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How to keep meat tender after cooking

Name: How to keep meat tender after cooking
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: No ingredients in this recipe (a); No ingredients in this recipe (b)

When you cook meat, the cooking heat causes the juices to run back inside, so the outside dries up somewhat. Here is a tip to avoid this.

122 K 3.8/5 (79 reviews)

5 min.

Easy

1 people

Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

Times for this recipe

Resting: 5 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 5 min.

How to keep meat tender after cooking : Stage 1

To avoid this problem, you just need to leave the meat to stand 5 minutes after taking out of the oven or the frying pan, until the juices flow back towards the outside.

Stage 2

The best way to do that, is to keep the meat somewhere warm on a hot plate, covered with aluminium foil.

Stage 3

This also works with fish, which will be even more tender.

Source: D'après Joel Robuchon.

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