Good housewives, caring wives and mothers strive to make every dinner special for their household members. But sometimes there is neither the mood nor the time to cook something intricate. Then they make do with simple cutlets and a side dish. But even an ordinary minced meat dish can be made special: more tender, tasty and healthy.
Try adding cottage cheese to them. This ingredient may not seem to go well with minced meat, but the results will surprise you. And if there is any excess product left, try making sweet cottage cheese cutlets. There will be both dinner and dessert.
Cutlets with cottage cheese: recipe
Cutlets turn out very tasty if you add not only cottage cheese and onions, but also carrots. The fermented milk product makes them tender, and their consistency resembles fish. But at the same time they taste like meat, so they can be included in children’s diets.
Tip: use any minced meat to suit your taste. If you want the cutlets to be less high in calories, you can twist the chicken fillet. When you need something heartier, use ground beef or pork. Depending on this, the duration of the process will also change: the chicken cooks faster.
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Number of servings: 6
Energy value
- calorie content - 231 kcal;
- proteins - 12 g;
- fats - 18.2 g;
- carbohydrates - 5 g.
Ingredients
- minced meat – 500 g
- cottage cheese – 150 g
- eggs – 2 pcs.
- onion – 100 g
- carrots – 100 g
- breadcrumbs – 50 g
- water – 50 ml
- sunflower oil – 60 ml
- parsley - to taste
- khmeli-suneli - to taste
- salt - to taste
Step-by-step preparation
- Place the minced meat in a bowl convenient for kneading. Let the frozen one thaw and drain the liquid released during the defrosting process.
- Peel the onion, chop into large pieces and transfer to the chopper bowl. Bring to puree.
- Cut the carrots into large circles and also pass through a blender.
- Rinse the parsley under running water, dry and chop as finely as possible.
- Add onions, carrots and herbs to the minced meat, beat in eggs, seasonings and mix well. Place the bowl, covered, in the refrigerator for about an hour. During this time, the minced meat will infuse, soaked in seasonings, onions and the aroma of parsley.
- Pour breadcrumbs into a small container. Heat 50 ml of water and pour it in. After a couple of minutes, mix the mixture into the cottage cheese. Mash the curd thoroughly with a fork so that no large grains remain.
- Remove the minced meat from the refrigerator and combine it with the cottage cheese. Mix better with your hands so that the ingredients are completely combined. To determine how salty the minced meat is, place a piece on your tongue. Add more salt if necessary.
- Heat sunflower oil in a frying pan. With wet hands, form small patties from the curd and minced meat and fry them over low heat on both sides until golden brown.
You can cook cutlets with cottage cheese in the oven. To do this, form them, place them on a baking sheet greased with sunflower oil and bake at 180 degrees for about 25 minutes. You can cook without any fat at all, on a silicone mat.
Steamed chicken cutlets with cheese filling
- 1 kg of minced chicken;
- 200 g hard cheese;
- 1 piece of white bread;
- 2 pieces of black bread;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1 egg;
- salt, ground pepper;
- chopped dill;
- breading
I'll tell you how to cook diet chicken cutlets with a delicate cheese filling. It turns out to be a very tasty and beautiful dish, just like in a restaurant. Serve it with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes as a salad or cut into slices. Calorie content 152 kcal.
Steamed on a wire rack over a saucepan of water or in a slow cooker. Can be cooked in a frying pan or in the oven. The recipe is universal. It takes about 25 minutes to prepare for each batch. Freeze any excess mince and use it whenever you want within 3 days.
- Pinch off the crust from the pieces of bread.
- Crumble it and moisten it with warm water to swell.
- Then squeeze out a little excess water.
- Using a fork, mash the soaked bread to form a bread puree.
- Break an egg into the minced chicken.
- Crush the garlic in a garlic press.
- Add bread and garlic to the minced meat.
- Salt, pepper, stir until smooth.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Mix cheese with chopped herbs.
- Take the minced meat in small pieces and roll the balls.
- After making a hole in the ball, place some cheese filling there.
- Cover the cheese with a piece of minced meat and flatten the ball a little to form a cutlet shape. You can place the cheese differently. Place a ball of minced meat on the breading and knead it with your fingers until it forms a pancake. Then add the filling and bring the edges together to seal the cheese.
- Dip the cutlets in the breading and place on a greased wire rack. You can fry such cutlets in a frying pan, but the calorie content will be added.
Sweet curd cutlets
Cheese pancakes immediately come to mind. But this recipe is different. Sweet cottage cheese cutlets are prepared with the addition of oatmeal, so they are more satisfying, nutritious, and are suitable as a complete breakfast.
Tip : the list of ingredients includes dried apricots, but you can add any dried fruit to the cutlets to your taste. You can also supplement the mixture with banana or apple slices.
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Number of servings: 5
Energy value
- proteins – 10.3 g;
- fats – 11.8 g;
- carbohydrates – 34.8 g;
- calorie content – 286 kcal.
