What gravies are prepared at home:
- meat. They are usually prepared from pork, any parts of chicken, or beef;
- from vegetables;
- with the addition of kefir, cream, sour cream - creamy;
- with the addition of processed cheeses - cheese;
- assorted, mixing all the previously listed products.

What is the difference between gravy and sauce? Any gravy is always served on the table along with the dish, unlike sauces, which can be served in a separate bowl.

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Vegetable sauce for cutlets

Delicious juicy minced meat cutlets are simply unthinkable without aromatic gravy. Without it, the cutlets seem dry and not tasty. And if you cook it on a tomato base with vegetables or make it creamy with cheese and mushrooms. Meat cutlets will acquire a different taste, will be juicy and soft.

Ingredients:

• flour - 3 tablespoons;
• fresh mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms, any forest mushrooms) – 200 grams;
• carrots – 1 large;
• onion – 2 heads;
• hot pepper;
• garlic – 5 cloves;
• fresh parsley, dill and basil - 0.5 bunch each;
• spices and seasonings as desired;
• broth (vegetable or meat) – 200 ml. (ordinary water or boiling water is fine).

Preparation:
Wash and finely chop all vegetables. Heat oil in a frying pan and lightly fry the garlic in it. Add chopped onion to the fried garlic. Close the lid tightly. Stew the vegetables a little and add chopped or grated carrots. Stir the roasted vegetables well. After 10-15 minutes, add fresh mushrooms and hot peppers cut into slices and simmer for another twenty minutes over low heat.

Separately, fry the flour until golden brown. Pour it into the vegetables and stir thoroughly until smooth. Pour broth into the pan (it’s better if you use meat broth, then the gravy will be aromatic and satisfying) or water. Stir. Add spices and seasonings as desired and to taste, as well as finely chopped fresh herbs. Cover with a lid and simmer for 5-10 minutes.

Video recipe: Beef gravy

Mushroom sauce made from dried mushrooms for buckwheat

If you have dried mushrooms at home, prepare a hearty mushroom sauce for buckwheat. And buckwheat porridge will acquire a new taste and aroma. To prepare this dish you don't need any meat at all. Making gravy for buckwheat without meat is very easy and quick.

Products:

• dried mushrooms - 1 small handful;
• onion bulb;
• butter -75 g;
• low-fat liquid sour cream - 75 g;
• wheat flour - 70-90 g;
• spices and dill - optional;
• a little salt.

How to prepare mushroom sauce for buckwheat:
Pre-fill the dried mushrooms with warm water for 1.5-2 hours. Cook the broth from the soaked mushrooms for about an hour. Pour the prepared mushroom broth into a separate bowl. Prepare vegetable frying. To do this, peel the onion head, wash it and finely chop it. Then fry it in butter. When the onion becomes soft and acquires a golden hue, add boiled mushrooms and simmer the mixture for about 15 minutes.
After the time has passed, without ceasing to stir the mixture, slowly pour the flour into the frying pan. Make sure that no lumps of flour form.

Add broth to mushroom sauce. Its quantity depends on the desired thickness of the gravy. Season with sour cream, add salt, spices and dill as desired. In a couple of minutes, the mushroom sauce made from dried mushrooms for buckwheat is ready. You can season buckwheat porridge with it and serve.

Sour cream chicken sauce

Gravy with chicken fillet and sour cream can be served with fluffy rice or tender mashed potatoes. You can simply spread it on bread and eat it as a separate, independent dish. Preparing chicken gravy with sour cream is easy and simple, but keep in mind that this dish should be eaten immediately after cooking. Because when heated it will no longer be as tasty and aromatic. Write down a very simple chicken gravy recipe.

Compound:

• chicken meat - 100-200 g;
• onion - 1-2 heads;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• light sour cream - 2 cups;
• ground black pepper and salt - 1/2 teaspoon each;
• bay leaves 1-3 pcs.

Preparation:
Prepare the meat: rinse, dry and cut into small pieces. The smaller you cut the chicken, the faster the meat gravy will cook. Fry the chicken over high heat in vegetable oil. Peel and finely chop the onion. Add chopped onion to the browned chicken pieces, cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat for 5-10 minutes. Stir occasionally. When the onion is stewed and becomes soft, add sour cream to the pan.

Stir, cover and continue to simmer the chicken gravy for another 10-15. Turn off the stove, add salt, add your favorite spices, bay leaf and let it brew. Chicken gravy with sour cream is ready.

Video recipe: quick sauce for minced pasta

Pork gravy

Meat gravy will help diversify the taste of the dish; it will make it bright and rich. Gravy can be prepared from any meat, including pork. This meat can be combined with any seasoning and all additional ingredients. With milk, with kefir marinade, with sour cream and cream, with cheese and vegetables, with tomatoes, with soy sauce and tomato paste. The choice of pork gravy recipe depends on your own taste preferences and habits.
Of all the options, the most versatile and nutritious is pork gravy with tomato paste. It can be served with buckwheat, pasta, and mashed potatoes. If you make it not very thick, you will get goulash, which can be eaten as an independent dish.

