Sweet and sour meat is a dish inspired by exotic Asian cuisine. Of course, the recipe is adapted to the products we are used to, but, nevertheless, in the end everything turns out to be compatible and delicious! Beef marinated in soy sauce and stewed with vegetables comes out very soft, literally “melting in your mouth”, and a successful union of flavor notes adds spice to the dish. If you wish, you can vary the recipe to suit your preferences, for example, adding fresh ginger, sweet pineapples, hot peppers, etc.

Ingredients:

• beef (can be replaced with pork) - 500 g;
• soy sauce - 100 ml;
• flour - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• potato starch - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• mushrooms (honey agarics, champignons, etc.) - 100 g;
• green beans - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
• apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp spoons;
• granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato paste (or ketchup) - 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons.

Sweet and sour meat recipe

How to cook beef with vegetables

1. After rinsing under running water and getting rid of layers of fat, cut the meat into small pieces or long strips.
   
2. Making batter. To do this, sprinkle the beef with a mixture of flour and starch.
   
3. Pour in soy sauce immediately and mix thoroughly. We leave the meat in this form for 20 minutes.
   
4. While the beef is marinating, prepare the rest of the sweet and sour dish. Cut the bell pepper into cubes, finely chop the peeled onion.
   
5. We mix beans, peppers, onions and mushrooms (miniature honey mushrooms do not require preliminary cutting, but if you use champignons or other large mushrooms, chop them with plates or strips).
   
6. In a frying pan with butter, fry the already marinated beef over moderate heat until golden brown. Next, add the vegetable mix. If desired, you can season the dish with ground pepper, sprinkle with sweet paprika or any spices to your taste. You need to salt the beef quite a bit, since the meat pieces were marinated in salted soy sauce.
   
7. Fry the meat in Chinese style with vegetables for about 5-10 minutes, and then add the tomato paste.
   
8. Sprinkle the contents of the pan with granulated sugar, pour in the vinegar, stirring the mixture vigorously. Simmer the meat in sweet and sour sauce until cooked.
   
9. We serve meat with any light side dish, for example, boiled rice.
   The recipe for beef with vegetables thanks to vinegar and soy sauce allows you to get the most tender meat. By the way, as a rule, the dish is to the liking not only of lovers of an exotic combination of products, but also of conservatives in culinary preferences. Good appetite!

Meat dishes are very common in the diet of most of the world's population. Roasting and braising is the easiest and fastest way to cook beef cuts.

At the same time, the use of pickling, the addition of sour sauces help to soften the fibers of the meat.

Therefore, for such dishes, it is better to choose meat with a small amount of fat. This adds juiciness and tenderness to the dish, since, being melted during heat treatment, the fat envelops the pieces of meat. Sugar, flower honey, fructose or dried fruits are used as a sweet component of the sauce for meat.

Sweet and sour beef - general cooking principles

It is better to take fresh beef for the dish, without dark spots and unpleasant smell. It is advisable to take the meat of a young animal. If the beef is frozen, then you must first defrost it at room temperature.

Cut the meat across the grain into small but long pieces. Prepared beef must first be fried in its own juice with vegetable oil, and then, rolled in flour, you should continue to fry until golden brown.

The classic sweet and sour sauce recipe contains ingredients such as: ginger, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, tomato paste, onions, vinegar and flour. The vegetables must first be fried, then adding the rest of the ingredients, you need to bring the mixture to thicken and strain. You can change the ingredients for the sauce as you like. For example, you can add soft plums, cloves, wine, lemon or orange juices.

Meat with sauce is prepared with any vegetables to taste. Most of all, eggplants, onions, carrots, bell peppers and zucchini will harmonize well with beef.

Beef in sweet and sour pineapple sauce

Ingredients:

300 g of beef (neck or shoulder);

140 g canned pineapple;

80 g yellow sweet pepper;

Half a carrot;

80 g red pepper (sweet);

Half a tomato;

1.5 tbsp. l. any soy sauce;

1 tsp vinegar;

1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;

Ground black pepper;

Sunflower or vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the meat, air dry and cut into small steaks. Beat each steak with a hammer, carefully placing the meat in a plastic bag.

2. Prepare the marinating mixture. To do this, pour soy sauce into an enamel cup, add apple cider vinegar. Add sugar and ground black pepper there. Stir the mixture and put the meat in it. Keep in a cool place for several hours.

3. Peel carrots and bell peppers, wash and cut into small cubes. If canned pineapples are ring-shaped, cut them into cubes. Chop the tomatoes in mashed potatoes.

4. Put chopped vegetables (carrots and peppers first) in a slightly preheated pan with sunflower oil and fry. Add tomato puree and canned pineapple along with juice. Season with salt.

5. Simmer the vegetable mixture over medium heat and a closed lid until all the liquid has evaporated.

6. Marinated softened meat should be fried in another pan. To do this, pour sunflower oil into it and warm it up well. Spread the pieces of meat separately and fry on both sides until tender.

7. Put the stewed vegetable mixture in a heap in a serving plate. Put pieces of fried meat on it. Serve the dish hot.

Beef in sweet and sour cranberry sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

100 g brown sugar or 125 ml liquid honey;

35 ml of apple cider vinegar;

150 g fresh or fresh frozen cranberries;

One medium onion;

A pinch of black pepper;

A pinch of cinnamon;

Two allspice peas.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the beef, dry and cut into cubes or strips.

2. Place the meat in a saucepan, add hot boiled water there so that it covers the meat by a few centimeters. Turn on strong heat, after boiling, remove all foam and reduce the heating of the burner to moderate. Then simmer with the lid slightly open.

3. Prepare food for the sauce. Sort fresh cranberries and rinse. If using fresh frozen berries, place in a bowl and thaw at room temperature. Cut off the bottom and neck of the onion, remove dry scales and wash the onion, cut it into cubes.

