In an effort to feed the family in a diverse, tasty and beautiful way, the housewives invented a lot of all kinds of dishes, many of which can be safely called cooking hits. And one of them, no doubt, nests with minced meat. A recipe may be the easiest and fastest to execute. And it may require some effort if you want to make dinner refined and elegant. But in any case, you can be sure that you will get a masterpiece, warmly approved by your family.
Quick dinner
Let's start with a recipe that can help a lot if the refrigerator contains only semi-finished products, and you were detained at work. The situation will be saved (and the family will not remain hungry) nests with minced meat in a pan. The main thing is that in the cabinet there are pasta of the appropriate type. In a large skillet in sunflower oil, frying is made from onions and garlic (opponents of the latter can do without it). The pan is set aside; when the contents have cooled slightly, pasta nests are laid out on the vegetables. Balls are rolled from the prepared minced meat, salted and pepper, which are neatly laid in the center of each ball. Excessive generosity should not be: during cooking, pasta settles, and the filling will fall out. The pan is filled with hot water with tomato paste diluted in it, covered with a lid and put on the stove for about thirty minutes. Somewhere in the middle of cooking, you need to salt and pepper your nests with minced meat. The recipe, as you can see, is simple, and even half an hour starving can suffer. Servings spread out on plates can be sprinkled with fresh herbs.
Cheese sauce
Since cooking nests with minced meat is not difficult, and they are tasty and satisfying, nests often become almost a daily dish. However, in the same performance, even your favorite food will quickly get bored. You can diversify the taste with sauces that fill the workpiece in a pan. For example, whip in a blender a little more than half a glass of cream (their fat content is unprincipled) with mayonnaise and sour cream, taken on a spoon, pepper, salt, a piece of cheese, grated on the finest grater, and dried basil. Preparing nests in such gravy will be the same time.
Sour cream sauce
Another good option for filling, which makes the juices with minced meat even more juicy. The recipe includes half a glass of sour cream and a glass of milk. This ratio persists even if more sauce is needed. With spices in his case, you need to be careful: too bright or sharp are not suitable here. It is better to limit yourself to a pinch of Provencal or Italian herbs. Want to get a more spicy dish, float hops-suneli.
Pasta nests
If you have nowhere to hurry and just want to pamper your family, prepare the nests with minced meat in the oven. Here the process will require more trouble, but the result is more appetizing and fragrant. Macaroni must first be boiled, so that the nests do not collapse and stick together. To do this, you need to take a wide pan in which the balls will practically not touch. If one is not found in the household, the nests will have to be cooked in batches.
If you have minced meat, add it with finely chopped onions. In addition to salt with pepper and possibly spices, two tablespoons of mayonnaise should be put in the filling for every third kilo of meat, this will make the nests more juicy. The baking sheet is spread with parchment and greased with oil. Caught by a slotted spoon, pasta balls are laid out on it hot as soon as the water drains. Stuffing is placed in the center of each nest. On top you can put a circle of tomato, crush with cheese or grease with a beaten egg - as you like. The blanks are cleaned for half an hour in the oven - and you can call the family to the table.
Forcemeat nests with mushrooms and cheese
If there is no nesting pasta in the house, or you think that they have a bad effect on your figure, the recipes already described are a great alternative. No less tasty, cute and appetizing nests of minced meat with mushrooms and cheese. They are also prepared easily, they do not require special cooking skills. The onion head is chopped smaller and allowed to become translucent in vegetable oil. A third of a kilogram of chopped mushrooms is poured here. It turns out more fragrant with forest, but it will come out worse with champignons and oyster mushrooms. Seven minutes of frying with stirring, then pour three tablespoons of sour cream. Hold for a little more on the fire and set the filling aside.
A small slice of bread, soaked in milk and squeezed, is mixed with 0.5 kg of minced meat, grated small carrots, two eggs, chopped onion and seasonings - a mixture of peppers and salt. Stuffing is kneaded, balls roll out of it. Thick small cakes are formed from them, which are laid out on a baking sheet. In the middle of each, a dimple is made, a filling is placed in it, a little grated cheese is poured on top. The sheet is put into the oven, and after half an hour you can start tasting.
Meat cheesecakes
There is another interesting recipe for making minced meat nests. Any meat is taken as the basis, although a mixture of pork and beef gives a more juicy result. Grated hard cheese (about one hundred grams per pound of meat), a raw egg and spices are added to the minced meat. The formation of nests - as in the previous recipe. But the filling will be unusual: a third of a kilogram of granular curd is frayed to break large lumps, and combined with grated creamy cream cheese. Such nests of minced meat and cheese will be baked for the same half an hour at 180 degrees. And when serving, they should be sprinkled with onion-feather: so they will be even more appetizing and tastier.
Nest with egg
For a full dinner for the previous two recipes, you will have to cook some side dish: only people rarely eat meat. But in the morning, especially if you are not in a hurry to work, you can cook very original nests with minced meat. The recipe allows you to get a not very difficult, but quite satisfying breakfast from one dish, which will satisfy all the needs of the body. In addition, a tasty meal in the morning means to charge yourself with optimism for the whole day.
A slice of the loaf is soaked for a short time in milk, squeezed out of excess liquid and thoroughly mixed with minced meat. Onion finely chopped; it can be added to the raw base, but it will be more delicious first to fry it in a spoonful of oil. Onions also combine with minced meat; an egg is driven into it and salt and pepper are poured. If desired, you can add other favorite seasonings. The baking sheet is standardly lined with parchment paper, which is slightly oiled on the outside. Cakes are laid out on it. This time they should be slightly larger than previously described, so that from a half-kilogram of minced meat we get about four nests. In the center, rather wide depressions are made; a testicle is carefully driven into each of them. In order not to miss, you can first break the egg into a small, for example a coffee cup, and then carefully pour it from it into the hole. Hold the nests with minced meat in the oven for 35 minutes - and a great breakfast is ready!