In each national cuisine There are recipes for dishes that are especially popular. One of them is stewed potatoes with meat. It is prepared from simple and available products proven methods.
Ingredients and how to cook
Stewed potatoes with meat is a hearty and easy-to-prepare meal. It can have a liquid or thick consistency. It depends on this whether it will be served as the first or second course. In some regions of our country, potatoes stewed with meat in a semi-liquid state are called sauce.
The main ingredients of the dish are potatoes and meat. The last component is chosen according to your own preferences. It can be pork, veal, lamb, poultry. It is not at all necessary to buy high-grade meat products for this dish. During the cooking process, they are cut into small pieces, which when heat treatment become soft and therefore easily digestible.
To stew potatoes and meat deliciously, use various spices and seasonings. The dish is prepared from ingredients that are opposite in origin: potatoes - vegetable, meat - animal. Therefore, it is better to use traditional seasonings: pepper (ground and peppercorns), Bay leaf, dill greens in dry or fresh form. This is a set of seasonings that are familiar to everyone, and the dish acquires an aroma and pleasant taste. You can use your favorite herbs and seasonings.
Every housewife knows how to stew potatoes and meat. To prepare a delicious dish, it is important to choose the right cookware. It should have thick walls and a bottom so that the products are evenly heated and give each other their juices and seasonings aroma. Suitable as a cooking container for potatoes stewed with meat
- cauldron;
- round cast iron Dutch oven;
- thick-walled saucepan;
- clay pots or ceramic oven tray.
The choice of cookware depends on the capabilities of a particular kitchen and habits. Before preparing potatoes stewed with meat, the dishes are well heated with oil or fat. Garlic, spices, and then the meat product are thrown into the butter and melted fat. This will give it the flavor of the seasonings.
How to stew potatoes with meat deliciously and quickly? It depends on how the ingredients are cut. Pieces of the main components are cut to approximately the same size. To prepare potatoes - meat dish use large cubes. Sometimes the pieces of tubers are made larger so that they do not boil over during the stewing process. For this dish it is better to choose fruits with low content starch.
Second courses
As a second course, stewed potatoes with meat contain virtually no liquid. This stew has a uniform consistency, the pieces are well separated from each other.
You can cook this stewed potato in a deep frying pan or saucepan on the stove. To do this, the vessel is heated, vegetable oil (fat, sometimes butter). To give the meat juiciness, it is first fried. onion and carrots. They are cut into large half rings. Add the meat product to the fried vegetables, cover it with a lid and simmer until half cooked. Then add potatoes and fill the contents of the stewpan with hot meat broth. The dish is simmered until fully cooked.
Some housewives cook potatoes and meat in a cauldron on the stove. To do this, a recess is made in the stove so that the cauldron remains stable. The ingredients for the dish are cut larger than for cooking in a frying pan. There is practically no liquid here. The meat juice envelops the potatoes, and the dish acquires a wonderful taste and aroma, but retains a thick consistency. The recipe for potatoes with lamb meat in a cauldron is especially good.
Potatoes with meat in pots cooked in the oven taste great. This is the easiest way to cook. All ingredients are simultaneously placed in layers in ceramic containers, fried onions and carrots and spices are added, placed in the oven and taken out after 50-60 minutes. ready dish.
As a second course stewed potatoes can be cooked different ways. The main condition is to allow the main components to soak each other well with their juices.
Recipe
Stewed potatoes with pork or veal for main course
Ingredients
- meat – 0.5 kg;
- potatoes – 0.5-0.7 kg;
- large onion and carrot;
- salt, ground black pepper according to taste preferences;
- bay leaf, 2 medium cloves of garlic, dill and parsley;
- oil or fat – 50-70 g.
Process
- Pour the fat product and crushed garlic clove into a deep, thick-walled bowl and heat.
- We clean the onions and carrots, wash them, chop them coarsely and throw them into a container with oil. Fry until golden.
- We wash the meat, cut it into cubes like goulash, removing the veins, and add it to the vegetables. Lightly fry to give the component a pleasant taste. Simmer under the lid until half cooked.
- Cut the peeled potatoes into large cubes and lower them into the meat.
- Salt, pepper, add a little broth.
- Continue cooking stewed potatoes with meat until ingredients are soft.
