Nutria is considered one of the cleanest and most dietary. These animals live exclusively in ecologically safe areas, feed on algae and rhizomes of plants. Moreover, their meat contains a complete set of vitamins and minerals needed by humans. About how to cook nutria in several ways - so that it turns out delicious and liked the whole family, read our article. We offer you recipes that tell you how to bake meat in the sleeve in the oven, as well as a way to make meat in a delicious sauce. Choose one of the options you like and get down to business.
How to cook nutria with potatoes in the oven: ingredients and preparation of the carcass
For the dish you will need:
- whole carcass of nutria;
- head of garlic - 6-8 cloves;
- potatoes - 5-6 large tubers;
- spices - salt, black pepper, bay leaf;
- mayonnaise for rubbing carcasses.
How to cook nutria in the oven? Very simple, even a novice hostess can do this dish, just carefully follow our instructions. Wash the carcass, dry with a towel, and then rub it well with salt. Peel the garlic, cut large cloves into 2-3 parts, and then stuff the carcass with them. To do this, pierce the meat with a knife, and in the resulting "pockets" put the garlic. It will be delicious if you put a couple of bay leaves inside the carcass itself. And to get a crisp (just before sending the nutria into the oven), grease its entire surface with mayonnaise. Potatoes, which are also part of the dish, need to be peeled and cut into slices.
Roasting process and readiness check
We continue the story of how to cook nutria with potatoes in the oven. Put the prepared carcass on a baking sheet, slightly greased with vegetable oil, place slices of potatoes around it. Cover everything with foil, sprinkle with spices to taste - it can be aromatic herbs or just black pepper, and send to the oven, preheated to 170-190 degrees (for 40 minutes). After the specified time, remove the foil: on the baking sheet there will be aromatic meat juice, which needs to pour potatoes and the carcass itself. Cover again with foil and send to bake until cooked for 40 minutes or 1 hour. If you are not sure that the meat can be taken out of the oven, pierce the carcass with a fork or knife: if the blood does not stand out, the dish is ready. Be sure that your family or guests will appreciate this delicacy, especially since the aroma that you can feel within 10-15 minutes after the start of baking will leave few indifferent.
How to make nutria in a sleeve
If you want to bake nutria meat tasty and without any extra hassle, use the special sleeve for baking, and also follow our recipe. Prepare:
- half of the carcass of the nutria (you can even kiss if you are waiting for guests);
- 3-4 peeled garlic cloves;
- spices - aromatic herbs, salt, black pepper or a mixture of seasonings specifically for meat.
First, cut the carcass into two parts (the second can be removed in the freezer until the next time), after the meat wash, remove the films. Finely chop the garlic with garlic ginger, mix with pepper and spices. Rub the carcass with this aromatic mass without missing a single patch. Done. Now, so that the meat is thoroughly soaked with these components, leave it to marinate for several hours, or even overnight.
Next, put the nutria in the
baking sleeve, then on the baking sheet and place in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 40 minutes or an hour. After the specified time, check the readiness, pierce the meat with a knife: if blood is released, send a piece to the oven for another quarter hour. After that, check the readiness again, remove the nutria from the baking sleeve and place it in the oven again for 10 minutes. This is necessary so that an appetizing, aromatic crust forms on the meat. Now it’s ready - serve with any side dish. Next, we will look at a few more ways how to cook nutria - the recipes and ingredients are simple, they can be used “for every day”.
Delicious Nutria dish: Kuban recipe
For him, get from your stocks:
- 1 small nutria (or half a kilogram carcass by 2);
- 200 g of ham;
- a head of white onion;
- 50 grams of wine (glass);
- a glass of meat broth;
- spices to your taste.
Wash half the carcass, dry with a towel and stuff with a mixture of finely chopped ham and onions, spices and dry white wine. Leave to stand for 1-2 hours. After that, put the meat on a baking sheet and simmer for about 40 minutes. After that, top the carcass with a glass of meat broth from above and bring to readiness. It will take another 40 minutes - 1 hour. Cooking time depends on the size of the piece and on the age of the animal.
Meat with vegetables
How to cook nutria deliciously? Try making it with vegetables. They say that the taste of the meat of this animal resembles a rabbit or chicken, so stew will be an excellent and familiar dish for lunch. Take:
- 1 medium-sized carcass of nutria, you can also take fillets, you will need 1-1.5 kilograms;
- 2-3 pieces of sweet bell pepper;
- 2 onions and fresh carrots;
- sunflower oil for frying;
- spices of your choice - we suggest taking salt, black pepper, suneli hops, basil and a little curry.
Wash the meat and cut into small portions, as for stewing. If there is fat, cut it off - it does not melt during frying. Sprinkle the prepared meat with spices, and then quickly fry in a hot pan with vegetable oil. Done. Fold the slices in a pan, fill with water (or a weak broth) to about half, put it to simmer on a slow fire. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots, peel the peppers and chop them onto small plates. In vegetable oil, first fry the onions, then add carrots and peppers to it. Place vegetables in a pan to nutria, try on salt - if not enough, add. After about an hour, the meat will become soft, try it, then add greens to taste, suneli hops, dry basil or a mixture of peppers. Stir and simmer another quarter of an hour. Done. You can serve it on the table, decorated with greens - dill or parsley.
Tasty and simple dish: meat in onion and sour cream sauce
And the last recipe for how to make nutria. Everything is done very simply, prepare:
- nutria meat - 1.5-2 kilograms;
- two glasses of sour cream;
- a large head of onion;
- breading flour;
- spices of your choice.
Divide the carcass of the nutria into large pieces, grate each with salt and spices, roll in flour and fry until golden brown in vegetable oil. After the meat is put in a deep frying pan or a cauldron, pour sour cream, add the onion sliced in rings and simmer until tender. After about an hour, the aromatic dish is ready. Now you know how to cook nutria: the recipes in our article are both simple and complex - choose any and delight your family with a delicious dietary meat dish.