In order not to spoil a valuable product, you need to know how to prepare nutria correctly in normal home conditions. It’s not difficult, and by following our recommendations and using the suggested recipes, you will get delicious meat that is significantly healthier than rabbit, beef and poultry.
Try a fun experiment. Invite guests and place stewed or fried pieces of nutria meat in front of them. Just don’t say in advance that it’s nutria. You can be sure that everyone will eat it with pleasure, and many will ask for additives or even the recipe. For our countries, this meat is a curiosity and a delicacy, but throughout the world it is as common as pork, beef or chicken.
The delicate taste of nutria meat can be explained by the fact that these rodents eat only pure food and are very picky. There is simply no other animal like this in the world!
We have selected some recipes for dishes made from nutria meat, which highlight its advantages in the best possible way.
Attention! If you don’t want the meat to have a specific smell, when purchasing, ask the seller to cut out the wen that is located at the withers.
In addition, the meat can be soaked in milk, vinegar or plain water.
Cooking nutria at home is not difficult. You can follow the recipes exactly, or you can select them at your own discretion, i.e. "by eye". Many chicken recipes are suitable for nutria meat.
Benefits and features of nutria meat
A few words about the benefits of nutria meat and its features. Firstly, it is very well absorbed by the human body and does not leave any unpleasant sensations.
Very often, doctors advise people with gastrointestinal diseases, high blood pressure, and atherosclerosis to replace traditional meat with nutria meat.
The price of the fat of this animal is also the same. it contains many amino acids that have a stimulating effect on the body.
Another unique value of nutria products is their high content of linoleic acid. This is a very important compound needed by the human body, but not produced by it.
In order not to be unfounded, we have selected simple recipes that will help reveal all the advantages of this wonderful product and its unique taste. After reading them, you will understand how to cook nutria not only tasty, but also so that it retains all its qualities.
Nutria with vegetables
To prepare this dish we will need the most common vegetables that are found in every home.
Nutria meat with vegetables
Ingredients
- nutria carcass;
- five potatoes;
- four medium-sized onions;
- a few carrots;
- sunflower oil;
- a glass of sour cream;
- salt and spices at your discretion.
Preparation
- The first step is to properly cut the meat into pieces of the same size.
Chopped meat - Heat a frying pan and pour in oil.
- Let's add some meat.
- You need to fry for about ten minutes over medium heat.
- Add water and cover the pan with a lid.
Add some water - Simmer for twenty minutes over low heat.
- While the meat is simmering, it’s time to start eating vegetables. It is not difficult.
- You need to cut them into half rings and place them on a baking sheet that has been pre-greased with oil.
Place the chopped vegetables on a baking sheet - By this time the meat should have already been stewed and should be placed on a baking sheet on which the vegetables are located.
Place potatoes and fried meat on top - Salt.
- Pepper or sprinkle with other spices. Here you can give free rein to your imagination.
- Pour in sour cream and spread it on top of the vegetables and meat.
Fill with sour cream - Now you need to prepare the oven. Although this could have been done earlier.
- It's simple, you just need to heat it to 180C.
- Place the baking tray in it.
- Bake for about half an hour.
- As soon as the timer beeps, remove our dish and sprinkle herbs on top and serve!
This is what the finished baked dish looks like
Bon appetit!
As you can see, everything is simple. And we get not only a very tasty, but very healthy dish. The recipe is very simple! Next we will look at a few more dishes made from this delicious meat.
For those who are not very familiar with these cute animals, we recommend watching this video. Probably, many will be interested to know in what conditions they are bred and what these animals eat.
Nutria stewed with sour cream
We wanted to stew nutria for a long time, but we still couldn’t find a suitable carcass. We decided to stop by a market that was recommended to us by friends. It is small and private traders sell their products there, specifically those who grew this product, and not resellers who raise the price. At such bazaars they constantly sell fresh dairy products and freshly cut greens, and it was at such a market that we came across a carcass of a young nutria weighing 3 kilograms. Exactly what you need!
