Meat or poultry is not always the raw material for cooking cutlets, since this dish can be prepared for vegetarians, as well as with a low salt content. That is why cutlets have such a large number of lovers.
The most popular recipes for meatless cutlets
As the main ingredient for vegetarian cutlets, you can take dried peas (2-3 servings will need 4-6 glasses), which must first be soaked in cold water, then boiled and passed through a fine nozzle of a meat grinder along with 1-2 cloves of garlic. To the resulting minced meat, you need to add a chopped onion (if you wish, you can pre-fry the vegetables), a little black pepper, a third of a glass of flour, a raw egg, and then mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Salt to your liking. The resulting formed balls must be rolled in breadcrumbs and fried for only 5 minutes in a pan with vegetable oil. Sour cream and finely chopped greens are perfect for this dish.
Dried bean cutlets are prepared in almost the same way. Duration of soaking beans (2 cups for a couple of servings) - 7-8 hours. Then they need to be boiled, passed through a sieve and mashed. After that, parsley or dill, finely chopped onions, a little grated low-fat cheese, a fresh egg and black pepper must be added to the crushed beans. Formed bean cutlets must be rolled in flour and fried over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. According to the same recipe, you can replace beans with lentils.
Other vegetarian cutlet recipes
Wheat groats, as the main ingredient in non-meat cutlets, can also be an excellent solution. First, it is necessary to cook porridge from 200-250 grams of cereal, then cool it. You will also need to fry 100-150 grams of mushrooms along with chopped onions. Then you should mix all the ingredients and add to them a little pulp of white bread (you can pre-soak it in milk or in plain water) and 4 egg yolks. You do not need to pour out the proteins, since the formed vegetarian cutlets will then be rolled into them. They are fried for just a few minutes until a crust appears. Serving such a dish with green salad leaves will look great, and wheat groats can be replaced with buckwheat.
Semolina combined with cottage cheese, then fried into cutlets, can also be an excellent dish. So, you should first cook semolina in milk (about 8 teaspoons of cereal per glass). Then add a tablespoon of butter to the porridge, break the chicken egg and mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Before cooking, you should cool the porridge, form hollow cutlets from it, fill them with cottage cheese and roll in flour. Such cutlets are fried for only 3-4 minutes.
