Meat in sour cream sauce: the best recipes

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Almost every person will like meat in sour cream sauce. This combination of ingredients is considered ideal, since they complement each other not only in terms of taste.

The best addition to meat

Sour cream softens the meat and makes it more tender and juicy. At the same time, the meat juice, mixing with the sauce, gives it a rich taste, which is also important. There are more than a dozen recipes for sour cream sauce for meat. Other ingredients can be added to it, for example, mustard, garlic, tomatoes, herbs, mushrooms, etc.

Be sure to try all the options. Take the following variations of cooking pork, beef, poultry, and rabbit as examples.

Beef stroganoff

Traditionally, meat in a sour cream sauce, which is cooked in a pan, is cut into small pieces. The classic recipe is beef stroganoff. This is often pork or chicken, cut into thin short strips, fried in a pan and flavored with sour cream.

Ingredients:

• butter;
• flour;
• sour cream;
• onion;
• pork;
• spices.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the pork into thin slices and beat lightly.
2. Then cut it into small strips and fry in a preheated pan. When it grasps with a golden crust, add the chopped onion.
3. After a minute or two, move the pork and onions a little to the side.
4. Prepare sour cream sauce for our meat.
5. To do this, melt a piece of butter in the cleared area of the pan.
6. Add a little flour to thicken the gravy. By the principle of making beef stroganoff, it is a bit like bechamel.
7. When the butter and flour are fried, pour in the sour cream.
8. Stir everything until smooth and combine with the rest of the products.
9. Cover everything with a lid and leave to simmer. Season with black pepper, nutmeg and salt 5-7 minutes before cooking. You can also add a couple of allspice peas.

Meat stewed in sour cream with mushrooms

Another popular recipe is mushroom stew. You can use pork or beef, as well as any bird. It is also a very simple dish to prepare. For him you need meat cut into pieces, and the same amount of mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• meat;
• onion;
• mushrooms;
• sour cream.

Cooking method:

1. Fry the pieces of meat, then add the onions and mushrooms.
2. When the liquid has almost completely disappeared, add sour cream and leave to simmer until tender over very low heat, adding water if necessary.

Rabbit meat in sour cream sauce

The rabbit stew in sour cream sauce with wild mushrooms is very tasty and delicious. You can use assorted: chanterelles, white, honey mushrooms, boletus, milk mushrooms, etc. If you can't get forest mushrooms, you can use ordinary champignons or oyster mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• rabbit meat;
• mushrooms;
• butter;
• hands;
• wine;
• sour cream;
• favorite spices.

Cooking method:

1. First, soak your rabbit in water for 15 minutes to rinse off any excess.
2. Then cut the carcass into portions.
3. Preheat a skillet and sauté all pieces in butter.
4. Separately in a saucepan, heat the butter and fry the chopped very fine onions and coarsely chopped mushrooms in it. Ideally, keep small mushrooms intact.
5. When the liquid is gone, transfer the mushrooms to the rabbit's skillet.
6. You can add some wine for flavor.
7. When the alcohol has evaporated, add sour cream.
8. Add water if necessary to keep it from burning.
9. From seasonings to the rabbit, rosemary, oregano, juniper berries, cranberries, savory, garlic, celery are suitable. Salt and pepper towards the end of the braise.

Tomato sour cream sauce and meatballs

You can cook meat in the form of meatballs in tomato-sour cream sauce. To do this, you need to divide the preparation into three stages: preparation, frying and stewing.

Ingredients:

• rice;
• ground meat;
• onion;
• carrot;
• salt;
• pepper;
• egg;
• tomato juice;
• sour cream.

Cooking method:

1. The recipe for tomato-sour cream filling with meatballs requires an ingredient such as rice. It must be boiled in unsalted water until half cooked.
2. Grind the minced meat and add some onions and grated carrots to it.
3. Season with salt and pepper, mix with rice and egg.
4. Then fry until blush. You can also make a baked dish.
5. Prepare the tomato and sour cream sauce. To do this, mix a glass of tomato juice and a few tablespoons of sour cream.
6. Pour the meatballs placed in a saucepan with this mass and set to stew.
7. When the tomato and sour cream sauce boils down a little, the dish is ready.
8. Red pepper can be added for spice.

Garlic sauce

Try cooking the meat in a savory sour cream and garlic sauce. The principle of its preparation is not much different from the traditional one. The main difference is the gravy recipe. You need to add a few cloves of garlic, or rather, their juice. This must be done during the extinguishing process.

Chicken is best cooked in garlic sauce. Optionally, you can add chopped herbs: cilantro, dill, parsley, basil, a little leaf celery.

Mustard-sour cream sauce

Another delicious recipe: meat cooked in mustard-sour cream sauce. It is best to use pork as it tastes perfectly with this dressing.

Ingredients:

• meat;
• onion;
• sour cream;
• mustard;
• salt;
• pepper;
• paprika;

Cooking method:

1. First, fry the meat with chopped onions.
2. Combine a glass of sour cream with a few tablespoons of mustard, salt, pepper and paprika (optional).
3. For additional softness and tenderness with a pleasant taste, pork can be marinated in mustard overnight.
4. After it is browned and slightly softened, fill it with mustard-sour cream sauce and simmer for 10-20 minutes.

We bake in the oven

If you want to do something unusual and festive, you can try cooking baked meat in some kind of sour cream sauce. Come up with your own recipe and feel free to experiment with baking methods and combining ingredients.

You can cook pork chops with mustard and sour cream accompaniment.

Ingredients:

• meat;
• sour cream;
• cream;
• mustard;
• seasonings.

Cooking method:

1. Take the meat and cut it into portions.
2. Then beat them off on one side and brush with mustard.
3. After 5-10 hours, you can continue cooking.
4. Grill the chops in a grill pan.
5. Next, put the meat in a mold and fill it with such a mixture: sour cream, cream, mustard and seasonings.
6. Place in the oven for 40 minutes.

Also a great dish option is baked meat in a pot with tomato and sour cream sauce.

Ingredients:

• meat;
• carrot;
• onion;
• tomato juice;
• sour cream;
• tomatoes.

Cooking method:

1. To do this, cut the pork or lamb into large cubes. Fry them over high heat to seal the inner juice.
2. Transfer the slices to a pot, adding chopped carrots and onions. Then fill everything with seasoned tomato juice and add sour cream and tomatoes on top. Place the pot in the oven for half an hour or more, depending on how cooked the meat is.

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4. To preserve the juice of meat for baking, it is imperative to fry it in advance over high heat. It is also recommended to add a little fat and water or broth. So that the liquid does not strongly evaporate and does not burn.
5. It is recommended to cover the dish with foil, the pots - with a lid or bread dough, and you can also cook such dishes in a baking sleeve. Spicy and garlic dressings are especially good in this performance.

All the recipes presented are very similar in some points. But even one new ingredient can give a dish its own unique taste and aroma. Experiment with compositions and proportions.

Sour cream sauce should be tender and spicy. But by adding tomatoes to it, you can make a spicy and rather piquant gravy. When doing this, do not forget about using various herbs. Additionally, you can use marinades for meat, for example, wine, soy or lemon honey.