Minced meat occupies a special place in cooking today. It is used for making cutlets, cabbage rolls, and stuffed with bell peppers. In addition, any kind of minced meat can be used as an additive in sauces and dressings.

There are a sufficient number of types of minced meat. This is minced meat, which can be pork, beef, lamb, minced poultry (chicken, turkey), vegetable mince (potato, carrot).

Of the minced meat, beef is considered the most popular, but at the same time it is the heaviest and most high-calorie food. It is more suitable for those who are engaged in heavy physical activity who need endurance and strength. Dishes from it are always tasty and nutritious. But you shouldn't get carried away with ground beef. It is especially contraindicated for those who want to lose weight.

Such minced meat is good because it is prepared very quickly, it is suitable for dietary and baby food.

Chicken brisoli

For three servings, you will need 200-300 grams of minced meat, 3 eggs, a small tomato, a little grated cheese and parsley, sunflower or corn oil, spices and salt. Minced meat should be salted and seasoned with pepper in advance, divided into 3 equal parts and on a flat plate form a cake from each. Then shake the egg with a whisk, pour it into a hot frying pan with butter, quickly move the minced meat cake there, on top of the egg, smooth it with a spatula. Fry on both sides, sprinkle with cheese and parsley, put a tomato slice or two on top and fold the brizol in half. You can tie it up with green onions.

Universal meatballs

Salt 400 grams of minced meat, add pepper, dried herbs to your taste. Mix thoroughly. Pinch off a piece of meat and form into balls on a board drizzled with vegetable oil. Boil the resulting meatballs for 10-15 minutes in plenty of water (they should be thrown into boiling water). With such meatballs, you can cook soup, stew them in any sauce, fry and serve with rice, pasta, spaghetti, buckwheat and so on.

Simple soup

Cook the meatballs according to the recipe above, set to simmer. Peel 3-5 potatoes, chop, add after 10 minutes to the pot. Peel and chop an onion, chop 1 carrot. Saute these vegetables in oil or butter, stirring constantly. Add to saucepan. Cook for 10-15 minutes, then measure out 80 grams of noodles. After adding it, the soup should be cooked over medium heat for another 3 minutes. Finally, add spices to taste.

Aromatic soup

You will need almost the same set of ingredients as in the previous case. You also need to take 2-3 ripe juicy tomatoes, a bunch of fresh herbs and about 50 grams of hard cheese.

Boil the meatballs, remove them from the boiling water and send the washed cereals and pieces of potatoes to the same pan. Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Fry the meatballs in one pan and the onions and carrots in the other. Chop the tomatoes in mashed potatoes, add to the pan to the vegetables, stir and simmer for a few minutes. Place the roast and sautéed meatballs in a saucepan, add spices and salt, and cook for 7-10 minutes. Chop the herbs finely and grate the cheese. Add herbs and cheese at the end of cooking, stir soup thoroughly and remove from heat.

Meatballs in creamy mushroom sauce

You will need 100 grams of pre-cooked round rice, half a kilogram of minced meat and 1 egg. Stir meat, rice, pre-shaken egg, salt, add spices to your taste. Form balls from the resulting mass. Fry in a large amount of oil on all sides - until appetizing. Remove the meatballs from the pan. In the meat juice remaining after them, fry the finely chopped onions (1 piece will be enough), add 400 grams of mushrooms, cut into slices and simmer for 15 minutes. You can add some water in the process. When braised, pour in a glass of cream, stir and puree the mushrooms with a blender. Simmer the meatballs in the resulting sauce for 3-4 minutes.
You can also cook this minced meat dish in a slow cooker. Then you need to first make the sauce, then add the not-fried meatballs to it and simmer until tender.

Minced meat and potato pancakes

Take 250 grams each of minced chicken and potatoes, chopped with a fine grater or food processor. You will also need 2 egg whites, 3 tablespoons of flour, 3 cloves of garlic, 1/3 bunch of parsley and dill, salt, spices, oil. Finely chop the garlic and herbs, combine with minced meat, potatoes, proteins, knead, season. Add flour, stir. Spoon the mixture into hot oil, fry on both sides until tender.

