Not many people know that only the right choice of product will make any meat dish quite juicy, tender, soft. For minced beef patties, choose a tender meat slice with a small content of fatty layers.
At the same time there are a lot of options for cooking your favorite fried, baked, steam cutlets.
Classic recipe
Any celebration does not do without the presence on the table of the second course. One of the most delicious are burgers, and you can cook them from virtually any minced meat. To create classic meat products from ground beef will be needed:
- beef pulp - 0.8 kg;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- milk 0.2 ml;
- wheat bread (without crust) - 0.2 kg;
- onions - 200 g;
- a mixture of peppers, salt - 15 g;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml.
Make such an aromatic and tasty dish is not difficult, especially since it will take only one hour. Kilocalories in one hundred grams of beef cutlets contains 210 units.
Before preparing the dish, you should clean the onions in advance, wash the meat, which should be freed from liquid residues with a waffle towel and cut into small pieces. In a separate container, pour milk over the bread. Then using a meat grinder, you must chop the onion, chopped pieces of beef meat.
In a deep bowl, mix the onions, ground beef, well-pressed bread soaked in milk, and salt and pepper. Knead the meat mass should be very good, so that the meatballs were softer and more tender.
After heating the oil in a pan, you can proceed to the preparation of the dish. To do this, just need to soak your hands with water, take a tablespoon of minced meat, roll a meat ball out of it and press down slightly to send to roast in a frying pan. When a beautiful appetizing crust appears on both sides, it is fashionable to consider cutlets ready.
Any side dish of vegetables, porridge, mashed potatoes will perfectly suit this delicious second course.
Juicy and tasty pork beef burgers
To make delicious meatballs, the most important process is the selection of minced meat. Meat for him should be fresh, juicy without a lot of fat layers. Beef mixed with pork, makes many favorite main course juicy, nourishing and very fragrant. To make minced pork cutlets, you will need:
- pork, beef (pulp) - 0.3 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- the flesh of white bread - 100 g;
- milk - ½ st .;
- garlic, salt, ground pepper - 10 g;
- lean oil - 50 ml.
Such tasty burgers are made in just 1 hour, and their caloric content is 210 kcal per 100 grams.
Both types of meat should be washed to remove unnecessary moisture from the pieces, and peel the onions and garlic. Independent production of minced meat consists of double skipping meat through a meat grinder.
This process will help make the stuffing more soft and uniform. Chopped minced onions and garlic are also added to the minced beef in a meat grinder. Milk is soaked bread for a couple of minutes.
Then pepper and salt are poured into the meat with onions, well-pressed bread is added and the whole mass is thoroughly mixed. During this action, the stuffing is enriched with oxygen, the patties are more juicy and fluffy.
Oil is heated in a skillet. Hands moistened in water form patties and roast for ten minutes on one side and the other. This tasty and very juicy dish is combined with any side dish, fresh vegetable salad, various canned products.
Ground beef cutlets with cheese and egg in the oven
You can pleasantly surprise family, friends, guests and friends with delicious and beautiful ground beef patties. To do this, you should only make a delicious and interesting stuffing from eggs and cheese. To make such an appetizing, original main course will be needed:
- minced beef - 0.4 kg;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- greens - 40 g;
- garlic - 10 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- eggs - 5 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml;
- breadcrumbs from bread crumbs - 75 g;
- seasoning for meat - 10 g;
- pepper and salt - 7 g;
- refined sunflower oil - 15 ml.
An amazing dish is cooked for only fifty minutes, and a calorie per 100 g of meatballs contains 207 units.
For the preparation of minced blender is required. It is loaded with minced meat, seasoning, half salt, pepper, peeled onions, one raw egg and everything is whipped. The consistency of the meat mass should be very uniform, fluffy.
After that, the stuffing will need to be put on ten minutes in a cold place, and the remaining four eggs boil hard-boiled, cool and peel.
For the filling of cutlets it is necessary to cut the boiled eggs into a couple of halves across, separate the yolk into a separate container. Then add garlic, crushed finely cheese, mayonnaise, a pinch of salt, pepper to the yolks.