Products:

• pork - 500 grams;
• white wheat flour - 50-60 g;
• carrots - 1 root;
• white onion - 1 head;
• vegetable oil - for frying;
• allspice peas - 5-10 peas;
• tomato paste - 25-30 g;
• fresh herbs - optional;
• bay leaves, salt, favorite spices.

How to prepare delicious pork gravy for main courses:
Wash the pork well with water, dry it and cut into cubes or thin strips. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan over high heat. Lightly fry the chopped pork pieces until lightly browned. Peel and wash the vegetables for gravy. Cut the onion into small half rings, grate the carrots on a medium grater. Add prepared vegetables to meat.

Dilute the tomato paste in a small amount of water and pour the tomato juice into the frying pan. After that, add flour, stir and pour half a liter of boiling water into the gravy. Simmer the meat gravy for 30 minutes over low heat, covered, stirring occasionally. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add allspice, salt, bay leaf, some spices for taste and finely chopped herbs for aroma. Turn off the stove and let the gravy brew.

Tomato sauce without meat

Great for pasta during Lent or for vegetarians. Seasonings in the dish will add a bright, rich aroma and diversify the lean side dishes. Preparing a delicious gravy with tomatoes is simple and quick, because it is a meat-free dish. This means you don’t need time to prepare it. Be sure to write down the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 4 tomatoes;
• 50g tomato paste;
• 2 cloves of young garlic;
• ground red pepper, sweet paprika, other favorite spices, salt;
• parsley, dill, basil.

Preparation:
Prepare the vegetables: wash and peel the tomatoes. It is more convenient to do this if you make a crosswise cut on the tomatoes. Pour boiling water over the vegetables and place in cold water. After the procedures are completed, the skin is easily removed. Cut the tomatoes peeled in this way into cubes. Pour frying oil into a frying pan and add chopped tomatoes. Mix with tomato paste, add salt and simmer over low heat until the mixture thickens. Chop the garlic or pass through a press and add to the tomatoes. Add finely chopped herbs and simmer for a couple of minutes. The meatless tomato sauce for pasta is ready, you can cook spaghetti and treat your family to a delicious dinner.

Gravy like in kindergarten

Delicious gravy that we all ate in kindergarten and gladly asked for more. Write down the recipe, your kids will love it. Moreover, the dish takes only 20 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients

• pork pulp - 500 g;
• any broth or purified water - 200 ml;
• tomato paste - 70-90 g;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• flour - 50 g;
• spices at your discretion.
• a little salt.

Preparation:
Pre-rinse and dry the meat. Cut it into cubes and fry in oil in a frying pan. Separately, pour a little vegetable oil into a deep frying pan or saucepan and heat it up. Add flour to hot oil and fry until golden brown. Add tomato paste to the pan and stir well. In a separate bowl, heat the broth or water without bringing to a boil. Pour the broth in a thin stream into the pan, stirring constantly. In this case, it is necessary to break up the lumps of flour. Salt and add spices of your choice. Simmer over low heat for 5-7 minutes. Add previously fried meat and simmer for 10 minutes. The gravy is ready like kindergarten. Ideal with mashed potatoes, pasta and wheat porridge.

This is a simple way to prepare a delicious dish from childhood. It was prepared, as a rule, with starch in vegetable or meat broth, sometimes even in water. Generously seasoned with tomato paste, mayonnaise or any tomato sauce. You can cook it with soy sauce, but then you don’t need to add salt. The gravy turned out to be liquid and incredibly tasty, served with cutlets or mashed potatoes. But if you want a thicker version, add flour instead of starch. Write down the best and at the same time budget recipe for delicious gravy, which was often prepared in Soviet canteens.

Products per serving:

• starch - 30 g;
• any broth - 380 ml;
• tomato paste, ketchup or mayonnaise - 15-20 g;
• raw carrots - 95 g;
• onion - 1 head.

Preparation:
Lightly fry the flour in a dry frying pan until light brown. Set aside for now. Peel and fry vegetables (onions and carrots) until softened. Dilute the starch in water, stir well and pour into the frying pan with the vegetables. Add broth with tomato paste. Delicious cafeteria-style gravy is ready.

Liver gravy for rice

1. When preparing gravy, the proportions must be strictly observed. Otherwise, you may not get the desired consistency of the dish. The following proportions are generally accepted: for one glass of water, broth, kefir, liquid sour cream, whey or milk, you need to take one and a half tablespoons of flour or starch.
2. To get a more concentrated, juicy, aromatic and thick gravy for cutlets, it is advisable to cook it in the same bowl where the cutlets were fried;
3. To deal with lumps, you should dissolve the flour in a small amount of water and stir well. To speed up the procedure, you can use a mixer.