- 5 minutes before cooking, add chopped dill and parsley to the dish.
To cook stewed potatoes with meat deliciously without hassle, use a multicooker. Exists great recipe potatoes with meat in a slow cooker . As additional ingredient It uses mushrooms. The dish turns out to be three-component, has an excellent aroma and exquisite taste.
Stewing potatoes and meat in a slow cooker is not difficult. To do this, ingredients, spices, and vegetables are placed one by one in the bowl and the “Baking” mode is turned on. 20 minutes after adding the meat, add carrots, onions, and champignons. Potatoes are added at 30 minutes. Add salt, spices, herbs, water and simmer for 50 minutes, periodically stirring the contents of the multicooker. Stewed potatoes with meat and champignons is a tender, aromatic dish.
You can cook stewed potatoes with meat in any convenient way, and you always get an excellent, high-calorie dish.
Meat, from a culinary point of view, is considered a universal product.
Not only can it be cooked different ways: fry, stew, boil, bake, but also boldly combine with other ingredients, showing creativity in the process of preparing food.
Although separate meals does not provide for such a combination as meat and potatoes; these two products came to the forefront of the Russian table. By the way, and not only Russian. In many countries, potatoes are one of the most revered and common side dishes, and meat is an excellent addition to it.
Options for preparing potato and meat dishes great amount. Potatoes can be combined with any type of meat: beef, pork, lamb, game, rabbit, etc. - the list goes on and on.
For some dishes it is better to use pulp, for others - meat with bones, and for others - minced meat. Perhaps the most famous dish is fried potatoes with meat. It's no secret that meat takes longer to cook, so they fry it first and then add potatoes.
Potatoes with meat - food preparation
Preparing potatoes usually doesn't take much time or trouble. It peels off the skin quite easily. The only condition that should be adhered to is that the potatoes must be peeled immediately before cooking, if possible without keeping them in for long. cold water(since starch and valuable substances are lost). You should also not leave it without water after cleaning, since the vegetable quickly darkens and takes on a completely unpresentable appearance.
As for meat, there is nothing complicated here either. Rinse it big pieces under running water, it is not advisable to soak the meat, since such a procedure will negatively affect its further taste. It is not recommended to salt long before cooking many types of meat - salt draws out all the juices from the pulp. Defrost frozen fillets gently, at room temperature by first rinsing it with cool water. It is advisable to carry out all manipulations with in large parts meat, and only before cooking can it be cut into portions, cutting across the grain.
Potatoes with meat - preparing dishes
Potatoes with meat can be cooked in pots, a cauldron, on a baking sheet or in a cast iron frying pan. Aluminum molds are in great demand, but they are more suitable for cooking soups and mild stews based on potatoes and meat. In addition, food cannot be stored in such containers.
The ideal option for stewing, frying, boiling and baking potatoes with meat would be utensils made of cast iron, heat-resistant glass or Teflon-coated. Cast iron molds are coated with a protective black oxide film or enamel, which adheres very firmly to the alloy. In addition, cast iron is a very durable material, it lasts a long time, and its chemical composition allows food to heat evenly without burning to the bottom. Heat-resistant glass utensils are also widely used in culinary arts, especially since the food in them retains heat for a long time. It is recommended to bake and stew potatoes with meat in glass forms in the microwave or oven.
Recipe 1: Stewed potatoes with meat
Classic version! We take absolutely any meat at your discretion. But it should be borne in mind that each type of meat gives the dish its own unique taste, and the cooking time, accordingly, will also be different, since beef, for example, takes longer to cook than pork. The taste of the dish can be improved by lightly adding dill seeds, paprika or cumin.
Ingredients: 400 g fillet, a kilogram of potatoes, a large onion, one carrot, tomato paste, one and a half glasses of water or meat broth, salt, herbs, spices, pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the meat into cubes of about two centimeters, chop the onion, grate the carrots.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan and throw in the pieces of meat, fry until a varnish crust forms, then add the chopped onion and fry it until translucent. Then add carrots to the meat and onions and fry until half cooked.
3. Divorce tomato paste with 100 ml of water (broth), add the resulting sauce to the fry, add salt, season with spices and simmer for pork for 20 minutes, beef or lamb for 40 minutes.
