No matter how much we cook minced meatballs, they always turn out different in taste.
Ever tough, then not juicy, then it seems that something is missing.
What is the secret of making tender juicy cutlets from any meat?
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Tender minced meatballs - basic principles of preparation
The main ingredients are meat flesh. You can use any kind of meat, mix two or three types. However, the most tender cutlets are obtained from chicken.
Chicken fillet (or other meat) is washed, cut into pieces and skipped in a meat grinder. By the way, the option of chopping meat with a knife or a blender is not ruled out. Then you get tender chopped cutlets.
Add onion to the minced meat. It is first peeled and finely chopped. To make the cutlets more tender, it is better to fry the onions in advance in a pan. But you can also chop fresh in a meat grinder or blender.
To add tenderness, minced cereal is also added to the minced meat - oatmeal. And of course, a loaf or bread soaked in milk will not hurt.
So that the cutlets do not fall apart and are well formed, an egg is hammered into the meat. Different recipes also add flour, starch, breadcrumbs.
For a variety of tastes of tender cutlets, you can also add potatoes, zucchini, garlic, mayonnaise, sour cream, butter, cheese or greens to the minced meat. It all depends on the selected recipe and your taste.
When all the ingredients of the recipe are added to the stuffing, it is well kneaded. Better hands, skipping stuffing between the fingers. Such mixing guarantees a good mixing of all products and the dissolution of salt and spices.
Cutlets "Tender" from minced meat
Ingredients:
• Minced pork and beef (one kilogram);
• Semolina semolina - half a glass;
• Two potatoes;
• Onion;
• Glass of water;
• Pepper, flour, salt.
Cooking method:
Water is poured into a deep bowl, semolina is gradually poured and stirred. Then put minced meat and potatoes, finely chopped onions, passed through a grater. Stirred, passing the forcemeat between the fingers, salt and pepper. salt and pepper to your taste.
Stuffing is taken with a tablespoon, roll in flour (salt and pepper can be added to it), cutlets are formed. Alternately fry on both sides in a well-heated skillet with oil.
Tender cutlets with oatmeal
Ingredients:
• Thirty grams of Hercules;
• Eight hundred grams of pork;
• table egg;
• Fresh zucchini (half a kilogram);
• Seasonings, salt;
• Wheat flour;
• Refined oil.
Cooking method:
Pork is passed in a meat grinder.
Peel the skin from the zucchini and grind it on a grater. Oatmeal flakes are added to the zucchini, mixed. Then they hammer an egg, salt, and pepper.
The cooked mass is mixed and cleaned in the refrigerator for one hour, so that the oatmeal swells
Then mix the minced meat with zucchini mixture and cereal. Sculpt cutlets. Before frying, roll them in flour / breadcrumbs. Served with a side dish - potatoes, pasta, rice, buckwheat, peas.
Tender minced meatballs with garlic
Ingredients:
• Meat (pulp 800 grams);
• Four tables each. l mayonnaise and starch;
• Two eggs (C2);
• Three cloves of garlic;
• Salt pepper;
• Sunflower oil (refined.).
Cooking method:
The meat is washed and cut into small pieces.
Pour mayonnaise mixed with starch. Then beat egg whites and yolks with chopped garlic chips. Salt, pepper. Then left in a cold place for two hours.
Cutlets are formed by applying forcemeat with a wooden spoon on a frying pan (preheat it and pour oil. Fry for five minutes on each side. Cover the frying pan, so the cutlets are fried and there will be no oil spray.
Tender chicken cutlets "Classic"
Ingredients:
• Chicken breast;
• One egg (C1);
• One table. lies. starch;
• Salt, sunflower oil (refined).
Cooking method:
Chicken fillet is cut with a sharp knife into rectangular pieces. Stacked in a pan or kitchen bowl.
Pour starch and mix well.
Then one egg is broken, salted. Stuffing mix with your hands, passing the mixture between your fingers.
Refined oil is poured into a deep-frying pan.
As soon as the pan warms up, spread the minced meat in the form of a fritters with a wooden spoon. Fry in turn on each side.
Tender chicken fillet
Ingredients:
• Chicken fillet (kilogram);
• Onion;
• Mayonnaise - one and a half glasses;
• Flour or bread crumbs;
• Seasoning for minced chicken.
Cooking method:
Dice the chicken fillet and season with mayonnaise. Onions are peeled, chopped and fried in oil. Then combine with chicken, seasonings, salt are added. Put in a cool place to pickle.
Pour wheat flour or bread crumbs, mix. Spread on a well-heated pan with a spoon (like pancakes). Fried on each side. Cutlets are ready when a golden crust appears.
Tender chicken cutlets with grated potatoes
Ingredients:
For cutlets
• Chicken fillet (half a kilogram);
• Four potatoes;
• One egg;
• Salt, seasonings.
For breading:
• Two table eggs;
• Wheat flour or breadcrumbs (rye);
• Cheese.
Cooking method:
The chicken meat is washed, dry out the dates. Then cut into small pieces and grind in a meat grinder.
Boil the potatoes in a peel, allow to cool, remove the peel. Then knead it into a thick puree mass.
