For some housewives, ground beef patties are a real test of strength. During frying, the smell settles on the hair, hands and clothes, and that's why you don't want to do them at all. But our patties are very easy to prepare, avoiding tedious frying. The oven can come to our rescue! The secret is very simple. In a frying pan, each cutlet is fried over maximum heat until a crust forms. Then all the cutlets fried outside are transferred to a baking sheet and placed in a preheated oven for 30 minutes. So we shorten the frying time, and we bake the dish already in the oven. All patties come out equally fried on the outside and cooked thanks to the oven on the inside.

Ingredients

• Minced beef - 500 g
• Bulb onion - 1 pc.
• Dry bread - 100 g
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Spices - 1 tsp
• Vegetable oil- 4 tablespoons

Information

Ground beef patties- a wonderful dish that is traditional at any holidays and events. This is a favorite food for children and adults.

Any housewife from meat can prepare various masterpieces, delicacies that will be appreciated by the residents of the house and guests. But the really appetizing and aromatic dish is cutlets. Cooking will not take you much time, and the end result will pleasantly surprise you.

To make delicious classic cutlets you will need inspiration and some additional ingredients such as potatoes, onions, chicken eggs, garlic, bread pulp, cow's milk, salt and pepper mix to taste, vegetable oil for frying, water or sauce to stew as desired ... Breaded ground beef patties will be much tastier and crisper. We assure you that a tasty and juicy dish is provided for you. It can be served as an excellent addition to a side dish or simply eaten with a piece of bread. And so that your child or man does not get hungry - this will be a great snack for them at school or work.

The calorie content is 255 kcal per 100 g of the finished product. This dish cannot be called healthy for the figure, since the calorie content in it is large. Therefore, all the same, you should not abuse such a product. Fried minced beef patties when breastfeeding should not be included in the diet for the first three months, because they are quite heavy food. Better steam this dish.

How long does it take to fry the product? This is a question that worries many. The dish takes about an hour to cook.

How to make a dish really tasty? We will help you with this. Below is a step-by-step recipe with a photo of making a delicious meal at home with a photo.

Ingredients

Preparation

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  First, defrost the beef meat. Rinse it under cold running water and cut into small pieces. Then take onions and garlic and peel off the top dirty husks, rinse under running water and cut the onion into four parts, and divide the garlic into cloves. Peel, rinse and cut the potatoes. Prepare the minced meat. Install the meat grinder and take the cooked vegetables and meat, scroll everything together in the installation. Minced meat for cutlets should be soft and tender.

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  Then take the container and the pulp of the bread. Pour milk over the bread and let it soften for a few minutes. After that, the pulp must be squeezed out. This is done very simply: just take it in your palm and squeeze your hand, and the excess fluid will easily drain. Once you have completed this process, transfer the pulp to the minced meat bowl, as shown in the photo.

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  Take one chicken egg and break it into meat. If one egg is not enough, then take another one. Season with salt to taste. Add ground pepper or pepper mixture. This will add spice and flavor to future cutlets. Now start stirring. To do this, use a spoon or knead the mixture with your hands.

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  As soon as you mix everything well, start forming the patties. When shaping, do not make them too flat and thin. After that, take flour or breadcrumbs and roll each meat piece on all sides. Place on a cutting board or table before frying.

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  Let's start frying. To do this, take a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil and place it on the stove. Preheat a skillet to the desired temperature and grill the beef patties on both sides. In order to turn them over, use a wide metal spatula. Fry until golden brown. If you want your dish to be more juicy, pour in a little sour cream sauce (salt beforehand) or water and cover the pan with a lid. Simmer for 10 minutes over low heat. Serve as a stand-alone dish or as a side dish.

Today we will talk about how to properly cook meat patties. It would seem that you can learn new things about such a dear and familiar to us from childhood dish? In fact, there are a huge number of ways to make cutlets from different types of meat. We will look at how to make juicy beef patties according to the recipes of the best chefs.

5 secrets of juicy beef patties

Before we go to the kitchen to sculpt cutlets, let's get acquainted with the simple, but at the same time, important secrets of their preparation:

• The success of the finished dish depends on the minced meat used. Choose only chilled food as frozen minced meat provides a lot of excess liquid. And it's best to do the twist yourself.
• For frying cutlets, only a thick-bottomed pan is suitable. You can use a cast iron, steel or ceramic coated pan.
• When frying cutlets, it is not recommended to cover the pan with a lid immediately, but only when a light crust forms. This will help keep the cutlets intact.
• To prevent cutlets from falling apart during cooking, add a chicken egg, semolina or breadcrumbs to the minced meat.
• Before sculpting the cutlets, moisten your hands with vegetable oil or cold water, and then the minced meat will not stick.

