Meat in French: a recipe with pineapple. Meat in French with mushrooms and pineapple

Meat, baked in French, has long been a hit of culinary recipes. This is a very tasty dish that will decorate any festive table. And there are a lot of cooking options. And although traditionally this dish is baked in the oven, but some cooks prepare meat in French in a frying pan, in a microwave and even in a multivark.

Which meat is right

According to the classic recipe for this dish, take young veal or tender beef. Although in the Russian cuisine they prefer pork more often. Also, there are a lot of recipes, where they prefer chicken meat, baked in French.

On what to choose? It's, as they say, your taste. With a chicken, this dish will be more dietary and tender. If you take pork, then the caloric content will go up a lot. The main advice - the pulp should be fresh, it is not recommended to use the frozen product, otherwise the meat can eventually turn out to be dry.

We take only the flesh, the fillet part. No pits in this dish should not be. Meat should be cut into equal slices about 1-2 centimeters thick and properly repulsed with a kitchen hammer. You can slightly marinate it - salt, add pepper, spices, spices, dry greens and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. At this time, you can prepare the rest of the ingredients.

With juicy pineapple

So, let's study the most elegant way: meat in French, a recipe with pineapple. We need:

• About 800 grams of meat;
• 300 grams of pineapple (fresh or canned);
• 200 grams of hard cheese;
• 2-3 medium bulbs;
• 100 grams of mayonnaise;
• Spices, pepper, salt - to taste.

First, grease the baking sheet with vegetable oil and lay on it onions, cut into rings. This onion substrate will add spice to the dish. On the onion we spread the pickled pieces of meat. Top with a piece of pineapple on each piece. We will get very tender meat in French. Recipe with pineapple allows you to use both fresh fruit and canned billets.

Sprinkle pineapple cheese, grease with mayonnaise and send for 40 minutes in the oven.

How much to cook

As a rule, this dish is prepared for 40-50 minutes. What should be the temperature in the oven? Meat in French almost in all recipes is topped with cheese. And that the cheese crust did not turn out to be too hard and not burnt, it is recommended to set the temperature at about 180 degrees.

If you make a fire more, you risk getting a burnt out top layer. If you make the temperature less, the meat will not be baked, but stewed. Time will need much more, and beautifully baked crust will not work. In this case, if you want to overeat the meat, do not immediately sprinkle the dish with cheese. Add it 10 minutes before cooked and immediately make a big fire in the oven. Then the cheese will quickly melt and gild.

What else to add

There are a lot of tips on how to make delicious meat in French. The recipe with pineapples suggests that this dish can be combined with mushrooms, potatoes, canned corn and some vegetables.

If you want to get both meat and garnish in one dish, then, of course, you will be rescued by potatoes. On a layer of meat, you spread a layer of raw potatoes cut into circles, on them - pineapples and then cheese. Potatoes are cut with rings approximately 5 millimeters in thickness.

An excellent option for this dish is the addition of fresh mushrooms. Can be used:

• Champignon;
• Oyster mushrooms;
• White mushrooms;
• Mackerel;
• Oil;
• Honey agarics.

If there are no fresh mushrooms at hand, marinated and dried will do. Just do not forget the dried mushrooms pre-soak for about three hours.

As an ornament of this dish, we recommend you to choose canned corn, green peas, olives or olives. They are added already in the finished dish in the form of design. Beautiful and will look green.

You can and fry

This dish does not necessarily require baking in the oven. You can cook meat in French in a frying pan. The algorithm is as follows:

1. Fry the chopped meat in vegetable oil on one side (approximately 10 minutes).
2. Turn the meat over to the other side. Spread on it two tablespoons of mashed potatoes, which we previously prepared, on top of the pineapple and sprinkle with cheese.
3. After the meat is fried on the second side for 10 minutes, cover the frying pan with a lid, turn off the fire and let it stand for 15 minutes. During this time, the dish will be well poured, the cheese will finally melt, and pineapple will give juice.

In this case, it is convenient to cook, if you do only a few servings, which fit into one pan. In addition, you will get more fried meat in French. The cooking time will be greatly reduced. There is another undeniable plus in preparing meat in French in a frying pan. You can add not only pineapple, but also those products that are left in your fridge. For example, cover pieces of meat cut with fresh tomatoes. Or even lay on the meat substrate boiled pasta, and sprinkled with cheese on top. If there is cooked rice left in the refrigerator, it is also ideal as an upper layer for this dish.

So do not limit your imagination, dare.

Some useful tips

To make the dish juicy, tender and beautiful, and when cooking does not lose its useful qualities, you need to adhere to some simple rules.

1. Do not use frozen meat for this recipe. Leave it for cutlets and meatballs. Take only fresh and not very old, so that the dish does not turn out to be tough.
2. Cheese will suit anyone, but if you choose one that has a beautiful yellow color, get a pretty color scheme. By the way, cheese can be laid out on a dish not immediately, but add it 10 minutes before readiness. Then it will not be overdried.
3. Be sure to make an onion substrate - this will be the very first layer of your dish. She will give the meat a piquancy.
4. If you cook meat in French for guests, do not get carried away by spices. It is not known if an acute dish will be enjoyed by all guests. It is best to serve ground pepper and other condiments on the table separately.
5. To add mayonnaise to this dish or not is a matter of your personal taste. Meat and so will give enough juice and it will not turn out dry. Mayonnaise will only add fat. So be guided by your preferences.
6. To serve meat in French (a recipe with pineapple) is necessary immediately after cooking, giving him a little to stand after the oven, relax (15-20 minutes). To this dish, any red dry wine or stronger drinks - cognac, vodka, whiskey, will suit perfectly.