Ground or minced meat is perfectly stored frozen.
This is perhaps the most common semi-finished product and many products can be prepared from it.
The most popular are meatballs, meatballs, dumplings, but this is not all.
A lot of meat dishes belong to the national cuisines of the peoples of our country.
Use it as a filling for various pies and pies, and classic meatballs can be served in an original way.
Chopped meat is easier to digest, which is why they are so popular in diets. And babies who are too lazy to chew will not refuse meat, if it is made from minced meat and served original. There are such recipes in the selection.
Forcemeat Dishes - General Cooking Principles
• Chopped meat is very convenient semi-finished product. The main feature of the product is that all dishes based on it are prepared much faster than from natural meat, even cut into pieces of meat.
• From minced meat, in addition to cutlets, you can cook cabbage rolls, lasagna, stuff them with pepper, make meatballs and much more.
• We suggest you to cook unusual hearty snacks from minced meat. To do this, you need a stove and oven. Of the kitchen utensils - a meat grinder or blender, grater with different cells, cutting board. Several small containers. If necessary, a saucepan and pan (thick-walled or with non-stick coating).
• Stuffing is prepared from fresh or chilled meat, you can buy ready-made.
• Before scrolling, the meat must be washed and cleaned from thick films and tendons.
• Twisted meat must be salted and well ground with black pepper. After that, it is well kneaded until smooth. You can even beat the mass lightly on a bowl so that it holds well.
• Then act according to the recipe. For juiciness and friability of finished products in minced meat, you can add raw or sautéed onions. Bread soaked in milk or water or boiled rice.
• Cooked snack dishes, according to these recipes, can be served not only on an everyday table. With their originality, they will decorate any festive feast.
What to cook with minced meat except cutlets - "Lula-kebab" with tomato sauce
Ingredients:
• beef - 250 gr.;
• 300 gr. pork;
• 250 gr. fresh lard;
• four feathers of green onions.
In the sauce:
• 700 gr. ripe tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1/3 of small chili peppers;
• a tablespoon of sunflower oil.
• a bunch of dill, two tomatoes, plus one for decoration.
Cooking method:
1. Wash green onions, beef, pork and dry.
2. Cut fresh lard and meat into small pieces and grind with a meat grinder with the smallest grate. You can kill the meat with a blender.
3. Finely chop the green onion feathers and send to the meat. Add salt, pepper with ground pepper and knead well. You can add a little nutmeg powder to your taste. Be sure to beat the mass on a table or chopping board.
4. Putting a large spoon, with wet hands, form the sausages.
5. String each such sausage onto a wooden skewer soaked in water (within an hour). Take a pyramidal grater and insert skewers with sausages into its holes.
6. Warm up the oven to 200 degrees and put a grater with billets in it. Bake until cooked.
7. Cut the washed tomatoes into pieces. Remove the stalk and grind the pulp with a blender. If not, twist the tomatoes in a meat grinder. Before chopping, be sure to remove the peel from the tomatoes.
8. Chop the chili pepper in small pieces, chop the garlic finely. Slightly fry the garlic with pepper in vegetable oil.
9. Add chopped tomatoes, salt and simmer another 10 minutes.
10. Put the finished "Lula-kebab" on the dish. Garnish with sprigs of dill and rings of tomatoes. Serve the cooked tomato sauce separately in a gravy boat.
What to cook from minced meat except cutlets - "Meat cupcakes" stuffed with quail eggs
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of mixed pork and ground beef;
• one large onion;
• small carrot;
• quail eggs - 6 pieces;
• 100 grams of hard or semi-hard cheese;
• fresh herbs;
• refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse and wash peeled vegetables under the tap. Grate the carrots on a medium grater, finely chop the onion.
2. Pour a 1.5-2 table into a skillet with a thick bottom. tablespoons of oil and brown onion on it.
3. Add chopped carrots and simmer, stirring for 6 minutes.
4. Passaged vegetables to mincemeat. Pepper, add small table salt and mix.
5. Salt slightly the water, dip the quail eggs in it and boil it. Cool under a stream of cold water. Peel, rinse and wipe dry.
6. Fill the silicone baking muffin pan with half the meat. Put one quail egg in each. And again put the minced meat on them so that it completely covers the eggs.
7. Bake the meat muffins at 180 degrees in the oven for 40 minutes.
8. 8 minutes before cooking, sprinkle muffins with grated cheese and chopped herbs.
What to cook from minced chicken except cutlets - the original appetizer "Quail Legs"
Ingredients:
• 500 gr. fresh minced chicken;
• two onions;
• five small cloves of garlic.
In the dough:
• flour - 350 grams;
• sour cream 20% - 200 grams;
• 200 ml - mayonnaise.
Additionally:
• one chicken egg (raw);
• salty confectionery straws - two small packs;
• breadcrumbs.
Cooking method:
1. Twist the onion with minced meat in a meat grinder. Add pressed garlic, salt, pepper to taste and mix well.
2. Mix sour cream with mayonnaise. Add the sifted flour and knead the dough, like dumplings.
3. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a large, thin layer. Using a glass, squeeze the circles and put one straw in the center of each. Its edges should evenly protrude on both sides of the circle.
4. Put a small piece of meat on the straw and pinch the edges of the dough over it. Cut each blank in half.
5. Dip each “leg” in a beaten egg. Bread well and fry until tender in calcined vegetable oil. In a breadcrumbs of crackers, you can put a little finely grated cheese.
