Ground beef is one of the popular meat products, which is suitable for preparing a mass of dishes.
Cutlets are considered the simplest and most beloved minced meat dish.
They are loved not only by adults, but also by children.
Cutlets are served both in cold and in hot form.
Any side dish is suitable for them. Cutlets are fried, baked, cooked in a double boiler or slow cooker.
This dish is only tasty if it is prepared from high-quality ground beef, which is made at home. For the preparation of minced meat, such parts of the carcass as the drumstick flesh, rumps, trimmings, the shoulder part and the flank are suitable. Below you will find a variety of recipes for the preparation of ground beef cutlets that will appeal to everyone.
Ground beef cutlets - general principles of preparation
• Cutlets are tastier if you cook them from freshly minced meat.
• Pass meat through a meat grinder twice.
• Combine ground beef with other meats.
• Forcemeat onion immediately with meat through a meat grinder.
• Chop the pan before frying.
• After frying the patties on both sides, cover the pan with a lid.
• Add carrots, potatoes or cabbage to the minced meat to taste.
• Wet your hands before shaping cutlets.
• Form cutlets with two spoons if desired.
• Sauté fried cutlets for several minutes under a closed lid.
Minced beef cutlets - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
• 490 g of ground beef;
• salt;
• one onion;
• two slices of white bread;
• egg;
• flour;
• 140 ml of milk.
Cooking method:
1. Divide the bread into several parts and soak it in milk for 10 minutes.
2. After that, completely crush the bread in the milk until smooth.
3. Peel onions and grate on a medium grater.
4. Put ground beef in a bowl. Add grated onion, milk and bread, salt and beat the egg there. Mix everything thoroughly with your hands.
5. Form the minced oval cutlets.
6. Put flour in a plate and mix it with salt.
7. Roll each cutlet in this mixture.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry all cutlets on both sides on it alternately until cooked.
9. Serve the dish with any side dish, decorating with chopped herbs.
Ground beef cutlets with cheese and garlic
Ingredients:
• 520 g of beef;
• two onions;
• pepper;
• two cloves of garlic;
• salt;
• 70 g of cheese;
• egg;
• five pieces of a white loaf.
Cooking method:
1. Separate the flesh of the loaf from the crust.
2. Put the pulp in a plate and pour it with boiled water. Press the bread down and leave it to swell.
3. Rinse the meat thoroughly and cut into pieces.
4. Peel the garlic and onions and divide into slices.
5. Twist the meat with onions and garlic through a meat grinder.
6. Squeeze the bread from the water and add it to the minced meat. Drive there the egg and add the grated cheese, salt and pepper. Stir everything until it is as homogeneous as possible.
7. Form cutlets from cooked ground beef.
8. Heat the oil in a frying pan and put the patties in it alternately.
9. Fry them on both sides for 10 minutes with the lid closed.
10. Serve the patties hot with a side dish of potatoes.
Minced beef and potato patties
Ingredients:
• 510 g of ground beef;
• 60 g of onions;
• two eggs;
• salt;
• breadcrumbs;
• 210 g of potatoes;
• sunflower oil;
• pepper;
• two tablespoons of milk.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onion and grate.
2. Rinse the potatoes, peel them and also grate on a medium grater.
3. Put ground beef in a bowl, add shabby potatoes, onions and mix.
4. Then pour salt and pepper into the same container, break the eggs and pour milk with vegetable oil. Stir until smooth.
5. Form the patties and sprinkle them with plenty of breadcrumbs. Keep the raw dish in the refrigerator for five minutes, and meanwhile, heat the sunflower oil in a pan.
6. Fry the patties on both sides until golden brown. Then cover the pan and simmer for 10 minutes.
7. Serve the dish with white bread and vegetable salad.
Swedish minced beef patties
Ingredients:
• 320 g of ground beef;
• one potato;
• one onion;
• crackers;
• one egg yolk;
• four tablespoons of pickled beets;
• salt;
• four tablespoons of milk;
• butter.
Cooking method:
1. Stir the egg yolk, ground beef and milk in a container.
2. Peel the potatoes and grate them. Add the vegetable to the minced meat.
3. Finely chop the beets and add to the same bowl with salt.
4. Chop the peeled onion and fry in vegetable oil.
5. Add the onion to the minced meat. Mix everything.
6. Make minced meatballs and roll them in breadcrumbs.
7. Then fry the patties until golden brown on heated vegetable oil on both sides.
8. Serve such a dish with a side dish of buckwheat or rice. For the sauce, mix the squeezed garlic, chopped herbs and sour cream.
Steamed minced meat cutlets
Ingredients:
• 450 g of minced meat;
• three pieces of bread;
• head of garlic;
• salt;
• green onions;
• milk;
• pepper;
• egg;
• one potato;
• onion.
