Unusual meat dishes: delicious recipes, necessary products

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

There are many unusual dishes without meat. But most holiday tables are not complete without this product. Someone, without changing the tradition, cooks the same thing for every holiday or for an everyday meal. And someone is in constant search of new recipes and ideas.

On the eve of the New Year and a series of "endless" weekends, we will present recipes for unusual meat dishes.

Dishes of other countries

Most of the recipes brought from other countries are unusual for Russians. We will not consider the most exotic options, but will present those interesting meat dishes that you can cook at home.

The list of ingredients will have to be tricky, as some products will not be easy to find. But the main ingredient is meat: pork, beef, lamb - any kind required by the recipe can be replaced with another that you like more.

So, interesting meat dishes from China and India.

China: pork with peaches in spiced soy sauce

An unusual dish of pork meat is a combination of a juicy peach with a fatty piece of pork. However, the taste is tender, spicy, and the dish itself is very satisfying.

To prepare you will need the following ingredients:

• pork - 0.6 kg;
• a can of peaches in their own juice;
• carrots - a couple of pieces;
• 1 onion;
• bell peppers - 2 pcs.;
• tomato juice - 150 grams;
• wine vinegar - teaspoon;
• starch - teaspoon;
• ground coriander, ginger, dried garlic, paprika - teaspoon each;
• sugar - 4 tsp;
• hot ground pepper - a third of a teaspoon;
• s alt and sesame seeds - to taste;
• soy sauce - 6 tablespoons.

It is advisable to prepare a complete list of ingredients, then the dish will turn out with a real Chinese "character".

Preparing pork with peaches as follows:

1. The meat is washed, cleaned of films, fried in oil in a pan, while the fire should be strong. Be sure to s alt the meat during frying. As soon as it is covered with a golden crust, the fire is reduced.
2. The onion is cut into half rings, and the carrots are cut into medium-sized sticks.
3. Prepared vegetables are placed in a pan with meat, frying all together for 5 minutes.
4. Bulgarian pepper is cut into strips and sent to the pan. Timed 5-7 minutes.
5. In a small bowl, combine coriander, garlic, ginger, paprika, chili, vinegar andsoy sauce.
6. The prepared mixture is poured into the pan. Once again, s alt everything, mix. Stew for 5 minutes, no more.
7. After 5 minutes, add sugar, tomato juice, starch, sesame seeds to the pan. Stir and simmer for another 7 minutes.
8. Peaches are added at the end. Juice is drained from them, and the fruits themselves are cut into cubes. Put in a pan and simmer for 15 minutes.

This completes the preparation. The meat dish should be served hot.

India: tandoori chicken

Chicken meat is dietary and is extremely popular in many countries of the world. In India, chicken meat is prepared in different ways, the main thing is to add more spices. One of the simple but unusual delicious meat dishes is tandoori chicken.

Its preparation begins with the preparation of products:

• chicken carcass;
• yogurt for salad, without additives - 300 ml;
• garlic cloves - 3 pcs;
• juice from 1 lemon;
• s alt to taste;
• tandoori masala (spice mix) - 2 tbsp

An unusual chicken dish is prepared like this:

1. Heat a dry frying pan over low heat. Zira, coriander, cinnamon stick, nutmeg, anise, green cardamom, black pepper, bay leaf are poured into it and fried until a pleasant aroma of spices appears. Dried or fresh green hot peppers, pieces of ginger and turmeric are placed in a mortar. Everything is carefully ground, and then laid out in a bowl. Add half a teaspoon of sweetpaprika, mix. This is how tandoori butter is prepared.
2. The chicken carcass is washed, the skin is removed from it - it will no longer be needed. The carcass itself is cut into 8 parts. On each piece of meat, an incision is made every 2 cm.
3. The garlic is grated.
4. Yogurt is mixed with garlic gruel, lemon juice and tandoori masala. S alt.
5. Meat slices are poured with the finished sauce, the container with meat is covered with a lid and put in the refrigerator overnight.
6. Preheat the oven to maximum temperature. Indians cook this dish in a special oven at a temperature of 400 ° C. In the conditions of Russian cuisines, the temperature of the oven, baking sheet or grill is quite high. You can cook the carcass on the street on the coals. The dish will be considered ready as soon as its crust becomes ruddy and crispy.

