Meat sauce is a great addition to the side dish. The easiest and most delicious way to cook meat is meat sauce. The recipe for this dish is quite simple, it does not require much time and effort, and the result pleases with a pleasant aroma and excellent taste. This dish is especially combined with potatoes, pasta and cereals. Simple porridge or pasta is transformed if delicious meat sauce is added to them.
Almost every housewife knows the recipe for this dish, but each cooks it in her own way. Various vegetables, meats, spices and dressings completely change the taste of gravy. That's why we strive to find something original to transform this simple dish. Meat sauce refers to dishes that give freedom to imagination and creativity, so there are a lot of its variations. Many people think about how to make meat sauce so that it is special, complement the taste of the side dish, have a delicate texture and an original taste. This is what we’ll talk about.
Meat sauce - recipe with pork, onions and tomatoes
We need half a kilogram of pork tenderloin, one carrot and one onion, one piece of leek, one celery stalk, four pieces of tomatoes in its own juice, two tablespoons of flour, vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon, dill, parsley, spices: ground paprika , cayenne and black pepper, as well as salt.
Wash the meat and cut into small squares. Add a little vegetable oil to a hot pan and load the meat there. Fry under the lid.
Cut leek and onion into slices, celery into slices, three carrots on a fine grater.
When the meat is slightly fried, we send the prepared vegetables to the pan.
Cut the tomatoes into squares and add to the mixture of meat and vegetables. If it’s summer outside, you can use fresh tomatoes, having previously doused them with boiling water and peeled them off. Fry everything for several minutes, after which we send the prescription amount of flour to the pan and fry again.
Gradually pour hot water (boiled) and add spices to taste.
Let the gravy boil for a while, add chopped dill and parsley at the end, turn off the heat and cover with a lid. Now we know how to cook pork meat gravy. Good appetite!
Meat sauce - beef recipe with dried bell peppers
This meat sauce goes well with pasta. To prepare it, we need 300 grams of beef, a head of onion, a tablespoon of butter and a tablespoon of vegetable oil, a gram packet of cream, two tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon of dried bell pepper and saffron, salt.
We clean the onion and cut into small cubes, fry in a pan in a mixture of butter and vegetable oils, put it on a plate. Next, load the beef meat into a pan (cut into medium-sized pieces), fry until golden, add water and simmer for about an hour.
After that, add ready-made fried onions and cream to the water, let the mixture boil. Following this, we send flour, dried pepper and saffron, salt to the pan. Stir and keep on fire until you get the “right” consistency. Serve the gravy as a side dish for pasta.
There are a lot of options for cooking meat sauce. You can use chicken, lamb, add different spices or vegetables. You can make gravy on sour cream, cream, even mayonnaise or milk. In general, you can always come up with something original. The meat for gravy should be lean and soft, then the gravy will be even tastier. For buckwheat porridge and pasta, beef gravy is perfect, for rice - for chicken, for mashed potatoes - for pork. Although this combination of gravy and garnish is optional. You can experiment and try different combinations of dishes. The main thing is to make it tasty and with soul!