Serpenyős rostélyos (Braised sirloin) (HC)

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Ready to stew

Green peppers from the garden

Sirloin steak braised in a tomato and sweet pepper sauce.

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Ingredients

• 6 slices of sirloin (about ¼ lb [110 g] each
• 2 onions
• 2 lbs [900 g] potatoes
• garlic, caraway seed
• paprika, salt
• green paprikas [sweet green peppers]
• tomatoes

Method

1. Sprinkle salt on the sirloin steaks and brown them both sides.
2. Chop onions and fry them in a saucepan.
3. Put in the meat with a little water, salt, some caraway seed and a little finely minced garlic, then stew.
4. Add paprika, green paprikas, sliced tomatoes and later on potatoes cut lengthwise in four.
5. Some more water will then be needed.
6. Stew until the potatoes are ready, then serve.
7. There must not be too much gravy.

--JuliaBalbilla 09:20, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Chef's note

For those who may follow and my reference, I thought it might be helpful the clarify the quantities I used when cooking this for 2 big eaters!

• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil to fry the onions and garlic plus a little extra to stop the steak from sticking to the pan
• 5 medium medium garden tomatoes
• 3 small onions
• 6 cloves of garlic (or to taste)
• 3 small sweet peppers, fresh from the garden
• 1 stick of celery, chopped and added with the onions and garlic - there was some in the kitchen and it seemed silly not to use it
• 1 tablespoon of caraway seeds crushed in a pestle and mortar
• 1.5 tablespoons of un-smoked paprika powder
• 426 ml (3/4 pint) beef stock
• 1 fat sirloin steak sliced into two thin halves
• 2 baking-sized potatoes
• 1 small pot of soured cream

I browned the steak then separately fried off the onions, garlic and celery. I then added the spices, peppers, potatoes and , brought to the boil and then simmered for 1 hour. You will probably need more stock if you are to cook this for 6 people.

There was also a small pot of soured cream left-over in the fridge which just had to be added just before it was served. --Chef 18:42, 26 September 2010 (BST)