Juicy cutlets in a crispy breading with basil and garlic - a recipe for delicious minced chicken cutlets. What could be better than juicy breaded cutlets? The secret of a delicious dinner is not in exquisite overseas delicacies, but in the ability to cook something simple so that you will simply lick your fingers!
For this recipe you will need minced chicken breast fillet, fresh green basil, a few cloves of garlic, and breading ingredients that you can always find in your pantry's pantry. The breading will turn out crispy and appetizing if you fry the cutlets in ghee in a non-stick pan.
- Cooking time: 40 minutes
- Number of servings: 6
Ingredients for juicy cutlets in crispy breading
- 620 g minced chicken;
- 50 g onion;
- 40 ml cream;
- 60 g butter;
- 40 g green basil;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 1-2 chicken eggs;
- 35 g breadcrumbs;
- 35 g wheat flour;
- 5 g ground sweet paprika;
- 2 g khmeli-suneli;
- salt, ghee.
Method for preparing juicy cutlets in crispy breading
Mix chilled minced chicken fillet with chopped onions. Season with ground sweet paprika, add suneli hops. Pour in cold cream and add salt to taste. Knead the minced meat thoroughly for several minutes. It can be kneaded by hand like dough. Then put the bowl in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
For the filling, take butter at room temperature. Add finely chopped green basil to the oil. Pass several medium-sized cloves of garlic through a press. Mix the filling ingredients. Divide the filling into 6 equal parts.
Place a piece of minced meat the size of an apple on your palm and knead the meat into a flat cake. Add filling to the center. With wet hands, form an oval patty.
Make 6 cutlets from the specified amount of ingredients.
For complex breading you will need 3 plates or bowls. Pour wheat flour into the first plate. In the second, break the raw egg and beat with a fork. If the egg is small, it is better to take two. Pour breadcrumbs into the third plate.
Dredge the cutlets in flour. Then dip into beaten egg. Next we bread it in breadcrumbs.
Place on a board sprinkled with breadcrumbs and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Place the ghee in a non-stick frying pan and melt. Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Fry on each side for 3-4 minutes. If you don’t have ghee in your refrigerator, then pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into the frying pan and add 1 tablespoon of butter.
Place the frying pan with the cutlets in an oven heated to 180 degrees, cook for about 6-7 minutes, you don’t need to keep it in the oven longer, the filling may leak out.
Before serving, decorate with herbs and hot pepper rings. Cook delicious and simple!
As a side dish for juicy cutlets, prepare tender mashed potatoes with cream and butter or fluffy rice with a salad of fresh vegetables - such combinations of products will always please everyone.
Cutlets are a tasty and very popular dish that goes well with almost all side dishes. The basis for its preparation is usually minced meat, vegetables or fish, supplemented with spices and auxiliary ingredients. In today's post we will find out how to do
Both store-bought and homemade minced meat are suitable for creating such dishes. To make it more juicy, add sugar, onions or some potatoes. And to make it fluffy, it is supplemented with a loaf of bread soaked in milk.
Another essential component of cutlets is eggs. It is advisable to separate them into whites and yolks, beat them thoroughly with a mixer and only then add them to the minced meat. If desired, garlic, herbs and spices are added to the cutlet mass. This gives the final dish a very rich taste and aroma.
At the final stage, small pieces are plucked from the resulting minced meat, given the required shape and rolled in bread crumbs. Bake in an oven heated to 200 o C. The duration of the process depends on the size of the products being prepared. As a rule, it is no more than 20 minutes.
With pork
The method discussed below produces very tender and satisfying cutlets, ideal for a regular family dinner. To prepare them, you will need:
- 600 g boneless lean pork.
- ½ white loaf.
- A cup of pasteurized milk.
- Choice egg.
- Onion head.
- Salt, garlic, lean butter and breadcrumbs.
Step No. 1. The washed pork is cut into large pieces and passed through a meat grinder along with onions and a loaf soaked in milk.
Step No. 2. The resulting mass is supplemented with salt, crushed garlic and egg, and then thoroughly kneaded until smooth.
Step No. 3. Pinch off small pieces from the finished minced meat with wet hands, give them the required shape and roll in breading.
Step No. 4. The resulting semi-finished products are placed on an oiled baking sheet and subjected to heat treatment.
Bake in breadcrumbs in an oven heated to 220 o C for twenty minutes on each side.