Chebureks with chicken

Start with the dough: sift 2 or 2.5 cups of fine flour into a bowl, season with salt, beat in an egg and pour in a glass of cold water. Knead a soft, elastic dough, cover it with a towel and leave to sit at room temperature. For the filling, combine 400-500 grams of minced meat with a finely chopped onion, two chopped cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, spices and an egg. Pinch off pieces of dough and roll into tortillas, the edges of which should be brushed with yolk. Put the filling in the center of each tortilla, form pasties, fry them on 2 sides over medium heat.

Pozharsky cutlets

Take ¼ of the loaf, cut off the rind. Cut the pulp into small cubes and send to the oven to dry for 15 minutes. Soak the crust in milk. Combine 250 grams of chicken fillet with soaked bread, add spices and salt, pour in 30 milliliters of heavy cream (can be replaced with sour cream). Form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs, fry very quickly, making sure that the breading does not burn. Then, for 15 minutes, bring to readiness in the oven at 170 degrees.

Terrine with vegetables and cheddar

This substitute for sausage or boiled pork can be made from minced meat in the oven. Season a pound of minced chicken with dried herbs and pepper, salt, mix with finely chopped onion. Add 100 grams of shredded cheddar cheese, a bag of frozen Mexican vegetable mixture, and the yolk of a chicken egg. Stir, gradually pouring in the protein, whipped with a glass of cream and salt. Pour the mixture gently into a greased dish beforehand. Compact (for this you need to knock the bottom of the mold on the table several times), smooth the surface with a damp spatula and bake at 200 degrees for an hour.

Korean minced chicken salad

For 5-10 minutes, fry 450 grams of minced meat without oil in a Teflon pan, stirring constantly. You can add a drop of water. Place in a large bowl, add a tablespoon of boiled rice, finely chopped herbs (lemongrass stem, 3 lime leaves, a little cilantro and scallions) and 1-2 chopped chili peppers. Season with a mixture of 4 tablespoons lime sauce and 2 oyster sauce. On a large platter, place lettuce, tomato and pepper slices, and top with the meat mixture.

Ground beef

This mince is noticeably rougher than the others, unless we are talking about a product made from young veal.

Burgers

Chop the onion finely, mix with the minced meat, add coarsely ground black pepper and salt. Form into small flat cakes. Fry them on both sides until golden brown, while making sure that the heating temperature is not too high - it is important not to dry the burgers. The finished dish can be served with any side dish or gravy, or sandwiches with burgers, like at McDonald's.

Bolognese sauce

One of the most famous Italian sauces for spaghetti and other pasta. Here is its least laborious recipe: grate 1 carrot, finely chop a medium-sized onion, dice 2 celery stalks, fry 300 grams of ground beef in olive oil, stirring constantly and breaking the lumps with a spatula. Add pre-prepared vegetables and a jar of tomatoes in your own juice. Season with salt, Italian dried herbs and pepper and simmer over low heat for about 30-40 minutes. Finally, tear a bunch of basil into small pieces with your hands and mix with the sauce.

Cannellone

Saute finely chopped carrots and onions in butter, add a pound of minced meat to the pan, stirring occasionally, fry until half cooked. Season with salt, add the desired spices. Prepare the béchamel sauce separately: melt 50 grams of butter in a deep frying pan or ladle, gradually add a tablespoon of flour, stirring constantly and not allowing lumps to form. All the same, without ceasing to stir the future sauce, pour in a thin stream of milk (2 glasses). Let the mixture boil and remove from heat. Fill the large cannellone pasta with the filling, fold into a mold or on a baking sheet, greased in advance, pour the sauce so that it completely covers the pasta, sprinkle with grated cheese. Cook in the oven at 170-180 degrees for 40 minutes.

