Meat with pineapples: recipes

Culinary masterpieces are born with a non-standard approach to the combination of products. One of the brightest examples of such a unique flavoring composition is the combination of sweet notes of pineapple with meat. Many dishes that use these two components in the recipe basis have firmly entered the classics of world cuisine.

Pork chops with pineapple rings

Pork chops baked with whole pineapple rings are also called French - either in honor of the country that presented the world with an unusual delicacy, or because of the indescribable piquancy of the taste of the dish, reminiscent of the subtle charm of this nation.

Recipe for meat with pineapple in the oven (in the photo you can see the finished dish):

• A kilogram piece of pork balyk is cut into thick layers from 1.5 to 2 cm and beaten to a thickness of 1 cm.
• Each plate is rubbed with salt mixed with freshly ground black pepper.
• The meat slices are laid in one layer on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
• On top of each chop lay 2-3 thin rings of sweet onion and 2 rings of pineapple.
• Separately, on a medium grater, hard cheese is rubbed and spread in a thick layer over pineapples.
• The meat is baked at 200 ° C for about half an hour, but its readiness can be assessed after 25 minutes.

When serving, you can sprinkle pork chops with canned corn - this variation of the meat recipe with pineapples is very popular among children.

Pineapple Sliced ​​Meat Slices

Another variant of pork with a fragrant fruit looks unusually original on the table (moreover, not necessarily festive). To prepare this dish, you do not need an oven, and on pineapples you can save a little and buy them immediately chopped into pieces:

1. Pork - the pulp from the shoulder blade or balyk - is cut into plates about 1 cm thick and beaten a little.
2. Large chops are rubbed with pepper, if desired with a mixture of spices for roast (without salt) and cut into pieces, not more than 3 cm.
3. A little soy sauce is poured into a separate bowl and the meat is mixed in it.
4. While the pork is soaked in the sauce, pour the liquid from the pineapples, cut them (if it is rings) and finely chop 2 large cloves of garlic.
5. Garlic is lightly fried in a frying pan heated with vegetable oil, and then all prepared meat is laid out there.
6. After three minutes of intense frying, pour pineapple cubes (about 300 g) into the pan. The whole mass is mixed and stewed under the lid for 2-3 minutes.
7. At this time, begin to mix the ingredients for the sauce: combine taken in 1 tbsp. a spoon of barbecue ketchup and potato starch with a quarter cup of white table wine, and mix with a fork until all the lumps disappear.
8. The resulting sauce is introduced into the meat in a thin stream and still heated for a minute or two on the fire, and then removed from the stove.

The meat with pineapple cooked in this way is perfectly complemented by a side dish of crumbly rice and sweet pickled onion rings.

Beef Chops with Pineapples

Beef has a denser structure than pork, so you need to soak the chops from it first for a long time in special marinades, then subject them to double-sided frying and only after these manipulations, proceed to ennoble the dish with additional elements.

Beef with pineapple in the oven (pictured below):

• A piece of tenderloin, weighing about a pound, is cut into wide plates and beat off.
• 2 large cloves of garlic are passed through a press, mixed with black pepper and this mass is diluted with 1:10 white table wine.
• Prepared slices of beef are poured with marinade and left to soak for five hours, after which they dry the meat with paper towels.
• Then the chops should be fried on both sides until crusty and lay the slices in a baking tray in layers.
• Each row of meat is abundantly sprinkled with half rings of onions and spread over the onion with rings of canned pineapple.
• The last layer should be pineapples - they are generously covered with a coat of grated hard cheese.
• The form with the roast is sent to the oven preheated to 210 ° C for half an hour.

Beef is traditionally served with sliced ​​pickled cucumbers, and the side dish will be good stewed vegetables or mashed potatoes.

Lamb with pineapple

To prepare this type of meat with pineapple in the oven, you will need another unexpected element - granular cottage cheese.

Baked lamb recipe:

1. 1 teaspoon of spicy dried rosemary herb is mixed with the same amount of breadcrumbs.
2. In a separate bowl, squeeze a clove of garlic through a press, mix it with 5 tbsp. spoons of cottage cheese and pour the dry mixture of rosemary and breading into the same place.
3. 1 kg of mutton fillet is cut into pieces of medium size.
4. Each piece of meat is separately rubbed with a curd composition and immediately placed in a baking dish.
5. In an oven preheated to 190 ° C, the meat is baked for about an hour, after which it is taken out, mixed directly in the form with a wooden spatula and immediately covered with a layer of pineapple rings lined with “scales”.
6. The further baking time is 10-15 minutes.

Lamb goes well with white rice cooked with hot spices and slices of fried potatoes with garlic.

Pineapple Chicken

A chicken baked in the oven in an open way may turn out to be a little dry, therefore, before heat treatment of its meat with pineapples, each portion is individually wrapped in an envelope made of food foil. As a result, it will turn out tender and very juicy.

Step by step recipe for cooking chicken with pineapple in the oven:

• Cut in advance and grease on one side with butter as many squares of foil as it is planned to make chops.
• 2 large chicken fillets are first separated along, along the line of the sternum, and then cut across the fibers in pieces 1.5 cm thick.
• The meat is beaten on both sides, achieving an increase in each plate by about 30%, salt and pepper.
• The pulp of pineapples is cut into thin strips.
• Each chop is placed in an individual foil fryer, sprinkled with a pinch of curry and 2 tbsp. l pineapple straws.
• Envelopes with chicken carefully wrapped so that the meat inside had a little space to "breathe", and spread on a baking sheet.
• Bake original chops in two stages, 12-15 minutes each. First, in a closed form, and then all the envelopes are opened, sprinkled with grated cheese and put back into the oven already open.

