Hot beef with chickpeas Methuma is a hot dish of Tunisian cuisine, which is beef stewed with vinegar and lots of spicy spices. In fact, in Tunisia, acute food in great honor. While I was there, I hardly found food for my personal preference. This dish can be prepared both with vegetables and without them. Having prepared at home, you can adjust the taste yourself, take out hot pepper at times, so that it does not dominate, but the dish does not lose its charm. I suggest you a version of the meta with the addition of chickpeas and tomatoes.
Ingredients:- Beef pulp 500g
- Chickpeas (chickpeas) 150 g
- Tomatoes 250 g
- Onion 2 pcs.
- Garlic 5 denticles
- Pepper black ground 0.5 tsp.
- Adjika 10 ml
- Ground coriander 1.5 tsp.
- Pepper red ground 1 teasp.
- Pepper spicy 1 pc.
- Olive oil 100 ml
- Table vinegar 2 tbsp. l.
- Water 300 ml
- Salt 1 tsp.
- Step 1 To prepare the meta we need: beef, chickpeas, onions, tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, hot pepper, black and red ground pepper, coriander.
- Step 2 Chickpea pre-fill with water for 4-5 hours.
- Step 3 Cut the meat into large pieces, sprinkle with salt and coriander.
- Step 4 Finely chop the onions.
- Step 5 In a frying pan, warm up the olive oil and fry the meat with the onion in it for 15 minutes.
- Step 6 Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
- Step 7 Add tomatoes, chickpeas, adjika and red ground pepper to the meat. Pour water, give a boil. Cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- Step 8 Crush the garlic in a mortar.
- Step 9 In the finished meat add the garlic, vinegar and finely chopped bitter pepper. I repeat, if you are not fans of hot, bitter pepper, add a small piece. Stew another 10 minutes. Bon Appetit!