a slow cooker
Composition:
- pork tenderloin - 0, 6 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- wheat flour - 50 g;
- sour cream - 0, 2 l;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pork cut into pieces of approximately the same size. The pieces should not be too small or too large, the optimal size is 3 cm.
- Peel the onions and carrots. Onion cut into half rings. Carrot rub. Beautifully in the finished dish looks like carrots, grated for Korean salads.
- Pour oil in the bowl of the multicooker, place the beef and for 15 minutes switch on the frying mode. If the multicooker allows you to choose a product, then, accordingly, choose meat.
- After 7-8 minutes of the program, stop it, add the onions with carrots, mix, after 5 minutes of work of the multicooker, salt, season the meat, add flour and pour in 50 ml of water, then allow the multicooker to complete the program.
- Add sour cream, stir everything. If sour cream is very thick, add some more water.
- Turn on the extinguishing program for an hour.
Pork stewed in a slow cooker is no worse than cooked in a pan.
Pork stewed in a sour cream garlic sauce
Composition:
- pork - 0, 6-0, 7 kg;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- flour - 50 g;
- sour cream - 0, 2 kg;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the pork by washing it and cutting it into equal-sized pieces.
- Cut the peeled half into half rings.
- Pass the garlic through a press, mix with sour cream, salt and pepper.
- Fry the pork in butter until half cooked. It is not necessary to add a lot of oil, because pork contains fat, which will be melted out of it during frying.
- Add the onion and fry the meat with it for 10 minutes, do not forget to mix it.
- Put the meat in a saucepan, cover with water so that it covers the pork completely, put the stew for half an hour.
- In a dry frying pan, heat the flour until it begins to darken.
- Add sour cream, mix. Boil a couple of minutes.
- Put sour cream sauce over the pork, stir it. Stew meat in sauce for 10 minutes.
Before you lay out the pork cooked according to this recipe, you should give it a little brew. Serve this dish with any side dish, sprinkle with chopped greens. Very good for cilantro.
Pork stewed in sour cream and potatoes
Composition:
- pork tenderloin - 0.5 kg;
- broth - 1 l;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- stem celery - 50 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- milk - 100 ml;
- sugar - 5 g;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper to taste;
- vegetable oil - 25 ml;
- flour - 20-25 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the pork like beef stroganoff meat.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- Fry the garlic in a pan, stirring it vigorously, put the meat into it and cook for 10 minutes.
- Slice the onion, carrot and celery in small pieces. Cut potatoes into slices. Put the vegetables to the pork, pour the broth.
- When the broth begins to boil, salt and pepper the dish, cover with a lid, reduce the heat and extinguish for 20 minutes.
- Mix the milk with the flour, pour in the pork.
- Add sour cream, sugar, mix.
- Simmer, stirring, until the sauce thickens.
Pork stewed with potatoes in sour cream is an independent dish that is served without a side dish.
Pork stewed with mushrooms
Composition:
- pork tenderloin - 0.5 kg;
- mushrooms - 0, 2 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- soy sauce - 100 ml;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- onions - 100 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the mushrooms, cut into small pieces.
- Cut pork into strips.
- Peel tomatoes, cut into cubes.
- Cut onion and bell pepper into half rings.
- Chop the garlic.
- Place the garlic, onions and tomatoes in a deep frying pan with heated oil. Extinguish under cover for 10 minutes
- Put the pork in the resulting sauce, cover with soy sauce, simmer another quarter of an hour.
- Add the mushrooms and peppers, pepper the pork, put sour cream on top. Simmer over low heat for another quarter of an hour.
This recipe makes a pork dish quickly. It is combined with any side dish: with potatoes, pasta, rice, buckwheat. In addition, it can be served as an independent dish.
