Beef stewed heart in sour cream

A simple and affordable dish for every taste and budget! Beef heart stewed in sour cream, if properly cooked, will have no worse taste than full-fledged meat. With garlic and herbs, this dish turns out to be very tasty, juicy and inexpensive, for every day.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the recipe composition
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 47 % 8 g
Fats 41 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 12 % 2 g
103 kcal
GI: 50 / 0 / 50

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 4 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to put out beef heart in sour cream? A very simple and budget dish. First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. The heart can be used fresh or frozen. Of course, a fresh product is preferable, but it is not always possible to get it. I had a frozen heart, already cut into several pieces.I have previously defrosted it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Take sour cream of any fat content.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the beef heart thoroughly, fill it with water and leave it for 2 hours so that all the blood comes out of it. If there is a lot of fat in the heart, you can cut it off.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Then drain the water and cut the heart into small pieces.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel the onion and cut into half rings.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Chop the greens finely. In addition to parsley, you can take your greens to taste: dill, cilantro, etc. It will turn out delicious if you use a mixture of herbs.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Peel and finely chop the garlic or pass it through a press.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the chopped heart and onion. When stewing, onions soften meat fibers and make them more tender and fragrant.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Pour 200 ml of water into the pan and bring to a boil over high heat, removing the foam. When you remove all the foam, reduce the heat and simmer the heart at a low boil under the lid for 1-1.5 hours, depending on the size of the pieces. You can add the onion after you remove the foam that has stood out, or do not add it at all.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    While the heart is stewing, combine sour cream with the remaining water and flour and mix thoroughly until smooth. In this diluted form, sour cream will not curdle into lumps, but a delicious homogeneous sauce will turn out. If you want to have a lot of sauce, increase the amount of water and sour cream by 1.5 times.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Add salt and pepper to the heart. You can optionally add other spices to taste. For example, a special mixture for offal dishes, bay leaves, allspice, etc .

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Pour the sour cream mixture into the pan and mix thoroughly. Simmer for about 8-10 minutes until the sauce thickens.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Add garlic and parsley to the pan. Warm everything together, stirring, for a couple of minutes.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Remove the finished heart from the fire. You can serve it with any side dish. Bon appetit!

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Beef heart can be replaced with pork.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10 % fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Heart of mutton - 82   kcal/100g
  • Beef heart - 96   kcal/100g

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