Recipe
Express-style Beef with Potatoes
Beef with potatoes in a pressure cooker, with Cuban sofrito, dry wine, and cumin. A tender Cuban classic ready in about 35 minutes.
- Preparation15 min
- Cooking20 min
- Total time35 min
- Servings4 servings
- DifficultyEasy
Beef with potatoes is a very common recipe in Cuban cuisine. There are many ways to make it, but this express-style version is the fastest: delicious, easy to make, and with the meat perfectly tender thanks to the pressure cooker.
Ingredients
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Method
- Cut the meat into chunks and season with salt and pepper.
- Add the juice of the sour orange or lemon, ground cumin, and finely chopped parsley. Let the meat marinate in this mixture for a while.
CiberCuba - Prepare a sofrito with chopped onion, crushed garlic, bay leaf, chopped tomatoes, and ajíes dulces cut into small squares.
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into medium chunks.
- Transfer everything to the pressure cooker and brown the meat first together with the sofrito ingredients.
CiberCuba - Add the potatoes and cover everything with dry wine and tomato sauce.
CiberCuba - Cover the pot and cook over medium heat until it reaches pressure. Keep it this way for 15 minutes over medium or low heat.
- When ready, check the thickness of the sauce: if you want it thicker, let the meat cook a little longer over low heat. Avoid stirring so that the potatoes do not fall apart.
- Remove the bay leaf before serving and accompany with white rice.