Stuffing thoroughly knead, mix. It is not very tight to fill the proteins with it, glue together the halves of the eggs, forming the original whole shape. In the remaining filling, finely chop the greens, mix.
Mince divided into 4 equal parts, each of which is rolled into a ball and crushed, forming a cake. Then put in this form on a piece of food film, lay out on top of the filling and the egg. The edges of the stuffing lift gently with a film, glue.
You get quite large burgers, which are fixed in breadcrumbs and laid out in a greased form. In the oven they need to bake for thirty minutes at a temperature of 190 °.
Serve the dish can be hot, but cut, so that you can see the original middle, it is more convenient in the cold.
Steamed minced beef patties
You want to eat tasty even on a diet, be it necessary, forced. The main rule of such nutrition is the use of all products with a high content of beneficial trace elements, vitamins and cooking method.
Steamed patties made from minced beef are almost the same as a fried or baked second course, but at the same time much more nutritious, healthier, slightly less calorie.
To create a dietary beef patties you will need:
- young beef - 0.5 kg;
- wheat bread - 1 slice (50 g);
- milk - 0.1 l;
- onions - 100 g;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Steamed burgers can be made in 40 minutes, their nutritional value will not exceed 155 kcal per hundred grams of food.
The chosen meat piece needs to be washed, rid of residual moisture and cut into small pieces. Peel the onions, soak the bread for five minutes in milk. For the manufacture of minced meat you need a couple of times to skip the meat with onions through a meat grinder. Then add to them well-pressed bread, salt, spices and knead the stuffing.
On the grid of a double boiler, put molds into which to place burgers, formed by hands wetted in water. Steaming should be just thirty minutes.
How to Cook Ground Beef Patties in Greek
Another very original recipe for meatballs, of course, are the Greek meatballs made from ground beef, or Suzukakya. The dish is usually cooked with a sauce in which they should be slightly warmed after. To create delicious real Greek cutlets you will need:
- ground beef - 0.7 kg;
- minced chicken - 0.3 kg;
- stale bread, onions - 200 g each;
- red wine - 150 ml;
- egg - 2 pcs .;
- salt, pepper mixture - 2 tsp;
- parsley - 40 g;
- olive oil - 60 ml;
- onions (for sauce) - 150 g;
- garlic - 10 g + 20 g (for the sauce);
- cinnamon - 10 g;
- tomatoes in their own juice - 1 liter of the bank.
Cutlets are cooked for about an hour and a half, and in one hundred grams of a fragrant dish there are 145 kcal.
Bread at the beginning of cooking should be soaked in wine. After squeezing and placing in a blender with garlic, minced onion and washed parsley.
After the homogeneous vegetable mix mixed with two types of minced meat, into which you can also beat the eggs and add 10 g of salt, pepper mixture. Minced meat should be beaten off and put in the fridge for forty minutes.
After that, from the fragrant stuffing, form long, oval-shaped cutlets and fry in olive oil until a beautiful crust is obtained from all sides. On this, preferably deep, pan, you should further pass the peeled onions and garlic for the sauce to a transparent state.
Then pour the tomatoes chopped in a blender in their own juice, pour in cinnamon, the remaining mixture of peppers and salt. Stew the sauce for half an hour, pour it into a larger, convenient dish and put cutlets into it, which should then be cooked for another twenty minutes over low heat.
Any kind of garnish, salads from fresh vegetables are suitable for the magnificent Greek dish.
Culinary tips
Beef is a very nourishing and nutritious meat product, which should be present in the diet of each. From this type of meat you can cook a variety of patties, changing only the method of cooking - roasting in the oven, roasting in a frying pan or steaming.
To make the dish the most juicy, tasty and healthy, you need:
- Choose young beef, with a small amount of fat layers;
- Soak the bread in milk, not water and squeeze well before adding it to the mince;
- Do not use eggs, or separate only the yolk for minced meat. Because of the protein, the cutlets lose juiciness;
- Fry the onions before adding to the mince - the raw onions make the dish coarser and harder;
- For roasting cutlets it is better to use lard, ghee.
If there is no steamer, ground beef patties can be wrapped tightly with foil and baked / steamed in their own juice in the oven.
In the next video - another recipe for delicious beef cutlets.
