A cutlet with a surprise inside can add variety to an ordinary menu. But preparing such a dish is more difficult than the simple version. In this article, we will tell you how to properly make delicious filled meatballs so that they do not fall apart during frying, and we will advise you on the best products to choose as the secret ingredient.
Cutlets with filling inside: what can you stuff with them?
In fact, there are a great many combinations, and the combinations depend on the taste preferences and imagination of the cook. We can only provide recommendations and give some of the most common simple options.
Important: When wrapping the filling in minced meat, the filling should already be ready, not raw. Heat treatment is required only for the meat; at the same time, it is soaked in the juices of the secret ingredient.
Toppings for chef cutlets:
- Hard cheese. Combined with onions and fresh herbs, but often used alone.
- Chicken eggs. A very common filling ingredient. They are combined with fresh onions, dill and hard cheese.
- Spinach. This herbaceous plant is very healthy, and in combination with pork or chicken meat it is also tasty.
- Liver. A product for everyone. The main thing is not to use beef with poultry meat and vice versa.
- Mushrooms. It doesn’t matter whether it’s champignons or any other, but they should be placed in the minced meat already fried or boiled. Possibly with onions.
- Butter with herbs. I immediately remember chicken Kiev. This filling will make even chicken fillet juicy, and the taste is so perfect that everything else becomes unnecessary.
- Vegetables. Carrots, cabbage, potatoes or onions make the dish so satisfying and self-sufficient that you don’t even need a side dish.
Alternatively, it is not necessary to place other products inside. Cutlets “stuffed on top” are baked in the oven. As a rule, butter, lard or cheese are placed on the cue balls.
This is interesting: There is a separate subtype of two-layer cutlets, on which fillings from various products are placed. The meat is used as a pillow - as an analogue of dough.
Stuffed cutlets have a variety of recipes, because there are a great many combinations of ingredients. We'll provide some simple options to make the basic process easier to understand. After this, it will be a series of experiments to find the ideal option.
Minced chicken cutlets with filling: recipe with photo
As a main dish, we offer a dish made from simple ingredients that are easy to obtain and prepare. The main secret lies not even in them, but in the process of sculpting the balls, which we will talk about in detail. When making cutlets with filling, you need to remember that the slightest deviation from the sequence of actions will result in failure.
This is interesting: Such balls are called “chef cutlets” due to the fact that each chef can use them to create his own individual signature dish.
Cooking time: 60 minutes
Number of servings: 6
Energy value
- calorie content – 282 g;
- proteins – 25.8 g;
- fats – 10.4 g;
- carbohydrates – 21.5 g.
Ingredients
- chicken fillet – 800 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- eggs – 5 pcs.;
- breadcrumbs - 2 tbsp;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- ground black or white pepper – 2 pinches;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- butter – 50 g;
- milk – 2 tsp;
- flour – 3 tbsp;
- bread crumbs – 0.5 loaves;
- fresh herbs (dill, parsley) – 15 g.
Step-by-step preparation
- Remove the butter from the refrigerator to soften slightly at room temperature.
- Scroll the fillet pieces through a meat grinder. It’s better twice so that the structure is more delicate. Beat in 1 egg.
- Remove the garlic husks, pass through a press and pour the resulting product into the total mass. To stir thoroughly. If the minced meat turns out liquid, you can add breadcrumbs. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise the mass will not stick together well. Cover the container with cling film and place in the refrigerator.
- Boil 2 hard-boiled eggs. Grate them and cheese. Place everything in a deep bowl. Wash and finely chop the greens. Add it there too. Add oil and mix everything well. To taste. If necessary, you can add a little salt. The consistency of the filling should resemble plasticine.
- Using a spoon, divide the cheese and egg mass into portions and shape them into small oblong lumps. This will be the “core” of our cutlets. Place the blanks in a container and place them in the freezer for 15 minutes so that in the future the filling does not leak out of the cutlet when frying.