I often hear from others (and sometimes I myself remember) nostalgic words about what they ate in the canteens of the USSR, in kindergarten, and so on. There were simple but unique recipes. Especially if they were cooked honestly without stealing too much.
And many of you are familiar with the situation when a child refuses to eat what you cook and asks “make it like in kindergarten!”...
At one time I found this recipe from the user * Svetlana * on one of Anastasia Skripkina’s forums; goulash was prepared according to this recipe in the kindergarten where Svetlana worked.
I tried it, really liked it, now I’m sharing it with you.

Ingredients:
Meat (beef, pork) - 0.5 kg.
Onion - 1 head.
Carrot - 1 pc. (possible without it)
Flour - 1 tbsp. l
Tomato paste 1 tsp
Sour cream - 1 tbsp. l (possible without it)
Bay leaf - 1 pc.
Medium size pickled cucumber - 1 pc. (or several small gherkins). Can be done without cucumber.
Salt to taste - approximately 0.5 tsp

Preparation:
1. Cut the meat into small pieces.
Grate the cucumber or peel it and cut into small cubes.

Cut the onion into half rings.
Grate the carrots on a medium or fine grater.

2. Lightly fry the meat in vegetable oil at the bottom of the pan.
Add onions and carrots and simmer in their own juice for 5 minutes.

Add water so that the meat is covered with water.

Simmer covered for 40 minutes.

3. During this time, dilute in half a glass of warm water - 1 tsp tomato paste, 1 tbsp. spoon of flour and 1 tbsp. spoon of sour cream. Mix well so that there are no lumps.

4. Add cucumber to the meat, add a bay leaf, maybe three peppercorns, and salt to taste. Simmer for 5-10 minutes.

Continuously stirring the goulash, pour in the flour-tomato paste-sour cream mixture. The goulash will begin to thicken right before your eyes.

Simmer for another 10 minutes.

If the water boils away during stewing, you can add boiling water. If suddenly the goulash turns out to be too thick, you can dilute it with boiling water to the desired thickness.

Bon appetit!!

Meatballs in gravy

We will need:

For the meatballs:

We will need any minced meat (pork, beef, chicken, turkey...)
My favorite is Homemade (pork-beef). I try to make it myself, but if I see good minced meat in the store, I take it...
Minced meat - 0.5 kg.
Boiled rice (preferably until half cooked), round, unparboiled
(0.3-0.5 cups of uncooked rice before cooking). Approximately you will get a little less boiled rice or equal amount with minced meat.
Medium onion - 1 pc.
I removed the egg from the recipe, but you can leave it if you wish.
Salt to taste or 1 partial tsp.

For the gravy:

Sour cream - 1 tbsp
Flour - 1 tbsp
Volume. paste - 1 tsp, bay leaf.
1.5 glasses of water

Cooking method:

It’s better to mince the minced meat and onions through a meat grinder, and then add rice and salt. If you don’t want to, then chop the onion very finely (you can first fry it until transparent) and combine it with minced meat and rice. Add salt to taste. Knead everything very well with your hands. Form small meatballs. Roll them in flour (I do without dredging). But since many meatballs crack during frying or, worse, fall apart, it’s better to debone them.

Place in a frying pan well heated with vegetable oil (preferably not too close to each other), lightly fry on one side for 3-5 minutes. Do not cover with a lid immediately, otherwise the meatballs will fall apart.

Carefully turn over and fry on the other side until the meatballs set (3-5 minutes).
Pour boiling water (about 1 cup) up to about half the level of the meatballs. Add a teaspoon of salt to the water at the tip, 1 teaspoon volume. paste (the paste can be diluted directly in water), bay leaf.
Cover with a lid and simmer for 10-15 minutes over medium heat.

At this time, dilute a tablespoon of sour cream in 1/2 cup of warm water, mix (with a fork), add a full tbsp. spoon of flour. Knead well so that there are no lumps.
Pour into meatballs.

Close the lid and, holding the lid, shake everything well to mix.
Simmer for another 15-20 minutes over low heat until slightly bubbling. You can turn the meatballs over halfway through cooking. If the gravy turns out to be thick, you can dilute it with boiling water to the desired thickness. Mix.

Our dish is ready.

Bon appetit to you and your children:)

Meatballs go with any side dish (rice, mashed potatoes, buckwheat, noodles)
This sauce can be used for stewing cabbage rolls, stuffed peppers, etc...

ADVICE! It’s better to first fry the meatballs in a frying pan, and then put them in a pan and simmer. (when frying in a pan, meatballs crack more often because they stick to the bottom and are harder to turn over...)

