Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- stewpan with a lid;
- pan;
- garlic clover;
- cutting board;
- cutting board for meat;
- kitchen knife;
- a knife for meat;
- cooking vane;
- tack;
- 2.5 liter deep bowl.
Ingredients
| Name | amount |
| Beef Tenderloin | 500 g |
| Onions, medium | 5 pieces. |
| Pickled cucumbers, medium | 3 pcs. |
| Potatoes | 1 kg |
| Vegetable oil | 100 ml |
| Tomato paste | 2 tbsp. l |
| Beef broth | 1 stack |
| Bay leaf | 3 pcs. |
| Common salt | taste |
| Ground black pepper | taste |
| Garlic | 3 cloves |
Step cooking
Did you know? Azu is a traditional Tatar dish made from fried pieces of meat in combination with tomato sauce or tomatoes, often with pickles and other ingredients. In the countries of the East, azu is served hot as an independent second course.
- Wash the beef (500 g). Dry with a paper towel. First cut the meat into 4-5 mm thick slices along the fibers and then into strips (approximately 1 cm × 4 cm).
- Peel the onion (5 pcs.), Cut into half rings 3-4 mm thick.
- Chop pickles (3 pcs.) In small strips.
- Wash potatoes well (1 kg), peel. Cut into small cubes. Put chopped potatoes in a bowl of water.
- Heat the stew pan well. Add vegetable oil (50 ml).
- Put the chopped meat in a saucepan, fry for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Add chopped onions to the fried meat, mix.
- Cook over low heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring until the onions are soft.
- Add tomato paste (2 tbsp. L.) To the stewpan. Mix well, let it boil for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour chopped pickles to the meat.
- Pour the beef broth (1 cup.) Into the stewpan, mix.
- Cover the stewpan with a lid, simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes.
- Heat the oil well in a pan (50 ml).
- Put potatoes in hot oil.
- Fry until golden brown on all sides, without covering, almost until done.
- Transfer potatoes to the stewpan.
- Put a bay leaf (3 pcs.).
- Squeeze the garlic (3 cloves) into the stewpan with the help of a garlic press. Salt, pepper to taste.
- Stir the dish. Stew until tender (5-7 minutes). Serve hot.
Did you know? For cooking Tazu in style, in addition to beef, mutton, young horsemeat are used. Instead of tomato paste, you can take fresh and sun-dried tomatoes, spicy tomato sauce. Often, carrots cut into thin slices and various spicy greens are added to the dish. In Slavic countries, a home-made recipe for asu using chicken or turkey meat has spread.
Video recipe
A detailed step-by-step preparation of Tatar beef basics is shown in this video:
Now you know all the secrets of preparing a delicious aromatic azu and prepare the dish without any difficulties. Hearty hot second is especially good to cook in the cold season. How do you feel about dishes of Tatar cuisine? What special original recipes do you know?
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