The main secrets and recipes for delicious homemade burgers
Educational Program Food / / December 19, 2019
What to cook burgers
Meat
Mince for meatballs better to do on their own from the chilled meat nepostnogo. Almost classical variant - mixture of pork and beef at a ratio of 2: 1. Pure pork cutlets can get very fat, and beef - juicy enough.
The burgers can also add chicken, turkey or cook them only from birds.
A fish
For the meatballs, in principle, suitable any fish. The main thing that was a little bones in it. So it is best to choose fillets large breeds: from his cook cutlets much easier than from the small bony fish. Ideal salmon, cod, haarder halibut.
Other ingredients
Bow. It must skip the meat through a meat grinder or chop finely (in this case it is better to fry a little and cool), and then add forcemeat. You can, of course, chop onions using a fine grater, but this process - a very dubious pleasure.
1 kg of meat is enough 2-3 medium onions.
Stale white bread (loaf). He needed to keep the shape of burgers and were more tender. Bread must soak in boiled water, milk or cream, squeeze, to remove the crust and mince. it does not require too much: 100-200 g per 1 kg of minced meat is enough.
Vegetables: zucchini, carrots, potatoes, beets, pumpkin. They make the burgers juicier and tender. If desired, they can be replaced bread. Vegetables are best ground with a grater.
Eggs. Controversial Ingredient: Some cooks believe that they are doing hard chops. Nevertheless eggs help to glue the stuffing. Not to overdo it, it is better to use no more than two eggs per 1 kg of meat.
Salt. 1 kg minced sufficiently about 1 teaspoon of salt.
Spices and herbs. Black pepper, add the optional, garlic and other spices - on request.
Water, oil and so on. In minced meat, you can add a couple tablespoons of ice water, a spoonful of vegetable oil or butter cube to burgers are juicier.
By fishcakes can add the cream, which will give the dish a tenderness, or lemon juice, enhancing the taste of fish.
How to prepare the stuffing and sculpt cakes
- Before you grind the meat, remove it from the wires, foils, bone and cartilage.
- If you miss all the ingredients through the meat grinder, try to alternate them to mince was more homogeneous.
- Minced meat must be hands knead well and fight off - so he sated with oxygen. This can be done in a pan with high walls, so as not to stain your kitchen. In this case, you need some time to throw the stuffing on the bottom of the tank.
- Ready minced better cover with cling film and put into the refrigerator for 30 minutes, so he rested. After that, it should be mixed again.
- Sculpt burgers need a wet hand to the fingers did not stick stuffing.
- Try to form patties of equal size, too granulate is not necessary: the more chops, so they are more juicy. Pat the chops with his hands, so that they are smooth and seamless.
As breaded cutlets
Breading helps the juice to stay inside meatballs, so do not neglect it. Can be used breadcrumbs (shoplifting or made independently from dry bread), meal, sesame nuts and pounded.
Note that absorb more butter crackers. Therefore, if you want to reduce the fat content of burgers, choose other options for breading or obsushivayut ready chops with paper towels.
How to fry cutlets
Place the patties on a well heated pan with oil. Be sure to leave a distance between them, otherwise they will not be fried and stew.
First on high heat fry one side for 1-2 minutes, then reduce heat and cook for another 3-4 minutes. Repeat the same with the other side. After that, you can then chops under the lid for 5-8 minutes.
20 minutes is enough to fry any meatballs. If you have doubts, pierce one of them a knife: a light juice says that the dish is ready.
How to cook meatballs in the oven
Arrange the meatballs on a greased baking sheet and send in the oven, preheated to 180-200 degrees. After 15-20 minutes, pour a glass of water on a baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes more chops.
The oven can also be brought to readiness fried cutlets. In this case it is baked at a temperature of 160-180 degrees.
How to cook meatballs in multivarka
For cooking multivarka suitable modes "Hot" or "baking". The average cooking time - 40-50 minutes.
Cutlets must be turned every 15-20 minutes. If they begin to burn, you can add a little water (about ¼ cup).
How to cook burgers for a couple
Prepare a meal in the easiest way to double boiler. It is only necessary to fill the inside of said instructions in the amount of water, put the burgers, turn the unit on and prepare according to the stuffing:
- 20-30 minutes - for cutlets from poultry and fish;
- 30-40 minutes - for meatballs from meat.
If you do not have a double boiler, burgers can be cooked in a water bath. For this boil water in a pot, put the top sieve so large that it does not touch the liquid, and cover with a lid construction. Note that in this case, and a sieve pan should be approximately the same diameter.
recipes
Pozharsky cutlets
Ingredients
- 750 g of chicken flesh (equal parts fillet and thigh fillets);
- 350 g of stale loaves;
- 220 ml of milk;
- 30 g butter;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon black pepper;
- ghee or butter - for frying.
preparation
150 g loaf soak in milk. When it swells, wring it out and miss with chicken flesh through a meat grinder. Pour milk: it still is useful. Add the minced 30g soft butter, salt and pepper, stir well and remove to the side.
Separately prepare the bread mix. For this cut the remaining 200 g of the stick into small cubes (with sides of about 4 mm) and air dry them. In a bowl with the milk, add the eggs, a pinch of salt and stir.
Wet hands shape of minced meat patties medium size. Dip in each milk mixture, then roll in bread crumbs and put on a well heated pan with oil. Fry patties on medium heat on both sides until golden brown.
Meat patties with mushrooms
Ingredients
- 300 g of beef;
- 200 g of pork;
- 150-200 g of fresh mushrooms;
- 1 onion;
- 1 egg;
- 2 slices of stale white bread;
- 1-2 garlic cloves;
- flour - for breading;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- salt, pepper and other spices - to taste.
preparation
First, prepare the mushroom stuffing. To do this, rinse thoroughly and pat dry the mushrooms, then cut them into small slices. Onions finely chop, fry until soft. Add the mushrooms and cook until all the water boils away. At the end of the filling salt and pepper and allow to cool.
Until the filling cools, you can prepare the stuffing. Pass through a meat mincer, adding thereto bread soaked in water (without crusts), egg and chopped garlic. Mix the minced meat until smooth, add salt and spices, stir again and repel hands. You can cool the stuffing in the refrigerator, but do not forget to then mix it again and beat off.
Wet hands shape of a flat cake of minced meat. In the middle put the mushroom filling. Cover it with a new tortilla minced meat cutlet and blindly round. Try to make sure that the stuffing does not get out of the meat, chop and she was smooth, without seams.
Roll the meatballs in flour and place on a heated pan with oil. Fry on both sides until golden brown (as described above) and bring it to readiness for minimum fire under the lid.
Fishcakes with chopped egg and oat flakes
Ingredients
- 700 g of cod fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 2 eggs;
- 9 tablespoons of oat flakes;
- 3 tbsp chopped parsley cilantro or;
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice;
- salt and pepper - to taste;
- 100 g butter;
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
preparation
Fillets of cod and onion mince. Add the minced herbs, 3 tablespoons of oat flakes, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Mix everything and leave for 30 minutes. At that time boil eggs, Cool and cut into cubes. Add the eggs and stir in the ground beef.
6 tablespoons of oat flakes grind in a coffee grinder or blender: they will be needed for breading cutlets. Wet hands make a flat cake of minced meat, put it in the center of a teaspoon of butter and form a patty.
Roll patties in shredded oat flakes, fry in vegetable oil until golden brown, and immediately transfer to a baking dish. Send it in a preheated 180 degree oven and bake for 10-15 minutes.
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