4. Grind allspice peas to a powdery consistency.

5. Take a small saucepan or stewpan and place the cranberries and onions in it. Add a little less than a glass of boiled water and simmer for about 10-14 minutes. Cool the mixture a little and grind into a gruel with an immersion blender. Add sugar, ground pepper, vinegar, salt and cinnamon to the sauce. Simmer for a few more minutes.

6. When the meat has softened a little and the broth has boiled away by 2/3, add the sauce to the saucepan and simmer until thickened.

Beef in sweet and sour cognac sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

A glass of cognac;

35 ml of apple cider vinegar;

120 ml olive oil;

25 g granulated sugar;

One onion;

20 ml soy sauce.

Cooking method:

1. Fry meat cut into portions in a well-heated frying pan without oil. When the meat acquires a light brown color, pour olive oil into the pan and fry until it becomes “meat with blood”.

2. Add apple cider vinegar, cognac and simmer until tender.

3. Finely chop the onion and fry in a separate frying pan, add sugar and mix well. Add soy sauce and a glass of boiled water. Simmer until moisture completely evaporates.

4. Add the onion sauce to the meat and heat.

5. Put the dish on a preheated plate and serve.

Beef in sweet and sour honey sauce with dried fruits

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

One large onion;

90 g pitted prunes;

80 g pitted dried apricots;

40-50 ml of oil;

1 tsp flower honey or 12 g of sugar;

Ground black pepper.

Cooking method:

1. The meat must be washed and dried. Cut off films and veins. Cut the beef into portions.

2. Peel and wash the onion. Cut in small pieces.

3. Wash prunes and dried apricots and soak in warm water for 10 minutes.

4. Pour sunflower oil into the pan and put it on heat. Fry the meat in a pan with onion until browned. Season the onion with salt and ground pepper.

5. Cut prunes and dried apricots into strips and add to the meat. Pour a glass of hot boiled water over.

6. When the mixture boils, reduce heat to medium and simmer with the lid slightly open (you can even close the lid tightly) until the meat is boiled. This process can take up to two hours.

7. Before finishing the heat treatment add honey and stir.

8. Close the lid and let the meat soak a little with honey.

Beef in sweet and sour red wine sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

Two onions (white);

Two onions (red);

1 glass of any dry red wine;

110 ml olive oil;

3 tablespoons of soy sauce;

Salt to taste;

Pinch of pepper;

A spoonful of granulated sugar or powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

1. After the initial processing, cut the meat into portions and put in a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with black pepper. Mix.

2. Put the rooster on the included stove and heat it up a little. Put the meat and quickly fry it until crispy. Put on a plate.

3. Cut onion white and red onions into half rings and put in the same roaster with butter from frying meat. Stir and simmer a little.

4. Pour onion with soy sauce and dry red wine. Sprinkle with sugar and salt.

5. Stir the contents of the roaster and put the meat on top. Close the lid. The fire should be moderate.

6. Simmer for about an hour and a half, sometimes turning the pieces of meat.

Boiled beef in sweet and sour orange sauce

Ingredients:

400 g of beef;

Two black peppercorns;

Two peas of allspice;

100 g of parsley root;

50 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice;

1 tsp orange peel;

50 g black currant;

150 ml port wine;

2 incomplete Art. l. wheat flour;

40 g butter;

250 ml of meat broth;

1 tsp honey;

Salt to taste;

A pinch of ground black pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Wash and place the beef meat in the cooking pot. Pour hot water into the meat. Add black and allspice peas, washed and chopped parsley root. When it boils, remove the foam and reduce the heat so that the meat boils a little. Cook until softened, then add salt.

2. When the meat is cooked, drain and strain 250 ml of broth for the subsequent preparation of the sauce. Let the meat sit in the remaining hot broth.

3. For the sauce, you need a small saucepan. Put butter in it and melt. Add flour and stir. Pass a little.

4. Add cooked broth to the sauce and simmer over very low heat.

5. Sort the currant berries, peel, wash and chop in mashed potatoes using a blender.

6. Pour orange juice and port into the broth, add orange zest and currant puree and honey. Stir the sauce and season with salt and ground pepper.

7. Simmer the sauce until lightly thickened. It will take literally a few minutes. Then cool the sauce a little and pour into the gravy boat.

8. Remove the meat from the broth, cut into thin portions. Place the meat on a plate. Top with sauce.

Sweet and Sour Beef - Tips & Tips

You can use potato or corn starch instead of flour.

Add to the dish only those spices and herbs that will harmonize well with each other.

Instead of tomato paste, you can add any ketchup, tomato juice or tomato pulp to the dish.

Ground pepper can be added to the dish as red or black in any quantity to taste.

Use rice vinegar instead of regular vinegar for a sophisticated taste.

For a truly Chinese dish, sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.

Sweet and sour sauce can be prepared for the winter and used at any time of the year as needed.

The wonderful sweet and sour beef dish has its origins in Chinese cuisine. Of course, in our interpretation, we used the most familiar products for us, but this does not diminish the piquancy of the dish. The combination of any meat with vegetables is always very tasty and juicy. However, the soy sauce that we used for the beef makes the meat incredibly tender and gives it a certain exoticism.

You can prepare this second dish both for every day and for receiving guests, if you decide to pamper them with something deliciously delicious.

This recipe is for 6 servings. Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Beef meat - 300 g;
• Bulb onions - 1 pc;
• Eggplant - 2 pcs;
• Carrots - 2 pcs;
• Tomato - 1 pc;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc;
• Chili pepper - 1 pc;
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
• Soy sauce - 70 ml;
• Flour - 1 tablespoon;
• Potato starch - 1 tablespoon;
• Apple cider vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• Vegetable oil.

Cooking beef in sweet and sour sauce:

1. Prepare all the food you need. Rinse meat and vegetables thoroughly under running water. Put the ingredients in your field of vision so you don't miss a thing.