The classic recipe for tender cutlets

How to fry juicy beef patties? It's easy, especially if you stick to our photo recipe.

Composition:

• 0.7 kg of beef link;
• 150 ml of filtered water;
• 2-3 slices of bread;
• egg;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and spice mixture.

Preparation:

Chopped cutlets with herbs

Often, many hostesses make cutlets from a mixture of several types of meat. We offer you a recipe for juicy chopped pork and beef cutlets with herbs.

Composition:

• 300 g of beef;
• 300 g pork;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• greens (parsley, dill);
• ½ tbsp. sifted flour;
• spices and salt.

Preparation:

A new look at a familiar dish: cooking cutlets with cheese

If you are looking for a good recipe for making juicy beef patties in the oven, then you will definitely like this one. Such cutlets are especially tender and juicy thanks to the cheese that is added to the minced meat.

Composition:

• 1 kg of minced beef;
• onion head;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• egg;
• 2 slices of bread;
• 80 ml heavy cream;
• 100-120 g of cheese;
• breadcrumbs;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper mixture.

Preparation:

Perhaps there is no dish more delicious and easy to prepare than minced beef patties, they can be cooked in a pan, in a double boiler or in an oven. Some housewives prefer to fry in breadcrumbs, while others prefer a mild, delicate taste, therefore, after a little frying, they are stewed by adding a little water. How to cook, those who wish will read below.

How to make ground beef patties

You can make minced beef cutlets with a golden brown crust by frying quickly, but if you need soft ones, then it is better to cover the pan with a lid. Patties can sometimes come out dry. The main task of the chef is to make the dish juicy. For this purpose, you can add the following ingredients of your choice:

• potato;
• bread soaked in milk or water;
• fresh herbs;
• cereals.

There are a lot of recipes for cooking cutlets. The most popular are the following:

1. With the addition of carrots.
2. With cheese.
3. With oatmeal.
4. Delicate cutlets with cabbage.
5. With zucchini.
6. Fried.
7. For a couple.

Ground beef cutlet recipes

Each recipe for minced beef cutlets, which will be described below, contains both common, similar ingredients and distinctive features. Fatty meat is best diluted with soaked in water, and then squeezed bread, and lean meat will be juicy with fresh cabbage twisted through a meat grinder. Any hostess will find the desired option that will delight her family.

Homemade cutlets

• Time: 50 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

The most popular dish of Russian people is delicious beef cutlets; it is better to serve mashed potatoes or pasta as a side dish. Most housewives prefer to cook the dish on their own, because it is not difficult and it is known what products are used, whether they are fresh. If you don't have time, you can buy store-bought ones, but they cannot be compared with homemade ones, the classic recipe is presented below.

Ingredients:

• ground beef - 500 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• white bread - 2-3 pieces (hereinafter - k.);
• milk - 150 ml;
• flour - 2-3 tbsp.;
• salt - 3 pinches (hereinafter - sch.).

Cooking method:

1. The bread must be soaked in milk.
2. Then knead the bread, mixing with milk until smooth.
3. Grate onions.
4. Add bread, onions to the meat, break an egg and salt.
5. Stir, mold into lumps for frying.
6. Dip in flour, then fry in a pan.

Schnitzel

• Time: 60 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5.
• Calorie content: 220,000 calories.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

Ground beef can be used to make a delicious schnitzel that is soft and tender like a cutlet. This dish is perfect with mashed potatoes. They can decorate a festive table or take it to work for lunch. It is noteworthy that even the most fastidious children who do not like meat will eat with pleasure, even ask for supplements. How to cook is described below.

Ingredients:

• beef (preferably a neck) - 500 g;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• potatoes - 1 pc.;
• egg - 3 pcs.;
• garlic - 4 cloves (hereinafter - z.);
• bread crumbs - 10 tablespoons;
• salt - 4-5 sc.;
• pepper - 3 n.

Cooking method:

1. You need to chop a piece of beef, peel carrots and onions.
2. Throw meat and vegetables through a meat grinder.
3. For a bunch of minced meat, twist the potato.
4. Add egg, salt and pepper, then mix well.
5. Leave in the refrigerator for a short time to set the ground beef.
6. For breading, break 2 eggs, add chopped garlic to them, salt and pepper.
7. Pour bread crumbs into another dish.
8. After that, you need to form schnitzels: like cutlets, only flat.
9. Dip each cake in an egg and breadcrumbs.
10. Fry for 10-15 minutes, the heat should be medium.

