Second courses of ground beef. Instead of salt - pickled cucumber

Ground beef can be the main ingredient for cooking all kinds of dishes. From it you can quickly and tasty prepare lunch or dinner, which is suitable for both children and adults. Ideas and original recipes waiting for you in our special material.

Selection and preparation of ingredients

Before you start cooking this or that dish, you should prepare the main ingredients. In our case, this is ground beef. If you wish, you can cook it at home yourself or buy it ready-made. How to choose the right quality minced meat Let's talk right now.

The first thing to consider is the color of the product. Natural ground beef has a red tint and a slightly shiny surface. In the event that the surface of the ground meat is already dull and dull, then it is best to refuse such a purchase.

If you choose ready-made minced meat in a package, then you need to pay attention to the information that must be indicated. For starters, this is the product category: high-quality minced meat is marked "A", which indicates that you have the highest quality meat in front of you. Other categories mean that the percentage of pure and high-quality meat in such minced meat is less than 50-60%. You should also consider the production time and date of packaging of the goods.

It should be noted that fresh meat products will not lose their quality if they are properly stored at sub-zero temperatures. If meat product just lies on a cold shelf, it is better to leave it there.

The consistency of a quality meat product should be uniform. White blotches can come across in minced meat - this is fat. If the inclusions are soft, then high-quality fat was definitely added to the minced meat. If they are hard, then most likely they are ground tendons. You should not take such a product, as this will negatively affect the taste and quality of the finished dish.

A high-quality ground meat product should not have any foreign odors. If the minced meat smells of spices, it was probably spoiled, and after that it was “reanimated”. In the event that you purchased a frozen product and, after defrosting, the minced meat releases cloudy juice, this indicates a poor quality of the meat product. High-quality minced meat should produce exceptionally clear juice.

If you want to be sure that you have high-quality minced meat, it is better to cook it yourself at home. An excellent product can be obtained from any part of beef, but most often it is prepared from a shoulder, sirloin or sacrum. Sometimes you can make ground beef with the addition of pork, lamb or poultry meat.

Recipes

Prepare from fresh or frozen ground beef you can have a wide variety of dishes. For example, it would be a great idea to make meatballs with sauce or cook soup with them, or you can bake tender casseroles and even pies. Ground beef is a great ingredient for lunch or dinner. Cooking with it is quick, easy and, most importantly, delicious.

dietary

Cooking diet meals for dinner is a great solution for the whole family. In order to make the dishes as light and simple as possible, you should cook exclusively from beef, without adding minced pork. For example, you can make cabbage rolls for the second.

For cooking you will need:

• five hundred grams of minced meat;
• two onions of medium size;
• one hundred grams of rice;
• head of cabbage.

The head of cabbage should be scalded with boiling water and carefully divided into leaves, immediately cutting out the hard part. After that, boil all the leaves for a couple of minutes in salted water. Rice is almost cooked through. Add boiled rice to minced meat, put spices to taste. The bulbs should be finely chopped and added to the total mass. Thoroughly mix the prepared minced meat, spread a small amount of the filling on the prepared cabbage leaves and we turn.

Ready cabbage rolls can be boiled in a double boiler or a slow cooker for a couple. Then the dish will definitely be dietary. And you can pour low-fat sour cream and bake in the oven.

For children

For the smallest members of the family, you can use pure ground beef, or you can use pork and beef.

But at the same time, it is important to consider that there should be twenty percent of pork in such minced meat, no more.

Meatball soup is perfect for kids. Such a dish is easy to prepare and may well become a full-fledged lunch or dinner.

Ingredients:

• two hundred grams of meat product;
• fifty grams of buckwheat;
• one carrot;
• one onion;
• one big potato.

We recommend finely chop the onion and add to the minced meat. Bring one and a half liters of salted water to a boil, add cereals and potatoes cut into cubes. We bring to half readiness. We beat the minced meat well until it becomes sticky. Next, we form small meatballs and send them to the broth. Then add grated carrots and cook until tender. If desired, you can put a little greenery at the end. This soup should be served with sour cream. creamy taste The kids will definitely love this dish.

For PP

One who adheres proper nutrition, may well treat yourself to meatballs.

As you understand, these will not be quite ordinary cutlets. We recommend not to fry them, but to cook them in the oven.

To prepare the dish you will need:

• a pound of fresh meat product;
• two medium bulbs;
• three to four cloves of garlic;
• one egg;
• one hundred and fifty milliliters of milk or water.

