Beef - Meat bulls, cows and calves - is a valuable source of B vitamins, protein, creatine ("fuel" for muscles), iron, zinc, potassium, phosphorus and other minerals the body needs.
This meat cooked wonderful meals - steak and roast beef, steak and cutlet.Hearty and delicious a splint beef.
Description foods
What's the name - splint?From the French word translates as the language tab.Indeed, the pieces of meat from which the splint is traditionally prepared from beef, its elongated shape reminiscent of the language.
Per serving put 2 pieces of fried meat.The dish can be decorated with greens.To him usually served garnish.
Known as the traditional recipe splints beef and its different options, giving the main dish novelty flavor, piquancy and originality.
Options preparing
There is no single correct prescription preparation of this dish.Splints beef can be:
- poor preparation - preparing fast, 4-5 minutes (2 minutes on each side), the pressure-sensitive fork meat oozing pink juice.Prepared only beef;
- medium rare - preparing 6-7 minutes (3 minutes on each side).Also it produced only from beef;
- strong preparation - fried whole 10 minutes (5 minutes per side).When pressed with a fork for meat appears clear juice.You can prepare both beef and veal;
- traditional - preparing for the standard recipe;
- original - basic recipe "diluted" with new ingredients and culinary inventions;
- without garnish;
- with garnish.
Products for cooking
Regardless of the recipe preparation splints beef necessarily imply such products:
- meat.According to the rules of the splint is preparing to beef strictly beef or veal, which is the most tender, tasty and soft.You can take a good chunk of flesh.
- fat.It is preferable to use lard, but you can just sunflower oil.
- salt and pepper - to taste of the hostess.
may also be used bread crumbs, flour, tomato, butter, sour cream, broth or water, cognac, bay leaf and other spices.
How to cook beef splint?
- traditional recipe.Purified beef tenderloin cut into oblong pieces of a thickness of 10-15 mm, repulse, salt and season with a pinch of black allspice.Put the pieces on a hot frying pan, greased.Sear the meat at a temperature of 170 degrees due time, first one, then the other side over medium heat.Put on a plate, pour the juice formed, pre-strain it to remove flakes.
- splints of breaded meat.The meat prepared according to traditional recipes, but before roasting it paneer in breadcrumbs or flour.
- splints with a creamy sauce.Cook the meat on a traditional recipe.At the end of cooking add to the pan a couple of teaspoons of sour cream or cream.Simmer on low heat under the lid closed for 8-10 minutes.Meat pass on to a dish and pour it received a delicious creamy sauce.If desired the plate can add about 50 g of fresh butter.
- splints with tomato sauce.Cook the meat on a traditional recipe.At the end of cooking in a frying pan put a couple of teaspoons of fresh tomato paste, and better - tomato sauce.Simmer another 10 minutes on low heat, covered.If cooked meat stew with 1 teaspoon of cream and 1 teaspoon of tomato sauce, you get a splint with a creamy tomato sauce.
- splints beef with onion sauce.Cook the meat on a traditional recipe.To prepare the onion sauce can also be a separate pan fry until golden brown onion half rings, put on a saucer.In the same pan fry a little (half tablespoon) flour until slightly brown, add the fried onions, all dissolve 1 cup of broth (you can just water, but with broth tastes better), salt, season with pinch of black pepper, boil overa mild heat until half the liquid evaporation, add 100 grams of sour cream or cream, hold on low heat for 5 minutes, pour the sauce and splint under the hood simmer all together for another 10 minutes.
Thus, the options can be a lot of dishes.Base - the traditional recipe splints natural beef - can be supplemented by any components of the discretion of the owner.
How to submit a dish - with or without a side dish?
dish is delicious by itself, so the splint beef can be submitted without a side dish, simply decorated with greenery.
But this dish with a side dish still much preferable.By splints fit any supplement without restrictions.You can apply for a variety of salad or steamed vegetables (zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant), green peas, fried mushrooms, mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, any cereal, pasta, do whatever your heart wants!
Bon appetit!
