How to cook a quick and healthy lunch? Often, housewives puzzle over this issue. Fans of meat dishes will appreciate the nest cutlets. Simple products have become a very ordinary dish. And in order to diversify them somehow, we will prepare today patties-nests in the oven. This is a very useful, even festive and dietary dish. They are not fried, like regular cutlets, so they retain more nutrients.
What should be the meat
The meat for the preparation of minced meat should be pink in color, if it is pork - in no case red. It should also be resilient. Try with your finger, if the dent disappears after a few seconds, then the meat is fresh. If you pressed your finger and the dent did not disappear, then the meat is not so fresh.
Dish ingredients
For cutlets, we need the following components:
- minced pork - 700 grams;
- ground beef - 200 grams;
- white loaf - 200 g;
- onion - 1 piece;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- mozzarella cheese - 150 grams;
- fresh tomato - 2 pieces;
- fresh milk - 1.5 cups;
- cream or mayonnaise - 100 grams;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- salt to taste;
- pepper - to taste;
- nutmeg;
- seasoning hops-suneli - a pinch;
- greens (dill) for decoration.
Product Preparation
The recipe for cutlet nests is very simple. Even a novice housewife will cope with it.
So, we take a not very fatty piece of pork meat, a piece of beef pulp and grind it into a fine grinder. We clean two cloves of garlic, one large onion and rub it all on a coarse grater to make it juicier. The baton is soaked in milk. Rinse and cut into pieces tomatoes, hard cheese (in our case, mozzarella, but this is not important) and rub on a coarse grater.
The next step in the preparation of the dish will be the mixing of minced meat. To do this, combine meat, soaked bread, onions chopped in a blender, add salt, pepper to taste, seasoning and mix well. It is better to beat the eggs a little before: so the cutlets will be fluffy. At the end, add a little cream and stir everything again. Stuffing is required to beat off so that the cutlets do not fall apart.
Laying cutlets on a baking sheet
To prevent forcemeat from sticking to your hands, first wet your hands in water or vegetable oil. As you wish. Both options will do. We begin to form cutlets-nests. Divide the minced meat into equal parts. It turns out eighteen smooth parts. The picture shows only part of the cutlets. If you take a larger pan, then everything will fit. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. Metal is better to cover with baking paper (parchment). We spread the cutlets on a baking sheet tightly one to the other. When baking, they will become smaller, and if they are put denser, they will be juicy. Cutlets should not be small. We make a recess in them to put tomatoes there. Products got their name nest cutlets because they really look very much like a bird's nest.
In our case, nest cutlets with piquant filling. We spread the tomatoes mixed with cream inside the cutlets, add a little salt and pepper on top. Sprinkle generously with grated mozzarella over the tomatoes. A little ground nutmeg on top of grated cheese will give piquant cutlets.
Cutlets are ready for baking.
Bake
Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. We put the nests in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. Baking time depends on the oven. A browned crust needs to appear. How appetizing cutlet nests look in the photo! But in reality they are very tasty.
Any side dish is suitable for cutlets nests. If you cook mashed potatoes or some kind of porridge, then you can take gravy from cooked products. But since this is a high-calorie product, it is better to cook asparagus or spinach for a side dish. They are also suitable for dinner with a light salad or stewed vegetables.
Options
Of course, you can cook nest cutlets not only from pork or beef. If you take chicken or turkey meat as the basis, then the cutlets will be dietary. You can also experiment and make them from a rabbit. It is very useful for children to eat fish, and it is very difficult to make them eat it. Cook them in the same way fish cakes. Do not be afraid to experiment, try to make your changes in the recipe for cutlet-nests. For the filling, you can also take fried onions with mushrooms instead of tomatoes. And it will be a new dish.