Garlic and onion should be very finely chopped and added to the minced meat. Next, add the egg and knead the mass until smooth. Do not forget to add spices to taste. We form cutlets of any size and put them in a deep baking dish. We spread the cutlets tightly to each other, pour milk or purified water, send to a preheated oven for forty minutes. Ready meal can be served fresh vegetable salad. Cutlets are very juicy and ruddy. At the same time, vegetable oil, bread and breadcrumbs, as during the preparation of traditional meatballs.

Also from the same amount of ingredients you can form small meat balls- meatballs. It is better to bake them on foil, so they will turn out to be very unusual in taste.

Watch the video recipe for cooking cutlets below.

in a frying pan

In order to quickly prepare a hearty lunch, use the following recipe. We take three hundred grams of minced meat, one large onion and spices to taste. First, chop the onion very finely and fry it until translucent. Next, add minced meat, spices, and fry in a pan until cooked. Once the meat base is ready, it can be mixed with boiled spaghetti and dinner is ready. And if you add a little minced meat during frying homemade pasta from tomatoes, you get an excellent gravy that is suitable not only for spaghetti, but also for mashed potatoes.

Festive dishes

The most ordinary dish can become festive if you add a few special ingredients to it. For example, you can cook meatballs for the festive table.

For this you will need:

• a pound of fresh minced meat (you can choose beef or mixed);
• one hundred grams of Parmesan cheese;
• two hundred milliliters of homemade tomato sauce;
• one and a half glasses of clean water;
• two eggs;
• two to three cloves of garlic;
• a little basil and other spices to taste.

Everything is prepared very simply. First, finely chop the onion and garlic, lightly sauté for vegetable oil. As soon as the onion slices become transparent, add water, tomato juice, spices and herbs. When the mixture boils, cover the pan with a lid and leave it on low heat. At this time, you can start cooking meatballs. We beat the minced meat in a convenient and deep bowl, add cheese, eggs and spices grated on a fine grater. Mix thoroughly and form small balls from the resulting mass. We put our meatballs in the sauce and simmer for an hour. You can serve with any side dish.

We have a few more useful tips, which will be useful to all those who likes to cook a variety of ground beef dishes.

1. If you cook minced meat yourself for cutlets or meatballs, then the meat should be passed through the finest mesh of a meat grinder.
2. To make the stuffing tasty, it should be scrolled two or three times. The last time you should add all the spices at once.
3. If you are planning to add minced meat bread, then soak it in plain water. If this is done in milk, then the cutlets will not turn out juicy.
4. To make cutlets, meatballs or minced meat for casseroles saturated, you should add a couple of tablespoons of homemade mayonnaise or sour cream to them.
5. To make the cutlets airy, add separately beaten proteins.
6. When choosing a ready-made meat product, give preference to chilled minced meat, rather than frozen.
7. Ground beef can be mixed with chicken or ground turkey. Minced poultry meat should be taken thirty - forty percent, then the dish will be delicious.
8. It is impossible to store minced meat mixed with spices or vegetables in the freezer.

Minced meat? If only to list the names of the dishes, then, probably, even a page will not be enough. Meatballs, meatballs, meatballs, meatballs, kebab... You can also stuff dumplings, dumplings, cabbage rolls with them, bell peppers and tomatoes, Italian cannelloni and shells. With minced meat, it is good to make casseroles, rolls, zrazy, naval pasta, pies, belyashi, pasties, lasagna. Here we will give only a small part of the recipes for ground beef dishes. We will also tell you how to make delicious and tender minced meat with your own hands.

You should choose the meat of a young animal. The veal is pink instead of red and has a more tender texture. For minced meat, any without a bone is suitable: flank, shoulder blade, rump, shank pulp and even trimmings. The main thing is that along with the pulp there is a small layer of fat. It will make the ground beef dish more airy (though less dietary). Whatever pulp you choose, you need to pass it through a meat grinder twice.

Further, minced meat is advised to deal with the main ingredient in different ways. Many do not imagine how you can fry cutlets without adding eggs. Say, what, in this case, will hold the stuffing together and form products? But the eggs make the mass tough. Try to replace them cold water, and also add the crumb white bread soaked in milk. Finely chopped onions, potatoes, flour are often added to minced meat. But we will give here the recipes of the most original dishes from veal rolled through a meat grinder. For example, traditional cutlets can be baked in such an original way: wrap minced meat in a slice of bacon. His, in turn - in foil. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.

