Minced meat dishes - 9 delicious recipes in the oven, in the slow cooker and in the pan

Delicious and hearty minced meat dishes are not at all limited to cutlets and meatballs. There are many more interesting and original options. The best and most popular of them are collected below.

Minced meat in the oven

If the hostess carefully monitors the calorie content of her menu, then it is worth choosing roasting in the oven as a method of heat treatment of products. It allows you to cook diet treats, or at least avoid the use of refined butter in large quantities. There are some good recipes for minced meat dishes.

Potato casserole with minced meat

Having learned how to cook such a dish, every housewife will be able to quickly cope with lunch or dinner for the whole family. By the way, the treat is perfect for a festive meal. To do this, it will only be necessary to decorate it effectively and appetizingly.

Ingredients:

• potato tubers - 1.3 kilos;
• any minced meat to your taste - a pound;
• Lavrushka - a pair of leaflets;
• onions - 2 medium heads;
• sour cream - 1/3 cup;
• butter - 1 tsp;
• hard cheese - 130 - 150 g;
• oil, pepper and salt.

Cooking:

1. To cook a potato casserole with minced meat in the oven, you first need to peel the tubers and send them to boil in salt water with a lavrusha until fully cooked.
2. Chop the onion into small pieces. Fry until transparent on a small amount of preheated fat.
3. Add to minced meat. Break the lumps with a spatula. Add salt and pepper to taste. You can use any of your favorite spices.
4. Remove bay leaves from potatoes. Puree the vegetable mass with a little cream.No need to add milk.
5. Put the potatoes in two layers in an oiled form. Place fried meat with onions between them.
6. Top all smeared with sour cream and cover with cheese. Some housewives at this stage use mayonnaise or their other favorite sauce.
7. Preheat oven to medium temperature. Submit to it a form with all the contents.
8. Cook the dish for 40 - 45 minutes.

Gently divide the resulting treat with a knife into portions and arrange on plates. Garnish with chopped greens, if desired. Deliciously serve it with additions in the form of homemade pickles.

Beef hedgehogs

For such a dish, you should independently cook ground beef from fresh unfrozen meat. It is interrupted by a special blender nozzle or passed through a meat grinder with a small amount of fat. You can immediately add onion and / or garlic to the minced meat.

Ingredients:

• minced beef - 380 - 400 g;
• white onion - 2 medium-sized heads;
• white rice - half a glass;
• tomatoes in their own juice - a pound;
• large chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• oil, salt and favorite aromatic herbs.

Cooking:

1. Free the onion from the husk and cut with a sharp knife into miniature cubes. Warm a small amount of oil in a frying pan. Fry chopped onion on it. Vegetable slices should become transparent and slightly golden. It is important not to overcook them.
2. Put the contents of the pan on a sieve. Drain excess oil. Do not drain the fat, but remove it to the side - it will be needed in the next steps.
3. Combine the ground beef with the fried vegetable.
4. Rinse long rice thoroughly in several waters. Dry it slightly. To do this, just sprinkle the cereal on a clean towel and leave for a while.
5. Combine rice and meat. Add raw egg. Salt everything. Immediately add your favorite aromatic herbs.
6. First thoroughly mix the composition with a fork, then - act with your hands.
7. Wet palms to form neat and approximately the same size balls from the resulting mass. Put them on a large plate and send in the cold for 40 minutes.
8. Return the fat remaining after frying the onions back into the pan. Fry the meat balls on it until a light golden crust appears. It is not necessary to cook meatballs to the end.
9. In a baking dish, send tomatoes, in their own juice, killed by a blender. Vegetables should also be salt and pepper to taste.
10. Put meatballs in the resulting tomato sauce. If necessary, add a small amount of water.
11. Simmer in the oven at an average temperature of approximately 35 to 40 minutes.

Serve a treat with fresh vegetable salad.

You can also cook such hedgehogs from minced meat with rice in a slow cooker. To do this, just simmer them in tomato sauce after frying in a stew.

Juicy turkey chop

Chops can be prepared not only from whole meat pieces, but also from already prepared mincemeat. They turn out to be especially tasty, juicy, tender.

Ingredients:

• minced meat from turkey meat - 1 kilo;
• raw eggs - 3 pcs.;
• wheat flour sifted in advance - half a glass;
• bread crumbs - half a glass;
• fresh garlic cloves - 3 - 4 pcs.;
• salt, pepper, sunflower oil.