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Goulash with gravy and mashed potatoes just like in kindergarten

We will need:

Beef (pork, chicken, turkey) - 0.5 kg.
Onion - 1 head.
Carrot - 1 pc. (can be without it)
Flour - 1 tbsp. l
Volume. paste 1 tsp
You can have sour cream - 1 tbsp. l (I have without it)
Bay leaf - 1 pc.
Salt to taste - approximately 0.5 tsp

Cooking method:

Cut the meat into small pieces, lightly fry (you don’t need to fry, but immediately add a little boiling water to the meat) and simmer together with the onion and grated carrots in their own juice over low heat, pouring a little vegetable oil into the pan. oils Then add a small amount of water. Well, let's say, a glass of water for half a kilo of meat. Simmer until the meat is ready (i.e. until soft). The meat should be lightly covered with broth. About 10 minutes before the meat is ready, add salt to taste, add 1 bay leaf. and you can have 3 pieces. peppercorns. Meat can be different. Therefore, the cooking time may also be different. But as a rule, about an hour, no less (if it is beef or pork, and not chicken). Readiness is checked with a knife or fork.
Then dilute in half a glass of warm water - 1 tsp of paste, tbsp. spoon of flour and tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream (you can do it without it, I don’t have it...).
Mix well in a glass so that there are no lumps. I always do this with a fork.
Continuously stirring the goulash, pour the mixture into it. The goulash will begin to thicken before your eyes.
Simmer for a little bit (5-10 minutes) The meat is ready.
If the water boils away during stewing, you can add it. And if suddenly the goulash turns out to be too thick, then you can also dilute it with boiling water to the desired thickness.

You can add grated or thinly sliced, peeled pickled cucumber 10-15 minutes before the end of the meat stewing. This will add piquancy and spiciness to the dish.

Mashed potatoes.

Boil potatoes in water. Drain the water, but not completely, so that a little remains at the bottom.
Mash the potatoes thoroughly in the broth.
Only when the potatoes are well mashed, add hot milk, salt and butter to taste.
With a decoction, the puree is lighter, not sticky and tastier, in my opinion. Children eat this puree well.

You can serve goulash with any side dish. With buckwheat, for example...

Bon appetit to you and your kids:)

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Kindergarten cabbage rolls (lazy)

Compound:

Any amount of cabbage
onion 1-2 pcs,
uncooked round rice,
boiled rolled meat,
salt,
boiled eggs (2-3 pcs).

The amount of cabbage and meat is not important. There is enough rice to lightly cover the top of the cabbage rolls (1-2 handfuls).

Cooking method:

Sauté the onion in a saucepan in vegetable oil until golden and translucent.
Enough oil to cover the bottom of the pan well. For kids, do not saute the onions, but immediately add them to the cabbage, pouring a little water on the bottom...
Then put the chopped cabbage there, simmer under the lid for a while over medium heat, stirring occasionally, without water (you can immediately add water if you wish)

Then add a little water, 1-2 tsp of tomato paste (or without), salt, bay leaf. Mix well...
Press until juice appears on the surface. Let it simmer a little longer.
Then add some raw - round, uncooked rice...
Place it on top of the cabbage without stirring and add enough water to slightly cover the rice.
Simmer for 15 minutes under the lid...
At the end, place the rolled boiled meat (beef) on top.
Stir a little later...(so that the dish does not burn).
Cook the rice until cooked, covered, over low heat.
If the rice is still damp and there is not enough water, add a little water...
The cabbage rolls are ready.
Place 2-3 boiled eggs, finely chopped, in them and mix.

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Pilaf with chicken just like in kindergarten

We will need:

Chicken fillet without skin or turkey - 0.5 kg (I have it with skin. Meat can be taken approximately)
Rice - 1-1.5 cups round, unsteamed (I have Mistral - Kuban, the amount of rice does not matter)
Onion - 1-2 heads
Carrot 1 piece
Bay leaf.
Salt to taste (I have about 1 tsp)

Cooking method:

Before cooking, rinse the rice in several waters and add water. Let it swell. I do this before I start cutting vegetables.
Cut the onions and carrots into strips. Pour enough clarified vegetable oil into a thick-bottomed pan to cover the bottom of the pan well.
Lightly sauté the onions and carrots over medium heat. If you use fillet with skin, do not add oil. First, fry the chicken in its own juice and then add vegetables. The skin will give up its oil...
For small children, use skinless chicken and do not fry the onions and carrots, but simmer along with the chicken in a small amount of water and oil.

Place the meat cut into pieces into the pan and fry everything lightly until the chicken sets.

Add a little water to cover the meat and simmer for about 15 minutes. This is necessary so that the broth is saturated with the taste and aroma of the meat. Add salt.

Drain the rice that was standing and swelling well using a sieve. Place into meat and smooth. Pour cold water one finger above the rice (1 cm), as the rice has already absorbed enough water and has swollen. Usually pour water 2 fingers higher. Place a bay leaf on top. Don't interfere.

Turn the stove on high to let the rice boil faster. As soon as it boils, reduce the heat by half.
Do not cover with a lid until the liquid on the surface is not visible (all is absorbed into the rice).

