In today's article, we’ll look at how to cook cutlets. There are many recipes and methods for their preparation. It can be pork, beef or chicken cutlets. Stuffing for them can also be mixed.
If you wonder how to cook meatballs, only meat comes to mind, but for some reason we forget that you can cook fish or vegetable.
Next, we will try to get acquainted with several original recipes, and also do not forget about the classic version. We also consider how to cook minced meatballs in a pan and in a saucepan. In addition, they can be cooked in a slow cooker and a double boiler.
How to cook cutlets? Classic recipe
Today we will consider the classic recipe for cooking meatballs based on minced pork and beef.
Do not forget that in this case bread must be present.
Ingredients:
- three hundred grams of pork;
- as much beef;
- one egg;
- two onions;
- a few slices of loaf. You can callous, you still need to soak it;
- two hundred grams of flour;
- some salt and ground pepper;
- milk to soak the loaf.
Cooking
The whole cooking procedure does not take as much time as it might seem at first glance.
At the first stage, we need to make stuffing. For this, already washed and peeled pieces of pork and beef are passed through a meat grinder.
Add chopped onion here. Some housewives prefer to rub it separately on a grater, and only then mix it with meat. While you are making mince, put steeped bread in milk. After it will need to be added at the last stage of cooking the minced meat.
After you mix the meat with the onion, add the egg to them. Mix all the ingredients.
Squeeze the bread with your hands from the milk and pass through a meat grinder. Again, all the components interfere. Add salt and pepper. For taste, you can grate finely garlic. The forcemeat should not be very thick, but not liquid, so that the cutlets do not spill.
Getting to the formation. Hands twist small balls of the same shape. Then they need to be flattened slightly on both sides.
Cutlets can be fried, stewed, steamed. In this case, consider how to cook cutlets in a pan. Before sending them there, you need to dip in breadcrumbs. It can be flour, crushed crackers or semolina. Then act at your discretion. If you don’t plan to extinguish them after frying, then it is better to use flour, since in breadcrumbs they turn out to be a little “rough”. You need to sprinkle breading well and can be sent to the pan.
After we heat the vegetable oil and reduce the heat. We put the patties and fry them on both sides until a golden crust appears.
Be careful not to get oil on your hands. Although if you act in accordance with the technology of cooking, this will not happen. The main thing is to reduce the fire in time. Serve cutlets with any side dish or salad.
Cooking juicy meatballs
In order to make the cutlets soft and juicy, it is better to add chicken to pork meat.
So we need:
- one and a half kilograms of pork meat;
- 400 grams of chicken;
- a pair of onions;
- a few cloves of garlic;
- dry loaf or any other white bread;
- 150 grams of frozen butter;
- breadcrumbs;
- cooking oil for frying;
- sour cream for stewing;
- milk to soak bread;
- salt and pepper.
Getting down to cooking
Soak the bread in milk and leave for a few minutes. We start cooking minced meat. Grind the meat in a meat grinder with onions. Squeeze the bread, grind and mix all the ingredients. Rub the garlic on a fine grater and add to the meat.
Now, in order for the patties to stick together without adding eggs and to be juicy, add slices of frozen oil. At the end, add the minced meat and pepper, and then mix and send it to the refrigerator for one hour.
After we get the stuffing, mix it again and begin to form small ovals.
Bread in breading and send to fry in a pan. Try not to fry the patties very much, as in the future they will need to be put out. To do this, get a saucepan, if there is a stewpan. We spread the patties and pour water with sour cream. Stew no more than twenty minutes.
Everything, our juicy and tender cutlets are ready.
Beef cutlets with herbs
Another way to prepare a delicious meat dish will not leave you indifferent. Not many people prefer beef, especially for cooking cutlets. But I assure you that after learning how to cook ground beef patties according to this recipe, you will pamper your near and dear ones.
Products that are necessary for cooking:
- half a kilogram of beef;
- onion;
- one chicken egg;
- spices to taste;
- salt;
- Bay leaf;
- a bunch of fresh herbs, preferably dill;
- two potatoes;
- breading flour;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking process
Cooking minced meat. The meat must be passed through a meat grinder. Since we use beef, it is advisable to grind it more than once. Then the cutlets will be more tender.
Peel the potatoes and grind them and add to the meat.
In this case, it is better to finely chop the onions and herbs. Mix all the ingredients, salt and pepper.
We form meat balls from minced meat, envelop in a breading and fry on both sides in a pan in vegetable oil. After all the cutlets are fried, fold them back into the pan and fill with water so that the cutlets are completely covered.
As the water begins to boil, reduce the heat and add bay leaf, you can pepper peas or any other spices. Stew the dish for twenty minutes.
In order to make the gravy thick, you need to add a little flour. Dilute two tablespoons of flour into a half glass of water and pour everything into cutlets, at the end of cooking. Then extinguish them a couple of minutes. Delicious meat dish with gravy ready.
We examined several recipes for how to cook minced meat patties. I hope you enjoy each one. Next, we will analyze what else you can cook cutlets.
Cooking at home pollock, hake and pike perch cutlets
You can cook dishes from three types of fish at once, or you can from any one. We take:
- one kilogram of fish;
- a couple of onions;
- loaf;
- tomato paste;
- spices and salt to taste.
The process of preparing fish cakes
First you need to prepare the fish. We peel well, separate from the ridge and pull out all the bones, if any. We cut the fish into pieces. We chop the onion. Fry both ingredients in a pan in vegetable oil until golden brown.
While the fish is cooling, it is necessary to soak the bread in water.
We begin to cook the stuffing. We pass the fish, onions and pressed bread through a meat grinder.
Add spices and salt. We form fish balls with wet hands and send to the pan. It is necessary to fry on both sides under the lid.
At the next stage, cutlets are left in a frying pan or transferred to a saucepan and fill with water. Add one tablespoon of tomato paste. It is important to fill the patties best with hot water. Add chopped bay leaf. Stew meatballs in tomato sauce for no more than a couple of minutes. Otherwise, they may fall apart.
This dish is best served with rice or buckwheat.
Secrets of cooking cutlets
We examined several recipes on how to cook minced meat patties, but in order to always make them juicy and tasty, you need to know a few secrets.
If you cook meat cutlets only from minced pork, they are obtained in bold, from chicken - dry. It is best to cook from cold cuts.
To make them lush, you must add soda, slaked with vinegar, or a couple of drops of lemon juice.
Cutlets absorb a lot of vegetable oil during frying, so it’s best to cook with melted pork fat so that they do not turn out to be greasy.
Very often, housewives ask how much to fry cutlets so that they turn out perfect. It all depends on their thickness and the meat from which they are prepared. Use a fork to check the roasting. The cutlet needs to be pressed, and if it secretes juice, then after three minutes it can be removed from the pan.
When preparing fish cakes, try to use saltwater fish, in which there are no bones except the ridge.
For juicy cutlets, add butter, raw potatoes or a little lard to them.
We examined how to cook cutlets from different types of minced meat, but there are still a large number of recipes. Experiment.