How to cook minced meat and what is the best way to serve it?

Many people think that mincemeat is a regular semi-finished product from which nothing interesting can be made. This is not true. It all depends on skill and imagination. A good housewife, having fresh minced meat on her hands, is able to cook such a variety of dishes that can cover a whole festive table. The only question is what to cook with minced meat? There are no boundaries. As you know, minced meat goes well with almost all products. Vegetables, cereals, dough, mushrooms, pasta - absolutely everything can be a worthy addition to this unique creation of human hands. In any national cuisine, there are dozens of recipes that you can take into service.

Stuffed pepper

If you choose what to cook with minced meat, then it is better to start trying with vegetables and make stuffed peppers. To do this, the following products should be available on the desktop: 8 pieces of bell pepper, 1 onion, 0.5 kilograms of any minced meat, 1 carrot, 50 grams of rice, 300 grams of mushrooms, a glass of sour cream and fresh herbs.

The cooking process is as follows:

1. Rinse the peppers and remove their stalks with seeds.
2. Stuffing mix with rice and fill the prepared "vegetable forms" with this mass.
3. Grind onions, mushrooms and carrots at random and fry in a cauldron with vegetable oil.
4. Lay on top a thick layer of peppers stuffed with rice and minced meat.
5. Dilute sour cream with broth or plain water and pour it into the cauldron. This dish is stewed for about 40 minutes.

So that all those present will forever have a question of what to cook with minced meat, it is better to serve stuffed peppers with hot pepper on the table. Delicate aroma and unique appearance will not leave anyone indifferent. And the hostess will know exactly for the future how and with what to prepare the minced meat so that the guests are satisfied.

It is worth noting that minced meat is very easy to prepare. In turn, they have such a supply of fats, carbohydrates and proteins that any doubts about the choice disappear. If you do not know what to cook with minced meat, recipes can be taken anywhere: the experience of the best girlfriends, information from cookbooks or the advice of leading masters. There are many options. But do not completely copy someone else's experience. It is better to take it as a basis and try to experiment.

Zrazy

Every housewife knows how to cook cutlets. And if you add the filling to them, you get delicious “zrazy”. This dish has been known for a long time, but the filling can be invented to your taste. The result is an individual recipe. Take, for example, zrazy called Bird's milk. For their preparation you will need: 300 grams of minced meat (meat), 2 eggs, half a glass of flour, a tablespoon of butter, 50 grams of hard cheese, a third of a glass of milk, salt, a slice of white bread and pepper.

Cooking is carried out step by step:

1. First you need to make the filling. To do this, grind the egg and cheese on a grater. Then add salt, pepper and mix well.
2. The formation of zraz. Take a slice of minced meat and knead it in the form of a cake. Now put in the center a teaspoon of the filling and form an oval cutlet.
3. Cook batter. It is made by whipping flour, milk, eggs, salt and pepper. A creamy mass should be obtained.
4. Frying zraz. Dip the filled workpieces into batter and fry in boiling oil.
5. The final stage. Put zrazy with a golden crust in a deep bowl, pour the sauce and simmer in the oven for about 15 minutes until fully cooked. As a sauce, you can use the remaining batter.

Minced potatoes

Many used to be sure to eat meat with potatoes. Really, it's delicious. But not everyone knows how to cook potatoes with minced meat. Do not be upset, because such a dish is quite light. In addition, you can make stuffed potatoes in a very original way . This is not difficult. Only 0.4 kilograms of minced meat is useful for 20 potatoes, 1 onion, pepper, 1 egg, 70 grams of butter, 0.2 liters of cream, vegetable oil (for roasting), salt, any spices and a little water.

Such a dish is prepared step by step in several stages:

1. Potatoes need to be peeled, cut in half and carefully made in the middle of a through hole as large as possible.
2. Stuffing mix with finely chopped onions. It can be slightly fried or left raw. Add spices, salt, egg and cook a homogeneous mass for the filling.
3. Make gravy. To do this, bring the cream and butter to a boil in a pan.
4. Stuff the potatoes with the filling and lay them in a deep thick-walled container. Pour stuffed blanks with boiling gravy.
5. Then send the container to the oven for 40 minutes. Cooking time depends on the size of the potatoes and the volume of the dishes.

Having done everything right, you can be sure that a good mood and a pleasant appetite are guaranteed to everyone present at the table.