Pasta nests with minced meat - an unusual, but easy to prepare dish. His homeland is Italy. In this country, the population is very fond of a variety of variations with pasta.
Rare ingredients are not needed for the dish. They can be freely purchased in our stores. The dish is nutritious and there is no need to add any side dish to it.
What do you need?
The main problem with cooking can be special pasta intended for this dish. In large cities, you can buy them at any major store or shopping center. In smaller settlements, difficulties may arise with their acquisition.
For a dish you need to buy a packet of Tagliatelle pasta. These are thin spaghetti twisted in the shape of a bird's nest. The hostess will need 12 pieces of such balls. Stuffing can be prepared independently from chicken, pork or purchased ready-made (500 g).
Of spices, it is better to use only salt and black pepper. You should not put garlic or spicy, fragrant mixtures, because the taste will be too saturated.
Essential Ingredients
Find the rest of the components is easy. Have to take:
- onion - 2 pcs.;
- 1 medium-sized carrot;
- 2 tbsp. l any red sauce;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- 2 tbsp. l sour cream and mayonnaise;
- spice.
You can, according to your own taste and preferences, make some changes. Adherents of good nutrition may not use mayonnaise in pasta nests with minced meat, but add more sour cream.
Replace the broth in a variant with cooking in a pan can be simple water. During stewing, it will be saturated with minced fat.
Product Preparation
First you need to do stuffing. If you bought it already ready, then you just need to add spices and finely chopped onions. To cook the minced meat yourself, you need to pass 500 g of any meat twice through a meat grinder.
Pasta is boiled in salted water for 3 minutes. They do not need to be kept on fire longer. The product must not be cooked. Vegetables need to be peeled and washed well. Onions are cut into medium cubes, and carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater.
Nests made of pasta are laid out in a baking dish. Inside each placed ready-made stuffing. It should be clearly visible above the surface of the paste.
If you add a little mincemeat to the nests, then during stewing it will drop and the dish will lose its characteristic shape.
Cooking
First you need to do the frying. The onion is allowed to become transparent in the pan. Then carrots are added here. These ingredients are fried for 10-15 minutes.
Sauce diluted with a small amount (250 ml) of water is added to the mass. The lighter should simmer over low heat for another 10 minutes. The resulting sauce must be filled with cooked pasta nests with minced meat.
At the top of each is a tablespoon of sour cream or mayonnaise. Top they are sprinkled with grated hard cheese. The cooked dish is put in the oven for baking for an hour. The temperature should be at least 180 ° C.
The form with the finished dish is taken out of the oven, the nests with a spatula are separated from each other. Before serving, you can sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs.
Such nests will be an excellent, original decoration of the festive table. Because banal mashed potatoes as a side dish will not surprise anyone. Also, the original presentation can cause appetite even for the most capricious child who does not like meat.
A variation of a dish cooked in a pan
Minced pasta nests can be made with some changes to the recipe. The amount of ingredients remains the same as in the first embodiment. If the pan is small, then consumption can be halved.
In this case, you do not need to cook pasta in advance. Stuffing is prepared according to the same principle. Another difference is the lack of frying. Be sure to boil the meat broth, which is needed for making pasta nests with minced meat, a photo of which is posted in the article. It can be cast in advance when preparing the first course.
A large onion grated on a fine grater is added to the minced meat. Thus, it will become juicier and tastier. Carrots are not used in the recipe.
Nests are laid out in a pan. Inside each is placed minced meat with a slide. The broth is poured. A small amount of mayonnaise or sour cream is laid out on the nests. It should half cover all the components of the dish.
The mass in the pan should be stewed for about 20 minutes. At this time, the cheese must be grated. The greens are chopped finely. Each nest is sprinkled with cheese. The pan is closed again with a lid and set on fire.
When the cheese is completely melted, sprinkle with greens on top of the dish. All liquid during extinguishing should evaporate. When serving, the nests are separated from each other and served in portions. To the original dish, you can offer in a separate bowl any purchased or self-prepared red sauce.
Dish reviews
Many housewives have repeatedly used the recipe for pasta nests with minced meat in the oven. In their opinion, the dish does not require a lot of time to prepare. The ingredients for it are quite simple.
By satiety, the dish can act as an independent. You can serve fresh vegetables or a simple salad. Lighter gives the product a beautiful, rich color.
The variation of pasta nests with minced meat in a pan is easy to prepare. This method is more popular with people who do not accept fried on their menu. This option is prepared 2 times faster. It also does not need to serve any side dish. A few types of fresh vegetables are enough.
According to the reviews of the hostesses, the dish can be put in the refrigerator, and the next day it can be heated in the oven or in a pan - it does not lose its taste. The problem with the acquisition of this type of pasta can be solved simply. For example, being in a large supermarket, buy several packs of Tagliatelle at once and store at home. Their shelf life is quite large.
From the reviews it becomes clear that you need to serve the dish hot. When cooled, it loses a pleasant taste and seems rather greasy. People who adhere to a therapeutic diet should use only chicken or turkey meat for cooking minced meat.
In this case, for greater juiciness, it is necessary to add onions to it.