How to cook chops and beef medallions

Beef - tasty, low-fat and healthy meat, which many prefer pork or chicken. You can prepare a lot from it, in this article we will give a recipe for cooking chops from beef and medallions. Hope you enjoy! For those who do not know, let's explain what medallions are: pieces of meat, necessarily scraps, about 2 cm thick and necessarily cut across the fibers.

Beef medallions with grapes and strawberries

First of all, we mix 4 tablespoons of olive oil with 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, a small spoonful of mustard, ground basil, lemon rind, Italian spices and salt. The pork tenderloin should be cut into medallions and discarded, and then marinated for a couple of hours in the prepared mixture. Then lock the medallions.

In the meantime, prepare the sauce. To do this, take 150 grams of grapes. From half squeeze the juice and add to it a small spoon of honey, soy sauce, butter, starch, the remaining grapes and a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg. Cook the sauce until it thickens. Put the roast meat on the dish, pour it sauce, place the top of the strawberry and basil leaves on top.

Beef medallions, grilled

Medallions can be cooked not only in the oven, but also on the grill. To make medallions of beef on the grill you need to cut half a kilo of meat into medallions and marinate for half an hour. Marinade is prepared as follows: half a glass of olive oil mixed with 2 chopped garlic cloves, lemon juice, cumin, salt and coriander, you can add pepper for pungency. Each piece of meat should be wrapped in a thin slice of bacon (all you need about 100 grams), skolkat skewer and attach a rosemary branch. On the grill this dish will be prepared very quickly - minutes 3.

Beef medallions with pomegranate-wine sauce

200 g of beef tenderloin cut into pieces across the fibers (as a rule, this amount of meat is enough for 3 pieces) and marinate. For the marinade you need to mix a pinch of salt, a half of chili pepper, a couple of rosemary stems, 1 shallot (chopped) and ground black pepper. Then in this mixture add 1 teaspoon of sorceress sauce and 1 large spoonful of olive oil. Here with this mixture and marinate beef (time - 30 min.). Then completely clean the meat from the ingredients of the marinade.

Since the medallions got their name due to the form, you need to try to keep it. To do this, we make "hoops" of aluminum foil, with which we wrap around the meat. Warm up in a frying pan a spoonful of olive oil, adding to it for fragrance chopped garlic and a sprig of rosemary. On this fragrant oil fry medallions: 3 min. Each side. We remove, salt, then fry for 3 more minutes.

Now you need to cook the sauce. Do not remove the remaining fat after frying meat, pour 200 grams of table wine red, 4 spoons of concentrated pomegranate juice, add rosemary, chopped onion bulb, and also a little pepper and salt. Slowly simmer the sauce, letting it thicken. Then the sauce must be filtered to get rid of the large ingredients and pour medallions on them. It turns out unusually delicious!

Beef chops with cheese and tomatoes

300 g of beef must be cut into pieces and discarded. Salt them, pepper and fry on both sides until a crust is formed. Put them on a baking tray, top with each piece of tomato cut into half-rings (1 piece is enough), pour mayonnaise and cover with grated cheese (about 100 g). Bake in the oven until the cheese melts; Approximately minute10.

Beef chops in a beer sauce

700 g of meat cut into pieces and discourage. Each piece of anointed with mustard, teriyaki sauce, pepper, lightly drizzle with vinegar and salt. Marinate meat in the refrigerator and not less than 3 hours. Then dipped the meat in a flour and fry it with hot oil. Next, put the meat in a cauldron (or other dishes in a thick bottom), salt, sprinkle with chopped onions rings (2 pcs.) And fill with a can of beer. You can add a bay leaf. On low heat, simmer for about an hour.