The most common dish is cutlets; they are loved in every family and are prepared from all types of meat. They come from France, and the natural meaning of this word is rib. After all, they used to be cooked only with a bone, by analogy with a Kiev cutlet, so that it would be easier to pick it up with your hands. Later in Russia they began to prepare them a little differently, various chopped cutlets, chops, with buckwheat, etc. appeared. Now there are a lot interesting recipes, how to deliciously cook cutlets at home, diversify the content of ingredients and fillings.
Recipes for juicy homemade minced meat cutlets
It’s no secret to any housewife that cutlets are a dish that can feed the whole family. But not everyone has several original recipes to diversify the home menu: everything, as a rule, is prepared according to one long-tried method. Try frying the same cutlets, but a little differently: use unusual ingredients for minced meat (for example, beans), add filling, use a different cooking method.
Tips to help you cook perfect cutlets, regardless of the recipe:
- From butter they will become even more tender and juicy.
- There is no need to add eggs to prevent the cutlet from falling apart; they can make them tough.
- Don't be afraid to add more onions, carrots, and potatoes.
- For better processing of meat in a meat grinder, it is better to freeze it first.
- Mix not only types of meat such as beef with pork, but also don’t be afraid to add turkey and chicken.
- Filling options may vary, for example: buckwheat, zucchini, butter.
- When grinding meat, throw in a little bell pepper, zucchini, greens, a little garlic, cabbage, carrots - vegetables will make your dish much tastier.
- Meat can not only be passed through a meat grinder, but also chopped with a knife.
- With the help of bread, the cutlets gain additional tenderness and become fluffy.
- During cooking, cover the pan with a lid; when frying the other side, reduce the heat - the dish will be well cooked from the inside.
- Using any cutlets it is easy to make a homemade semi-finished product.
The peculiarity of such cutlets is that they are very juicy and soft. Juiciness is achieved through the use of several types of meat for minced meat and cabbage.
Source products:
- 200 grams each of minced pork, beef, chicken;
- 2 pcs. onions;
- 500 grams of white cabbage;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- to taste: salt, pepper, seasonings;
- flour or breading.
Cooking process:
Mix all the minced meat thoroughly together. Add the cabbage and onion minced through a meat grinder, add salt and pepper, beat in the egg, mix well again, beat and the minced meat is ready for frying. Use the additional cooking tips above to ensure your cutlets turn out juicy.
Minced chicken cutlets with mushrooms
To give chicken cutlets some extra flavor, use mushroom filling. This way the cutlets will be tender and not dry. The ingredients listed below are in quantities for servings for two to three people.
Source products:
- 200 grams of minced chicken;
- 10 grams dried mushrooms;
- 30 grams of milk;
- 1 PC. onions;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking method:
Soak the mushrooms separately in advance, boil, finely chop and fry together with the onions in sunflower oil. Mix salted and peppered minced meat with milk, mix thoroughly, beat on the table until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Having formed thin layers of meat, place the filling in the center and wrap it like a pie or dumpling. Next, dip the resulting cutlets in the mixed egg and separately in the breading. Fry and serve with a side dish such as pasta.
Minced pork and beef cutlets
This recipe is classic, the most common. It is believed that cutlets made from a mix of these types of meat are juicier and more tender.
You will need:
- 500 grams each of pork and beef (you can use veal);
- 1 PC. onions;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- 2-3 pcs. white bread;
- 150 ml milk;
- salt and pepper to taste, use breading.
Cooking process:
Soak bread without crusts in milk in advance, twist the meat, grate the onion with a grater, thoroughly mix all the ingredients with the egg, beat the resulting minced meat. Form cutlets and roll them in breading. Fry in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil on both sides. Bon appetit!
Secrets of cooking Kiev cutlets
These famous cutlets are prepared exclusively using chicken fillet with the presence of a leg in it. They feature complex cooking technology. Firstly, it is important to correctly form the fillet meat into a cutlet along with the protruding bone, and secondly, bring it to readiness so that the meat is completely fried and the oil inside does not leak out.
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts with legs;
- 150 grams of butter;
- 50 grams of dill;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- 5 tbsp. crushed breadcrumbs;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking process:
- Prepare in advance " green oil"For the filling: finely chop the herbs and garlic, add to the softened butter, add salt and mix well. Take cling film, lay out the resulting mixture, wrap it to form a sausage, and put it in the freezer.
- In the first breast, trim the skin near the leg, turn out the bone at the joint. Separate the meat from the breast bone, cut off a small part from the resulting fillet. Remove all longitudinal tendons, give an even thickness to the entire fillet (in thick parts, cut the fillet in half with horizontal movements of the knife and open it like a book), beat lightly (it is important that the beaten meat is whole, not thin), add salt and pepper.