Cooking method:
1. Remove the crusts from the bread and soak it in milk.
2. Peel the garlic and onions. Twist them with minced squeezed bread through a meat grinder.
3. Rinse the green onion several times, shake and chop. Add it along with salt, egg and pepper to the minced meat. Mix well.
4. Form balls from minced meat and place them in a double boiler.
5. Cook the dish for 40 minutes.
6. Serve cutlets with a side dish of any cereal and lettuce.
Finnish beef cutlets
Ingredients:
• 540 g of lean beef;
• allspice;
• 480 ml of milk;
• a glass of whipped cream;
• one egg;
• bow;
• one glass of wheat crackers;
• a quarter of butter;
• salt;
• 90 g flour.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onion and cut into cubes.
2. In a bowl, mix the minced meat with salt, chopped onion, pepper, egg, half a glass of cream and breadcrumbs.
3. Form round beef from minced meat.
4. Melt the butter in a pan and fry the round patties on it from all sides. Put the browned meatballs on a plate.
5. The juice will remain in the pan, sift the flour into it and fry it until golden brown. Pour in the milk there and mix everything.
6. Strain the resulting sauce and mix it with the remaining whipped cream.
7. Put the prepared meatballs in a clean pan and pour them with sauce.
8. Bring the dish to a boil, and then simmer for a quarter of an hour.
9. The dish will go well with mashed potatoes and canned peas.
Oven minced meatballs in the oven
Ingredients:
• 580 g of beef;
• 140 g of cheese;
• four tablespoons of water;
• four tablespoons of flour;
• one egg;
• two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• salt;
• 90 g of white bread;
• pepper;
• three cloves of garlic;
• onion.
Cooking method:
1. Peel and rinse the onion and garlic. Rinse and dry the meat.
2. Cut the ingredients at random and twist through a meat grinder.
3. Grate the cheese with a grater.
4. Put cooked minced meat in a container, add to it a broken egg, cheese, salt and pepper. Knead everything thoroughly.
5. Wet your hands and form oblong cutlets from the minced meat.
6. Roll each cutlet on all sides in flour.
7. Lubricate the baking sheet with vegetable oil and lay out the patties.
8. Place the pan in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at 200 degrees Celsius.
9. Then turn each patty over, fill them with water and bake for another 15 minutes.
10. If desired, when you form the cutlet, put the olive in the center.
11. Serve the finished dish along with potatoes cooked in a rustic way.
Greek beef cutlets
Ingredients:
• 440 g of minced meat;
• 180 g of white bread without a crust;
• vegetable oil;
• pepper;
• half a teaspoon of dried mint;
• one onion;
• 120 ml of milk;
• a bunch of parsley;
• two eggs;
• one apple.
Cooking method:
1. Put the bread in a bowl and fill it with warm milk. Soak the loaf for 15 minutes.
2. Then mix the bread and milk until smooth.
3. Peel the apple and grate it on a medium grater.
4. Peel and chop the onion.
5. Rinse the parsley, dry and chop finely.
6. Put the minced meat in a container with the milk and milk mixture. Add onion, mint, apple, salt, eggs, parsley and pepper there. Stir the minced meat and beat it on the table.
7. Take two spoons and form a minced meat patty.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a saucepan and fry on it from all sides of the patty.
9. Then reduce heat and continue cooking the patties under the lid.
10. This dish is served with fried potatoes and pasta.
Minced beef cutlets and butter
Ingredients:
• 610 g of beef pulp;
• 65 g of butter;
• 110 ml of water;
• vegetable oil;
• pepper;
• bread crumbs;
• Provencal herbs;
• two onions;
• salt;
• 110 g of rye bread.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the crust off the bread. Put the middle in a plate and fill with water. Soften the bread for five minutes.
2. Take a meat grinder and twist through it chopped meat, peeled onions and cold butter.
3. Add softened bread, salt and Provence herbs to the scrolled foods.
4. Stuff the minced meat with a spoon. Then remember it with your hands. Beat off.
5. Moisten your hands with cold water and form cutlets.
6. Roll each cutlet in bread crumbs and put in a frying pan with heated oil.
7. Fry until golden brown on both sides.
8. Put all the ready-made cutlets back into the pan and cover it with a lid. Stew still five minutes.
9. Serve the dish with salad or a hot side dish.
Beef minced meatballs - tricks and tips
• The blender makes the stuffing fall apart.
• For tenderness and viscosity of cutlets, add water to the meat.
• For juicy cutlets, add any butter to the minced meat.
• Add greens to the minced meat, if desired.
• Hold the patties fried in breading before frying for 10 minutes in the refrigerator.
• Fry the patties in melted fat.
• Add eggs to the minced meat if desired, but keep in mind that cutlets can become stiff.
• Steam cooked beef cutlets retain more beneficial properties.
• Add any spices to your cutlets to taste.
• Do not overtake cutlets in the oven, otherwise they will be dry.