4. Cut the peeled potatoes into large cubes, mix with the meat, pour the remaining broth (water) over the mixture and simmer until the potatoes are ready over low heat. Before serving, do not forget to sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs.
Recipe 2: Potatoes with meat, baked in the oven
According to this recipe, take any meat you want, also purchase hard cheese and milk preferably has low fat content. Potatoes baked according to this recipe will simply melt in your mouth. Try it!
Ingredients: fillet 400 gr., 5 potatoes, cheese 150 gr., butter - 100 grams (no more), milk, spices for meat, pepper, salt.
Cooking method:
1. We cut the meat into pieces, as for chops; we lightly beat the veal, but not the pork. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, cheese into small slices.
2. Grease a deep baking tray with r. butter and lay out the ingredients in layers, alternating meat and potatoes. Between layers, add a little salt, pepper, and sprinkle with grated plums. butter and lay out a few plastic pieces of cheese. The layers must be completed with potatoes, sprinkled with butter and cheese.
When the milk boils, reduce the heat to 150 degrees and bake for an hour, then turn up the heat again to 250 degrees. for education golden crust for a few minutes.
Recipe 3: Fried potatoes with meat
It is difficult to meet a person who could resist fried potatoes covered with an appetizing crust, and especially in combination with tender pork and spices.
Ingredients: 300 gr. pork pulp, 600 g pork (pulp), green onion 40-50 g, 20 g garlic, soy sauce 30 g, olive oil, sesame seeds 10 g, salt.
Cooking method:
Peel a medium potato and cut it into round slices. Also chop the meat into cubes, add salt, fry in oil, adding chopped onion and garlic at the end of frying (2-3 minutes), soy sauce. When the meat is almost cooked, add the potatoes and fry over low heat, stirring the potatoes occasionally. Fry under the lid (at the end, after a few minutes, you can remove the lid, add some salt and turn up the heat a little). Turn off the potatoes, add sesame seeds and let sit for 5-10 minutes. The dish is ready!
To make the meat of four-legged game - wild boar, elk, bear meat, etc. - more tender and tastier, before cooking, keep it in the marinade for 24 hours (to 1 liter of dry white wine, add half a teaspoon of vinegar, 100 grams of carrots and onions, cut into slices, 3 cloves of garlic and a bunch of herbs). The same procedure can be carried out with the meat of an old animal.
Some tips regarding potatoes:
— you need to fry it in very hot oil, and add salt only when the pieces begin to crust;
- potatoes will cook faster and taste better if you first scald them with boiling water and let them dry completely;
- throw potatoes into boiling water, this promotes rapid protein coagulation and minimizes the loss of useful components.
Remember, meat and potatoes are universal products, so get creative and add new ingredients, because such dishes can be combined with almost everything: garlic, onions, tomatoes, seasonings, spices, vegetables, even green peas And canned corn. To give a dish of potatoes and meat a special piquancy, add a little wine to a greased baking sheet. Bon appetit!
Nourishing, delicious potatoes with meat is an excellent option for an everyday dinner or lunch, a real dish for a large family. It does not need to be cooked for a long time; you can cook a large volume at once and then reheat it required quantity. Ingredients can be varied depending on what is available, limiting yourself to the required meat and potatoes or adding something else to the main ingredients. So, I prepared a stew with cabbage and added champignons.
You can cook stewed potatoes with meat in a slow cooker, in the oven, in a saucepan, etc. In short, a lot different dishes with one basis. And today I offer probably the easiest way of cooking - in a frying pan. In previous versions, after frying the meat, we transferred it, but in this case we leave it in the pan, adding other ingredients. The main thing is that the pan is spacious enough!
As mentioned above, you can add any other ingredients that are available to the main ingredients. Today I'll add some frozen whites. Instead of frozen mushrooms, you can use fresh or dried ones. It’s not scary if there are very few boletus mushrooms: even a couple of porcini mushrooms will give our dish a wonderful aroma and taste.
So, let's cook stewed potatoes and meat in a frying pan...
Cut the meat into small pieces.
Place it in a frying pan and fry it in sunflower oil. If you like, you can use pork fat.
Peel the vegetables and cut the potatoes into cubes.
Chop carrots and onions.