Fancy Holiday Meat Dishes

You always want to surprise your loved ones and guests with unusual dishes on the festive table. The New Year is a great occasion to cook something original, amazing in its composition, design and taste.

Here are a couple of interesting recipes: Meatball and Balkan Shepherd's Bag.

New Year's "Meat ball"

This recipe for an unusual meat dish is perfect for a festive table and will delight your guests, as it is simply impossible to deprive this dish of attention.

Required ingredients for Meatball:

• 2 types of meat: pork fillet - 300 grams, chicken- 100 grams;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• hard cheese - 100 grams;
• mushrooms - 100 grams;
• cilantro or parsley;
• lemon;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• soy sauce;
• spice mix: Italian herbs, pink pepper, allspice, mustard.

One of the most unusual meat dishes is prepared like this:

1. The pork fillet is beaten well, sprinkled with pepper and ground herbs.
2. The same is done with chicken meat.
3. Prepare the sauce with 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, a teaspoon of mustard, lemon juice and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
4. Pork and chicken are marinated in this sauce.
5. They put the meat aside and prepare the vegetables. Finely chop the onion.
6. The same is done with garlic, carrots and champignon legs as with onions.
7. Allspice and pink pepper are added to the mixture of vegetables and mushrooms.
8. Mushroom caps are boiled in boiling water for 5 minutes. For flavor, you can add a bay leaf.
9. Garlic is crushed on a fine grater. The greens are finely chopped, the cheese is also grated. All these ingredients are mixed and stuffed with boiled mushroom caps.
10. Take round heat-resistant dishes. Cover it with foil.
11. Pork fillet is laid on the foil in a circle, overlapping. The fillets should line the bottom of the dish on one end, and the other end should hang down.
12. Spread 2 tablespoons of fried vegetables and mushroom legs on the bottom.
13. Stuffed mushroom caps are laid out on top of the vegetables (how manyfit).
14. Chicken meat is placed on top of the mushroom caps.
15. And the final layer is the remaining fried vegetables with mushrooms.
16. All this stuffing is covered with hanging edges of pork.
17. Wrap the meatball in foil.
18. The dish is brought to readiness in the oven at 180°C for 40 minutes.
19. After the allotted time, remove the foil from the meat and leave it in the oven for another 10 minutes to brown.
20. The cooked meat ball is taken out, the foil is removed. Spread on a dish and decorate with pink peppercorns, or pomegranate seeds. The grains are placed over the entire surface at a distance of 3 cm from each other.

Balkan shepherd's bag

The following is a recipe for an unusual meat dish with an interesting name. "Balkan shepherd's bag" is a great idea for a festive table.

Ingredients:

• pork and ground beef - half a kilo;
• hard cheese - 100 grams;
• onions - 3 heads;
• mushrooms - 250 grams;
• fresh bacon - 100 grams;
• ripe tomato - 1 pc.;
• breadcrumbs - a couple of tablespoons;
• ground black pepper;
• bbq sauce;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking steps:

1. First, fry the onion cut into half rings in oil.
2. Mushrooms are cut into thin slices and sent to the onion.
3. S alt and pepper the contents of the pan and fry for a few minutes. But you don't have to wait untilmushroom juice will completely evaporate from the pan. A small amount of it should remain.
4. Knead the minced meat well with your hands, adding s alt, pepper and bread crumbs to it.
5. From minced meat they mold a cake 2-3 cm thick.
6. Take a glass (beer glass) with a bottom diameter of not more than 6 cm. Moisten the bottom from the outside with water and set the glass strictly in the center of the meat cake.
7. Hands are moistened with water and the bottom of the glass is wrapped with minced meat.
8. Bacon is wrapped over the stuffing, 1-2 layers.
9. The glass is carefully removed, leaving only a pretty meat basket.
10. A small amount of barbecue sauce is poured into the bottom of the basket.
11. The tomato is cut into thin slices.
12. Meat basket stuffed with fried mushrooms. Tomato slices are placed on top.
13. The cheese is carefully cut into thin slices.
14. And the top of the basket is decorated with cheese slices.
15. Make several of these baskets.
16. Take a deep baking sheet, grease it with vegetable oil.
17. Arrange meat baskets.
18. Bake for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees.

A delicious meal called Balkan Shepherd's Bag is ready.

