Air grill is a modern kitchen appliance that allows you to cook a variety of dishes without the use of fat and oil. In this case, the dishes are juicy and covered with a delicious crust, and vitamins and minerals in the products are well preserved. Thus, an air grill is an indispensable tool for those who seek to establish a healthy diet for their family.
Meat dishes, including such a popular dish as cutlets, are very well obtained in the air grill. I must say that meatballs in the grill are more useful than cooked in a pan, because they are baked without adding oil. In addition, cooking in the air grill is much easier, because the hostess will not have to stand above the pan, controlling that nothing burns. Moreover, such a wonderful appliance as an air grill allows you to prepare a side dish at the same time as cutlets, which will help to save time spent in the kitchen.
So, how to cook meatballs in the grill? In fact, there is nothing complicated. We will need to prepare half a kilogram of meat (better if it is pork and beef), onion, three pieces of loaf, from which you need to cut a crust, a quarter cup of milk, an egg, salt and spices.
We take the meat and prepare the minced meat from it. Of course, meatballs in the air grill can also be made from one beef, but experienced cooks know that the most delicious dishes are obtained if several types of meat are used in the preparation of minced meat. For example, a good mincemeat is obtained if you take pork, fillet of turkey and beef.
Pieces of the loaf are soaked in milk, and then squeezed and added to the forcemeat, you can just knead the bread well, or you can crank it through a meat grinder. You also need to chop the onion. Some pass it along with meat through a meat grinder, while others prefer to finely chop the onion or grate it. Fans can add chopped garlic to the minced meat.
Break the egg carefully and separate the yolk, which we add to the minced meat. Protein, before adding to the rest of the ingredients, should be whipped into a foam, then the cutlets will turn out more magnificent.
Knead the minced meat, not forgetting to add salt and other spices that you like, and form cutlets from it. However, in order to cook meatballs in the grill, it is not necessary to cook the minced meat yourself. If you do not have time, then you can take purchased minced meat or semi-finished meatballs, but, of course, homemade products will turn out to be much tastier.
You can put the cutlets on a baking sheet, but if we want the dish to be as useful as possible, then you should use the grill. To facilitate cleaning, we cover the grill with foil and make holes in the foil so that the fat flows down. Only then do not forget to put down the pan to collect fat.
As already mentioned, meatballs in the grill are cooked without extra fat, so you need to put them on an unlubricated foil or baking sheet. We bake cutlets at a temperature of 180-200 degrees and average fan power. Cutlets are ready in about half an hour, but it depends on the size of the products and the power of the device. It is best to choose the optimal cooking mode yourself, in the process of using the appliance. This task is not difficult, insofar as the walls of the air grill are transparent and through them you can observe how the baking process is progressing.
If you don’t have time at all during the week, we advise you to cook more home-made semi-finished cutlets on the weekend and freeze them. Then, when you come home from work, you can very quickly and easily prepare dinner, because before putting the meatballs into the air grill, they don’t even have to defrost them.
It’s not difficult to cook delicious chicken meatballs in an air grill. To do this, take two eggs, mix them with Hercules flakes and mayonnaise (two tablespoons of one and the other product) and spices and beat this mass in a blender. Then mix the resulting “sauce” with minced chicken (600 grams) and blind from this mass of cutlets. We will bake them at an average level at a temperature of 205 degrees for about twenty-five minutes. Such cutlets can also be prepared for the future.