Probably one of the most favorite delicacies of children and adults can be considered cutlets! At the mere sight of them, not to mention the taste, a wolfish appetite is played out and you certainly want to postpone all your business and have a hearty snack.
Origin story
Oddly enough, but translated from French, the word cutlet means <>, this suggests that once cutlets were called pieces of meat with a rib bone.
This delicious dish, like many other recipes, came to our country from European cuisine. After a while, the first culinary guides began to mention cutlets made from minced meat without pits, and only closer to the middle of the 20th century were the recipes for cutlets already published in the usual modern hostess form - from ground meat - minced meat.
Now cutlets are made not only from meat, but also from vegetables, cereals, fish, sweet from cottage cheese and many other options. Therefore, it is enough to have a little imagination and desire to diversify the daily menu for a cozy family lunch or dinner.
Turkey cutlets with zucchini in bread crumbs
Such cutlets can be called <>, and if they are also baked in the oven or steamed, then the calorie content of such a dish will be sharply reduced, and the maximum benefit from all the ingredients is ensured. Well, for lovers of more carbohydrate foods, it is recommended to cook a dish in a pan to get an appetizing golden brown crust.
Required products:
- turkey fillet or ready-made minced meat - 500 grams;
- young zucchini - 1 - 2 small pieces;
- egg - 1 piece;
- onions - 1 head;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- bread crumbs - 100 grams;
- salt, pepper, any greens or dried herbs to taste.
Advice: of course, it is always better to take fresh meat in a trusted place than ready-made minced meat, into which, without your knowledge, not entirely honest sellers can add not only the turkey sirloin …
Step by step recipe:
- Rinse the turkey fillet well under running water, dry with a paper towel and cut into portions so that it is convenient to pass through a meat grinder.
- Peel the onions and cut them into several slices. Of course, onions for cutlets can be simply chopped finely or grated, but since the meat will still be processed in an electric mill, in order to save time and finely process the ingredients, it is also recommended to grind vegetables.
- Wash the zucchini, dry and cut into small slices.
- All of the above ingredients - onion, meat and zucchini mince.
- Beat the egg well with a pinch of salt and pour into the resulting minced meat, mixing everything thoroughly.
- Wash the dill / parsley, dry it, chop finely and add to the minced meat.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste and you can begin to form the desired cakes with pre-moistened hands so that the mass does not stick to your palms.
- Pour the breadcrumbs into a deep plate and roll each cake there on both sides. If bread crumbs are not at hand, then you can make them yourself: preheat the oven to 200 degrees, cut any available bread into squares, preferably wheat varieties, and send them to the oven for 5 - 7 minutes. Pour the dried bread into a bag and carefully roll it over it with a rolling pin on a cutting board so that the pieces turn into small crumbs. Fresh breading is ready.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan greased with vegetable oil, put the formed cutlets and fry on one side over high heat until golden brown, then turn them over, reduce the heat and bring to a ready state under a closed lid for 7 to 10 minutes.
Classic pork - beef cutlets
From the specified number of ingredients, about 12 servings should be obtained, but this still depends on the size, shape and thickness of semi-finished products that will be produced. For classic pork - beef cutlets you will need:
- minced pork - beef - 500 grams;
- onions - 1 head;
- garlic - 2 - 3 cloves;
- white bread - 50 grams;
- milk - 50 ml;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- bread crumbs - 100 grams;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Step by step recipe:
- Cut the bread into slices or pieces and pour over the milk to soak the flesh.
- Peel the onions and garlic, grate or chop in a blender, the garlic can be passed through a press, then added to the minced meat.
- Drive 1 egg into the resulting mass, salt and pepper to taste.
- Squeeze the softened bread and add to the minced meat.
- In order to give the mixture homogeneity and softness, and as a result, the cutlets turned out to be more tender, the minced meat must be beaten off. You can put it in a plastic bag so that the pieces do not fly off to the sides, and just leave it on the countertop several times.
- Then form cutlets and roll them first in a plate with beaten eggs, then in a plate with bread crumbs and send them to a preheated frying pan. Fry for 5 minutes over high heat on one side, then turn over, cover, reduce heat and simmer for another 10 minutes until tender.
Minced chicken cutlets <>
A simple recipe for an unusual dish, despite the huge number of ingredients that will be required to prepare such patties with a sweet name borrowed from the royal dessert. The finished dish will delight the whole family, surprise the children with what is hidden inside. Another plus is that by sending pre-prepared semi-finished products to the freezer, after defrosting and cooking, their divine taste will remain the same as that of freshly prepared cutlets.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 1 kg;
- onion - 1 head;
- egg - 1 piece;
- garlic - 3 - 4 cloves;
- bread crumbs or dried wheat flour - 100 grams;
- salt and pepper to taste.
For the filling you will need:
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- hard cheese - 150 grams;
- butter - 70 grams;
- dill, parsley, salt.
For breading:
- milk - 20 ml;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- wheat flour - 4 tablespoons;
- bread crumbs - 100 grams.
Step by step recipe:
- First you need to prepare the filling. Boil the eggs hard-boiled and put them under cold water for a few minutes so that you can easily remove the shells. Peel the eggs and chop finely or coarsely grate.
- Grate hard cheese as well.
- Wash the greens, dry, chop finely and add to the cheese and egg mixture. Salt and pepper.
- Soften the butter in advance and mix with the rest of the filling.
- Form small oval shapes, put on a plate and send to the freezer.
- Finely chop the chicken fillet. You can, of course, skip the fillet through a meat grinder, but in the classic recipe for such cutlets, you need to chop the meat with a knife.
- Peel the onion and garlic and mince or grate.
- Add the egg, onion, garlic, salt and pepper to the meat and mix thoroughly. If the mass turns out to be thin, then you can add a little bread crumbs or toasted bread.
- Take 3 plates, in which pour the bread crumbs, flour and in the third, mix the eggs with milk and beat well.
- Form cakes from the minced meat, put the frozen filling on the center and wrap in an oval cutlet.
- Roll the semi-finished products first in flour, then in an egg-milk mixture and then in breadcrumbs.
- Heat a greased skillet, place the patties and fry on both sides over medium heat for 5 minutes on each side.
- Put the cutlets on a baking sheet and send to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Mashed potatoes with some kind of delicate sauce are best suited to such a dish. Bon Appetit!