2. Beef in sweet and sour sauce will turn out to be more tender if the meat is not chopped coarsely. Therefore, cut it into small pieces, slightly elongated.

3. In the next step, you will need to mix flour with starch and cover the meat with this mixture. After that, pour the soy sauce over the beef and stir well. Set the meat aside for 20 minutes.

4. While the meat is marinating, turn to the vegetables. First of all, cut the eggplants into cubes.

5. Heat oil in a skillet and fry the eggplant in it, stirring occasionally.

6. Cut the bell pepper. It gives a special flavor to sweet and sour sauce.

7. Then prepare the carrots by chopping them into strips.

8. What kind of meat can do without onions ?! It is the onion that has properties that soften the meat, give it juiciness and richness in taste. Therefore, the onion should be finely chopped.

9. Cut the tomatoes coarser than the rest of the vegetables so that they retain their shape and appearance as best as possible. Cut the chili pepper into thin half rings.

10. By this time, the eggplants have already acquired the desired condition and golden color.

11. Add bell peppers, carrots, onions and chili tomatoes to the eggplants in turn. The vegetables should drain their juice and lightly fry together.

12. Let's move on to the next step - actually cooking the meat. Heat the oil in a skillet and add the meat marinated in soy sauce into it. Beef in sweet and sour sauce should be well done and brown in color.

13. After the meat is browned, add the stewed vegetables to it and grill together for 5-10 minutes. Then season the dish with tomato paste for a thicker, richer flavor. Send apple cider vinegar and sugar after tomato paste. There is NO need to add salt! Thanks to the soy sauce marinade, the meat took as much salt as it needs.

14. Place a lid on the skillet and reduce heat under it. After another 10 minutes, the beef in sweet and sour sauce is ready!

15. Tender beef in sweet and sour sauce goes well with rice garnish, mashed potatoes, as well as spaghetti.

Serve this meat dish hot, lightly sprinkle with herbs and freshly ground black pepper. And it can be a great addition to a dish.

First of all, you need to remember that Chinese cuisine does not tolerate fuss. For example, before directly preparing a dish, it is advisable to first wash, peel, cut all the ingredients necessary for it, arrange them in separate containers and only then begin to gradually introduce them into the prepared dish, and not run from the table to the stove.

And then all efforts will be rewarded in full.

So, below you will learn how Chinese beef is cooked in different ways. Let's get started!

Cooking recipe with bell pepper

Ingredients:

• beef (tenderloin) - 600 g;
• multi-colored bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
• green beans - 300 g;
• onion - 2 heads;
• garlic - a few cloves;
• soy sauce - about 100 g;
• sesame oil - 20 g;
• vegetable oil - 120 g;
• vinegar (preferably rice or apple cider) - 30 g;
• potato starch - 100-120 g;
• red and black pepper - pinch each (or a little chili sauce);
• mustard (preferably dry) - to taste;
• salt.

Cooking time is on average 1 hour 40 minutes. Caloric content (100 g) - 120 kcal.

Cooking procedure:

Chinese Sweet and Sour Beef

Ingredients:

• beef (tenderloin) - 450 g;
• yellow bell pepper - 1 pc .;
• cilantro - 2 branches;
• onion - 2 heads;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• canned pineapples - 1 can;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• carrots - 1 medium;
• salt, sugar, pepper - pinch at a time;
• vegetable oil - 120 g;
• tomato paste - 60-70 g;
• flour - 75 g.

Its preparation time is on average 1 hour 15 minutes-1.5 hours. Caloric content (100 g) - 146 kcal.

Cooking procedure:

1. Cooking beef, washing, peeling of films. Cut into large elongated slices.
2. Mine, clean, cut all the vegetables. Pepper and onion - straws. Carrots - on a coarse grater. Finely chop the cilantro with the stems. Chop the garlic.
3. We make batter, for which we thoroughly mix flour, eggs, pepper and salt.
4. We make the sauce by mixing a glass of water, a glass of pineapple juice, sugar, salt and tomato paste, and bring it to a boil on the stove.
5. Mix the meat with batter and fry in a frying pan (wok) in vegetable oil until tender.
6. In another frying pan, fry the onions until golden brown, gradually adding carrots, garlic, bell peppers, cilantro and pineapple pieces to it in turn.
7. Combine the fried vegetables with meat, mix, pour over the sauce and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.

This dish is usually served with boiled rice.

Juicy meat with vegetables in Chinese style

Ingredients:

• beef - 450 g;
• onions - 2 small pieces;
• green onions - medium-sized bunch;
• carrots - 2 medium pieces;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• zucchini (medium) - 1 pc.;
• fresh cucumbers - 2 pcs.;
• hot red pepper - 1 pc .;
• ginger - 1 small root;
• soy sauce - 75-80 g;
• vinegar (preferably rice) - 1-2 tbsp. spoons;
• sesame oil - 20-25 g;
• salt - a pinch;
• vegetable oil - 100-120 g.

Such a dish is prepared for 1 hour-1 hour 25 minutes. Calorie content (100 g) - 127 kcal.

The procedure for cooking beef with vegetables in Chinese:

1. We cut the beef into plates, beat them off, and then divide them into small cubes.
2. For the marinade, mix the soy sauce, vinegar, chopped hot peppers and finely grated ginger.
3. Pour the marinade over the meat, mix and leave for 40 minutes for an hour.
4. Cooking vegetables. Cut zucchini, carrots and cucumbers into strips, half rings - onions. Chop the garlic.
5. Fry the marinated meat quickly in a pan (wok) in hot vegetable oil.
6. Add onions and carrots to the meat. We fry together for 2 minutes.
7. Add the zucchini and fry, stirring for another 2-3 minutes.
8. Add cucumbers, garlic, half green onions, sesame oil, and heat.
9. Sprinkle the finished dish on top with the slanted remaining green onions.

Boiled rice or pasta can be used as a side dish for this dish.

