Fern: recipe with potatoes and meat

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Edible species of ferns are very popular in the European part of Russia, as well as in China and Korea. Many delicious dishes are prepared from them.

Fern, the recipe of which we will give in this article with potatoes and meat, most often belongs to the species of ostrich or bracken. Having tried this product once, you can safely include it in your daily menu.

Roasted fern. Recipe with meat

Take four hundred grams of good beef tenderloin. Its freshness can be determined by pressing on the meat with your finger - the dent should quickly straighten out. If you want to cook just such a fern, the recipe calls for about two hundred grams of it - this is one standard pack. In addition, you will need four tablespoons of vegetable oil, a mixture of your favorite spices (paprika, red pepper and mustard seed go well with this dish), a couple of garlic cloves and s alt to taste. Remember, if you cook fern with meat this way, the recipe is for four servings.

You don't need to cook a large amount for the first time, because the taste of the dish is specific, and you need to get used to it. Fern, the recipe for which is given here, is easiest to prepare by buying vacuum-packed green raw stalks. This product can often be found in the Chinese food department or where they sell spices and seasonings for Korean cuisine. It's perfect for this hot appetizer. Cut the beef into small oblong sticks, then beat each of them, fry in vegetable (sunflower or corn) oil. Rinse the fern, cut into strips up to four centimeters long. Do not overcook the meat - after you beat it off, it cooks much faster, so you need to make sure that it does not become dry and tough. It will take about five to seven minutes, after this time, put the prepared fern in the pan, add spices.

This mixture must be simmered under the lid for up to ten minutes. In the finished dish, you can put crushed fresh garlic, sprinkle with sesame seeds and herbs before serving.

Braised fern. Recipe with potatoes

For this hearty dish, take half a kilogram of potatoes. It is advisable to choose tubers of a variety that becomes crumbly during cooking. It will take two hundred and fifty grams of s alted fern, vegetable oil, fat sour cream, black pepper. Potatoes need to be cut into cubes, straws or sticks. Soak the fern in cold water for twenty-fourhours before you cook. After that, the product must be rinsed, squeezed, sorted, cut. The prepared fern is placed in hot oil, fried for five minutes. Add potatoes and simmer another fifteen minutes. Then you need to pour sour cream or cream into the pan (the amount depends on the desired fat content of the dish, approximately 50-100 grams) and cook for another fifteen minutes. The dish is best served hot. You can also cook fern at the same time with meat and potatoes, you can add other vegetables to the dish, such as bell peppers, carrots, onions.