Azu with salted beef cucumbers with potatoes in Tatar

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the products. I took beef, lamb or horse meat is also good. Cucumbers are better suited to salted barrel cucumbers, I only had gherkins, I took them.

2. Step 2:

   

   The meat should be washed and thoroughly dried with paper towels. Then it should be cut into cubes, like a regular goulash. Do not forget that the meat is cut across the fibers so that it remains soft when frying.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and throw the meat into it.

4. Step 4:

   

   We need to fry the meat, as if sealing the juice inside it so that it remains soft. Intensively stir the meat so that it is fried from all sides.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the onion, cut into thin strips.

6. Step 6:

   

   Throw the onion to the meat, mix, continue to fry.

7. Step 7:

   

   Carrots are washed, cleaned, three on a coarse grater. Add carrots to the meat with onions, mix, continue to fry.

8. Step 8:

   

   Cut cucumbers into thin strips, cut tomatoes into cubes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Add cucumbers and tomatoes to the meat, mix.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put tomato paste, salt, season. Be careful with the salt. Cucumbers are salty, they will give part of the salt when stewing, it is better to salt a little at first, and at the end, after tasting, add salt if necessary.

12. Step 11:

    

    Fill the meat with vegetables with hot water so that it covers it. We put it to simmer for an hour. If the meat is old and tough, then the time will have to be increased.

13. Step 12:

    

    At the very end, we put a couple of laurel leaves in the aza. Now you can finally add salt and season the meat, if necessary. Cover the pan with a lid, turn off the fire, let the meat infuse a little.

14. Step 13:

    

    Potatoes are washed, cleaned, cut into strips. You can additionally dry it with a paper towel so that the potatoes become dry, so it will fry better.

15. Step 14:

    

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, throw potatoes into it.

16. Step 15:

    

    Fry the potatoes until golden brown.

17. Step 16:

    

    Add the fully prepared potatoes to the az, mix. When serving, you can sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs.