Is it possible to cook cutlets if there is no meat or fish in the house? Easy! From the most ordinary instant oatmeal, wonderful cutlets are obtained, and if you do not tell the household tasting this dish what they are prepared from, then they themselves are unlikely to guess.
So, let's try to cook oat cutlets. For a glass of cereal, we need half a glass of boiling water, one medium-sized potato. Onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, herbs, salt, pepper and oil, on which we fry our patties.
Pour the cereal into a bowl and pour boiling water over them. If desired, the flakes can be pre-chopped in a blender, then your homemade ones just won’t guess what cutlets are made of. We cover the cookware with steamed cereal with a lid and leave it for half an hour so that the oat-flakes swell and become soft.
In the meantime, peel and wash the potatoes, onions, herbs and garlic. Three potatoes and onions on a fine grater, cut the greens as finely as possible, and chop the garlic using a press. Now we add vegetables and greens to the swollen flakes. Salt the mass. Add pepper and any spices that you like.
The prepared stuffing, from which we will make oat cutlets, should be of consistency, like a thick dough for fritters.
We heat the pan with vegetable oil and spread our oat cutlets with a spoon. Fry on one side until a crust appears, then turn the patties on the other side, fry for one minute, and then cover the pan with a lid and reduce heat to a minimum. We keep our patties under the lid for five to seven minutes, and then remove them from the pan. We have obtained lean oatmeal patties that can be recommended for vegetarians or those who fast. At the same time, the dish is quite tasty, and even resembles ordinary meatballs. For a side dish to these cutlets, you can serve a salad of vegetables or potatoes. Oat cutlets go well with tomato sauce or ketchup.
I must say that the above recipe for oat cutlets is the basis. These cutlets can be prepared with various additives. For example, during the preparation of mincemeat, finely chopped mushrooms or stewed cabbage can be added to the mass. Cutlets will get a new taste.
Those who do not fast, as a supplement to oat cutlets, can use finely chopped sausages, cheese, sausage or minced meat. In addition, oat cutlets can be prepared according to a different recipe, which includes an egg.
For one and a half glasses of cereal, we will need to take a glass of broth, while the broth can be anything - meat, chicken or mushrooms. You will also need one egg, a couple of cloves of garlic, two to three tablespoons of flour, salt, vegetable oil and seasonings. Cutlets according to this recipe can be cooked without additives or introduced into the composition of the ingredients finely chopped sausage, boiled meat, cheese, mushrooms. You can also take as an additive about one hundred to two hundred grams of minced meat.
The process of preparing such cutlets differs little from what is described above. Pour the flakes with broth and give them time to swell. Then we try on salt (after all, the broth was salty) and, if necessary, add salt and pepper.
Add finely chopped garlic, beaten egg to the mass, and if the mass is liquid, then a little flour. If we cook cutlets with additives, then add them. Onion lovers can put onion finely chopped and fried in oil in the minced meat.
Such cutlets need to be fried in vegetable oil, spreading the mass with a spoon, as in the preparation of butterflies.
Ready oat cutlets are served with sour cream or mayonnaise. And if we cooked them without additives, then we can put a slice of sausage and cheese on each cutlet. You can decorate the dish with herbs and chopped olives. The best side dish for this dish, of course, is vegetables.