With the acquisition of a slow cooker, many are lost and believe that you need to cook some special dishes in it. In fact, in it you can do everything that is usually cooked on the stove. Only the hostess will not need to control cooking at all stages. Part of the work will take on a miracle saucepan. And therefore, the question of how to cook beef in a slow cooker, there can only be one answer: the same as on the stove. The main thing is to choose the recipe that suits your taste.
Beef Stroganoff
Appearing in Russian cuisine in the mid-19th century, beef stroganoff, or Stroganov’s meat, quickly became popular, and not only among chefs. Today it is prepared from a wide variety of meat and offal. However, according to the classic recipe, it was made from beef. It is it that is best suited for this dish. And of course, you can cook it in your favorite multicooker.
For 4 servings, you will need about a pound of beef tenderloin, which should be cut across the fibers with thin cubes. Fold it in a slow cooker (pour a little vegetable oil in it beforehand). Add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Stir and fry on “Baking” or “Fry” for 15-20 minutes, stirring. It is necessary to evaporate the allocated juice, but do not fry the pieces. Add a glass of fat cream, mix and leave to simmer for 40-60 minutes. Sometimes sour cream is used instead, but it gives sourness and may curdle. At this beef stroganoff is ready. Of course, this is not the only recipe for how to cook beef in a slow cooker.
Hungarian goulash
Another equally popular dish in Russia has Hungarian roots and is also prepared from beef. It is, of course, about goulash. Although it was originally cooked from fat with streaks of meat and millet. But in Russian cuisine, the recipe for making goulash has changed a bit, and they began to make it from more noble meat.
Cut half a kilo of beef across the fibers, first with thin plates, and then cut each into strips. Fry meat with the addition of vegetable oil, salt and spices using the "Fry" or "Baking" mode. This will take about 20-25 minutes. Meanwhile, peel the onions and carrots, finely chop them. After 10-15 minutes of frying, add the vegetables to the meat and mix. After the signal, add a glass of tomato sauce to the multicooker. It is sometimes added a couple of tablespoons of sour cream. Stir and simmer all together for 1 hour. Perhaps this is one of the most popular recipes on how to cook beef in a slow cooker.
Azu in Tatar
Over the long history of the neighborhood with the Tatars, Russian cuisine has borrowed many dishes from the cuisine of this people, including the basics. Having a pungent taste, it stands out among other similar dishes. And it’s not immediately clear that all this is due to the addition of pickles. Just do not replace them with pickled ones. It will already be difficult to call such a dish Tatar basics.
Its preparation begins with the fact that a piece of beef is cut into thin strips and fried in vegetable oil for 20-25 minutes. To do this, the baking / frying mode is used in the multicooker. Then onions, carrots and pickles, already diced, are added, and they are still fried for 10-15 minutes until all the juice that has been separated is evaporated. Then add the tomatoes chopped in a blender in their own juice. Just need one small jar. Stew the meat in this sauce for one hour, adding a little salt and spices.
Beef in foil
In the slow cooker you can cook not only everyday dishes, but also holiday ones. One of these is
beef in foil. For its preparation use only fresh meat of young calves. Frozen old beef can ruin the whole taste. You can bake a whole piece, or you can divide it into several small parts. True, it is important to know some secrets of how to
cook beef in a slow cooker and in foil.
Pre-meat must be stuffed with slices of bacon, onions, carrots, garlic and other vegetables. To do this, make as many incisions in a piece as possible. Then it should be well rubbed on all sides with salt and ground pepper, wrapped in foil. Such pieces can be put directly into the bowl and cooked on frying or baking for 60 minutes. Or cook them in a double boiler, and in the pan itself make a side dish (rice or buckwheat). This is a recipe duet loved by many housewives.
Steamed beef
In the slow cooker, manufacturers have provided one of the most dietary methods of cooking - "Steam cooking". With its help, you can cook tasty and healthy dishes for the whole family. It can be vegetables, fish and, of course, meat. To cook beef steamed, you need to cut it into plates across the fibers about half a centimeter thick and beat off a little. Put all the pieces in any cup, add salt, spices, squeeze the juice of lemon. Stir, cover with a clean towel and leave to marinate for 30-40 minutes.
Pour half a liter of water into the multicooker pan, place a steaming bowl on top and put already pickled pieces of meat into it. If desired, they can be supplemented with vegetables: onions, carrots or cabbage. It is advisable to marinate them with beef. Steaming will take 60 minutes.
Whatever recipe is chosen for cooking, you always get delicious beef in a slow cooker. With a photo of these dishes, you can already independently invent a new recipe, and then share it with your friends.