Minced meat dishes

Minced meat dishes are a wide range of meat dishes made from any pure minced meat or in addition to other products that cook faster than other meat dishes and are in demand on our table. In this topic, you are offered a selection of time-tested, simple and tasty minced meat dishes in various designs.

Minced hedgehogs with gravy in a frying pan

What can you cook from minced meat quickly and tasty? Minced hedgehogs with gravy in a frying pan are the most popular dish and are easy to prepare. It is better to use minced meat made from half pork and half beef. Raw or semi-cooked rice is added to the minced meat. In this recipe, we do not fry the hedgehogs, but simmer them in sour cream and tomato sauce with the addition of vegetables.

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   How to cook a quick and tasty minced meat dish? Boil a bag of rice in advance until half cooked.Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl and mix with boiled rice. Then add finely chopped onion, break the egg, add salt and seasoning, knead the minced meat well again.
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   Grind the carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the second onion into cubes. Fry these vegetables in hot vegetable oil for several minutes.
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   With wet hands, form the minced meat into identical hedgehogs with a diameter of no more than 5 cm and place in a single layer in a frying pan on top of the fried vegetables. Then pour boiling water over the hedgehogs half their height and simmer under a covered lid over low heat for 20 minutes.
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   In a bowl, mix equal amounts of sour cream with tomato paste and salt and seasoning. Pour half a glass of water into this mixture.
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   Pour the prepared sauce over the hedgehogs in the frying pan, without covering them completely, and simmer for another 10 minutes. The thickness of the gravy can be changed by adding a little hot water.
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   A quick and tasty minced meat dish is ready! Sprinkle minced hedgehogs with gravy cooked in a frying pan with herbs and serve hot. Bon appetit!

Simple and tasty minced meat cutlets in a frying pan

In this recipe, you are invited to cook simple and tasty minced meat cutlets in a frying pan with the addition of grated potatoes instead of a loaf, onions and without eggs. It is important to knead the minced meat well. Such cutlets will be juicy, soft and hold their shape well when fried.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 1 kg.
• Potatoes – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Cold water – 2 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1.Peel two onions, chop very finely and rub in your palms until it separates into pieces.

Step 2. Finely chop the peeled garlic cloves with a knife or crush them through a garlic press.

Step 3. Peel, rinse and chop the potatoes on a fine or medium grater.

Step 4. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl, add grated potatoes, chopped onion and garlic, add salt and black pepper, pour two tablespoons of ice water and knead well with your hands until the texture is smooth. The kneaded minced meat can be beaten several times.

Step 5. Using wet hands, form small identical cutlets from the minced meat.

Step 6. Fry them in portions in heated vegetable oil and over moderate heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 7. Prepare simple and tasty minced meat cutlets in a frying pan, serve hot and with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Minced meatballs with rice and gravy

Minced meatballs with rice and gravy are prepared like hedgehogs, but you can add any vegetables to them along with rice. The meatballs are first fried, which retains their shape, and then stewed in any sauce/gravy.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 0.5 kg.
• Rice – 1 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 1 clove.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• Sour cream – 100 gr.
• Water – 100 ml.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel and chop the onion and garlic using a blender.

Step 2. Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl. Add well-washed rice, chopped onion and garlic, break an egg and add salt and black pepper. Knead the minced meat well with your hands.

Step 3.With wet hands, form small identical balls from the minced meat and place in vegetable oil heated in a frying pan.

Step 4. Fry the meatballs over medium heat until golden brown on all sides.

Step 5. For the gravy, mix sour cream with tomato paste, salt and black pepper well in a bowl.

Step 6. Pour the prepared gravy over the fried meatballs, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat, covered, for 20-30 minutes until the rice is cooked. During this time, the meatballs will absorb some of the gravy and increase in volume due to the raw rice.

Step 7. Transfer the prepared minced meatballs with rice and gravy to a plate and serve hot, accompanied by a side dish or salad. Bon appetit!

Potato casserole with minced meat in the oven

Potato casserole with minced meat in the oven turns out to be a complete dish, combining meat with a side dish, and it is easy to prepare. Options based on raw potatoes are possible, but based on mashed potatoes, the casserole is more tender and suitable for baby or diet food. The minced meat for the casserole is fried with onions, and you can use yesterday’s mashed potatoes.