- In most of the fillet along with the leg, cut out the bone with a fork, clean the remaining bone from the meat so that it remains bare, cut off the thickened part. Using a knife, unfold the meat like a book and beat it off.
- Take out the frozen butter, cut off a piece and place it in the middle of the larger sirloin, cover tightly with a small, beaten sirloin on top. Wrap the meat like a meatloaf, folding the edges in so that there are no open holes where oil could leak out.
- Dip the resulting cutlet in the egg and then in the breading. Do this 2 times with each piece. Roll very carefully so that the pieces do not stick to the batter and lose their beautiful shape.
- Frying occurs in deep fat, after which it is necessary to bake in the oven. IN a large number of red-hot sunflower oil lower the cutlet for 4 minutes, then remove it, place it on a paper towel to pat dry and immediately place it in the oven for a couple of minutes. Serve chicken Kiev fried in the oven immediately.
Dietary steamed turkey cutlets
Dietary steam cutlets Turkey is an ideal tasty meal for your child and those on a diet. Turkey meat is considered dietary, slightly different from chicken, but just as tender and airy. Cook it in a double boiler or in a slow cooker. This easy recipe, prepares quickly!
Source products:
- 500 grams of turkey fillet;
- 1 PC. onions;
- 2 pcs. white bread;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- 0.5 tbsp. milk;
- spices to taste.
Cooking method:
- Soak bread without crusts in milk.
- Grind the turkey meat in a meat grinder with onions and soaked bread.
- Mix everything with the egg and salt until smooth. The resulting minced meat should not be liquid; if it turns out to be thick, add the remaining milk.
- Form balls small size, cook in a double boiler or slow cooker.
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Fish cutlet recipes
Fish - ideal for cooking dietary dishes, the cutlets turn out to be especially tender. Sometimes a fish cake will be prepared in such a way that you will never guess that it is fish. If you are going to prepare such a dish, it is important to choose a type of fish that is as non-bony as possible (like carp). The cooking itself will not be quick, because it is necessary to properly profile the fish, remove every single bone, and only then do the minced meat. There is a huge amount different ways preparing fish cutlets.
Cutlets made from pike, carrots and lard
Pike - extremely delicious fish, but, really, not for everyone. The cunning of this fish is its bonyness, so be careful, attentive and scrupulous in the process of preparing minced meat: not a single bone should remain inside.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of pike;
- 100 grams of lard;
- 1 PC. onions;
- 1 PC. carrots;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- 2-3 pcs. white bread;
- spices to taste.
Cooking process:
- If you have a whole pike, cut it up, clean it of all kinds of stomachs and entrails, and then start cooking.
- Profile the pike meat, remove all the bones, mince it a couple of times with onions, carrots, and lard.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the resulting minced meat and mix the mixture thoroughly.
- Wetting your hands in salted cold water, form cutlets. Dip them in flour and fry them in the traditional way.
Steamed salmon cutlets
Salmon is a delicious product, not cheap, but satisfying. Steaming this fish is no less tasty: it comes out tender, juicy, dietary and lean. During the cooking process, add cheese to the salmon meat - then it will turn out twice as tasty.
Ingredients:
- 200 grams of salmon;
- 2 pcs. onions;
- a bunch of greenery;
- spices;
- 0.5 tbsp. milk;
- 1 PC. eggs;
- 1 PC. white bread without crust.
Cooking process:
- Remove every single bone from the salmon in advance. It is best to grind it with a blender until puree is formed (you can also use a meat grinder), add the rest of the products there and mix thoroughly.
- Wet your hands in water and form cutlets (add flour to this recipe no need!).
- This dish is prepared by steaming, about 15 minutes maximum. When serving, sprinkle with a little lemon juice.
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Video recipe for preparing 3 sauces for homemade cutlets
The sauce is an important component of the dish. By preparing the gravy, ordinary cutlets turn into festive ones. You just need to know the necessary secrets and the right recipes for sauces specifically suited to them. Watch the video that suggests preparing 3 completely different sauces for homemade cutlets with detailed description and some tips:
We all love classics delicious cutlets from minced meat according to grandma's recipe. Like many other dishes, they were invented in France, since their origin the preparation has changed dramatically. In Russia, they were first tried back in the time of Peter 1. During this time, many analogues appeared, meatballs, steaks, meatballs, and much more.
If you want to pamper yourself and your loved ones with this wonderful dish, then it will not be difficult for you. Just follow all the recommendations described below and then you will succeed.
