Honey is a sweet beekeeping product with unique healing properties and excellent taste. All this allows you to use it for the preparation of various desserts, pastries, sauces and marinades. In today's article, the most popular meat recipes with honey will be examined in detail.
Basic principles
For the preparation of such dishes, it is advisable to use only fresh, high-quality meat that has not undergone preliminary freezing. It can be pork, and beef, and lamb, and even a bird. The selected piece must be cleaned of all excess, washed, dried and coated with a mixture of honey and spices.
Typically, citrus zest, soy sauce or lemon juice is added to the composition of such a marinade. And as spices usually add cardamom, ginger, garlic, coriander and other spices.
After some time, the meat and honey are sent for subsequent heat treatment. Depending on the selected recipe, it is baked in the oven, fried in a pan or stewed in a thick-bottomed pan. In the first case, the pickled piece of tenderloin is usually packed in a sleeve or wrapped in foil to make it more juicy and soft.
With nutmeg
This incredibly fragrant and tender meat, baked in the oven, goes well with sauces and vegetable salads. In addition to excellent taste, it has a very presentable appearance and, if desired, will become a worthy decoration of any feast. To pamper your family with juicy meat with honey and soy sauce, you will need:
- 2 kg chilled pork collar;
- 1 tsp honey;
- 3 tbsp. l soy sauce;
- 1 tsp nutmeg;
- salt and a mixture of peppers.
First you need to do pork. The selected piece is cleaned of films and veins, washed, dried with paper towels and coated with a marinade consisting of honey, soy sauce, nutmeg, salt and pepper. After several hours, it is wrapped in several layers of foil and baked at standard temperature for an hour and a half. Twenty minutes before the completion of the process, it is carefully opened and returned to the oven so that it can brown.
With wine and mustard
This fragrant and incredibly tasty dish has a very interesting composition and will certainly appeal to fans of culinary delights. To bake meat yourself with honey and mustard, you will definitely need:
- 1 kg of chilled pork pulp;
- 100 g pitted prunes;
- 1 sweet and sour apple;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 2 bay leaves;
- 1 tbsp. l mustard;
- 1 tbsp. l honey;
- ½ cup red wine;
- salt, coriander, red and black pepper.
Washed and dried meat is stuffed with garlic plates and bay leaf. After that, it is rubbed with a mixture of salt and spices, coated with mustard and honey, sprinkled with coriander, watered with wine, wrapped in cling film and put in the refrigerator. After six hours, the marinated pork is wrapped in foil, not forgetting to add prunes and apple slices to it. Baked meat with honey and mustard in the oven, warmed to standard temperature. Fifty minutes later, it is freed from the foil and cooked for another forty minutes, periodically pouring with marinade and the juice that stands out.
With mayonnaise
These delicious rosy steaks, baked in honey sauce, go well with potatoes, vegetables and other side dishes. They are equally suitable for both adults and younger consumers, which means they will be a good option for a family dinner. To prepare them, you will need:
- 4 pork steaks on the bone;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 25 g of honey;
- 20 g mustard;
- 40 g mayonnaise;
- salt, vegetable oil and a mixture of peppers.
Washed and dried steaks are fried in a pan. As soon as they are browned, they are transferred to a heat-resistant form and watered with a marinade consisting of salt, pepper, mustard, mayonnaise, honey, crushed garlic and 15 ml of vegetable oil. Steaks prepared in this way are sent for further heat treatment. Bake meat with honey in the oven, heated to 180 ° C. After half an hour, the temperature is increased to 200 ° C and wait another five minutes.
With sour cream and herbs
Pork cooked according to the method described below is very spicy and aromatic. Her recipe was borrowed from oriental culinary specialists and is very popular among domestic housewives. To feed your relatives meat with honey in Georgian, you will need:
- 1 kg of chilled pork;
- 1.5 tbsp. l honey;
- 1 tbsp. l sour cream (15%);
- 1 tbsp. l lemon juice;
- salt, a mixture of peppers and herbs (rosemary, basil, parsley, dill and cilantro).
Washed meat is cut into large pieces and put in a bowl. Chopped greens, salt, seasonings, honey and lemon juice are sent there. Everything is carefully mixed and cleaned for a couple of hours in the refrigerator. After the specified time, add the pork with sour cream, spread on a baking sheet and bake until cooked at standard temperature.
With ginger
This tasty meat with honey, garlic and seasonings turns out to be very juicy moderately sharp and incredibly aromatic. To cook it for your family, you will need:
- 2 kg of chilled pork;
- 100 g of burning mustard;
- 100 g of buckwheat honey;
- 30 g dry basil;
- 20 g of turmeric;
- 20 g tarragon;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tsp ground white pepper;
- ½ tsp dried rosemary;
- salt, ginger root and barberry fruits.
You need to start the process with processing meat. They wash it, dry it, stuff it with garlic and barberry. Then it is coated with a mixture of honey, mustard, spices and salt, wrapped in foil and sent to the oven. Prepare it at a moderate temperature for a little over an hour. Then it is carefully freed from the foil and baked for another fifty minutes.
With beer
This fragrant holiday dish will be an excellent option for a family feast. It is an interesting combination of meat, spices, marinade and dried fruits, which means that it will not go unnoticed by lovers of culinary delights. To prepare it, you will need:
- 2 kg of chilled pork pulp;
- 150 g Dijon mustard;
- 100 g of honey;
- 150 g dried apricots;
- 150 g of prunes;
- 15 g of ginger powder;
- 500 ml of strong beer;
- 1 handful of raisins;
- 1 onion;
- salt, vegetable oil, cinnamon, thyme and ground pepper.
First you need to prepare the pork. They wash it, salt, pepper, spread a deep baking sheet and briefly put it in a heated oven. As soon as it is browned, it is smeared with marinade, consisting of mustard, spices, a glass of beer and half of the available honey. All this is supplemented with finely chopped onions and returned to the oven. In the process of baking, the meat is poured over with the remaining hoppy drink. Serve it with dried fruits, stewed with the addition of honey, ginger, thyme, cinnamon and salt.
With granulated garlic
This spicy meat with honey is an ideal option for housewives waiting for guests for dinner. Thanks to the beekeeping product, it acquires a beautiful caramel crust. And the presence of mustard makes it especially sharp. To prepare it, you will need:
- 360 g chilled pork;
- 1 tsp strong mustard;
- 1 tsp thick honey;
- ½ tsp. granulated garlic and kebab seasoning;
- salt, vegetable oil and a mixture of peppers.
Carefully washed meat is cut into plates about one and a half centimeters thick and slightly beaten. The resulting steaks are salted and rubbed with a mixture of spices, dried garlic, honey, mustard and a couple of large spoons of vegetable oil. At the next stage, they are laid out in a greased form and sent for heat treatment. Bake steaks at 200 ° C for no more than forty minutes, making sure that they do not burn. Use them hot with any spicy sauce or vegetable salad.