Minced meat casseroles are tasty, satisfying and simple. The dish will delight you with an appetizing crust and a pleasant aroma, it can be prepared with the addition of various products, play with the look and quantity of spices.
Here you will find step-by-step recipes for minced meat casseroles in the oven to try.
Minced meat casserole in the oven - general cooking principles
The better and better the minced meat, the tastier the casserole will be. It is better to twist the meat yourself, you can add a piece of bacon to it. Typically, beef, pork, a mixture of them is used for casseroles, but a piece of chicken can be added. Before laying in the dish, the mince is often fried, sometimes with vegetables and spices. This improves the taste, reduces cooking time.
What are the casseroles made with:
• raw or boiled potatoes;
• pasta;
• fresh, pickled mushrooms;
• various other vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, cabbage, tomatoes, etc.)
Often cheese is placed in the dish, giving a beautiful crust. In addition, eggs and fillings based on them can be added to adhere the layers. To lubricate the top, sour cream, mayonnaise, soft cheeses are used.
Collect casseroles in forms with sides. Often the dishes are not just lubricated from the inside, but also sprinkled with flour, crackers. In step-by-step recipes for minced meat casseroles, the process is described in detail in the oven. Thanks to this technique, a crisp appears on all sides. Bake the dish in the oven. If it consists of finished products, then in time it will take 30-40 minutes. When using raw ingredients, the process can take up to an hour.
Oven minced potato casserole: step by step recipe
A variant of a delicious, simple and satisfying dish. In this step-by-step recipe for minced meat casseroles, boiled potatoes will be used in the oven, and you can cook them in advance.
Ingredients
• 700 g of potatoes (peeled);
• 500 grams of minced meat;
• 2 onions;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• spices, oil;
• 3 tablespoons of crackers.
Cooking
1. Peeled potatoes cut into four parts, put in a pan. Fill with hot water. If you use cold water, the tones will take away the taste and starch, this is not necessary for casseroles.
2. Put on the stove, boil for ten minutes, add a spoonful of salt to the potatoes, cook until soft. Drain the broth. Take a crush and grind the mass. But you can just grate as you like more. Cool for about fifteen minutes.
3. Add flour and eggs to the potato, stir. At this stage, you can taste, if necessary, add salt.
4. Cut the onions into cubes. Pour 3-4 tablespoons of oil into the pan. You can use fat or butter, do it to your taste. Set to heat.
5. Put onion in butter, fry slices until translucent. It takes about two minutes over medium heat. Stir so that the pieces do not burn.
6. Add minced meat to the onion, stir. Fry with the vegetable for about five minutes. The filling should almost reach readiness.
7. Add salt to the minced meat, pepper, you can put other seasonings, someone likes a casserole with garlic and herbs. Turn off the stove.
8. We take a form with sides. The size is arbitrary. The smaller the area, the higher the casserole and vice versa.
9. Lubricate the inside of the mold with oil, carefully work through the surface and immediately sprinkle with breadcrumbs. They will give the casserole a crisp, the dish will be easily removed from the mold.
10. Cheese rubbed coarsely. It is better to use hard varieties that melt well and keep layers of casserole.
11. Visually divide the potatoes in half. We spread the first layer from one part. Sprinkle lightly with cheese, 1-2 tablespoons are enough.
12. On the potatoes with cheese we spread the mass of minced meat, all at once. Level the layer and also lightly sprinkle with grated cheese.
13. Now comes the rest of the potatoes. The back of the spoon smooth the top.
14. Pour all the cheese that remains.
15. Top grease the cheese with sour cream. Three spoons are enough. The list of ingredients for a step-by-step recipe for minced meat casserole in the oven contains sour cream, but you can also take mayonnaise.
16. We put to bake. At 200 degrees, the process will take about half an hour. Since all the ingredients are almost ready for use, we focus on the brown crust on top.
Oven minced pasta casserole: step by step recipe
In the list of ingredients of this step-by-step recipe for minced meat casseroles, the type of pasta is not indicated in the oven. You can use any horns or feathers, but they should not be very large.
Ingredients
• 240 grams of dried pasta;
• 600 grams of minced meat;
• 0.5 cups of milk;
• 140 grams of cheese;
• a pair of eggs;
• 1 tomato;
• 1 large onion;
• salt and pepper;
• 3 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Bring to a boil 2 liters of water, put a spoonful of salt. According to the rules, all pasta is boiled at the rate of 1 liter of liquid per 100 grams.
