Minced meat dishes are found in almost all cuisines of the world. But the beloved by many cutlets, meatballs, cuts, chopped schnitzels, kebabs, meat rolls and casseroles are not always juicy and soft. It's all about minced meat, which must be tender to prepare a delicious dish. This is not difficult to achieve, you just need to know and use some culinary tricks.
Instructions
Step 1
Various types of meat are suitable for preparing delicious tender minced meat: beef, pork, veal, lamb, poultry and fish. Choose meat with fat, then the minced meat will turn out to be more juicy and tender.
Step 2
Wash the meat intended for minced meat under running water, remove tendons and films, cut into small pieces and pass through a meat grinder. However, do not grind it very finely, as for a paste, use the largest grinder grid for mincing.
Step 3
Bread gives the minced meat extra juiciness and makes it tender due to the fact that the juice released by the meat during frying or baking, if there is bread in the minced meat, collects in the bread crumb and does not go outside. It is better to use stale white bread, from which you need to cut off the crust. Then soak the bread slices in milk, broth, or cold water. When it is well saturated with liquid, lightly squeeze the pieces and pass them together with the meat through a meat grinder.
Step 4
Then lightly salt the minced meat, mix very well and pass again 1-2 times through a meat grinder. Then rub thoroughly again and mix, adding little by little the liquid remaining after soaking the bread. At the same time, knead the minced meat well, so it is enriched with air and becomes fluffier and softer.
Step 5
Another way to make the minced meat tender is to put finely chopped ice in it, and then very intensively, preferably with a blender, beat all the ingredients.
Step 6
Add young cabbage to the minced meat, which is finely chopped or minced together with the meat.
Step 7
You can also make minced meat with the addition of butter. Freeze it in the freezer first, then chop it into small cubes and put it in the minced meat at the very end of cooking.
Step 8
Minced meat will turn out to be soft and very juicy if you add a large amount of onions to it. Grate the peeled onion on a fine grater or pass through a meat grinder.
Step 9
To make the minced meat airy and tender, add not the whole egg to it, but only the yolk, separated from the protein. This method is especially effective for minced veal or fish.
Step 10
Be sure to put the prepared minced meat in a plastic bag, tie it up and beat it well on the table or cutting board. Then the meat will exude juice, and the minced meat will become elastic and tender.