After this, cover with a lid. Reduce heat to low and cook until rice is cooked without stirring.
As soon as the rice is ready, stir the pilaf, turn off the stove and let the pilaf stand, rest...
Pilaf should not be dry or very crumbly. It should be well steamed, tender and tasty, and the chicken should melt in your mouth...

You can cook pilaf according to technical specifications. map Det. garden:

For those who cook pilaf in a slow cooker.

The proportions of water and rice for cooking in a multicooker are 1.5 to 1. Add one glass of water when the meat is stewed, the remaining 0.5 glass after adding rice (rice at the rate of 1 glass). The meat is stewed first in the baking mode, then after adding rice, switch to the Pilaf mode. Before switching to pilaf mode, after filling the rice with water, hold the lid open so that the water is absorbed into the rice as much as possible, then close the lid. Don't interfere. The pilaf gets in the way at the end. There is no need to soak rice in water before cooking.

Bon appetit to you and your kids:)

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Mashed potatoes with chicken

We will need:

Mashed potatoes
Boiled carrots
Boiled chicken (fish or any meat)

Cooking method:

Pour cold water over the potatoes and one carrot.

Cook over medium heat until carrots and potatoes are tender. Carrots take a little longer to cook than potatoes, so it is advisable to cut them into small pieces, or take small carrots. When cooking, focus on the readiness of the carrots.
Remove the carrots and cut into small cubes.
Drain the water, leaving some at the bottom of the pan.
Mash the potatoes well with a potato masher.

Add hot milk and salt to taste. Mash everything well.
Add chopped carrots.

Separate the meat from the pre-cooked chicken from the bones, cut into small pieces (for kids, grind through a meat grinder), add to mashed potatoes. Mix everything with a spoon.

You can dilute the puree with broth to the consistency of a thick soup. Then it becomes even lighter and more tender. But this option is more suitable for the youngest children.

Goes well with pickled cucumber.

Bon appetit to you and your kids:)

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Fish balls with vegetable stew

We will need:

5-6 plates of fish fillet, frozen or fresh - 500-600 g (I have hake)
(You can add a piece of lard or fatty pork if you make it for adult children and for yourself. The meatballs will be fattier and even tastier. For kids, do not add fat)
1 onion
2-3 slices of dry white bread (fresh is also possible)
Milk for soaking bread - 100-150ml.
1 egg.
Salt to taste (I have about half a teaspoon)
1 incomplete st. spoon of semolina for greater viscosity of minced meat (possibly without)

Cooking method:

Soak the bread in milk. Cut the onion into 4 parts. Grind the fish fillet, onion, soaked bread and, if desired, a piece of lard or pork through a meat grinder.
Add salt, egg and, if desired, some natural gluten-free seasoning for fish. Knead well with a tablespoon, add semolina and mix again. Let it sit for half an hour and let it swell.

Prepare a baking container. Grease it with oil and carefully lay out the meatballs with a spoon, helping with a second spoon, or mold with your hands if the minced meat is sticky. You can add a little boiling water to the container so that the meatballs do not fry too much. They should always be in the broth. You can lay out all the minced meat whole, smooth it out and make a fish casserole.

Preheat the oven to 200-220 degrees and bake the meatballs for 20-30 minutes until golden brown. You can take them out about 15 minutes before the end and pour them with sour cream, mixed in half with milk and flour (I just didn’t have sour cream this time) and put it in the oven (warm milk 0.5 cup, flour 1-2 tsp, sour cream 0.5 cup )

The balls are ready.

Vegetable stew.

Try to make a little so that you can eat that day.
Cabbage - 300 grams (approximately). It is better to take juicy, white, flat cabbage.
1 onion
1 carrot
1 potato
1 tomato or 1 tsp tom. pasta (with tom paste it turns out more beautiful than stew)
1-2 tbsp. tablespoons canned green peas
1 tbsp. spoon of sour cream optional. (I prefer not to add)
1 tsp flour

Cooking method:

Cut carrots, onions, tomatoes into cubes (you can do without them if there is tom. paste). Pour vegetable oil into the pan so that the bottom is covered and simmer in oil - first the onions and carrots, then the tomatoes. For kids, do not fry, but put everything together with the cabbage, adding some water...

Add diced cabbage. If you feel that the cabbage is a little rough and not very juicy, then you can mash it with your hands and add a little salt. Top up the floor. start with a glass of water and simmer, closing the lid, until the cabbage is half cooked, trying to press it during the cooking process so that the juice is on the surface. Young cabbage is stewed without water at all, in its own juice. But if the cabbage turns out to be not very juicy, then, if necessary, water should be added little by little during the cooking process. So that the cabbage is not fried, but stewed and is always slightly covered with liquid. But I didn't swim much in the water...

