Looking for an alternative to your usual cutlets? I propose to cook meat fingers with minced meat. A hearty meat dish, for which minced meat is used, but the taste of the products is significantly different. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Now, when autumn has already come, I don't want more vegetable salads, but meat dishes. Apparently the body is preparing for the winter cold. Meat fingers with minced meat will diversify the meat table. The dish is perfect for a family dinner for the whole family, which can be prepared on weekdays and weekends. Also, the proposed recipe can become a festive dish. It is easy to prepare it at home, and the set of products is simple and affordable.
You can use any type of meat for the recipe. Chicken fillet, pork or veal fillet, duck breasts, etc. are suitable. Minced meat is used as a filling for meat fingers, the taste of which will always be different depending on the added spices. Although, if you wish, you can use vegetables, mushrooms, ham, cheese, pasta, herbs, prunes, nuts for the filling … Thanks to the various fillings, the dish becomes more interesting, so you can fantasize with it. For a side dish, fried potatoes, boiled crumbly rice, mashed potatoes are suitable for such fingers. It is also delicious to serve them with pita bread and fresh or salted vegetables. In addition, according to this recipe, you can make both portioned small rolls and one large roll. The dish is first fried in a pan, and then baked in the oven or can be stewed in a cast iron on the stove.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 115 kcal.
- Servings - 8-10
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat - 800 g
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Garlic - 2 wedges
- Spices and herbs to taste
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking meat fingers with minced meat, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the meat and dry it with a paper towel. Cut off excess fat and films. Divide the meat in half and cut one part into slices 1-1.5 cm thick, like for chops.
2. Beat the sliced meat slices with a hammer on both sides so that they become twice as thin. Proceed carefully so that the meat does not become a very thin layer.
3. Twist the remaining piece of meat through a meat grinder through a wire rack with medium holes. Peel the onions, rinse and also pass through the auger of a meat grinder.
4. Put the twisted meat with onions in a deep bowl, add salt and black pepper. You can also add any spices and herbs.
5. Stir the minced meat well to distribute the food evenly.
6. Spread the beaten piece of meat on a board, season with salt and black pepper and put 1 tablespoon on the edge of the layer. minced meat.
7. Roll the meat into a roll. Do not press it tightly so that the filling does not fall out.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and place meat fingers seam side down.
9. Fry the meat fingers over medium-high heat until golden brown. Then turn them over to the other side and chop them off with toothpicks so that they don't turn around during frying. Fry them on the other side until golden brown.
10. Then pour drinking water into the pan so that it covers the bottom by 1 finger. Close the pan with a lid and send the meat fingers with minced meat in a heated oven to 180 degrees for half an hour, or simmer on the stove over low heat after boiling. Serve the finished meal warm with any side dish.
See also a video recipe on how to cook meat fingers or crunches.