Dumplings a la Nikitinsky

This is a very simple ground beef dish. Finely chopped (or even rubbed) onion and apple. Knead with half a kilogram of minced meat. Two eggs, a crumb soaked in milk, two spoons are also added to the mass. grated cheese, a pinch of salt and pepper. From this mass small balls are formed - dumplings. They are dipped in boiling, slightly salted water. After surfacing, the dumplings are boiled for another five minutes, after which they are caught with a slotted spoon. Pour half a glass of sour cream and a spoonful of starch into a small amount of broth. Stir in the sauce and bring to a boil. Pour dumplings over them, sprinkle with herbs.

"Lazybone's Casserole"

Also, judging by the name, an easy-to-prepare dish of ground beef. Lubricate the mold with oil. We do not add anything to minced meat except salt. Lubricate its upper edge with mayonnaise and cover with chopped ones. Sprinkle the dish with a rather large amount of grated cheese. durum varieties. Put the form in hot oven for 50 minutes.

Meat pancakes

These are not the usual envelopes from dough with meat stuffing, and the most real dish of ground beef. Drive into the rolled veal raw eggs, add finely chopped garlic, pepper and salt. Pour in the flour in small portions and beat until the mixture becomes similar in consistency to the dough for pancakes. We fry like pancakes in a hot frying pan in vegetable oil. Immediately after removing from heat, roll them up. These pancakes are served with sour cream or mushroom sauce sprinkled with herbs.

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If there is minced meat in the refrigerator, and a baguette in the closet, then in half an hour you can cook an excellent dinner.

Ingredients

• 500 g ground beef;
• 350 g of tomatoes in their own juice;
• 250 g mozzarella;
• 1 baguette;
• a bunch of basil;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Minced meat is better to take beef. But you can use a mix of pork and chicken. Fry the minced meat in a well-heated pan for 5-8 minutes. Then add the tomatoes and simmer for about 15 more minutes, until the liquid has evaporated.

Cut the baguette lengthwise, remove the pulp from the middle. Dry both halves in the oven for 2-3 minutes. Cut the mozzarella into cubes. Chop the basil.

Spread the minced meat with tomatoes and cheese on both halves of the baguette. Sprinkle with basil and bake for another 5 minutes.

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This a traditional dish Greek cuisine, which is a juicy balls of minced meat and vegetables. Keftedes can be served both separately (they go well with), and with a side dish.

Ingredients

• 500 g ground beef;
• 2-3 medium bulbs;
• 2 slices of white bread;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 egg;
• 4 tablespoons chopped parsley;
• 4 tablespoons of milk;
• 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar;
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano;
• 10 mint leaves;
• salt and black ground pepper- taste;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Soak bread in milk. Squeeze and add minced meat, egg, chopped onion, garlic, parsley and mint to it. Mix well. Salt, pepper, add oregano, drizzle with olive oil and vinegar. Mix again - better with your hands.

Cover bowl with cling film and refrigerate for an hour. During this time, the spices will give off flavor, and the meat will give juice (it will need to be drained). If you don't have ground beef, use lamb or pork with chicken (50/50).

Shape the minced meat into balls and fry them in a large amount of very hot vegetable oil. Place the finished keftedes on a paper towel to remove excess fat.

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Wellington beef is an expensive, festive dish. But it can be simplified by replacing the beef tenderloin with minced meat. The result will not be worse.

Ingredients

• 1 kg of ground beef;
• 500 g puff pastry;
• 200 g mushrooms;
• 100 g of tomato sauce;
• 25 g butter;
• 4 eggs;
• 3 onions;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• parsley and other herbs - to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Mix minced meat with chopped onion, 2 cloves of garlic and herbs. Add 3 eggs and mix well. Put in a baking dish and put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Cool down.

Saute the mushrooms with the remaining garlic. Mushrooms will give liquid - fry until it evaporates.

Ingredients

• 500 g minced meat;
• 5 tomatoes;
• 4 burger buns;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 medium onion;
• 1 medium carrot;
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce;
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar;
• salt, ground black pepper and chili pepper flakes - to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Cooking

Peel onions and carrots. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots. Fry vegetables in vegetable oil, and then add minced meat to them.