Then add salt, diced potatoes, peas, and bay leaf to taste. Cover with a lid and simmer until the cabbage and potatoes are ready. The cabbage should be very soft. Ideally, of course, at the end you need to add a teaspoon of tomato paste and you can add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream, it makes the dish more beautiful, but this time I made it without them (of course I lost in appearance). You can add more water, but not much. Try to stew it in its own juice. Stir occasionally. You can add greens at the end. The stewing time depends on how rough the cabbage is. If the cabbage is juicy, then, as a rule, it softens faster, and if it is very rough, then it is not stewed, it may not remain very tender... The approximate cooking time is about an hour.

When the dish is ready, dilute 1 tsp of flour with a small amount of water - 50g, for example, and pour into the stew, stir. This is necessary in order to combine all our vegetables.

The stew is ready.

Place on a plate with meatballs.

This stew goes very well with sausages.
I added sausages to the stew 5 minutes before they were ready and covered.

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Potato casserole from kindergarten

I took the ingredients approximately, because it’s not important:

Potatoes - 1 kg
Raw egg - 1
A little milk - 100 grams
Boiled rolled meat (I have pork) - 400-500 grams
Onion - 1 piece

For the gravy:

0.5 l broth
2 tsp vol. paste (you can do without it, then the gravy will be milky)
1-2 tbsp. l sour cream (you can use cream, you can do without sour cream and cream)
2-3 tbsp. flour (I have 2, it turned out not very thick)

Cooking method:

Boil the potatoes until tender.
While the potatoes are cooking, make the meat filling.
Saute the onion in vegetable oil until transparent and golden in color (for kids, do not sauté, but roll the onion together with the meat, as they did in the kindergarten, or stew the onion in oil with the addition of a tablespoon of water).

Place rolled boiled meat (can be chicken, any...). Mix. Add salt to taste and a little water so that the minced meat is not crumbly, but viscous. Cover with a lid and let simmer until the onion is completely soft. You can then, if desired, rub a boiled egg into the meat.

Drain the water from the finished potatoes, leaving a little liquid (100 grams) and mash well, adding salt to taste. Add hot milk (100 g). Crush. Break an egg into it and mash everything well.

Grease a baking container (I have 30*23*4) with vegetable oil. Sprinkle with breading (you don't need to) and add half of the puree. Flatten with a spoon.
Then add all the meat. Flatten. Lightly stomp with a spoon for better contact with the potatoes...

Add the remaining puree. Flatten. Grease with sour cream. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
The top of the casserole can be greased as desired and to taste. You can use cheese and mayonnaise. You can just use a beaten egg.
Mine like the breading because the crust turns out slightly crispy.

Bake in the oven at T - 180 degrees until golden brown. The casserole will rise a little... This will take about 45 minutes. Remove the casserole, let it cool at least halfway, uncovered, and cut into portions. As the casserole cools, it becomes stronger and comes out of the pan better...

Place in a plate and pour over the gravy (you can do without it). Mine are simply eaten with mayonnaise on top.

Gravy:

Add tomato (2-3 tsp, I have 2) to 400 ml of warm (hot) broth, bring to a gentle boil, adding salt to taste.

In 100 ml. warm broth add 2-3 tbsp sour cream or cream and 2-3 tbsp. l flour, beat everything well with a fork and pour the contents into the slightly boiling broth, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil and thicken. You can sprinkle with herbs if desired. The gravy is ready. let it cool. As it cools, it becomes thicker. This gravy can be poured over any savory casserole and cutlets...
Tomato paste, flour and sour cream can be adjusted to your taste.

Bon appetit to you and your children:)

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Potatoes stewed with meat, just like in kindergarten

We will need:

Beef (because it was prepared from it, but you can use any meat if you wish) - 400-600 g (I have 600, because my men ask for more meat)
Peeled potatoes - 1 kg (quantity is not important). It is better to take the type of potato that tends to boil over, i.e. crumbly)
1 onion
1 carrot
1 tsp flour
1 ripe tomato or 1 tsp. pastes (you can do without both)

Cooking method:

Cut the onion and carrots into cubes. Lightly sauté in vegetable oil immediately in a saucepan. (for small children, do not saute, but add after frying and stewing the meat)

Cut the meat into small pieces.
Place in a saucepan with onions and carrots. Fry over high heat, stirring, without frying. The meat will give juice. Cover with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes in its own juice until the juice has boiled away, checking occasionally and stirring. For children, immediately pour a small amount of boiling water over the meat.

Then add enough water so that the meat is slightly covered and simmer under the lid over low heat until the meat is soft (it took me about 40 minutes)

Pour boiling water over the tomato or keep it in the microwave for a couple of minutes so that the skin peels off well. Peel the skin, mash it, and place it in the meat. Add salt to taste (I don’t have a full teaspoon somewhere)

Simmer a little more (about 5 minutes) and then lay out all the chopped potatoes and add enough water so that the potatoes protrude slightly from it. If you pour more, the potatoes will be runny... Add a bay leaf. Cover with a lid and simmer until the potatoes are done.

