Beef tenderloin - cooking recipes

Beef dishes are always useful. Such meat is considered dietary due to the balance of fats, proteins, carbohydrates and trace elements. Do not be afraid to gain weight by eating beef meat. Yes, it is caloric. But, digesting it, the human body spends a lot of energy, so fats from Such food is not postponed. But to make the dishes tasty, it is necessary to choose the right meat competently, and then properly prepare it. For baking is best suited beef tenderloin. This is explained by the fact that part of the animal's body, from where such meat is cut, is practically not subjected to stresses. As a result, cooked dishes from beef tenderloins are never hard.

Steaks with tomatoes

For four servings you will need about one kilogram of meat. Beef tenderloin rinse and divide into pieces 1-1.5 cm thick. Lightly beat them with a kitchen hammer. Meat salt and pepper. Steaks stack in glassware and leave them in it for half an hour. This is required in order to avoid the effect of a "salt crust".

Then heat to a boil in a frying pan vegetable oil. It will need you about fifty grams. Put the steaks in it and fry it on both sides, five minutes each. After that, the meat must be brought to full readiness in the oven. Its temperature should be at least 170 degrees. Put the steaks on a baking tray, put them in the oven for 15 minutes.

While the beef tenderloin in the oven gains its softness and tenderness, Prepare the sauce for it. Finely chop 6 garlic cloves, a few twigs of thyme and three to four tomatoes. All this must be lowered into the oil remaining from the frying of the steaks, save it over low heat for 15-20 minutes.

Place ready meat from the oven on large plates. Add a sauce of tomato, garlic and thyme to the steaks. Serve to the table.

Beef tenderloin is good not only after cooking it in the oven. Also, it produces a great shish-kebab. But if it is improperly cooked, then it, like other dishes made from beef tenderloin, can turn out to be tough. Therefore, we recommend using our recipe.

Shish kebab with mineral water

Rinse and cut into square pieces of meat. It will take about 2 kg. Fold the shish kebab in a bowl, cut 5-6 bulbs into rings, add to the meat. Salt and pepper with black pepper. Mix everything well. At the end, add 0.5 cups of mineral table water. It is she who will make beef soft and will shorten the time of pickling.

Beef tenderloin is also suitable for making steaks. Their recipe is very similar to the steak recipe (with the exception of stewing in the oven). But just fried meat can be tough. To avoid this, chop slices of beef for a couple of hours in a brine consisting of water (1 liter), sugar (0.5 cup), salt (1 teaspoon), juice half a lemon. Then fry steaks in boiling vegetable oil over medium heat. You can serve meat with potatoes. But do not forget about cholesterol: we recommend steaks, steaks, shish kebab to eat only with raw vegetables. Bon Appetit!