- Break the remaining 2 eggs into a shallow bowl. Salt and pour in milk. Whisk the liquid with a fork or whisk until smooth. Do not allow foam to appear.
- Sift the flour onto a flat plate, and on another place bread crumbs or breadcrumbs in the same volume - 3 tbsp.
- Remove the preparations from the refrigerator. Take some minced meat with wet hands, make a flat cake and put the filling in the middle. Cover it on all sides, forming a kind of immediately. The frozen ingredient should not peek out from under the meat. Dip the product in flour, dip in the egg mixture and bread with bread crumbs. Repeat your steps until the minced meat is finished.
- Place a large frying pan over medium heat. Heat 2 tbsp. vegetable oil and place the cutlets. Not too tight so there is room for easy turning.
- Fry on both sides until a crust appears. You will have to change the position of the meat slices several times to ensure they cook evenly.
Stuffed cutlets are a hearty dish that goes well with any side dish. In addition, they can be served on their own, or even as the main dish on a holiday table.
Chicken Kiev is a rather complicated dish that may not turn out right the first time. But if you succeed, it will turn out incredibly tasty.
Required Products:
- spices to taste;
- six tablespoons of flour;
- two chicken fillets;
- two eggs;
- 60 grams of butter;
- packaging of breadcrumbs.
Cooking process:
- We wash the fillet, cut off the lower thin edges from it, and divide the remaining parts in half crosswise.
- Cover the resulting layers with film and beat them so that they become larger and thinner, then season with spices.
- Cut the butter into several pieces, depending on how many cutlets you are making. They need to be frozen a little in the refrigerator or in cold water, and then with warm hands give them an oval shape.
- Place a stick of butter on each layer of fillet and begin to roll the chicken so that it completely covers the filling. We put all the preparations in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Place flour, crackers, beaten egg and salt in separate containers. First dip the cutlets into flour, then into the egg, into breadcrumbs, and again into the egg, and into breadcrumbs.
- Pour vegetable oil into the pan (there should be a lot of it to completely cover the cutlets), heat well. Dip the cutlets into it and keep for about 6 minutes until the crust turns golden brown. The heat level should be medium.
Place cooked cutlets on paper towels and pat dry before serving.
Meat zrazy with cheese
The cheese filling in this dish goes well with the meat. The result is not only soft cutlets, but also very unusual ones.
Required Products:
- two cloves of garlic;
- 0.3 kg minced meat;
- seasonings to your taste;
- egg;
- two spoons of flour;
- 0.1 kg cheese;
- one onion and a piece of bread.
Cooking process:
- The bread needs to be soaked in water to make it soft. After this, mix it with minced meat. Add chopped onion, half the flour, protein and spices to the resulting composition.
- Combine the yolk with grated cheese and garlic.
- We form cutlets from the minced meat, put the cheese filling in them so that the minced meat covers it on all sides.
- Dip the pieces in flour and fry in oil until golden brown.
When you don’t have time to fuss with such a dish, cut any hard cheese into cubes and wrap them in minced meat. The cutlets will turn out no worse, but much faster.
With added mushrooms
Required Products:
- 200 grams of mushrooms;
- spices to taste;
- 0.1 kg flour;
- onion and egg;
- 0.4 kg minced meat;
- slice of bread.
Cooking process
- Cut mushrooms and onions into pieces. First, fry the vegetable until golden brown, then combine it with the mushrooms and cook until all the liquid has evaporated.
- Mix the minced meat with spices, eggs and bread soaked in water or milk.
- We make flat cakes from this mass, place the mushroom filling in the middle of each and seal it, forming cutlets.
- Place them in a heated frying pan with oil and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Egg and cheese filling
Required Products:
- 0.4 kg minced meat;
- green onions;
- slice of bread;
- bulb;
- spices to your taste;
- 0.15 kg of hard cheese;
- three eggs.
Cooking process:
- Soak the bread in water and combine with minced meat. Add finely chopped onion here, season with spices and mix until smooth.
- Boil the eggs, cut into smaller pieces, mix with grated cheese and chopped green onions.