Beatlets

• Time: 40 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 6.
• Calorie content of the dish: 220 Kcal.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

Another interesting dish that uses minced meat for beef cutlets is meatballs. In the photo, they look like neat, even, oblong cutlets. They can be placed on the festive table by spreading them along the edge of a plate with potatoes. The dish will turn out beautiful and elegant, and the guests will admire how the hostess knows how to make even juicy oval cutlets.

Ingredients:

• minced beef - 500 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• bread crumbs - 3 tsp;
• sour cream - 1 tablespoon;
• salt - 4-5 sc.;
• pepper - 3 pcs.;
• basil - 4 n.;
• paprika - 3 n.

Cooking method:

1. Prepared ground beef (for fat content, you can dilute with lard) you need to salt, pepper, add basil (about a teaspoon).
2. Finely chop the onion and fry until golden brown.
3. Add onion, raw egg to the meat and mix.
4. Add breadcrumbs (can be replaced with semolina) and stir again.
5. With two spoons, you need to form the meatballs.
6. Dip them in breadcrumbs and fry in hot oil.
7. You need to make the sauce like this: add a little water, salt, pepper and paprika to a spoonful of sour cream. Mix everything until smooth.
8. Place the fried meatballs in a saucepan, pour the sauce on top.
9. For beauty and scent, sprinkle with basil on top. Simmer for 20-30 minutes over low heat under a closed lid.

Juicy cutlets

• Time: 50 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5.
• Calorie content: 230,000 calories.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

The main problem that can arise when cooking cutlets is their excessive dryness. To avoid this, you can make an assortment of different types of meat, for example, it is better to use minced pork and beef. There are also special recipes that will tell you how to make delicious, juicy cutlets so that this dish occupies the main place on holiday photos.

Ingredients:

• meat - 500 g;
• white loaf - 200 g;
• milk - 150 ml;
• egg - 3 pcs.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• butter - 30 g;
• cabbage - 100 g;
• salt - 5 sc.;
• pepper - 3 pcs.;
• spices - 4-5 n.

Cooking method:

1. Run the meat through a meat grinder.
2. Chop the onion and add to the minced meat (you can use the purchased minced meat).
3. Squeeze the loaf soaked in milk and mix it with the meat.
4. Add 1 egg, salt, pepper and spices.
5. Mix everything and beat off strongly.
6. Beat the eggs with a whisk, adding a tablespoon of milk (or cream), lightly salt and pepper.
7. Chop cold, hard butter.
8. Form a tortilla out of the ground beef, put a piece of butter on it and make a cutlet. Then sprinkle it with flour, and then roll it in an egg.
9. Fry in a pan, and then simmer in a saucepan for about 10 minutes.

In the oven

• Time: 80 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 10.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

If you need healthier food, without excess fat, and you really want beef cutlets, you can cook them in the oven. You will get a healthier product, but in terms of taste, it will in no way yield to the usual version cooked in a pan. The recipe for beef cutlets in the oven is a great option if you have health problems and you can't eat fatty ones.

Ingredients:

• ground beef - 1 kg;
• bread - 2 pieces;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• egg - 2 pcs.;
• salt - 5-6 sc.;
• pepper - 4 n.

Cooking method:

1. Chop onion and bread in a food processor;
2. Add them to the ground beef, break the eggs, season with salt and pepper.
3. Shape the beef patties, put them in a mold, add a little water.
4. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees, it will take about half an hour.

Diet

• Time: 40 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5.
• Calorie content: 180,000 calories.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

Women on a diet can not limit themselves in their favorite dish, but only cook it in a special way. Meat is not as bad for the figure as, for example, starch or flour products. The main thing that the hostess must do is to cook the cutlets not in oil, you can bake them in the oven or fry them in a dry frying pan. You can add some chicken fillet to make the taste tender.

Ingredients:

• minced lean beef - 700 g;
• milk (0.5%) - 100 ml;
• onions - 200 g;
• salt - 2-3 n.;
• pepper - 1-2 n.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the onion in a blender, add milk, then salt and pepper and put the mixture in the ground beef.
2. To stir thoroughly.
3. To prevent the cutlets from falling apart, you need to beat them well.
4. Form lumps with wet hands for frying. Put them in a frying pan without vegetable oil, if it allows it.
5. Fry for about 10 minutes, then bake at 160 degrees in the oven for 10 minutes.

