An excellent gastronomic combination is beef with beans. There are a lot of recipes with these ingredients. These are soups, and appetizers, and hot, and salads, and even fast food. Beans can be used any: white, red, black, green. The article presents several recipes (with photos) of beans with beef.
Borscht
For beef borscht you will need this grocery set:
- 0.8 kg of beef;
- 300 g of potatoes;
- 400 g canned red beans;
- 300 g of cabbage;
- 2 to 3 small beets;
- one carrot;
- one bell pepper;
- one onion;
- three cloves of garlic;
- one bay leaf;
- two tbsp. l tomato paste;
- three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- salt to taste.
Now you need to cook borsch with red beans and beef. The recipe is as follows:
- Boil the beets until cooked.
- Place a pot of water and beef on the stove. When it boils, reduce the gas, remove the foam and add salt. Continue to cook on low heat for about an hour and a half. When the meat is cooked, pull it out of the pan.
- While the meat is being cooked, cook the vegetables. Chop the garlic and onions, grate the boiled beets and carrots, chop the pepper into cubes, chop the cabbage.
- Fry onion, carrots, garlic in a small amount of vegetable oil, add tomato, beets, a little broth and simmer for about three minutes.
- Put potatoes and beans in the meat broth and cook until the potatoes are ready. After that, add the stewed vegetables, cabbage and bay leaf. Add salt to taste. Cook for about 8 minutes.
In the borscht add the meat sliced in slices when serving, and in each plate put sour cream and parsley and dill.
White Bean Soup
The following ingredients will be required for this beef and bean recipe:
- beef shank weighing 1.5 kg;
- 450 g of dry white beans;
- 2 liters of water;
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 2 tsp provencal herbs;
- one carrot;
- one onion;
- two cloves of garlic;
- Tabasco sauce
- spices (salt, pepper);
- a bunch of fresh parsley.
Cooking Soup:
- Boil water in a saucepan, remove from heat, send beans into it and leave for 2 hours.
- Place the shank in the pan, pour water (2 liters), drop the Provence herbs, bring to a boil, reduce the gas and simmer for about an hour.
- Chop onion finely. Pour vegetable oil into a pan, heat, put onions and fry for about 6 minutes. Chop the garlic, add to the onion and cook for another minute.
- Put the steamed vegetables and beans into the broth, salt and pepper, cook for about 40 minutes. Vegetables should become soft, meat should be separated from bones.
- Remove the shank from the soup, remove the meat from it and return it to the soup. Season the dish with a few drops of Tabasco.
Serve the finished soup with parsley.
Potted Beef and Beans Recipe
This dish is prepared quickly and easily. The following ingredients will be required:
- 1 kg of potatoes;
- 0.5 kg of beef;
- two onions;
- two carrots;
- two garlic cloves;
- one lemon;
- 50 g butter;
- 200 g of beans in tomato;
- three tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- one tomato;
- salt and ground pepper;
- greens.
How to cook:
- Dice potatoes and meat (1.5 cm), chop onions and carrots. Put it all in a bowl, salt, pepper and mix.
- Arrange the contents of the bowl in pots, add to each tablespoon of table beans, a circle of tomato, a slice of lemon and butter.
- Put the pots in the oven for 45 minutes.
Serve a dish with fresh herbs.
Beef and String Bean Recipe
For this stew you need the following products:
- 300 g of beef;
- 50 g cashews;
- 100 g canned pineapples;
- one clove of garlic;
- one onion;
- a glass of beef broth;
- 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- celery;
- dill;
- salt;
- ground pepper.
Cooking stew:
- Sauté finely chopped garlic and onion in vegetable oil.
- Add strips of beef to the pan and fry for two minutes.
- Pour in the broth and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes.
- Put the beans, after five minutes - pineapples and cashews, add salt and pepper. Fry over high heat for another five minutes.
Remove from heat, add celery and dill and serve.
Flavored Beef
Of the products required:
- 500 g of beef;
- chilli;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- tsp grated ginger;
- one onion;
- tsp wine vinegar;
- a mixture of peppers;
- oregano;
- 200 g of beans;
- tsp dried tomato;
- parsley or dill;
- tsp fish sauce;
- three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- two tsp oyster sauce;
- salt.
Cooking:
- Finely chop the chilli and garlic, combine with grated ginger and fry in vegetable oil.
- Add wine vinegar, oyster and fish sauce, as well as chopped onions. Cook one more minute.
- Cut the beef into small pieces and put in a pan, fry over high heat for one minute.
- Grind oregano in a mortar, mix with a mixture of peppers and send to meat.
- Put the dried tomato, mix, make a low heat, cover and simmer for about half an hour.
- Soak beans in advance, then boil, so that it is completely ready.
- Put the prepared beans in the meat, simmer another ten minutes.
Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped fresh herbs and serve. Fresh vegetables are good for beef and beans.
Georgian salad
This recipe for beef and red bean salad will appeal to lovers of Caucasian cuisine. Products for him will require the following:
- 250 g of beef;
- 1 bell pepper (red);
- 350 g of red canned beans in jars (you can take raw and pre-cook until fully cooked);
- 1 onion (preferably red);
- half of capsicum;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 g of walnuts;
- two tablespoons of wine vinegar (white);
- half a bunch of cilantro;
- 3 tbsp. l olive oil;
- hops-suneli;
- salt pepper.
Salad making:
- Boil the beef.
- Throw the canned beans into a colander, then rinse and let the water drain.
- Fry walnuts until golden brown.
- Cut the onion into thin half rings and sprinkle with vinegar.
- Remove the seeds from the bell pepper and cut into strips.
- Finely chop the hot pepper and garlic with a knife.
- Chop walnuts in medium slices, finely cilantro.
- Cut the meat into strips.
- In a bowl, put beans, then bell pepper, pressed onions, garlic, hot pepper, meat, nuts, cilantro, butter, ground pepper and suni hops.
- Mix the salad, try and if necessary add pepper, salt, vinegar, cilantro, other seasonings.
Let the salad stand for 30 minutes, after which you can serve it on the table. Dry Georgian wines are well suited to it.
Warm salad
The following ingredients will be required for this beef and bean salad recipe:
- 250 g of beef;
- 200 g of green beans;
- 75 g of fresh tomatoes;
- Art. l soy sauce;
- Art. l granulated sugar;
- three tbsp. l pistachios;
- two tbsp. l olive oil;
- 50 g lettuce.
Cooking a warm salad:
- Put cook in salted water until the beans are ready.
- First cut the meat into strips, then into pieces.
- Pour sugar into soy sauce and mix. Pour pieces of meat and leave to marinate for half an hour.
- Slice the tomato, crush the nuts in a mortar.
- When the beef is marinated, fry it until fully cooked in olive oil, then leave the meat in a pan over low heat so that it does not cool.
It remains to collect the salad:
- Put lettuce on a plate.
- Then the beans are slide, around it are hot pieces of beef and tomatoes.
- Sprinkle with nuts and season with olive oil.
You don't need to dress the salad at all, since the beef is fried in oil, and the tomatoes themselves are juicy.
Useful Tips
There are a lot of recipes with beans and beef, as well as other types of meat. To always succeed, you need to follow the simple rules for preparing beans:
- Be sure to drain the water after soaking the beans and first boiling and pour new.
- Salt the beans before the end of cooking.
- Boiled beans are perfectly stored in frozen form, so it can be prepared for future use.
- A better taste can be achieved by frying beans and meat in butter or ghee.