Minced meat cutlets

Minced meat cutlets are a dish that is often on our home menu and almost everyone loves them. They have many cooking options, but each recipe has some secrets and subtleties, both in the composition of the ingredients and in the cooking method, and frying cutlets in a frying pan is always the fastest and easiest way. The constant condition for all recipes is fresh and high-quality minced meat.

Juicy minced pork cutlets in a frying pan

The juiciness of minced pork cutlets in a frying pan is determined by the quality of the minced meat and it is better to cook it yourself, but meat is not always available. In this recipe we prepare cutlets from store-bought minced meat, and to make them juicy, add a loaf soaked in milk. The option and proportion of ingredients are considered classic and tested by experience in preparing cutlets.

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   Minced meat cutlets are very easy to prepare in a frying pan.Prepare the ingredients according to the recipe and the required number of servings.
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   Fill a piece of white loaf with milk in a separate bowl and leave to soak for a few minutes.
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   We take ready-made minced pork or grind the selected meat through a meat grinder. Frozen minced meat is defrosted in advance under natural conditions. Place the minced meat in a separate bowl and add the lightly squeezed loaf.
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   Peel the onion, finely chop or grate it and add to the minced meat.
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   Then break one egg into these ingredients and add salt and black pepper to your taste.
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   The taste of the cutlets will be improved by finely chopped herbs, such as dill.
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   Then we thoroughly knead the minced meat and beat it, which makes it denser and more uniform.
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   With wet hands, form cutlets of any shape as you like. Heat the vegetable oil well in a frying pan and fry the cutlets over low heat for 4 minutes on each side. For greater juiciness, you can pour a little water into the frying pan and simmer the cutlets for a couple of minutes under the lid.
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   Serve fried minced meat cutlets in a frying pan to the table, adding sauce or side dish. Bon appetit!

Minced chicken cutlets in a frying pan

Ground chicken has a different texture than ground pork, and when cooking ground chicken cutlets in a frying pan, it is important to use the correct proportion of ingredients with a minimum of liquid so that the cutlets retain their shape and remain juicy. In this recipe we will add only an egg and fried onion to the minced chicken. Fry breaded cutlets.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken – 500 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Ground black pepper – 1 whisper.

For frying:

• Breadcrumbs – 4 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.

Step 2. Heat two tablespoons of vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion slices until golden brown.

Step 3. It is better to take freshly prepared chicken mince or twist it through a meat grinder and transfer it to a separate bowl.

Step 4. Break one chicken egg into the minced meat.

Step 5. Then add a pinch of salt and black pepper.

Step 6. Cool the fried onions a little, transfer to the minced meat and pour in all the oil.

Step 7. Then knead the minced meat well with a wet hand.

Step 8. Pour crackers into a bowl. Form small cutlets from the minced meat and roll them in breadcrumbs.

Step 9. Re-pour and heat the oil into the frying pan. Place the formed cutlets into it.

Step 10. Fry the cutlets over moderate heat until crispy on both sides. Serve the minced chicken cutlets hot, with a side dish and vegetables. Bon appetit!

Minced beef cutlets

Meat cutlets made from minced beef, as tougher meat than pork and poultry, have some nuances in preparation. It is better to make minced meat yourself, choosing beef without fat and tendons. It is advisable to twist through a fine wire sieve 2 or 3 times. A soaked loaf must be added to the cutlets. In this recipe we fry the cutlets in butter and without breading.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Minced beef – 800 gr.
• White bread - 2 slices.
• Boiled water – 150 ml.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Butter – 3 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Prepare all the ingredients for the cutlets immediately according to the recipe and the number of servings you need. Grind the beef through a meat grinder or use chilled ground beef, because frozen mince does not produce juicy cutlets.

Step 2. Remove the crusts from the white bread and soak the pulp for 5 minutes in boiled water.

Step 3. Then squeeze the bread a little and crumble it into small pieces with your hands.

Step 4. Place the ground beef in a separate bowl and add the crushed bread mixture to it. Chop the onion very finely and also add to the minced meat. Mix these ingredients well with a spoon.

Step 5. Then break one chicken egg into the minced meat and add salt and black pepper to your taste.