2. We fall asleep pasta, stir, cook for about five minutes. Products should increase in size, absorb water, but not sour or digest. Drain into a colander. If pasta is made from durum wheat, then they will not stick together, you can not lubricate.
3. Cut the onions into cubes, put them in a large frying pan with two hot spoons of oil. Fry a couple of minutes. We stir so that burnt places do not appear on the pieces.
4. Add minced meat. We cook it with onions for about five minutes. The fire is doing medium.
5. Tomato cut into small cubes. If the rough skin is embarrassed, then first dip the tomato in boiling water for a minute, remove all unnecessary.
6. We shift the tomato to the minced meat, add heat, fry for another two minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
7. Lubricate the casserole dish with the remaining oil.
8. Put half the cooked pasta, flatten.
9. Cheese grate, separate 90 grams for the top layer. We divide the remains in half. Pour one small portion onto pasta.
10. Now we spread the meat stuffing from minced meat. And again, sprinkle it with a small piece of cheese.
11. Spread the remaining pasta.
12. Beat a couple of eggs with half a glass of milk, slightly add. Water the casserole on top. Do it with a spoon, try to spill the pasta evenly.
13. Sprinkle the top with grated cheese, which remains.
14. We send the dish for half an hour to the oven, prepare the casserole from the minced meat for 35-40 minutes.
Oven minced mushroom casserole: step by step recipe with potatoes
For this step-by-step recipe for minced meat casseroles in the oven, you do not need to boil potatoes in advance. A vegetable is prepared in a special way, if you overexpose on a fire, you can ruin everything.
Ingredients
• 0.6 kg of minced pork and beef;
• 0.9 kg of potatoes;
• 230 grams of sour cream;
• 2 onions;
• 400 grams of champignons;
• 2 tbsp. l tomato sauce or pasta;
• 110 grams of hard cheese;
• butter, seasonings, crackers, garlic.
Cooking
1. Peel both onions, cut individually into cubes.
2. Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into one frying pan, lay the onion, and begin to fry.
3. After a couple of minutes, add minced meat to the onion, stir, slightly reduce the heat and cook for about seven minutes. Stir so that the stuffing does not burn on one side.
4. In a tomato paste, add a couple of tablespoons of water, spices, stir and pour into minced meat. Cook for another minute, turn it off.
5. Pour a couple of tablespoons of oil into another skillet, pour the second onion, start frying, stir regularly.
6. Rinse the mushrooms, cut into small pieces. We put in a pan with a second onion a couple of minutes after the start of frying. We cook mushrooms without a lid so that all the water evaporates.
7. As soon as the mushrooms begin to fry, season them with salt and add two full tablespoons of sour cream. Simmer exactly two minutes, turn off.
8. Peel the potatoes, cut into 4 mm slices.
9. Boil one and a half liters of water with a spoon of salt, pour the potatoes, boil five minutes after boiling. If the vegetable is starchy and cooks quickly, two or three minutes is enough. The potato should not become soft. We send it to a colander, let it cool.
10. In the remaining sour cream, put salt, pepper, optionally squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic. Mix well.
11. Lubricate the form, sprinkle with crackers, begin to collect the casserole.
12. The first layer is made from half the potatoes. Lubricate it with a small portion of sour cream sauce, just a bit.
13. Spread the meat filling and lightly sprinkle with cheese.
14. Now comes the mushroom layer with sour cream. We spread out as evenly as possible. And also lightly sprinkle with grated cheese. It is not necessary to lubricate these layers with sour cream, in any case they turn out juicy.
15. Now beautifully spread the remaining potatoes.
16. The top layer is coated with all the sour cream that remains.
17. On top pour all the grated cheese that remains.
18. Put the casserole in an oven heated to 200. Bake for about half an hour.
19. Take the dish out of the oven, let it stand for twenty minutes, then cut it and spread it out in portions.
Minced meat casserole in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• Sprinkle a baking dish not only with crushed crackers. But also ordinary semolina. It also gives a crispy and tasty crust.
• Sprinkle a cheese casserole with raw cheese in the middle of cooking. In the process, a lot of juices will be allocated, which should be evaporated, and the crust will interfere with this.
• It is better to grease the cheese on top with a spoon of sour cream or mayonnaise, so it will not burn, will not brown too quickly.
• If you want to get a delicious and crispy cheese crust, you can mix the grated product with breadcrumbs. Shredded salt cracker will also work, it will turn out very tasty.
