Cutlets can rightly be called one of the most beloved homemade dishes. Such popularity was won thanks to the taste, and the housewives love it for the simplicity and speed of cooking. So, simply and quickly, frying delicious, tasty and juicy meatballs, you can please your home. How to cook minced meatballs? There are a great many recipes for this, and a variety of products are also suitable. Cutlets can even be made from vegetables, fruits and cereals. But minced meat is a classic. The article will focus on the classic version of the cooking of all your favorite minced meat cutlets .
Those who do not know how to cook minced meatballs believe that cooking takes a lot of time. This is not true. To verify this, just try.
Before cooking minced meat patties, you should prepare the product itself. You will need meat or prepared meat, that is, twisted meat, a little stale bread, eggs, milk, garlic, onions, salt and seasonings, as well as some flour or breadcrumbs for frying.
It is worth noting that minced meat cooked on its own will be much tastier in cutlets than bought in a store. You should resort to the purchase only if time does not endure, for example, the arrival of guests is expected. So, before you cook minced meatballs, you need to prepare the meat mass itself. As a rule, pork, a mixture of beef and pork, as well as poultry, is most often used. An important point: in order for the patties to be juicy, you must make the stuffing bold. For this purpose, you can add a little fat. If there is no desire to add lard, the juiciness of cutlets can be achieved by placing a small piece of butter in the middle.
The meat is twisted in a meat grinder. In the same way, the onion is twisted, the bread, which before it was well soaked in milk, you can add a little fresh potatoes, since the starch in the potato will make the cutlets magnificent. After that, add eggs, spices, much flour or semolina to the mass. Some add mustard to minced meat, mayonnaise is a matter of taste and individual preferences. As already mentioned, there are a huge number of recipes that advise how to fry minced meat patties .
In many ways, the splendor and tenderness of cutlets depends on the time of its kneading. The longer you devote time to this process, the tastier and more magnificent they will be. The movements during kneading should be somewhat like whipping. You can also apply the rollover method. The best chefs do this: they lift the mass above the plate and drop it sharply. And so several times. The longer, the tastier the dish.
After the mince is complete, you can proceed directly to the formation and frying of the cutlets themselves. Before frying the minced meat patties, they must be formed. Hands should be moistened in water and do this throughout the entire molding process, so that the meat mass does not stick. The shape of the cutlets is usually round or oval. Before frying it is recommended to roll the product in a small amount of flour or breadcrumbs. For better frying, you can make the dull side of the knife grooves.
Now it’s worth going directly to the question of how to fry minced meat patties . Spread them on a preheated pan. There should be a distance between the cutlets for the convenience of turning them over. The frying process itself is not long. It is necessary to fry them on one side, then turn over and bring to readiness already under the lid, that is, put out a little. In order to check whether the cutlet can be eaten, you should put a little pressure on it, and if at the same time transparent juice comes out, everything is ready.
After cooking, you can add a side dish in the form of rice, buckwheat porridge, salad and serve. Enjoy your meal!