Scottish eggs

Boil 5 chicken eggs hard-boiled. Prepare minced meatballs from half a kilogram of minced meat, soaked bread crusts, raw eggs, onions, herbs, spices, salt. Spread the minced meat on a square baking sheet lined with oiled paper or foil. Draw a conditional line in the center and lay out peeled boiled eggs one by one along it. Roll the minced meat into a roll. You should get a "sausage" with eggs inside, which you can bake at 180 Celsius in foil (it will take about an hour) and then serve either hot or cool and leave for sandwiches.

Moussaka in Greek

First you need to make the béchamel sauce (instructions in the cannelone recipe) and mix it with 200 grams of grated cheese. Cut two large eggplants into long "tongues" and quickly fry in a little oil. Saute the onion chopped with "feathers" until soft. Fry 500-700 grams of minced meat separately. Cut a couple of tomatoes into cubes. Combine tomatoes, minced meat, fried onions. Put the eggplants and the meat "filling" in layers in a baking dish, pour the sauce to the top. In the oven, cook the moussaka for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.

Quesadia (Quesadilla) Mexican

Chop the tomato, bell pepper and half of the onion into small cubes, fry, pour in ¼ cups of cream and simmer over low heat to get a fairly homogeneous sauce. Finely chop the remaining half of the onion, combine with 250 grams of minced meat and fry separately. Take some unleavened tortilla-type cakes (you can substitute Armenian lavash). Put the meat on half of the tortilla, on top of it - the sauce. Sprinkle with grated cheese, cover with the other half of the flatbread and place on an oiled baking sheet. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Home-style tacos

Chop 1 onion as small as possible, fry in olive oil, add minced meat (500 grams). Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add garlic (2 crushed teeth), paprika, black pepper, salt, 4-5 tablespoons of hot ketchup, and 2 tablespoons of mustard. Stir, reduce heat slightly and simmer meat for a quarter of an hour. In the meantime, chop a small bunch of green onions, cut the mozzarella into slices, remove the pulp from the milk rolls. Put a piece of cheese in each bun, add a few tablespoons of meat and sprinkle it all with onions.

Cabbage with minced meat

Minced meat should be fried with onions, stirring occasionally with a spatula, then add chopped cabbage (it should be the same as minced meat), stir once more, cover and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. Season with salt and pepper at the very end of cooking.

Buckwheat with minced meat

Fry the minced meat with onions to brown, you can also add celery, carrots or tomatoes. Fry the finely chopped mushrooms separately. Pour the pre-boiled buckwheat into the pan, stirring, add the mushrooms, cook for another 5-10 minutes.

Greek people

Such "buckwheat cutlets" are prepared in the same way as ordinary ones, with one exception: the bread in them is replaced by buckwheat. For a pound of minced meat, 1 onion and 1 egg of boiled cereal, you need to take 3-4 tablespoons. If you want the dish to come out more tender, it is recommended to add a spoonful of sour cream with 15% fat to the minced meat.

Minced turkey

Ground turkey meat can replace chicken. It is a little drier, which must be taken into account when preparing dishes.

Tender turkey and zucchini cutlets

You can cook such summer cutlets from zucchini and minced meat, even if you are on a diet. A pound of minced turkey, grated zucchini and one egg must be combined and stirred, add green instead of onions. Salt, add a spoonful of sour cream, spices, garlic if desired. Fry the cutlets as usual.

Stuffed peppers

Fry together in equal amounts onions and green onions, mix with boiled rice (100 grams) and raw minced meat (400 grams). Take 4-6 bell peppers, cut off the tops, scrape out the partitions and seeds. Stuff with minced meat, place in a saucepan, cover with hot broth. It does not hurt to add 2-3 tablespoons of sour cream. Cook covered over low heat for 20-25 minutes.

Vegetable soup with meatballs

Turkey meatballs are prepared in the same way as chicken meatballs (see the recipe in the appropriate section). Put the meatballs to simmer, cut the carrots, parsnips and parsley root into large circles, and a couple of potatoes into slices. Add everything to the saucepan. Cook for 10-15 minutes, then add 100 grams of frozen peas and noodles. After another 5 minutes, add the grated cheese to the saucepan, stir lightly and remove from heat.

