The calf meat is more tender, juicier and, as a result, tastier than beef. In addition, it cooks much faster. Veal is considered calf meat from 14 days to 3 months. It is light pink, almost white, with streaks of bacon.
Cooking veal is a pleasure, and there is already ... Veal baked in the oven, cooking quickly and usually simple. It is perfect for a romantic dinner with your loved one or for family gatherings. And the festive table can only decorate this dish.
For the simplest method of baking, it is necessary to prepare 1 kg of veal, garlic (several cloves), French mustard, coriander, black pepper, salt.
First you need to cook the marinade. The mustard is transferred to a bowl, spices are added and mixed. Now the meat is rubbed with salt and coated with marinade. Then they wrap the meat in foil and leave for half an hour to marinate it. In principle, meat can be pickled much longer, even for a whole day. So it will turn out even more tender and tasty, but this amount of time is not always there, and 30 minutes is enough. It remains only to put the meat for three hours in a preheated oven. Cook at 200 degrees.
Oven baked veal can be cooked not only in whole piece in foil. For example, a recipe for veal baked with vegetables. To bake veal according to this recipe, you need to prepare 300 g of meat, green beans (about 100 g), bell pepper, carrots. For marinade, you need garlic, olive oil, mayonnaise, mustard, black and white ground peppers and salt.
Again, marinade is first prepared by mixing sauces, oil and spices. Then the meat is cut into small pieces, carrots and bell peppers, peeled from seeds, are also crushed. All ingredients are put in bowls, poured with marinade and left for ten minutes. Now put the meat for 40 minutes in a preheated oven.
And you can also bake veal on the grill, so the meat from all sides is open to hot air and baked evenly. The veal baked in the oven according to this recipe is somewhat similar to the traditional Korean dish Bulgogi, but the Koreans stew the veal, and this recipe suggests baking it. The remaining cooking steps are absolutely identical.
The ingredients for this dish are as follows: 1 kg of veal, green onion, 5 cloves of garlic, pear, granulated sugar, a tablespoon, 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, sunflower and sesame oil.
The meat is cut into thin plates, beaten and cut into strips, then transferred to a bowl. Rub the pear and squeeze the juice, add green onion, finely chopped and chopped garlic, sugar, butter and soy sauce to the pear juice. Then the marinade is added to the meat and left for 20 minutes to pass.
The pickled meat is laid out on a wire rack in one layer, a pan is placed under the wire rack to collect the draining fat and the oven is heated to 230 degrees. The meat is baked for a short time, literally 5-7 minutes. It is usually served with rice, but nothing prevents replacing the usual side dish, for example, with spaghetti.
Speaking of stew. Veal stewed in sour cream with mushrooms is also very, very tasty. For this dish you need half a kilogram of veal, 400 g of mushrooms, onion, 150 g of sour cream.
Veal, mushrooms and onions are cut into large pieces, spread in a hot frying pan, cover and stew for half an hour. The meat should be stewed in its own juice, but if necessary, you can add water.
After half an hour, add mushrooms to the meat and stew for another 10 minutes, then put sour cream and spices. In sour cream sauce, the meat should be stewed for another 15 minutes. Veal in sour cream sauce is ready.
In general, veal baked in the oven can be very diverse, for every taste and skill. One thing remains unchanged (unless, of course, is to violate technology) is the delicate and juicy taste of meat.