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:

Prepare ingredients:
Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 1
Wash meat with cold water and dice it into middle pieces:
Meat with Prunes Recipe: Step 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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