Meat with Prunes

For meat with prunes you can use either pork or beef. I think, pork tastes even better prepared this way, especially if prunes you have are not too sweet, so I advise you to go with pork.

However if you don’t like pork for some reasons or if you don’t have it just like I did when I were writing this article, you can use beef. I must say it tastes also delicious!

Ingredients:

• 2.5 – 3 lb of beef or pork (shoulder part or better)
• 10 oz of dried prunes
• 1 onion
• 3-4 carrots
• 1 tomato (can be skipped)
• 4-6 bay leaves
• Oil (I use sunflower one)
• Salt

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 1

2. Wash meat with cold water and dice it into middle pieces:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 2

3. Heat the frying pan with oil up over high-moderate heat. Fry the meat over from each side (approx. 10 mins):
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 3

4. Place meat (and meat juices formed while meat was frying) to the deep cooking pot, season it with salt, add bay leaves. Put the pot on a burner on low heat, cover it with a lid and let meat cook for 15-20 mins:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 4

5. Skin onion, cut it into half-circles. Heat the frying pan with oil up on moderate heat and fry onion over till it gains yellow color:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 5

6. While meat and onion are being cooked, skin carrots and crate them on big slots. Add carrots to the same frying pan where onions are (you can also add 1 fine chopped tomato at this step if you like). Season vegetables with salt and fry them over low-medium heat stirring from time to time (approx. 10-15 mins):
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 6

7. Wash prunes, if they are very dry you can soak them with boiling water for 10-15 mins. Cut each prune in half or quarter (if they are big) and add them to the pot with meat:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 7

8. Pour vegetables from frying pan over meat with prunes, cover with a lid and continue cooking over low heat:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 8

9. Cook meat till it is ready, depends of the meat part it can take from 20 to 40 mins. When you can easily pierce meat with a fork easily it is ready to be served. Backed potato or Mashed Potato are good side choices for Meat with Prunes:
   
   

   Meat with Prunes

Bon Appetit!

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