Beef for the new year

3 servings
1 hour 20 min

Let's make the ingredients. Beef meat must be fresh, it is better to take young beef. You can bake beef with prunes, leaving the meat as a whole piece, wrapping it in a roll and stuffing it with prunes. But it will take quite a lot of time to prepare this dish, which is always not enough on the eve of New Year's Eve.

Therefore, it is faster and easier to cut meat into portions, put it out on the stove. Rinse the meat and cut into cubes, rinse again, and let the water drain well from the meat.

I carefully wash my prunes and steam them with hot water so that they swell. It takes 15 minutes. Then we drain the water, and cut each prune with a knife into several parts.

My walnuts, dry in a microwave or on a stove in a dry pan. Walnuts need to be crushed into small pieces. You can do this using a regular rolling pin by putting nuts in a bag, or with a blender. Just don't grind nuts into flour.

The onions are peeled and cut into halves of rings. Pour vegetable oil into the pan, fry onions on it until rosy. Remove the onions with the remaining oil from the pan.

Put the meat on a dry pan with a thick bottom. Vegetable oil does not need to be added immediately so that the beef is juicy and tender, it must be put out first in its own juice.

Cover the pan and fry the meat for about 10 minutes. Then remove the lid, mix the beef, let the moisture from the pan evaporate completely.

We pour vegetable oil. Fry the meat over medium heat in oil for 15 minutes, let it brown.

Send prunes to the meat in the pan, pour in some water. Add salt, black ground pepper. Simmer them together over low heat for about 40 minutes. Then we send the emptied onions and walnuts to the pan (a handful of nuts must be left to serve). We simmer for about 10 minutes. The liquid should evaporate almost completely. Serve the beef with prunes, sprinkled with crushed walnuts on top, with cranberry sauce. Enjoy your meal