Ingredients:
- Assorted minced meat - 700 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Bread - 1 - 2 slices
- Salt - to taste
- Spices - to taste
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - for frying
Cooking method:
1. Take the finished defrosted minced meat and transfer it to a deep bowl. Peel the onion and garlic and finely chop, using a food processor or grater and combine with the main ingredient.
2. Then beat in 1 chicken egg.
3. Fill the pieces of bread with water, it will soften, then add it to the rest of the ingredients. Using our hands we knead it.
Tip: To make the cutlets more juicy, you need to put bread in the minced meat.
4. Add salt, spices of your choice and you can add ground black pepper to taste. Mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.
5. Then we form cutlets. We take a small amount of meat with a spoon, place it on flour, sprinkle it on top and completely envelop it, then create a shape with it.
6. Turn on the stove in advance, heat the frying pan, pour oil into it and lay out the preparations, start frying on one side first, turn over to the other and bring to readiness.
Serve hot with a side dish. Bon appetit.
How to cook minced meat cutlets according to the classic recipe in the oven
Ingredients:
- Minced chicken - 1 kg.
- Potatoes - 1 pc. (average)
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Bread (loaf) - 3 pieces
- Milk - 100 ml.
- Salt - to taste
- Seasonings - to taste
- Ground black pepper - to taste
Cooking method:
1. Peel 1 potato, grate it on a fine grater and add to the defrosted minced meat.
2. Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes and strips (this is at your discretion). Add it to the meat.
Tip: if you don’t like the feeling of chopped onions in the minced meat, just grate it using a grater.
3. Take a few pieces of bread or loaf, put them in a cup and fill them with milk, let them swell for a while.
4. Meanwhile, add salt to taste, the seasonings you like, black pepper and you can add dried herbs, dill and onions. Mix everything well.
5. Knead the bread with your hands, pour the mixture into the remaining ingredients, and thoroughly knead the minced meat.
6. Preheat the oven. Meanwhile, grease a baking sheet with oil and place the cutlets we have formed on it.
7. Then pour boiled (but slightly cooled) water from the kettle onto the baking sheet so that our dish does not burn. 
8. Place in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, when they start to brown you can remove them. Serve to the table, please your loved ones, bon appetit.
Lush and juicy cutlets. Step-by-step cooking recipe
Ingredients:
- Pork - 500 gr.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Bread - 1 slice
- Milk - 150 ml.
- Salt - to taste
- Ground black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
Cooking method:
1. Wash the pork under running water, cut into small pieces and pass through a meat grinder with a large strainer.
Tip: if the meat is very lean, add 100 grams of lard.
2. Peel the garlic and onion, cut into four parts and grind together with the meat.
3. Place a slice of bread in a bowl, pour milk over it, leave for a couple of minutes, then squeeze out the bread pulp and add it to the minced meat.
4. Add salt, ground black pepper, break 1 chicken egg and mix everything thoroughly. And then beat it off, this is an important stage, otherwise during frying the dish will burst, break and fall apart.
5. Select the required amount of minced meat and form cutlets. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan, heat it, and then add the meat preparations.
Tip: Heat the oil in the frying pan well, otherwise the cutlets will burn.
6. Fry on both sides until beautifully golden brown.
Place on a plate (you can first place it on a paper napkin to allow the oil to drain) and serve. Bon appetit.
A simple recipe for meat cutlets without eggs
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 300 gr.
- White bread - 80 gr.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
- Pepper - 1/4 teaspoon
- Cold water - 120 ml.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Breadcrumbs - for frying
Cooking method:
1. Fill the white bread with water, it gives the cutlets airiness and tenderness. Squeeze it out of the water and put it in a blender.
2. Peel the onion, cut it into several parts and also place it in a blender, twist it.
3. Salt and pepper the minced meat to taste, then add twisted bread and onions to it, mix thoroughly.
Tip: choose minced meat according to your taste. If you like fatty cutlets, then choose pork, and if leaner, then choose chicken.
4. Wet your hands in cold water and use a spoon to form cutlets. Then roll them on all sides in breadcrumbs, you can use flour.
5. Turn on the stove, place the frying pan and heat the oil, then lay out the meat preparations.
6. Fry on one side, turn over, reduce to medium heat and finish frying.
Place the cutlets on paper towels so that the oil is absorbed. Bon appetit.
Video recipe for classic cutlets without buns (bread)
A very simple recipe for preparing this dish. They usually include soaked white bread, but the ingredients can be completely dispensed with; they turn out juicy and fluffy, not to mention their excellent taste!
Enjoy your meal!
