Cutlets are a common dish for any family. They are very often served at lunch or dinner. Sometimes a cold cutlet becomes a morning sandwich. Usually, pasta or potatoes are served with cutlets, but sometimes salad or nutritious sauce is served instead of a side dish. When they say a cutlet, usually people imagine a product made from minced meat, there are many varieties of cutlets. Cutlets that are cooked in a double boiler are much healthier than fried ones. But rarely does anyone want to cook such food, believing that it is tasteless.
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And what is a cutlet and where did it come from? Cutlet in Russian cuisine or language means meat in the form of minced meat or flatbread. The modern cutlet comes from the French word côte - rib, although it has a semantic meaning. The very word cutlet came to us from European cuisine. Initially it meant a piece of meat.
Let's analyze several recipes for steaming cutlets:
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Regular steamed cutlets.
You will need: Minced meat 500 gr., Egg, onions, green onions, salt, pepper, vegetable oil.
Preparation: Lamb, of course, is fatty meat, it is better to steam it, the cutlets will turn out to be very tasty and juicy! Scroll the lamb through a meat grinder, add onions. Put an egg, finely chopped green onion, pepper and salt in the minced meat. Grease the trays of the cooker with vegetable oil. Form minced meat patties and put in a mantle cooker.
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Steamed diet cutlets.
You will need:
Low-fat veal, a slice of white bread, milk, butter, semolina, pepper and salt.
Preparation:
Cut the meat into small pieces, put the pulp of white bread in the milk and leave for a few minutes, then scroll the pulp and meat through a meat grinder. Put semolina, butter, egg in the minced meat and mix well.
In order for the minced meat to become homogeneous, it must be beaten on the table. At the end, add salt and pepper, mix it all and refrigerate for half an hour. Grease a steamer with butter. Moisten your hands and make small minced meat patties. You need to cook for about 20 minutes.
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Steamed baby cutlets.
You will need:
Chicken fillet, white bread, milk, salt, onions, basil can be added for flavor.
Preparation: Put a pot of water on fire and bring to a boil.
You need to arrange a steam bath: place a special grate, fix gauze over boiling water. While the water is boiling, scroll the meat, put the bread soaked in milk and onion there, scroll it all in a meat grinder 2 times. Add basil and salt. Moisten your hands with cold water and form into balls, then put on the wire rack. Close the lid and cook for 20-25 minutes.
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Try to cook with different spices that your child likes best. You can add oregano or nutmeg.
