Stuffing is exactly the product that many housewives love. Is it any wonder, because it is he who opens up endless possibilities for imagination. Cooking with him is a pleasure!
Features of the preparation of minced meat
So, why is this product so attractive to cooks? Start with the fact that minced meat can contain different types of meat. Depending on this, it is pork, beef, lamb, chicken, but most often they use a mixture of several types of meat.
When choosing, it is worth focusing on your own food preferences. So, for a diet, chicken meat is quite suitable, the most fatty options are beef, beef + pork.
Equally important is the fact that minced meat can be used to make almost all kinds of dishes (soups, main dishes, sauces, pastries, cold and hot snacks). In other words, if the hostess of meat products has only minced meat at her disposal, then her family will definitely not feel the sameness in food. Another thing is that not every housewife knows what to make from minced meat. It is to this question that it is worth trying to find a solution.
Meatball and Vermicelli Soup
You should start the debriefing precisely with the recipes of the soup, and here's why: soups are a fairly satisfying hot meal that does not require much time and effort in cooking. In addition, in addition to excellent taste and nutrition, this dish will be very economical in price.
So what to make of minced meat quickly and easily? A great option is soup with meatballs. This will require the following products:
- minced meat - 400 g (for this purpose, you can safely choose chicken, beef or pork + beef);
- potatoes - about 500 g;
- onion - 1 pc. (enough bulbs of medium size;
- carrots - 1 pc. (small);
- vermicelli - approximately 50 g;
- breadcrumbs - a few spoons (they are often used to dip meatballs).
This volume of products is enough for 3-4 liters of soup. Prepare it as follows.
A pot filled with water is placed on the stove. While it will boil, prepare the products.
Stuffing, salt, pepper, and then form small balls from it.
Chop the carrots, finely chop the onion and send the vegetables to the pan. They need to be slightly fried with the addition of a very small amount of vegetable oil.
Potatoes are cut into cubes and sent to boiling water, boiled for about 5 minutes.
After this, the fried vegetables are added to the water and again boiled for several minutes.
Last of all, meatballs are added to the soup. They need to be added one at a time so that they do not stick together. Cook for 10 minutes.
Last but not least (literally 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add vermicelli).
Serve the finished soup with chopped herbs.
Brizole Recipe
If the task is to cook a hot meat dish, then many housewives for some reason forget that, in addition to cutlets, you can make fragrant juicy brizoli from minced meat.
What will be needed for this:
- minced meat - 400 g;
- chicken eggs - 5 pcs.;
- onions - 1 medium-sized head;
- flour - 50-60 g;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- salt, pepper - at your own discretion.
From this amount you get 4 servings of brizols, so you need to calculate the amount of ingredients according to the number of servings needed.
Instruction:
- Add onion and garlic, minced through a meat grinder, to the minced meat, pepper, salt and add 1 egg. All mix thoroughly.
- Divide the entire volume of minced meat into 4 parts. Take one part and roll out a tortilla on a table sprinkled with flour. The size of the cake should approximately equal the diameter of the pan or a little less.
- Egg is poured into a bowl, slightly beat until smooth. Poured onto a flat plate. On top of a beaten egg lay a tortilla from minced meat.
- Gently transfer all this to a pan with hot oil. You need to do this in such a way that there is minced meat on top (which can be quite difficult to do without experience).
- After the egg becomes golden and brown, the cake is turned over and fried until fully cooked.
- The finished brizol is folded, the filling is placed inside. Mayonnaise and tomato sauce can be a great addition, but they should be served separately.
Brizole filling
Do not forget what to make minced brisoli - only half the battle. They also need filling. The most popular options are:
- vegetables (finely chopped cucumbers and tomatoes);
- grated cheese (after heating, the cheese will melt);
- champignons fried with onions.
To such a meat dish you can serve any side dish: mashed potatoes, pasta, any porridge. Thus, the dish will look different every time.
