Homemade meatballs are a popular minced meat dish.
Simple and satisfying cutlets with crispy crust will perfectly fit into the menu of your family dinner and decorate any festive feast.
Cutlets are eaten both hot and cold.
They can be an independent dish, and served along with any side dish, whether it is a salad, mashed potatoes or stewed vegetables. Remember that no cutlets of the best restaurants in the world can be compared to home-made cutlets - made by the hostess with trepidation and love.
General principles of cooking
1. For the preparation of delicious and juicy cutlets, it is important to approach the choice of minced meat. It is best to mix several types of minced meat, where you can choose a combination to your taste. But remember that mincemeat cannot replace a home-made one, scrolled by the housewife herself in a meat grinder. If it is not possible to cook it yourself, be sure to check the freshness and quality of the meat, because this is a decisive step in the preparation of meatballs.
2. Do not forget to add bun or bread to the minced meat. This is the main rule for obtaining juicy and tender meat. It is slices of bread that hold juice in cutlets, like a sponge, completely absorbing it.
3. Cutlets can be coated both in flour and in breadcrumbs. This is your choice.
4. Do not forget about adding spices and herbs to homemade patties, this will add a touch of piquancy and sophistication.
Classic homemade meatballs
Ingredients:
minced meat (home or purchased) - 500 g;
bulb;
2 cloves of garlic;
egg;
salt, black and red pepper;
Provencal herbs;
1-2 slices of bread;
flour - 3-4 tbsp. spoons.
How to cook:
1. Peel the onion from the husk and rub or grind in a blender. Finely chop the cloves of garlic and herbs.
2. Pieces of bread are cut into slices and dried. Then soaked in water, they will give the patties incredible juiciness. Without this step, the cutlets will taste dry. Subsequently, knead and squeeze, and only then add to the stuffing.
3. Combine all of the above ingredients in a deep bowl, mix thoroughly in a combine or spoon. We beat the minced meat with your hands, throwing it on a hard surface.
4. Season with salt and pepper.
5. Take a small amount of meat with a spoon, put it on top of the flour and sprinkle with it. In the palm of your hand, we form a round cutlet, put it in a hot pan. Fry for 3-4 minutes. When we turn to the second side, remove the fire a little.
Home-made cutlets in breadcrumbs
Ingredients:
minced meat - 400 g;
bulb;
egg;
salt pepper;
2 slices of dry loaf;
breadcrumbs.
How to cook:
1. Cut the onion, break the egg and add the loaf soaked in water (milk) to the minced meat.
2. Thoroughly knead the minced meat until a mass of homogeneous consistency is obtained.
3. Form the cutlet in breadcrumbs and put in a pan with vegetable oil, put on a small fire. With breadcrumbs in breadcrumbs cutlets look much more appetizing. When you feel that they are browned, feel free to turn it over. Typically, in breadcrumbs cutlets are fried for 2 minutes on each side.
4. These cutlets are an excellent addition to a salad of boiled beets with onions, garlic, salt and pepper, seasoned with unrefined vegetable oil and sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar. Cutlets with potatoes - quite high-calorie. A beetroot salad is perfect for the dish.
Homemade beef and turkey cutlets with semolina
Ingredients:
minced meat (beef and turkey) - 1200 g;
onions - 300 g;
2 eggs;
fresh or granulated garlic;
3 tbsp. spoons of semolina;
salt and black pepper;
dry coriander;
water - 2/3 glasses;
sour cream - 300 g.
How to cook:
1. Thoroughly knead onion, ground in a meat grinder or grated on a fine grater.
2. You can add potatoes or a white roll in water or milk to the minced meat. But this recipe offers a different solution: semolina. She perfectly keeps the cutlet in shape and does not allow them to deform.
3. It is advisable to beat the mince and leave for 15-20 minutes, so that it is well soaked in spices.
4. Distribute the minced meat on the table in the shape of a rectangle, divide in half, each half into 3 parts. Any form can be made. Sprinkle each cutlet in flour.
5. For 3 minutes on each side, fry in a preheated pan.
6. Put the fried meatballs in a pan, pour about 2/3 glasses of water there, close the lid, simmer for 10 minutes over low heat, so that they reach inside and become softer. Serve to the table with sour cream.
Homemade burgers
Ingredients:
minced meat - 500 g;
onion;
egg;
long loaf - 100-150 g;
milk - 200 ml;
flour - 5-7 tbsp. spoons;
butter - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
salt pepper.
How to cook:
1. Cut the loaf crust, fill the crumb with milk and leave to soak for 15-20 minutes.
2. In a pre-heated skillet, fry finely chopped onions in vegetable and butter. Interestingly, the butter does not burn during frying and gives the food a pleasant creamy taste.
3. Break the egg, separating the yolk from the protein.
4. Mix the minced meat, squeezed bread from milk and fried onions with yolk. It is advisable to crush the resulting thick mass with your hands. Do not spare the force to beat the minced meat, the better you do it, the more convenient it will be to mold the cutlets, and when frying they will retain their shape. The minced meat is removed for 20 minutes in the refrigerator to fix its dense condition.
