Beef is considered the most popular meat in the world. It is absorbed by 70%, has a high nutritional value and is traditionally used to prepare main dishes, broths and soups. Beef is boiled, fried and stewed, adding various vegetables, spices and dried fruits to the main ingredient. Special taste It gives dishes a marinade in which the meat is kept before cooking. Our article presents different recipes beef with prunes in a slow cooker. At the very end, we suggest that you read people’s reviews and their recommendations regarding the preparation of this dish.
The recipe presented below produces tasty and soft meat with piquant notes from dried fruits. But you should choose sour prunes for it, not sweet ones. This dish can be served with a side dish of potatoes, rice or pasta.
Step by step, beef is prepared in a slow cooker in the following sequence:
Below we offer other recipes for beef stewed with prunes in a slow cooker. Meat cooked in the oven is no less tasty and juicy. tomato sauce, white wine or sour cream.
This option for cooking meat is suitable for family dinners and for meeting guests. Beef with prunes, stewed in a slow cooker, simmers with vegetables for about 2 hours and during this time turns into a juicy and aromatic dish.
The sequence of cooking meat in a slow cooker is as follows:
Do you want to cook flavorful and juicy meat? Use the following recipe. Alcohol makes the meat more tender, and prunes add a piquant sweet and sour flavor.
Prunes are prepared very quickly in a slow cooker:
This dish will please everyone without exception. It turns out tender, with a spicy aroma of nutmeg.
To prepare the dish, the meat is chopped. Beef (1 kg) is fried in a small amount of vegetable oil in a multicooker bowl with the lid open. To save time, you can fry the onions and carrots separately. You can also wait until the liquid in the bowl has evaporated, transfer the beef to a plate and start cooking the vegetables.
Prepared onions, carrots and meat are combined in a bowl. Add a glass of boiling water, bay leaf, nutmeg and ground black pepper (0.5 teaspoons each), salt (2 teaspoons). In the "Stew" mode, the beef will cook for 1 hour. At the end of the selected program, chopped prunes and chopped garlic (6 cloves) are added to the bowl of meat. Beef stewed in a slow cooker with prunes goes well in taste with mashed potatoes. This dish can also be served New Year's table.
First of all, when preparing this dish, meat cut into small pieces is fried in vegetable oil in the “Baking” mode. The lid of the multicooker should not be closed. The liquid should completely evaporate. Next, chopped onions and carrots are added to the meat. They need to be fried for 10 minutes. If desired, you can add celery root. It will give the dish a special spicy note. Lastly, ingredients such as diced tomato, a tablespoon of tomato paste, bay leaf, salt and 100 g of prunes are loaded into the bowl, and a glass of water is poured.
Stewed beef with prunes in a slow cooker will be ready in about 90 minutes. You need to taste the meat and, if necessary, let it simmer in the gravy for another half hour.
This recipe for cooking meat can be called one of the fastest. The beef takes only 1 hour to cook. And all this thanks to sour cream, which helps soften the meat fibers. To speed up the cooking process, the beef is fried in a frying pan until a crust forms. At this time, onions and carrots are cooked in the multicooker bowl in the “Baking” mode under the open lid. Beef is added to the vegetables, sour cream with 20% fat content and spices (dried basil, dill, pepper, salt) are added. All ingredients are poured with water so that the meat is completely immersed in liquid. The “Extinguishing” mode is set and the program time is 1 hour. 15 minutes before readiness, add finely chopped prunes to the multicooker bowl.
This dish has a special, honey flavor. It is achieved thanks to the sauce in which prunes are simmered separately from the beef. The meat is cooked directly in the bowl of the device, and before serving it is combined with a spicy dressing. Beef with prunes in a slow cooker, according to reviews, turns out so soft that it literally melts in your mouth.
To prepare a dish in vegetable oil, meat (1 kg) is first fried. After this, the “Baking” mode is turned off and the “Stewing” program is installed. The meat is filled with water (2 tbsp.) and simmers under a closed lid for 2 hours. To taste, add salt, ground ginger and black pepper (1 teaspoon each), a few cloves of garlic, and a pinch of saffron.
Prepare the sauce in a small saucepan on the stove. To do this, boil finely chopped prunes for 15 minutes until soft. The water is drained, half a glass of broth, a tablespoon of honey, twice as much sugar and a cinnamon stick are added. Simmer the prunes over low heat for about 40 minutes until a thick syrup is obtained. Before serving, sauce is poured over the meat.