- We form a flat cake from the minced meat, put about a spoonful of filling inside, carefully close it and seal the edges.
- Roll all the pieces in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides until beautifully golden brown, about 7 minutes.
Stuffed cutlets in the oven
Cutlets baked in the oven are a healthier dish compared to fried ones. You can make absolutely any filling in them.
Required Products:
- 0.2 liters of milk;
- seasonings to taste;
- two onions;
- slice of bread;
- 4 eggs;
- half a kilogram of minced meat.
Cooking process:
- Boil the eggs until tender and cut into smaller pieces. Chop the onion, fry and combine with chopped eggs.
- Place the bread in the milk until it becomes soft, squeeze it out and mix it with the minced meat. Add seasonings to the resulting composition to taste.
- We make flat cakes from this meat mixture, fill them with filling and seal the edges well.
- Place all the cutlets in the mold and cook in the oven for about 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Cabbage cutlets with cheese filling
Required Products:
- spoon of sour cream;
- spices to your taste;
- half a kilogram of cabbage;
- two spoons of flour;
- one egg;
- 50 grams of cheese.
Cooking process:
- Wash the cabbage and remove dirty leaves. Shred a clean head of cabbage and fry in oil until soft. Then mix the vegetable shavings with sour cream and keep on the stove until it turns golden brown.
- Grind the cheese, combine with cabbage, flour and mix.
- With wet hands, form cutlets, roll them in flour and fry in oil on both sides until golden brown.
Chicken cutlets with prunes
Chicken cutlets according to this recipe have a very interesting taste, because prunes go well with meat.
Required Products:
- a glass of milk;
- 0.3 kg prunes;
- spices to taste;
- one onion;
- kilogram of minced chicken;
- three pieces of bread.
Cooking process:
- Finely chop the onion and combine with the minced meat. To them we add crustless bread, previously softened in milk, and season with spices.
- We make thin flat cakes, place prunes inside each one and completely cover it with minced meat, bringing the edges together well.
Required Products:
- about a kilogram of potatoes;
- spices to taste;
- two cloves of garlic;
- 0.3 kg of any minced meat;
- packaging of breadcrumbs;
- two spoons of flour;
- three eggs;
- one onion.
Cooking process:
- Peel the potatoes, boil until soft and puree. Sprinkle it with spices, such as salt and pepper, and beat in two yolks. Stir.
- Chop the onion and garlic into pieces and fry them in oil until golden brown. Add the flour, then the minced meat and fry until done, not forgetting the seasoning.
- Separately, combine the remaining egg and two whites with flour.
- From the cooled puree, form into flat cakes with a depression, where you place the minced meat filling. Form cutlets.
- Place the pieces first in a mixture of eggs and flour, then in breadcrumbs and keep in a hot frying pan until golden brown.
You can make surprise cutlets on the stove, in the oven (with or without pre-frying) or in a slow cooker using the “Baking” or “Steam” mode. The cooking method you choose will affect the calorie content and healthiness of the dish.
What can you stuff it with?
Almost anything can be used as a filling. By changing the additional ingredient, you get a new tasty dish each time, although you will make the same meat base according to any of the recipes below and guided by the photo.
Note! If you take sorrel, then the cutlets are not recommended for children and people with gastrointestinal problems, as it has high acidity.
The filling can be:
- Vegetables(carrots, potatoes, beets, zucchini, etc.). They can be combined with any type of minced meat. If you use chicken or turkey, the dish turns into a low-calorie dietary product and is suitable for children and the elderly.
- Greenery. Usually they add dill and parsley, but you can also use spinach and sorrel. This filling makes stuffed cutlets healthy, but a little tough, so butter is often added to it, which gives the product juiciness.
- Cheese. Almost any can be used. Brine varieties go very well with pork or mixed minced meat and allow you to avoid adding salt to the cutlets.
- Cottage cheese. Harmonizes with any type of meat, perfect for adults and children. It is better to use more crumbly cottage cheese. Any fat content is suitable, it will only affect the calorie content of the dish.