No bread

• Time: 50 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 8-10.
• Calorie content: 210,000 calories.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

The bread serves as a binder, which also makes the cutlets juicier. But if it is absent or you just do not want to add it to the product, you can twist the raw potatoes, drive in an egg: the first ingredient will add juiciness, and the second will prevent the cutlets from falling apart. If you make breading, then they will turn out to be strong, crispy on top, and on the inside - juicy and tender.

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 1 kg;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• potatoes - 2 pcs.;
• soda - ½ tsp;
• salt - 3 sc.;
• pepper - 2 pcs.;
• flour - 4-5 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Chop the onion and fry.
2. Grate the potatoes.
3. Combine fried onions, grated potatoes, an egg in ground beef, add salt, ground pepper and soda.
4. Knead well and beat off.
5. Blind cutlets, roll them in flour.
6. Fry quickly over high heat.
7. Transfer the almost finished product to a baking dish and microwave for 5 minutes, turn on medium power.

With oat flakes

• Time: 70 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 8-10.
• Calorie content: 200,000 calories.
• Purpose: second.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty: easy.

An interesting option is using oatmeal. They will make the patties soft, satisfying and juicy. It is important that this dish is twice as healthy as any other option. Oatmeal is a very nutritious cereal, which in its properties is in second place after buckwheat. This option will be good for children, so there should be such a dish with a photo in the mom's recipe book.

Ingredients:

• ground beef - 1 kg;
• milk - ½ tbsp.;
• oatmeal - 1 tbsp.;
• egg - 2 pcs.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• garlic - 2 g .;
• salt - 5-6 sc.;
• pepper - 2-3 n.;
• bread crumbs - 5 tablespoons

Cooking method:

1. First you need to beat the eggs with milk, pour the oatmeal with this mixture for 20 minutes.
2. Chop garlic and onions in any way and add to the minced meat, salt and pepper everything.
3. When the oatmeal is fine, add it to the meat and stir.
4. Then cutlets are formed, after which you need to roll them in breadcrumbs and fry in a pan. In this case, the fire should be medium, and the lid should be closed.

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Beef-based cutlets always turn out to be moderately fatty, quite juicy and very tasty. You can prepare them in a variety of ways, because it is so easy to choose interesting additions to each recipe. For example, cheese or a lot of greens. Worth trying!

General cooking principles

Cooking cutlets almost always comes down to one thing: all components are mixed, then the mass is divided into equal small parts, from which balls are formed. Then they are either fried, or baked, or steamed.

You can supplement minced meat with a variety of components. It is advisable to take moderately moist ingredients so that the minced meat is not too liquid. If this happens, you just need to add a little flour.

Minced beef cutlets - a classic recipe

Cooking time

calorie content per 100 grams

How to cook:

Tip: instead of flour for breading, you can use crushed crackers.

Ground beef patties with cheese and garlic

An interesting recipe using cheese. Very tender cutlets are obtained. The amount of garlic can be adjusted.

How much time is 50 minutes.

What is the calorie content - 208 calories.

How to cook:

1. Stir the spices into the minced meat.
2. Soak the pieces of bread in water for a while, then squeeze and add to the meat too.
3. Free the onion and garlic from the husk, grate these components or chop them in a blender, add to the total mass.
4. Beat in an egg and mix the whole mass.
5. Form balls from the resulting mixture and flatten them a little to make thick cakes.
6. Transfer them to a greased baking sheet.
7. Cut fleshy tomatoes into slices, do not use the stalk.
8. Cut the cheese into slices or grate too.
9. Grease the cutlets with a little mayonnaise, put a circle of tomato and a small piece of cheese on top.
10. Send to the oven and bake for half an hour at medium temperature.

Tip: grated cheese can be mixed directly into the minced meat, but then it is better to serve the tomatoes fresh with the dish.

Minced beef and potato cutlets

Potatoes make the meatballs more nutritious and also retain their light color.

How much time - 1 hour.

What is the calorie content - 219 calories.

How to cook:

1. Grind the minced meat twice with a meat grinder or blender.
2. Grate the onion without the husk and stir in to the meat.
3. Peel the potatoes and grate them finely. Add to the minced meat.
4. Also drive eggs here, pour in milk, add spices. Milk will keep the potatoes from darkening.
5. Chop the herbs finely and add to the total mass with two tablespoons of oil. Mix everything thoroughly.
6. Form neat small cutlets from the mass. Place in the palm of your hand and sprinkle with breadcrumbs on top, then turn over and sprinkle again.
7. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the cutlets in it. At the very end, cover them with a lid, set the minimum heat, cook for another ten minutes.