Nutria, like a rabbit, not only has valuable fur, but also several kilograms of useful meat! These animals are very clean, we saw this on one private farm, and besides, they will only eat high-quality food, which means their meat can be eaten without any fear.
Of all the recipes, we chose the most interesting one, namely stewing in sour cream. This is what we are sharing with you today.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Our whole dish is ready! You can place it on plates and garnish with herbs.
You can serve with any side dish or even just vegetables.
Roast nutria meat
A simple recipe to prepare, but the meat turns out tender and flavorful.
Ingredients
- nutria meat 350 grams;
- one carrot;
- onion head;
- a tablespoon of fat;
- half a glass of dry red wine;
- a glass of meat broth;
- a bunch of parsley;
- fifty grams of walnuts;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- half a kilogram of potatoes;
- salt;
- ground pepper.
Preparation
- If you bought a whole carcass, then before cooking it you need to clean it, wash it and soak it in water or milk overnight.
- Chop into pieces.
- Next, heat the frying pan and pour fat into it.
- Add the meat and fry until a golden crust appears.
- Potatoes need to be washed and peeled.
- Cut into large slices.
- Fry until half cooked (until a crust appears).
- Peel the onion and cut into rings.
- We also clean and cut the carrots.
- Fry onions and carrots.
- Now we need a stewpan or casserole dish
- At the bottom we place layers of meat, then potatoes, then onions, then carrots.
- Pour all the ingredients with a mixture of wine and broth.
- Salt, pepper, add spices, add crushed walnuts and garlic (you must first either finely chop it or crush it with a garlic clove).
- Place the goose pan in an oven preheated to 200C.
- Bake for about two hours. Maybe a little less. You need to try it periodically.
Ready roast
After this time, the dish is ready and can be placed on the table after decorating it with herbs.
Cooking this dish in a slow cooker
- If you have a slow cooker, then the dish turns out even tastier and is easier to prepare.
- You need to act according to the following scheme.
- First of all, you need to set the “Frying” mode, pour the fat into the bowl and put the meat in it, fry it.
- Next, add all the ingredients, add broth and wine and cook in the “Baking” mode until complete.
Video recipe for a nutria dish, which is not only very tasty and delicious - it is a pate made from the liver of this animal and a rabbit.
Nutria baked in the oven
Compound:
- nutria – 1.5 kg;
- onions – 0.3 kg;
- garlic – 5 cloves;
- table mustard – 20 ml;
- sour cream or mayonnaise – 100 ml;
- fresh parsley – 50 g;
- refined vegetable oil – 40 ml;
- salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
- Rinse the skinned and gutted nutria carcass well and dry with a kitchen towel.
- Peel the onion and cut into half rings.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put onions in it. Fry it until soft and light golden brown.
- Press the garlic through a press, mix with mustard, sour cream or mayonnaise, salt and pepper.
- Lubricate the water rat carcass with the prepared sauce inside and out. Place a bunch of parsley inside.
- Place the fried onion in the cooking sleeve and place the nutria carcass on it.
- Secure the ends of the culinary sleeve using special clamps. Use toothpicks to make several holes in the sleeve to allow steam to escape.
- Place the sleeve with the nutria on a baking sheet. Place it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
- Bake the nutria for 1.5 hours. Then cut the cooking sleeve and continue cooking the carcass for 20-30 minutes, allowing it to brown.
Nutria prepared according to this recipe is tender, juicy and aromatic.
Chakhokhbili from nutria
This famous Caucasian dish can also be prepared from nutria, and it turns out even tastier.
Ingredients
- nutria meat;
- bouillon;
- tomatoes;
- onion;
- spices;
- dry white wine;
- parsley.
Preparation
- Cut the meat carcass into fifty gram pieces.
- Heat a frying pan and fry in fat until a crust appears.
- Place the meat deeper into the bowl.
- Fill with broth (you can also use water).
- Place on low heat.
- Meanwhile, fry the tomatoes, chopped onion, flour and add to the broth.
- After adding spices, simmer until fully cooked.
This dish is served with white sauce and sprinkled with herbs.
