Friday night dinner - rustic meat

We continue the glorious tradition of getting together with friends before the weekend and cooking something and last week we remembered pot roast, also known as rustic meat.

The recipe is very simple and we needed

  • 1 kg pork
  • potatoes 1 kg
  • onions 2 pcs.
  • spices / adjika
  • chicken broth 1 liter
  • cheese 300 grams

Since our friend often cooks chicken breasts (she takes them to the office for lunch), she had some broth left over, which we thoroughly salted, added a bay leaf for flavor, and heated up.

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While it was simmering in the pot, some chopped the meat into small pieces, while others were busy with the vegetables - finely chopped onions and grated carrots. The potatoes were washed, peeled and also cut into small cubes.

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After that the most interesting thing began all this stuff began to be stacked in layers in small clay pots.

At the bottom - fatty meat. Then some onions. Meat without fat. Carrot. Potatoes. And then carefully (so nothing gets mixed) pour the broth so it covers the potatoes by a couple of millimeters.

All this time we have heated up the oven and the pots went to bake for 30 minutes.

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While the dish went through the first stage of cooking - grated cheese on a coarse grater and after half an hour, very quickly poured it into the pots. After that, they went back into the oven for another 20 minutes.

The funny thing is that even though the pots were covered with lids, the smell was incredible: melted cheese (as on pizza!!!), the spicy broth. Just delicious!

The potatoes absorb the broth perfectly, the melted cheese turns into a very appetizing crust and all that is left is to add some Abkhazian adjika (I love spicy!) and bite your cheeks :)

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For authenticity we took some large flatbread from a local bakery and made a light spring salad with green onions, tomatoes and cucumbers and we were damn happy with it!

I should add - this dish is very popular in the villages and many grandmothers who make this dish in a real oven make garlic dough lids. As they bake, they turn into very appetizing buns and it's not easy to replicate this on a home oven. The lively heat and a little "smokiness" are unrealistically cool.



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It looks very good, I'll be at home but change the ingredients a bit, hahaha greetings

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