There are many unusual dishes without meat. But most holiday tables are not complete without this product. Someone, without changing traditions, prepares the same thing for every holiday or for everyday meals. And someone is constantly looking for new recipes and ideas.
On the eve of the New Year and a series of “endless” weekends, we will present recipes for unusual meat dishes.
Dishes from other countries
Most recipes brought from other countries are unusual for Russians. We will not consider the most exotic options, but present those interesting meat dishes that can be prepared at home.
You will have to tinker with the list of ingredients, as some products will not be easy to find. But the main ingredient is meat: pork, beef, lamb - any type required by prescription can be replaced with another one that you like more.
So, interesting meat dishes from China and India.
China: pork with peaches in soy sauce with spices
An unusual dish of pork meat is a combination of juicy peach with a fatty piece of pork. However, the taste is tender, piquant, and the dish itself is very satisfying.
For cooking, you will need the following ingredients:
- pork - 0.6 kg;
- a can of peaches in their own juice;
- carrots - a couple of pieces;
- 1 onion;
- Bulgarian peppers - 2 pcs.;
- tomato juice - 150 grams;
- wine vinegar - a teaspoon;
- starch - a teaspoon;
- ground coriander, ginger, dried garlic, paprika - a teaspoon;
- sugar - 4 tsp;
- hot ground pepper - a third of a teaspoon;
- salt and sesame seed - to taste;
- soy sauce - 6 tablespoons.
It is advisable to prepare a complete list of ingredients, then the dish will turn out with a real Chinese "character."
Pork with peaches is prepared as follows:
- The meat is washed, cleaned of films, fried in oil in a pan, while the fire should be strong. Be sure to salt the meat during frying. As soon as it becomes golden brown, the fire is reduced.
- The onion is cut into half rings, and carrots - medium sized cubes.
- Prepared vegetables are laid in a meat pan, frying all together for 5 minutes.
- Bulgarian pepper is cut into strips and sent to the pan. Note the time 5-7 minutes.
- Coriander, garlic, ginger, paprika, chili, vinegar and soy sauce are mixed in a small bowl.
- The prepared mixture is poured into the pan. Once again, everything is salted, mixed. Stew for 5 minutes, no more.
- After 5 minutes, add sugar, tomato juice, starch, sesame to the pan. Stir and simmer for another 7 minutes.
- Peaches are added at the end. Juice is drained from them, and the fruit itself is cut into cubes. Lay in a pan and simmer for 15 minutes.
This completes the preparation. Serve the meat dish hot.
India: Tandoori Chicken
Chicken meat is dietary and is extremely popular in many countries of the world. In India, chicken is cooked in different ways, the main thing is to add more spices. One of the simple but unusual tasty meat dishes is tandoori chicken.
Its preparation begins with the procurement of products:
- chicken carcass;
- yogurt for salad, without additives - 300 ml;
- cloves of garlic - 3 pcs.;
- juice from 1 lemon;
- salt to taste;
- tandoori masala (seasoning mixture) - 2 tbsp.
An unusual dish of chicken meat is prepared as follows:
- Heat a dry frying pan over low heat. It is poured with zira, coriander, cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, anise, green cardamom, black pepper, bay leaf and fried until a pleasant aroma of spices appears. Dried or fresh green hot peppers, slices of ginger and turmeric are put in a mortar. Grind everything thoroughly, and then put it in a bowl. Add half a teaspoon of sweet paprika, mix. Thus, tandoori oils are prepared.
- The chicken carcass is washed, skin is removed from it - it will no longer be needed. The carcass itself is cut into 8 parts. On each piece of meat an incision is made every 2 cm.
- Garlic is grated.
- Yogurt is mixed with garlic gruel, lemon juice and tandoori masala. Salt.
- The meat sauce is poured over the finished sauce, the lid with the meat is covered and the refrigerator is left to stand overnight.
- Preheat the oven to maximum temperature. Hindus cook this dish in a special oven at a temperature of 400 ° C. In the conditions of Russian kitchens, the temperature of the oven, baking tray or grill is quite high. You can cook the carcass on the street on charcoal. The dish will be considered ready as soon as its crust becomes rosy and crispy.
