To cook minced meat quickly and tasty

From minced meat you can cook hundreds of dishes at home, it would be a desire. They are prepared in every home, and each housewife has her own signature recipe. Cutlets, meatballs, meatballs, dumplings, bedbugs, meatballs and nests are made from minced meat. A lot of options.

If you can’t buy minced meat, the quality of which suits one hundred percent, do it yourself. It’s not very difficult, but all the dishes will turn out so delicious that relatives will be on duty in the kitchen to be the first to taste them.

Preparation for cooking

If you are not an expert in the art of cooking, then know that the main thing in cooking is to understand the principle of creation: scroll through fresh, clean meat without films and veins, add the rest of the ingredients according to the recipe.

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Freshly thawed or thawed meat after thawing, rinse with water and separate the flesh from the bones. Do not cut too much fat from beef, pork and lamb meat. It is he who makes the stuffing soft. But I advise you to remove the skin from the bird in order to reduce the calorie content of the finished product.

Grinding is better in a meat grinder, but you can use a blender. At the same time, many housewives pass the meat through the grill of the meat grinder twice, which significantly improves the taste of the dish, making it more tender.

The secret to the perfect stuffing is that it should be soft and lush. This effect can be obtained if you knead the mass well with your hands, carefully kneading the lumps with your fingers.

ON A NOTE! Experienced culinary specialists put crushed ice into the minced meat, and then beat the meat mass with a blender again to give it airiness and lightness.

What is needed

Depending on the recipe and culinary preferences, you can supplement the product with soaked white bread, chopped herbs, freshly ground black pepper, raw or fried onions, spices and garlic.

In order to form a cutlet and improve the taste, a whole egg or only the yolk is introduced. The egg mixture envelops the pieces of meat and makes the mass flexible and supple in the molding. You can introduce a small amount of grated cheese, raw potatoes or a little starch, all these products replace chicken eggs.

TIP! If the minced meat is dry, add a little water, milk, cream, sour cream or tomato juice to it. These ingredients enhance the taste by making them softer and more tender.

Choose minced meat

Minced pork is suitable for preparing any dishes, there is a sufficient amount of fat in it. By consistency, it is juicy and tender. It is better to grind meat from the neck, shoulder and shoulder blades. Beef is a universal product, but in its pure form is dry, therefore, pork or chicken pulp is added to it in a proportion of 70/30. For grinding, the brisket, tenderloin or shoulder blade is suitable.

Because of its specific taste and aroma, mutton is actively used only in eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. The most suitable pieces for its preparation are the thigh. Minced poultry is used for meatballs, meatballs, meatballs and many other products. To prepare it, you will need legs and white meat from the breast.

Delicious and original minced snacks

In addition to the usual meatballs, minced meat can be cooked with meatball canapes and aromatic Koenigsberg bedbugs.

Bedbugs

This dish contains such a bouquet of flavors: mint marjoram flavor, spicy capers, creamy sauce, so you won’t be bored.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of beef pulp;
0.3 kg of pork pulp;
0.2 kg of bacon;
2 eggs;
180 g white loaf;
80 g of onions;
1 handful of capers;
70-80 ml of lemon juice;
to taste salt, paprika, black pepper;
1 pinch of sugar;
to taste marjoram.

For the sauce:

500 ml of fresh meat broth;
1 handful of capers;
150 ml of white wine (dry);
45 g butter;
35 g flour;
150 ml of thick cream;
8 ml of Worcester sauce;
salt, pepper to taste.

How to cook:

Cut the crusts from the loaf, tear the bread crumb with your hands and soak in milk.
Scroll the meat with fat, add chopped onion, bread, spices, chicken eggs, seasonings.
Knead thoroughly with your hands. Add chopped capers and form meatballs.
Season the water with lemon juice, sugar and salt. Boil the bedbugs in it, then put it in the sauce and warm it again.
For the sauce, brown the flour in the butter, pour the wine, cream and broth. Cook with stirring for 3 minutes. Add another Worcester sauce, a handful of capers, season and warm until thickened.

After turning off the stove, the dish should be infused. Serve in deep plates, seasoning with plenty of sauce.

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Meatball Canapes

An elegant meatball appetizer is an affordable and affordable dish, but always tasty. You will need bread for a canapé: yesterday’s white roll or rye, perfect.

Ingredients:

0.6 kg mixed minced meat;
75 g onion;
6 branches of cilantro;
1 avocado;
100 ml of fresh cream;
2 pinches of garlic spices;
65 ml odorless oil;
season to taste.

