If a man lives in your house, and not even one, then naturally you cook meat, most likely, almost every day.
Of course, you try to diversify the recipes for cooking meat, each time you serve a different side dish and salad to it. But sometimes you catch yourself on the fact that I would like to serve meat in a slightly modified form, add something new, exquisite, tricky, so that your men can look at you with enthusiasm and appreciate your work.
Of course, a great helper in this is always to add to the meat, the taste of which is easy to change, adding different spices and changing its consistency.
And if you serve meat with a sweet sauce, or for example, with a sweet and sour? Have you tried? This sauce can completely change the taste of the finished dish, even if the process of cooking meat remains usual for you. Experiment?
Recipe 1: meat in sweet sauce
For this dish, prepare a few, perhaps unusual at first glance, ingredients, but the result will pleasantly surprise you.
Ingredients Required:
- pork loin - 1 kg;
- orange - 1 pc .;
- honey - 2-3 tablespoons;
- garlic - 2-3 tooth .;
- soy sauce - 3 tbsp. l .;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
- pepper and salt.
Cooking method:
Wash my pork loin, lightly dry it with a towel and cut into 6-7 pieces.
Prepare marinade for it. Mix chopped garlic, butter, honey, juice of one orange, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Mix, pour it into a deep dish and send them meat. We mix and give it 12 hours to pickle in a cold place.
And now everything is simple. Choosing meat from the marinade. Heat the pan, pour the oil into it and fry the pieces of meat. Has the meat already turned golden? Then it's time to cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and cook the meat until ready for about 10 minutes. Chunks of meat, after roasting, you can send in a preheated 200 * C oven - choose the option that suits you best.
Pour the butter into the skillet, in which our meat was fried, add the marinade and boil it until thick. Serve the meat with a side dish and pour over the sweet sauce.
Recipe 2: meat in a sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients Required:
- canned pineapple - a jar;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0.5 red pepper,
- 0.5 yellow pepper (for beauty);
- Vinegar 9% - 2.5 tbsp. l .;
- Ketchup Heinz - 3 tbsp.
- sugar - 2.5 tbsp;
- starch,
- pork - 400 g;
- egg yolk - 1 pc .;
- ginger, garlic, soy sauce and salt.
Cooking method:
We rub a small piece of ginger on a terke, mix it with soy sauce, egg yolk and starch. Cut the meat into strips and send it to the marinade. Stir so that it can fully bathe in the marinade, and leave for 15-20 minutes to the side.
Pour starch on a plate, and roll each piece of marinated meat in it. Put the pan on the stove to heat up, pour the oil and bring it to a boil. Fry until golden brown in deep fat. Then quickly skimmer move to the plate.
Bulgarian pepper cut into cubes, send in the oil to fry and also choose a skimmer on a plate. Now do the same with pineapples. Cut them into cubes and fry.
Peel the garlic and 1 cm. Ginger. Grind them and send in oil. After 1 minute, pour 0.5 cups of water to them, add sugar, soy sauce and vinegar. As soon as the sauce boils, add the ketchup to them, bring to a boil and send all the ingredients we fry earlier into the sauce. Mix, and over medium heat, we will extinguish everything together for another 10 minutes.
Everything, you got the meat just like in a Chinese restaurant. Surprise your loved ones with your culinary skills. If your men love more spicy, you can still add hot peppers there. Dish just delicious.
Recipe 3: chicken meat in a sweet-sour sauce.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken fillet - 500 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs .;
- A jar of canned pineapple;
- carrots - 1 pc .;
- potato starch - 3 tbsp.
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons l .;
- champignons, dried tomatoes, soy sauce and vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Washed and lightly dried fillet cut into strips or cubes. First, transfer the meat to a deep bowl, then add the soy sauce, mix and leave in a cold place for 2-2.5 hours.
Then add to the bowl to the meat part of the starch and flour. Stir and fry the meat in butter until a beautiful crust appears. Put a layer of paper towel on a plate and place meat on it. This is a necessary procedure, through which all surplus meat absorb towel.
All vegetables according to my recipe and cut them into identical cubes. First send peppers to the pan, then add carrots, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and pineapple pieces to it. Fry it all together for a few minutes, and pour half a cup of pineapple syrup from the jar. Add tomato paste, starch residues, gently mix and bring the sauce to a boil.
It is now possible to put the fried meat to the sauce and continue to simmer. To make the sauce hot, you can add hot peppers. Cook rice as a side dish and pour it over chicken meat cooked in a sweet and sour sauce.
Recipe 4: Chinese Sweet Meat
Chinese dishes every day more and more confidently enter our lives. Let's cook Chinese meat by yourself, in your favorite kitchen.
Ingredients Required:
- pork - 0.5 kg .;
- carrots (optional) - 1 pc .;
- sugar - 5 tbsp .;
- sesame oil - 0.5 tsp;
- Acetic essence - 1 tsp;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- starch - 200 g;
- tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l .;
- vegetable oil - 0.5 liters for frying.
Cooking method:
Clean a piece of pork from the films, cut off the excess fat and cut it into 1 cm thick plates. Put it in a deep bowl and fill it with 200 grams of starch. Now pour a thin stream of water (150 ml) to form a sticky liquid. Leave the meat aside.
If you use a carrot, then cut it into thin straws and add to them a little chopped greens - leave aside.
In the wok pan pour 0.5 liters of oil. We warm it up well. Mix the meat in a bowl again and send to the hot oil to fry. You need to fry the meat in one layer, then choose with a skimmer and send the next batch of meat. When all the meat is fried and shifted from the pan to the plate, you can take up the preparation of the sauce.
In the cup pour 5 tsp. cold water and add to it 2 tsp. starch. Stir. Let the starch stand in the circle for a while. In a cold and dry skillet pour 5 tablespoons. sugar and 1 tbsp. tomato paste. Turn on strong fire, add 1 tsp. salt and heat the contents. Now pour 1502 ml of boiling water, mix and bring to a boil. Immediately send to the sauce 1 tsp. vinegar essence - do not be alarmed by the smell, it is temporary! Cook the sauce for 2-3 minutes. During this time, once again, mix the starch in water and pour it to the sauce for thickening. Intensive movements mix the sauce, bring everything to a boil and pour in another 0.5 tsp. sesame oil and 2 tbsp. vegetable oil. Now you can send roasted pieces of pork and mix, so that our sauce has time to evenly distribute each piece. At this stage, add the prepared carrot and continue cooking for another 2 minutes.
Your meat is already cooked and well soaked in sweet sauce.
Sweet meat - the secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- You can adjust the sweet and sour taste of the sauce by adding or reducing ingredients that are responsible for a particular taste.
- Starch is always diluted in cold water!
- Add finely chopped greens to the prepared sauce and leave the sauce under the lid for a couple of minutes.