Step 6. Knead the minced meat thoroughly, preferably by hand and beat it on the table several times.

Step 7. Melt the butter in a frying pan, and to prevent it from burning when frying, you can add a little vegetable oil.

Step 8. With wet hands, form cutlets, which, according to the rules, should have an oval and flat shape.

Step 9. Fry the cutlets in hot oil over medium heat, on both sides for 15-20 minutes, until they are golden brown.

Step 10. Serve hot meat cutlets from minced beef, cooked in a frying pan, for dinner with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Juicy and soft minced meat cutlets in the oven

A good way to prepare juicy and soft minced meat cutlets is to bake them in the oven on a baking sheet. This method allows you to cook more portions at the same time and reduces the calorie content of the cutlets.In this recipe, to make the cutlets juicy and soft, add boiled potatoes with semolina and cream to the minced meat, chop the onion and garlic in a blender and place them in a well-heated oven so that the cutlets quickly become crusty.

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Portions: 20 pcs.

Ingredients:

• Pork and beef meat – 1 kg.
• Boiled potatoes – 300 gr.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Chopped dill – 3 tbsp.
• Cream – ¼ tbsp.
• Semolina – 3 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Coriander - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for lubrication.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Grind the pork and beef in a meat grinder or take ready-made mixed minced meat and transfer it to a separate bowl. Grind the peeled onions and garlic cloves in a blender into a homogeneous mass, but you can also twist them together with the meat. Transfer the onion mixture to the minced meat.

Step 2. Grind the pre-boiled and peeled potatoes on a medium grater. Transfer it to the minced meat and break one chicken egg.

Step 3. Then sprinkle the minced meat with salt and seasonings to your taste and add finely chopped dill.

Step 4. Next, pour a quarter cup of heavy cream into the minced meat and add semolina.

Step 5. Mix the minced meat well with your hands and beat it several times on the table or the bottom of the dish for 2 minutes.

Step 6. Spread the kneaded minced meat in an even layer on a cutting board and leave for 15 minutes for the semolina to swell.

Step 7. To form identical cutlets, use a knife to divide the minced meat into small rectangles.

Step 8. Line a baking sheet or baking dish with a piece of foil and grease with vegetable oil.

Step 9With wet hands, form the minced meat into neat cutlets and place on a baking sheet at a short distance from each other.

Step 10. Preheat the oven to 210 degrees. Bake the cutlets for 30 minutes and for a more golden brown crust, turn on the “Grill” mode for 2 minutes or increase the temperature. Serve the juicy and soft minced meat cutlets cooked in the oven hot to the table, complemented with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Minced turkey cutlets in a frying pan

Minced turkey, not to mention its dietary properties, has a brighter taste with a dense and at the same time delicate texture compared to minced chicken, so minced turkey cutlets in a frying pan are considered especially tasty. Minced meat is usually supplemented with bread, semolina, cereals, sour cream and various vegetables. In this recipe, add carrots and onions to the minced meat and fry in breading.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Turkey meat – 1 kg.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Breadcrumbs – 4 tbsp.
• Paprika – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. For cutlets, it is better to use chilled turkey meat; the dish will be juicier than one made from frozen minced meat. Rinse it well with cold water and remove excess moisture with a napkin. Then grind the turkey through a meat grinder with a fine rack, maybe twice.

Step 2. Together with the meat, twist the peeled onion and garlic cloves. Peel the carrots, rinse, chop on a medium grater and add to the minced meat.

Step 3. Sprinkle minced meat with chopped vegetables to your taste with salt and black pepper and mix. Then break one chicken egg into it.

Step 4.Mix the minced meat well again until it has a homogeneous consistency and leave for 10 minutes so that the ingredients become friends.

Step 5. For breading, mix crackers and paprika in a bowl. If desired, you can add a little hot pepper or other seasonings to the breading.

Step 6. Heat the vegetable oil well in a frying pan. With wet hands, form small neat cutlets, coat well in breading and transfer to a hot frying pan. To maintain juiciness, fry the cutlets until golden brown on both sides, first over high heat, and then over medium. Fry for 20 minutes until done.

