Kaurdak
An Eastern-style roast — fast, tasty, and filling! Kaurdak comes from Central Asian cuisine, but in its ingredients and method it's a lot like a homey meat-and-potato stew. The ingredients are easy to find, it comes together fairly simply and doesn't take long, and the whole family ends up full and happy. Cooking it in a cauldron makes it even better, but a heavy-bottomed sauté pan or Dutch oven works just as well.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Prep the ingredients. If your beef is frozen, take it out ahead of time, thaw it, and soak it in cold water. In summer, use fresh tomatoes and bell pepper. In winter, you can use vegetables you cut up and froze in containers over the summer. If you don't have any put up, use tomato paste instead.
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Step 2:
Cut the beef into small squares. Naturally, the dish will taste much better — and cook faster — if you use meat from a young steer.
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Step 3:
Heat the sunflower oil in a sauté pan. Add the meat and fry for about 10 minutes, stirring and turning constantly so it doesn't burn.
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Step 4:
Peel the onion and carrots and cut them large — the carrots into rounds, the onion into half-moons.
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Step 5:
Add the vegetables to the meat and fry until the onion turns translucent.
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Step 6:
Cut the tomatoes into small pieces and the pepper into strips (or use your frozen prepped vegetables). Peel the garlic and slice it thin.
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Step 7:
Add the tomatoes, pepper, and garlic to the pan. Stir and fry for about 5 minutes.
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Step 8:
Wash, peel, and cut the potatoes into large pieces.
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Step 9:
Add the potatoes to the pan. Season with salt and spices to taste. Pour in enough water to come about halfway up the contents. Cover and simmer over medium heat for about 25 minutes.
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Step 10:
The dish is ready.
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Step 11:
Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs. Enjoy!
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Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Tomatoes - 23 kcal/100g
- 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
- Sweet pepper - 27 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Zira - 112 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Ground red pepper - 318 kcal/100g
- Sunflower oil - 898 kcal/100g
- Refined sunflower oil - 899 kcal/100g
