Potato stew with meat is a very tasty and satisfying dish that can be fed to a large family. For its preparation usually use pork, beef, or chicken. Also in its composition add mushrooms, cabbage, eggplant, zucchini and other vegetables. After reading today's publication, you will understand how to stew potatoes with meat in a pan.
Sauerkraut option
Using the technology described below, a sufficiently nutritious dish is obtained. It has a pleasant fresh taste and aroma. Therefore, it will be an excellent option for a quiet family dinner. To stew potatoes with meat in a pan, store all the necessary ingredients in advance. This time you will need:
- 800 grams of not too fat pork.
- 2.5 kilos of potatoes.
- 800 grams of sauerkraut.
- Onion.
- A couple of carrots.
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- ½ tablespoon sugar.
- Salt, any spices and vegetable oil.
Process description
To stew potatoes with meat in a pan, in which a third of a glass of water was poured and a tablespoon of vegetable oil boiled sauerkraut. It is cooked on minimal heat for one and a half hours.
While the cabbage will languish on the stove, you can do the rest of the ingredients. Washed vegetables are peeled and ground. The onion is cut into small cubes, carrots into strips, and potatoes into large pieces.
In a thick-bottomed pan, in which a little lean oil was poured in advance, chopped pork is spread and fry it until an appetizing golden brown crust is formed. Then onions and carrots are added there. All mix well and continue to cook. As soon as the vegetables are soft, they spread the potatoes. All this is poured with a small amount of water and simmered over moderate heat for about half an hour. Then, sauerkraut, rock salt, spices and sugar are added to pork and vegetables. All mixed and after five minutes removed from the burner.
Option with lamb and eggplant
According to the recipe discussed below, a very tasty and rather spicy dish of Georgian national cuisine is obtained. To prepare it, you will need not quite standard products, many of which may not be in your home. Therefore, before stewing potatoes with meat in a pan, make sure that you have at your fingertips:
- A pound of fresh mutton.
- 500 grams of potatoes.
- 5-6 ripe tomatoes.
- 200 grams of eggplant.
- 4 onions.
- 2 peppers.
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- 4 peas of allspice.
- Salt, greens and vegetable oil.
Cooking algorithm
Putting out potatoes with meat in a pan with vegetables is quite simple. The main thing is to adhere to the recommended technology as accurately as possible. First of all, you should do lamb. It is washed, dried, cut into medium pieces and fried in a pan. Then the meat is laid out in a shallow but fairly wide saucepan. Topped with sliced tomatoes, cubes of potatoes and half rings of onions. All this is sprinkled with chopped celery and chopped herbs, cilantro and parsley.
The next layer is laid eggplant, stuffed with lamb fat, pods of hot pepper, crushed garlic and bay leaf. To put out potatoes with meat and gravy in the pan there should be a little liquid. Therefore, water or broth must be poured into it. And only after that the vessel can be sent to the stove. Cook such potatoes over low heat until all the ingredients are soft.
Option with bell pepper
This technology does not involve pre-frying the ingredients. Therefore, this dish can be safely attributed to diet. Before stewing potatoes with meat in a pan (photos of such dishes can be found in today's article), see if you have everything you need on hand. In this situation, you will need:
- Half a kilo of any meat.
- A couple of carrots.
- 1.5 kilograms of potatoes.
- Onion.
- Sweet bell pepper.
- 5 cloves of garlic.
- Salt and spices.
To further reduce the calorie content of this dish, choose lean pork, low-fat beef or chicken fillet for its preparation. And you can make it completely without meat.
How to stew potatoes in a pan: a sequence of steps
Washed and dried meat is cut across the fibers into pieces about one and a half centimeters thick. Then they put it in a thick-walled pan and proceed to the preparation of vegetables. They are washed in cool water, peeled and peeled, and then ground. Potatoes are cut into large cubes, onions - in half rings, bell pepper - in strips. Vegetables prepared in this way are sent to a bowl with meat, salted, seasoned with herbs, poured with cold filtered water and sent to the stove. The contents of the pan are brought to a boil and cooked on minimum heat for about an hour. About ten minutes before turning off the burner, chopped garlic is added to the future stew. The finished dish is sprinkled with chopped herbs and served to the table.
There is another way to make such a potato. But in this case, it will turn out to be more high-calorie and it can hardly be called dietary. To prepare a hearty dinner, all the ingredients are pre-fried in a small amount of refined vegetable oil and only then put in a pan. First, chopped meat is placed on a hot skillet. When it is browned, onions are sent to it. Following him, carrots, potatoes and bell peppers are added there. Browned foods are poured with drinking water, brought to a boil and simmer over moderate heat. Typically, this process takes about an hour.