Manti
Juicy manti is another option that can be made from minced meat. This dish is not the fastest to prepare, but it is definitely worth a try. Especially when it comes to a festive hot dish.
Ingredients:
- minced meat (pork + beef) - 1 kg;
- onions - about 1 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- water - 250 ml;
- wheat flour - 700 g;
- salt pepper.
They begin to prepare manti by kneading the dough, since it will need to be left in the refrigerator for about 20-30 minutes.
The practical part:
- Spread the flour and make a depression in the center. Water and raw eggs are poured into it. All are thoroughly mixed together until the dough stops sticking to the table and hands. The finished dough is covered with cling film and sent to the cold.
- Onion finely chopped, add to the minced meat, salt and pepper. It is worth noting one extremely important feature. The taste and softness of the filling directly depends on the amount of onion. Usually it is prepared from minced meat and onions in a ratio of 1: 1, but onions can be used even more.
- The dough is rolled into a layer with a thickness of approximately 0.5 mm, and the same circles with a diameter of 10-12 cm are already cut from it.
- A small amount of minced meat is placed in the center of each circle, the edges are fastened in the middle so that they are free on both sides. These sides are fastened so that in the end 4 ears are obtained. Ears from opposite edges are interconnected.
In addition, you can finely chop a small amount of cabbage, zucchini or pumpkin and add to the filling. This will make the meat even softer and more juicy. Such manti just melt in your mouth and will surely please your family and guests. Manti should be steamed for 30-45 minutes. This can be done in a slow cooker, a double boiler or even in a pan with a colander installed in it. Before laying manti on a special grill for steaming, it is lubricated with vegetable oil. So that the manti does not stick together with each other during cooking, they should be placed at a certain distance from each other.
Navy pasta
When you come home after a very hard working day or unexpected guests appear on the doorstep, only one question revolves in your head: what can be done tasty and quickly? Minced meat can make a wonderful lunch or dinner, the preparation of which will take no more than 30 minutes. This dish is nothing less than navy pasta, which for some reason many neglect.
The composition of the dish is very simple:
- minced meat - 600 g;
- pasta - 300 g;
- onion - 1 head of medium size;
- garlic - about 2 cloves;
- vegetable oil - very little for frying;
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking should start with frying. Finely chop the onion and lightly fry it in hot oil, and garlic, which is passed through the press, is sent there. When the onion becomes transparent and golden, add minced meat to the pan and fry with vegetables. All this must be constantly stirred with a spatula, add tomato. Half a glass of water is poured into the pan and stewed for about 10 minutes.
At this time, pasta is cooked in salted water, discarded in a colander and sent to the pan. All together should stand on low heat for 5-7 minutes. Before serving, you can sprinkle with grated cheese or herbs.
Zrazy
In search of delicious hot dishes, many people think about what can be done, except for cutlets. A great alternative is zrazy. Such a dish will be handled in two ways by those who can make ordinary cutlets, while zrazy can be safely served to the festive table - a “patty with a filling” will certainly appeal to even real picks.
Which products will be required:
- minced meat (any meat is suitable here, so you can make zrazy from chicken minced meat no worse than from beef) - 400 g;
- white bread - about 100 g (yesterday’s bread can be used for this purpose);
- milk - 1 cup;
- cooking oil for frying;
- salt pepper.
The bread is soaked in warm milk, after which it is added to the minced meat, salt and pepper, mixed thoroughly until the consistency is homogeneous. They form it in this way. Take a small piece of minced meat, form a cake out of it. In the center put the filling and fold into a cutlet. Fry in a pan until golden brown on all sides.
As the filling fit:
- boiled chopped eggs with fried onions;
- chopped fried mushrooms with onions;
- pieces of cheese.
You can serve such a dish with absolutely any side dish and sauce.
