Many do not even suspect that "French meat" is a dish of Russian cuisine. It was first prepared in the 19th century during the reign of Nicholas the First. True, the French chef Urbain Dubois, who served for a long time at the court of Count Alexei Orlov, invented this dish. His creation resembles a casserole, consisting of several layers, one of which is necessarily meat. For example, you can even make meat in French from turkey. Depending on the additional components that are used, several rather interesting recipes are known.
Diet option
To cook French meat from turkey, you do not need to be an experienced chef. Even a novice housewife will cope with such work. In principle, everything is very simple here. Before starting to cook meat in French from turkey, you need to make sure that on the table were all the necessary products for this:
- 550 grams of turkey fillet;
- 4 onions;
- salt;
- 1 tomato;
- ground pepper;
- 100 grams of cheese (hard);
- a little sour cream;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking technology:
- Cut the fillet with a sharp knife into slices with a thickness of not more than 9 millimeters.
- Beat the meat thoroughly with a hammer, after covering it with cling film.
- Pepper the processed pieces and sprinkle with salt.
- Cut the peeled onions into rings, and the washed tomato into slices.
- Cover the baking dish with foil and coat it with oil.
- Gently spread the pieces of meat along the bottom.
- Put onion and sliced tomatoes on top.
- Pour sour cream over the surface of the structure and sprinkle gently with grated cheese.
- Bake in the oven at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees for about 45 minutes. Cooking time depends on the desired shade of the crust.
The result is a tender and very juicy French meat from turkey with an amazing taste and wonderful aroma. Garnish for any dish suitable for anyone.
Pineapple Meat
As you know, not only vegetables, but also fruits make any meat more juicy. During heat treatment, they secrete juice, which helps maintain the desired moisture content of the product. Therefore, it is not surprising that, cooked in the oven, French meat from turkey with pineapples is especially tender and tasty. To prepare it you will need:
- turkey fillet weighing 1 kilogram;
- 1 can of pineapples, canned with rings (it contains 300 grams of the main product);
- 2 tomatoes;
- 20 grams of salt;
- 1 onion;
- a tablespoon of lemon juice;
- seasonings for meat;
- 200 grams of any cheese (even processed or smoked);
- 2-3 grams of ground pepper;
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- some vegetable oil.
The cooking technique is slightly different from the previous version:
- First, the meat should be cut into portioned pieces about 2.5 centimeters thick.
- Beat them on both sides with a hammer, and then sprinkle with salt, pepper and seasonings.
- Cut onions and tomatoes into slices.
- Then you need to prepare the fill. To do this, juice from a jar with pineapples needs to be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1. Then add lemon juice and mix it all well.
- Lubricate the inside with oil.
- Put the meat in it.
- Fill the free space with the prepared filling. She should half cover the fillet.
- On each piece, put onion first, then a circle of tomato, and then a pineapple ring.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese and sprinkle with mayonnaise.
- Bake for 50 minutes in the oven, preheating it to 200 degrees.
It is better to eat such meat hot. Only at first it is necessary to divide it into portions with a spatula and transfer it to plates.
Meat and potatoes
Many people like to make meat in French from turkey with potatoes. This option is convenient in that it does not require any side dish when serving. The recipe is quite simple. To work, you need very few products:
- 800 grams of fillet;
- 50 grams of mayonnaise;
- 1 large tomato;
- 6 potatoes;
- salt;
- 100 grams of Parmesan cheese;
- 1 onion;
- black pepper (ground);
- 50 milliliters of any vegetable oil.
Everything is done very simply:
- Divide the fillet into pieces.
- Each of them is good to beat off on both sides, sprinkle with pepper and salt.
- Lightly fry the meat in a pan in vegetable oil.
- Chopped peeled onions in small cubes. Pass it in a small amount of oil.
- First cook the potatoes in their skins. After that, it should be cleaned and cut into even circles.
- Grate the cheese coarsely, and cut the tomatoes into rings.
- Fold the prepared products in the form treated with vegetable oil in layers: meat - onion - potato - tomatoes.
- Spread it all with mayonnaise and sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes with medium heat.
The mere smell of such a fragrant dish is already causing appetite.
Mushroom Meat
For a change, you can try to cook meat in French from turkey with mushrooms. The result will not leave anyone indifferent. For such an experiment you will need:
- 600 grams of turkey fillet;
- 1 onion;
- salt;
- 100 grams of hard cheese;
- 250 grams of fresh mushrooms;
- pepper;
- seasoning (for poultry);
- 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
The method of preparing such a dish is quite interesting:
- Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
- Fry them in a pan, adding a little vegetable oil so that the product does not burn. During processing, mushrooms must be constantly stirred.
- Dice the onion. Add them to the pan and fry for 15 minutes over low heat.
- Pepper the mixture, sprinkle with salt and mix.
- Cut the meat into pieces (not thicker than 1.5 centimeters) and lightly beat them off with the sharp side of the knife blade.
- Season each piece with salt and seasoning.
- Place the meat in a mold.
- Lubricate it with mayonnaise using a special brush.
- Top with mushrooms fried with onions.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Bake for half an hour in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
As a side dish for such a dish, stewed (or fried) vegetables and a lot of fresh herbs are suitable.