Chicken cutlets with gravy are both a delicious meat dish and an appetizing sauce. All you have to do is think over some side dish option, and lunch or dinner is ready. There are a lot of recipes for chicken cutlets. Some people add bread, others roll the minced meat in breadcrumbs. There is an even greater variety of gravies based on tomatoes, cream and other ingredients. You can also cook cutlets in a frying pan or in the oven. In any case, they turn out tender. And those cooked in the oven, despite the erroneous opinion, also come out with an appetizing crust, but do not absorb as much oil.
Chicken cutlets with creamy sauce
These cutlets turn out juicy and have a crispy crust. And the cream-based gravy acts as a delicate sauce. To prepare the recipe for chicken cutlets with gravy, you need to take the following products:
- 500 grams of minced chicken;
- three slices of white bread;
- one egg;
- one head of onion;
- garlic clove;
- 150 grams of breadcrumbs;
- 200 ml cream;
- a tablespoon of flour.
You also need to choose any spices to taste. You can take nutmeg, ground pepper, coriander or dried herbs. All types of peppers also go well with the dish.
Required:
- Chicken fillet - I have fillet from different parts: legs, breast - 1 kg.
- Onion - 1 large onion
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Bread (loaf) - a piece
- Milk - 50 ml.
- Potatoes - 1 pc. (optional)
- Salt - to taste
- Ground black pepper - according to taste
- Vegetable oil - for frying cutlets
for the gravy:
- Water or broth - 0.5-1 l.
- Flour - 1-3 tbsp. to thicken the gravy
- Ketchup - 5-6 tbsp.
- Sour cream - 3 tbsp. (you don’t have to add it at all) I made it today without sour cream
- Spices (your favorite) - to taste (I used universal spice from Abkhazia)
- Salt - to taste
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
How to cook delicious cutlets?
How do you start preparing minced chicken cutlets with gravy? White bread is crushed into crumbs. It is most convenient to take already dried pieces rather than fresh bread. A chicken egg is added to it.
Peel and chop the onion and garlic finely, add vegetables to the minced meat, and add your favorite spices. Mix the minced chicken and onion thoroughly. Add the bread and egg mixture and mix again.
Cutlets are formed from minced meat. Roll each one in breadcrumbs. Fry the cutlets on both sides until a crust forms. If necessary, add vegetable oil.
Now start preparing the gravy. To do this, put flour in a pan, fry it, stirring quickly. Add cream, add spices. Place the cutlets in the gravy, cover with a lid and cook for fifteen minutes. Served with a side dish of pasta.
Chicken cutlets in tomato sauce: product list
These cutlets turn out very tender and soft. Tomato paste goes well with chicken fillet, making it more appetizing in appearance. Children love them. To prepare chicken cutlets in gravy you need:
- 400 grams of minced meat;
- 200 grams of tomatoes;
- one hundred grams of loaf;
- 130 grams of onion;
- 60 grams of flour;
- 50 ml vegetable oil;
- 200 ml water - for a delicate sauce;
- any spices and seasonings.
This option is even called classic. In this case, the cutlets turn out to be similar to meatballs.
Chicken cutlets with gravy: recipe with photos
To begin with, fill the loaf with a small amount of water, squeeze out the moisture, and add it to the minced chicken. Fifty grams of onion is chopped quite finely, put into the minced meat, and mixed carefully. Sprinkle everything with spices and leave the minced meat for ten minutes. Form round cutlets and roll them in flour. If the onion has released a lot of juice and the minced meat is difficult to shape, then you can add a little semolina.
Pour a little oil into a frying pan and fry the cutlets on all sides. Each takes about three minutes.
Remove the cutlets from the pan. Cut the rest of the onion into cubes, add oil and fry, lightly sprinkled with flour. Grate the tomatoes and add them to the onions. Simmer for a couple of minutes and pour in a glass of hot water. Add salt and pepper, let the sauce simmer, then add the cutlets to it. In a sealed container, simmer the cutlets for at least ten minutes.
Ground beef cutlets - recipe with photos, with gravy. Children and adults will like it
Ingredients for cutlets:
- 700 grams ground beef
- 1 large onion
- 1 carrot
- 1 clove garlic (you can add more, or leave it out)
- 80 -100 grams of loaf
- 1-2 eggs
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper (optional)
- Vegetable oil (for frying cutlets)
- Bay leaf and peppercorns
Ingredients for gravy:
- 500 ml. tomato juice (I use homemade tomato)
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- Vegetable oil (for frying vegetables)
- Sugar to taste
- Salt to taste
If you want to make the gravy for cutlets thicker, add 2 tbsp. spoons of flour into the gravy. 2 tbsp. Dilute tablespoons of flour in half a glass of water and mix well so that there are no lumps.
Pour in the flour and water at the end of cooking the cutlets, let simmer for another 5-7 minutes. The gravy will be thicker due to the flour. I don't add flour.
