Simple and uncomplicated, original and spicy chicken cutlets with vegetables and cheese. Read how to cook them in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Chicken cutlets are a great option for an everyday family meal. They are prepared quickly and not troublesome, but turn out to be tender and tasty. Soft chicken fillet with melted cheese and vegetable additives is a good dish that will satisfy the tastes of all family members and will not take a lot of energy from the hostess. All products are mixed into a single minced meat. But if you wish, you can add cheese not to the minced meat, but to make a cheese filling with herbs. The recipe is simple, homemade and allows you to experiment with the composition. For example, cutlets are breaded in ground breadcrumbs or in standard batter. Onions and potatoes are added as a vegetable component. But they can be replaced with zucchini, bell peppers, cabbage, or tomatoes. Vegetables add juiciness to the cutlets and add an interesting flavor note.
For minced meat, you can buy a whole chicken, from which you can cut the pulp into cutlets, and use the bones for broth. But if desired, chicken breasts will do. Then the cutlets will be more dietary. If you want, then immediately make a large portion of cutlets and freeze for future use in the freezer. The recipe will appeal to both experienced housewives and beginners in the kitchen. Chicken cutlets go well with light vegetable salad and more hearty side dishes. Mashed potatoes or boiled spaghetti are ideal.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 259 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet or any parts of the carcass - 500 g
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Potatoes - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Hard cheese - 100 g
Step by step cooking chicken cutlets with vegetables and cheese, recipe with photo:
1. Prepare all products for a meat grinder. Peel, wash and chop the potatoes with onions. Wash the chicken fillet, cut off the film (if any) and also cut it. If you have chicken parts, then cut the meat from the bones. Be sure to take fresh poultry, and better homemade.
2. Twist the chicken, potatoes and onions through a meat grinder with a medium wire rack. Grate the cheese on a coarse or medium grater. Add salt and black pepper to the products. Do not limit the addition of spices, you can put whatever you like the most. The more spices, the better and tastier the dish will turn out.
3. Stir foods and add one raw egg.
4. Mix the minced meat well again. It is better to do this with your hands, passing it between your fingers. You can add garlic passed through a press, it will give the dish an incomparable aroma.
5. Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet, because it is necessary to fry the cutlets exclusively in a well-heated pan with oil. With wet hands, so that the minced meat does not stick, form into oval or round patties. Place them in the skillet.
6. Fry the patties on one side over medium heat until golden brown. Then turn over to the other side, where bring them to readiness. Keep a close eye on the cooking time. The products should turn out to be juicy, at the same time not raw, and in no case overcooked, otherwise the cutlets will become dry. If you wish, you can put the cutlets in a saucepan, pour in some water and simmer over low heat under the lid.
Serve ready-made chicken cutlets with vegetables and cheese to the table hot, freshly cooked. Potatoes, buckwheat, rice, pasta are suitable as a side dish.
See also a video recipe on how to cook chicken fillet cutlets with vegetables and cheese.
