To diversify your menu while dieting or fasting, prepare a delicious vegetarian meal. TOP 5 recipes for lentil cutlets. Features and cooking options.
Eat this lentil treat with a cucumber and tomato salad and lots of greens.
Lentil cutlets with cabbage
Among all the recipes for lentil cutlets, the option with the addition of cabbage is in great demand. Both adults and children love him. Even male meat-eaters do not refuse this yummy, not immediately understanding what the cutlets are made of.
Ingredients:
- Green lentils - 0.5 tbsp.
- White cabbage - 200 g
- Carrots to taste
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Spices - coriander, black pepper
- Flour - for boning and adding to minced meat
- Sour cream - 1 tablespoon
- Ghee or vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step preparation of lentil and cabbage cutlets:
- Rinse the lentils first, then cover them with water and leave them as they are overnight.
- In the morning, fold it in a colander or sieve and let the water drain completely from the food.
- Now grind the swollen lentils in the puree with a blender.
- Then grind the white cabbage in a blender. It must be taken fresh. As a result, you should have about the same amount of ground cabbage as lentils.
- Toss some carrots into a blender and chop them.
- Add spices, salt and a little flour to the minced meat (a couple of tablespoons will be enough).
- Stir the minced meat. Add more flour if needed.
- For tenderness, add sour cream to the minced meat and mix everything well.
- Add more flour if needed, then shape and roll into patties.
- Heat a skillet and pour some vegetable oil into it. If you prefer ghee, then grease the pan with it.
- Fry the patties on both sides. Do not hold on one side for more than 2 minutes so as not to overcook.
Eat cutlets with boiled rice, stews, or fresh vegetables.
Lentil Patties with Ghee Butter
This recipe differs from the others in that it uses ghee oil, which does not produce carcinogens during heat treatment.
Ingredients:
- Red lentils - 250 g
- Water - 500 ml
- Large onions - 1 pc.
- Medium carrots - 1 pc.
- Greens - 1 bunch (it is better to take cilantro)
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Ginger root - 2 cm
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Ghee oil - for frying
- Sea salt to taste
- Black pepper - to taste
Step by step cooking lentil cutlets in ghee oil:
- Boil the lentils first. To do this, throw it into a saucepan and pour water in a ratio of 1 part product to 2 parts water.
- Turn the heat high and place a saucepan of lentils on top. Let the water boil.
- Then reduce the heat and cook it for 20 minutes, while stirring constantly.
- Then drain the water from the lentils if they do not boil away all during cooking. You should have a mass that looks like mashed potatoes.
- Peel the carrots, peel the onion and garlic, and peel the ginger. Wash greens under a tap with running water.
- Chop the onion, garlic and herbs finely.
- Grate ginger and carrots on a coarse grater.
- Preheat a skillet over moderate heat and add half a teaspoon of ghee to it.
- Then put the cumin in a frying pan, and after 30 seconds, grated ginger and chopped garlic.
- After another 15 seconds, add the onions and carrots to the pan.
- Cook these ingredients for about 5 minutes. Stir the food relentlessly while doing this. Then remove the skillet from heat.
- Next, stir the boiled lentils with the fried ingredients and chopped herbs.
- Add pepper and salt to the minced meat. Stir.
- Now move all this splendor to the refrigerator. Let the minced meat cool there for 15-20 minutes.
- Add water to it if it turns out to be liquid.
- Shape into patties and sauté in a greased skillet with ghee for 2 minutes on both sides.
If you are counting calories and do not want to gain weight, then fry the patties over low heat for 5 minutes on one and the other side, but without adding oil.
You can also bake lentil patties in the oven. At the same time, the temperature in it should be 220 degrees, and it is necessary to bake on parchment for 10 minutes. With this method of preparation, the most dietary cutlets will be obtained.
Lentil cutlets with onions
There are no tricky seasonings in this recipe; many housewives like it. Many people are allergic to certain spices, so a simplified recipe for lentil cutlets was invented.
Ingredients:
- Lentils - 800 g
- Bulb onions - 3 pcs.
- Salt - 2 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Flour - 40 g
- Sunflower oil - 40 g
Step by step preparation of simple lentil cutlets with onions:
- Go through the lentils and set aside any foreign matter. Rinse the legumes using a colander.
- Then cook the lentils over moderate heat for 20-25 minutes. Start counting the time from the moment it boils.
- Then fold it in a colander and let the excess liquid drain.
- At this time, grab the bow. Peel it and cut it as small as possible.
- Then preheat a skillet and pour some vegetable oil over it.
- Fry the onion until transparent.
- Next, pass the cooled lentils through a meat grinder.
- Add chopped onion, ground pepper and salt to the resulting minced meat. Mix everything well.
- Roll the cutlets in flour.
- Then fry them in a hot skillet, adding a little vegetable oil.
If the ingredients in the minced meat are "naughty" and the cutlets will not form, then add a raw egg for gluing.
Lentil cutlets with potatoes
If you add grated potatoes to minced lentils, you get more elastic cutlets. Starch serves as an adhesive component.
Ingredients:
- Lentils of any kind (preferably red) - 1 cup
- Medium potatoes - 2 tubers
- Medium carrots - 1 piece
- Salt to taste
- Spices "For minced meat" or "For cutlets" - to taste
Step-by-step preparation of lentil-potato cutlets:
- Start cooking cutlets in the evening. You need to cover a cup of lentils with two cups of water and leave overnight.
- Drain the product completely in the morning. Dry the lentils by spreading them out on a towel.
- Then use a blender to grind the lentils into puree.
- Then grate the carrots and potatoes on a fine grater or chop with a blender.
- Then combine all the ingredients and add spices and salt to the minced meat. Stir.
- Blind the patties and fry them in a well-heated skillet, greased with vegetable oil. It is best to fry them in a heavy-bottomed skillet to prevent them from burning.
Serve with cabbage and carrot salad, seasoned with olive oil and a drop of lemon juice.
Now you know how to make lentil cutlets. We wish those who are on a diet to stick to the end and achieve the coveted figure on the scales. We wish patience for those who are fasting, and good health for vegetarians!
