Stuffed baskets are a popular snack, which can often be seen on holiday tables. It is prepared according to many different recipes, using vegetables, mushroom caps, and dough products as a basis . Baskets with minced meat occupy a special place among similar recipes, because they are tasty, healthy, and can also become a table decoration even during fasting. Let's try to cook?
How to make stuffing?
Most often, mushrooms mixed with other ingredients are used to fill the baskets. For example, fried onions almost always accompany them. They go well with chicken, cream cheese, stewed carrots, herbs.
If regular mushrooms or oyster mushrooms are used, no complicated pre-treatment is required. It is quite possible to put them in baskets and raw, they will have time to bake. Forest mushrooms must be boiled for 40 minutes, dried in a colander, and then fry.
Potato boats
Potatoes go well with mushrooms, and this tandem creates a huge field for culinary experiments. Do not do without a fragrant fried onion. You can easily form baskets of mashed potatoes with minced meat. To do this, boiled potatoes are kneaded until smooth, without adding liquid. To keep the baskets in shape, add mashed flour. Fried mushrooms are used for filling.
You can also stuff halves of potatoes. For the preparation of such baskets, tubers are cooked until half ready, along with the peel. To place minced mushroom in them, use a teaspoon of potatoes to remove the middle.
Stuffed hats
This appetizer looks beautiful and original on the table. Champignon caps are used here as baskets. And the minced meat is made from the legs of mushrooms, fried onions, boiled meat.
Separately prepared ingredients must be passed through a meat grinder, combined and mixed until completely homogeneous. We place the filled hats on a baking sheet covered with foil and send to the oven for about 20 minutes. This time is enough to completely bake the baskets with mushroom stuffing. You can complement the recipe with grated cheese - it will melt, forming a delicious golden crust.
Puff pastry baskets
The dough is also great for making mushroom mince baskets. You can take almost any recipe: yeast, shortbread, puff pastry will do. To save time and effort, you can buy ready-made dough and form baskets from it.
The taste of mushrooms is emphasized by homemade sour cream or a piece of butter, which must be placed in each basket. The baking time depends on the type of dough selected.
Bagel baskets
And here is a recipe that can help out when guests suddenly arrive. It is prepared simply, does not involve any complicated manipulations, compares favorably with most other recipes in terms of costs. In order to cook such baskets with minced mushroom, you need a bunch of bagels, some warm milk to soak them, and the minced meat itself. First, drop the bagels in a wide bowl with warm milk or water. While they swell, let's get stuffed. Wash the mushrooms, cut into slices, fry in oil with onions. While mushrooms are fried, prepare a baking sheet: cover with foil and grease with oil. You can add a little chicken mince to the mushrooms . Boiled liver also goes well with them. Processed cheese will bind the ingredients, preventing them from crumbling. Can be added to minced meat and fresh herbs. In general, any recipe can be selected for filling. Tartlets with minced meat prepared from bagels are baked 10-15 minutes until fully cooked. The temperature regime of the oven is 150-170 degrees.
We serve to the table
Tartlets with mushroom stuffing - an appetizer that is eaten by hand, like pies, baked, profiteroles. They do not require complicated cutlery and separate plates. To the table, baskets are served on a wide flat dish, decorated with greens and slices of vegetables. It is unacceptable to lay the baskets on top of each other, and even more so - dump the slide. They must be laid in one layer. You can put baskets with mushroom stuffing on plates with a special serving spatula.