Any dishes from a product such as carrots are very tasty and tender. In addition, carrots are an excellent product: it contains many vitamins and minerals useful for the body. Most widely, this vegetable is used in the preparation of children's and dietary dishes.
You can make many different dishes from carrots, but few people know that even cutlets can be made from it. The recipes below are devoted to how to cook tasty and nutritious carrot cutlets. You can choose any one at will or once a week try one. To diversify the kitchen with the help of original carrot dishes is an excellent, and most importantly, useful solution.
Carrot cutlets. Brynza Recipe
This recipe is also good because the cutlets cooked according to it have a relatively small calorie content. For convenience, it is indicated next to the ingredients. So, we need:
- carrots - 500 grams - 165 kcal;
- chicken egg - 1 piece - 80 kilocalories;
- feta cheese - 50 grams - 130 kilocalories;
- flour - 1.5 tablespoons - 171 kilocalories;
- greens (cilantro, dill or parsley) - 40 grams - 16 kilocalories;
- vegetable oil - a tablespoon - 180 kilocalories.
About 105 kilocalories go out to the middle portion.
Wash the carrots, peel, grate on a medium grater, salt and leave them to stand for 12 to 15 minutes. Then squeeze them out (as best as possible so that there is no excess liquid and the patties do not fall apart in a frying pan) and add the feta cheese, flour and egg. Stir well and form small patties. Put them in a pre-heated pan, drizzled with oil, and fry in it until tender. Serve after sprinkling with chopped herbs. Keep in mind that it is not necessary to use cheese in cooking, it just tastes better.
Carrot cutlets. Beetroot Recipe
Necessary products: 250 - 350 grams of raw carrots, 250 grams of boiled beets, half a glass of kefir, semolina (as much as minced meat can take), 1 chicken egg, sunflower oil for frying, sour cream (to grease the prepared meatballs with it), black ground pepper and salt to taste. Breadcrumbs - optional, they may not be used.
Rub the boiled beets and raw carrots on a fine grater, and then mix (you need to drain the juice from the beets). Add the egg, mix again and then let it brew for 10 minutes so that the vegetables let their juice flow. Thicken the resulting mass of semolina to the desired consistency. Then, form neat cutlets from the resulting minced meat (you can still brew them in breadcrumbs) and fry them to a golden crust over very low heat. As you remove them from the heat, you must immediately coat each of them with sour cream (with it cutlets from carrots and beets will be much tastier). After all the cutlets are on the bowl, it must be covered with a lid and let it brew for 5 minutes. On the table they need to be served warm. Enjoy your meal.
Carrot cutlets. Apple Recipe
For cooking you need: sour cream, 2 tablespoons of breadcrumbs, a tablespoon of semolina, 6 carrots, 4 apples (sour green), half a glass of milk, 2 eggs of chicken, 2 tablespoons of butter, sugar and salt - to taste, vegetable oil for frying.
Rinse carrots, peel, cut into thin strips and simmer in milk and butter. As soon as it softens a little, apples, semolina, salt and sugar should also be added to it. Stir gently, cook until tender. Cool the resulting homogeneous mass and then drive 2 eggs into it. Mix everything, form cutlets and roll them in breadcrumbs. In this case, you should try to give the cutlets a flat shape so that they are fried more evenly. When setting the table, they should be served with sour cream. That's it, carrot cutlets. A recipe using apples allows you to give them a small pleasant sourness.