Beef with prunes is a rich and aromatic dish. There are a huge number of ways to cook it, but the easiest way is to use a slow cooker. The kitchen assistant will not let you down!
Beef with prunes in a slow cooker - general principles of preparation
You can cook in a slow cooker any beef. But a juicy and tender dish will turn out only from the meat of a young animal. A piece is washed, necessarily dried, cut. Then it is immediately laid to the rest of the ingredients or before it is fried.
Prunes are washed before use, sometimes soaked. The product does not require any other processing. It is added to the dish before stewing.
What ingredients are the main products friendly with:
• vegetables;
• sour cream;
• mushrooms;
• nuts;
• other dried fruits.
Often dry wine is added to the dishes, giving an amazing aroma. For stewing add broths or water. One or two modes are usually used in cooking: frying or baking, stewing. The exact time of cooking beef depends on many factors: the quality of the meat, the features of the slow cooker, additional products.
Beef with prunes in a white wine cooker
For this dish, you can use red wine. The taste of beef with prunes in a slow cooker will not suffer from this, but it will be slightly different.
Ingredients
• 500 g of beef tenderloin;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 2 onions;
• 100 ml of white wine;
• laurel, salt with pepper;
• butter;
• 300 ml of broth or water;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 3 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. The washed beef tenderloin needs to be cut into small cubes, slightly less than for the kebab. Let the pieces dry.
2. Heat the oil in a pan, you can take a cauldron. Dip the pieces of meat, fry until golden brown over the highest heat. Just a few minutes. Take out the meat.
3. Pour this oil into the slow cooker, add the onion cut in half rings, and brown on the baking mode.
4. Add the separately fried meat to the onion.
5. Rinse the prunes, lower them into the slow cooker, continue to fry. Add chopped garlic.
6. After a couple of minutes pour the wine, let boil.
7. Now the dish can be seasoned with spices, gently introduce the flour, stir quickly.
8. Pour 300 ml of broth or water. If you want more sauce, add more.
9. Switch the multicooker pan to the stewing mode, cook the beef with prunes for an hour. Add laurel at the very end.
Beef with prunes in a slow cooker (with tomato sauce)
A variant of the dish with a delicious and bright tomato sauce. It is ideal for rice, mashed potatoes and even boring pasta will make it magical.
Ingredients
• 350 g of beef;
• 150 g carrots;
• 80 g of prunes (as much as possible);
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 150 g of onion;
• 50-70 g of tomato paste;
• 50 g of oil;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Pour all the oil into the slow cooker, turn on the "Frying" mode.
2. Add chopped onions in large half rings, followed by carrots cut into strips. We start to fry.
3. Beef should be cut into small cubes or cubes. Spread to the vegetables. Fry together for a quarter of an hour, do not forget to stir.
4. Add the tomato paste. Mix well.
5. Rinse the prunes. We lay the whole. But, if you want, you can cut every little thing in half. You can also add dried fruits more than indicated in the recipe.
6. Pour 200-300 ml of water.
7. Turn on the stewing program, cook meat with prunes for an hour.
8. Open, salt, pepper, check the softness of the meat, add chopped garlic.
9. Stew for another 10 minutes. We put the greens in the finished dish or directly in the plates.
Beef with prunes and potatoes in a slow cooker
A variant of a full-fledged beef potato dish with prunes in a slow cooker. Potatoes can be added more than indicated in the recipe, if necessary.
Ingredients
• 200 g of prunes;
• 5-6 potatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 500 g of beef;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• a few tablespoons of oil;
• spices, flour, laurel and herbs.
Cooking
1. Cut the beef into slices, put it in the heated oil, fry. To do this, you can use the baking mode or classic frying.
2. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices, onions and carrots with straws, cut the prunes into two parts.
3. Add onion to the beef, after five minutes, carrots, and after another five minutes, prunes with prepared potatoes.
4. We measure 3 multi-glasses of water, part a spoonful of flour in a small portion of the liquid, pour into a slow cooker. The rest of the water is also added to the dish. If more potatoes are used, then the amount of liquid can be increased.
5. Chop the garlic, toss in the dish. Immediately put the spices to your taste.
6. Turn on the stew, cook the dish for an hour. If the beef is stiff, then increase the time,
7. At the very end, it is possible after the signal, add laurel, greens.
Beef with prunes and mushrooms in a slow cooker
For this dish, you can use even forest, even greenhouse mushrooms. Champignons can not be boiled beforehand. It is advisable to boil forest mushrooms for at least half an hour.