Mix minced chicken with potatoes, hammer an egg, mix.
Cutlets are molded, giving them the shape of an elongated oval.
The cheese is ground on a grater and mixed with flour or breadcrumbs. Beat the eggs with a fork.
Each cutlet is dipped in a beaten egg, rolled in flour with cheese and fried in a skillet.
Cutlets are fried on each side until golden brown.
Tender minced meat patties "Homemade"
Ingredients:
• Chicken fillet (half a kilogram);
• Two pieces. onions;
• Three slices of bread or loaf;
• Salt pepper;
• Sunflower (refined) oil.
Cooking method:
Fillet cut into cubes. Onions are peeled and cut in half. Pieces of bread are soaked in water or warm milk. The prepared ingredients are passed through a meat grinder twice. Then the minced meat is salted, pepper, knead well and cutlets are formed. Cutlets are fried in a deep frying pan in hot oil. You can also bake in the oven.
Tender cutlets with cheese
Ingredients:
• Minced chicken (six hundred grams);
• Three eggs (C2);
• Mayonnaise - sixty grams;
• Onion;
• Cheese - 100 gr;
• Table. lies. flour;
• Refined oil - thirty grams;
• Fresh greens, seasonings.
Cooking method:
Boneless meat is separated from the carcass of the chicken. Cut into small pieces and grind in a meat grinder (you can use a blender, then chopped tender cutlets will turn out).
Cheese is passed on a grater. Fresh herbs finely chopped with a sharp knife. Peel the onion, chop.
The prepared ingredients are added to the minced meat, put mayonnaise, flour, eggs are driven in. Slowly mix, you can hands.
Form cutlets. Bread them in breadcrumbs or flour before frying. First, fry with an open lid, then with a closed one.
Tender cutlets "Consolation"
Ingredients:
For minced meat:
• Eight hundred grams of chicken;
• Bread - 150 grams;
• A glass of milk;
• Flour - 50 grams;
• Eggs - 2;
• Three small onions;
• Fifty grams of butter and as much vegetable oil;
• Salt, spices;
• Shredded parsley root.
For the sauce:
• Two hundred grams of butter;
• Five yolks;
• One table. l vinegar
• One and a half table. l white wine;
• One small lemon;
• Salt pepper;
• Three tomatoes.
Cooking method:
Chicken fillet is cut into cubes and put through a meat grinder along with bread soaked in milk or water, add onion, chopped parsley root and an egg. Remember to put salt and pepper. Cutlets are formed from the resulting mass and fried in a well-heated skillet with vegetable oil.
To prepare the sauce, mix vinegar and wine, add pepper. The mixture is slightly warmed up. Beat yolks intensively, pour them into the pan. Mix the mixture until it thickens. Juice from one lemon and chopped tomatoes are added. Butter, previously melted, is poured into a saucepan with a spoon.
Fried cutlets are watered with this sauce.
Tender minced meatballs
Ingredients:
• Minced meat from pork and beef (half a kilogram);
• Slices of stale bread;
• Onion;
• Sunflower oil (two tablespoons. L.);
• Two eggs (canteens);
• Milk - half a glass;
• Butter (forty grams);
• Wheat flour - one or two tablespoons;
• Salt, ground pepper.
Cooking method:
The meat is washed, allowed to dry and cut into rectangles. Pass through a meat grinder. The bread is soaked in milk and combined with minced meat. The onions are peeled, finely chopped, fried in a pan and added to the minced meat. They beat in eggs, you can pour in some more milk for tenderness, salt, and pepper. All ingredients are mixed.
Then form round cutlets of rounded shape. Fried in a pan with refined oil.
Tender meatballs turkey
Ingredients:
For minced meat:
• Minced meat from turkey meat (one kilogram);
• Half a bread loaf;
• One table. l sour cream;
• Two glasses of milk;
• Two tables. l adjika;
• Onion;
• Salt, ground pepper.
For breading:
• A glass of pea flakes;
• Half a glass of flour;
• Two eggs (canteens);
• Sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
Turkey fillet is washed and cut into rectangular pieces. Grind in a meat grinder or pass through a blender.
A loaf of bread or bread is soaked in warm milk, then outdated and added to the minced meat. Put sour cream, adjika sauce, finely chopped onions (can be dried), salt, and pepper. Knead, passing the stuffing between the fingers.
For breading, flour is poured into one bowl, beaten eggs in another, and pea flakes in the third.
Hands soaked in water form cutlets (size and shape as you wish). First cutlets are rolled in flour, the second step in the egg, and last but not least in pea flakes.
Fried in a skillet with refined oil. First, on the one hand, then on the other. Cutlets are ready when a golden crust appears. Enjoy your meal!
Tender cutlets - tricks and tips
• To prevent the patties from sticking, fry them in a well-heated pan with vegetable oil.
• To make the cutlets better shape and keep in shape, add egg, bread or flour to the minced meat.
• If you skip meat not in a meat grinder, but grind it with a knife or a blender, you will get chopped tender cutlets.
• Cutlets can be fried both in a pan and in the oven. Then they turn out with a crispier crust.
• To cutlets were juicier and softer, do not squeeze too much bread, which is previously soaked in water or milk.