Unusual holiday meat dishes
I always want to surprise relatives and guests with unusual dishes on the festive table. New Year is a great occasion to cook something original, amazing in composition, design and taste.
Here are a couple of interesting recipes: "Meat ball" and "Bag of the Balkan shepherd."
New Year's "Meat ball"
This recipe for an unusual meat dish is perfect for a festive table and will delight your guests, as it is simply impossible to deprive the attention of this dish.
Necessary ingredients for the "Meat ball":
- 2 types of meat: pork fillet - 300 grams, chicken - 100 grams;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- champignons - 100 grams;
- cilantro or parsley;
- lemon;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- soy sauce;
- spice mix: Italian herbs, pink pepper, allspice, mustard.
One of the most unusual meat dishes is prepared like this:
- The pork fillet is thoroughly beaten, sprinkled with pepper and ground herbs.
- The same thing is done with chicken.
- A sauce is prepared from 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, a teaspoon of mustard, lemon juice and 2 lunch spoons of vegetable oil.
- Pork and chicken are marinated in this sauce.
- Set the meat aside and prepare the vegetables. Onion finely chopped.
- With garlic, carrots and champignon legs do the same thing as with onions.
- Allspice and pink pepper are added to the mixture of vegetables and mushrooms.
- Champignon caps are boiled in boiling water for 5 minutes. For flavor, you can add bay leaf.
- Garlic is ground on a fine grater. Finely chopped greens, cheese is also grated. All these ingredients are mixed and stuffed with boiled mushroom caps.
- Take a heat-resistant roundware. They cover it with foil.
- On a foil in a circle lay pork fillet, lap. Fillets from one edge should line the bottom of the dishes, and the other edge should hang.
- At the bottom lay 2 lunch spoons of fried vegetables and mushroom legs.
- Stuffed mushroom caps (as much as you like) are laid out on top of vegetables.
- Chicken meat is placed on top of mushroom caps.
- And the final layer is the remaining fried vegetables with mushrooms.
- All this stuffing is covered with the hanging edges of pork.
- Wrap a meat ball with foil.
- The dish is brought to readiness in the oven at a temperature of 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
- After the allotted time, the foil is removed from the meat and left in the oven for another 10 minutes to brown.
- The prepared meat ball is taken out, the foil is removed. Spread on a dish and garnish with peas of pink pepper, or pomegranate seeds. Grains are placed over the entire surface at a distance of 3 cm from each other.
"Bag of the Balkan Shepherd"
This is followed by a recipe for an unusual meat dish with an interesting name. The Balkan Shepherd’s Bag is a great idea for a festive table.
Ingredients:
- minced pork and beef - half a kilo;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- onions - 3 heads;
- champignons - 250 grams;
- fresh bacon - 100 grams;
- ripe tomato - 1 pc.;
- breadcrumbs - a couple of tablespoons;
- ground black pepper;
- barbecue sauce;
- vegetable oil.
Stages of preparation:
- First, chopped onions in half rings should be fried in oil.
- Mushrooms are cut into thin plates and sent to the onion.
- Salt and pepper the contents of the pan and fry for several minutes. But you do not need to wait until the mushroom juice completely evaporates from the pan. A small amount should remain.
- Stuff the minced meat with your hands, adding salt, pepper and bread crumbs to it.
- From the minced meat they make a cake 2-3 cm thick.
- Take a glass (beer) with a bottom diameter of not more than 6 cm. Wet the bottom from the outside with water and set the glass strictly in the center of the meat cake.
- Hands moisten with water and wrap the bottom of the glass with minced meat.
- Bacon is wrapped on top of the meat, in 1-2 layers.
- Carefully remove the glass, leaving only a nice meat basket.
- At the bottom of the basket pour a small amount of barbecue sauce.
- Tomato cut into thin circles.
- The meat basket is stuffed with fried mushrooms. Top with sliced tomato.
- The cheese is carefully cut into thin slices.
- And the top of the basket is decorated with cheese slices.
- There are several such baskets.
- Take a deep baking sheet, grease it with vegetable oil.
- Arrange meat baskets.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
A delicious dish called "Bag of the Balkan Shepherd" is ready.