Spicy soy sauce

Ingredients:

• beef - 700 g;
• green onions - a large bunch;
• eggplant - 1 small;
• radish (daikon) - 1 pc .;
• ginger - 1 root;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• bitter red pepper - half a pod;
• star anise - 2 dry stars;
• cilantro - 3-4 branches;
• soy sauce - 20-30 g;
• starch - 100 g;
• dry Spanish sherry - 6-7 tbsp. spoons;
• vinegar (better - rice).

On average, this dish is cooked for 1 hour. Caloric content (100 g) - 170 kcal.

Recipe for beef in soy sauce in Chinese step by step:

1. Cut the beef (preferably slightly frozen) into thin pieces of medium size.
2. Put the meat in a deep glass plate, pour with soy sauce, sprinkle with sherry, sprinkle with starch. Gently mix everything with your hands so that the starch fills the structure of the meat tissue.
3. Peel the ginger and garlic. Cut the ginger into thin slices, and just chop the garlic, combine them (these are very well combined tastes), add half of the finely chopped hot pepper to this mixture.
4. We clean the eggplant (moreover, not completely, but leaving dark strips of the skin - in the form of a "zebra"), cut into cubes, put in a separate plate, salt a little.
5. We clean the daikon and cut it into small plates, also put it in a separate container.
6. Peel and cut green onions and cilantro.
7. We heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan to about 80 degrees, put the meat in it (in two batches one by one) and also heat it up (do not fry it!) Until a slight color change, and then place it with a slotted spoon in a separate plate.
8. Pour the oil in which the meat was heated into a deep frying pan (wok), add a mixture of ginger, garlic and hot pepper there.
9. After 2-3 minutes, add the eggplants and onions previously squeezed from the juice there, fry together for 5 minutes.
10. Add a small amount of soy sauce, vinegar, sherry, water and a piece of star anise, let it boil.
11. Add daikon and simmer everything together for a few minutes. To make the dish thicker, you can add a little starch diluted in water to the pan with vegetables.
12. Put the meat on the vegetables and mix everything, adding a little sesame oil for taste and shine, and sprinkle with sherry again. We simmer everything together for 5-10 minutes.
13. Sprinkle the finished dish with cilantro and green onions.

Chinese spicy beef with noodles

Ingredients:

• a piece of beef pulp - 600-700 g;
• beijing cabbage - 250 g;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• chili pepper - to taste;
• onion - 1 medium;
• ripe tomato - 1 large;
• paprika - 1 pc.;
• soy sauce - 30 g;
• sesame oil - 15 g;
• lemon juice;
• cilantro - 2-3 feathers;
• olive oil for frying;
• rice noodles - 300 g.

The cooking time is 1 hour 25 minutes. Caloric content (100 g) - 137 kcal.

The procedure for cooking spicy beef with Chinese noodles:

1. We wash and clean the beef from the films, cut into thin slices.
2. We clean, wash and cut vegetables. Smaller onions and garlic. Peking cabbage, tomato and pepper in thin strips.
3. Put the meat in the olive oil well-heated in a deep frying pan, fry it a little to brown.
4. Add onion, tomato, pepper and cabbage to the meat one by one.
5. We simmer everything together over a sufficiently high heat.
6. At the end of cooking add chili pepper, soy sauce, garlic and sesame oil, mix everything.
7. Put the meat with vegetables on pre-cooked rice noodles according to the instructions on the package, sprinkle with lemon juice, sprinkle with finely chopped cilantro.

Note to all chefs

All beef meat is divided into two main groups according to its purpose: for frying and for cooking and stewing. For frying, you should take a tenderloin, thick or thin edge (this is exactly what you should ask the sellers when buying it). For cooking and stewing - everything else.

For cooking, it is better to first crush the garlic unpeeled, for example, with a knife handle. Wet from the juice that has come out, it is much easier to clean and grind.

When preparing any dishes from beef meat in Chinese, it is advisable to always add a little sugar to them, its mixture with salt literally “explodes” the taste.

It is also worth remembering that when using soy sauce in cooking, you need to be careful with the addition of salt, because soy sauce, as usual, is very salty.

Chinese cuisine is considered one of the most exotic in the world. The taste of ready-made dishes attracts with an original combination of exquisitely spicy and bright sweet and sour shades. The appetite kicks in instantly when you smell the seductive aroma of meat cooked with fresh vegetables, ginger and pineapple. Everyone who manages to taste the dishes of the Celestial Empire immediately dreams of receiving a recipe for the cherished dishes in order to pamper them at home with family and friends. We made it easier for the hostesses to do this and have put together a unique gallery of the most successful, proven methods of cooking meat popular in modern China. Each recipe with a photo is dedicated to a separate type of meat, and how to make a tender chicken in a sweet and sour sauce, tells a detailed video instruction.

Chinese sweet and sour beef

Ingredients

• beef - ½ kg
• soy sauce - 100 ml
• potato starch - 1 tbsp
• white onion - 1 pc
• flour - 1 tablespoon
• bell peppers - 3 pieces
• pickled corn cobs - 150 g
• mushrooms - 100 g
• sugar - 2 tablespoons
• apple cider vinegar - 2 tablespoons
• tomato paste - 4 tablespoons
• vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons

How to cook

1. Rinse the meat under running water, dry and cut into small elongated pieces.
2. Sift the flour through a kitchen sieve, combine with starch, pour in soy sauce and stir thoroughly until the clots and lumps are completely dissolved. Pour the meat with batter and leave to soak for 20-30 minutes.
3. Pepper of three different colors, peel and cut into cubes, finely chop the onion, chop the corn cobs into 3-4 pieces, chop the beans and mushrooms.
4. Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the meat in it until golden brown. Put the vegetable "mix", salt and pepper, season with your favorite spices and fry over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring from time to time so that the components do not stick to the bottom. Then sprinkle the meat and vegetables with granulated sugar, pour in the vinegar and stir quickly.
5. Cover with a lid, reduce the heating level to a minimum and simmer until tender.
6. Serve with a light side dish and fresh salad.

