French meat with mushrooms and tomatoes - Russian answer to French delights

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

Once upon a time, a French chef cooked tender veal with vegetables familiar to Russian people - potatoes and onions - for Count Orlov. The composition was seasoned with the most delicate bechamel sauce and an original dish was served to the table, calling it “French Meat”. With mushrooms and tomatoes, this masterpiece was already cooked in the homeland of the famous count. But as? The secret is revealed below.

Russian version

As already noted, the French chef based this recipe on tender veal. But meat in French with mushrooms and tomatoes is prepared not only from it. For its preparation, you can safely use beef or pork, the main thing is to process it correctly.

But it's worth getting back to the main thing, namely the list of ingredients. So, for this recipe (provided that dinner is planned for two) you will need:

1. Half a kilo of selectedmeat.
2. Potato about 300 g (about three medium potatoes).
3. Tomatoes - 2 large pieces.
4. Two onions.
5. 200 g mayonnaise.
6. Favorite mushrooms - 300g
7. Grated cheese - 200-300g

Greens and spices will decorate the meat in French, the step-by-step recipe of which will be given below.

Cooking rules

Step 1. Food preparation

It should be remembered that the Russian version of cooking meat in French involves cutting all the ingredients in layers or circles. Start with meat. To do this, a piece is cut into several parts, lightly beaten and soaked in spices.

Potatoes should be cut into layers to a thickness equal to the width of the meat parts. But the tomatoes and onions are best chopped into thin rings. Mushrooms are also divided into plates, but you can give them the shape of neat cubes.

Step 2. Layering

It should be remembered that French meat with mushrooms and tomatoes is a kind of casserole. And therefore it is necessary to lay out the products prepared in advance in layers.

So, the first layer is a potato pillow. The entire volume of the specified vegetable is evenly distributed on the bottom of the oiled form. Then s alt and/or pepper. The second layer is meat. Its plates should be laid out so that they do not overlap each other. Layer three - onion rings, which, on the contrary, should overlap each other. Layer four - mushrooms. Layer five - circles of tomatoes. The last layer ismayonnaise.

Step 3 Bake

In a gas oven preheated to 200 degrees or an electric oven to 220 degrees, send the form with the future Russian-French masterpiece and bake it for 45 minutes. Next, the form is taken out and the almost finished dish is sprinkled with grated cheese. Again sent to bake, but for 15-20 minutes.

Step 4. Serve

French-style meat with mushrooms and tomatoes should be served exclusively hot. At the same time, you can decorate it with fresh oregano or parsley leaves.

Tricks

It should be remembered that the right meat in French is always prepared exclusively from veal. But if beef or pork is available, then they should be beaten off and allowed to sweat in spices for about an hour.

Also, don't forget that the potatoes may not be fully baked. Therefore, before preparing such a dish, you should boil the tubers slightly or use bechamel sauce instead of mayonnaise. And the last thing: it is best to use champignons when cooking such meat. But if the choice fell on wild mushrooms, then they must be pre-boiled. And only after that they are included in the composition of the dish.