If you cook the meat in the oven in one piece, without flavoring it and seasoning it with anything, you will get a tough and dry meal. Who will like it? But, having chosen meat and vegetables for dinner or lunch, you will not lose out, because such a dish will become a true masterpiece of your culinary art.
Having found out the recipe “Meat and Vegetables” from my girlfriend, I first cooked it with potatoes, carrots and onions, as there were simply no other vegetables in the house at that time. Having taken the pork on the bone (lamb, beef, and veal would do), I asked my husband to chop it, as it contained a tubular bone. This cut is needed so that the dish is saturated with bone fat. I made shallow cuts on the meat, rubbed it with a mixture of salt, pepper and seasonings available in the house. Sent him on a baking sheet, laying in the middle.
Then she took up the vegetables. Washed and peeled potatoes, onions and carrots cut into pieces: large specimens - into four, medium and small - into two. Spreading them around a piece of meat, slightly salted and seasoned with spices. I hid the branches of greenery (parsley, cilantro, dill) under chopped vegetables to prevent them from drying out in the oven. Sprinkling meat with vegetables with two tablespoons of vegetable oil, poured hot water on a baking sheet. Its level should be on the baking sheet a little higher than the middle of the vegetable layer, that is, vegetables are almost completely in the water. As the water boils, it can be added a little.
The temperature in the oven should not exceed 200 ° C. When the meat is browned, it should be turned over to the other side carefully, without affecting the vegetables. As soon as the second side of the meat becomes rosy, the dish is ready.
How to cook meat with vegetables in the winter and spring, when there is not enough sun and vitamins? It can be varied by adding bell pepper to vegetables, cloves of young garlic, hot pepper pod, tomatoes, eggplant, etc. to vegetables. Such a fortified dish is especially good for vitamin deficiency.
If you like spicy food, use more spices and herbs in the preparation of this dish: coriander, zira, suneli hops, ground red and black peppers, thyme, soy sauce, tkemali, paprika, chili pepper , etc.
Amazingly delicious dish "Meat with vegetables" I tried at the birthday party with relatives. After the celebration, I borrowed the recipe and soon pleased my people with this favorite dish. It just prepares and looks exquisitely on the table.
An hour before baking, meat is pickled (preferably beef or veal). We start cooking by cutting the meat into slices and frying it in vegetable oil. Add a little water, simmer for 10 minutes. While the meat is cooked, peel the eggplant and zucchini (zucchini can be), cut them into circles. Then we cut these mugs into straws and add to the meat. While all this is fried in one pan (do not forget to mix), in the second at this time we pass the finely chopped onions and grated carrots, which are then added to the meat. It will be tastier if you add sweet pepper, sliced, either pickled or fresh, to this dish. Mix everything, salt, pepper, pour boiling water (but a little, do not pour). Add two tablespoons of tomato sauce and marinade from pickled pepper to this mixture . Having made less fire, cover with a lid and simmer for 35-45 minutes, stirring occasionally. The meat should be soft. When ten minutes are left before cooking, salt. This is not food, this is royal food! This is just a jumble!
Tasty meat with vegetables, if one of the ingredients is mushrooms. Adding beans, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, green peas (you can frozen) instead of potatoes, you get diet meat with vegetables. This dish will be tender if you add a little butter to it.
Experiment, look, as I do, for your recipe for making healthy and appetizing meat and vegetables dishes!