Article: Party food recipes with meat as the main ingredient that are sure to be a hit!
Party food recipes with meat as the main ingredient that are sure to be a hit!
If you're wondering what to serve at a home party, how about a meat dish?
With the number of home parties increasing recently, are you worried that the cooking is becoming monotonous?
When you have a special event that repeats every year, it can be hard to decide on a menu. In such cases, we recommend meat dishes that look good and are easy to make.
This time, we will introduce some meat party recipes that you can make at a party, including oven dishes as well as recipes that can be made without using an oven.
3 Easy Meat Recipes for Parties
The golden rule when cooking a feast is to think about the people who will be eating it. If you prepare food with the preferences of your guests and the main character in mind, it will naturally bring smiles to the faces at the dinner table. Here are three recommended meat recipes for party dishes.
Easy to eat for everyone from children to the elderly! Tofu Meatloaf
When hosting a party with children or a dinner party with relatives, you need to think of a menu that suits the age group. In such cases, why not prepare a soft and visually appealing meatloaf? Adding tofu will make the meatloaf fluffy and soft even when it cools.
- <Ingredients> For 1 pound cake pan
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★ 150g ground beef and pork
★ 150g silken tofu
★ 1 egg
★ 40g dried breadcrumbs
★ 1/2 onion (chopped)
★ 1/2 teaspoon salt
★ A little pepper and nutmeg
・3 boiled eggs
・1/2 carrot
・6 to 8 green beans
- <How to make>
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1. Cut the carrots into 5-8mm cubes and boil them in boiling water for about 2 minutes. If using raw green beans, boil them in boiling water for 1 minute.
2. Put all the ingredients marked with ★ into a bowl and knead well.
3. Place a baking sheet in a pound cake mold and pour 1/3 of the mixture into it.
4. Place the boiled eggs on their sides in the center of 3. Then arrange the vegetables from 1. while imagining the cross-section.
5. Spread the remaining mixture on top and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 40 to 50 minutes.
6. Let it cool completely before slicing so that it won't crumble easily. Serve with ketchup or hamburger sauce to your liking.
No oven necessary? Slow-cooked beef stew
Serving oven-safe dishes at a party looks great, but sometimes the oven is already being used for other dishes, or some households don't even have an oven. In those cases, we recommend beef stew, which can be made in a pot.
- <Ingredients> Serves 4-5 people
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・500g grass-fed beef off-cuts
・2 onions
・Side vegetables (carrots, potatoes, broccoli) as needed
・1 clove of garlic
・A little salt and pepper (for seasoning the meat)
・15g butter
・150cc of red wine
・Water 400cc
・1 bay leaf
・2 tablespoons ketchup
・1 can of demi-glace sauce (approximately 300g)
・1/3 teaspoon salt (to taste) (for seasoning the stew)
- <How to make>
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1. Sprinkle salt and pepper on the beef. If you are using a block of beef, you can cut it into larger pieces to make it more flavorful.
2. Add butter and 1. to a pot and cook over medium heat until browned on all sides.
3. Add peeled and sliced garlic and chopped onion and sauté until the onion is soft.
4. Add the red wine and evaporate until the wine is reduced to half its original volume.
5. Add water, bay leaves, ketchup, and demi-glace sauce and heat over medium heat while stirring. After skimming off the scum, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1.5 to 2 hours.
6. Cook the accompanying vegetables. You can deep fry, boil, grill, or whatever you like.
7. Season with salt and serve on a stew plate along with 6.
A main dish or appetizer! Easy roast beef made on a fish grill
You can slice freshly cooked roast beef thick and eat it like a steak, or you can chill it and slice it thinly to decorate a salad or make pinchos. Another great way to enjoy it is to leave it in a chunk on a wooden cutting board and slice it to your desired thickness!
- <Ingredients> Serves 4-5 people
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・Grass-fed beef sirloin block 500g
・1/2 teaspoon salt
・A little black pepper
★ 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
★ 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- <How to make>
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1. If necessary, cut the beef to a thickness that will fit into the fish grill. Bring the beef to room temperature and rub salt and pepper into the meat with your hands.
2. Heat olive oil in a frying pan and cook 1. over high heat until browned on all sides.
3. Wrap 2. tightly in aluminum foil, place the foil with the seam facing up, and heat on a fish grill over low heat for 12 minutes.
4. After heating, leave the meat on the grill (still wrapped in foil) for 15 minutes to cook through with the residual heat and allow it to settle.
5. Open the foil from step 4, transfer the meat to a cutting board and slice to your desired thickness. Transfer the ingredients marked with ★ and the meat juices to a frying pan and cook until the acidity evaporates to make a sauce.
6. Arrange on a plate and you're done! Chill in the refrigerator, then cut it up and top a salad with it for a gorgeous roast beef salad.
Key points for successful meat recipes
The key to cooking minced meat is to cook it thoroughly, but if you're worried about whether it's cooked through, you can be safe by heating it for a little longer.
Using a pressure cooker can shorten the cooking time for stews such as beef stew, but it also unnecessarily destroys the meat's fibers and cells, causing the flavor to leak out of the meat and into the juices. The key is to simmer the food slowly and thoroughly.
If roast beef is overcooked, the cross section will turn brown when cut, and if it's undercooked, the center may remain raw. If you cook it to a thickness that fits in a fish grill and follow the cooking time carefully, you can make roast beef without any problems.
In addition to paying attention to appearance and taste, you can also prepare meat dishes with care to suit the people who will be eating them, such as ease of eating and the temperature at which the food is served. This will surely be a hit. Prepare meat dishes with hospitality in mind, thinking about the people who will be eating!
Products used in this recipe
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The Meat Guy Grass-Fed Beef Mince
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Frozen Parisian Carrots (Frozen Whole Carrots)
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Grass-fed beef, beef offcuts, sirloin, cube rolls, rump
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Grass-fed beef tenderloin/fillet cuts
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Grass-fed beef sirloin block