Cooking:

1. First you need to work with the stuffing. It does not need to add any “cutlet” ingredients, such as eggs and onions. Simply salt and pepper the meat to taste.
2. Chop the garlic as much as possible in any convenient way. Mix with minced meat.
3. With wet hands, mix the meat mass. At the same time, you need to try so that the stuffing gets as much air as possible, it becomes softer.
4. Then put the meat in a bag and beat it on the surface of the table or the bottom of the plate.
5. Divide the prepared compound into approximately 12 equal-sized parts. Their exact number will depend on what size chops are planned to be received. You can make them larger or smaller. The latter option is especially relevant if the house has small gourmets.
6. Separately, in a deep bowl, beat the raw eggs to a light foam.
7. Sprinkle flour and breadcrumbs into two other plates.
8. Each future chop first is immersed in beaten eggs, then - in dry flour, and again in eggs, and in breadcrumbs.
9. Lay the resulting workpieces on a baking sheet covered with high-quality and additionally oiled baking paper.
10. Bake chops a little less than half an hour in the oven at medium temperature.

Serve chops with your favorite sauces. For example, with a mixture of mayonnaise, ketchup and crushed garlic.

Pan Recipes

Preparing dishes from minced meat or fish in a pan is even easier and faster than in the oven. You can fry them in butter, vegetable oil or a mixture thereof.

Chebureks with minced chicken

If the hostess’s mince was too small at hand, and the number of pasties wanted to be increased, then the meat can be combined with vegetables. For example, with finely chopped stewed cabbage.

Ingredients:

• first-class flour - 1 kilo;
• eggs - 1 pc.;
• water - half a liter;
• minced poultry - a pound;
• onion - 3 heads;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 3 to 4 cloves;
• salt, pepper, oil.

Cooking:

1. Pour all the flour immediately onto a large clean table on which it will be convenient to knead the dough. Pre-sifting it is optional.
2. In the resulting "bunch" make a deepening. Pour the contents of the raw egg and all the water into it. Add a large pinch of salt.
3. Mix the ingredients thoroughly with your hands. Cover the resulting soft but dense dough with a film. Leave “rest” for about half an hour right on the table.
4. While the base is suitable, you need to do meat. Stuffed meat should be salt and pepper to taste.
5. Chop the onions, carrots and garlic randomly. The smaller their pieces, the better. It is convenient to use a blender for this purpose.
6. Roll up the finished dough with a thick "sausage". In the process of wrapping the pasties, you will need to cut small pieces from it. You should not do this in advance, otherwise the dough will air out.
7. Each individual piece will need to be rolled into a thin circle. Half the resulting tortillas need to spread the stuffing and cover it with the second part. To make the pasties beautiful, their edges need to be pressed with a fork.
8. Fry the workpiece in a large amount of hot oil.

Chebureks should become rosy, crunchy. To avoid excess fat on portions, after frying, they need to be laid out on a paper towel.

Grechaniki

Cutlets with the addition of cereals - a hearty and healthy dish. For example, meat goes well with boiled buckwheat.

Ingredients:

• minced meat from any meat - 380 - 400 g;
• onions - a large head;
• dry buckwheat - a full glass;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 2 full glasses;
• garlic - 3 to 4 cloves;
• oil, spices, flour and salt.

Cooking:

1. Rinse the cereals and pour in very hot water. Bring to a boil, salt and cook until cooked.
2. Finely chop the onion and fry in any hot oil.
3. Combine the cooked cereals with frying and meat. Add selected spices, raw egg. Add salt if necessary.
4. Send garlic, crushed in any convenient way, to the resulting composition.
5. Mix everything well. Form small cakes and roll each in flour on all sides.
6. Fry in a skillet with butter until cooked.

If desired, ready-made Greek can be put out with the addition of a small amount of broth.

Tender minced fish cutlets

Tasty and tender not only chicken mince cutlets are obtained, but also fish cutlets. Any basis is suitable - you can use a variety of fish fillets to your taste.

Ingredients:

• fish fillet - 580 - 600 g;
• large chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• white onion - 1 head;
• butter - 60 g;
• fresh dill - ½ bunch;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• white bread - 3 slices;
• milk - half a glass;
• salt, pepper and breadcrumbs for breading.