Ingredients
- low-fat cottage cheese – 200 g;
- oat flakes – 150 g;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- dried apricots – 100 g;
- sunflower oil – 60 ml;
- soda – 5 g;
- sugar – 20 g;
- salt – 5 g.
Step-by-step preparation
- Transfer the dried fruits into a small but deep container, pour boiling water over them and leave covered for 15 minutes so that they steam, soften and swell.
- Pour oatmeal into a blender bowl and grind to fine grains. Maybe a little larger.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve so that there are no lumps left.
- Break an egg into the curd, add ground oatmeal, sugar, salt, and soda. If desired, you can add a little vanillin. Mix well and leave for 15 minutes.
- Remove the steamed dried apricots from the water, place them on a paper towel to remove excess moisture, and chop finely. You can grind it using a blender.
- Add dried apricots to the curd mass and stir.
- With wet hands, form small flat cutlets and fry them on both sides over medium heat in hot sunflower oil until golden brown. To make the dish dietary, bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes.
You can serve sweet curd cutlets by sprinkling them with powdered sugar, garnishing with fresh berries, or topping them with dessert sauce or condensed milk. And without all this, you will get a tasty and healthy dietary product. Some don't even add sugar.
Meat cutlets with the addition of cottage cheese or sweet meatballs are not only tasty dishes, but also rich in calcium. And this is a good way to feed children with a healthy product who are not very keen to eat it in its pure form. You can improvise by adding new ingredients and spices to the cutlets, getting original flavors. Good luck with your culinary experiments and bon appetit!
The Most Juicy and Tender Fish Cutlets. The whole secret is in the preparation of minced meat
I always add fried onions and occasionally fried white or sauerkraut to the minced meat, but I don’t like garlic in cutlets. I always cook the rice for cabbage rolls by half, it’s juicier and tastier. Serg Gainsbourg asked March 1 Do you fry the onions separately? I only do this when I’m cooking stews—first I fry the onions, then I add the meat. For cutlets, I don’t fry the onion separately, I mix it with the minced meat.
Kuss answer author March 2nd Yes, I cut it into small cubes, fry it separately, let it cool and add it to the minced meat. One of the cooks very convincingly said that there is no need to beat the minced meat. He advised salt and pepper and knead the minced meat thoroughly.
No eggs or bread!
Then put the minced meat in the refrigerator for at least an hour, or overnight. I can say for myself that I don’t beat the minced meat, but I add an egg and white bread soaked in milk.
Serg Gainsbourg author of the question February 28, 2010 Your recipe is just a traditional one, but in my experience, you can’t add milk to the minced meat, it spoils the taste.
Today we are preparing tender and very juicy chicken cutlets, which contain cottage cheese.
Cooking secrets
You can't feel the cottage cheese in the cutlets, but it gives it an unforgettable cheesy taste. To better hold its shape, add semolina or flour. Add garlic for flavor. It all depends on your desires and preferences.
If you don't have fish, you can substitute canned tuna. The cutlets turn out even juicier and more original. Onions and garlic are the ingredients that bring out the flavor. It is advisable to always add them directly to the minced meat.
If you use low-fat cottage cheese, there is a chance that the cutlets will not form as they should. To avoid lumps and grains, it is better to beat the mass with a blender. You should not mash the cottage cheese with a fork.
It is best to cook steamed or in the oven. They turn out no less tasty than in a frying pan. However, in this case you will not get the desired crust.
You can add a little bread to the curd and minced meat, which must first be soaked in cold water. There is an opinion that cutlets become more tender and juicy.
Recipe for “Curd and meat cutlets”:
Take buckwheat kernels in Mistral bags, put them in boiling water and cook until tender for 20 minutes.
While the cereal is cooking, prepare the cutlets. We take any minced meat you want, of course, with chicken there will be a more dietary option, but I took pork. Grind the onion thoroughly (with a blender, grater or knife), add to the minced meat.
Add cottage cheese, sour cream, egg, squeezed garlic, salt, freshly ground pepper mixture and cumin.
We put finely chopped greens, I have dill and parsley.
Mix the minced meat well and form into cutlets.
Bread the cutlets in flour or breadcrumbs.
Pour vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and fry the cutlets on both sides until golden brown over medium heat.
At the same time prepare regular tomato sauce. Fry the finely chopped onion in vegetable oil until transparent.
Add flour and mix.
Add tomato sauce, salt, sugar, mix. Add water, bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes.
Pour the sauce over the cutlets and simmer for 5 minutes with the lid closed over low heat.
We take out the prepared bags of buckwheat with a fork and let the water drain. Place the buckwheat on a plate.
Serve hot buckwheat with cutlets, sprinkled with herbs. Bon appetit!
Minced chicken cutlets with mushrooms
This option turns out to be very unusual, but at the same time tasty and nutritious. You can choose any mushrooms, since they will all taste good in the finished dish. It is advisable that they be fresh, although the dried and frozen version also adds a lot of variety to chicken tenders.