Step 7. Pour a little water into the fried cutlets and simmer them over low heat and covered with a lid. Place minced turkey cutlets cooked in a frying pan onto a plate, decorate with herbs and serve for dinner, complemented with vegetables. Bon appetit!

Minced fish cutlets

The technology for preparing minced fish cutlets is not much different from meat cutlets; good texture of the minced meat is important so that the cutlets keep their shape and at the same time are juicy. For fish cutlets, white fish is best suited in the form of fillets (pollock or pangasius), which do not have small bones or a specific fishy smell. In this recipe, we supplement the minced fish with starch, which will make its consistency optimal, and add fried onions.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 minutes.

Servings: 2.

Ingredients:

• Fish fillet – 350 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Starch – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Greens - to taste.
• Mixture of spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Breadcrumbs - ½ tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1.Peel the onion, cut into small cubes and fry until light golden brown in hot vegetable oil.

Step 2. Rinse the fish fillet, previously defrosted under natural conditions, with cold water, dry with a napkin and cut into pieces. Place the fillet in a blender or food processor, add the fried onion and grind until smooth. The degree of grinding is at your personal discretion.

Step 3. Transfer the resulting minced meat into a separate bowl. Break a chicken egg into it, add finely chopped any greens and add salt, a mixture of spices and starch.

Step 4. Then mix these ingredients well into a homogeneous minced meat.

Step 5. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan. With wet hands, form the minced meat into neat cutlets, bread them on all sides in breadcrumbs and transfer to a frying pan. Fry the cutlets over moderate heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 6. Transfer the cutlets prepared from minced fish to a dish and serve hot. Excess oil can be removed with a paper napkin. Bon appetit!

Meat cutlets without adding bread

Bread in cutlets is an important ingredient, since it retains their shape and juiciness due to gluten, but you can cook meat cutlets without adding bread. It is replaced with semolina, breadcrumbs or chopped cabbage, potatoes, pumpkin, celery and even beans and chickpeas. In this recipe, replace the bread with raw potatoes and onions, minced through a meat grinder. Onions retain the juiciness of the cutlets well, and adding an egg to them is a must.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Minced pork – 500 gr.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Raw potatoes – 2 pcs.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 3 cloves.
• Salt - to taste.
• Water – 70 ml.
• Parsley – 1 tsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Peel the vegetables indicated in the recipe (potatoes with onions and garlic) and rinse with cold water. Then twist them through a meat grinder with a fine grid.

Step 2. Transfer the prepared minced pork into a separate bowl and add chopped vegetables to it.

Step 3. Add salt and black pepper to this mixture to your taste, break one chicken egg and add a little of any finely chopped herbs, and in this recipe, parsley is added. Knead the minced meat well and beat it a little.

Step 4. Form small cutlets from the prepared minced meat with wet hands. Cook in this recipe without breading. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry the cutlets over moderate heat until golden brown on both sides. Then transfer them to a small saucepan, add 70 ml of boiled water and simmer the cutlets over low heat under a covered lid for 8-10 minutes.

Step 5. Transfer the cooked meat cutlets without adding bread to a dish and serve for lunch, adding vegetables and side dishes. Bon appetit!

Minced meat and semolina cutlets in a frying pan

Minced meat and semolina cutlets in a frying pan will be a good option when you don’t have white bread or even crackers at home. When semolina swells, it imparts viscosity to the minced meat, and when fried, the cutlets hold their shape remarkably well and remain juicy with an elastic consistency. In this recipe we prepare minced pork cutlets and add spices to their taste.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 10 pcs.

Ingredients:

• Pork – 500 gr.
• Semolina – 3 tbsp. no slide.
• Garlic – 2 cloves.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Mustard – ½ tsp.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First of all, prepare, according to the recipe and the number of servings you need, all the ingredients for the cutlets.

Step 2. Rinse the pork well under running water and remove excess moisture with a towel. Immediately peel the onion and garlic.

Step 3. Cut the meat into medium pieces and grind into minced meat using a meat grinder with a fine grid or medium, and transfer it to a separate bowl.

Step 4. Then twist the onion with garlic and add to the minced meat. Garlic can be crushed through a garlic press.

Step 5. Break one chicken egg into the minced meat and add semolina.

