Cottage cheese , in itself, is a very useful fermented milk product containing many valuable substances for the human body: calcium compounds, B vitamins, milk proteins and fats. With cottage cheese, you can prepare various dishes, not only pastries and desserts, but also cutlets.
Cottage cheese in meat cutlets will add to them usefulness (milk protein + calcium compounds), and vegetable cutlets with cottage cheese will interest the fasting and vegetarians of various kinds. Tell you how and what cutlets with cottage cheese can be cooked.
Recipe for chicken cutlet with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet (meat from the breast and / or thighs) - about 500 g;
- eggs of chicken - 2-3 pcs .;
- cottage cheese fresh natural medium fat content - 200-300 g;
- very little ground dry spices (black pepper, coriander, grated nutmeg);
- fresh greenery different for decoration.
Preparation
Meat should not be wet (we will wash it and dry it with a clean cloth). We will pass meat through a meat grinder with an average nozzle (you can add an onion, but not necessarily). Add cottage cheese, eggs and a little spices, you can slightly add. Mix with a fork carefully. And with wet hands using a tablespoon we form cutlets.
Next, we either bake cutlets with cottage cheese in the oven, laying on a greased baking sheet for 30-40 minutes. Either we boil them in a double boiler for 20-25 minutes (which is preferable). You can serve cutlets with any garnish (rice, young beans, boiled potatoes, chickpeas, buckwheat, any cereal cereals, pasta) and some light sauce. We make greenery.
Following the same recipe, you can prepare cutlets from young beef with cottage cheese, you can also mix chicken minced meat with beef and / or minced meat from turkey.
Fish cutlets with cottage cheese can be prepared, approximately following the same recipe (see above). Fish is better to choose low-fat. Suitable pike, pike perch, hake, cod, pollock, pollock. If the fish is frozen, it is necessary to unfreeze it and drain the liquid. Fish patties can be wrapped in flour or breadcrumbs and fry in a pan, boil for a couple or bake. Fish cutlets, naturally, are prepared faster than meat cutlets.
Recipe for carrot cutlets with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- carrots - about 400 g;
- cottage cheese fresh natural medium fat content - about 300-400 g;
- eggs of chicken - 2-3 pcs. (or grated hard cheese - about 100-150 g);
- a few spices (for example, a mixture of curry);
- whole wheat flour (wheaten, buckwheat, oatmeal, rye or mixture).
Preparation
Carrots rub on a small grater, squeeze and add cottage cheese, grated cheese and / or eggs (for better gluing), spices and a little flour.
We form cutlets with hands, bread in flour. Then fry the cutlets, or boil for a couple, or bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees C. Carrot cutlets with cottage cheese are served with any side dish, or can be with meat or fish dishes.
Potato cutlets with cottage cheese
Ingredients:
- potatoes - about 400 g;
- fresh cottage cheese - about 300 g;
- eggs of chicken 2-3 pcs. (and / or hard grated cheese - about 100 g);
- a little ground spices (black pepper, nutmeg, you can mix hops-suneli);
- greens of dill.
Preparation
We boil potatoes in any way and paint it. Add in the puree cottage cheese, finely chopped dill, eggs or cheese, a little spices. Mix everything thoroughly and form cutlets. Then fry them in a pan or boil them in a couple, or bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
It is possible to add to the same initial potato-cottage cheese stuffing fish or chicken minced meat - it will turn out delicious. Such cutlets can be served without garnishing.