Fancy meat dishes for dinner
It is not necessary to cook something original and unusual only on holidays. Much nicer to surprise the culinary novelty of their household during an ordinary dinner.
And therefore, further we will present recipes for unusual meat dishes with a photo: Wellington beef and meat “For the pleasure of guests”.
Meat "For the pleasure of guests"
Everything ingenious is simple, confirmation of this is that the meat “For the pleasure of the guests”, which consists of a simple set of ingredients, is prepared easily, but at the same time it turns out to be original and very tasty.
The list of ingredients is represented by the following products:
- meat of veal or beef - kilogram;
- liquid honey - 2 tablespoons;
- ketchup "Shish kebab" - 6 tbsp .;
- head of garlic;
- ground black pepper - half a teaspoon;
- ground chili - a quarter of a teaspoon;
- allspice - half a teaspoon;
- salt to taste;
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
Prepare "For the pleasure of the guests" as follows:
- A piece of meat is cut into large pieces, about 4 by 4 cm.
- Garlic is made into slurry using a fine grater or in a garlic press.
- Take a small saucepan. 6 tablespoons of ketchup, garlic and honey are laid out in it.
- Stir the mixture and heat on low heat until liquid. After being removed from the fire.
- Vegetable oil, salt, hot red pepper, black pepper, allspice are added to the prepared mixture. Stir thoroughly until smooth.
- The sauce prepared on the basis of ketchup is poured onto the meat, mixed thoroughly and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- After the allotted time, the pickled meat is spread on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees for an hour. As soon as a quarter of an hour has passed since the start of baking, the meat is covered with foil and baked.
On the one hand, the dish is quite simple, it has no exotic ingredients. But this is only at first glance. The taste of this meat is very original, because it combines the sweetness of honey and the sharpness of seasonings.
Wellington Beef for Family Dinner
Want to make a casual dinner solemn? Make the Wellington Beef.
Ingredients required for cooking:
- beef tenderloin - 0.8 kg;
- puff pastry - 600 grams;
- mushrooms - a pound;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- 6-7 slices of bacon;
- a pair of thyme sprigs;
- 2 tablespoons of mustard;
- head of garlic;
- a couple of spoons of vegetable and 15 grams of butter;
- sesame seeds - 10 grams;
- salt and pepper as desired;
- a pair of yolks.
And now the preparation itself:
- A whole piece of beef is salted well.
- Vegetable and butter are heated in a pan. Thyme and garlic gruel are fried in an oil mixture. Constantly stir so that nothing burns. Oil should be saturated with aromas of thyme and garlic. And as soon as they begin to fry, they are removed from the pan.
- Now a whole piece of meat is fried in aromatic oil. It should be covered with a golden crust, but inside it should remain moist.
- As soon as the meat is "gilded", it is transferred to a cutting board and peeled from all sides, coated with mustard, wrapped in foil and left for half an hour.
- Lek is crushed.
- Mushrooms are chopped very finely. They can be chopped with a special nozzle in a blender, there should be small cubes, but not gruel.
- In oil, in which meat was previously fried, first fry the onions, and then the mushrooms.
- All fry until the mushroom juice is completely evaporated.
- Pour salt, black pepper and thyme to onions and mushrooms. Stir and remove from heat.
- A layer of cling film is spread on a cutting board. On it lay the specified number of strips of bacon (along, tight to each other).
- On top of the bacon spread a thin layer of mushrooms with onions.
- Now a piece of beef is placed on the mushrooms and, using a cling film, carefully wrap it in bacon, like in a roll. Press the meat tightly in the film.
- The dough is rolled out on the table. Release the meat from the film.
- The edges of the dough are smeared with yolk.
- Spread the meat on the edge of the dough and wrap it in a roll. Excess dough is cut off.
- Smear on top with egg yolk.
- Transfer to a baking sheet and bake: first 15 minutes at 200 ° C, and then 15 minutes at 180 ° C.
- The finished dish is removed from the oven and left to brew for half an hour. Then chopped.
Conclusion
Unusual meat dishes can be quite simple to prepare, but they look original, and their taste is a whole range of different shades, since the set of ingredients is wide and varied.
The preparation of such dishes does not endure in a hurry, but the result justifies every minute spent.