5. Beat egg white until a thick white foam is obtained. Check whether the protein has reached the desired consistency, as follows: when turning the bowl, it should not pour out of it. We add whipped proteins to the minced meat, mix very carefully so that the integrity of the protein is not violated, because it is he who will give the cutlets splendor.
6. We make cutlets in the form of dense cakes, roll them in flour.
7. Heat the butter and vegetable oil. We lay out the patties and fry until golden brown, turn over, add a little water so that they are steamed and cover with lid until cooked.
Soft homemade meatballs with a secret
Ingredients:
mixed minced meat (beef and pork) - 500 g;
mineral water;
2 eggs;
a pinch of soda;
salt, black pepper;
2 cloves of garlic;
bun soaked in mineral water;
2-3 onions.
How to cook:
1. Grind onions. Add the soaked bun, after squeezing it thoroughly. Rub the garlic.
2. Knead the mass to distribute it evenly.
3. Pour mineral water with gases into a bowl. A pinch of soda sprinkle with minced meat. This is our secret ingredient. Yes, it is soda, because it makes the stuffing soft and contributes to its loosening. We extinguish soda with mineral water, pouring it with drops on top. Together they give meat extraordinary splendor. Knead again to obtain an elastic mass.
4. Add 1 egg. At first, the forcemeat becomes liquid, but after good kneading, it again acquires a thick consistency. Salt and pepper are adjusted to your preference.
5. We beat off the forcemeat, throwing it on a hard surface from a small height. And leave in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
6. In breadcrumbs, soak each formed patty.
7. We do not regret oil, we warm well a frying pan. We fry for 2-3 minutes on each side, without covering, then simmer over medium heat, cover with a lid.
Homemade mustard patties
Ingredients:
ground beef - 500 g;
bulb;
1 tbsp. a spoon of olive oil;
egg;
1-2 cloves of garlic;
parsley.
The sauce is prepared from the following components:
cream with a fat content of up to 30%;
2 tbsp. tablespoons of mustard.
How to cook:
1. Grind onions, garlic and parsley.
2. In a deep bowl, mix the ground beef, add the egg, grated onion and garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste. Send to the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. We form round cutlets and put them in a pan with warmed olive oil.
4. We prepare the sauce as follows: whip the cream, add mustard.
5. Pour the sauce to the patties into the pan 10 minutes before turning it off, simmer over medium heat under a lid.
Homemade cutlets with cheese
Ingredients:
minced meat - 600 g;
egg - 1 pc.;
bulb;
potatoes - 2 pieces;
mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. spoons;
garlic - 2 cloves;
hard cheese - 100 g;
loaf - 200 g.
How to cook:
1. To soften the bread, leave it in a bowl with water for 15-20 minutes, then squeeze it and add to the forcemeat.
2. Chop potatoes, garlic and onions.
3. Combine the chopped vegetables, egg and softened bread in one bowl. Stir thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass, it is best to do this with a blender.
4. Add 1-2 tablespoons of flour so that the stuffing is not liquid. Salt, pepper.
5. Cheese cut into medium slices.
6. We make the shape of the cutlets of your choice, but it is best to form them in the form of tortillas, putting a slice of sliced cheese in the middle. Then we hide it in a cutlet, sprinkle flour on top.
7. Fry until golden brown. Stew for 4-5 minutes over low heat. Serve the cutlets hot so that the cheese inside them does not have time to harden and harden.
Homemade Chicken Egg Chops
Ingredients:
minced meat - 700 g;
loaf - 2 slices;
chicken egg - 6 pieces;
onion;
garlic - 3 slices;
salt pepper.
How to cook:
1. In a deep plate, mix the egg, minced meat, sliced loaf soaked in water, chopped onion and garlic.
2. Hard-boiled chicken eggs must be finely chopped.
3. Fry onions in a pan until golden brown.
4. Mix the onions and boiled eggs, add the squeezed garlic, salt and pepper.
5. We make flat cakes of minced meat, put the filling in the middle.
6. The pan must be greased with vegetable oil. And, finally, the last stage is to send cutlets to the oven at 160-180 degrees.
Homemade meatballs - useful tips, tricks
• If you take minced pork, the meatballs will turn out to be fat, if the chicken meat is tender and lean. The best alternative is assorted cutlets.
• To cutlets were not only juicy, but also magnificent, soda, quenched with mineral water, lemon juice or vinegar, will come to the rescue.
• Cutlets love butter, but you should not overdo it. Otherwise, they will be too fat. It is best to fry them in melted fat.
• The question often arises: how long does it take to fry cutlets? The answer is simple: until ready. And readiness can be checked in a simple way. We press the fork on the cutlet, if it emits clear juice, then after 2-3 minutes of steaming, you can safely serve it to the table.
• If the cutlets feel fried onions, send them to the microwave for 2-3 minutes, thereby bringing to readiness.
• Serve the cutlets with sour cream, light salad, vegetable side dish or standard mashed potatoes.
Cook with pleasure and love! And remember that the simpler the recipe, the better the result!
