If you are tired of heavy and fatty foods, but are not ready to completely abandon meat dishes, then such a dietary and useful dish as kneli will definitely have to your liking. They are very easy to prepare, and can serve as an excellent complement to any side dish or generally used as an independent dish.
Chicken knuckles - recipe
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 500 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- white bread - 60 g;
- milk - 150 ml;
- salt to taste.
Preparation
With bread cut the crusts and soak it for a while in cold milk. At this time, the chicken fillet two times through a meat grinder. Then squeeze the bread, combine it with the resulting stuffing and pass this mass again through the meat grinder. If you want your knels to turn out to be more gentle, you can wipe the bread and chicken mass through a sieve. After that, put a bowl of minced meat in another deep container, which must first be filled with cold water or ice, and start whipping the mass with a mixer.
Separate yolks from proteins and, whilst continuing to beat, add the latter to the stuffing, and salt it. Beat until you get a smooth mass. Then proceed to the formation of the dunghills. To do this, take the meat mass with a tablespoon, so that the surface is flat, and make a notch on the other side of the other spoon with the edge of the other spoon, and then remove the ready-made knees.
Bring to a boil broth or just salted water and cook them in it for 4-5 minutes over a small fire. When the knelves are ready, they will float to the surface.
Knees for chicken steam
If you have such an assistant in the kitchen as a steamer, then we will share a recipe how to make chicken knels for a couple, which is much easier than cooking them, and the taste turns out to be equally excellent.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 500 g;
- white bread - 75 g;
- milk - 300-350 ml;
- eggs - 2-3 pcs .;
- butter - 25 g;
- salt.
Preparation
Bread soak into milk, and then squeeze. Pass it along with the chicken fillet twice through a meat grinder. Then add to the resulting mass softened butter, salt and egg yolks. Stir everything.
Proteins whisk separately into a tight foam, and then gently enter into the meat mass and again mix everything well. Wet your hands and form small balls, which are placed on the grill of steamers and cook until ready. The cooking time takes an average of 15-20 minutes. According to a similar recipe, it is also possible to prepare steam fish knels .