Beef cutlets: recipes

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Beef dishes are famous for their rich taste and beneficial properties, because good beef ranks first in the supply of iron to the human body. Everyone knows about the importance of the hemoglobin rate in the blood and its effect on health.

But ordinary beef is valuable and remarkable not only for iron. It contains rather rare vitamins B6 and B12 (cyanocobalamin is almost never found in other, especially plant foods), a large amount of essential minerals, proteins and amino acids.

Beef cutlets have long been a staple dish in any home. Its recipe is extremely simple, and its preparation is convenient - after all, having prepared a large "batch", you will be able to supply your family with lunch for several days in advance.

These minced meat products are being prepared. It is better to cook it yourself - this way you will be sure of the quality of the "raw material". But you can also buy ready-made minced meat in the store. There are ready-made minced veal from pork, and it is best to make cutlets from them, since pork meat gives them tenderness and juiciness. To make the products rich, raw grated onions are also added to them.

So let's explore the classic recipes for juicy beef patties and get down to making them!

Feature of beef meat

The popularity of beef is associated with its high nutritional value (it is distinguished by its “useful calorie content”). Meat is also able to neutralize stomach irritants and level the acidity of gastric juice, have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Moderate consumption of it has a beneficial effect on intellectual ability and memory, and also supports the nervous system (it is known that a deficiency of cyanocobalamin is fatal for it).

With regular consumption of this product, fat and bad cholesterol in the blood are reduced, therefore it is often advised by nutritionists for diabetics and overweight people.

Beef can be harmful if consumed excessively. An adult can consume no more than 150-170 grams of the product per day. A week should be limited to 500 grams.

Cooking beef cutlets

How to cook beef patties correctly?

For this you need minced meat. You can buy it at the store, but you will not know what it is made of or how conscientiously the meat was prepared before chopping. It is also unknown how much excess water and fat it contains (especially if it is frozen). With their increased content in minced meat, the products cannot be formed, and then it is impossible to fry normally, since they begin to break and fall apart.

Therefore, it is better to cook minced meat at home. To do this, you must select the part of the carcass that is optimal for chopping. It can be a neck, a low-fat brisket, a shoulder blade. The meat must be freed from excess fat and films, washed and dried. A whole piece can be passed through a meat grinder, or you can chop it with knives - then the cutlets will be much juicier and tastier. When choosing meat, you need to pay attention to the color of the fat: if it is yellow, the beef is very old, and the dish will come out tasteless. Too fatty meat is also not worth buying, as the excess tissue will have to be cut off.

Minced meat products are prepared quickly and easily. The main thing is to fry a sufficient amount of time over low heat, and then bring it to readiness in the oven (or at least under the lid of a frying pan). Insufficiently baked products have a bad smell and taste.

Well-cooked ones, on the other hand, have a mouth-watering aroma and delicate taste. The dish goes well to taste with mashed potatoes, boiled rice with vegetables, pasta with red sauce and stewed vegetables, as well as grilled vegetables.

Cutlet recipes

The recipe must be chosen at your own discretion and personal taste preferences. You should also not forget about calorie content and nutritional value. For example, the calorie level of beef and pork cutlets will clearly go against the diet. And the same products with veal meat on a vegetable basis will be an excellent choice for those who are losing weight.

Potato and meat

Ingredients:

• Beef - 130 grams;
• Potatoes - 75 grams;
• Cream - 20 grams;
• Chicken egg - ½ piece;
• Ground crackers - 20 grams;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Minced meat twisted in a meat grinder, grated raw potatoes, eggs and cream combine in a bowl.
2. Season the mass with salt, pepper, knead thoroughly and knock out.
3. Form "semi-finished products" of an oval shape, breaded in breadcrumbs or flour, fry on both sides in a well-heated frying pan with butter.
4. Then place in the oven for a few minutes and bring to readiness.
5. We recommend that you prepare mashed potatoes with spinach as a side dish.
6. Pour butter warmed up with a sprig of rosemary and a chopped garlic clove over the dish.

Natural

Ingredients:

• Veal (loin) - 130 grams,
• Ghee butter - 10 grams;
• Salt, pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. 

2. Cut the loin at an angle into small wide cutlets.
3. Peel the bone from the pulp and chop off the end so that it looks out.
4. Salt and pepper the cutlets and fry them well in a pan.
5. Before serving on the bone, put on a papillote from a napkin.
6. Pour cutlets with meat juice combined with orange juice and honey, and then sprinkle with chopped herbs.
7. Garnish with sauteed orange wedges.

Salisbury steak

Ingredients:

• Minced lean beef - 675 grams;
• Breadcrumbs - 1/3 cup;
• Chicken egg - 1 piece;
• Worcester sauce - 2 teaspoons
• Chopped onions - 2 pieces;
• 2 tablespoons of chopped carrots and celery;
• Butter - 60 grams;
• Head of Spanish onion, cut into slices;
• Granulated sugar - 2 teaspoons;
• Wheat flour of the highest grade - 3 tablespoons;
• Sherry - 60 ml;
• Beef broth - 1, 3 cups;
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking method:

1. 

2. In a large bowl, combine beef, bread crumbs, egg, Worcestershire sauce, chopped onions, carrots and celery.
3. Form six cutlets from the mass, place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes. The more precise baking time depends on the thickness of the cutlets made.
4. In the meantime, the cutlets are being prepared, heat the oil in a saucepan.
5. Add chopped Spanish onions and sugar to it.
6. Saute over low heat until the onions are caramelized.
7. Sprinkle the flour on the onion and cook for another 4 minutes.
8. Then add the Sherry, broth, tomato paste, seasonings to a saucepan and simmer the sauce until thickened over low heat.

Arrange the patties on serving bowls and pour over the sauce.

Diet cutlets

Ingredients:

• Minced veal - 60 grams;
• Cottage cheese - 50 grams;
• Butter - 5 grams;
• Chicken egg - ¼ pieces;
• Ghee butter - 5 grams;
• Water - 10 grams;
• Salt and herbs to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare small round cutlets from the prepared minced meat, cottage cheese, butter, water and seasonings, put them in a baking sheet with high edges and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes, adding a little water.
2. These beef patties can be steamed, depending on your diet. The recipe for steamed cutlets is simple - they are prepared in the same way, but they are not baked, but boiled in a double boiler or in a water bath.
3. Serve with melted butter and chopped herbs.

With the addition of pork

Ingredients:

• Ground beef - 300 grams;
• Minced pork - 300 grams;
• Chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• White bread (pulp) - 100 grams;
• Onion - 1 head;
• Salt, pepper and herbs to taste.

Cooking with minced beef and pork is extremely simple.

Cooking method:

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2. In the minced beef and pork in a 1: 1 ratio, add eggs, white bread without a crust soaked in milk, sautéed onions, salt, pepper and chopped parsley.
3. Mix everything well and knock out.
4. Let stand for half an hour, then form oblong cutlets with vegetable oil.
5. Cook in a preheated skillet for about 5 minutes on each side.
6. Bring to readiness in the oven for 10 minutes (you can simply cover the pan with a lid and sprinkle water into it).
7. Cutlets prepared in this way will be unusually juicy and aromatic.

Beef must necessarily occupy a special place in the diet of every person, given its taste and nutritional properties. For people who monitor the thinness of their waist, it will only benefit, the weakened will help them gain strength and heal. It is very easy to cook beef cutlets, moreover, you can please yourself and your family with a fragrant and healthy dish "in the heat of the heat". Anyone can handle the recipes and recommendations given.

Have fun eating and bon appetit!