Cooking time: 1 hour 25 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 1 kg.
• Minced meat – 0.5 kg.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Butter – 110 gr.
• Salt – 1.5 tsp.
• Ground black pepper – 1 tsp.
• Greenery - for decoration.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Immediately prepare all ingredients for the casserole according to the recipe. Any minced meat is suitable.

Step 2. Peel the potatoes, rinse, cut into pieces and boil until tender in water with added salt.

Step 3. To the boiled potatoes, drain the water, add 50 g. melted butter and puree in any way.

Step 4. Finely chop the onion and fry until light golden brown in a small amount of butter. (30 gr.)

Step 5. Then add the minced meat to the onion. Add salt and black pepper, mash well with a fork and fry while stirring over low heat for 8-10 minutes, just until the color of the minced meat becomes light.

Step 6. Break the egg into the slightly cooled puree and mix well. Grease any baking dish with oil and spread half of the puree in an even layer. Spread the minced meat evenly over it.

Step 7. Place the rest of the puree on top of the minced meat, smooth the surface with a spoon and brush with the remaining butter.

Step 8. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Place the casserole in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Then remove it from the oven and let it cool for 20-25 minutes. During this time, the potato mass will stabilize and the casserole pieces will keep their shape.

Step 9. Cut the oven-cooked potato casserole with minced meat into portions, add herbs and serve. Bon appetit!

Cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice

Cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice, as a self-sufficient second course, are loved and often prepared in many families. Minced meat and rice wrapped in cabbage leaves turns out juicy, with an extraordinary taste and aroma, and the flavor is complemented by the sauce. In this recipe we prepare cabbage rolls from young cabbage, minced chicken with rice and fried onions. Stew cabbage rolls in a saucepan in sour cream and tomato sauce.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Cabbage – 1 kg.
• Minced chicken – 300 gr.
• Boiled rice – 100 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Tomato juice – 400 ml.
• Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 3 gr.
• Allspice – 1 gr.
• Pepper mixture – 2 gr.
• Dill – 5 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Wrap the cabbage in several layers of cling film and place in the microwave at maximum power for 5 minutes.

Step 2. Then remove the stalk from the cabbage with a knife.

Step 3. Disassemble the head of cabbage into individual leaves.

Step 4. Cut the peeled onion into small cubes.

Step 5. Fry the onion until transparent in heated vegetable oil.

Step 6. Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl, add boiled rice with fried onions and mix well.

Step 7. Then add salt and seasonings to the minced meat and mix again.

Step 8. Cut off the thick parts of the cabbage leaves with a knife.

Step 9. Place a spoonful of minced meat on the edge of each sheet.

Step 10. Fold the edges of the leaves and form neat cabbage rolls.

Step 11. Then place the cabbage rolls compactly in a bowl for stewing.

Step 12. For the sauce, mix tomato juice with sour cream and add salt to your taste.

Step 13. Completely pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls and bring to a boil.

Step 14. Simmer the cabbage rolls over low heat, covered with a lid, for 45 minutes. Then add chopped dill to them, turn off the heat and let it steep for 10-15 minutes.

Step 15. Place the prepared cabbage rolls with minced meat and rice on portioned plates, top with sour cream and serve. Bon appetit!

Simple and delicious minced meatloaf

A simple and tasty minced meatloaf will be an alternative to the usual cutlets, and, when cold, a delicious appetizer for the holiday table. In this recipe, it is better to use mixed minced meat for the roll; knead it as you would for cutlets. For a simple filling, take pre-boiled eggs with green onions. Bake the roll in the oven.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Minced pork – 500 gr.
• Minced chicken – 500 gr.
• White bread - 4 slices.
• Milk – 150 ml.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Garlic – 4 cloves.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground paprika - to taste.
• Mixture of peppers - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For filling:

• Boiled egg – 5 pcs.
• Green onion – 4 feathers.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Soak slices of white bread in milk, squeeze and crumble with your hands.

