Fried, juicy, fragrant cutlets - a favorite dish of many people. Have you ever tried boiled meat cutlets ? If not, then cook immediately, you won’t regret it! There is nothing complicated in creating such a dish, just before you cook the minced meat, you need to boil the meat. Today we will share the secrets of cooking boiled chicken meat patties. Very light, but at the same time a hearty meal. You can immediately cook the first and second. The chicken broth will be the first (add whatever you see fit: potatoes, noodles or vegetables), and the meat itself will go for cooking juicy cutlets.
Ingredients for Chicken Cutlets
Cooked meat patties are no less juicy than those made from raw minced meat. At the same time, they will not be so fatty, since the fat will melt in the broth during cooking, and the cutlets themselves will not absorb as much oil from the pan as from raw meat.
To prepare such cutlets, you will need:
- half a kilo of chicken meat (it is possible with skin to make the broth more rich);
- small onion;
- salt and pepper;
- breading flour;
- egg;
- one hundred grams of hard cheese.
Cooking Chicken Cutlets
The cooking process is as follows:
- First of all, you need to boil the meat in salt water until fully cooked. Next, remove skin from it, if any, cool.
- Twist the boiled meat and onion through a meat grinder with a fine grill. You do not need to salt, since the fillets were cooked in salt water already. Cooked meat cutlets are simply impossible to salt, all the excess salt will remain in the broth.
- Form the cutlets.
- Beat the egg in a bowl, grate the cheese in the second, and flour in the third.
- Dip the cutlet first in flour, then in the egg, then in the cheese and again in the flour.
- Fry in a pan with a little sunflower oil until a beautiful cheese crust appears.
Served cutlets of boiled meat can be with any side dish: boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes, cereals, pasta. But most of all, such cutlets are combined with vegetable salad seasoned with sunflower oil.
Chicken and vegetable cutlets
The beauty of cooked meat patties is that you can be completely sure that all the ingredients are cooked evenly. It happens that the crust is fried, but inside the meat remains raw. This certainly will not happen if you use ready-made meat for the minced meat.
Chicken is cooked quickly, so cooking will take no more time than using classic recipes. Yes, and the hostess can save, and boiling a rich soup from one piece of meat, and frying delicious cutlets!
Products for cooking:
- a pound of chicken;
- carrot;
- bulb;
- half bell pepper;
- greens to taste;
- salt and seasoning;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- breading flour;
- sunflower oil in a pan.
How to cook boiled chicken meatballs with vegetables?
In this case:
- In a salted water, put a piece of chicken without slicing, so there will be more juice in the meat, and the meatballs will be more tender. Boil until cooked - about 20 minutes from the moment of boiling. To determine if the meat is cooked, pierce it with a fork, if the juice is transparent, then it is ready.
- Fry the onion with carrots until a light golden color appears.
- Cut bell pepper into small cubes.
- Cool chicken, cut into pieces. Crank through the meat grinder.
- In a blender bowl, add the chicken stuffing, fried onions and carrots, chop to a lush mass.
- Mix the minced meat with slices of bell pepper, add seasonings, finely chopped greens - parsley, dill, spring onions or others to taste.
- Knead the minced meat, cover with a film, let it brew for 15-20 minutes in the refrigerator, so that all the ingredients stick together.
- If the minced meat seems a little dry, it is difficult to sculpt cutlets from it, then add an egg or a little milk.
- Form cutlets, fry until a light crust appears on both sides.
Ideal for serving such cutlets, sour cream mixed with fresh herbs!