No eggs
These delicious homemade cutlets are very easy and quick to prepare. Therefore, their recipe will certainly be of interest to those who do not have a lot of free time and are forced to eat store-bought semi-finished products. To make a hearty and flavorful lunch for yourself and your family, you will need:
- 500 g lean pork tenderloin.
- 80 g bread (preferably rye).
- 200 ml pasteurized cow's milk.
- Onion head.
- Salt, pepper mixture and bread crumbs.
Step No. 1. Before making cutlets in breadcrumbs, you need to prepare the minced meat. To do this, wash and sliced pork, onions and bread soaked in milk are twisted in a meat grinder.
Step No. 2. Add salt to all this, season with ground pepper and knead thoroughly until smooth.
Step No. 3. Make neat cutlets from the resulting mass, sprinkle them with bread crumbs and bake for about 20 minutes at 200 o C.
With beans and mushrooms
For those who are indifferent to meat, we can recommend a very simple and interesting recipe for cutlets in breadcrumbs. They are cooked in the oven with the addition of a minimal amount of oil, which means they are not too greasy. To make this dish yourself, you will need:
- 600 g of porcini mushrooms.
- 300 g beans.
- 200 g onions.
- 50 g garlic.
- 200 ml fresh cream.
- 150 g ghee.
- 3 raw chicken eggs.
- Salt, water, thyme, pepper mixture and breadcrumbs.
Step No. 1. Chopped onions are sautéed in melted butter, and then supplemented with pieces of porcini mushrooms and fried briefly over moderate heat.
Step No. 2. After some time, season it all with spices, add salt, pour cream and simmer for a few more minutes.
Step No. 3. Cooled mushrooms are combined with soaked and boiled beans. All this is crushed in a blender, supplemented with garlic and a couple of raw eggs, and then kneaded thoroughly.
Step No. 4. Neat cutlets are made from the resulting mass. Each of them is dipped into a bowl with an egg diluted in 50 ml of water, and then rolled in breadcrumbs. Bake them at moderate temperature until an appetizing crust forms.
With dried apricots and prunes
Fans of dried fruits should definitely try the interesting cutlets in breadcrumbs. In the oven, they not only have time to become soft and juicy, but also become covered with a crispy golden crust. To prepare them, you will need:
- 1.5 kg chilled beef.
- 200 g dried apricots.
- 120 g prunes.
- 150 g onions.
- 30 ml lemon juice.
- Large egg.
- Salt, curry, a mixture of peppers, crackers, sesame seeds and lezon.
Step No. 1. The washed dried fruits are briefly soaked in boiling water, and then chopped into thin strips.
Step No. 2. Then add finely chopped meat, onion, lemon juice, salt, seasonings and a raw egg.
Step No. 3. Knead everything thoroughly and shape it into cutlets.
Step No. 4. Each of them is greased with lemonade, breaded in a mixture of breadcrumbs and sesame seeds and sent to a preheated oven. Bake the products at 200 o C until a golden brown crust appears.
With oat flakes
These tasty and low-calorie cutlets are an excellent option for a family lunch or dinner. And the best addition to them would be mashed potatoes or a salad of raw seasonal vegetables. To feed them to your household, you will need:
- 0.5 kg minced pork and beef.
- 4 tbsp. l. oatmeal.
- Large onion.
- Large raw egg.
- Salt, seasonings, herbes de Provence and breadcrumbs.
Step No. 1. The minced meat is combined with a raw egg, oatmeal and chopped onion.
Step No. 2. All this is salted, supplemented with seasonings and kneaded well.
Step No. 3. Pinch off small pieces from the resulting mass with wet hands and shape them into cutlets.
Step No. 4. Each of them is rolled in a mixture of Provençal herbs and then placed on a lined baking sheet.
Bake the cutlets in breadcrumbs on parchment in an oven preheated to 180 o C for about 25 minutes.
With potatoes and chicken
These aromatic ones are ideal for baby food. They can be safely fed to babies over one year of age. To prepare them, you will need:
- 350 g chicken fillet.
- 100 g leeks.
- 1 tbsp. l. non-acidic sour cream.
- Choice egg.
- Potato tuber.
- Coarse salt and breadcrumbs.
Step No. 1. Washed and coarsely chopped chicken is combined with chopped onion, sour cream, egg and grated potatoes.
Step No. 2. All this is salted and intensively processed with a blender.
Step No. 3. Small pieces are plucked from the resulting minced meat and formed into round or oval cutlets.
Step No. 4. Each of them is sprinkled with bread crumbs and placed on a baking sheet.