While it is roasting, remove the skin from the tomatoes and mash the flesh with a fork. Peel and mince the garlic. When the liquid has evaporated from the minced meat, salt, pepper it and add chopped garlic.

Stir, let warm for a minute, then pour in the Worcestershire sauce and vinegar. Stir again. Finally, add the tomatoes and simmer until most of the moisture has evaporated from the sauce.

Toast the burger buns in a hot dry frying pan. Pour the sauce over the bottom halves of the buns and cover with the top halves.

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Ziti is a type of pasta (large long or short tubes) that Italians use for casseroles. This dish is also sometimes called lazy lasagna.

Ingredients

• 450 g pasta ziti or penne;
• 450 g of low-fat minced meat;
• 200 g parmesan;
• 200 g mozzarella;
• 600 g of tomato sauce;
• 1 onion;
• 1 tablespoon olive oil;
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano;
• 1 tablespoon basil;
• salt and pepper - to taste;
• butter.

Cooking

Fry minced meat with chopped onion in olive oil. Then salt, pepper, add tomato sauce and simmer for about 15 minutes more.

Boil pasta in lightly salted water until tender.

Grease a baking dish with butter. Lay the casserole in layers: half the boiled ziti, half the grated parmesan and mozzarella slices, half meat sauce, more pasta and the remaining cheese. Sprinkle oregano and basil on top.

Bake for 30 minutes at 180°C.

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Very easy recipe as no ingredients are required additional processing. If there is ready-made in the refrigerator minced chicken, you will assemble the roll in 20 minutes, and after another 40 you will get a delicious dinner.

Ingredients

• 500 g minced chicken;
• 200 g of thick sour cream;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 2 thin pita bread;
• salt, pepper and herbs - to taste.

Cooking

Salt and pepper the mince. Add chopped greens of your choice to it.

Sprinkle one pita bread with a little grated cheese, put another one on top. Mix minced meat with sour cream and spread pita bread with this. Roll up tightly.

Lubricate the resulting roll with a beaten egg and sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the roll on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 40-45 minutes at 180°C.

What to cook with ground beef? There are many dishes with the addition of this ingredient. It all depends on what exactly you want to cook. So, you can cook a hearty soup, fry a spicy steak or stew delicious meatballs. Let's look at some interesting recipes.

beef steak

Thinking about what to cook deliciously from ground beef? Fry juicy and incredible delicious steak. The whole process will not take you much time, and special culinary skills are not required.

Advice! It is better to cook minced meat yourself from beef pulp. And if you use a purchased product, choose chilled minced meat or twisted.

Composition:

• 0.4 kg of beef;
• 100 ml filtered water;
• salt;
• ground pepper;
• seasonings;
• 3 art. l. sifted flour;
• refined vegetable oil.

Cooking:

On a note! What to cook for a child from ground beef? Soufflé is the perfect choice. It is baked in the oven and also steamed.

Italian-style meatballs

Tender and hearty meatballs are obtained from ground beef. And you can give them special Italian notes of taste with the help of grated cheese. Shall we try?

Composition:

• 0.6 kg of minced beef;
• 100 g of Parmesan cheese;
• 400 ml tomato sauce;
• 300 ml filtered water;
• 1.5 st. l. bread crumbs;
• 2 eggs;
• 1 tsp granulated sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oils;
• 2 leaves of laurel;
• salt;
• 1 tsp dried basil;
• 1-2 cloves of garlic;
• parsley;
• ground pepper.

Cooking:

Quick dinner for the whole family

What to cook from ground beef quickly? Fry it with sour cream, and you will get a delicious and satisfying meat dish. And you can serve it with buckwheat, pasta, potato and rice side dishes.

Composition:

• 0.5 kg of minced meat;
• 2 onions;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• 200 ml sour cream;
• purified vegetable oil;
• a blend of spices;
• salt.

Cooking:

Hearty mince pie

Spaghetti mince pie is a great alternative regular pasta in a navy way. And the piquancy of the dish will add creamy and hard cheese.

Composition:

• 450 g spaghetti;
• 450 g minced meat;
• ¼ tsp salt;
• ¼ tsp black pepper;
• 500 ml of tomato sauce with basil;
• green onion;
• 240 g cream cheese;
• garlic powder;
• ground pepper;
• ¾ st. sour cream;
• purified vegetable oil;
• 200 g of hard cheese.