If you want something unusual, then I suggest making cutlets with dried apricots.
Pork cutlets with chicken and dried apricots inside
Juicy, appetizing and aromatic cutlets with beautiful orange dried apricots inside. The recipe is accompanied by step-by-step photographs of the cooking process. Now, let's prepare the ground beef cutlets.
How to cook ground beef cutlets step by step:
To make the beef cutlets soft, you need to pass the meat through a meat grinder 2 times, through a fine mesh. Our children love soft and juicy cutlets. We pass the meat through a meat grinder several times.
I defrost the ground beef. I peel the onions and carrots. I also add 1 clove of garlic for flavor; it doesn’t give much flavor, but the aroma is amazing (you can do without garlic, or add more if you wish).
I puree the onion using a blender.
First I cut the onion into 4-6 parts, and together with a clove of garlic (I have a large clove), chop it.
I cut the carrots into pieces and grind them using a blender. Vegetables are crushed into fine puree, thereby making the cutlets juicier.
I break yesterday’s bun or loaf into pieces and fill it with water. You can add milk, if desired. I leave it for 3-5 minutes. For cutlets, they also use crackers or cook with semolina instead of bread. But the loaf should only be used if it is not fresh.
I add chopped onions, garlic, and carrots to the minced meat. I squeeze out the loaf; we don’t need any extra liquid. The bread is already quite soft, so I don’t put it through a meat grinder, but you can grind it with a blender or pass it through a meat grinder.
I beat in 1 egg, check the consistency, if necessary, you can add a second egg. I add salt and ground black pepper to my taste.
I mix the minced meat with clean hands; you can put on cellophane gloves. The minced meat should be homogeneous. In order for the air to “escape” and the cutlets not to fall apart, during the kneading process, you need to pick up the minced meat and throw it into a bowl.
Now I start shaping the cutlets; they can be made round or oblong, small or large. I make round cutlets.
I cover a cutting board with cling film and form cutlets of the same size. About the same.
Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat the frying pan over heat. Place the cutlets in the heated oil.
I fry on one and the other side. You can roll the cutlets in flour, but I have good, homogeneous minced meat, so I don’t do that. My cutlets come off well and don’t fall apart.
I put the fried cutlets in a cauldron.
When I have fried all the cutlets, I start preparing the gravy.
How to prepare gravy for cutlets:
I prepare gravy from tomato juice, onions and carrots.
I peel the onion and chop it into cubes. I peel the carrots and grate them. I fry it in vegetable oil.
I pour in half a liter of homemade tomato juice, add sugar and salt to suit my taste. We love sweet and sour gravy. Add sugar to your taste, taste the gravy the way you like it, the way your family loves it.
Boil the gravy in a frying pan for several minutes. Then I pour it into a cauldron with cutlets, add peppercorns and bay leaf. And I put it on fire.
From the moment it boils, reduce the heat and cook the cutlets over low heat for about 40 minutes. You look at the readiness of your cutlets, since I don’t fry them for a long time in a frying pan, only for a few minutes on each side, I simmer for as long as possible.
The cutlets turned out very beautiful inside, due to the inclusions of carrots, tender, juicy, soft, tasty. Here's a look at what the cutlets look like inside.
Our kids love these beef cutlets.
If you don’t want to bother with gravy, or you don’t like it, you can simply place raw onion rings on the bottom of the pan and place the cutlets on top. Then add a glass of water and simmer over low heat. It will also turn out very tasty. But we like it with gravy. She adds her own flair.
The recipe with photos is simple, so you can cook it too. Bon appetit.
Sour cream sauce and flavorful cutlets
These chicken cutlets with gravy go well with side dishes of cereals. This recipe is often called quick. For example, it doesn’t even have bread to soak. Breadcrumbs successfully fulfill its role.
To prepare quick minced chicken cutlets with gravy, you need to take:
- 600 grams of chicken fillet;
- one head of onion;
- three tablespoons of flour;
- two tablespoons of breadcrumbs;
- one egg;
- half a glass of sour cream;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- any spices.
The fillet and onion are minced together through a meat grinder. Add raw egg and breadcrumbs. Sprinkle with salt and spices. Form balls from minced meat. Each cutlet is dredged in flour. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the cutlets on all sides.
Transfer the cutlets to the pan. The sour cream is diluted with water, salt and pepper are added, and poured into the pan with the cutlets. Stir everything thoroughly and simmer covered for about ten minutes. Five minutes before the end of cooking, add garlic passed through a press.
How to cook delicious meatballs with tomato sauce
Tip: in order for the meatballs to come out fluffy and juicy, you need to fry them over very high heat, and bring them to readiness in a preheated oven or simmer under a lid, pouring broth or sauce.
Cooking time: 1 hour
Number of servings: 6
Energy value
- calorie content – 274.3 kcal;
- proteins – 12 g;
- fats – 21.4 g;
- carbohydrates – 8.5 g.