Cooking:

Grind the onion and lightly brown in 20 ml of oil.
Chop 3 sprigs of cilantro and add together with the onion to the meat mass. Season, mix thoroughly.
From the minced meat, mold small balls and fry in the remaining oil.
For the sauce, mix in the blender bowl the flesh of one avocado, spices, cream, the remaining cilantro.
A cookie cutter cut out mugs from pieces of bread. Place sauce on them and put meatball on top.
Secure everything with a beautiful skewer.

Main dishes of different minced meat

Minced meat can be used to prepare main dishes with different tastes: to mold cutlets, to make meatballs with rice and nests with an egg.

Oven minced rice

Resourceful chefs dilute the minced meat with chopped cabbage, so the meat mass they get is magnificent.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of mixed meat;
300 g of white cabbage;
100 g of rice;
85 onions;
to taste garlic;
120 g carrots;
100 g fatty sour cream;
egg;
salt, pepper to taste.

Cooking:

Grind the cabbage, dip in boiling water for 3 minutes, drop in a colander. Bring rice to a half-preparedness.
Fry grated carrots, chopped onions in oil. Add chopped garlic at the end of the roast.
In a deep bowl, combine cabbage, boiled rice, minced meat, fried vegetables, egg, season everything to taste.
Put the prepared mixture into a mold, grease with thick sour cream.
Bake in the oven at 200 ° C until cooked.

ON A NOTE! You can form ordinary cutlets from the cooked mass and fry on both sides in a skillet.

Jacks

To prepare the nests, we take the most affordable products, and as a result we get a festive dish. On a plate, it looks very impressive.

Ingredients:

0.3 kg of veal;
0.2 kg of pork;
1 stale bun;
1 onion;
1 egg in minced meat + 5-6 pieces for the filling;
1 handful of chopped parsley;
2 g black pepper.

For the sauce:

20 g of flour;
25-35 ml of refined oil;
200 ml of tomato juice;
1 handful of chopped greens;
a few peas of black pepper.

Cooking:

Put the loaf (without crusts) in a bowl, pour in the milk and leave for a while.
Make minced meat from meat. Top it with raw egg, bread, chopped parsley, pepper, chopped onions. Season to taste, knead well and mold balls.
In each ball, make a hole with your hand, place a half of the boiled egg in it (the protein should be at the top). Everything, the nests are ready.
Place nests in a suitable skillet for the oven, pour in the sauce (cook it in advance). Cover the container and put in a warm oven for half an hour.
For the sauce, fry 20 grams of flour in oil, add tomato juice, chopped herbs, a few peas of black pepper and mix.

ON A NOTE! Before sending meat pieces to a meat grinder, it is necessary to cut off the films from them, remove the veins, bones and cartilage.

Hedgehogs

There will be no difficulties with “hedgehogs”, unless rice and sauce need to be prepared separately.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of mixed meat;
100 g of rice;
a raw egg;
seasoning to taste;
45 ml of vegetable oil;
20 g of tomato paste;
200 g of tomatoes in their own juice;
25 g flour;
25 g sour cream.

Cooking:

Finely chop the onion, put in a frying pan and fry. Combine cooled onion with minced meat, add rice, chicken egg, spices and knead thoroughly.
Make the sauce: peel the tomatoes, chop the pulp with a blender, combine with pasta and fresh sour cream. Add flour to the finished sauce, season and stir. If the sauce is thick, you can dilute it with water.
From meat mass to form meatballs, put in a stewpan. Pour the sauce so that it covers the hedgehogs completely.
Simmer for 30 minutes under the lid (low heat).

ON A NOTE! Do not add soaked bread to meatballs with rice. But it is necessary to fry them in oil.

Cutlets

Cutlets are a classic of the culinary genre that never bothers. And note, there are no special secrets, except for one thing: minced meat needs to be well kneaded.

Ingredients:

0.3 kg of pork;
0.4 beef;
0.2 kg of stale bread;
1 egg
100-120 g of onion.

Cooking:

Prepare minced meat from meat, add it with fried onions.
Soak stale bread or crackers in milk or plain water.
Add soaked bread, egg, salt, black pepper to the mass and knead well.
You shouldn’t lay a lot of eggs, otherwise the cutlets will turn out to be dense. Instead, you can put a little starch or grated raw potatoes.
Roll the patties in flour and fry until golden brown.

ON A NOTE! When the cutlets are ready, pour 50 ml of water into the pan and put 30 grams of oil, warm slightly. Water and butter add juiciness to them.

Quick recipes with minced meat for dinner

It happens in everyday life that there is such a mess that time is sorely lacking, the children are hungry, the husband must come home from work and you need to quickly cook something for dinner. In this case, the ambulance will be minced meat. It can be prepared in advance or purchased at the store.

Meat bread

This is one of the options for meatloaf. Only the filling is not distributed on the surface, but intervenes in the meat, after which a loaf is formed.

