Heart stewed with pickled cucumbers

Useful subproduct In the word "offal" in the translation from the Greek part "sub" means "non-main".

Useful subproduct In the word "offal" in the translation from the Greek part "sub" means "non-main". Despite this, animal by-products have different taste and nutritional value. Unsuccessfully few dishes from the heart. The best way to prepare a heart is to quench in a sauce. The heart is one of the most loaded muscles in the body of animals, therefore it has coarse-fiber and hard tissues. That is why it requires a long heat treatment. In a well-cooked stewed heart, vitamin B12 deficiency is 10 times more than in normal meat.

Ingredients:

• Beef heart 1000g
• Pepper black ground 0.5 tsp.
• Sour cream 3 tbsp. l.
• Beef broth 375 ml
• Tomato paste 30 g
• Onions 1 pc.
• Wheat flour 1 tbsp. l.
• Sunflower refined sunflower oil 4 tbsp. l.
• Pickled cucumbers 2 pcs.
• Salt 10 g

Instructions

• Step 1 To prepare the dish, take a beef or pork heart, vegetable oil, wheat flour, onion, tomato paste, water or broth, pickles, sour cream, black pepper and salt.
• Step 2 Cut the heart lengthwise, peel off the films and large blood vessels, remove blood clots, rinse thoroughly, soak in cold water for 2-3 hours, dry and cut into cubes.
• Step 3 Peel the onion, cut it in half, and then each halve into thin semicircles.
• Step 4 Put the heart cubes in a frying pan with preheated oil and fry until half cooked.
• Step 5 Cut the cucumbers along into 4 parts, and then each quarter is thinly chopped across.
• Step 6 Put the cucumbers in a small saucepan, pour a little water and put it out until soft.
• Step 7 Add the onion to the heart, stir and fry until the onion is soft.
• Step 8 At the end of the frying, add the tomato paste.
• Step 9 Warm the mixture for 5 minutes.
• Step 10 Put the heart and onions in a fireproof container, add salt, pepper, add hot water or broth.
• Step 11 Cap the container with a lid and simmer with gentle heating until soft (about 2 hours).
• Step 12 Squeeze the flour in a dry frying pan.
• Step 13 Dissolve flour with a small amount of warm water and only bring to a boil.
• Step 14 At the end of heart extinguish add stewed cucumbers, floury filling and sour cream.
• Step 15 Put the whole together for another 10 minutes.