Cooking:

1. Pass the fillet through a meat grinder or treat with a special blender nozzle.If initially the hostess has a whole fish at hand, then she needs to get rid of everything superfluous - only fillet will be used.
2. Remove crusts from white bread. Soak it in milk for about a quarter of an hour.
3. Squeeze out the pulp and combine with the fillet. Add soft mashed butter, egg yolks, chopped dill, grated onion, salt and pepper. Other spices may also be used.
4. Mix everything very carefully.
5. In a separate bowl, whisk the whites with a pinch of salt until fluffy foam.
6. Gently mix the fluffy white mass into the resulting stuffing.
7. Wet fingers to form small meatballs. Roll each crumb in a crumb - this will provide an appetizing tender crust.
8. Fry the patties until cooked.

If the dish turned out to be slightly damp inside, you can additionally extinguish it for several minutes in water with spices or in broth.

What to cook in a slow cooker

Multivarka modern housewives unanimously call their "kitchen assistant." It really greatly facilitates the work of every cook. It is convenient to cook in such a device and treats from minced meat.

Meatballs in a slow cooker

A popular second course is meatballs. You can take any meat to your liking.

Ingredients:

• stuffing - a pound;
• rice - half a glass;
• bow - head;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
• flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
• salt and spices.

Cooking:

1. Chop the onion very finely. Mix with it minced meat and rice directly raw.
2. Add the contents of a whole raw egg. Pour salt and spices. You can take a ready-made mixture designed specifically for minced meat.
3. Form neat meatballs.
4. For the sauce, combine sour cream, flour, tomato paste and dilute everything with water. Pour the mixture into the bowl of the device.
5. Put the formed meatballs in the sauce.
6. Cook in a stew mode for about an hour. If suddenly rice or meat is not completely cooked, you can increase the time.

According to this recipe, very tender meatballs with gravy are obtained. It is best to serve them with any dry side dish. For example, with buckwheat, mashed potatoes or peas. You can simply supplement the dish with vegetable salad.

Roasted potato with mushrooms and minced meat

It is best to take minced pork for such a dish. The treat as a result is very satisfying.

Ingredients:

• potato tubers - 4 pcs.;
• white onion - 1 head;
• mushrooms - 80 - 100 g;
• butter - 2 tbsp. l .;
• minced pork - 180 - 200 g;
• sour cream - ¼ st .;
• Lavrushka - 1 leaf;
• salt and pepper.

Cooking:

1. First of all, you need to finely chop the onions and mushrooms, send them to the bowl of the multicooker with heated oil. Fry in a frying program until golden brown.
2. Top with minced meat mixed with salt and pepper. Continue frying for another 3 to 4 minutes.
3. Cut the potatoes into thick slices. Distribute by minced meat.
4. Cover everything with salted sour cream. Pour a glass of water. Add the lavrushka.
5. Prepare a treat in a stew program for 45–50 minutes. In the process, the meat should be completely cooked, and the potatoes should be softened.

The resulting roast should be divided into portions, put on plates and serve with homemade pickles.

Meat pie

A delicious meat pie will be a great addition even for a festive table. It is delicious to cook its filling both from pork or beef, and from minced chicken. But best suited for it are mixtures of two types of meat. For example, chicken + pork.

Ingredients:

• sifted flour - 2 tbsp .;
• milk - 1 tbsp .;
• butter - 45 - 50 g;
• sunflower oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
• dry yeast - 1 tsp;
• salt - ¾ tsp;
• onions - 1 head;
• minced meat - 380 - 400 g;
• broth - 3 - 4 tbsp. l .;
• salt and pepper.

Cooking:

1. According to the standard scheme, dilute the yeast in warmed milk. Send there sunflower oil and melted butter.
2. Pour in salt and mix everything very carefully.
3. Gradually start adding flour, kneading the dough after each serving. As a result, it should thicken significantly.It remains to cover the mass with a film or a clean towel and remove to heat for about 1 hour.
4. Chop onion finely, mix it with minced meat. Salt everything, pepper, pour the broth - the filling is completely ready.
5. When the base of the dough has risen sufficiently, place 2/3 of its parts in the oiled bowl of the multicooker. Form quite high sides.
6. Spread the meat filling on top. Cover it with the remaining dough. Securely squeeze the edges.
7. Close the appliance cover. First activate the heating mode for 20 minutes. Then - change it to "Baking" and cook for 65 - 70 minutes.

The resulting appetizer is delicious to try both hot and cold.

Minced fish, meat or poultry allows the chef to experiment endlessly. Each recipe can also be additionally slightly modified to your taste.