Ingredients:

1 kg of minced meat;
200 g of any mushrooms;
1 egg
75-80 g of onion;
1 slice of bread;
130 g of cheese;
100 g of milk;
20 g butter;
salt to taste.

Cooking:

Chop half the onion, brown in oil, add the washed mushrooms to it, fry for 7-8 minutes. Remove from the stove, combine with cheese, seasonings.
Add the onion, milk, egg, black pepper, mushroom filling to the minced meat. Mix well.
Line the mold with oiled parchment, lay out the ingredients and form a loaf, cover with foil.
Cook in a hot oven for 35-40 minutes (180-200 degrees).

ON A NOTE! If the stuffing is very liquid, I advise you to thicken it with ground crackers or wheat flour. After adding which, knead the mass one more time.

Baked meatballs with pasta and vegetables

Pasta or pasta, as Italians call it, is the world record holder in terms of cooking speed. The main thing is to quickly send cutlets to the oven.

Ingredients:

1 kg of minced beef and pork;
egg;
90 g of onion;
150 g of white loaf (stale);
for frying oil;
300 g of pasta;
½ jars of corn + peas (canned).

Cooking:

Put slices of loaf in the dishes, pour milk or water, leave for a few minutes. Then squeeze and transfer to a deep bowl, add minced meat, chopped onion, egg, seasonings.
Blind the patties and place on a baking sheet, pre-oiled. Put in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes. Then pour in a little water and leave for another 5 minutes.
Boil the pasta, combine with green peas and corn. Serve with cutlets.

Turkey and minced chicken recipes

The main advantage of minced poultry is its low calorie content and fat content. Poultry meat is rich in vitamins and amino acids. This is a great option for anyone who cares about health.

Baked turkey cutlets with olives and almonds

While the patties are baked in a frying pan, you need to prepare the original gravy with almonds, smoked paprika and olives.

Ingredients:

½ cup almonds;
minced meat from turkey and chicken;
bulb;
50 ml olive oil;
½ cup olives;
smoked paprika to taste;
1 red bell pepper (fry in advance).

Cooking:

Grind the onion in a blender bowl. Soak the bread in milk. Combine everything with minced meat, season. Form cutlets.
Fry almonds with smoked paprika in vegetable oil, then put olives and pepper. A small amount of smoked paprika gives the dish an intriguing aroma. You can buy it at the supermarket.
Bake meatballs in a grill pan. 5 minutes is enough.
Put cutlets on a serving dish, place the almond mixture on top.

Serve stewed, green beans and boiled rice seasoned with butter for a side dish.

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Chicken Steam Cutlets

Chicken cutlets will turn out tender if you combine diet white meat with fat thighs.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of minced chicken.
2 potatoes;
1 pinch of salt;
egg.

Cooking:

Boil potatoes and mash until smooth.
When the mashed potatoes have cooled, add the beaten egg.
Season the chicken and combine with crushed potatoes.
Blind round cutlets. Steam for 20 minutes.

ON A NOTE! Try not to take the stuffing in the store or on the market from little-known manufacturers, you will not be able to find out what they mixed into it.

The calorie content of different dishes

Maintaining moderation in food is important, but do not set strict prohibitions. If you really want something, you must definitely cook it, but, of course, keep track of portions and calories.

Calorie table and nutritional value

Name of dish	Energy value (kcal)	Squirrels	Fats	Carbohydrates
Beef and pork cutlets	240	19,5	33,6	3,9
Chicken Steam Cutlets	196	17,8	18,8	14,1
Baked turkey cutlets with almond sauce	215	19,7	22,5	8,3
Jacks	299	17,3	16,3	25
Hedgehogs	300	20,4	13,1	26,7
Minced rice	310	19,1	17,5	25,8
Bedbugs	289	18,1	19,2	22,7
Meat bread	325	19,4	20,0	10,5
Meatball Canapes	186	13,5	11,0	12,0

Useful Tips

Secrets of the perfect stuffing.

To bring to the desired consistency, enter the products during the kneading process, and add seasonings and spices at the end of the preparation.
There is an easy way to add juiciness. Place it in a regular cellophane bag, then carefully knock it off the table.
Stuff the cooked minced meat in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes, so that it is saturated with spices and saturated with aroma.
Do not store on the shelf of the refrigerator for more than 24 hours, it is better to immediately send the extra piece to the freezer.

Minced meat is a great option for your daily diet. Now even a schoolboy knows how to fry cutlets, put out meatballs and bake roll. There are many interesting recipes with recommendations on how and what to cook from minced meat in the oven or in a skillet. Dishes are tasty, nutritious, healthy and not requiring a lot of time.