In a pressure cooker meat dishes They come out juicy and very tasty. Plus, they cook much faster. Now we will tell you recipes for cooking beef in a pressure cooker.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Cut the beef into medium-sized pieces, add salt and pepper. Grind the onion and carrots on a grater. Cut the mushrooms into 4 parts. Place all the ingredients in a pressure cooker, mix, pour in, close the lid and cook for 20 minutes.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Add vegetable oil to the pressure cooker pan. Dredge the meat in flour and fry on both sides until golden brown crust. We also fry the onions. Then rinse the pressure cooker with water to remove all the crispy crusts.
Return the meat to the pressure cooker pan, add salt, pepper, sage, red wine, dry garlic, tomato paste, stir and cover with a lid. In an electric pressure cooker, select the “Meat” mode and the cooking time is 12 minutes. In this case, we move the valve to the “Pressure” position. At the end of cooking, we forcibly reduce the pressure.
If we cook in a pressure cooker on the stove. First, turn on high heat; as soon as the liquid begins to boil, reduce the heat to low and cook for 12 minutes. Peel the potatoes, celery and carrots and then cut them into cubes. Place vegetables on meat. Add water. With the lid closed, cook in an electric pressure cooker in the “Vegetables” mode for 5 minutes under pressure.
At the end of the cooking process, let the pressure decrease on its own. We also cook in a pressure cooker on the stove for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and wait until the pressure decreases. Only after this do we open the pressure cooker. and vegetables in a pressure cooker ready.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Cut the onion into cubes and fry in the “Fry” mode for 5 minutes, then add the grated carrots and cook for another 5 minutes. Cut the meat into pieces and place it in the onion and carrots; cook in the same mode for 10 minutes to form a crust. Then add prunes, salt and pepper to taste. Stir sour cream with adjika, add 50 ml of water and pour the mixture into the meat. Close the pressure cooker with a lid and cook in the “Stew” mode for 40 minutes.
Meat with the addition of dried fruits acquires completely new flavors. You can experiment almost endlessly with these combinations. And the “smart pan” will simplify the task of the cook. How to properly prepare beef with prunes in a slow cooker is described below.
For seasonings, you should use nutmeg and ground black pepper - a pinch each. Other ingredients: 870 g beef, 155 g dried prunes (pitted), 2 onions, salt, carrots, 5-6 garlic cloves, 1 tbsp. filtered water.
The dish goes well with any light side dish.
Both red and white wine are selected for pouring beef with dried fruits. But for this recipe you need to choose the latter. Ingredients: half a kilo of beef tenderloin, 80 g of prunes, 90 ml of white wine, 2 onions, 280 ml of broth, garlic to taste, 2 large spoons of light flour, salt.
Tomato sauce will add brightness and juiciness to the dish. Ingredients: 360 g of meat tenderloin, 2 medium carrots, 90 g of pitted prunes, 2 large onions, 60-70 ml of tomato paste, a pair of garlic cloves, a special mixture of spices for beef.
Meat is served with a large number fresh greens.
To turn the dish into a complete lunch, add potatoes to the meat and dried fruits. Ingredients: 180 g prunes, half a kilo of beef tenderloin, 4-5 medium potatoes, a carrot and an onion, salt, spices, 3 multi-cooker glasses of filtered water, a large spoon of flour.
If more potatoes are used, the amount of water will need to be increased. Otherwise, there will be no gravy in the container at all.
Both forest and greenhouse mushrooms are suitable. It is best to take champignons (240 g). The remaining ingredients: 90 g of prunes, half a kilo of meat, large carrots, salt, onions, a mixture of peppers.
Delicious served with mashed potatoes or simply with homemade bread.
It's better to choose from nuts walnuts. Ingredients: 780 g of beef tenderloin, half a glass of prunes and nuts, 60 ml of dry red wine, salt, aromatic herbs.
To taste in ready dish You can add ground pepper and chopped garlic.
In addition to prunes, for this option, also take dried apricots. Ingredients: 90 g of dried fruit, 1 multicooker glass of broth, large onion, salt, half a kilo of beef tenderloin, a pinch of nutmeg.
