How to cook meat nests with various fillings

The Italians came up with the first dish in the form of a nest with filling. True, they used pasta rolled up in glomeruli as a basis. Filling them with all kinds of products, local chefs have created many original and interesting recipes. By analogy with this dish, you can cook unusual meat nests. But in this case, the forcemeat is taken as the basis, and for the filling you can use a mixture of a variety of different components. For example, it is worthwhile to carefully study several original and rather interesting options.

Egg nests

Those who are tired of ordinary meatballs can try to cook original meat nests with an egg fried inside. This dish looks very impressive, and it is quite simple to prepare. First you need to collect on the desktop all the necessary ingredients: a kilogram of minced meat (preferably pork), a couple of onions, ½ loaf, 12 small eggs, salt, ground pepper, 1 carrot and vegetable oil.

Preparing meat nests in stages:

1. The first thing you need to do is stuffing. To do this, first grate the carrots on a fine grater.
2. Finely chop the onion with a knife.
3. Cut the loaf into pieces and soak in water.
4. Minced pork in a bowl.
5. Add to it the pulp of the loaf, after squeezing out moisture, eggs, pepper, salt, as well as chopped carrots and onions. Mix the components thoroughly.
6. Treat the baking dish with oil from the inside.
7. From the prepared meat, form blanks in the form of nests with a small recess in the center.
8. Gently lay them around the perimeter of the mold.
9. Break 1 egg into each well.
10. Send the form for 40 minutes in the oven for baking. In this case, the temperature inside should already be 180 degrees.

The result is juicy and fragrant cutlets in the form of original meat nests with the simplest filling.

Potato and Cheese Nests

Using a similar idea, an experienced hostess can literally cook dinner for the whole family in just a few minutes. This will require the following required products: 0.5 kilograms of meat (beef and pork cut in half), onion, salt, 25 grams of sour cream, 3 cloves of garlic, 200 milliliters of milk, half a loaf, pepper, 4 potatoes, hard cheese, dill and a little vegetable oils.

Cooking technology:

1. Baton pour milk.
2. Pass pressed pulp with onion, meat and garlic through a meat grinder.
3. Salt cooked minced meat, add ground pepper to it and mix it all thoroughly. If the mass is too thick, you can add half a glass of water to it.
4. From the resulting mixture, mold blanks in the form of nests and lay them on a greased baking sheet.
5. For the filling, first chop the peeled potatoes (you can again use a meat grinder), and then add chopped dill, salt, sour cream and pepper to it.
6. Fill the meat nests with the cooked mass.
7. Sprinkle them with plenty of grated cheese.
8. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.

It turns out a two-in-one dish, where juicy meat is complemented by an unusual side dish.

Cheesecake with spicy sauce

To make the filling juicy and aromatic, minced meat nests can be filled with original sauce. The finished product will resemble a cheesecake. In this case, you will need: 75-100 grams of semolina per kilogram of minced meat, ground pepper, 1 egg and salt.

For the filling: 150 grams of cheese, 3 eggs, a tablespoon of prepared mustard and twice as much mayonnaise.

Preparing the dish is easy:

1. Pour semolina into the minced meat, add the egg, salt, pepper and mix very well. The mass should be as homogeneous as possible and not contain lumps.
2. Then, basics should be made from it in the form of a bowl with a depression in the middle.
3. Place blanks on a baking sheet covered with foil.
4. Beat eggs well with mustard and mayonnaise.
5. With this sauce, fill in the recesses in the forms.
6. Cover the items with a second sheet of foil and place the pan in the oven for 50 minutes. Inside should already be a temperature of about 200 degrees.
7. 10 minutes before the end of the foil, remove and sprinkle the workpiece with grated cheese. For the remaining time, he will have time to melt.

It turns out minced meat nests filled with fragrant sauce, with a wonderful cheese crust. A great addition to them will be baked potatoes and fresh vegetables.

Meat nests with mushrooms

It is usually customary to cook meat nests in the oven. In it, semi-finished products are well baked from all sides. This is very important when using complex fillings from products that require appropriate processing. For example, at the end of summer, such nests from minced meat can be prepared with mushrooms. Due to the perfect compatibility of these two products, the dish is not only tasty, but also healthy. The following required components are required:

For the base: 350 grams of minced pork, 2 slices of white bread (or loaf), 1 egg, half a liter of milk and salt.

For the filling: 150 grams of fresh mushrooms, 30 grams of butter, 1 onion.

To prepare such a dish, a well-known technique is used:

1. Bread must first be soaked in milk.
2. Stuffing mix with egg and salt.
3. Add wet squeezed bread and mix well.
4. Finely chopped peeled onions and thoroughly washed mushrooms.
5. Cover the mold with baking paper.
6. Spread meat balls on it, having rolled them from the prepared forcemeat.
7. With the fingertips in each of them make a small indentation.
8. In these cavities, first place the onions, and then the mushrooms.
9. Put a piece of oil on top of each workpiece.
10. Put the form in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.

After 30 minutes, the nests of meat with mushrooms will be ready. After that, they can be immediately transferred to a plate and served.

Creamy Nests

With complex creamy filling, you can also cook very delicious meat nests. The recipe is extremely simple and, in fact, is not much different from previous options. To bring it to life, you will need the following main ingredients: per kilogram of minced meat 2 eggs, 200 grams of cheese, a glass of milk, salt, 100 grams of white bread, 2 onions, a bunch of dill, 200 grams of sour cream, and a pinch of ground black pepper and nutmeg.

Cooking Method:

1. Soak the bread in cold milk, then squeeze it and mix with minced meat and chopped onions.
2. Add salt, selected spices and mix. To make the mass softer, it can be slightly diluted with milk.
3. Gently roll the balls from the prepared mixture, then flatten them slightly and make a small depression in the middle with your fingers.
4. Place blanks on a baking sheet. At the same time, you must not forget to lubricate it from the inside with oil.
5. In a bowl, mix raw eggs with chopped dill, sour cream and grated cheese.
6. With this mass fill meat molds.
7. Bake in the oven for at least 25 minutes. The temperature inside the chamber should be 200 degrees.

To make the products soft and soft, it is better to use a mixture of chicken and pork minced meat. Although any cutlet semi-finished product is suitable for work.