There are many recipes for making cutlets, but most of them contain bread. This ingredient gives off a peculiar smell that spoils the enjoyment of the dish. But you can do without it, the tunics will turn out no worse.
To diversify your diet, you need to try different recipes. This can also be attributed to cutlets, which should be varied with various ingredients. If you change the cooking technology a little, you will be able to get a very tasty dish.
Ingredients
To prepare cutlets without bread, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 kg of meat;
- 1 onion;
- 1 egg;
- 2 potatoes;
- 3 g of soda;
- salt;
- pepper;
- 300 ml of water;
- flour or crackers for breading.
Minced meat
To get really tasty meat patties, you need to take good meat, in which the fat content is up to 30% for pork, and 10% for beef or lamb. Before making minced meat, it must be cooled. Care should be taken in advance that the knife at the meat grinder is sharp, and the grate must be taken with large holes. Such a measure will not allow the meat to lose its juice and its properties.
Cooking cutlets
As soon as the minced meat is ready, you should finely chop the onion and fry it until golden brown in vegetable oil. Then you need to grate raw potatoes on a medium grater. As soon as the onion has cooled down a little, it should be added to the minced meat along with the potatoes, and the egg should be driven in. In addition, salt, pepper to taste and soda are added at this stage. It is very important to mix all the ingredients so that the spices are evenly distributed over the minced meat. Then cold water is added to the mass and everything is thoroughly mixed until smooth. After that, cutlets are formed and breaded in flour or breadcrumbs.
Frying
Once the patties are ready, they should be placed in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fried for 30 minutes. To make the dish more juicy, the frying technology should be slightly changed. So, first, the cutlets are fried in a pan for a minute on each side over high heat to form a golden brown crust. Then, they are transferred to another dish with a lid and placed in the microwave for 5 minutes. Fry on medium power. The cutlets are ready, you can start tasting.
Advice
When cooking cutlets without bread, you can experiment a little with their taste. So, add 1 medium carrot to the minced meat, which, like potatoes, should be grated first. The dish will turn out to be juicy and sweetish. If you beat off the minced meat before adding the rest of the ingredients, then the cutlets will turn out to be more tender.
