It has long been known that mustard, due to its special natural qualities, is an ideal softener for any, even the toughest meat. Using it as a breading allows you to make the finished product juicy and tender. In addition, in her presence, meat is better saturated with spices and aromatic herbs. Moreover, from the mustard itself there is no taste or smell. This amazing feature has long been used by many culinary specialists. And now meat in mustard is very popular. There are many very interesting recipes for its preparation. For example, it is worth considering carefully some of them.
Mustard Pork Chop
By its nature, pork is quite soft and tender meat. To make a good chop, you do not need to pickle it additionally. After all, aggressive ingredients can lead to the fact that the original product, on the contrary, becomes stiff or even spreads to fibers. Therefore, it is better to make such meat in mustard. This allows you to preserve its natural tenderness and protect it from drying out. To cook tasty meat in mustard, you will need a minimal set of source components:
200 grams of pork 10 milliliters of vegetable oil, 2-3 grams of salt and ground black pepper, as well as 3 teaspoons of regular table mustard.
Cooking such a dish is not at all difficult:
- First, washed and dried meat should be cut into pieces 1-1.5 centimeters thick. In this case, it is necessary to cut off all the available fat and excess films.
- Each piece is carefully beaten off with a kitchen hammer so that it becomes even thinner.
- Coat the preparations with mustard on all sides.
- Put the pan on the fire and heat the oil in it.
- Put the meat in boiling fat and hold it under the lid for the first time (2 minutes). This will help the spices soak in better. Further processing must be carried out in an open container.
- As soon as a crust appears on one side, the product should be turned over and immediately sprinkled with pepper and salt. If desired, you can also add any seasoning (coriander, caraway seeds, tarragon and others).
- On the other side, fry for no more than 3 minutes.
The mustard meat prepared in such an original way is very juicy, tender and incredibly tasty. And on a side dish for him, boiled rice is ideal. Although there are other options.
Beef Entrecote
You can cook beef meat in mustard very tasty. The recipe is quite interesting and does not require special skills from the hostess. The following products will be required for operation:
3 beef entrecote, 1 egg, half a glass of milk, vegetable oil, a little flour, table mustard, spices (pepper and salt), as well as breadcrumbs.
The cooking process consists of several stages:
- First you need to beat the meat well.
- After that, each piece must be greased with mustard and roll in flour.
- Prepare a homogeneous mixture from milk and eggs and dip the prepared cake mix into it.
- At the final stage, the meat should be properly breadcrumbs.
- The workpieces processed in this way will only have to be fried in a pan on both sides until a characteristic golden crust appears on the surface.
After this treatment, the beef is very tender and aromatic. A thin crisp only nicely complements the big picture.
Oven meat
How else can you cook meat in mustard? The recipe in the oven is considered the simplest and very convenient. At the same time, the meat itself does not even need to be cut into portions. It is being prepared in its entirety. For this method, you need a minimum of ingredients:
0.5 kilograms of pork, salt, 2 tablespoons of mustard and 5 cloves of garlic.
In this case, pork is being prepared in stages:
- First you need to marinate the meat. This will make it more fragrant and will contribute to better baking of the product. To do this, chop the garlic finely or squeeze through a press, and then mix with salt and mustard. Coat a piece of pork with prepared mixture on all sides and leave it in this condition for 3 hours in the refrigerator.
- After time, the meat must be tightly wrapped in foil, put on a baking sheet and send it to the oven for 60 minutes. In this case, the temperature inside should be at least 180 degrees.
- After that, the foil can be removed, and the meat again sent to the oven for 10 minutes, while increasing the fire.
The result is a whole piece of tender, juicy pork with a crispy fragrant crust. Before serving, it can be cut into thin, neat slices.
Meat in the sleeve
There is another original way to cook aromatic mustard meat. A recipe in the oven in the sleeve is a truly win-win option. In this case, as the initial product, you can use beef, pork or any bird. It all depends on personal preference. For example, consider cooking pork chops. A poor set of basic components will be required:
450 grams of meat, 70 grams of French mustard, as well as a little salt, turmeric and black pepper.
This dish is made very simple:
- First, each piece of pork should be thoroughly grated with a mixture of pepper, turmeric and salt.
- After that, it should be coated with mustard.
- Fold the prepared pieces in a sleeve and secure it on both sides. There should be plenty of free space inside so that the bag does not burst during heat treatment.
- Lay the sleeve on a baking sheet and send it to the red-hot oven. Gradually, the temperature should be reduced to approximately 180 degrees. The total baking time is only 30 minutes.
Then flavored pork can be obtained. The sleeve must be cut and let the meat stand for a while so that it can cool.