Lasagna
What to make minced meat in the oven, especially when it comes to the holiday menu? The selection of such hot dishes always requires a special approach. It must certainly be hearty, tasty and different from the daily menu. Just such a dish will be lasagna. This is a kind of culinary designer.
The list of ingredients includes:
- minced meat (choose according to your taste) - 1 kg;
- finished sheets of lasagna - about 200-250 g;
- tomatoes - 500 g;
- cheese (any kind of hard variety is suitable) - 300 g;
- onions - 1 large or 2 small heads;
- carrots - 1 piece (medium size);
- milk - 1 liter;
- butter - enough 100 g;
- flour - about 100 g;
- Parmesan - 50–80 g;
- pepper, salt, other seasonings of your choice, vegetable oil (very little).
Finely chop the onion, fry it with a small amount of vegetable oil, chopped garlic and grated carrots are sent there. All are fried.
In the same pan, add minced meat to the vegetables and stew until fully cooked. On average, this can take from 20 to 30 minutes.
Tomatoes are peeled and ground in a blender or on a grater, they send the tomato to the minced meat and stew together for another 3-5 minutes.
The next step is the preparation of Bechamel sauce. To do this, melt the butter, add the flour and fry the mixture a little. The whole volume of milk is poured into the flour in a thin stream. In this case, do not forget to stir the sauce. Bring the liquid to a boil and cook until a sour cream is obtained. After that, the sauce is salted and pepper.
Hard cheese and parmesan are grated.
Now the assembly phase is ahead.
- Lasagna sheets are laid at the bottom of the mold.
- Spread half the volume of minced meat on top.
- The next layer is â…“ of the volume of Bechamel sauce.
- ½ amount of cheese.
- Repeat the layer of lasagna sheets.
- Leftover minced meat with vegetables.
- Sauce
- Grated cheese.
- Lasagna dough again.
- On top of the dough spread the rest of the sauce.
The form is put in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Ready hot lasagna sprinkled with parmesan.
Minced snacks
Hot snacks are hearty and tasty dishes, moreover, this is a great option for what can be done quickly. Minced meat can make great snacks for beer, tea or coffee.
One of the simplest and at the same time delicious snacks will be hot sandwiches. For them you need to prepare:
- baguette - 1 pc.;
- minced meat - 300 g (you can choose the type of meat at will, so lovers of lean meat can safely take chicken);
- raw eggs - 2 or 3 pieces;
- onions - 1 onion medium size;
- flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper and frying oil.
Stuffing is combined with finely chopped onions, salt and pepper, mix thoroughly and spread on sliced ​​baguette. They should not be quite thick so that they are comfortable to bite off. On the other hand, cutting a baguette too thin is also not worth it. During cooking, it may break.
Beat the eggs slightly, add flour to them to get batter. A baguette with minced meat spread on it is dipped in batter and fried in a pan on both sides. Serving such an appetizer is better when hot. On the table for this dish you can serve sour cream, mayonnaise or spicy sauce.
Stuffing for pies
When wondering what to make from minced meat (including chicken), do not forget about such a wonderful dish as pies. The dough can be made yeast on milk or kefir, on kefir without yeast (with the addition of baking powder) or custard. The pies themselves are perfectly obtained baked in the oven or fried in a pan. From the mere mention of the whites and chebureks, many certainly had an appetite.
The filling does not have to consist of one minced meat with the addition of onions. No less delicious are the following fillings:
- stewed cabbage (fresh or sour) with onions + minced meat;
- boiled rice, fried onions and minced meat;
- crushed potatoes, fried onions and minced meat;
- buckwheat, fried onions and minced meat;
- minced meat with boiled egg;
- minced meat with herbs.
In other words, each family will definitely have its own preferences, so each housewife will be able to choose the most suitable recipe option.
Of course, all of the above recipes are just a small part of what can be made from minced meat - cutlets are only the most obvious of them. However, this quantity is quite enough to diversify the daily diet as much as possible and to stock up the crown dish for the holiday.