The recipe for minced meat is not particularly difficult. The main thing is to buy suitable pasta (spaghetti), which can be easily twisted in the form of a nest. On sale there are already finished pasta in the form of nests.
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Oven pasta nests with minced meat
Pasta nests with minced meat are very effective when served. In fact, they are large meatballs or meatballs wrapped in long noodles and stewed or baked in a suitable sauce. This recipe is basic, but everyone can change the filling and sauce as they wish. You can add any additional components to the minced meat - hard cheese, mushrooms, greens, carrots and other vegetables.
Minced meat can be used any: chicken, turkey, pork, beef and even fish. But juicy mixed minced meat (pork + beef) is best suited.
Necessary components:
- pasta - half a kilo;
- minced meat - about 400 g;
- turnip onion - 2 heads;
- large carrot - 1 pc.;
- hard cheese - 150 g piece;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- sour cream - 1 tbsp. l .;
- tomato paste - 50 g;
- sugar, salt, spices - at personal discretion.
Sequencing:
- Chop the onions, grind the carrots with cheese.
- In the minced meat, put together half the chopped onion, part of the cheese shavings, beat the egg, salt, pepper and knead.
- Boil pasta in salted water until half cooked. Water does not need to be drained.
- Using a large spoon, lay out the future "nests" in the form.
- Inside, put the stuffing from the minced meat, slightly spreading the pasta to form a depression.
- Fry the remaining onions with carrots. Pour in tomato paste, sour cream, 300 ml of water remaining after cooking pasta. Salt, add sugar and spices. Mix. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Pour the contents of the form into the sauce. Sprinkle with cheese chips on top.
Bake for about 25 minutes. Children like to eat such a dish with pleasure, since it is difficult to find a child who would not like pasta in any way.
Cooking in a pan
Using the pan, you can cook a delicious and original dinner in half an hour.
What do you need:
- pasta nests - 8-9 pcs. (depending on the size of the pan);
- onion-turnip - head;
- minced meat - 300 g;
- tomato juice - a glass;
- sunflower oil and tomato paste - 2 tbsp each. l .;
- dill - a small bunch;
- salt and pepper - at your own discretion.
How to cook:
- Chop the onion, add to the minced meat along with salt and pepper. Knead.
- Put prepared nests of approximately equal height into the pan. Stuff them with the filling.
- Combine the tomato paste with salt, sugar and butter. Pour juice and mix. It should be a delicious filling.
- Pour the sauce over the contents of the pan.
Cook over medium heat for approximately 25 minutes. The cover must be covered. Sprinkle with chopped dill before serving.
Cheese and Mushroom Variation
Nests with cheese and mushrooms are very tasty and aromatic.
Necessary components:
- pasta packaging - 1 pc.;
- any stuffing - 0.4 kg;
- champignons - 300 g;
- bow - head;
- cheese - a 300 gram piece;
- salt, spices - at personal discretion.
Sequence of steps:
- Chop onions and mushrooms. Fry them in a pan with minced meat. Season to taste.
- To boil water. Lower the nests into it for 3 minutes. Then put the workpieces on a baking sheet, pre-oiled.
- Stuff them with minced meat with onions and mushrooms.
- Grind the cheese and sprinkle with chips.
- Bake in the oven for 12 minutes until the cheese melts.
Serve with ketchup or other sauce. From above, optionally, you can still sprinkle with herbs.
Unusual recipe with minced seafood
You can also cook shrimp-based nests with minced meat. This is a good option for those who like to experiment.
What is required:
- nests - 7 pcs.;
- shrimp - 150 g;
- cream - 225 g;
- water is a glass;
- hard cheese - a 75 gram slice;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- salt with pepper.
How to cook:
- Put the pasta blanks in a saucepan. It is advisable that they lie tight and do not fall.
- Peel the shrimp and combine with the cheese chips. Put the stuffing in the nests.
- Drain the cream. Season with salt and pepper, season with chopped garlic.
- Pour the sauce over the contents of the pan so that its upper level is not higher than the filling.
- Simmer under a closed lid over low heat for about a quarter of an hour.
Serve with herbs and sliced tomatoes.
How to make potato nests
Alternatively, you can prepare a similar dish based on potatoes. As a rule, mashed potatoes are most often used. If there are leftover potatoes in the refrigerator, they can be used to prepare this dish. In this case, you do not need to specially cook the tubers.
Necessary components:
- potato - a pound;
- minced meat - 250 g;
- bow - head;
- garlic - clove;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 3 tbsp. l .;
- hard cheese - a 75 gram slice;
- butter, salt and pepper - at personal discretion.
Sequencing:
- Boil potatoes, mashed from it.
- When it cools down, add butter, flour, beat in an egg, salt.
- Form nests from the mass (they usually do this with a tablespoon or a pastry syringe) and put on a baking sheet.
- Chop onion with garlic. Fry with minced meat. Grate the cheese.
- Put the filling in the workpieces, sprinkle all with cheese shavings.
Bake for about 25 minutes.
You can complicate the recipe a little and use miniature quail testicles as an additional component. They need to be taken by the number of potato nests. When laying out the filling in the minced meat, you need to make a small depression (in this case, it is not worth sprinkling with cheese) After 15 minutes of baking the billets with minced meat, the baking sheet should be removed and driven into the recesses in an egg. After that, you can sprinkle the nests with a piece of cheese and return to the oven for another quarter hour.Such a dish will be even more appetizing.
If in the freezer there is a little mincemeat, and in the pantry there is a package of pasta nests, then the hostess will always have something to surprise unexpected guests. The spectacular portioned serving of this delicious and mouth-watering dish is to everyone's liking.
