There is an opinion that only lean poultry meat - turkey and chicken, as well as a rabbit - is best suited for dietary nutrition. In fact, properly cooked lean beef is also good for an ordinary diet, not without reason dishes from this type of meat are included in many dietary “tables”.
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You will need
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- lean beef;
- vegetables;
- spices;
- spice.
Instruction manual
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Only certain cuts of beef carcass are suitable for diet food. There are about 29 of them. These include: the flat part of the sternum, the cervical-scapular part, the flank, the rump, etc. For each of these cuts, there is the most suitable method of preparation, for example, it is customary to fry steaks, stew the neck and scapula, and cook soup or stew from the brisket.
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To make roast beef suitable for diet, fry it in a small amount of hot oil. In order to fry a 250 gram steak, half a tablespoon of vegetable or butter is enough. If you are afraid that the meat will not be soft enough, marinate it before cooking. Do not use ready-made mixtures, as you cannot control their composition.
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Cook boiled beef with vegetables and spices. Take a large deep pan. Rinse the meat, put in a pan and pour cold water. Bring to a boil over high heat and, as soon as it boils, reduce to medium. Remove the foam. Put 2 peeled carrots, 1 head of onion, a couple of heads of leek, a stick of celery, a bay leaf and a few sprigs of thyme on 1 kg of meat. In a special bag or strainer for spices, dip a few anise stars, a couple of clove buds, 5-6 peppercorns into the broth. If you don’t have a bag or strainer, put spices in the broth just like that, but then do not forget to strain the broth. Cook the beef for about 2 hours until a piece of meat is pierced freely with a knife. Beef should be covered with broth all the time, do not forget to add hot water.
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Serve boiled beef with sauce and vegetables. Such meat in a cold form is well suited for vegetable salads, sandwiches on whole grain bread.
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Sauté small slices of beef in olive oil until golden brown if you want to cook a stew. Boil a chopped celery stalk and also chopped carrots in a pan. When the carrots become pumpkin, green beans and simmer another 15-20 minutes until cooked. To thicken the sauce, dissolve a tablespoon of corn starch in ¼ cup of water and add to the vegetables with meat. Warm everything together, stirring, another 3-5 minutes.
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