Ingredients
- pork – 250 g;
- beef – 250 g;
- loaf – 150 g;
- potatoes – 1 pc.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- garlic – 2-3 cloves;
- sour cream – 2 tbsp;
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
- flour – 10 g;
- water – 200 ml;
- vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Step-by-step preparation
- Fill the loaf with warm water and leave to soak for a short amount of time.
- We wash the meat, remove veins and bones, and pat dry with paper towels. Cut into pieces. Using a meat grinder, grind into minced meat along with onions, garlic, peeled potatoes, and bread. The addition of the last components is necessary for a better connection of the cutlet mass.
- Salt, season with spices (khmeli-suneli, thyme, basil). We definitely beat back. Raising it high above the board or bowl, we throw it back with force. We do this 15-25 times. You should get a homogeneous viscous consistency. This will allow you to get juicy, tender cutlets in the future.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the preparations over high heat until golden brown. Time on each side - 2-3 minutes. Reduce the burner temperature to minimum.
- Let's move on to the gravy. Mix tomato paste with sour cream, add warm boiled water. Gradually add flour to avoid lumps. Pour this mixture over the meatballs.
- Simmer covered for about 10-15 minutes. We make sure it doesn't burn all the time.
Serve our cutlets in gravy in a frying pan with your favorite mashed potatoes, sprinkled with finely chopped herbs. Offer pickled mushrooms and pickles for the dish - your family’s delight will know no bounds!
There are many different methods for preparing sauces for meat products. Read below one of them, which will probably take a place in your top ten favorites, and it will be very easy and simple to make.
Chicken cutlets with gravy: step-by-step recipe
In order to prepare a delicious dish in the oven, you need to take:
- 500 grams of minced meat;
- a couple of slices of white bread;
- one egg;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- 25 ml vegetable oil;
- 60 grams of tomato paste;
- two onions;
- spices to taste.
Peel both onions and chop into cubes. Some of it is transferred to the minced meat and mixed with it. The remainder is placed in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fried until the color changes.
The bread is lightly soaked in water and squeezed out. Add to the minced meat, break one egg, add salt and spices. Stir thoroughly.
Chicken cutlets with gravy are prepared in the oven, so it is preheated to two hundred degrees. The baking dish is greased with oil. Pieces are plucked from the minced meat and formed into balls. Place in a mold so that the cutlets touch each other.
Let the cutlets sit for about fifteen minutes until they brown slightly.
Add flour to the fried onions and mix. Add tomato paste. Pour a glass of hot water, wait for the sauce to boil, while stirring it. Remove the cutlets from the oven, pour in the sauce and cook for another fifteen minutes.
Filled cutlets: list of ingredients
The recipe for chicken cutlets with gravy in the oven is a little unusual. Each cutlet contains a surprise in the form of a piece of cheese that melts and becomes elastic.
To prepare the cutlets themselves, you need to take:
- 500 grams of minced meat;
- 200 ml milk;
- a couple of cloves of garlic;
- 150 grams of loaf, without crusts;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- small onion;
- 70 grams of hard cheese;
- any spices.
To create a delicious gravy you need to take:
- a tablespoon of flour;
- two tablespoons of tomato paste;
- five spoons of sour cream;
- 300 ml water;
- salt and spices.
You can also add a pinch of sugar for a more refined taste.
Cutlets with gravy: ingredients
For minced meat:
- eight hundred grams of mixed chicken and beef mince
- one medium sized onion
- three cloves of garlic
- tablespoon sour cream
- tablespoon semolina
- one egg
- half a teaspoon of salt
- ground black pepper - to taste
- breadcrumbs
For the gravy:
- nine hundred milliliters of water or broth
- three tablespoons of tomato paste
- three tablespoons of flour
- medium carrot
- half a teaspoon of salt
- paprika and black pepper - to taste
- two bay leaves
How to cook cutlets in the oven?
To begin with, the milk is heated, but not brought to a boil. Pour it over pieces of loaf. Leave it like this for ten minutes. The onion is grated or chopped using a blender. Place it on the bread and add the minced meat directly. Using a press, squeeze the garlic cloves directly into a bowl with the remaining ingredients, add salt and spices. Stir the minced meat with your hands for at least three minutes, you can even throw it at the bottom of the bowl. This will help the minced meat become more elastic.
The cheese is cut into cubes. They take some minced meat, form it into a flat cake, hide the cheese in the middle, and roll it into a cutlet.
Place parchment on a baking sheet and lay out the resulting cutlets. The oven is heated to 180 degrees.
They begin to prepare the gravy. To do this, put flour in a saucepan and fry it quickly, stirring. Add sour cream and tomato paste, add any spices. When the gravy boils, turn it off. Pour the resulting sauce into the cutlets and place the pan in the oven for forty minutes. The sauce becomes thick during cooking.