- Cereals ( buckwheat or rice). They go well with chicken and are included in baby or diet food.
- Mushrooms. Suitable for classic minced meat, but not recommended for children, as they “weight” the product.
- Eggs(quail). It is better to take it as a filling for a pork and beef base, but it also goes well with chicken.
You can cook using classic options or “assemble” them at your discretion to achieve the desired calorie content and flavor. You can also place the filling on top of the minced meat, making “nests” and baking them in the oven.
Recipe with eggs
If chopped onions are pre-sautéed, the minced meat will be softer and the cutlets will be more tender. Be sure to take stale white crumb. Fresh bread imparts a sour taste.
Ingredients:
- mixed minced meat (beef, pork in a ratio of 2:1) – 600 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- quail egg – 15 pcs.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- crumb of stale white bread - 2 slices;
- milk for soaking - 1/2 cup;
- vegetable oil for frying – 2-3 tbsp;
- breading – 5 tbsp.
Preparation steps:
- Twist the minced meat yourself or use ready-made ones.
- Boil quail eggs. Then cool and peel.
- Chop the onion. Add it to the minced meat.
- Soak the bread in milk and add to the meat mixture.
- Mix thoroughly, and then beat the minced meat well in a bowl (take it and just throw it on a board, table or in a bowl) to saturate it with oxygen, which gives the desired texture and allows you to do without the egg.
- Flatten the minced meat in your palm to form a flat cake. Place the egg inside and pinch the edges. The finished product can be given any shape: meatball, pie, flatbread.
- Dip the stuffed cutlet in breading and fry in vegetable oil in a frying pan for 15 minutes. Bon appetit!
On a note!
For breading for this recipe, use flour, semolina, and crushed crackers.
Instead of quail eggs, you can take chicken eggs. But then the cutlets will be larger in size, and the cooking time will need to be approximately doubled.
Made from minced chicken stuffed with butter and herbs
Use store-bought twist or make your own. For this, it is better to take fillet or breasts. If the mass turns out to be liquid, thicken it with starch or semolina.
Spinach is suitable for this dish. It can also be used instead of dill in step No. 1 of the step-by-step preparation.
Ingredients
- chicken meat – 800 g;
- stale white crumb – 100 g;
- milk – half a glass;
- salt – 1 tsp;
- onion – 1 pc.
For filling:
- butter – 150 g;
- dill – 1 bunch;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- salt - to taste.
Preparation
- Make the filling. To do this, you need to wash and chop the dill. Peel and press the garlic through a press. Stir them into softened butter. Add salt to taste. Place in the refrigerator to harden.
- Prepare the minced meat. Take the fillet, peel, wash, grind in a meat grinder, adding peeled onion. Soak the bread in milk and add to the meat mixture. Mix well.
- Take out the frozen butter and cut into pieces.
- Make cutlets - take the minced meat with wet hands, flatten it on your palms, put a portion of butter. Form the product so that the filling is inside.
- Bread and fry in a frying pan until cooked on both sides.
It is better to use double breading to prevent oil from leaking out when frying.
Delicious “nests” in the oven with filling on top
The dish is suitable even for a holiday table. It won't take much time. The advantage is that you don’t have to stand at the stove and make sure that nothing burns while frying.
Ingredients
For the cutlets:
- minced meat – 600 g;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- breadcrumbs - 3 tbsp.
For filling:
- canned green peas – 1 can;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- potatoes - 2 tubers;
- butter, milk - as needed;
- salt - to taste.
Cooking steps
- Make a puree. To do this, you need to boil the potatoes in salted water, add butter and milk (cream).
- Take minced meat, add chopped onion and breadcrumbs to it. Let it sit for a few minutes.
- Form approximately identical nests. To make stuffing more convenient and the dish to look neater, make a recess with a stack of suitable diameter - just place it in the center of the flatbread and press down.
