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Beef for the New Year

New Year's Beef with Prunes

A delicious, festive, yet easy beef dish! For the holiday table, families usually make a hot meat course alongside all the salads. This one is beef braised with prunes — simple, but festive and tasty all the same. Even a beginner cook can pull it off, and it doesn't take much time to make.

Snezhana

Recipe author

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Beef

500

Onion

Walnuts

150

Prunes

150

Vegetable oil

Salt

Ground black pepper

Translation table of volumetric measures

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

Cooking method

Step 1:

Gather the ingredients. The beef must be fresh — young beef is best. You could bake it whole, rolled up and stuffed with prunes, but that takes a fair amount of time, which is always in short supply on New Year's Eve.
Step 2:

So it's quicker and easier to cut the meat into serving-size pieces and braise it on the stove. Rinse the meat, cut it into cubes, rinse again, and let it drain well.
Step 3:

Rinse the prunes thoroughly and steep them in hot water so they plump up — 15 minutes is enough. Then drain the water and cut each prune into a few pieces with a knife.
Step 4:

Rinse the walnuts and dry them in the microwave or in a dry skillet on the stove. Break the walnuts into small pieces — you can do this with an ordinary rolling pin, putting the nuts in a bag, or in a blender. Just don't grind them into flour.
Step 5:

Peel the onion and cut it into half-rings. Pour vegetable oil into a skillet and fry the onion until golden. Remove the onion, along with the oil left in the pan.
Step 6:

Put the meat in a dry, heavy-bottomed skillet. Don't add oil right away — for juicy, tender beef, it should first braise in its own juices.
Step 7:

Cover the skillet and cook the meat for about 10 minutes. Then remove the lid, stir the beef, and let all the moisture cook off.
Step 8:

Pour in the vegetable oil. Fry the meat over medium heat in the oil for 15 minutes, letting it brown.
Step 9:

Add the prunes to the meat in the skillet and pour in a little water. Add salt and ground black pepper. Braise them together over low heat for about 40 minutes. Then add the sautéed onion and walnuts (save a handful of nuts for serving). Braise for another 10 minutes or so; the liquid should almost completely cook off. Serve the beef and prunes topped with chopped walnuts, with cranberry sauce on the side. Enjoy!