Step 2. Finely chop the onion and fry until light golden brown in hot vegetable oil, then sprinkle with paprika.

Step 3. Place the two types of minced meat in a separate bowl and add salt and a mixture of peppers.

Step 4. Using a garlic press, add peeled garlic cloves to the minced meat.

Step 5. Then add soaked slices of white bread to the minced meat.

Step 6. Add the fried onion to the minced meat and mix well with your hands until smooth. If the minced meat turns out watery, add more bread or breadcrumbs.

Step 7. Place a piece of foil on a baking sheet. Place minced meat on it evenly and at least 2 cm thick.

Step 8. Finely chop the green onions and place them in the middle of the minced meat.

Step 9. Place hard-boiled eggs in one row on top of the onions.

Step 10. Then carefully wrap the minced meat around the filling, forming a roll. Seal the edges of the foil tightly.

Step 11. Turn on the oven at 200°C. Bake the roll for 40-45 minutes.

Step 12. Then open the foil on top and continue baking for another 15 minutes to obtain a golden brown crust.

Step 13. Cut the prepared simple and tasty minced meat roll into portions and serve hot, adding any side dish or a delicious chilled appetizer. Bon appetit!

Quick minced meat zrazy with mushrooms

Quick minced meat zrazy with mushrooms will be an excellent meat dish for your family table, both hot and cold. They are prepared simply: a flat cake is formed from the kneaded minced meat, the mushroom filling is wrapped in it, and the zrazy are fried in a frying pan. In this recipe, minced meat is mixed with white bread, and for the filling, mushrooms are fried with onions.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 600 gr.
• Champignons – 200 gr.
• White bread - 4 slices.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Milk – 0.5 tbsp.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Flour - for breading.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. For the filling, peel the onions and mushrooms. Cut one onion into small cubes and fry in hot vegetable oil.

Step 2. Cut the mushrooms into the same cubes, add to the fried onions and fry until cooked and the mushroom juice has completely evaporated. Then sprinkle the mushrooms and onions with salt and black pepper.

Step 3. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl and break the egg.

Step 4. Grind the second onion using a blender.

Step 5. Add slices of white bread soaked in milk, chopped onion and salt with black pepper to the minced meat.

Step 6. Then knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hand until smooth.

Step 7. With wet hands, form a flat cake from the kneaded minced meat and put a little mushroom filling in the middle of it.

Step 8. Seal the edges of the cake tightly and give it an oblong shape.

Step 9. Then roll all the formed zrazy in flour.

Step 10. Fry the zrazy in heated vegetable oil over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 11Serve the prepared quick zrazy from minced meat with mushrooms to the table hot and in addition with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Lula kebab made from minced meat at home

An option for a delicious minced meat dish at home can be lula kebab. Any minced meat is suitable, and not only from classic lamb, but its kneading has its own characteristics: bread and eggs are not added to it; put a lot of onions (1/3 of the minced meat) with herbs and lard. The minced meat is thoroughly kneaded with repeated beating. In this recipe we prepare lula kebab from chicken meat and bake it on skewers in the oven. Add cilantro to the minced greens, but you can replace it with parsley.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Chicken thigh – 500 gr.
• Lard – 100 gr.
• Onion – 170 gr.
• Fresh cilantro – 10 gr.
• Coriander – 1 tsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare, according to the proportions of the recipe, all the ingredients for the lula kebab.

Step 2. Peel the onion and cut into several pieces. Rinse the greens and dry with a napkin.

Step 3. Rinse the chicken meat, remove all moisture with a napkin and cut the flesh into medium pieces.

Step 4. Then grind the meat and lard twice through a meat grinder to make the minced meat tender and fine.

Step 5. Then twist the onion with herbs and add to the minced meat.

Step 6. Add salt, ground coriander and black pepper to the minced meat. Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands and beat it on the bottom of the dish several times to make it viscosity and homogeneity.

Step 7. Soak wooden skewers in cold water. Line a baking dish with paper.

Step 8. With wet hands, form oblong sausages from the kneaded minced meat around the skewers and place them in the mold.

