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Meatloaf

A dish of a slice of meat, on which the filling is laid out, and it is rolled up, has a long history: it is mentioned in the 5th century in the culinary recipes of Ancient Rome. Today, this dish can be called universal, and a huge number of recipes differ from each other in the type of meat, filling and cooking technology. Meatloaf is prepared from lamb, pork, beef, poultry.

They complement the taste with various seasonings, sauces and spices. Some recipes use strips of bacon. Meatloaf can be filled with cheese, herbs, mushrooms, minced meat, vegetables, eggs, or a combination of these components. Minced meat can be mixed with a binder: eggs and breadcrumbs, slices of bread soaked in milk (or red wine, or another liquid), chopped nuts or oatmeal can be added to it.

The dish can be of different sizes and shapes. Small rolls and large rolls, fastened with a skewer, tied with thread or molded in the form of a loaf of bread and placed in a baking dish. There are no solid standards for heat treatment. Meatloaf can be cooked in the oven, in the microwave, fry in a pan or in a saucepan.

Recipe 1

This meatloaf takes time and some effort, but the result is a very tasty dish that will become a real decoration of the festive table. Ingredients:

  • 0.8 kg of veal (tenderloin is washed with cold water and cut into two equal layers, beat off);
  • 50 g of bacon;
  • 100 g of ham;
  • 2 tablespoons butter;
  • 2 salty cucumbers (peel the peel, squeeze out excess liquid and chop into very small pieces);
  • water;
  • pepper;
  • salt.

For omelet:

  • 3 tablespoons of milk;
  • 3 eggs;
  • ½ tablespoon butter;
  • salt.

Each layer of veal is salted, pepper. Prepare an omelette: beat eggs and milk until lush foam, add salt and whisk a little more. Fry in a pan with melted butter, set aside to cool the omelet. Lay out a layer of meat, spread thin slices of bacon and ham on it. Distribute the omelette on top, sprinkle it with finely chopped cucumbers. Veal is covered with a second layer, rolled up with a tight roll and tied with thread. Spread the roll in a saucepan with hot oil, fry on both sides until golden brown. Reduce the fire, watered with allocated meat juices and a small amount of water. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for an hour or a half. The thread is removed from the finished roll, laid out on a dish, cut and served.

Recipe 2

Preparing pork meatloaf . Ingredients:

  • 0.8 kg pork tenderloin;
  • ½ cup walnuts, cut each core into about 8 pieces;
  • 1 cup thin prunes (choose unsweetened and pitted).

For the sauce:

  • 3 teaspoons of mustard;
  • 1 cup sour cream;
  • 1 teaspoon of salt.

Prunes are washed well and poured with boiling water for swelling. The meat is cut across the fibers into several plates, beat and overlap: a large layer should form. Places with a double layer of meat once again beat off. Mix the ingredients for the sauce. Most of it is rubbed into the meat with your hands. The water from the prunes is drained and set aside, the prunes are placed in a blender and crushed, 2 tablespoons of table water are added, in which the prunes are soaked. Mix to a homogeneous mass, distribute evenly over the entire surface of the meat layer. Pieces of nuts are placed on top. Roll the meat into a roll. The foil sheet is greased with sauce and placed on it roll (the joint should be at the bottom), on which the remaining sauce is poured. Raise the edges of the foil and secure them tightly, leave an air cushion between the roll and the foil . Set aside the pan with the roll for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 220 ° C, bake the roll for an hour. Open the foil, increase the heat to 250 ° C and bake for another 5 minutes. After the meat is covered with a crust, the meatloaf is transferred to a dish and covered with foil. Serve cold or hot.

Recipe 3

From pork you can cook meat rolls with mushrooms. Ingredients:

  • 0.5 kg of pork tenderloin is washed, dried and cut across the fibers into 10 plastics, beat off;
  • 100 g of Parmesan cheese is grated;
  • 5 champignons cut in half;
  • 1 bell pepper is peeled, cut into strips;
  • 2 eggs;
  • breadcrumbs;
  • vegetable oil;
  • salt;
  • pepper.

Pork plastics salt and pepper. Mushrooms are fried until browned. Slices of pork sprinkled with sweet pepper and cheese, spread half of the champignon in the middle, roll up the roll. Dip in a beaten egg, breading in breadcrumbs. Minutes 7 fried (until browning). Then bake until ready meat rolls in the oven at 200C.

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