How to cook asu at home: the choice of ingredients and recipes

Azu is a hearty meat dish of Tatar cuisine. How to cook the basics? The main ingredients are meat, potatoes, pickles and tomatoes or tomato sauce. More than half of the Tatars are Muslims. Pork is used in cooking only part of the population that is not strictly observing religious rules. Azu - a very old dish - is made from horse meat, beef or lamb. Russians and many other nationalities living in Russia often use pork for cooking the Tatar dish, if they are used to consuming it.

Azu: the rules of the classic dish

How to cook basics at home? Azu is a dish for the whole family, and it is prepared, of course, in the native kitchen. No special technologies and rare ingredients are needed.

Here are the basic rules of a real Tatar dish:

1. From meat we choose horse meat, lamb or beef.
2. We fry the ingredients (meat, potatoes, onions) separately from each other. Sometimes pickles are also separately fried in oil or boiled in another bowl.
3. Be sure to use in the preparation of pickles in such quantity that the broth is pleasant. Tomatoes or tomato paste are also needed.
4. From seasonings, be sure to let hot pepper.
5. There should not be much broth - this is not soup.
   

Pork Meat

How to cook the basics of pork? As mentioned above, the basics of pork are not cooked. But if family members are accustomed to eating this particular type of meat, then it is better to choose a piece of pork without fat and cut it across the fibers, which is done with other types of meat. The slices should be elongated (about the same as for beef stroganoff).

Fry and stew pork for 1.5 hours. The meat should be soft.

How to cook the basics so that the meat is soft?

First, you need to choose a piece of carcass of a young animal.

Secondly, cook on time for at least one and a half hours. After such exposure at high temperature, eating meat is absolutely safe: potentially harmful organisms do not remain alive.

Thirdly, if meat needs to be cooked a little faster, then experienced housewives recommend putting a piece of black bread (rye) and a little soda in the broth.

Azu "Very tasty"

How to cook basics with pickles, but without hot pepper? The dish is relatively simple to prepare and very tasty.

Cooking process:

1. Fry pieces of meat in a pan. Then continue to simmer them in the same bowl.
2. Pour water into a 5-liter pan (about two liters). Put her on fire.
3. Peel potatoes (almost 2/3 of the pot), onion (1 pc.).
4. Transfer the meat to boiling water, add salt, continue cooking. Put the potatoes cut into pieces into the pan. Fry it lightly.
5. Pickled cucumbers (5 pcs.) Are very finely chopped. Dip in water to the meat. Put to the meat and potatoes. It should be covered by water.
6. Sauté the onion and put it in the pan too.
7. When all the ingredients are cooked, put in a dish a tablespoon of tomato paste, chopped garlic (3-4 cloves, depending on their size). You can add a bay leaf. The last ingredients are not kept on fire for more than three minutes. Remove the bay leaf immediately after turning off the gas or add it to a fully prepared dish and remove it after a few minutes.

If such a dish is prepared from pork, then a layer of lard, caught on the meat, will give a good taste and increase the richness of the dish.

Frying the ingredients separately from each other gives the dish a very good taste. Azu turns out like professional chefs prepare masterpieces. The special taste does not compare with what it turns out if the components are mixed immediately or not fried.

Chicken Meat

How to cook Tatar-style basics from chicken? Azu is a centuries-old dish. It has many different options. Azu can also be made from chicken, but it, of course, will not be classic.

Ingredients: chicken - 300-500 g, 5 potatoes, carrots, onions - 3 pcs., 2 tomatoes, bell peppers, half eggplant, 3 cloves of garlic, bay leaf and other spices.

Cooking:

1. Sauté the onion and put it separately on a plate. Fry the chicken pieces in the same pan. Put onions to her.
2. Put crumbled potatoes, carrots, eggplant, tomatoes, bell peppers to the dish. Simmer until tender.
3. Put spices and keep the dish on the fire for a couple of minutes.

If the potatoes are also fried separately from the rest of the ingredients, it will turn out tastier.

How to cook the basics in a slow cooker?

Ingredients: 400 g boneless beef, 6-7 potatoes, 3 pickles, onions, tomato paste (1.5 tbsp.), Bay leaf, garlic (2 slices), parsley, sunflower oil, pepper, salt.

Cooking:

1. Cut the beef and onions and put in the saucepan of the crock-pot with sunflower oil. Cook for 30 minutes in the “Baking” mode.
2. Put cucumbers and tomato paste in the dish and cook for another 10 minutes.
3. Put crushed potatoes in a saucepan, pour 200 ml of water, put spices and salt. 1 hour to keep the dish in the "Stew" mode.
4. Sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs.

