Dietary nutrition is based not only on the use of certain types of foods and refusals from other components.
Much also depends on the method of culinary processing of food.
The most useful and gentle for the digestive system is cooking steamed dishes.
They do not directly contact the heating surface, do not have a crispy crust, are prepared without oil.
All this is the guarantee that the cooked dish will be dietary.
These include steamed diet cutlets.
The basic principles of cooking diet cutlets for a couple
• For diet cutlets, do not use pork, fatty lamb and beef. The best choices are chicken, lean beef and veal, rabbit, fish.
• Steaming not only eliminates the use of excess fats, but also leaves the stove and utensils that would be used when frying clean.
• Steamed diet cutlets can be prepared from vegetables, as well as meat and fish using cereals.
• For the heat treatment of such cutlets, steamers or pans, where the grills are placed, are suitable for the type of pressure cooker. Steam cooking features are also available in modern multicookers.
• If there is no special appliance, you can use a conventional pan with a small amount of water and a sieve with products installed on it for steaming. The sieve is covered with a lid.
• The best side dish for steam diet cutlets - vegetables, fresh or also steamed, boiled, stewed.
• All recipes are based on 500 g of meat or fish. These are about two servings of the finished dish. If you need more food, just increase the amount of food.
Steamed Diet Cutlets
Low-fat beef is nutritious and moderately high-calorie, a good source of protein. And cooked in the form of lush cutlets in a double boiler, it will delight you with its delicate texture and pleasant taste.
Ingredients
500 g of young beef, veal without veins and fat
50 g white bread
100 ml of milk
1 medium onion
Salt
Black pepper.
Cooking method
Soak the bread in milk for 10 minutes.
Wash the meat, cut and pass through a meat grinder or blender along with onions and bread.
Salt, pepper, pour in the milk left over from soaking.
Knead the minced meat with your hand. If too dense, add a little milk or cold water - literally a spoon.
Form cutlets. Put on the oiled lattice of the double boiler.
Cook under the lid for half an hour.
Most popular: diet steaks chicken
Chicken is the most suitable meat for diet. For these purposes, chicken breast is usually used. Vegetables and hercules will make minced meat especially tender.
Ingredients
500 g chicken
2 carrots
2 onions
2 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons Hercules groats
2-3 tablespoons of milk
Dill
Salt
Black pepper.
Cooking method
Turn the chicken meat through a meat grinder, you can use a blender to grind.
Also chop the onion - in a meat grinder, in a blender or carefully chopped with a knife.
Grate the carrots or put in the same blender.
Finely chop a bunch of dill.
Mix vegetables, add hercules and milk, herbs, salt and pepper. Allow to stand for 15 minutes, so that the oat-flakes gain moisture.
Form small cutlets.
In a double boiler on a wire rack greased with oil, place the patties and send to cook for 20 minutes.
Serve with sour cream, tomato or tomato sauce. It is possible with soy sauce.
Dietary chicken and bran steaks
Bran helps digestion. This is coarse fiber, which is not digested by our body, but it is necessary for the development of beneficial microflora. In combination with kefir and healthy chicken, they have a particularly beneficial effect on health.
Ingredients
500 g chicken breast
1 onion
1 egg
3 tablespoons with a hill of bran, wheat can be replaced with oat
Half a cup of kefir, preferably 1%
Salt
Parsley and cilantro at will.
Cooking method
Mix bran with kefir and leave for a few minutes to swell, with 1 spoon of bran to leave.
Cut chicken breast and pass through a meat grinder or a blender.
Chop the onion in the same way.
Finely chop the greens with a knife.
Mix kefir-bran mass with meat, onions, salt, beat the egg, pour the greens.
Stir the minced meat thoroughly and stick cutlets of arbitrary shape and size.
Roll in the bran left and put on the grate, pre-lubricating it with oil.
Cook in a double boiler for 20 minutes.
Such cutlets are very good with fresh vegetables.
Fish tenderness - diet steaks from fish
For cutlets, absolutely any fish, river or sea, is suitable. For diet food, you should only avoid particularly fatty varieties. Pike, bream, pike perch, crucian carp, saffron cod, pink salmon, pollock, cod, blue whiting, tilapia, and rasp are well suited. The main thing is to completely rid the flesh of bones, which is especially important for river fish. To avoid such problems, you can take the finished filet.
Ingredients
500 g fish fillet
1 onion
1 potato
2 tablespoons of milk
1 chicken egg
Salt
Dry aromatic herbs.
Cooking method
Boil potatoes, mash with milk.
Grind the fish in any suitable way. You can do this not only with a meat grinder or blender, but simply with a knife. Only in this case the fish fillet should be frostbitten.
Also do with onion.
Mix all the ingredients in one soft, quite juicy mass.
Form oblong cutlets.