Add to the meat and continue frying until the meat is covered with a light crust and the onions and carrots are browned.
While the meat is being fried, prepare the mushrooms. Let's not wait until they are completely defrosted - then they will be soft. We'll clean it right away.
Let's cut it finely.
Add potatoes to the fried meat.
Let's salt our dish, pepper it, add a little suneli hop and bay leaf.
Add mushrooms and water in such quantity that the potatoes are lightly covered with water.
Cover the pan with a lid and set it to a heat that will ensure a low simmer. Cook the stewed potatoes and meat in a frying pan for about 50 minutes.
When serving, add the greens you like to the finished dish - dill, parsley, onion.
Stewed potatoes with meat can be prepared not only for lunch or dinner for the whole family, but also for festive table. The dish is very nourishing, tasty and warming, and it does not require much effort or time to prepare.
Instead of pork, I sometimes also use beef meat, the dish turns out less fatty.
It is most convenient to cook stewed potatoes with meat in a cauldron or in a deep cast-iron frying pan.
Ingredients for making stewed potatoes with meat:
- Pork 500 g
- Potatoes 1 kg
- Onions 2 pcs.
- Sour cream 2 tbsp.
- Bay leaf 1-2 pcs.
- Seasonings - optional (ground black pepper, mixture of peppers and others)
- Salt - to taste
- Vegetable oil ~100 ml
Recipe for stewed potatoes with meat:
1. Prepare meat, onions and potatoes. Wash the meat, dry it and cut it into equal, medium-sized pieces. Peel the potatoes. Peel the onion and chop finely.
2. In a casserole or deep frying pan, heat the vegetable oil well and put the chopped meat in it, fry for 2-3 minutes and add the chopped onion, fry for another 3-4 minutes.
3. Pour hot into the cauldron boiled water(but not cold) to cover the meat a little. Let it boil, turn down the heat, cover with a lid and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
4. Chop the potatoes (not very finely) and add to the meat. Salt and add bay leaf. If desired, you can add any seasonings. Add a couple of spoons of sour cream and simmer until the potatoes are ready for 15-20 minutes. At the end of cooking, add dill, onion or parsley.
The dish is prepared from publicly available ingredients that can easily be found in the market, store or
To prepare six servings of this dish you will need an hour of time and the following ingredients: a kilogram of potatoes, 600 grams of meat, one carrot and onion, 200 ml of sour cream, bay leaf and a mixture of peppers, a pinch of basil, salt, mustard seeds. Stewed potatoes with meat has a fairly familiar taste, but adding a new ingredient or seasoning makes the dish original and special again. Grate the carrots, cut the onion into rings, and cut the meat into small pieces. Fry the meat in a frying pan until golden brown, then add the onion and carrots. Fry the vegetables until golden brown. Put sour cream and the listed spices into a saucepan, add meat and vegetables and put on fire. After boiling, reduce the heat and simmer the meat until it is completely cooked. Peel and cut the potatoes into slices, add to the meat with sour cream and vegetables halfway through cooking. After adding the potatoes, you need to pour water into the pan so that it covers the vegetables and meat by two fingers. A few minutes before the end of cooking, add the herbs, then turn off the heat and let the dish stand under the closed lid for another twenty minutes. 
In this recipe, tomato appears, which slightly changes the taste of the dish and complements it. To prepare you will need 400 grams of meat (beef or pork), two onions and one carrot, 700 grams of potatoes, two tomatoes and two tablespoons of tomato paste, spices to taste, water and sunflower oil. Cut the meat into medium cubes and fry in a pan with heated sunflower oil. Chop the onion and grate the carrots on a fine grater. Add vegetables to meat and fry. Finely chop the tomatoes and add to the meat, then add tomato paste and seasonings to taste. Simmer for another fifteen minutes. Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes, add to the meat. Then add boiled water (you can use ready-made broth) so that the liquid covers all the potatoes. Cover with a lid and do not stir under any circumstances. Simmer until the potatoes are fully cooked. Mix all the ingredients just before serving the dish.
We also advise you to look at the recipe for potatoes in pots with meat and mushrooms. 