Cooking:

1. Boil the spaghetti in salted water and put them in a colander.
2. We heat the oven to a temperature mark of 175-180 degrees.
3. Fry minced meat in vegetable oil until it becomes brownish.
4. Salt minced meat, season with ground pepper, add garlic powder and stir.
5. We introduce sauce into minced meat. Use homemade tomato sauce, season it with dried basil.
6. We are waiting for the mass to come to a boil, and then simmer the dish at a small level of the burner for twenty minutes.
7. Combine sour cream with cream cheese, add chopped green onion and stir.
8. Lubricate the form with oil and lay out the spaghetti.
9. Pour on top cheese sauce, then lay out the minced meat.
10. Sprinkle our dish with grated hard cheese.
11. We cover the form with parchment or foil and send the cake to the oven. Bake it for twenty five minutes.
12. Then we open the cake and bake it for another 5-7 minutes. Ready!

Delicious first course

This soup is not only tasty, but also healthy, because we will not add a lot of oil and fat to it. Yes, and in itself, ground beef is much easier to digest by our stomach than meat. And to make it easier culinary process, cook soup in a slow cooker.

Composition:

• 0.3 kg of minced meat;
• 1 st. dried peas;
• 4-5 potatoes;
• carrot;
• 3 liters of filtered water;
• a blend of spices;
• 1 st. l. refined vegetable oils;
• salt.

Attention! Peas need to be soaked in the evening!

Cooking:

1. Add oil to the multibowl and put the minced meat. We set the option "Frying" and cook for 15 minutes.
2. Peel the potato roots and cut into cubes.
3. We spread the potatoes with peas in a multi-bowl, we introduce filtered water.
4. We cook everything for 1.5 hours in the "Extinguishing" mode.
5. Peel the carrot root with onion and finely chop with a knife. Add vegetables to soup.
6. Salt the dish and season with spices. We cook it for fifteen minutes. Ready!

There are many components that affect the taste of a hamburger, but the main one is the meat.

What is the perfect ground beef

As you know, meat has a lot of muscle fibers separated by connective tissue plus some fat. If you want to cook a dish raw meat(tartar, carpaccio), there should be a little fat. But if we cook a meat dish with heat treatment, it's better to have more of it. Muscle fibers are long and quite strong (stable), so their grinding reduces this resistance. To what size should minced meat be crushed? .

Large chunks in minced meat guarantee that the meat retains its original taste and allows you to enjoy its texture.

Medium ground beef

If the "grinding" is too fine, then we risk preparing a dish with a lack of meat flavor. Often, store-bought minced meat sins precisely with a fine, smooth texture. This is done to disguise the quality of the meat or the "origin" of the parts used for minced meat. So pay attention to this when buying! High-quality ground beef can be determined visually - by the size of the "grains".

Fine ground beef

Instead of salt - pickled cucumber

Grinding meat releases proteins, which are good for "fastening" pieces of minced meat together. Therefore, salt the minced meat only when the product - meatballs or cutlet - is formed. If you do this early, the meatball or patty may simply fall apart during cooking. We recommend simply adding some salty ingredient to the minced meat dish. Olives, tapenade, or pickles are perfect for a hamburger. Then salt for the minced meat dish is not needed at all.

Salted cucumbers

Recipe for the perfect beef patty

So, you have 200 g of beef fillet and you want to cook hamburger patties. You will also need a little pork fat, 20 g of softened or melted butter and 2 tbsp. l. olive oil plus freshly ground black pepper. Put the meat and fat in the freezer for about 30 minutes until they begin to firm up. Now cut the beef into 3-4 pieces and mince with fat, not forgetting our tip about the size of the "grains".

Mix the resulting mass with the rest of the prepared ingredients. If desired, you can add finely chopped parsley, marjoram and pre-chopped and fried until soft 1 head of shallots and 1-2 cloves of garlic. Pepper. Mix the minced meat with your hands, saturating the mixture with air, form cutlets. Try not to use molds that are fashionable now. Don't press too hard on the patties. Act without fanaticism! Many advise to remove the already formed cutlets before frying again in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. You can do this, or you can fry them immediately after cooking.

Frying cutlets in a pan

Salt the cutlets and fry them in a frying pan greased with a small amount of oil or grill for 2-3 minutes on each side. And that's it! Here are some great homemade burger patties. Although ... It's just wonderful beef cutlets that can be used for a burger too!

Cooking meatballs on the grill