Some housewives consider beef difficult to prepare meat and therefore forever excluded it from their diet. To change your mind about the product under discussion, you should try to cook it in a “smart pan”. After all, beef in a slow cooker always turns out to be tasty, fragrant, satisfying.
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Beef goulash in a slow cooker
Ingredients: a little more than a pound of beef, 2 onions, 3 tbsp. tomato paste, Bulgarian sweet pepper, 1 tbsp. wheat flour, 2 tbsp. greasy sour cream, carrot, 1 tbsp. water, salt, aromatic herbs.
- The meat is finely chopped and cooked for half an hour in a frying mode on a small amount of fat.
- Then the beef is cooked already with onions, peppers and carrots.
- For the sauce, water, sour cream, flour, pasta are mixed. The ingredients are salted, seasoned with selected spices.
- The meat and vegetables is poured with sauce and simmers for 80-90 minutes in the "Stewing" program.
It is advisable to also leave beef goulash in a slow cooker for another 15-20 minutes to heat later.
As a vegetable base, you can use zucchini, pumpkin, asparagus beans, garlic pods.
How to cook beef stroganoff?
Ingredients: 640-670 g of beef pulp, 2-4 garlic slices, a tablespoon of tomato paste, 3 tablespoons of mustard and homemade sour cream, onion, spices, salt.
- Washed, dried and sliced meat is thoroughly rubbed with mustard. In such a marinade, beef should stand for about 15 minutes.
- Next, the meat, together with onion cubes, is placed in a bowl and fried in a suitable mode for about 20 minutes.
- The remaining ingredients are mixed in a separate bowl. Garlic is pre-grated or passed through a press. The resulting sauce is diluted with water and poured onto the meat.
Fragrant beef stroganoff will be stewed in a slow cooker for 110-120 minutes.
Beef Stew with Potatoes
Ingredients: 450-480 g of moderately fatty boneless meat, large onion, dry garlic, a pound of potatoes, a pinch of sweet paprika, salt.
- Beef cut in neat slices is fried in a bowl of a “smart pan” until golden.
- Onions with a blender turn into slurry and spread to the meat. Ingredients are stewed in a suitable program for 30-35 minutes.
- After that, potato cubes are poured into the container. Add salt and seasonings is not necessary yet. The same mode is set for another half hour.
- Only 5-7 minutes before cooking, salt and seasonings are added to the dish.
Tender beef stewed in a slow cooker with potatoes is a full-fledged nutritious dinner for the whole family or even a treat for the festive table.
Pilaf in a slow cooker
Ingredients: a pound of meat pulp, 3 onions, 2 multi-cooked glasses of long-grain rice, garlic to taste, 3 carrots, salt.
- Low-fat beef without veins and captivity is cut into small pieces. They are fried in hot oil in a suitable program for 15-20 minutes. At the same time, the device cover is left open.
- When the meat decreases in size and darkens, small cubes of onion pour out to it. Together, the ingredients are cooked for another 6-7 minutes.
- Large carrot cubes spill out to the components. The mass is prepared in the same program for another 8-9 minutes.
- It remains to add salt, chopped garlic, pre-washed rice.
- About half a liter of water is poured onto the products. The dish is cooked in pilaf mode for 40-45 minutes.
It is not necessary to mix the food, otherwise it will not turn out friable.
ABC recipe
Tasty recipe: cooking basics at home
Ingredients: 750-850 g of beef, 3 tablespoons of tomato paste, 2 onions, 5-6 potatoes, 3 pickles, 1.5-2 cups of filtered water, dry garlic, sweet paprika, salt.
- Pieces of meat with thin onion rings are cooked for 15-17 minutes in a program designed for frying.
- Next, cubes of pickles are poured into the pan. When all the foods are well cooked, pasta is added to them.
- It remains to pour salt, seasonings into the container, pour everything with hot water.
- In the extinguishing program, the dish will languish under the lid for 90-110 minutes.
- About half an hour before the readiness, the sticks of boiled potatoes cooked until half-ready are poured into the bowl.