If white meat with pineapples is prepared for lunch in the fresh air or for an evening in the spirit of a man’s company, you can not put it on a plate, but serve it directly in foil.

Chicken and Pineapple Salad

Chicken meat with pineapples and cheese will sound completely different if you combine these components in a salad cut. For lovers of strong taste sensations, it is recommended to use smoked poultry meat in a recipe for a puff dish, and for those who prefer classics, it is better to stay on the option of chicken breast boiled in salted water.

Before combining all layers of salad with chicken and pineapple, each of them must undergo appropriate processing:

• one chicken breast is boiled, the skin is removed from it, and the meat is cut into 1 × 1 cm cubes;
• 400 g of oyster mushroom is cut into large strips and fried together with two medium, coarsely chopped onions until tender;
• 300 g of hard cheese tinder on a fine grater;
• 300-350 g of pineapple is cut into cubes.

When all the ingredients are prepared, start the sequential laying of layers of salad. All layers are smeared with mayonnaise, except the last. Assembly is carried out in the following order:

1. At the bottom of a deep rectangular or cylindrical salad bowl lay white poultry meat.
2. Top half of the mushroom mixture is distributed.
3. Now comes the pineapple layer.
4. The penultimate row is mushrooms again.
5. The composition is completed by a thick cheese cap.

The formed lettuce is covered with a plate so that the cheese does not get windy and put in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours for impregnation.

Pineapple Turkey

You can serve turkey in the same way as chicken, or you can surprise guests and cook a completely kebab that is unexpected in taste. It is prepared as follows:

• A piece of fillet, weighing 700-800 g, is cut into slices of about 4 cm, so that it is convenient to pass them on skewers.
• In the same way, but in slightly smaller pieces, the flesh of fresh pineapple is cut.
• In half a liter of pineapple juice (you can buy packaged) with 2 hours spoons of universal seasoning already mixed in it, you need to marinate all turkey meat, as well as 3 heads of onions, cut into large segments.
• An hour later, when the meat slices are saturated with marinade, they proceed to the main action: put pieces of barbecue and pineapple on skewers, observing the order.

Frying turkey meat with pineapples (you can see a photo of it in the article) is better on the open barbecue or on the grill, if the skewers are small and the company is too big.

Rabbit with pineapple

Rabbit meat is a very healthy dietary product with a rather peculiar, bright taste. Dieters will surely like the recipe for rabbit meat with pineapple cooked in the oven.

Cooking sequence:

1. About a kilogram piece of rabbit fillet is cut across the fibers and beaten as usual.
2. Chops are fried in vegetable oil until crusted, cooled and cut - each into 4 slices.
3. Pineapple rings from one 350-gram jar are cut into 6-8 slices and pickled in three tablespoons of soy sauce for half an hour.
4. In a frying pan in the juice, allocated from frying the meat, pass the medium, finely chopped onion, then add pineapples, a quarter of the preservation liquid remaining in the jar and warm this sauce for several minutes under the lid.
5. In a deep glass baking dish, place the meat slices and pour everything over with pineapple sauce.
6. Baked meat with pineapples in the oven at 180 ° C.

The dish can be complicated by sprinkling with grated cheese before putting in the oven.

Chinese sauce

Baked meat with pineapples, especially if it is served with mashed potatoes or was at least slightly overexposed in the oven, may seem a little dry. This is easily avoided by serving traditional ginger sauce to the table, which perfectly complements the complex taste of the dish.

Ginger meat sauce with pineapple:

• A piece of ginger, the size of a matchbox, is rubbed as finely as possible.
• The middle onion and three cloves of garlic are chopped to a state of gruel.
• In preheated vegetable oil, all prepared components are combined, passaged for two minutes, then watered for 3-4 hours with tablespoons of soy sauce.
• In the middle of frying, 1 tbsp are added to the mixture. a spoonful of apple cider vinegar, spicy ketchup and cane sugar.
• At the end, the thick mass is diluted with half a glass of unsweetened apple juice.
• A thickener is prepared separately - 2 teaspoons of starch are diluted with the same amount of water.
• Weakly boiling sauce is combined with a starch stabilizer and simmer for three minutes under the lid, after which it is considered ready.

It is recommended to prepare the sauce shortly before the planned dinner so that it does not lose its piquant freshness in the refrigerator.

How to prepare meat

In order for the taste of meat dishes not to be spoiled by a violation of the meat preparation technology, several basic rules for the purchase, primary processing and cutting of fillets should be learned:

1. When buying beef on the market, you need to wet a piece of meat with a paper towel and make sure that the freshness of the delicacy is not the result of bathing the fillet in a manganese solution. If the napkin remains clean, then the meat is good.
2. The chop will be obtained only from a plate of meat cut from a piece across the direction of the fiber line. Otherwise, the fillet will be almost impossible to beat off, and the quality of the finished dish from improper cutting will deteriorate in half.
3. For the convenience of beating and so that the spray from the meat does not scatter in all directions, a piece of meat is covered with cling film and only then act with a hammer.

Particular attention should be paid to freshness - frozen fillet, and then thawed, will not give the rich flavor spectrum that a chilled product normally has, so buying it for the future is not recommended.