Meat in sauce in a frying pan with vegetables

Delicious beef with tomato-sour cream sauce. Pork can also be cooked according to this recipe. Instead of tomato paste, you can use fresh tomatoes that need to be grated, or tomato sauce.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 43 % 9 g
Fats 43 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 14 % 3 g
127 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 15 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make meat in sauce in a frying pan with vegetables? Prepare the ingredients. To prepare beef, we will need: beef pulp, sweet bell pepper, water, garlic, bay leaf, vegetable oil, ground black pepper and salt.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the beef, dry it and cut it into small pieces.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash the bell pepper, remove the seeds and stalk. Cut into small cubes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Peel and finely chop the garlic.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the beef and fry until golden brown.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Pour in 150 ml of water. Mix everything together.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Simmer under the lid on low heat until the liquid boils for about 40 minutes.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Sauce. To prepare the sauce, we will need: water, tomato paste, sour cream (15-25% fat content, depending on the desired thickness of the sauce) and sugar.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    When the water boils, season the beef with salt, pepper and sprinkle with spices. Stir-fry for 2 minutes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Add bell pepper and garlic. Fry together for 2-3 minutes.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Pour in 200 ml of water. Add tomato paste, sugar and bay leaf. Simmer all together, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Lay out the sour cream.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Mix everything well and simmer for another 4-6 minutes. If necessary, add salt to the meat. Our beef with sauce is ready. Enjoy your meal!

This is one of the basic recipes for cooking beef. It turns out tender and juicy meat, at the same time flavored with just the perfect combination of various seasonings, spices and vegetables.

Juicy and fragrant beef stewed with gravy can decorate any side dish. The main thing is to choose the right meat so that in the end the beef turns out not hard, but soft. The pulp of the hip part is suitable for this. Veal will turn out softer than beef.

If the meat is too tough, and the sauce is almost all boiled off, you need to pour in another half a cup of hot (not cold!) water.

In addition to bell pepper, onions and fresh tomatoes can be added to beef. The finished dish can be sprinkled with chopped herbs for taste. It will turn out delicious and fragrant with cilantro.

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

For this recipe, it is better to take not frozen, but fresh meat, otherwise the finished meat risks getting dry.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • 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
  • Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g

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