The more meat is crushed, the stronger and more easily it is molded. The stuffing is shaped like a small ball with a plum or cherry. Often in the laying of flour or eggs, and you can both, because at the same time the dishes from minced meat keep the shape when cooking. So do knels and meatballs, which boil without breading.
In a thin ground beef, sometimes a little boiled rice or semolina is added, after which croquettes are produced, small balls of minced meat. They can be boiled or fried. When croquettes of tomato paste, onion, garlic and egg whites are added, the meatballs are cooked, panied, lightly fried, then boiled or stewed. It does not take a lot of time for cooking meatballs: only 1-2 minutes for frying and 5-12 for stewing.
From the more coarsely ground minced meat, cutlets, rolls, kebabs are made. Usually they are breaded in a raw form, after which they are well fried on both sides. After frying, they can be baked in the oven. Dishes from minced meat are considered ready when separating colorless juice from them. Before serving, the dishes are ground with sauce. They can be served to a variety of potatoes, stewed vegetables, crumbly porridges, boiled pasta.
Cuts with minced meat began to be called at the end of the XIX century, and before that was called meat with a rib bone. Cutlets are made from mixed with raw eggs, breadcrumbs or white bread, onion and garlic minced meat. They are fried in a pan over a large fire without covering them with a lid. Fried on both sides cutlets for a short time cover with a lid to maintain their strength. Cutlets from poultry meat are called fire, because the recipe was invented by Count Pozharsky, to which unexpected guests came unexpectedly. Due to the lack of veal in the kitchen, the earl ordered to chop poultry meat and cook cutlets from it.
Dumplings are also a popular and favorite dish with minced meat. Their homeland is China, from it pelmeni entered Russia, and then spread to Central Asia and the Caucasus. Filling for classic Russian dumplings is prepared from mixed beef, lamb and pork mixed in equal proportions, and sometimes use bear, elk, deer or goose meat. In the meat add different spices, onions and occasionally garlic. Dough for dumplings is prepared from flour, eggs and water. Dumplings from these dishes are distinguished by the fact that the dough is made very thin, and the filling of minced meat is much higher than the amount of dough that is only a thin shell.
Soup with meatballs is considered one of the most popular first dishes. It is easier to prepare than other meat soups. Its main advantage is that it does not take a lot of time and effort to prepare this soup. Meat balls are minced meatballs cooked in broth. To make meatballs, use meat or fish minced meat, which is added chopped onion and greens, salt and add the pepper to taste. From the prepared forcemeat mold small balls.
It is tasty to cook at home with minced meat, you can stuff a variety of vegetables, usually peppers, zucchini, eggplants and tomatoes. Meat stuffing is used in the preparation of pie fillings. Some prefer pies exclusively with meat stuffing.