More and more housewives prefer not to buy semi-finished meat products in the store, but to cook at home on their own. In fact, it is not as difficult as it seems: it’s worth allotting a couple of weekends, so that you can enjoy delicious homemade meatballs, sausages, cabbage rolls and dumplings throughout the month. All this is perfectly frozen in the freezer, and the shelf life of semi-finished meat products allows them to be harvested in sufficient quantities.
Here's a great recipe for homemade sausages. It is necessary to take three kilograms of pork, it is desirable that there is also fat, twist everything in a meat grinder. Meat and fat should be in a ratio of 70/30. Add 15 cloves of crushed garlic, 4 tablespoons of salt, ground pepper (red and black), mix thoroughly, place in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator overnight - marinate.
The next day, we continue to cook semi-finished meat products. In a store or on the market, we pre-purchase a natural pork shell (gut), cut into about 4-6 parts. It is better to rinse it again thoroughly. Attach one end of the intestine to the nozzle of the meat grinder - a special thin tube for forming sausages. Now you just need to adjust the forcemeat flow so that the sausages are of the same thickness and the filling evenly fills the gut.
When making such semi-finished products from meat, form small sausages, twisting the intestine as it is stuffed with minced meat. If you want the sausage to have an orange-reddish color, add more ground paprika to the minced meat. The finished product can be kept in the refrigerator for a little while, so that it absorbs the aroma of spices, and then freeze for longer storage.
Here are some more recipes by which you can cook natural semi-finished meat products. In fact, these methods are known to almost every housewife. It’s just that not everyone knows that it’s possible, for example, to stick the same cutlets or roll stuffed cabbage for the future, and then freeze them. Dumplings are especially popular. This dish is definitely always cooked with a margin! And homemade dumplings are always tastier than purchased ones, even the broth from them is really meaty and rich. The dumplings dough is kneaded simply: water, flour, a little salt, you can use an egg. We make mince, as for cutlets: meat, spices, finely chopped onions. Then we roll out the dough and, using a special form, make dumplings.
If there is no such form, you can work with your hands, but in this case it will be easier to prepare manti. We spread them on a large board in one layer so that they do not stick together, and freeze in a freezer. Then you can pour in one package and store for a long time.
What else can you think of for a daily tasty dinner or lunch? Meatballs, meatballs, meat hedgehogs with rice, meatballs, stuffed peppers, chops and even meat pies, pickled kebabs - you just have to show imagination and make a little effort to always have on hand tasty semi-finished meat products.