Advice: Each vegetable that is placed in a delicious Chinese sauce needs to be cut a little too small. It is better if the size of the pieces is 2X2 centimeters. Then they will not get lost among the liquid base and will look beautiful and bright next to meat.

Ingredients

• lamb - ½ kg
• tomato paste - 400 g
• starch - 250 g
• sugar - 3 tbsp. l
• sea \u200b\u200bsalt - 3 tsp
• green peppers - 2 pieces
• rice vinegar - 1 tablespoon
• soy sauce - 1 tsp
• freshly squeezed juice of half a lemon

How to cook

1. To make a sweet and sour sauce, you need a deep, thick-walled pan. It must be heated over high heat, pour tomato paste on the bottom and wait until it starts to bubble slightly.
2. Combine sugar with vinegar and 2 tablespoons of water, add to the tomato base and heat until the sugar crystals dissolve. Then add the pepper, chopped into squares, simmer for 15 minutes, remove from heat and cool slightly.
3. Rinse the lamb, dry, cut into small rectangular slices, drizzle with freshly squeezed lemon juice and soy sauce, salt and knead thoroughly with your hands so that the marinade is absorbed. Leave to rest for 20-30 minutes.
4. After the lapse of time, roll each piece in starch and fry on both sides in vegetable oil until tender.
5. Dip golden-brown beef slices in room temperature sauce before serving. Use parboiled rice as a side dish.

Ingredients

• veal - 1 kg
• apple cider vinegar - 8 tablespoons
• vegetable fat - 2 tablespoons
• tomato ketchup - 3 tablespoons
• water - 125 ml
• soy sauce - 10 tablespoons
• sugar - 5 tablespoons
• pineapples - 1 can
• green bell pepper - 2 pieces
• onions - 1 pc
• tomatoes - 2 pieces
• carrots - 1 pc
• garlic - 1 clove
• pineapple juice - 125 ml
• corn starch - 1 tablespoon
• sugar - 60 g
• egg - 1 piece
• wheat flour - 100 g

How to cook

1. Start cooking by marinating the meat. Cut the veal into slices, sprinkle with soy sauce and put in a cool place for 25-30 minutes.
2. Cut pineapples and peppers into wide slices, carrots and tomatoes into cubes.
3. For the sauce, pour the pineapple juice into an enamel container, add vinegar, melted fat, ketchup and mix well. Bring to a boil over medium heat, darken a little, covered, and remove from the stove.
4. Add starch in small portions to water warmed to room temperature and stir quickly to dissolve the lumps. Then pour the liquid to the pineapple-vinegar base and heat it up again. At the end, put the garlic, passed through a press, add all the vegetables, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes.
5. For batter, mix the egg with flour, salt and lightly froth with a fork. Dip veal slices in batter and fry for 7-8 minutes on each side. A beautiful golden crust formed on the meat pieces will indicate readiness.
6. Place the hot veal on a serving dish and pour over the vegetable sauce. Cook long grain rice as a side dish.

Advice: To make the dish especially tender, choose tenderloin or tenderloins without veins and bones for cooking. Such meat, fried in batter, will retain its softness and, literally, will melt in the mouth.

Ingredients

• pork - 250 g
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp
• corn starch - 6 tablespoons
• egg - 1 piece
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• onions - 1 pc
• canned pineapples - 100 g
• bulgarian green pepper - 2 pieces
• asparagus beans - 100 g
• broccoli cabbage - 8 sockets
• garlic - 2 prongs
• pineapple juice - 3 tbsp
• water - 3 tablespoons
• rice vinegar - 3 tablespoons
• sugar - 3 tablespoons
• hot ketchup - 2 tablespoons
• salt - ½ tsp

How to cook

1. Beat the meat a little, cut into small pieces, pour over soy sauce, beaten with egg, and mix well. Then add starch and mix again.
2. Fry the pork in a deep skillet in hot oil until crisp (5-6 minutes on each side). Then remove and spread on a paper towel so that it absorbs excess fat.
3. In a saucepan, sauté all vegetables over low heat until soft.
4. Mix vinegar, water, pineapple juice, salt, ketchup and starch and add to the vegetable mass. Heat the sauce over low heat and stir continuously to prevent the vegetables from burning. When the liquid begins to thicken, introduce the garlic passed through a press. Cover and simmer (usually takes 1 minute). Remove from heat and cool slightly.
5. Pour the cooked meat with plenty of sauce with vegetables, garnish with broccoli rosettes and serve with boiled rice.

A delicious way of cooking chicken in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese: a recipe video

Meat dishes are very common in the diet of most of the world's population. Roasting and braising is the easiest and fastest way to cook beef cuts.

At the same time, the use of pickling, the addition of sour sauces help to soften the fibers of the meat.

Therefore, for such dishes, it is better to choose meat with a small amount of fat. This adds juiciness and tenderness to the dish, since, being melted during heat treatment, the fat envelops the pieces of meat. Sugar, flower honey, fructose or dried fruits are used as a sweet component of the sauce for meat.

Sweet and sour beef - general cooking principles

It is better to take fresh beef for the dish, without dark spots and unpleasant smell. It is advisable to take the meat of a young animal. If the beef is frozen, then you must first defrost it at room temperature.

Cut the meat across the grain into small but long pieces. Prepared beef must first be fried in its own juice with vegetable oil, and then, rolled in flour, should be continued to fry until golden brown.

The classic sweet and sour sauce recipe contains ingredients such as: ginger, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, tomato paste, onions, vinegar and flour. The vegetables must first be fried, then adding the rest of the ingredients, you need to bring the mixture to thicken and strain. You can change the ingredients for the sauce as you like. For example, you can add soft plums, cloves, wine, lemon or orange juices.

