Minced meat is a versatile product from which you can cook more than a hundred different dishes. Food from this ingredient can be everyday, and can be used for a festive table. Here are mainly recipes to be served at the banquet. Stuffed meat rolls in the oven are very popular, as they are easy to cook, they have excellent appearance and taste.
Roll with bacon and filling
A wonderful dish that has a very attractive appearance, and smoked bacon soaks the minced meat perfectly. Thanks to this, the meat becomes more juicy and has an original taste. To prepare the minced meat roll with the filling in the oven, you should take this amount of products:
- minced meat - 500 g (it is recommended to use minced meat from several types of meat, but regular pork is also suitable);
- one egg;
- about 200 g thinly sliced bacon;
- 200 g of mushrooms (you can use champignons or any others that are available);
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- one zucchini;
- one cream cheese.
This is a list of the main ingredients, thyme and rosemary should be added from spices. You can also use the universal seasoning "For meat dishes." Still need to take a few twigs of parsley or dill.
How to cook
So that the cooking process does not seem complicated enough for you, just follow the step-by-step instructions and then you will succeed:
- Stuffing the minced meat in a deep bowl, where you should beat one egg, and also add zucchini peeled and grated on a fine grater. Add the necessary spices, salt and mix thoroughly.
- Finely chop one onion, add to the minced meat and mix again. To make the meat more tender, it needs to be knocked out a little. To do this, you just need to raise the whole mass and throw it sharply into the table. But do not overdo it so that the stuffing does not scatter throughout the kitchen.
- Now you need to take another onion, peel it and cut into strips. Put in a well-heated pan with vegetable oil, fry until half cooked.
- Meanwhile, mushrooms should be cut into plastics and sautéed with onions. Put the finished stuffing in a bowl.
- Grate the processed cheese, add to the mushrooms and onions, put chopped greens here, add salt and spices, mix.
- Take a large piece of cling film, spread the slices of bacon on it. Put seasoned minced meat on top of this product and make a rectangular cake out of it (no more than 2 cm thick).
- Put the filling in the center of the tortillas. Holding onto the film, you need to start folding the roll. Pressing the meat a little, give it the necessary shape.
- Put the roll on a baking sheet and cover it with foil. Put the semi-finished product in the oven for 40 minutes, its temperature should be about 200 degrees. After a while, the foil must be removed and the dish cooked for another 10 minutes.
On this, the process of making minced meat roll with cheese in the oven is finished, it remains only to cut the finished product into portioned portions and serve. The peculiarity of this dish is that it can be consumed as a hot dish or cold appetizer.
Oven pita roll with minced meat
This dish is a bit like a Mexican burrito, only in this case not a tortilla made from cornmeal will be used, but a regular pita bread. In the original recipe, all products are prepared separately in a pan, and here everything is wrapped in a base and baked in the oven, which greatly simplifies the cooking process of this dish. But the original Mexican products remain in this roll, and the filling's inherent sharpness is preserved.
Product List
So that nothing distracts you from cooking, it is recommended that you first prepare a complete set of products:
- ordinary thin pita bread - 2 pcs.;
- a can of canned beans;
- minced pork - 500 g;
- two bell peppers (to improve the appearance of the dish take different colors);
- some tomato paste;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- a small amount of hard cheese;
- cilantro.
Thyme, coriander, red pepper and salt should also be used in the dish.
Cooking process
First you should take a deep bowl to put the minced meat there. Peppers and peppers, rinse well, cut into strips, throw to the meat. There, put chopped onions, tomato paste and canned beans. Grind herbs, add to other ingredients.
Season the resulting mass with the necessary spices, add salt and mix thoroughly. To keep the filling better and to be as a whole, you can add two eggs, but this is not an obligatory ingredient. According to the recipe, the minced meat should have a fairly salty and spicy taste.
Put on the table two sheets of pita bread and evenly spread the prepared meat mass on them. Bend the two side edges of the pita bread inward, and then start to roll the roll from yourself. Try to squeeze the meat a little to get a very dense roll.
Put the semi-finished product on a baking sheet, the surface of the pita bread can be greased with an egg, in which case it will have a beautiful crust color. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and bake for 30-35 minutes.
Minced meat roll in the oven with photo
This dish will appeal to everyone who loves olives, because the main part of the filling consists of this product. It also uses ham, which is in harmony with the rest of the ingredients, making the dish very interesting and unusual.
To prepare one large roll for a banquet table, you need to take so many products:
- minced pork and beef - 1 kg (if you like not very fatty foods, then you can use minced chicken);
- jar of pitted green olives;
- ham - 150 g;
- capers - 50 g;
- 3 eggs;
- bell pepper;
- green onions.
According to the recipe, a variety of different spices should also be added to the minced meat roll in the oven: rosemary, thyme, ground coriander, curry, paprika, salt and cayenne pepper.
Cooking method
In order not to miss any important process, just follow the step-by-step instructions exactly:
- First, prepare the main products. Take olives, drain the liquid from them and cut into a small cube, the ham should have the same form of slicing.
- Cut bell pepper in half, remove the stem and all the seeds, rinse the vegetable thoroughly. Then it needs to be cut into strips. All prepared ingredients can be stacked in one container.
- Grind capers, add to other products.
- Take a deep bowl where you want to put the minced meat, add chopped green onions, eggs and all the necessary spices to it. Knead thoroughly and taste.
Formation and heat treatment
Continue to follow the step-by-step instructions:
- Spread a large amount of cling film on the table and put minced meat on it. Make a large rectangle out of it, the thickness of which should be about 1.5 centimeters.
- Lay out the filling in the center, it should be along the entire length of the meat rectangle.
- Grasp the end of the cling film that is closer to you and start twisting the roll from yourself. This procedure should be carried out very carefully and not in a hurry. Periodically, the meat needs to be pressed a little so that it has a sufficient density. Instead of cling film, you can use a bamboo mat.
- Put the finished cake mix on a baking sheet, which was previously lubricated with vegetable oil, cover with foil. Put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, cook for one hour. You can pour a little water into the pan so that the roll does not start to burn from below.
- After the allotted time, the foil must be removed and cooked for another 10-15 minutes to form a beautiful crust. If desired, after removing the foil, you can put several cubes of butter on the roll, then the meat will be more juicy and have a pleasant creamy taste.
When the heat treatment is finished, roll it out of the oven and wait about 10 minutes. After that, it can be cut in portions. You can use this dish both in cold and in hot form, but (according to reviews) the product has a better taste immediately after cooking.
Various fillings
The basic process of preparing meatloaf is the same everywhere, but you can create many different dishes only by changing the filling. Here are some of the best recipes for toppings.
Mushrooms are very well combined with minced meat. In this case, you can take champignons, onions, sour cream, cilantro and bacon. Onion with mushrooms should be slightly fried, then pour sour cream and stew a little. At the end of cooking, throw bacon and chopped greens. Spread the filling in the center of the meatloaf, as described in previous recipes.
You can also take a few quail eggs and boil them until cooked. Together with them, it is recommended to use finely chopped bell pepper, mayonnaise, olives and moldy cheese in the filling. This set of ingredients has a very unusual, but very attractive taste.
Now you know several varieties of recipes for minced meat roll in the oven. All of them are good in their own way, so it is recommended to try to cook each of them. Never be afraid to experiment, each of you can come up with an original filling that will fully and fully correspond to personal culinary preferences.