Spicy noodles with nuts and turkey

Grind 3 cloves of garlic, a little ginger (so that it and garlic come out about the same amount), fry it all in sesame or olive oil. Add 250 grams of minced meat to the skillet, cook, stirring occasionally, until the meat turns white. Boil 300 grams of egg noodles or plain spaghetti. Mix with minced meat, drizzle with soy sauce, sprinkle with crushed peanuts and cilantro.

Autumn stew

Chop 1 onion, bell pepper, garlic clove or two, fry. Add a pound of minced meat and cook, stirring, until it is browned. Add 3 sliced ​​tomatoes and about 3 cups of coarsely grated pumpkin. You can also add diced potatoes if desired. Simmer over low heat, covered for 20 minutes.

Hearty minced meat soup

Boil a glass of pearl barley in plenty of water for 20-25 minutes. Then add a pound of minced meat, pre-fried with onions, diced potatoes. Cook for the same amount of time over medium heat. Add some finely chopped cabbage 5 minutes before cooking. Serve with sour cream, herbs and slices along the pre-fried mushrooms.

Pasta casserole with minced meat

Cook 200 grams of any pasta. Fry 300-400 grams of minced meat with onions, add a jar of tomatoes canned in their own juice, stir and simmer a little. Salt, season with an olive mixture of herbs. Prepare the béchamel sauce from flour, butter and milk, add nutmeg, crushed garlic. Put the pasta, meat in a mold, pour it all over with sauce, sprinkle generously with grated hard cheese and bake at 180 degrees for half an hour.

Juicy fried meatballs

In a blender, grind 1 red onion, a couple of garlic cloves, 100 grams of white cabbage and 75 grams of bacon. Mix all this with 500 grams of minced meat and ¼ cup of semolina, salt, add dried thyme, rosemary. Form the meatballs, sauté in plenty of oil.

Turkey pancakes

You will need to mix 400 grams of minced meat, 150 grams of sour cream, an egg, salt, pepper, each tablespoon of flour and semolina. As a result, a liquid mass should come out, which can be spread with a spoon in a pan and fried on both sides. If desired, you can add finely chopped greens to the "dough" - onions, basil, parsley.

Kebabs with pomegranate sauce

In a pound of minced meat, add 1 finely chopped onion, 2 crushed garlic cloves, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil (tablespoons), 2 tablespoons of pomegranate sauce, a generous pinch of thyme, salt, pepper. Leave in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, then shape the kebabs and grill them. You can cook them in the oven on the wire rack.

Minced pork

Such minced meat goes well with rice or potatoes.

Fake chops

Mix the minced meat with eggs at the rate of 1 egg per 200 grams of meat, roll into balls on a lightly floured surface and flatten each of them with your palm. Bread in flour, yolk, breadcrumbs, quickly fry on both sides.

Hearty winter casserole

Cut a large onion into half rings, fry until soft. Add minced meat, fry, stirring, until it acquires a crumbly consistency. Pour 2 cans of beans without liquid into the pan (you can take 1 can of white beans and 1 red), finely chopped tomatoes (2-3 pieces), chopped green onions, simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat. Prepare bechamel from butter and flour (30 grams each), as well as 1.5 glasses of milk, cool, mix with a handful of grated cheese and a raw egg. Arrange the beans with meat in the oven tins, season with salt, pepper, and season with cumin and basil. Pour over the sauce and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

Meat muffins

Quickly fry the onion chopped with feathers, mix with a glass of boiled beans, salt, and scroll in a blender. Mix 400 grams of minced meat with raw onions, garlic, 2 eggs, ¼ cup fermented baked milk, salt, pepper, suneli hops. Combine with the bean mixture, add a glass of flour and knead. Divide into tins, sprinkle with cheese at the end of cooking, bake for 40 minutes at 180 Celsius.