Meat cutlets play the most important role in the menu of any family; everyone loves them, both adults and children. But not everyone succeeds, for some they fall apart, for others, on the contrary, they turn out to be too dense. And young, inexperienced housewives do not always guess the correct proportions and ratios of products in cutlets. But don’t be upset, I will share with you some of my own secrets that will help you prepare cutlets so that you won’t be ashamed to serve them even on a festive table.
How to cook delicious cutlets
- To make the cutlets juicy
- If you want to get delicious cutlets, do not buy ready-made minced meat of dubious origin. Dear beef tenderloin You don’t have to buy it, but the back, neck, shoulder, brisket and some parts of the hind leg are ideal.
- Before as put the fillet into a meat grinder, do not forget to clean it thoroughly - remove films, remove cartilage, bones and veins. In addition to beef, I recommend using fatty pork - it is this that will give the cutlets juiciness and tenderness. Standard proportion: for 1 kg of beef - 1/2 kg of pork or for 1 kg of beef - 250 g of lard. However, cutlets can also be made from lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, and game. Choose any degree of grinding, but I advise you not to overdo it and limit yourself to one-time scrolling in a meat grinder with a medium-sized grid.
- To make the cutlets or meatballs even and smooth, like a billiard ball, you need to add 1-2 tablespoons of semolina to the minced meat. And let the cutlet mass stand for 15 minutes - so that the semolina swells. Also, for fluffiness, many people add a little soda to the cutlets. And some people even indulge in starch.
- The resulting minced meat is also well decorated with spices (paprika, black pepper, coriander, chili) and chopped herbs (dill, parsley, cilantro, mint). Don’t forget to salt the future dish, but under no circumstances try it raw (tasting minced meat is the most common cause of poisoning among housewives).
- As for fish and chicken cutlets, I advise you to put a piece of butter in the middle - they will be as juicy as meat cutlets.
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I ask you to try to cook the most delicious cutlets according to my mother’s recipe. There are no people who are indifferent to them. The recipe is simple, but proven over many years. In addition, the cutlets can be prepared for future use and if you don’t have time or unexpected guests arrive in 5-10 minutes, you will have juicy, tender and flavorful cutlets. This is my first "anniversary" recipe.
Ingredients for “Homemade cutlets”:
Recipe for “Homemade cutlets”:
So let's start cooking. Grind the meat in a meat grinder or food processor. I used minced pork. But in principle you can combine pork-chicken, pork-beef. It has been noticed that cutlets turn out tastier if all the ingredients are chopped in a food processor; in a meat grinder, the taste is slightly different.
Grind the onion.
And chop the potatoes.
Mix all the ingredients of the cutlets in a bowl. Salt and pepper to taste and add chopped garlic. Now the most important thing. Be sure to beat our minced meat well. We collect it into a lump in our hands and throw it on the table or in a bowl at least 20 times. This procedure will prevent our cutlets from falling apart during frying. Now let’s let the minced meat rest a little for about 5 minutes. During this time, the bread will absorb the juice from the onions, potatoes and meat, because we didn’t add any additional liquid to the minced meat.
Then we take a small piece of minced meat (50 grams) and form small oblong cutlets. The cutlets must be small. This makes them different from others and gives them a special “charm”.
Fry the cutlets over high heat until beautifully dark brown. Do not try to fry the cutlets until done. We are not striving for this. But you need to brown it well. Please note that we do not use any breading. Meat quality in Lately has worsened significantly, before the cutlets never stuck to the pan. And now sometimes it happens. But to prevent this from happening, as soon as you place the cutlet in the hot oil, immediately move it around the pan with a spatula, this will allow the crust to grasp and not stick to the bottom. There should be enough oil in the frying pan, about 1 cm. These are the handsome ones we got.
Ready-made minced meat is a frequent “guest” in our refrigerator. Beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc. - you can not only add it to soup, rice, potatoes, pasta, but also make delicious, juicy cutlets from it. The main thing is to know a few secrets, which we will tell you about in this article.
Often, ready-made minced meat in stores is sold in a “fresh” form, that is, absolutely no auxiliary ingredients are added to it during production that can give it a specific, spicy taste and aroma. That is why, when preparing cutlets, it is advisable to add various spices and aromatic herbs to purchased minced meat.
Many housewives add rolled zucchini, cabbage, potatoes and lard to the minced meat for juiciness, and a piece of bread for fluffiness. But, as practice shows, you should not use fresh bread, but slightly stale, since a fresh loaf has increased “stickiness”, which gives the products a not very appetizing appearance.
