Italian cuisine is famous all over the world for its delicious and healthy recipes for cooking various dishes. In the approaches to diversity in the menu, the Italians are not at all as stereotyped as some naive and poorly educated people think - besides pizza and pasta in various forms, they also like numerous meat dishes. In the Italian cuisine, different kinds of meat are used. The best choice is considered to be veal, low-fat young beef and mutton. Meat should be fresh and tender, because of its quality depends on the final taste of the dish.
Usually, the meat in Italy is cooked and served in the form of the most natural, it is cut into large pieces, but not fried, and stewed in its own juice with wine or in tomato sauce - this method of heat treatment is one of the best from the point of view of dietology. Of course, cooking can not do without fragrant herbs and some spices.
How to cook meat in Italian - recipe
Ingredients:
- lamb, veal or tender beef - about 1 kg;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- ripe tomatoes - 4-5 pcs. medium size;
- garlic - 2-5 denticles;
- olive oil - 3-5 st. spoons;
- light wine (better pink), table nonsulphite - 25 ml;
- fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary, basil, parsley);
- black pepper powder;
- salt.
Preparation
Meat should be thoroughly rinsed, dried with a paper towel and cleaned of films. We cut it across the fibers with large enough pieces (convenient for eating). We heat the oil in a deep frying pan or saucepan. Fry the finely chopped onions until the color changes. Fry the meat, gently manipulating the scapula so that it releases a minimum of juice. When the meat is lightly browned, lightly grease it, add wine, reduce the heat and stew under the lid almost until it is ready. If necessary, you can pour water. Minutes for 10 before the end we add not too finely chopped tomatoes. For 2 minutes before the end of the process, put crushed garlic and herbs. Season with pepper and other dry spices to taste. Let's stand under the lid for 15 minutes. We put the meat on a serving dish along with the gravy. We decorate with greenery and serve with incomparable Italian wine, red or pink dining room. You can, of course, also apply the paste to such a dish, but
Meat in Italian in the oven
Meat in Italian can be cooked and in the oven.
In this case, everything is done in the same way as in the recipe given above, only after roasting, pouring wine, put the meat in the sauté pan under the lid in the oven for at least 40 minutes. Cook at medium temperature. 20 minutes before the end of the process, we put tomatoes. In principle, after frying, you can simply put out meat with onions in wine and serve separately any hot sauce based on tomato.