During the post, I so want to diversify my family’s menu. Numerous lean cutlet recipes will help you do this. Appetizing cutlets can be prepared from carrots, pumpkins, cabbage, cereals, but beet cutlets are especially popular.
Classic lean beet cutlets: recipe
Beetroot patties without the addition of eggs are considered classic. Take two medium-sized beets and 2-3 potatoes. Wash and boil the vegetables and then peel. 1 large onion, peel, finely chop and lightly fry in a small amount of oil. Grate boiled beets and potatoes and mix with onions. Then add a spoonful of flour and your favorite spices to the vegetables to taste. Lean stuffing is ready!
Form neat cutlets from it, roll in breadcrumbs and send to the pan. Lean beet cutlets, the recipe of which is described above, are very tasty and low-calorie.
Beetroot patties with walnuts
Lenten beet cutlets, the recipe of which you will read now, have an unusual taste and aroma, be sure to try to cook them. Boil two beets until cooked, peel and chop (for this purpose you can use a grater, blender or meat grinder). Add a spoonful of chopped walnut to a beetroot, a spoonful of semolina and seasoning (marjoram and sesame are especially good in such stuffing, as well as dried greens we are used to). Put the mixture on a preheated pan and heat it. When the stuffing becomes thick, remove it from the heat, cool and form small cutlets from it. Roll them in semolina and fry them.
Lenten beet cutlets, the recipe of which you are reading, can be cooked steamed, tastes will not suffer at all.
Lenten beet cutlets with raisins
Boil beets thoroughly washed (in the amount of two). Then peel the beets and grate finely. Squeeze out the vegetable juice. Prepare raisins for cooking - soak it in warm water for an hour, and then dry. Mix raisins with a spoonful of flour and add to the minced meat from boiled beets. Peel one onion, cut and fry. Add the sautéed onion and one egg to the minced meat and mix. Form round patties from minced meat and fry in a pan until cooked. Beetroot patties have a low calorific value , therefore they are also suitable for dietetic nutrition as well as for a therapeutic diet (for example, people diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis).
Lean beet cutlets and baby food are great. Their calorie content per hundred grams is approximately 180 calories.
Beetroot patties with carrots
Boil 2 beets until cooked. During cooking, peel, grate medium carrots, chop onion and grate 2 cloves of garlic. Fry vegetables (except for beets) in a pan. When the beets have cooled, peel and grate it. Then mix it with sauteed vegetables, add one egg, a spoonful of semolina, salt and pepper. We form beet meat patties lean and fry them in oil. If desired, you can bread them in breadcrumbs or semolina. Lenten beet cutlets, the recipe of which advises the use of carrots, is especially popular with children.
How to make beetroot cutlets beautiful and appetizing?
Often, housewives complain about the intractability of minced vegetables to sculpt. Cutlets fall apart either at the stage of formation, or when frying. What to do in this case? After all, every housewife wants to please the household not only with tasty, healthy, but also beautiful food. In order for your lean beet cutlets to be attractive in appearance, you can arrange the minced meat in special silicone molds and place them in the cold. Then carefully remove the form - your cutlets will have a neat shape and will not creep during further heat treatment. If you do not have such forms, you can easily make them yourself. Take ordinary tin cans. Cut out their bases and the cutlet tins are ready.
Fans of vegetable dishes will love lean beet cutlets. The recipe for their preparation is simple. Such a dish can be completely independent, and can also act as a side dish. Vegetable beet cutlets go well with fresh sour cream and goat cheese.