Prepare in an oven preheated to 200 o C. Usually this process takes no longer than 20 minutes. They are served warm with fresh mashed potatoes made with the addition of a small amount of butter and milk.
With butter
This high-calorie dish will certainly interest lovers of hearty homemade dinners. To prepare it you will need:
- 300 g lean pork.
- 300 g boneless beef.
- ½ package of butter.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- White loaf.
- Salt, pepper mixture and vegetable oil.
Step No. 1. First you should deal with the breadcrumbs. They are made from oven-dried loaves. As soon as they are ready, you can proceed to the next stage.
Step No. 2. Beef and pork are rinsed under the tap, cleaned of films, cut into large pieces and twisted in a meat grinder.
Step No. 3. The resulting minced meat is salted, seasoned with pepper and kneaded thoroughly.
Step No. 4. Small pieces are plucked from the resulting mass, flattened into a flat cake, filled with a piece of cold butter and shaped into cutlets.
Step No. 5. Each of them is dipped in beaten salted eggs and sprinkled with breading. The resulting semi-finished products are lightly browned in a frying pan and then transferred to an oiled baking sheet.
Bake the cutlets in breadcrumbs in the oven, carefully heated to 180 o C, for no more than 30 minutes.
With carrots
These juicy and delicious cutlets are a successful combination of twisted meat, vegetables and spices. But their main advantage is that they are not fried in a frying pan, but baked using a minimum amount of fat. To prepare them for lunch or dinner, you will need:
- 500 g fresh minced pork and beef.
- 12 quail eggs.
- 2 potatoes.
- 2 pieces of dried white loaf.
- 50 ml pasteurized cow's milk.
- Juicy carrots.
- Clove of garlic.
- Bulb.
- Large chicken egg.
- Salt, seasonings and vegetable oil.
Step No. 1. Minced meat is combined with grated vegetables, crushed garlic and egg.
Step No. 2. All this is seasoned, added some salt, supplemented with a loaf soaked in milk and kneaded thoroughly.
Step No. 3. With moistened hands, pinch off pieces of the desired size from the resulting mass, flatten them into flat cakes, stuff them with boiled, peeled quail eggs and shape them into cutlets.
Step No. 4. Each of them is rolled in breadcrumbs and placed on an oiled baking sheet.
Bake the products at 200 o C until lightly browned. You can make cutlets in the oven in the same way without breadcrumbs. But then they won’t have an appetizing crispy crust.
I decided to cook very original cutlets in breadcrumbs, they turn out very tasty and crispy. After all, what could be tastier than tender, juicy meat on the inside and a crispy crust on the outside. We will prepare them from minced pork, but you can use any: chicken or pork-beef.
The recipe for breaded pork cutlets is very simple, the main thing is to know one secret of frying in a pan, otherwise you will ruin everything. Some people simply deep-fry them, but this method will require a lot of vegetable oil; we will fry them in a frying pan. You can serve whatever you want on the side, but my favorite is to serve them with mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
- Minced pork – 500 g.
- Onion – 2 pcs.
- Loaf – 2 slices
- Flour – 1 cup
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Salt – 0.3 pinches
How to cook cutlets in breadcrumbs
Cut the meat and onion into pieces and pass through a meat grinder.
I cut another onion into pieces, I just love juicy cutlets. If you added a lot of onions to the minced meat, then you don’t need to add any more.
Now add salt, about 0.3 tsp and other spices to taste.
Soak the loaf in water, squeeze it out and knead it with your hands.
Combine the meat with the bread and mix well so that the bread is evenly distributed.
We take some minced meat in our hands and make round balls.
Making the batter
Pour flour into one plate and dip the cutlet.
Beat the egg in the second bowl and beat it. Place the cutlet into the egg mixture.
Pour breadcrumbs into the third bowl and dip into them last. It is advisable to do this with all the cutlets that will be fried in a frying pan so that they cook at the same time.
How to fry in a frying pan
Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and lay out the cutlets, fry over low heat until beautifully golden brown, because if you fry over high heat, they will burn. Cook for about 2 minutes.
Turn over to the other side, cover with a lid and simmer for 7-10 minutes depending on the size. If you are unsure about doneness, take one and cut it.
Serve hot cutlets in bread batter on the table. Bon appetit!
- You can add any spices to the minced meat to your taste; cumin, turmeric, ground black pepper work well.
- Fry only on low heat.
- You can add garlic for spiciness.
- So, serve cutlets in breadcrumbs for a holiday table or for dinner for your family, they will definitely like this meat dish!