Meat with sauce is prepared with any vegetables to taste. Most of all, eggplants, onions, carrots, bell peppers and zucchini will harmonize well with beef.

Beef in sweet and sour pineapple sauce

Ingredients:

300 g of beef (neck or shoulder);

140 g canned pineapple;

80 g yellow sweet pepper;

Half a carrot;

80 g red pepper (sweet);

Half a tomato;

1.5 tbsp. l. any soy sauce;

1 tsp vinegar;

1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;

Ground black pepper;

Sunflower or vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the meat, air dry and cut into small steaks. Beat each steak with a hammer, carefully placing the meat in a plastic bag.

2. Prepare the marinating mixture. To do this, pour soy sauce into an enamel cup, add apple cider vinegar. Add sugar and ground black pepper there. Stir the mixture and put the meat in it. Keep in a cool place for several hours.

3. Peel carrots and bell peppers, wash and cut into small cubes. If canned pineapples are ring-shaped, cut them into cubes. Chop the tomatoes in mashed potatoes.

4. Put chopped vegetables (carrots and peppers first) in a slightly preheated pan with sunflower oil and fry. Add tomato puree and canned pineapple along with juice. Season with salt.

5. Simmer the vegetable mixture over medium heat and a closed lid until all the liquid has evaporated.

6. Marinated softened meat should be fried in another pan. To do this, pour sunflower oil into it and warm it up well. Spread the pieces of meat separately and fry on both sides until tender.

7. Put the stewed vegetable mixture in a heap in a serving plate. Put pieces of fried meat on it. Serve the dish hot.

Beef in sweet and sour cranberry sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

100 g brown sugar or 125 ml liquid honey;

35 ml of apple cider vinegar;

150 g fresh or fresh frozen cranberries;

One medium onion;

A pinch of black pepper;

A pinch of cinnamon;

Two allspice peas.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the beef, dry and cut into cubes or strips.

2. Place the meat in a saucepan, add hot boiled water there so that it covers the meat by a few centimeters. Turn on strong heat, after boiling, remove all foam and reduce the heating of the burner to moderate. Then simmer with the lid slightly open.

3. Prepare food for the sauce. Sort fresh cranberries and rinse. If using fresh frozen berries, place in a bowl and thaw at room temperature. Cut off the bottom and neck of the onion, remove dry scales and wash the onion, cut it into cubes.

4. Grind allspice peas to a powdery consistency.

5. Take a small saucepan or stewpan and place the cranberries and onions in it. Add a little less than a glass of boiled water and simmer for about 10-14 minutes. Cool the mixture a little and grind into a gruel with an immersion blender. Add sugar, ground pepper, vinegar, salt and cinnamon to the sauce. Simmer for a few more minutes.

6. When the meat has softened a little and the broth has boiled away by 2/3, add the sauce to the saucepan and simmer until thickened.

Beef in sweet and sour cognac sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

A glass of cognac;

35 ml of apple cider vinegar;

120 ml olive oil;

25 g granulated sugar;

One onion;

20 ml soy sauce.

Cooking method:

1. Fry meat cut into portions in a well-heated frying pan without oil. When the meat acquires a light brown color, pour olive oil into the pan and fry until it becomes “meat with blood”.

2. Add apple cider vinegar, cognac and simmer until tender.

3. Finely chop the onion and fry in a separate frying pan, add sugar and mix well. Add soy sauce and a glass of boiled water. Simmer until moisture completely evaporates.

4. Add the onion sauce to the meat and heat.

5. Put the dish on a preheated plate and serve.

Beef in sweet and sour honey sauce with dried fruits

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

One large onion;

90 g pitted prunes;

80 g pitted dried apricots;

40-50 ml of oil;

1 tsp flower honey or 12 g of sugar;

Ground black pepper.

Cooking method:

1. The meat must be washed and dried. Cut off films and veins. Cut the beef into portions.

2. Peel and wash the onion. Cut in small pieces.

3. Wash prunes and dried apricots and soak in warm water for 10 minutes.

4. Pour sunflower oil into the pan and put it on heat. Fry the meat in a pan with onion until browned. Season the onion with salt and ground pepper.

5. Cut prunes and dried apricots into strips and add to the meat. Pour a glass of hot boiled water over.

6. When the mixture boils, reduce heat to medium and simmer with the lid slightly open (you can even close the lid tightly) until the meat is boiled. This process can take up to two hours.

7. Before finishing the heat treatment add honey and stir.

8. Close the lid and let the meat soak a little with honey.

Beef in sweet and sour red wine sauce

Ingredients:

450 g of beef;

Two onions (white);

Two onions (red);

1 glass of any dry red wine;

110 ml olive oil;

3 tablespoons of soy sauce;

Salt to taste;

Pinch of pepper;

A spoonful of granulated sugar or powdered sugar.

Cooking method:

1. After the initial processing, cut the meat into portions and put in a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with black pepper. Mix.

2. Put the rooster on the included stove and heat it up a little. Put the meat and quickly fry it until crispy. Put on a plate.

3. Cut onion white and red onions into half rings and put in the same roaster with butter from frying meat. Stir and simmer a little.

4. Pour onion with soy sauce and dry red wine. Sprinkle with sugar and salt.

5. Stir the contents of the roaster and put the meat on top. Close the lid. The fire should be moderate.

6. Simmer for about an hour and a half, sometimes turning the pieces of meat.

Boiled beef in sweet and sour orange sauce

Ingredients:

400 g of beef;

Two black peppercorns;

Two peas of allspice;

100 g of parsley root;

50 ml of freshly squeezed orange juice;

1 tsp orange peel;

50 g black currant;

150 ml port wine;

2 incomplete Art. l. wheat flour;

40 g butter;

250 ml of meat broth;

1 tsp honey;

Salt to taste;

A pinch of ground black pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Wash and place the beef meat in the cooking pot. Pour hot water into the meat. Add black and allspice peas, washed and chopped parsley root. When it boils, remove the foam and reduce the heat so that the meat boils a little. Cook until softened, then add salt.