Tip: For a fresher flavor, add some chopped rosemary or thyme to the cutlets.

Steam cooking

Steam cooking preserves more of the nutrients in each food, which is especially important for children.

How much time - 2 hours.

What is the calorie content - 203 calories.

How to cook:

1. Cut the meat into small pieces, after washing it.
2. Cut the peeled onion into several pieces. Along with the meat, skip through a meat grinder, you can twice.
3. Add spices to the resulting mass, drive eggs here, add flour and mix everything.
4. Cover the minced meat with foil or a towel and refrigerate for at least an hour.
5. Next, get it out, form identical cutlets.
6. Lubricate the steamer with a little oil.
7. Transfer the cutlets here and cook them for about half an hour.

Tip: you can cook the dish in a water bath, but then it may take a little more time.

Swedish recipe

The original recipes of the Swedes are being prepared more and more often in Russian cuisines. Simple ingredients and unusual flavors!

How much time is 40 minutes.

What is the calorie content - 115 calories.

How to cook:

1. Boil in different pans for large beets and potatoes. Then give them time to cool and peel them. Grate coarsely.
2. Stir in the root vegetables to the minced meat, drive in an egg, add seasonings. To mix everything.
3. With wet hands, 16 identical cutlets should be made from the resulting burgundy mass.
4. Transfer everything to a tray or board and refrigerate.
5. Cut onions without husks into thin rings and transfer to a frying pan.
6. Add a little oil and fry everything until golden.
7. Remove the onion, fry the cutlets on all sides in the same oil.
8. Then return them to the skillet, cover and steam for seven minutes over the lowest heat.
9. Arrange cutlets on plates. Top with fried onions. Chop pickled cucumbers nearby. Serve immediately.

Tip: there should really be a lot of fried onions. Various seasonings can be added to it during roasting for a rich flavor.

Minced Pork and Beef Recipe

Hostesses love mixed minced meat for its special juiciness and structure. It is believed to be the perfect combination for cutlets.

How much time - 1 hour.

What is the calorie content - 228 calories.

How to cook:

1. Turn on the oven to preheat over medium heat.
2. Peel off the garlic and onion.
3. Soak the bread in a little water. The crusts must first be cut off.
4. Pass the onion, meat, garlic and bread through a meat grinder at the same time.
5. Grate the cheese coarsely.
6. Add it together with the egg to the onion and meat mass, mix.
7. Then season and beat the minced meat on the table several times.
8. Form the same cutlets with wet hands.
9. Roll each cutlet in a little flour.
10. Grease a dish or skillet and transfer the balls here.
11. Bake them for twenty minutes, then turn over, pour the specified amount of water into the pan (or mold), cook for another ten minutes. Serve with any side dish.

Tip: if you really like cheese, you can add a little grated mozzarella to the hard variety.

Option of steamed beef cutlets

Another recipe for steaming. It turns out to be especially airy due to the large amount of milk and bread.

How much time - 1 hour.

What is the calorie content - 163 calories.

How to cook:

1. Peel the onion and garlic in a blender into a gruel.
2. Put slices of bread with the crust in the milk. From time to time they need to be turned over so that they evenly absorb the liquid.
3. Then transfer only lightly squeezed bread into a blender and grind too.
4. Mix all these ingredients and season them. Form small cutlets with your hands.
5. Grease the capacity of the double boiler with a small amount of oil, put the cutlets here and cook them for about forty minutes, tightly closing the lid. Then serve.

Tip: to make this dietary dish even healthier, you can mix a lot of chopped greens into the minced meat, including dried ones.

To get more juicy cutlets, you do not need to grind the meat into minced meat, but simply chop it very finely with a knife. The structure will be rougher, but it will better retain the meat juice. This also applies to the bow.

For cutlets, do not take clean meat. You need a piece with at least a small layer of bacon. The fat will melt and prevent the meat from drying out, otherwise the balls will be very tight and will crumble.

Onions are used for juiciness, but they can be replaced with other products: squash, pumpkin, carrots, etc. Grind these products using a meat grinder, especially carrots. In addition, this way the dish takes on a completely different color.

It is advisable to take stale bread. You can take yesterday's one or even replace it with breadcrumbs. Then, after soaking, it will be evenly distributed in the minced meat, otherwise it can gather into one lump.

Delicious minced beef patties cook very quickly, but can be an addition to a wide variety of side dishes and salads. This nutritious and moderately high-calorie dish is loved by both adults and children. And if served with white or red garlic sauce, everything will be eaten in one sitting!