Ingredients
• 250 g of mushrooms;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 500 g of meat;
• 100 g of onion;
• one carrot;
• 50 ml of oil;
• salt pepper.
Cooking
1. Pour the oil into a skillet, put on a stove. You can pre-fry in a slow cooker, but it will turn out better on high heat.
2. Cut the meat into cubes of 2-3 cm, fry in hot oil until a brownish crust.
3. We take out the meat, pour the oil into the multicooker bowl, turn on the frying.
4. Throw chopped onions. Immediately add the grated or also chopped carrots.
5. Cut the mushrooms into plates, send to the vegetables. Cooking together for about ten minutes.
6. Now is the time to put the beef and add the prunes, you can not cut it. Stir.
7. Pour one multi-cup of hot water. You can take the broth.
8. We throw a pinch of salt, close, simmer for an hour.
9. 15 minutes before the end of the process, add salt, pepper, and other spices.
Slow cooked beef with prunes and nuts
The recipe for another unrealistically delicious and fragrant dish of prunes, beef, nuts in a slow cooker. There is wine in this dish, but you can not add it.
Ingredients
• 800 g of beef;
• 0.5 cups of prunes;
• 0.5 cups of nuts;
• salt, greens;
• 50 ml of wine;
• 70 ml of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the beef into slices, lightly beat, fry ordinary chops in a pan, but only at the highest heat. Quickly brown, shift into a slow cooker.
2. We chop nuts, fry in a frying pan, but only on dry.
3. We wash the prunes, cut in half, shift to meat.
4. Turn on the baking mode, pour the wine, wait 5 minutes until it evaporates.
5. Add a multi-cup of hot water with dissolved salt. Close the slow cooker, simmer for 30 minutes, setting the appropriate mode.
6. We fall asleep the fried nuts, but not all. A small part is left for decoration. At the same stage, you can try the dish on the salt.
7. Close, simmer another 10 minutes.
8. Spread the meat on a dish, it is possible with a side dish, sprinkle with the previously left nuts, decorate with fresh herbs.
Beef with prunes in a slow cooker (in sour cream)
This is perhaps the easiest beef and prune recipe you can have. Sour cream should be used oily.
Ingredients
• 500 g of beef;
• 1 onion;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 150 g sour cream;
• 200 g of prunes;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into slices: cubes and or cubes. We lay in a slow cooker with oil. You can cook without it, but with the addition of fat it will turn out tastier.
2. Add prunes, you can not cut it.
3. We cut the onion very finely so that during the process of stewing it dissolves completely and goes into the sauce. Can be chopped with a blender.
4. Pour 50 ml of water and spread sour cream, immediately salt. We stir everything with a spatula.
5. Turn on the extinguishing mode for 2 hours.
6. In this dish you can add spices, nuts, any herbs, garlic. It will only taste better!
Beef with prunes and dried apricots in a slow cooker
Another option is a very interesting, unusual, but amazingly delicious dish. Dried apricots and prunes are used in the same amount, but at the request of the proportion can be changed in the right direction.
Ingredients
• 500 g of beef;
• 100 ml of oil;
• 100 g of prunes;
• 100 g dried apricots;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• 1 multi-glass broth;
• 150 g of onion;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Pour the oil into the pan. We put on the strongest fire.
2. Quickly cut the meat into cubes, as for a regular barbecue. Fry until golden brown.
3. We take out the meat, you can immediately send it to the slow cooker.
4. Cut the onion into half rings, put it in the pan after the beef. If there is a lot of oil left, it is better to drain part or at the end try to take out only the onion. Fry the vegetable until golden brown, but do not overdo it. We shift to meat.
5. Rinse the prunes with dried apricots, send to a multi-pot.
6. Add a glass of water, salt immediately, throw a pinch of nutmeg, and pepper.
7. Close, set the stew for 1.5 hours.
Beef with prunes in a slow cooker - useful tips and tricks
• If the beef is in doubt and seems old or stiff, then it is better to marinate it before cooking. You can grate the pieces with baking soda and stand for several hours, just remember to rinse them well before cooking.
• Prunes have different tastes. Sweet and sour dried fruits are combined with meat.
• To beef cooked faster, you can pre-beat the meat. Just do not need to do this intensively. It is enough to walk lightly through the pieces with a special hammer.