Place on a greased grate and send to steam for 20 minutes.
Serve with lean white sauce. For example, based on milk. Or just sprinkled with lemon.
Diet steamer "Fisherman-loser"
The comic name of this dish apparently reminds of the situation when the fisherman returned home without a single fish. And instead of a rich soup or fried carp, the wife whips up a meal of what is. In fact, such simple cutlets diversify the diet menu. The use of canned fish makes the recipe not only affordable and affordable, but also adds certain notes of taste.
Ingredients
1 can of canned fish in oil or your own juice - saury, mackerel, tuna or others
1 onion
Half a glass of dry rice
1-2 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil
Salt
Black pepper.
Cooking method
Pour rice in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook viscous porridge
Salt, pepper, let cool.
Mash canned fish, after draining part of the juice and oil.
Finely chop the onion and fry a little in oil until soft. If you need a more lean dish, do without oil and frying, just chop the onion and mash, slightly salted.
Combine all of these components, add flour, mix. The number of eggs and flour needs to regulate the density of minced meat. It should be very soft and at the same time dense, not spread.
Form the cutlets of the desired shape.
Put in a double boiler on a greased grate and cook for 10-15 minutes. The main products as a part of forcemeat are already ready, therefore minimum time is required for the egg to seize.
Serve with vegetables.
Steamed diet cutlets made of minced meat
These original cutlets have an unusual taste. They do not have meat, they can be used as breakfast, dinner or a side dish for meat dishes. Prunes give them a certain smoky aftertaste.
Ingredients
1 large carrot
1 medium beetroot
2 medium potatoes
1 large onion
5 pieces of prunes
2 tablespoons semolina
1-2 chicken eggs
Salt
Ground black pepper.
Cooking method
Boil potatoes in their skins or bake in the oven.
Peel, grind to a puree state.
Soak prunes in warm water. After half an hour, finely chop with a knife.
Chop the onion as finely as possible.
Rub carrots and beets raw on a fine grater, put in a colander to stack excess juice. This juice, diluted with boiled water, you can drink.
Mix all kinds of vegetables, eggs, salt, pepper, semolina.
Stir thoroughly, the stuffing will be a little liquid, but it needs to be allowed to stand. For 10 minutes, semolina will take in excess moisture.
Form round patties, spread on a wire rack greased with oil.
Steam for about half an hour, given the use of raw vegetables.
Steamed cabbage diet cutlets "Who would have thought?"
Cabbage cutlets are not familiar to everyone. But even those who have tried and cooked them know that such cutlets need to be well-fried. However, you can cook this dish from cabbage and steamed. True, for a bright taste, the cabbage itself must be properly prepared.
Ingredients
500 g fresh cabbage
1 onion optional
2 tablespoons semolina
1 tablespoon of vegetable oil as desired
1 egg
Salt
Any spices to taste
Breadcrumbs
Sesame seeds.
Cooking method
It is advisable to choose a young and tender cabbage. If it is stiff, remove all thick veins. Finely chop.
Slightly add salt and send to the pan to stew.
If desired, you can do this with a spoon of vegetable oil. For a more dietary effect, do not add oil.
Stew under the lid. When the cabbage becomes completely soft, turn off the stove.
After five minutes, add spices and semolina, mix thoroughly quickly.
Allow to cool, beat in the egg, mix again. You can walk with a blender for more tenderness of minced meat.
Form cutlets. Bread mixed with sesame seeds.
If the cabbage is stewed with oil, the grates should not be greased. If not, lay out the patties, after having greased the grills with oil.
This dish comes to readiness in just 15 minutes.
Serve with low-fat sour cream. Such cutlets are also tasty in the cold.
Tricks and secrets of cooking diet cutlets for a couple
Steamed dishes may seem tasteless with no habit. This is due to our food addictions, when due to frying, some sharp or too bright spices, artificial seasonings, the real taste of the product is clogged. Steaming helps to reveal this taste. A few secrets will improve the dish.
- To achieve a particularly dietary effect, bread and potatoes can be eliminated in the minced meat.
- Vegetables - onions, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, if chopped and minced.
- Diet cutlets during cooking are not subjected to overturning or other manipulations. Therefore, there is less risk that they will break up, and it is not necessary to introduce an egg into the stuffing. In any case, in order for the products to keep their shape, they need only egg white, without yolk.
- The inclusion of raw yolk eggs in the forcemeat will make the cutlets more tender, but at the same time increase the calorie content. True, because of one yolk it will not rise much.
- If the meat or fish is dry, you can pour a spoonful of milk, cream, sour cream into the minced meat.
- Spices, spices, fragrant herbs will give additional pleasant notes to cutlets. Dill, coriander and other seasonings to taste can improve the taste perception of diet cutlets for a couple.
Enjoy your meal!