Azu in pots

How to cook the basics in the oven? Of course, in pots! In clay pots, the dish turns out to be especially tasty.

Ingredients: 350 g of beef, 7 potatoes, 2 pickles, onions, 2 large tomatoes, 1 tbsp. a spoon of tomato paste, 2 cloves of garlic, bay leaf, pepper, salt, sunflower oil.

Cooking:

1. Oblong small pieces of beef fry in oil.
2. Put finely chopped cucumbers and onions to the meat. Put the ingredients out together for a couple of minutes.
3. Transfer products from the pan to pots so that more than half of the free space remains. Spice up.
4. Finely chopped potatoes in pots. A little space should be left.
5. Peel the tomatoes. Finely chop and put the slices on the potatoes.
6. Pass garlic through the garlic. Let it fall on top of the tomatoes.
7. Pour all the ingredients with water mixed with tomato paste. You can add a little salt. The liquid should completely cover the potatoes.
8. Put the pots in the oven. Cook at 190 degrees for about an hour. Shortly before turning off, put bay leaf in the broth.

How to cook the basics for the holiday? If you serve such a dish in pots with sour cream and fresh herbs, and put a salad of fresh vegetables nearby, you will get a delicious dinner, which is good for a festive table.

Horsemeat Azu

How to cook a classic basics? Tatars in the old days prepared this national dish from horse meat.

Ingredients: 1-1.5 kg of horse meat, 12 medium-sized potatoes, 4 pickles, 3 onions, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato paste, 4 cloves of garlic, hot pepper, butter, salt.

Cooking:

1. Fry the meat in butter. Pieces should be small, slightly elongated.
2. Transfer the beef to a cauldron or large pan. Cut the onion into rings and sauté on an empty pan.
3. Transfer the fried onions to the cauldron, pour meat with onions in water. Cook the dish for an hour.
4. Finely chop the cucumbers, boil them in a small amount of water separately from the meat.
5. Chop the potatoes into small pieces and fry until half-cooked. Put potatoes with cucumbers into the cauldron. Continue to cook the basics for 25 minutes.
6. Garlic can be put into the cauldron 3 minutes before turning off the fire or just add to the dish when serving. Same thing with pepper.

Lamb Azure Recipe

How to cook the basics faster? To speed up the process, it is necessary to take the meat of a young animal. Tatar dish is prepared from horse meat or lamb. If lamb is used for aza, lard should be cut off, because it usually gives an unpleasant aftertaste to the finished dish. Lamb has this property: if cooked for too long, the meat becomes tasteless and loses softness. So, it’s better not to cook lamb for a long time, one hour is enough. Some recipes offer to cook this type of meat in just 40 minutes.

Ingredients for a recipe for mutton basics: 300 g of meat, 7 potatoes, 4 pickles, onion, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato paste or fresh tomatoes, garlic, spices, salt.

Cooking:

1. The meat, sliced ​​in elongated pieces, brown. Add finely chopped onions to the meat and continue to fry the ingredients. Finely chop pickles, put in meat and continue to simmer, stirring.
2. Put tomato paste in the dish. Simmer a couple more minutes. Then pour water to the meat and leave to cook.
3. Finely chop the potatoes and put in the meat. Let it cook. Put garlic, salt and spices into the broth. Of the spices, hot pepper is better (Tatars eat ase hot) and bay leaf. You can start adjika.

If there are few pickles left in the bank

How to cook the basics if the jar has only a couple of pickles? You can add cucumber pickle. It gives the same taste as the cucumbers themselves. This taste goes well with meat and potatoes. But you should not overdo it with him. In addition, you must monitor the amount of salt in the dish. Pickle and cucumbers themselves are usually very salty.

Spices for cucumbers for basics

Cucumbers are salted following various recipes. Almost all salting recipes are suitable for the basics. The following spices go well with the Tatar dish, which must be put in jars when pickling cucumbers: cherry and blackcurrant leaves, dill seeds, and garlic. There is no need to pour acetic acid according to this recipe.

Azu is a culinary masterpiece. This dish is especially liked by men. Because it is satisfying and has a bright taste of garlic and other spices. This is not the first dish, but it contains a lot of broth, which is good for digestion. In addition, you can eat basics with rye bread, which further enhances the nutritional value of lunch.