- Place a spoonful of green peas and a piece of cheese in each nest. Place mashed potatoes on top using a piping bag.
- Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 200 degrees. Bon appetit!
Minced meat cutlets with filling will diversify your menu, make it healthier and more nutritious. By experimenting with recipes, you are sure to find something that will please all family members. Now that we know what we can stuff the cutlets with, making them won’t be difficult.
How to cook delicious cutlets
Delicious and quick minced chicken cutlets with filling will help diversify your family's everyday and holiday table without any special expenses on your part!
1 hour 30 minutes
210 kcal
5/5 (4)
It often happens that ordinary dishes, such as cutlets, quickly become boring. What to do in this case? Should I cross them out of my culinary notebook forever? By no means, just upgrade! Today we will talk about how to prepare unusual minced chicken cutlets with filling step by step.
Any chef will tell you that stuffed cutlets can contain a variety of fillings inside; they can be filled with chopped herbs, cheese, vegetables, and chopped boiled eggs - such cutlets are called zrazy.
Ingredients for minced meat
Filling ingredients
- hard cheese – 100 g;
- hard-boiled chicken eggs - 2 pcs;
- butter – 50 g;
- greens - a small bunch;
- salt - to taste.
Breading ingredients
- chicken egg – 2 pcs;
- milk – 2 teaspoons;
- flour – 2-3 tablespoons;
- bread crumbs - 0.5 loaves.
How to choose the right ingredients?
- A good chicken fillet should be light pink in color, firm and without any unpleasant odor.
- The more onions you add to the minced meat, the juicier the future cutlets will turn out. Therefore, you should choose a good fresh onion.
- Although butter acts as a filling here, you should not skimp on it. Give preference to real oil without vegetable fats in the composition.
Step-by-step recipe for making cutlets stuffed with eggs and cheese
Prepare the minced meat
Prepare the filling
Prepare the breading
Form cutlets
Fry the cutlets
Video recipe for making cutlets stuffed with eggs and cheese
When a recipe has many steps, it is often difficult to figure out what and how best to do it. In this case, you can ask a skilled housewife to show by her own example all the intricacies of preparing a particular dish, in our case, cutlets with filling. Watch this video and everything will immediately fall into place!
A couple of secrets
- No matter how much you would like to try raw minced meat for salt, never do this - any meat can be eaten only after heat treatment. Of course, everyone knows about this, but they often neglect this unwritten rule, so it would not be a bad idea to remind about it, especially for novice cooks.
- The frying pan and the vegetable oil in it must be hot, otherwise the cutlets will lose their delicious crispy crust, no matter how thoroughly you bread them beforehand.
- But when the crust sets, it is better to reduce the heat to medium and cover the pan with a lid. It’s better not to go too far from the stove when frying cutlets, otherwise you risk feeding the whole family unappetizing coals. Better not take risks!
Stuffed cutlets in the oven
- If you prefer dishes baked in the oven, you can prepare cutlets with filling in this way.
- To do this, repeat steps 1 to 4 inclusive, as shown in the previous recipe, and then place the formed cutlets on a baking sheet greased with butter and place in the oven preheated to 200°C. It takes about 30-35 minutes to bake cutlets with filling - during this period they have time to be thoroughly baked from the inside, and even acquire a golden brown crust.
What are these cutlets served with?
Stuffed cutlets are a truly universal dish that will be appropriate for both a weekday lunch and a holiday table. You can easily diversify your family’s daily meal with these cutlets, or you can serve them to dear guests.
The side dishes with which the filled cutlets are served may vary depending on your preferences: it can be mashed potatoes, pasta or rice, as well as any other porridge. On the festive table, cutlets with filling can be complemented with baked potatoes, vegetable salad, or can be served without a side dish.
Cutlet preparation options
- The filling for minced meat cutlets can be anything. You are free to change the components of the cutlet filling according to your taste - believe me, the result will not be worse. If you want to make cutlets stuffed with mushrooms and cheese, simply use the recipe described, adding pre-fried mushrooms to the filling instead of eggs. With a little imagination, there will be no limit to the variety of your culinary discoveries.
