Beef for the New Year

Delicious, festive, but easy to prepare beef dish! As a rule, on the New Year's table, in addition to various salads, they prepare even hotter meat. In order not to upset the symbol of the year, it is not recommended to put dishes from the meat of this animal on the New Year's table. Therefore, in 2019, in the year of the Pig, beef became a frequent guest on the festive table. There are a huge number of recipes for cooking different beef dishes. With the right choice and good preparation of this product, any beef dish will turn out delicious. Beef with prunes is simple, but at the same time festive and delicious. Even a novice hostess can cope with this recipe, and it does not take much time to prepare this dish.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 33 % 14 g
Fats 40 % 17 g
Carbohydrates 26 % 11 g
253 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients. Beef meat must necessarily be fresh, it is better to take young beef. You can bake beef with prunes, leaving the meat in a whole piece, wrapping it in a roll and stuffing it with prunes. But it will take quite a lot of time to prepare this dish, which is always not enough on the eve of New Year's Eve.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Therefore, it is faster and easier to cut the meat into portions, put it out on the stove. The meat is washed and cut into cubes, washed again, and let the water drain well from the meat.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Prunes are thoroughly washed and steamed with hot water so that it swells. 15 minutes is enough. Then we drain the water, and cut each prune into several parts with a knife.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Wash the walnuts, dry them in the microwave or on the stove in a dry frying pan. Walnuts need to be crushed into small pieces. You can do this with a regular rolling pin, putting nuts in a bag, or with a blender. Just do not grind the nuts into flour.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel onions and cut into halves of rings. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, fry the onion on it until it turns brown. Remove the onion with the remaining oil from the pan.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put the meat on a dry frying pan with a thick bottom. Vegetable oil does not need to be added immediately so that the beef turns out juicy and tender, it must first be put out in its own juice.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Cover the pan with a lid and fry the meat for about 10 minutes. Then we remove the lid, mix the beef, let the moisture from the pan completely evaporate.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Pour in vegetable oil. Fry the meat on medium heat in oil for 15 minutes, let it brown.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    We send prunes to the meat in the pan, pour in a little water. Add salt, ground black pepper. Simmer them together over low heat for about 40 minutes. Then we send the boiled onions and walnuts to the pan (a handful of nuts should be left for serving). Simmer for about 10 more minutes. The liquid should evaporate almost completely. We serve beef with prunes, sprinkled with chopped walnuts on top, with cranberry sauce. Enjoy your meal

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

  • Melted beef fat - 871   kcal/100g
  • Fat beef - 171   kcal/100g
  • Lean beef - 158   kcal/100g
  • Beef brisket - 217   kcal/100g
  • Beef - okovalok - 380   kcal/100g
  • Beef - lean roast - 200   kcal/100g
  • Beef shoulder - 137   kcal/100g
  • Beef - ribs - 233   kcal/100g
  • Beef - ham - 104   kcal/100g
  • Beef - tail - 184   kcal/100g
  • Boiled ham - 269   kcal/100g
  • Beef corned beef - 216   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Prunes - 227   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g

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