2. When the meat is cooked, drain and strain 250 ml of broth for the subsequent preparation of the sauce. Let the meat sit in the remaining hot broth.

3. For the sauce, you need a small saucepan. Put butter in it and melt. Add flour and stir. Pass a little.

4. Add cooked broth to the sauce and simmer over very low heat.

5. Sort the currant berries, peel, wash and chop in mashed potatoes using a blender.

6. Pour orange juice and port into the broth, add orange zest and currant puree and honey. Stir the sauce and season with salt and ground pepper.

7. Simmer the sauce until lightly thickened. It will take literally a few minutes. Then cool the sauce a little and pour into the gravy boat.

8. Remove the meat from the broth, cut into thin portions. Place the meat on a plate. Top with sauce.

Sweet and Sour Beef - Tips & Tips

You can use potato or corn starch instead of flour.

Add to the dish only those spices and herbs that will harmonize well with each other.

Instead of tomato paste, you can add any ketchup, tomato juice or tomato pulp to the dish.

Ground pepper can be added to the dish as red or black in any quantity to taste.

Use rice vinegar instead of regular vinegar for a sophisticated taste.

For a truly Chinese dish, sprinkle with sesame seeds before serving.

Sweet and sour sauce can be prepared for the winter and used at any time of the year as needed.

Sweet and sour meat is a dish inspired by exotic Asian cuisine. Of course, the recipe is adapted to the products we are used to, but, nevertheless, in the end everything turns out to be compatible and delicious! Beef marinated in soy sauce and stewed with vegetables comes out very soft, literally “melting in your mouth”, and a successful union of flavor notes adds spice to the dish. If desired, you can vary the recipe to suit your preferences, for example, adding fresh ginger, sweet pineapples, hot peppers, etc.

• beef (can be replaced with pork) - 500 g;
• soy sauce - 100 ml;
• flour - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• potato starch - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• mushrooms (honey agarics, champignons, etc.) - 100 g;
• green beans - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
• apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp spoons;
• granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato paste (or ketchup) - 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
• vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons.

Sweet and sour meat recipe

How to cook beef with vegetables

1. After rinsing under running water and getting rid of layers of fat, cut the meat into small pieces or long strips.
2. Making batter. To do this, sprinkle the beef with a mixture of flour and starch.
3. Pour in soy sauce immediately and mix thoroughly. We leave the meat in this form for 20 minutes.
4. While the beef is marinating, prepare the rest of the sweet and sour dish. Cut the bell pepper into cubes, finely chop the peeled onion.
5. We mix beans, peppers, onions and mushrooms (miniature honey mushrooms do not require preliminary cutting, but if you use champignons or other large mushrooms, chop them with plates or strips).
6. In a frying pan with butter, fry the already marinated beef over moderate heat until golden brown. Next, add the vegetable mix. If desired, you can season the dish with ground pepper, sprinkle with sweet paprika or any spices to your taste. You need to salt the beef quite a bit, since the meat pieces were marinated in salted soy sauce.
7. Fry the meat in Chinese style with vegetables for about 5-10 minutes, and then add the tomato paste.
8. Sprinkle the contents of the pan with granulated sugar, pour in the vinegar, stirring the mixture vigorously. Simmer the meat in sweet and sour sauce until cooked.
9. We serve meat with any light side dish, for example, boiled rice. The recipe for beef with vegetables, thanks to vinegar and soy sauce, allows you to get the most tender meat. By the way, as a rule, the dish is to the liking not only of lovers of exotic food combinations, but also of conservatives in culinary preferences. Good appetite!

The wonderful sweet and sour beef dish has its origins in Chinese cuisine. Of course, in our interpretation, we used the most familiar products for us, but this does not diminish the piquancy of the dish. The combination of any meat with vegetables is always very tasty and juicy. However, the soy sauce that we used for the beef makes the meat incredibly tender and gives it a certain exoticism.

You can prepare this second dish both for every day and for receiving guests, if you decide to pamper them with something deliciously delicious.

This recipe is for 6 servings. Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Ingredients:

• Beef meat - 300 g;
• Bulb onions - 1 pc;
• Eggplant - 2 pcs;
• Carrots - 2 pcs;
• Tomato - 1 pc;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc;
• Chili pepper - 1 pc;
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
• Soy sauce - 70 ml;
• Flour - 1 tablespoon;
• Potato starch - 1 tablespoon;
• Apple cider vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
• Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
• Vegetable oil.

Cooking beef in sweet and sour sauce:

1. Prepare all the food you need. Rinse meat and vegetables thoroughly under running water. Put the ingredients in your field of vision so you don't miss a thing.

2. Beef in sweet and sour sauce will turn out to be more tender if the meat is not chopped coarsely. Therefore, cut it into small pieces, slightly elongated.

3. In the next step, you will need to mix flour with starch and cover the meat with this mixture. After that, pour the soy sauce over the beef and stir well. Set the meat aside for 20 minutes.

4. While the meat is marinating, turn to the vegetables. First of all, cut the eggplants into cubes.

5. Heat oil in a skillet and fry the eggplant in it, stirring occasionally.

6. Cut the bell pepper. It gives a special flavor to sweet and sour sauce.

7. Then prepare the carrots by chopping them into strips.

8. What kind of meat can do without onions ?! It is the onion that has properties that soften the meat, give it juiciness and richness in taste. Therefore, the onion should be finely chopped.

9. Cut the tomatoes coarser than the rest of the vegetables so that they retain their shape and appearance as best as possible. Cut the chili pepper into thin half rings.

10. By this time, the eggplants have already acquired the desired condition and golden color.

11. Add bell peppers, carrots, onions and chili tomatoes to the eggplants in turn. The vegetables should drain their juice and lightly fry together.