Stir the potatoes. Strain a little broth from the surface into a cup. Let cool and add 1 tsp flour. Stir the flour well with a fork so that there are no lumps and pour the contents back into the potatoes. This is necessary so that our potatoes become viscous. Of course, you can do without flour, but this way the potatoes in the plate look more holistic and less liquid. You don’t have to strain the broth, but dilute the flour in a small amount of warm water if there isn’t a lot of liquid in the potatoes...

Stir and let it boil. The potatoes are ready.
Serve with pickled cucumber.

Bon appetit to you and your children:)

9
Fish fillet in milk-sour cream sauce with mashed potatoes

We will need:

Any fish fillet (the quantity is not important). I had 4 pieces. tilapia. Very good fillet - dory. It has no bones and is very tender.
Vegetable oil for stewing.
Onions optional
Spices for fish as desired (without glutamate)

For the sauce:

Half the norm is quite enough for a frying pan with fillet, but you can never have too much of this sauce.

0.5 cups warm milk
0.5 cups sour cream
1-2 tsp flour (adjusting the thickness of the sauce as desired)
salt to taste

1 option

Pour a little oil into a heated frying pan and place the fillet pieces. If you do it with onions, then first put the chopped onion, then the fish on it, add salt and lightly simmer under the lid for about 3 minutes so that the fish turns white. Turn over, add salt and simmer again. You can add a little water to the frying pan. The fillet should not be fried, it is sort of stewed.

At this time, prepare the sauce:

Add flour to 0.5 cups of warm milk and stir well (with a fork, for example) so that there are no lumps. If there are still lumps left, it is better to strain, otherwise you will have to strain the sauce. Add sour cream and salt. Stir (you can cook in the pan right away)

Pour into a saucepan and place on a hot burner. Heat until the sauce boils and thickens, stirring constantly. Once the sauce has thickened, it is ready. It shouldn't be too thick. It should look like stirred liquid sour cream. You can adjust the thickness by diluting it with a little milk... This sauce can be poured over ready-made meatballs or casseroles. Vegetables, steamed, and then poured with sauce, sprinkled with breading and in the oven until browned, etc...

Pour the sauce over the fish, sprinkle with any herbs and cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat for about 5 minutes. The fish is ready. Do not overcook, because sour cream does not like long and strong heating and begins to separate...

"There are many recipes for goulash and mashed potatoes, but I want to offer you my version. When my children were little, they often asked: “We want it like in kindergarten.” This applied to different dishes.
We are used to preparing fattier, richer and more satisfying food for ourselves. A friend of mine once told me that her son asked for semolina porridge like in kindergarten and refused to eat homemade... So I decided to highlight a series of simple recipes that I know. This is how they cooked it in the garden where I worked. "

But I still love kindergarten (school) food!
So I’m excited to try the whole series of these recipes!


Words by the author, photos are mine

Goulash with gravy:

• Beef - 0.5 kg.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc. (can be without it)
• Flour - 1 tbsp. l
• Volume. paste - 1 tsp
• You can have sour cream - 1 tbsp. l (I have without it)
• Bay leaf - 1 pc.
• Salt to taste - approximately 0.5 tsp

Cut the meat into small pieces,


lightly fry


(you don’t have to fry it, but immediately add a little boiling water to the meat) and simmer along with the onion and grated carrots in their own juice over low heat, pouring a little vegetable into the pan. oils


Then add a small amount of water. Well, let's say, a glass of water for half a kilo of meat. Simmer until the meat is ready (i.e. until soft). The meat should be lightly covered with broth. About 10 minutes before the meat is ready, add salt to taste, add 1 bay leaf. and you can have 3 pieces. peppercorns. Meat can be different. Therefore, the cooking time may also be different. But as a rule, about an hour, no less (if it is beef or lamb, and not chicken). Readiness is checked with a knife or fork.



Then dilute in half a glass of warm water - 1 tsp of paste, tbsp. spoon of flour and tbsp. a spoonful of sour cream (you can do it without it, I don’t have it...).
Mix well in a glass so that there are no lumps. I always do this with a fork.



Continuously stirring the goulash, pour the mixture into it. The goulash will begin to thicken before your eyes.
Simmer for a little bit (5-10 minutes) The meat is ready.
If the water boils away during stewing, you can add it. And if suddenly the goulash turns out to be too thick, then you can also dilute it with boiling water to the desired thickness.

Mashed potatoes

Boil potatoes in water.

Drain the water, but not completely, so that a little remains at the bottom.
Mash the potatoes thoroughly in the broth.

Only when the potatoes are well mashed, add hot milk, salt and butter to taste.

With a decoction, the puree is lighter, not sticky and tastier, in my opinion. Children eat this puree well.

Bon appetit to you and your kids!

We all really enjoyed it!
Especially for children!