Step 6. Add half a teaspoon of mustard, a spoonful of tomato paste and salt and black pepper to the minced meat. You can add other spices or dry herbs.

Step 7. Knead the minced meat thoroughly by hand until smooth.

Step 8. Leave the kneaded minced meat for 20 minutes (which is mandatory) so that the semolina swells.

Step 9. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. With wet hands, form small cutlets and place in oil. Fry the cutlets first over high heat until golden brown, and then over medium heat until cooked through. Serve the minced meat and semolina cutlets cooked in a frying pan hot to the table, complemented with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Dietary steamed minced meat cutlets

Dietary steamed minced meat cutlets are in demand in children's menus, in a therapeutic diet, and even for nutritional supplementation. For them, the right choice of meat is important and they mainly take poultry and veal, but lean pork is also suitable. Additional ingredients can be either white bread or various cereals with vegetables.In this recipe, we add boiled buckwheat to the minced meat, like a low-calorie cereal, sour cream and a little seasoning, just for taste, and do not add an egg. Cooking in a slow cooker.

Cooking time: 50 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 10 pcs.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat – 450 gr.
• Boiled buckwheat – 1 tbsp.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Onion – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 3 teeth.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Olive oil – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Twist the selected meat for steam cutlets through a meat grinder or take good ready-made minced meat. Transfer it to a separate bowl.

Step 2. Peel the onion, cut into medium pieces and add to the minced meat.

Step 3. Then add boiled buckwheat to the minced meat, and you can even take yesterday’s buckwheat.

Step 4. If desired and for a special aroma, add a couple of peeled and chopped garlic cloves to the minced meat.

Step 5. Then (this is the main feature of the recipe) additionally grind these ingredients until smooth in the bowl of a blender or food processor, which will make the minced meat viscous, and the cutlets will keep their shape even without eggs.

Step 6. Then sprinkle this minced meat with salt and add olive oil and sour cream. The set and quantity of seasonings for the minced meat depends on who you are preparing the cutlets for. Mix the minced meat with these additives again.

Step 7. With wet hands, form identical small balls from the minced meat, giving them a shape appropriate for cutlets. Place the cutlets on a special stand for steaming, place it in the multicooker, pour the required amount of water into the bowl, close the lid and turn on the “Steam” program for 30 minutes.

Step 8. Serve steamed dietary minced meat cutlets hot for lunch. Bon appetit!

Juicy and soft cutlets with gravy

The gravy gives the cutlets juiciness and softness, and many housewives know this. The gravy also affects the taste of the cutlets, and there are many options for preparing it. In this recipe we prepare pork cutlets according to the general “cutlet” rules. Fry the colettes in breading and then simmer them in tomato sauce, which is the most popular sauce. We cook only in a frying pan.

Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 5.

Ingredients:

• Pork – 1 kg.
• Large onion – 1 pc.
• White bread - 3 slices.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Bay leaf – 2 pcs.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Breadcrumbs - for breading.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

For the gravy:

• Water – 300 ml.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp.
• Flour – 1-2 tsp.
• Seasonings - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Soak slices of crustless white bread in milk for a few minutes. Peel the onion. Grind the pork with the drained bread and onions through a meat grinder with a fine grid, but it is better to grind the meat twice. Transfer the resulting minced meat into a separate bowl.

Step 2. Then break two chicken eggs into the minced meat, add salt and seasonings to your personal taste and knead the minced meat well until viscous and homogeneous. Leave it for 20-30 minutes at room temperature so that all the ingredients become friends.

Step 3. With wet hands, form small neat cutlets from the prepared minced meat and roll them well in breadcrumbs.

Step 4. Heat the vegetable oil well in a frying pan. Fry the formed cutlets over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.

Step 5. While the cutlets are frying, in a separate bowl, mix tomato paste with warm water and dilute the flour in this mixture to make the gravy thick, add your favorite seasonings.

Step 6.Pour the prepared gravy over the fried cutlets and add a couple of bay leaves. Simmer the cutlets for 20 minutes from the start of the gravy boil, over low heat and covered with a lid. Serve the finished juicy and soft cutlets with gravy hot for lunch, complemented by a side dish of potatoes or pasta. Bon appetit!