Simple and quick recipe
Friends and relatives from the city often come to visit me. The grandchildren and schoolchildren don’t forget either. And they spend all their holidays with great pleasure in my village. Of course, I try to pamper my tomboys with something tasty. They love borscht and soups, which I cook according to the same recipes that my mother and grandmother used to cook. They especially love dishes made from nutria meat, liver cutlets and the meat itself, no matter how I prepare it: boiled, fried or baked in the oven.
I cook nutria meat dishes with great pleasure, because I know a lot about its beneficial properties. The quality of the meat itself is ideal, because the nutria are from our personal farm, which we feed only with clean food. Today I will tell you how to fry nutria meat in a frying pan. The recipe itself is extremely simple, and the result is excellent.
Ingredients
- nutria - one carcass;
- seasoning for meat;
- Bay leaf;
- salt;
- black allspice - 5 pieces;
- ground allspice;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
- The first step is to cut the carcass. There are no very thick bones in nutria, so the only tool we need is a well-sharpened knife. Any meat taken from any part of the carcass is suitable for this dish - it doesn’t matter if it’s the back, ribs or legs.
- Rub the pieces with salt and then with a special seasoning for meat.
- Place aside to soak a little, not for long - about ten minutes.
- Place the frying pan on the fire and pour in some water. We are waiting for it to boil.
- Then we place pieces of our meat into it. Cook for about five minutes. Taste for salt, you may need to add a little. Add bay leaves for three minutes, and then immediately remove them.
- Throw in five peas of black allspice.
- Cook until the meat is almost completely cooked, until the water boils away; if necessary, add hot boiled water.
- When the water has completely boiled away, you need to sprinkle the already softened pieces of nutria meat with allspice.
- Pour a few tablespoons of vegetable oil and fry on all sides.
Beautiful and tasty!
That's all! As you can see, there are no difficulties, but the meat turns out exceptionally soft, aromatic and very appetizing!
Nutria meat stew
Wonderful stew, fresh vegetables and fresh nutria meat make it a real culinary masterpiece!
Ingredients
- nutria meat;
- salo;
- onion;
- flour;
- bouillon;
- dry red wine;
- salt;
- pepper;
- spices.
Preparation
- Lard cubes mode.
- Onion rings.
- Heat a frying pan and fry lard and onion rings in oil.
- Drain off the fat and fry the nutria meat, cut into pieces, until it is browned.
- Place it in a separate bowl.
- Add flour to the remaining fat and make gravy. It should turn out dark.
- Pour hot broth and wine into it.
- Add meat and fried pieces of lard and onion to the gravy.
- Salt.
- Let's pepper it.
- Cook over low heat for about an hour and a half.
The dish is ready! Bon appetit!
Nutria kebab - a simple recipe
When you go out into nature, you really want to eat something unusual, for example, a smoky-smelling kebab. And it’s hard to come up with better meat than nutria meat if you prepare it correctly.
Beautiful kebab from our cute rodent
Ingredients
- nutria meat;
- lemon;
- vegetable oil;
- vinegar;
- medium-sized onion;
- ground black pepper;
- parsley;
- salt;
- Tkemali sauce.
Preparation
- Nutria shish kebab is prepared in much the same way as any other meat.
- First of all, cut the meat and put it in some kind of bowl.
- Squeeze the juice from the lemon and sprinkle it over the meat.
- Add sunflower oil and vinegar.
- Sprinkle with ground pepper and parsley.
- Mix.
- We cut the onion into rings and send it to the meat.
- We marinate our kebab for at least five hours in the refrigerator. But marinating for too long is also unnecessary.
- We use only fruit trees for firewood; they will give a more subtle aroma to the prepared dish.
- We put them in the grill and light them up. We are waiting for the wood to burn out and the coals to turn white. This is a signal that it’s time to start frying.
- We string pieces of meat interspersed with onion rings.
- Place on the grill and fry, periodically turning over and pouring over the remaining marinade, which can be diluted with water.
You can serve kebabs with vegetables, rice and Tkemali sauce.
Everyone, bon appetit!