Recipes for children

The most sophisticated gourmets are not averse to trying goulash just like in a kindergarten. After all, nothing compares to the amazing taste of childhood. Appetizing meat with a side dish of potatoes and juicy gravy takes us back to the distant past. Is it possible to create this culinary masterpiece at home? You will get acquainted with the best cooking recipes in this article.

A little about the history of the dish

Goulash was invented in Hungary. Translated from the local language, the name of the dish means “shepherd”. This says a lot about the origin of the food. Initially, it was prepared by Hungarian shepherds in cauldrons over a fire. However, this does not prevent some from calling this dish “royal soup.” In its original version, it should consist of pieces of meat stewed with smoked bacon, pepper, onions and potatoes. Culinary experts classify it as a thick soup. However, it is especially good when paired with a hearty side dish.

Goulash is a very popular dish these days. Children and adults eat it with pleasure. However, in order for the food to be suitable for the child’s delicate body, it must be prepared from the highest quality and freshest ingredients. The meat should be free of bones, skin and tendons. Seasonings should be added very sparingly. Each piece of pork, chicken or beef must have a delicate texture and unique taste.

with gravy. Ingredients

A simple recipe for making goulash with gravy just like in kindergarten will be presented below. There are no frills in it - everything is very simple. The ingredients for this hearty and tasty dish can be found in any store:

• beef meat - half a kilogram;
• onion - one piece;
• carrot - 1 piece;
• flour - one spoon (tablespoon);
• tomato paste - 1 spoon (teaspoon);
• sour cream - one tablespoon (tablespoon);
• bay leaf - 1 piece;
• salt - to taste.

You don’t have to add sour cream to the dish, but it makes it much tastier. Over time, you will probably try different options and will certainly choose the one you like best.

Goulash from Method of preparation

It will be useful for any caring housewife to learn how to cook goulash just like in kindergarten. The cooking recipe requires the following steps:

1. First you need to cut the meat into neat small pieces. Then they should be lightly fried, add a little water and simmer along with chopped onions and grated carrots over low heat. At the same time, there should be a little sunflower oil in the pan.
2. After this you need to add more water or broth. The ratio of meat to liquid should be approximately 1 glass of water per pound of meat. Next, the products must be simmered until fully cooked. About 10 minutes before removing the dishes from the stove, they should be salted, peppered and seasoned with bay leaf. As a result, the meat should be soft, slightly covered with broth. You can check the readiness of the product with a fork or knife.
3. Then you need to dilute a teaspoon of pasta and one tablespoon each of flour and sour cream in half a glass of water. After this, the contents of the glass container must be mixed until smooth. If the sauce is thicker than it should be, you can thin it with boiling water.
4. Next, stirring continuously, you need to pour the mixture of sour cream, flour and paste into the goulash. After this, you should simmer the meat for another 5-10 minutes. Now you can enjoy this delicious dish.

Goulash with kindergarten-style gravy will be even tastier if you add peeled and finely chopped pickled cucumber to it ten minutes before the end of stewing. This will give the treat a special piquancy.

Beef goulash in a slow cooker. Ingredients

In a slow cooker, dishes turn out especially tasty and complete. To prepare goulash in this device as in kindergarten, you should stock up on the following products:

• beef - 500 grams;
• onion - 1 piece;
• carrots - one piece;
• wheat flour - 1 tablespoon (tablespoon);
• tomato paste - one spoon (teaspoon);
• sour cream - 1 tablespoon (tablespoon);
• bay leaf - one piece;
• salt - half a spoon (teaspoon).

Beef goulash in a slow cooker. Cooking method

For this dish you need to select the most tender part of the carcass without veins and fat. This will make our goulash, just like in a kindergarten, especially tasty. Next you need to do the following:

1. First, cut the meat across the grain into small pieces.
2. Then you need to peel and chop the carrots and onions.
3. Next, you need to add vegetables and beef to the slow cooker.
4. After this, in a separate bowl, mix sour cream, tomato paste and flour and dilute the mixture with water. At the same time, you need to remember that moisture does not evaporate in a multicooker, and the products will certainly produce juice. To make the sauce thick enough, the mixture needs to be diluted with half or a third of a glass of water.
5. Then the resulting mass must be poured into the slow cooker. Next, all products should be salted, peppered and seasoned with bay leaf.
6. After this, you need to close the device and turn it on in the “Extinguishing” mode.
7. In an hour, the kindergarten-style beef goulash will be ready to eat. It can be served with any side dish: potatoes, buckwheat or pearl barley porridge. This simple dish will quietly fit into your usual diet and become your favorite treat.

Conclusion

Now you know how it is in kindergarten. The recipe for this dish is easy to remember by heart. It can be prepared from different meats. Poultry or pork, for example, would be suitable. Depending on the ingredients, cooking time may vary. Chicken will be ready in 40 minutes, and pork or beef in at least an hour. In addition, you should not go overboard with spices; goulash, like in a kindergarten, has a special taste precisely because no aggressive seasonings are added to it. Bon appetit!