Pigodi - Korean steamed cakes

Dough: Heat ¾ cup milk, add 4.5 grams of yeast and a little sugar, stir. When the mixture rises slightly, pour in ¼ cup warm water and salt. Knead the dough using 400 grams of flour, cover and leave for a few hours, kneading occasionally.
For the filling: finely chop a couple of onions, 150 grams of red or white cabbage, 100 grams of radish, add garlic or herbs. Salt, mix with ½ kg of minced meat, pepper, coriander, a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce. Divide the dough into 20 pieces, roll each piece out and mold a patty with a generous amount of filling. Cook for 40 minutes in a double boiler.

Green soup with meatballs

For meatballs: Salt and pepper 300 grams of minced meat, mix with 2-3 tablespoons of rice cereal and a pinch of Provencal herbs. Put them to boil, cut potatoes into bars, cook frying from onions and carrots. Add all this to the soup. 15 minutes after adding the potatoes, place each bag of frozen spinach and sorrel, or grate some hard cheese and sprinkle on the soup. Also add allspice and lavrushka at this stage. Cook for another 3-4 minutes.

Pancakes with meat

You can prepare pancakes for this dish according to any recipe that suits you. The main thing is that they are thin and plastic. For the filling, pork or combined minced meat should be fried with onions and mixed with mashed potatoes (1 part potato for 2 parts meat). Do not feel sorry for the onion, it will add an additional piquant aroma to the delicacy. From the spice, nutmeg, black pepper, cilantro are suitable. Distribute the filling over the pancakes, roll them into envelopes and fry in butter.

Sharp khinkali

Prepare a tight and dense dough from 2 eggs, a glass of water, 400 grams of flour and a pinch of salt, wrap it in plastic and leave for half an hour. For the filling, finely chop a couple of onions, chili, ½ bunch of cilantro, ½ bunch of parsley, 2-3 cloves of garlic. Mix with ½ kg of minced meat, salt. Form khinkali "bags", leaving the characteristic ponytails. You can cook them both steamed and in a saucepan.

Cutlets with vegetables

Prepare a standard mixture for cutlets from ½ kg minced meat, onion, garlic, 2 eggs, soaked in milk bread, salt, pepper. Then you can either mix the minced meat with the Mexican vegetable mixture, or do something differently: mold the cutlets with the filling from this very mixture. In this case, processed cheese can be added to the vegetables. The patties can either be fried or quickly browned in a skillet and baked in the oven.

German cheese soup

Discard 200 grams of pickled mushrooms in a colander. Cut 1 leek into rings and fry in vegetable oil, separately fry 400 grams of minced pork. Bring 2 liters of water to a boil, add the above ingredients to a saucepan. After 5 minutes, start adding soft melted cheese a little at a time (you need 400 grams in total), constantly stirring the soup with a whisk. After 10 minutes, the soup can be salted, sprinkled with fresh herbs and served.

Croquettes with Adyghe cheese

Mix a pound of minced meat with finely chopped onions, 2 proteins, salt, white and black pepper. Adyghe cheese (100 grams) cut into cubes. Pour bread crumbs on a plate, put small minced cakes, place a couple of cheese cubes on each, cover with another layer of minced meat and gently turn over to roll in breadcrumbs on the other side. Transfer to a skillet with hot oil and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side.

Minced fish

Cooking dishes from this minced meat is many times faster than from meat. It is light and dietary.

Fish meatballs in soy-tomato sauce

For this dish, you need 500 grams of minced tilapia or hake, which can be cooked in a blender. You need to add a few crumbs of fresh white bread to the fish, 50-60 grams of chopped lard, 1/3 cup of boiled rice, 1 chopped onion, garlic, parsley, a mixture of peppers, salt. Form and fry small meatballs.
For the sauce: scald 2 tomatoes, peel and chop finely. Fry 1 onion cut into half rings until soft, add tomatoes, 3-4 tablespoons of soy sauce, season with salt, thyme, add a little water and simmer for 20 minutes. Put meatballs in the sauce, cover, reduce heat, cook for another 10-15 minutes.