Fancy meat dishes for dinner

It is not necessary to cook something original and unusual only on holidays. It is much more pleasant to surprise your household with a culinary novelty during an ordinary dinner.

And so next we will present recipes for unusual meat dishes with a photo: Wellington beef and meat "To the pleasure of guests".

Meat"To the pleasure of the guests"

Everything ingenious is simple, confirmation of this is the meat "To the delight of guests", which consists of a simple set of ingredients, is prepared easily, but at the same time it turns out to be original and very tasty.

The list of ingredients is represented by the following products:

• veal or beef meat - kilogram;
• liquid honey - 2 tablespoons;
• Ketchup "BBQ" - 6 tablespoons;
• garlic head;
• ground black pepper - half teaspoon;
• ground chili pepper - a quarter of a teaspoon;
• allspice - half a teaspoon;
• s alt to taste;
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons

Prepare "To the pleasure of the guests" like this:

1. A piece of meat is cut into large pieces, about 4 by 4 cm.
2. Garlic is made into a slurry using a fine grater or garlic press.
3. Take a small saucepan. Put 6 spoons of ketchup, garlic and honey into it.
4. Stir the mixture and heat over low heat until liquid. After being removed from the fire.
5. Vegetable oil, s alt, hot red pepper, black pepper, allspice are added to the prepared mixture. Stir thoroughly until smooth.
6. The ketchup-based sauce is poured over the meat, mixed thoroughly and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
7. After the allotted time, the pickled meat is laid out on a baking sheet and baked at 180 degrees for an hour. As soon as a quarter of an hour has passed after the startbaking, cover the meat with foil and continue baking.

On the one hand, the dish is quite simple, it does not contain exotic ingredients. But this is only at first glance. The taste of this meat is very original, as it combines the sweetness of honey and the sharpness of spices.

Beef Wellington for family dinner

Do you want to make an ordinary dinner solemn? Cook Beef Wellington.

Ingredients needed for cooking:

• beef tenderloin - 0.8 kg;
• puff pastry - 600 grams;
• mushrooms - half a kilo;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• 6-7 slices of bacon;
• a couple of sprigs of thyme;
• 2 tablespoons of mustard;
• garlic head;
• a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and 15 grams of butter;
• sesame - 10 grams;
• s alt and pepper optional;
• pair of yolks.

And now the cooking itself:

1. A whole piece of beef is s alted well.
2. Vegetable and butter are heated in a frying pan. Thyme and garlic gruel are fried in an oil mixture. Stir constantly so nothing burns. The oil should be saturated with the aromas of thyme and garlic. And as soon as they begin to fry, they are removed from the pan.
3. Now a whole piece of meat is fried in fragrant oil. It should be golden brown but still raw inside.
4. As soon as the meat is "golden", it is transferred to a cutting board and peppered on all sides,smeared with mustard, wrapped in foil and left for half an hour.
5. Lek is crushed.
6. Mushrooms are cut very finely. They can be chopped with a special nozzle in a blender, there should be small cubes, but not gruel.
7. In the oil in which the meat was previously fried, first the onions are fried, and then the mushrooms.
8. Fry everything until the mushroom juice has completely evaporated.
9. Sprinkle s alt, black pepper and thyme over onions and mushrooms. Stir and remove from heat.
10. Spread a layer of cling film on a cutting board. The indicated number of strips of bacon is laid on it (along, tightly to each other).
11. Spread a thin layer of mushrooms and onions on top of the bacon.
12. Now a piece of beef is placed on the mushrooms and with the help of cling film it is carefully wrapped in bacon, like a roll. Press the meat tightly in the film.
13. The dough is rolled out on the table. The meat is released from the film.
14. The edges of the dough are smeared with yolk.
15. The meat is spread on the edge of the dough and wrapped in a roll. Cut off excess dough.
16. Spread egg yolk on top.
17. Place on a baking sheet and bake: first 15 minutes at 200°C, then 15 minutes at 180°C.
18. The finished dish is taken out of the oven and left to infuse for half an hour. Then cut.

Conclusion

Unusual meat dishes can be quite simple to prepare, but they look original, and their taste is a whole range of different shades, since the set of ingredients is wide and varied.

Cookingsuch dishes cannot be rushed, but the result justifies every minute spent.