To make the beef dish even more delicious, you need to complement it with sauce. This small but very important nuance allows you to cook more delicacies from meat. Beef in sweet and sour sauce, sour cream, creamy, tomato, garlic - this is just a small part of all cooking options.

Seasonings and spices are also used, which whet the appetite, add aroma and new flavor notes. Sauce making is a fun, creative activity. From simple ingredients, you can create a truly amazing dish.

Sweet and sour sauce

One of the most popular cooking options for meat is sweet and sour beef. The recipe can be attributed to oriental cuisine due to the presence of some ingredients (pepper, soy sauce). This dish is traditionally served with noodles, but you can use any other side dish.

For cooking, you will need 350 grams of beef, 50 grams of good quality flour, the same amount of vegetable oil, 150 grams of sweet pepper, 150 grams of mushrooms (champignons), one chili pepper (medium), green onions, 30 grams of honey, ketchup and soy sauce, 100 grams of dill. For a side dish, take 200 grams of spaghetti.

A few simple steps

At the first stage, cut the meat into thin strips and sprinkle with flour. Mix thoroughly so that not a single piece is left out. Further, when frying, you will get a delicious crispy crust, and the beef in sour sauce will be even tastier. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and, after heating it, add meat. It only takes a few minutes to fry the beef.

Do not overdry it too much. We put it aside. Now let's get to the vegetables. Cut two types of pepper and mushrooms into strips. Fry champignons in a pan. After a while, add pepper and honey. After that, lay out the meat and pour in the soy sauce. The finishing touch is ketchup or tomato sauce. We heat all the ingredients together so that the meat and vegetables are saturated with the aroma of the rest of the ingredients. At the end, add the boiled spaghetti and stir. Sweet and sour beef served with herbs. This is a quick cooking option.

Beef stew

Usually, the beef is stewed for a while so that the pieces are soft and tender. For the next recipe, take 600 grams of meat, three tablespoons of butter, two tablespoons of tomato puree, a head of onion, carrot and parsley root, two large tablespoons of sugar, a spoonful of wine vinegar, bay leaf, coriander, pepper and 60 grams of rye or Borodino bread. We start by cutting the meat. We cut across the fibers, having previously beaten it off.

Breaded the pieces in flour and fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Put the meat in a saucepan or stewpan, fill it with broth (you can replace it with water) and put it on the fire to stew. Usually, beef is stewed for about 1.5-2 hours. During this time, you can prepare the rest of the ingredients. We clean the root of carrots, parsley and onions. Then chop them finely and fry (sauté) with a little vegetable oil. We spread vegetables to beef. We also add peppercorns, bay leaves, coriander, tomato paste, wine vinegar and sugar to the pan. Grind the rusks and pour the crumbs into our dish. This will make it look thick. After that, beef in sweet and sour sauce is stewed for about 10-15 minutes until all ingredients are fully cooked. The sauce turns out to be very tasty and rich. If you exclude from the recipe or reduce the proportion of wine vinegar, you get beef in a sweet sauce.

Tender meat and delicious sauce

This is a recipe for gourmets who know a lot about food. You will need 500 grams of beef tenderloin, juice of one lemon, two large spoons of honey, the same amount of tomato paste, 5 tablespoons of soy sauce, onion, hot pepper if desired, clove of garlic, pepper to taste.

Cut the meat into small pieces and fry in a pan for about 15 minutes. At the end, add the onion, cut into half rings, and mix everything. While the meat is fried, prepare the sauce. Mix honey, soy sauce, tomato paste and chopped garlic. Add the sauce to the meat and heat it for about 15 minutes, if the consistency is thick, then add a little water. It will be appropriate to serve rice for a side dish.

Simple sour cream sauce

Beef in sour cream sauce turns out to be very tender and tasty. Take 500 grams of young beef, two medium onions, tomatoes (5 pieces), 4 pickled cucumbers, two medium cloves of garlic, vegetable oil, salt and pepper. You will need these ingredients to cook meat.

For the sauce, take one and a half cups of sour cream, a spoonful of tomato paste, a spoonful of mustard and a spoonful of broth. Cut the beef into thin slices (the thinner, the more tender the dish will turn out). Salt and pepper it as desired. Peel and chop the onions. Remove the skin from the tomatoes and cut into cubes. Grind the garlic in any convenient way. Put the meat on a preheated pan and fry on each side. We remove it in a separate bowl, and fry the onion in a frying pan until it becomes transparent. Then add chopped cucumbers, tomatoes and garlic. Now it's the turn of all the remaining ingredients. It turns out a delicious, aromatic sauce. We spread the meat in it and simmer until fully cooked. Beef in sour cream sauce is ready.

Creamy sauce is more tender

This recipe is similar to the previous one. But beef in a creamy sauce turns out to be more tender, because sour cream is replaced with cream with a high percentage of fat. The cooking technology is slightly different. Boil the beef in slightly salted water. Then cut it into thin slices and place them on a large plate. Now let's start decorating the dish and giving it taste. Put onion on top of the meat, scalded with boiling water and sprinkled with vinegar. Place pickled cucumbers cut very thinly on the onion. Now we are preparing the sauce. Beat the cream until foamy. Add garlic, pepper and salt chopped in a mortar to them. Pour the sauce over the meat and serve. Beef in a creamy sauce will be softer if you choose veal. For spice, the dish can be sprinkled with hot pepper, but this is not for everybody.

Perfect combination

How else is beef cooked in sauce? Recipes can contain ingredients such as pomegranate or cranberry. They give the sauce a slight sourness and aroma. To do this, put the cranberries in a saucepan and crush them lightly. Then pour in half a glass of water (for 100 grams of berries) and boil for about 2 minutes. Then add sugar, broth, vinegar, zest and lemon juice. We boil for about 3 minutes more. The cranberry sauce is ready. We serve it with beef, pre-stewed, boiled or fried. These simple recipes redefine the flavor of beef. It's easy enough to make them at home and arrange a royal lunch or dinner.