- And if you have acquired a taste for ordinary cutlets, they are now too simple and boring for you, continue to improve your skills and replenish your personal culinary treasure trove. Start with the classics and learn how to cook Pozharsky cutlets, whose juiciness and crispy crust will not leave any gourmet indifferent.
- If you like to try everything new, do not be lazy to prepare rabbit cutlets - and you will definitely be guaranteed a novelty of taste.
- Fish cutlets are familiar to everyone since childhood. Do you think the cutlet life of seafood is pumped into this? But no! Surprise your guests by preparing crab stick cutlets and become known as a connoisseur of original recipes.
- And for warm family gatherings they are ideal, the unique taste of which evokes thoughts of the comfort of home.
Look for a recipe that will become your signature one, pamper your family and friends with delicacies, and share your impressions of your culinary achievements in the comments.
Cutlet recipes
10 pieces.
1 hour 30 minutes
220 kcal
5/5 (2)
There are probably no people in the world who don’t love cutlets! How can you not love this rosy, appetizing, aromatic and juicy culinary miracle! There are a great many recipes for making cutlets. The cutlets come in meat, fish, vegetables, and with filling - everyone can choose to their taste. But we can say with confidence that the cutlets with filling are the most tender and juicy. Children especially love cutlets with a “surprise,” but adults won’t refuse them either.
Now let's get down to business! Today we are preparing minced chicken cutlets stuffed with eggs and cheese called “Bird's Milk”.
Kitchen tools:
- meat grinder;
- containers for minced meat;
- fillings and breadings;
- cutting board;
- spoon;
- fork;
- grater;
- container for cooling the filling;
- pan;
- spatula;
- baking dish.
Ingredients
| Name | Quantity |
| For minced meat | |
| Chicken fillet | 600-700 g |
| Egg | 1 PC. |
| Onion | 1 PC. |
| Breadcrumbs | 2-3 tbsp. l. |
| Salt | taste |
| Black and red ground pepper | taste |
| Garlic | 1 clove |
| For filling | |
| Hard cheese | 100 g |
| Hard boiled eggs | 2 pcs. |
| Butter | 50 g |
| Greens (dill, parsley, green onions) | 1 bunch |
| Salt | taste |
| For breading and frying | |
| Eggs | 2 pcs. |
| Milk | 2-3 tsp. |
| Salt | taste |
| Flour | 2-3 tbsp. l. |
| Bread loaf (yesterday's) | ½ loaf |
| Vegetable oil | 100 g |
How to choose the right ingredients
- It is better to prepare minced meat for cutlets yourself. To do this, you can use both chicken fillet and meat from another part of the carcass.
- Garlic and ground red pepper are optional. They will give the cutlets a slight spicy spiciness. The same applies to the green onions in the filling.
- The bread loaf for breading can be safely replaced with breadcrumbs.
Step-by-step recipe for making stuffed chicken cutlets
- Grind the fillet and onion into minced meat in a meat grinder.
- Add egg, salt, ground black and red pepper, chopped garlic, breadcrumbs to the minced meat.
- Mix everything well. The minced meat should turn out soft, airy and, at the same time, mold well. Our minced meat is ready. Cover it and set it aside for a while.
- The next step is preparing the filling. To do this, grate cheese and boiled eggs on a fine grater.
- Transfer everything into a container. Add finely chopped herbs and softened butter there. Salt to taste.
- Mix very well. The filling should be plastic in consistency and easy to mold.
- Now divide the filling into portions (about a tablespoon) and form small cutlets. Place the prepared filling in a container, close it and put it in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. It should cool well.
- Another equally important step is preparing the breading. To do this, whisk the eggs, milk and salt thoroughly with a fork.
- Pour flour into a separate container. Grate yesterday's stale loaf on a coarse grater.
- We take out the container with the filling from the refrigerator, which has already cooled and become dense.