Fish roll with mushrooms

For 600 grams of minced white fish, you will need a couple of slices of a loaf soaked in milk, 2 eggs, a pinch of salt, a couple of tablespoons of chopped parsley and dill, seasonings of your choice. Knead and beat the minced meat thoroughly, put it in the refrigerator for an hour. In the meantime, you can do the filling: thinly chop the leek stalk and 200 grams of mushrooms, sauté in butter, salt, cool, mix with 2 chopped boiled eggs and finely chopped parsley.
Using cooking film or oiled parchment, form a roll with a filling, brush it with sour cream and bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.

Homemade fish sticks

Salt and pepper the minced fish. Form sticks, roll first in flour, then in beaten egg yolk, then in a mixture of crumbled rye bread, crushed almonds and parmesan grated on the smallest grater. Next, the sticks can either be fried in vegetable oil, or baked on a baking sheet covered with foil.

Fish pate

Finely chop the onion, fry, mix with 400 grams of minced white sea fish. Add 200 grams of cottage cheese, a bunch of any greens chopped in a blender, an egg, a tablespoon of semolina. Season with salt and pepper, put in a baking dish. Cook for 20 minutes at 200 Celsius, sprinkle with grated cheese, continue baking for another 5-10 minutes.

Minced salmon casserole

Mix 350 grams of minced red fish with 75 grams of semolina. Add a spoonful or two of sour cream, spices, salt, egg. Put in an even layer into the mold. On top, lay out circles of tomatoes, olives (you can take both black and green), strips of bell pepper, strips of zucchini. Bake for 25 minutes at 200 degrees. Sprinkle with grated hard cheese at the end.

Fish kebab

Mix 0.5 kg of minced fish with a slice of loaf soaked in cream or milk. Season with basil and nutmeg, add an egg, finely chopped green onions, 3-4 tablespoons of already cooked rice. Stir again. In the form of long cutlets, string on skewers. You can cook kebabs either on a wire rack over coals or in foil in the oven.

Dolma with fish

Cook ¼ cup rice until half cooked. Chop 1 onion and 1 carrot finely. Mix all this with ½ kg of minced cod, pangasius or hake, add spices and salt. Grape leaves should be doused with boiling water, cut off the tails and roll up envelopes stuffed with fish from the leaves. Fry quickly, fold in layers in a cauldron, smearing these layers with sour cream. Cover with hot water and simmer over medium heat for an hour, covered.

Puff pastry with broccoli

Mix 500 grams of minced fish with egg, salt, spices. Saute the onions and carrots (1 each). Cook separately 500 grams of broccoli and 100 grams of round grain rice. Cook 300 grams of pasta separately. Lay it all out in layers, pour the béchamel sauce, which is made from 50 grams of butter, a few tablespoons of flour and a glass of milk. Cook for 25 minutes at 180-200 degrees.

Fish cakes in carrot batter

Mix 300 grams of minced red fish, 30 grams of frozen and then grated butter, chopped onion, egg, herbs, a mixture of peppers and salt.

For batter: grate carrots on a fine grater, add chopped garlic, 2 eggs, 1-2 tablespoons of sifted flour, spices (ginger, sesame, paprika) to it. You can add another drop of soy sauce. Form the patties, roll in a thick layer of batter and fry over the fire for 5 minutes.

Festive Fish Terrine

Line the sides and bottom of the terrine dish with thin slices of smoked salmon. Mix white fish mince (400 grams) with 2 chilled egg whites, a glass of cream, salt, pepper and nutmeg, beat all this in a blender. Separately, use a blender to puree from 2 cups fresh or a pack of frozen spinach, combine with a third of the fish mixture. Arrange the layers in the pan in the following order: no spinach - with spinach - no spinach. Top also cover everything with salmon slices. Put the dish in a baking sheet with boiling water, cook for an hour in the oven at 180 degrees.