Potatoes can also be pre-fried in a small amount of oil.
Beef roast
Ingredients: a little more than a pound of beef pulp, 60 g of high-quality butter, a large onion, 6-7 small potato tubers, a teaspoon of ground black pepper, large carrots, 4-6 garlic cloves, salt.
- In butter in the program for frying, onion rings and carrot sticks are passaged. Then the vegetables are cooked together with slices of beef until it darkens.
- It remains to put potatoes in a bowl, thin slices of garlic, pepper, salt.
- All components are filled with a small amount of water.
Stew the dish in the multicooker for 90-100 minutes.
With prunes
Ingredients: 370 g of scapula pulp (beef), onion, 80 g of tomato paste, large carrot, 80 g pitted prunes, dry garlic, ground paprika, salt.
- Onion rings, thin carrot bars and pieces of meat are fried together in a bowl of the device with the lid open for 15-17 minutes. You can use both vegetable and butter for this.
- Boiled and finely chopped prunes, salt and seasonings are added to the container.
- Last of all, water is poured into the multicooker. It should cover all components. You can use meat broth for this.
Extinguishing mode is activated for 60-70 minutes.
Slice baked in a slow cooker
Ingredients: kilo pulp of the shoulder blade (beef), any suitable spices, a liter of water, table salt to taste.
- A piece of meat is washed, if necessary, gets rid of films and excess fat.
- Beef is dipped in salted boiled water (cold). It is pressed by a plate so that it does not pop up. The meat will be in the liquid for at least 5-6 hours.And it’s better to leave it all night.
- In the morning, beef is generously rubbed with seasonings. You can also stuff it with garlic.
- The meat is tightly wrapped in two layers of foil.
- A glass of water is poured into the multicooker bowl. A bundle is placed on top.
- Meat will be cooked in a baking program for 40-45 minutes.
After the device’s signal, you need to leave the package inside it for another couple of hours. Ideally, until completely cooled.
Chops
Ingredients: 430 g of beef, egg, 90 g of high-grade flour, a handful of crumbs, fine salt, Italian herbs.
- The meat is cut into slices, beaten well, salted, sprinkled with seasonings.
- Prepared pieces are rolled in flour, dipped in a beaten egg, and then in breadcrumbs.
For roasting chops in a “smart pan”, the “Baking” or “Frying” program is suitable.
With vegetables
Ingredients: 620 g of beef goulash, carrot, 2 meaty tomatoes, onion, seasoning for beef, large bell peppers, 3-4 garlic cloves, small zucchini, salt.
- Pieces of meat are fried until color changes.
- All finely chopped vegetables are sent to the beef in turn.
- The mass is salted, sprinkled with seasoning.
- Garlic can be put whole with cloves or passed through a press.
- So much water is poured into the container so that it covers all the components.
In suitable mode, the dish will be stewed for 80-90 minutes.
Beef pastrami
Ingredients: 1.5 kg of meat, 1.4 l of filtered water, 125 g of fine salt, 90 g of granulated sugar, a pinch of nutmeg, ginger, coriander, cinnamon, black pepper, dried garlic, 60 g brown sugar, 40 g honey , 10 g of mustard seeds.
- All ingredients except meat are combined in a saucepan and brought to a boil on the stove. Sugar, salt, honey should completely dissolve in the liquid.
- A piece of meat washed with water is placed in a pot with marinade for 2 days. First you need to press it with a plate.
- Next, the beef is dried with a paper towel and placed in the oven.
The dish is left in the heating mode for at least 11 hours.
Steamed in a slow cooker
Ingredients: 630 g of beef pulp, ½ teaspoon of salt, a mixture of peppers, a tablespoon of vegetable oil, a sprig of rosemary.
- The washed meat is cut into pieces, smeared with salt and colored peppers, after which it is left to marinate for half an hour.
- Foil is covered in a container for cooking dishes. She is oiled. Prepared meat and rosemary are laid there.
- 2 cups of water are poured into the bowl.
Meat is cooked in the appropriate mode for 30-45 minutes.