6. After frying the “legs” put on a disposable towel or napkin to remove the remaining fat.
7. After this, transfer the products to a serving plate and, decorating with chopped vegetables and herbs, serve.
What to cook from minced meat except cutlets - meatloaf "Tenderness"
Ingredients:
• hard "Russian" cheese - 400 gr .;
• minced meat - 600 gr.;
• chicken eggs - 7 pcs.;
• large onion;
• 250 grams of low-fat mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Whisk 6 eggs well with a whisk and mix them with mayonnaise. Grate the cheese very finely here. Add salt to your taste, pepper a little, mix well until smooth and whisk a little.
2. Cover the roasting pan with parchment, pour the egg mixture on it. Smooth the surface with a spoon and bake until a light golden crust is obtained. Put in the oven, heating it to 180 degrees.
3. Mix chopped meat with minced onion or grated on medium grater. Add the remaining egg, a little pepper, table salt and knead everything until smooth.
4. Quickly grease the still-hot cheese layer with the meat mass and also roll everything quickly. To avoid burning yourself, put on linen gloves.
5. Cover the roll with foil and place the pan in a preheated oven.
6. Bake at 180 degrees, 40 minutes.
7. Finished roll is still warm cut into pieces. Serve cooled.
What to cook from minced meat except cutlets - meatball meatballs in potato dough
Ingredients:
• 250 gr. minced meat (any);
• boiled rice - 150 gr.;
• onion - a small head;
• a tablespoon of Chili sauce;
• 25 gr. vegetable oil;
• a quarter of tea. tablespoons of red (hot) pepper;
• 100 grams of mild semi-hard cheese;
• raw chicken egg;
• a pound of potatoes;
• two glasses of flour;
• 200 gr. "Peasant" oil;
• a teaspoon of ripper.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices, fill with cold drinking water and boil until cooked. After boiling, add a little salt to the water.
2. Mashed potatoes or hot potatoes through a meat grinder. The lattice in this case should be the smallest. Break the egg into the slightly cooled mashed potatoes, pour flour with a cultivator. Add completely melted butter and mix well.
3. Pour 200 ml of boiled cool water and knead a homogeneous dough. Wrap with foil and put in the cold for half an hour.
4. In a thick-walled pan, bake vegetable fat (sunflower oil). Spasser the chopped onion in oil until amber. Report the minced meat and fry until cooked, kneading the meat with a fork so that no lumps are created.
5. Add hot chili sauce, season with spices. Combine the fried minced meat with rice and mix well until smooth.
6. Separate the dough into small pieces. Press lightly and form flat cakes. Take the appropriate silicone molds and place the potato cakes in them. Do this so that the edges hang slightly.
7. On top, put a small ball of meat mass and slightly collect the edges of the potato dough. A small hole should remain in the center.
8. Top with cheese chips and bake at 190 degrees for a quarter of an hour.
What to cook from minced meat except cutlets - "Meatloaf" with liver and tongue
Ingredients:
• 300 gr. young veal;
• pork - 200 gr.;
• fresh beef liver - 150 gr.;
• 200 gr. boiled tongue;
• two eggs;
• half a glass of pasteurized milk;
• 50 gr. white stale loaf;
• a bunch of fresh dill;
• crushed black pepper, caraway seeds.
Cooking method:
1. Heat ghee in a pan. Add sliced beef liver and fry periodically stirring for 5 minutes.
2. Cut the tongue into small, centimeter cubes.
3. Soak brown bread well in milk. Squeeze the milk and grind it with a meat grinder, along with pork and beef. Add cumin, salt to taste. Pepper, pour in the milk remaining from soaking the loaf, and mix the minced meat.
4. Put the minced tongue, the fried liver, chopped dill in the minced meat and mix well again.
5. Form a loaf from the resulting meat mass and place it on a baking tray greased with any fat. In several places, pierce the roll with a fork.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the meatloaf in it for 50 minutes. Chill.
What to cook from minced meat except cutlets - "Glomeruli", balls of minced meat in puff pastry
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of minced meat;
• frozen puff pastry - 550 grams;
• clove of garlic;
• 150 grams of hard or semi-hard cheese;
• small onion, onion;
• three raw yolks.
Cooking method:
1. Mix chopped meat with chopped onion. Add garlic squeezed garlic, season the minced meat to your taste with spices. Lightly salt and stir well with your hand.
2. Wet your hands in water and form balls of the desired size from the meat mass. Inside each, put a small cube of cheese.
3. Roll out the puff pastry to a layer of 0.3 cm and cut it into very narrow strips.
4. Wrap minced meat blanks with strips of puff pastry so that they look like tangles of thread.
5. Cover the baking sheet with parchment, dip each “glomerulus” in beaten yolks and transfer to a roasting pan.
6. Bake the "balls" when the oven is heated to 200 degrees, for 25-30 minutes.
Tips for cooking minced meat - useful tips
• Dampen your hands in water before forming minced meat. The meat will not stick to your hands, and the product will turn out more accurately.
• Do not rush to roll puff pastry until it is completely thawed and softened. Otherwise, it will be difficult to work with him.
• Spread the minced meat on the cake baked with cheese should be very fast. Otherwise, the cake will harden quickly and roll will not work.
• Do not fry too vegetables, which are added to the minced meat, they are needed for juiciness. If you overcook them, then the dish will turn out dry.
• In minced meat made from lean meat for juiciness, you can add fresh lard twisted by a meat grinder, and a loaf soaked in milk or water will give the loaf.