Step 9Turn on the oven to 180°C. Bake the lula kebabs for no more than 30 minutes so that they remain juicy and do not dry out. For a golden brown crust at the end of baking, turn on the “Grill” mode for a couple of minutes.

Step 10. Serve the minced meat kebabs cooked on skewers in the oven hot. Bon appetit!

Stacks of minced meat with cheese in the oven

A beautiful and tasty dish made from any minced meat will be the so-called “stacks” of minced meat with cheese in the oven. The minced meat is mixed according to any method and formed into flat cakes. Various fillings are placed on top of it in layers, sprinkled with grated cheese and the dish is baked in the oven. In this recipe, we use boiled eggs with onions and raw potatoes for the filling.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 400 gr.
• Hard cheese – 100 gr.
• Large onion – 1 pc.
• Boiled egg – 2 pcs.
• Potatoes – 3 pcs.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings – 2 pinches.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Transfer the minced meat into a separate bowl.

Step 2. Add salt and any seasoning to it.

Step 3. Peel and finely chop a large onion.

Step 4. Add 1/3 of the chopped onion to the minced meat to give it juiciness. Then knead the minced meat well with your hand and beat it a couple of times.

Step 5. Fry the remaining onion slices until soft in heated vegetable oil.

Step 6. Cut the hard-boiled eggs into small cubes.

Step 7. In a separate bowl, mix chopped eggs with a tablespoon of mayonnaise.

Step 8. Grease a baking sheet or baking dish with oil. Using wet hands, form the minced meat into 4 flat cakes and place in the pan. Make small indentations in the middle of them.

Step 9. Place fried onions in them.

Step 10Place the egg filling on top of the onion.

Step 11. Grind the potatoes on a coarse grater, carefully place them on stacks on top of the eggs and add a little salt.

Step 12. Grind the hard cheese using any grater and complete the formation of the stacks. Turn on the oven at 180°C. Bake the stacks for 25 minutes.

Step 13. Place the minced meat and cheese stacks cooked in the oven onto a dish and serve hot, topped with fresh herbs. Bon appetit!

Delicious stuffed peppers in a pan

Stuffed peppers in any version are a delicious homemade dish. This recipe offers you a very tasty option with minced turkey meat. We stuff the peppers and boil them in a saucepan, and prepare a thick vegetable sauce for serving separately. We take large peppers; a 2-liter pan is enough for them.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 35 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Minced turkey – 200 gr.
• Large bell pepper – 3 pcs.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Rice – 50 gr.
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp.
• Water – 150 ml.
• Green onion – 30 gr.
• Greens – 30 gr.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 tsp.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Allspice – 4 pcs.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare, according to the proportions of the recipe, all the ingredients for the dish.

Step 2. Peel and rinse all vegetables.

Step 3. Carefully remove the stalks with seeds and membranes from the peppers. Rinse the rice and soak briefly in cold water.

Step 4. Finely chop one onion. Grind one carrot on a fine grater. Finely chop the greens. Add these ingredients to the minced meat, add soaked rice and salt. Then mix the minced meat well.

Step 5. Using a teaspoon, place the prepared minced meat compactly inside the peppers.

Step 6.Place the stuffed peppers vertically in a saucepan, cover with cold water and add a little salt and bay leaf.

Step 7. Cover the pan with a lid, bring the peppers to a boil and cook over low heat for 30-35 minutes from the start of boiling water.

Step 8. During this time, prepare the vegetable sauce for the peppers. Cut the second onion into thin quarter rings. Grind the second carrot on a coarse grater. In a bowl, mix tomato paste with 150 ml of water and a pinch of salt.

Step 9. In heated vegetable oil, fry the chopped onions until golden brown, add the carrots and fry for another 3-5 minutes over medium heat.

Step 10. Pour tomato sauce over the fried vegetables, stir and simmer over low heat under a covered lid for 12-15 minutes until the vegetables become soft. You can change the thickness of the sauce with the amount of water. Salt this sauce and add a little sugar.

Step 11. Transfer the delicious stuffed peppers cooked in a saucepan to a dish, pour over the vegetable sauce, add chopped herbs and serve hot. Bon appetit!