- Now the most crucial moment is the formation of cutlets. We wet our hands in water and separate a small amount of minced meat, from which we make a flatbread, and put the filling in the middle of the flatbread. We form the cutlet so that the filling is completely covered.
- After this, roll the cutlets in flour, then dip in the egg and bread in bread crumbs.
- Our cutlets are completely “dressed in fur coats”.
- Pour a small amount of oil into a frying pan, heat it and place the cutlets. Fry them on both sides until golden brown.
- But that is not all! According to our recipe with photo, the stuffed cutlets need to cook a little longer in the oven. To do this, take a baking dish and place the cutlets into it. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. We put our cutlets in the oven for 15-20 minutes and bring them until fully cooked.
The cutlets have a crispy bread crust, but the inside is very tender, juicy and soft. They are best served piping hot, with a glass of good dry white wine.
How to serve these cutlets correctly
What should you serve the cutlets with? With a side dish of course! Without a side dish, the cutlet lies alone on an empty plate and is a pitiful sight! Almost anything is suitable as a side dish: boiled or baked vegetables, vegetable salads, mashed potatoes, fried potatoes, spaghetti, porridge.
If desired, you can also cook. There are a great variety of sauces (tomato, sour cream, mushroom, cream, vegetable, garlic), so that even the most sophisticated taste can be satisfied.
Video recipe for cutlets with Bird's milk filling
This video clearly demonstrates how you can prepare a culinary masterpiece from available ingredients. Be sure to check it out!
Cutlet secrets
- To make the minced meat more juicy, you can add a few tablespoons of ice water.
- Fry the cutlets in hot oil. In this case, the heat should be medium, since over high heat the breading can quickly burn, and the cutlet inside will remain uncooked.
- A very good option is to fry the cutlets in melted butter.. This way they will be more fragrant.
- It is better to chop the onion for minced meat in a blender or grate it on the finest grater.
- I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the filling for minced meat cutlets can be very varied. This includes cheese with egg and herbs, and mushrooms with fried onions, and mushrooms with egg, and mushrooms with cheese, as well as vegetables, fruits, nuts or prunes. Shrimp is often used as a filling for fish cutlets. There is room for your imagination to run wild! And there’s no shame in serving cutlets stuffed with mushrooms and cheese on a festive table or pampering your family and friends for dinner.
Cutlet preparation options
Recipes and options for cooking cutlets are like stars in the sky. Both old classic recipes and new, recently created ones remain in demand. For example, the famous ones were created back in the 19th century, and are still very popular now. The rosy, fried bread crust and tender chicken fillet inside delight gourmets and connoisseurs of delicious food!
Recently, eating seafood has become very popular. They are used to prepare soups, salads, casseroles and much more. Including cutlets. For example, they are distinguished by a high content of protein, phosphorus and iron, which makes them indispensable in children's and dietary nutrition. Theoretically, crab sticks can also be classified as seafood. Not only salads are prepared from them. Housewives manage to cook. This dish is from the “Fast, cheap and cheerful” series. The cutlets turn out soft, juicy, appetizing and rosy, children and adults adore them.
Cereal cutlets are becoming popular among healthy food lovers. These dishes are often prepared during Lent. For lovers of tasty and easy-to-prepare dishes, we recommend trying rice cutlets. They turn out very soft and tender. And if you season them with mushroom sauce, you won’t be shocked at all.
For those who monitor their weight and their diet, these will be ideal. They will greatly please those who have digestive problems. The cutlets are cooked in a double boiler without the use of fat, so almost all vitamins, amino acids and proteins are preserved in them. And if you want to reduce the time you spend in the kitchen and standing at the stove to a minimum, then cutlets in a slow cooker will be a godsend for you. With this method of cooking, the cutlets are not only fried, but also simmered. This makes them very juicy and soft. Honor and praise to the man who invented this miracle of technology!
The world of cutlets is very diverse, so you have a lot of work to do. Dare, fantasize, be smart, and, of course, share your culinary finds in the comments!