Minced meat cutlets - food preparation
In order to prepare minced meat cutlets, it must be defrosted at room temperature, mix with those ingredients that the recipe dictates to us. Then form medium-thick cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs or flour and fry on both sides in a frying pan until cooked. Those who do not trust store-bought products can easily prepare minced meat from fresh meat at home using a meat grinder.
Minced meat cutlets - best recipes
Recipe 1: Homemade minced meat cutlets
“Homemade” minced meat cutlets is a dish that many housewives prepare from time to time, making their own adjustments to classic recipe. The main thing is that the cutlets turn out fluffy, tasty and tender. You can serve these cutlets as a side dish. mashed potatoes, rice, pasta or boiled vegetables.
Ingredients:
— 500 gr. minced pork
- one egg
— 150 gr. loaf pulp
- a glass of milk
- 100 gr. onions
- three to four cloves of garlic
- breadcrumbs
- vegetable oil
- pepper and salt to taste
Cooking method:
1. Soak the loaf pulp in heated milk for ten minutes. Finely chop the onion.
2. Place the minced meat in a bowl and mix it with the chopped onion and the loaf softened in milk. Add the egg and minced garlic.
3. Add ground pepper and salt to taste. Mix well. Form the cutlets in the traditional way and roll them in breadcrumbs.
4. Fry the cutlets in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil until cooked over low heat. At the end, turn up the heat a little so that the cutlets brown. Alternatively, homemade cutlets can be cooked in the oven with the addition of minimum quantity fat
Recipe 2: Minced meat cutlets with white cabbage
White cabbage gives the cutlets juiciness and an unusual taste. To make the cutlets not too fatty, mix two types of minced meat - pork and beef.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. minced pork
- 200 gr. minced beef
- 400 gr. cabbage
- one onion
- one egg
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- garlic to taste
- oil for frying
- flour premium mixed with semolina
Cooking method:
1. Pass cabbage with onions and garlic through a meat grinder. Drain off the excess juice. Mix the scrolled vegetables with the ground beef and pork.
2. Add egg, pepper and salt, spices and chopped herbs as desired. Mix everything thoroughly into a uniform mass.
3. Form cutlets, roll them in flour mixed with semolina, and fry them in a frying pan until cooked.
Recipe 3: Minced chicken cutlets with mushrooms
It is better to prepare minced meat for cutlets at home in advance. Fresh for this chicken fillet(500 g) twist in a meat grinder, adding 50-70 g to the minced meat. raw potatoes(fresh zucchini), crumb white bread, garlic, pepper and salt to taste.
Ingredients:
— 600 gr. minced meat (you should get about this amount)
- 200 gr. mushrooms (ceps or champignons)
- 100 gr. Luke
- flour or breadcrumbs
- vegetable oil
- parsley
Cooking method:
1. Separately, scroll through the onion and chop the parsley. Sauté the washed mushrooms in a frying pan. Grind them in a blender. Mix with onions, minced chicken, and herbs.
2. Form cutlets, roll in flour or breadcrumbs (whichever you prefer). Fry on vegetable oil until ready.
Recipe 4: Minced meat cutlets with cheese and tomatoes
Auxiliary ingredients in the form of cheese and tomatoes make minced meat cutlets richer, tasty and juicy. We recommend using mixed minced meat, that is, consisting of pork and beef.
Ingredients:
- 300 gr. minced pork
- 200 gr. minced beef
- a slice of stale bread
- one onion
- three cloves of garlic
- vegetable oil
- two tomatoes
- one chicken egg
- half a bunch of dill and parsley
- ground pepper to taste
- salt
— 150 gr. hard cheese "Russian" (or any other)
- breadcrumbs - about 100 gr.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onions and garlic. Wash the greens and tomatoes. Soak the stale bread in water (milk) for ten minutes and squeeze it out.
2. Finely chop the onion. Chop the greens. Cut the cheese and tomatoes into small cubes. Combine minced pork with beef, mix it with bread, egg, garlic, onion, tomatoes, herbs and cheese. Salt and pepper. Mix the ingredients well.
3. Form cutlets from the resulting mixture, roll the products in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides in well-heated vegetable oil. Any side dish will suit these cutlets. Bon appetit everyone!
— To prepare minced meat cutlets, it is advisable to use mixed minced meat, consisting equally of both beef and pork;
— If you plan to add minced meat to cutlets onion, then it should be chopped as finely as possible, fry separately in a frying pan and only then mixed with the total mass;
— If you are preparing cutlets from lean meats or chicken, be sure to add butter to the minced meat, but do not overdo it, otherwise the cutlets will turn out loose and will not hold their shape well;
— The cutlets will turn out no less tasty, but more healthy, if you cook them not in a frying pan, but bake them in the oven.