Favorite food of many families - delicious, juicy, tender, with a sweetish taste - pumpkin meatballs. How to cook them, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking pumpkin meatballs with minced meat
- Video recipe
Pumpkin is a beautiful and healthy vegetable. It is juicy, bright and tasty. Pumpkin is used to make porridge, desserts, pies, muffins, jelly … In addition, it will become an excellent complementary component to a hot meat dish. For example, minced pumpkin meatballs are a great option to diversify your daily diet. Beautiful and appetizing cutlets will please all family members and even the smallest ones. The older generation will not remain indifferent due to the nutritional value and amazing taste. Women will appreciate them, tk. after eating, there is no heaviness in the stomach, and men - that meat is still present in the cutlets.
Any type of meat can be used for minced meat. With a more dryish chicken breast, the meatballs will turn out to be dietary. Pumpkin is also suitable for any kind: marble or nutmeg. Spices and herbs - the scope for culinary creativity. Each chef can choose any flavoring additives that he considers necessary. Onions will add juiciness to the cutlets. The recipe itself is simple and worthy of the attention of every chef - “minimum time - maximum taste”. After tasting these meatballs, the recipe will surely end up in your cookbook.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 105 kcal.
- Servings - 10-13 pcs.
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat (any sort) - 400 g
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Spices and spices to taste
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Pumpkin - 200 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step cooking pumpkin meatballs with minced meat, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the meat and dry it with a paper towel. Pass it through a medium wire grinder. You can still grind it with a food processor. You can also buy ready-made minced meat.
2. Peel the pumpkin, cut the fibers and remove the seeds. Pass it through a meat grinder. In the recipe, it is used raw. This will make the meatballs juicier.
3. Peel the onions, wash and also pass through the meat grinder auger.
4. Add eggs, salt, ground pepper to the minced meat and squeeze the garlic through a press. Also add any flavorings. For example, mustard, dried parsley, basil, and hop-suneli seasoning.
5. Mix the minced meat well until smooth. Do this process with your hands, passing the minced meat through your fingers.
6. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Form into oval patties and place in the skillet. Turn on medium temperature heating.
7. Fry cutlets on one side until golden brown, turn over to the other and bring to readiness. The average roasting time on each side takes no more than 5-7 minutes. Serve freshly cooked pumpkin and minced meatballs. Any garnish will suit your taste.
See also a video recipe on how to cook pumpkin and minced meat patties.
