Pork azu with pickles and potatoes in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make aza from pork with pickles and potatoes in a frying pan? Prepare the ingredients. For this recipe, it does not matter which part of the carcass to choose, as it will still become soft during cooking. Cucumbers salted by the barrel method will be tastier in this dish, but, in the absence, pickled ones will also do. Tomato paste can be replaced with chopped fresh tomatoes, you can also add carrots, onions.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour tomato paste with pickle from cucumbers and mix until smooth. If you took fresh tomatoes, then rub them on a coarse grater, and only then pour the brine.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pork, if it was frozen, pre-defrost by transferring from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Wash the thawed meat and dry it with paper towels. Cut the pulp into small cubes.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash the potatoes, peel and also cut into cubes approximately equal in size to pork.

5. Step 5:

   

   In the same way, cut the cucumbers into cubes.

6. Step 6:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat and, stirring, fry the pork on it until golden brown.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the potatoes in the pan with the meat. Fry everything together, stirring, for about 5 minutes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add the pickles to the pan. Mix it up.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then pour the tomato mixture with brine and water into the pan with the meat and vegetables. Add the bay leaf and ground pepper.

11. Step 10:

    

    Mix everything thoroughly. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the aza over low heat for 20-25 minutes.

12. Step 11:

    

    At the very end, add the peeled garlic passed through the press. It is not necessary to salt this dish, since there is enough salt in tomato paste, brine and cucumbers. In any case, try it with salt and decide for yourself. Mix the Azu and remove from the heat.