Required Products:
- half a kilogram of minced meat (chicken is used);
- 400 grams of champignons or any other mushrooms;
- medium bulb;
- a little flour for breading and minced meat;
- salt and spices.
Cooking method
Peel the onion, chop finely and fry until soft in a small amount of oil.
We clean the mushrooms (if necessary), rinse and finely chop. Fry until cooked (without onions) - all the moisture should evaporate from the pan.
In a plate, mix the defrosted minced meat with egg, onion and mushrooms, add salt and any spices. If the minced meat turns out thick, you can season it a little with flour - it will not only strengthen it, but also make the finished dish softer.
As a result, the minced meat should be moderately thick so that you can sculpt it into meatballs with your hands.
Fry the cutlets until a light crust appears. This should be done over medium heat and with the lid open. If you don’t want meatballs with a crust, you can close it, but then you need to cook the dish on low heat.
Recipe for “Curd and meat cutlets”:
Take buckwheat kernels in Mistral bags, put them in boiling water and cook until tender for 20 minutes.
While the cereal is cooking, prepare the cutlets. We take any minced meat you want, of course, with chicken there will be a more dietary option, but I took pork. Grind the onion thoroughly (with a blender, grater or knife), add to the minced meat.
Add cottage cheese, sour cream, egg, squeezed garlic, salt, freshly ground pepper mixture and cumin.
We put finely chopped greens, I have dill and parsley.
Mix the minced meat well and form into cutlets.
Bread the cutlets in flour or breadcrumbs.
Pour vegetable oil into a hot frying pan and fry the cutlets on both sides until golden brown over medium heat.
At the same time prepare regular tomato sauce. Fry the finely chopped onion in vegetable oil until transparent.
Add flour and mix.
Add tomato sauce, salt, sugar, mix. Add water, bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes.
Pour the sauce over the cutlets and simmer for 5 minutes with the lid closed over low heat.
We take out the prepared bags of buckwheat with a fork and let the water drain. Place the buckwheat on a plate.
Serve hot buckwheat with cutlets, sprinkled with herbs. Bon appetit!
Steam cooking option
Tender steamed cutlets with cottage cheese and minced meat, stewed with vegetables without a drop of oil - an excellent idea for a family dinner. This dish is easy to prepare in a slow cooker, and within half an hour you will have wonderful meatballs on the table along with a side dish!
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Number of servings: 5
Ingredients
- chicken pulp – 0.43 kg;
- green onions – 30 g;
- cottage cheese – 0.2 kg;
- eggs – 2 pcs.;
- carrots – 70 g;
- young zucchini – 220 g;
- cumin – 2 g;
- potatoes – 250 g;
- white pepper – 6 g;
- iodized salt - to taste;
- wig – 3 g;
- marjoram – 5 g;
Step-by-step preparation
- Wash the chicken fillet, pat dry with a cloth, and cut into small pieces. Place into a meat grinder and grind thoroughly.
- Dip green onion in water and chop into miniature pieces.
- Add eggs to the minced chicken, add chopped onion, add cottage cheese. Then season with dry spices, salt, mix thoroughly and beat on the kitchen table about 7-8 times. The result should be a soft elastic mass suitable for sculpting products.
- Form oval cutlets from the meat mixture and gently smooth their surface with wet palms.
- Peel and wash all vegetables. Then chop the zucchini and potatoes into medium cubes, the carrots into thin slices, and the bell pepper into strips.
- Place vegetables in a steaming basket. It is advisable to place them in layers: first potatoes, then sliced carrots, then bell peppers and zucchini. Each level should be lightly salted and, if desired, seasoned with white pepper. Place the cutlets on top, keeping in mind that the distance between them should be about 1.5 cm.
- Pour water into the multicooker bowl (to the bottom mark). Place a container with food in it, select the “Steam” mode and cook for 25 minutes.
- After the sound alert, let the dish brew for 10-15 minutes in a closed device (then it will be even more flavorful).
Distribute the finished treat among serving plates and serve. You can supplement it with crumbly buckwheat, fresh sour cream and a slice of grain bread.
Description of preparation:
1. First you need to make cottage cheese. For a softer texture of the meatballs, it is best to rub it through a sieve to remove excess lumps. 2. Combine mashed cottage cheese with eggs and powdered sugar. Mix everything thoroughly and gradually add flour. If desired, you can use semolina instead of flour, then the cottage cheese balls at home should be left for 15-25 minutes until the cereal swells. 3. To prevent the meatballs from melting in the pan, add a little starch to the dough (it is better to use corn starch). 4. Another option for making curd balls more interesting is to add dried fruits. Raisins, dried apricots or prunes must first be poured with boiling water, then dried and chopped. 5. When the curd mass is ready, you can form balls and roll them on all sides in flour or breadcrumbs. 6. Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the meatballs there. Fry over medium heat until golden brown. You can serve them with sour cream, berry syrup or honey. Before serving, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar or a pinch of cinnamon. Purpose: For breakfast Main ingredient: Dairy products / Cottage cheese Dish: Desserts Geography of cuisine: Russian cuisine
