Initially, cutlets called a cooked piece of meat on the bone. In the Russian cuisine, the general idea of cooking cutlets was, in some way, rethought. Now in the post-Soviet space cutlets called minced meatballs - fried, baked or steamed. Meat or fish homemade chops are a cult family dish. You can also make lean cutlets, vegetable or mushroom, and also use ready-made cooked porridge as the main ingredient, for fasting and vegetarians the recipes for such dishes will be very interesting.
Tell you how you can cook lean buckwheat patties. Buckwheat is a very useful low-calorie product that contains vitamins B, E and PP, as well as useful compounds of calcium, iron, magnesium, iodine, copper and potassium. Usually cutlets are cooked with eggs, but because in lean recipes do not use products of animal origin, as a binder we will use flour.
Lenten cutlets from buckwheat with mushrooms - recipe
Ingredients:
- buckwheat groats - 2 cups;
- fresh mushrooms (champignons, for example) - 300 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- spices dry ground;
- greenery;
- flour;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
Cook boiled buckwheat porridge, that is, 2 cups buckwheat - 3 cups of water.
Peeled onion shredded finely and wessed in butter in a frying pan. Add the chopped mushrooms and, stirring occasionally, cook on low heat for 15 minutes. Add spices, slightly grease and cool. We rub the onion-mushroom mixture with a blender or let it pass through a meat grinder. Onion and mushroom puree is mixed with buckwheat porridge, we add garlic and well-ground greens. We pour in this mixture of flour and, if necessary, pour a little water.
With wet hands, we form cutlets, we pile them in flour or breadcrumbs. Now we can fry the cutlets in a frying pan, they are frying very quickly, so even with such a not-so-useful method of cooking, ready-made cutlets can be considered a fairly healthy meal.
It is even better to lay a baking sheet with oiled baking paper, put the cutlets and bake them in the oven for about half an hour.
Finished lenten buckwheat cutlets with mushrooms to serve well with some delicate sauce.
Of course, for lack of mushrooms or unwillingness to use them in this recipe, you can cook cutlets simply from buckwheat with onions, which, of course, must first be finely chopped and salted, but only in this version without mushrooms.
In this case, it is good to submit to the cutlets lean mushroom sauce or broth.
Because fasting is not a diet, and some do not give up fasting on dairy products, those who want can add grated hard cheese to buckwheat cutlets - it will be an additional binder.
Lenten cutlets from buckwheat and mashed potatoes with mushrooms and cheese - recipe
Ingredients:
- groats buckwheat - 2 cups;
- potatoes boiled - 3-4 pcs .;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- flour;
- grated cheese;
- spice;
- greenery;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
We cook boiled buckwheat porridge (see above). Peeled potatoes are boiled with mushrooms in a minimum amount of water in a separate saucepan for 20 minutes. We extract the potatoes and mushrooms from the broth and cool them, then grind them with a blender or meat grinder. Mix buckwheat porridge with potato-mushroom mixture. Season with spices and add chopped shallow greens. For viscosity add flour and grated cheese, the consistency is regulated by the addition of potato-mushroom broth. We make cutlets, we pan in flour. Now you can fry buckwheat patties in a frying pan, but rather bake them in a fireproof form in the oven (see above).