Meat cutlets, be it pork, beef or chicken, are loved by almost everyone. Well, how to refuse such a fragrant, juicy, nourishing meat treat from minced meat twisted in a meat grinder? But the flesh of pork or beef is very expensive, not everyone can afford homemade cutlets. But you can still enjoy them not only on holidays and payday days - you just need to know how to significantly reduce the price of ready-made minced meat.
It is necessary
- - ready-made twisted minced meat;
- - onion;
- - garlic;
- - fresh cabbage;
- - boiled rice, buckwheat or pearl barley to choose from;
- - loaf crumb soaked in milk;
- - fried or freshly grated carrots;
- - finely grated raw potato (you can take 2-3 tubers);
- - zucchini pulp;
- - a raw egg;
- - salt, spices, fresh herbs, bread crumbs.
Instructions
Step 1
Start reducing the cost of minced meat by choosing the right meat. If you don't have much money, but you want cutlets, you shouldn't buy beef in the store for 450 rubles / kg. It is better to choose a piece of pork for a promotion worth 230 rubles / kg or chicken fillet for 160 rubles / kg. If you take a piece with bones, cutting them off at home for soup, pork will cost 200 rubles, and a whole chicken carcass in many cities can be found at a discount and for 110-120 rubles / kg. The savings are noticeable right away, aren't they?
Step 2
Now add in the recipe, in addition to spices, salt, raw eggs, inexpensive additives from the simplest foods. Firstly, this is garlic for flavor, for 1 kg of minced meat it is worth taking 3-5 cloves. Secondly, inexpensive onions (1 kg costs about 25 rubles), without which no one can imagine delicious and juicy homemade cutlets. You can take a lot of onions for 1 kg of minced meat, 150-200 grams - that's right, you can do all 300. This trick will make the cutlets tastier and also cheaper.
Step 3
Do you like not too fatty cutlets, albeit from pork? Along with the onions, add finely chopped fresh cabbage to the minced meat, you can lightly fried in a pan. The dish will turn out delicious, and hardly anyone will notice the vegetable in the composition, deciding that these are just familiar pieces of onion. Savings are also good with cabbage - 1 kg costs about 35 rubles, in summer and autumn heads of cabbage from the garden are generally free.
Step 4
Don't like cabbage, do you prefer more hearty cutlets than with vegetables? Add boiled rice, buckwheat or barley to the minced meat - whichever you prefer. From the same minced meat, in addition to cutlets, you can stick meatballs and meat "hedgehogs" by cooking them with sauce. It is tasty and satisfying, food for both adults and children.
Step 5
A few more economical additions are the introduction of squash or raw potatoes, minced in a meat grinder, into a recipe for onions. If you don't have these vegetables at home that add softness to the cutlets, white bread soaked in milk will do as well - before, the housewives added it to all cutlets. And if you really like fluffy cutlets - add a couple of tablespoons of semolina to the minced meat, let it swell. Such "machinations" with meat will not affect the taste at all, you can not be afraid of it.