Most often, this dish is prepared in a saucepan on the stove, but there are also options for preparing potatoes stewed with meat and in the oven. The ingredients you need are a kilogram of potatoes, half a kilogram of pork, two onions, 75 grams of lard for frying, two tablespoons of flour, salt and pepper to taste. Cut the meat into cubes and fry in vegetable oil. Place the meat in a cauldron. Peel and chop the potatoes fairly large, fry a little in vegetable oil and add to the meat. Finely chop the lard and melt in a frying pan. Place the cracklings in a mortar. Fry the onion in the fat from the lard and add it to the cracklings. Pour the remaining fat into the cauldron. Grind the cracklings and onions with spices and place in a cauldron. Fry two tablespoons of flour in a dry frying pan, add 400 ml of water and also add this sauce to the cauldron. Now put the cauldron on the fire and bring to a boil, then transfer it to the oven. Simmer for an hour (make sure the water completely covers the potatoes). 15 minutes before the end of cooking, add the bay leaf and check the dish for sufficient salt. 
Another interesting option, which combines two favorite dishes: meat stewed with potatoes and meat stewed with cabbage. To prepare, take a kilogram of cabbage, 500 grams of meat, 250 grams of potatoes, two carrots and an onion, vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Peel the onion, chop it and place it in a pan with vegetable oil. Fry until golden brown. Cut the meat into pieces and also place in a pan, season with your favorite spices, add a little water. Cover with a lid and cook for 30 minutes. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, chop the cabbage, peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. When the water from the meat has evaporated, add carrots to it, then potatoes. After this, add the cabbage and salt everything thoroughly. Cook with the lid closed for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. If the cabbage starts to burn, you can add a little water.
We also suggest you try potato casserole with onions and carrots. 
Potatoes are excellent if cooked correctly. dietary products. This recipe is clear proof of that. The ingredients you will need are 500 grams of beef, one and a half kilograms of potatoes, two carrots, one onion and bell pepper, salt and spices to your taste. Pour a tablespoon into a thick pan olive oil and warm it up. Cut the butter into small pieces and fry a little in oil, add onion and grated carrots. bell pepper and cut the potatoes into cubes, add to the meat and fry over low heat for ten minutes. Then add boiled water to the cauldron so that it covers all the products. Simmer potatoes, meat and vegetables for about an hour under a closed lid. Don't forget to stir the dish. Serve potatoes with vegetables and meat, sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs. 
To prepare this interesting dish you will need 600 grams of any meat (pork, beef, chicken, lamb), a kilogram of potatoes, one carrot and onion, 5 cm of ginger root, six cherry tomatoes, a tablespoon of tomato paste, four tablespoons vegetable oil, dill. Wash the meat and cut into fairly large pieces. Heat oil in a saucepan and add meat there. As soon as the meat begins to brown, add finely chopped onion and grated ginger root. Fry for five minutes, stirring constantly. Then add carrots, cut into strips and small tomatoes cut into two parts, tomato paste. Cook for ten minutes, then pour in boiling water. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes the same size as the meat. Add potatoes to the meat and keep the dish on the fire until the vegetable is ready. Before turning off the potatoes and meat, add finely chopped dill. 
To prepare two servings of this dish, you need to take 300 grams of meat (chicken is best), three potatoes, three tablespoons of sour cream, dill, salt and pepper. Cut the meat into small pieces, add salt and pepper, and place in the multicooker on the “baking” mode. Cook for twenty minutes. At this time, peel the potatoes and cut into large cubes. Add to the chicken, add sour cream and salt, turn on the “stew” mode and cook for another forty minutes. After finishing cooking, add finely chopped dill. 
Potatoes stewed with beef
Ingredients: medium potatoes (7 pieces), beef meat (300 grams), onions (200 grams), dill (100 grams), ground red pepper and salt to taste, water (600 grams), sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into cubes. Next, pour into the pan clean water 500 grams, salt.
As soon as the water boils, reduce the heat and add the diced potatoes. While the potatoes are cooking, we pour oil into the frying pan, cut the beef meat, onion and dill very finely and begin to fry the meat over low heat, when the meat is cooked, add salt and pepper to taste, onion and fry for another 5 minutes. Then Add fried meat with onions and 100 grams of water to a pan with boiled potatoes and cook until the water evaporates from the pan.
After this, place on plates and add finely chopped dill.
