How to cook nest cutlets in the oven

Dish ingredients

For the cutlets we will need the following components:

• minced pork - 700 grams;
• minced beef - 200 grams;
• white loaf - 200 g;
• onion - 1 piece;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• mozzarella cheese - 150 grams;
• fresh tomato - 2 pieces;
• fresh milk - 1.5 cups;
• cream or mayonnaise - 100 grams;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• salt - to taste;
• pepper - to taste;
• nutmeg;
• khmeli-suneli seasoning - a pinch;
• greens (dill) for decoration.

Cutlets “Nests” with egg and cheese, baked in the oven

• Cooking time: 65 minutes.
• Number of servings: 8.
• Calorie content: 338.8 kcal.

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Product set:

• minced pork – 700 g;
• eggs – 4 pcs.;
• white bread – 100 g;
• onion – 2 small heads;
• sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.;
• cheese – 200 g;
• garlic – 2 cloves;
• spices, salt.

Advice! To prepare such cutlets, minced meat from any meat is suitable. Only the baking time will change.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Soak the bread crumb in water for 10 minutes. Squeeze to remove excess moisture and mash into a paste with a fork.
2. Add to the minced pork along with 1 egg, spices and salt. Mix the minced meat thoroughly, beating pieces on the bottom of the dish to saturate it with oxygen and make the composition homogeneous.
3. Place in the bottom of the refrigerator, covered, for a quarter of an hour.
4. There is time to prepare the filling. To do this, boil the remaining 3 eggs hard, cool, peel and chop into cubes.
5. Add grated cheese (leave a little for sprinkling) and sour cream. Add salt, pepper and stir.
6. Grease the sheet with vegetable oil. Roll the minced meat into balls, lay them out and make indentations with the bottom of a glass.
7. Place the egg filling into the cavity and sprinkle with cheese.
8. Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

The finished dish can be served separately or with any side dish.

Food preparation

The recipe for making nest cutlets is very simple. Even a novice housewife can handle it.

So, we take a not very fatty piece of pork meat, a piece of beef pulp and grind it into a fine mesh grinder. We peel two cloves of garlic, one large onion and grate it all on a coarse grater to make it juicier. Soak the loaf in milk. We wash and cut into pieces the tomatoes, hard cheese (in our case mozzarella, but this is not important) and grate on a coarse grater.

The next step in preparing the dish is mixing the minced meat. To do this, you need to combine meat, soaked bread, chopped onion in a blender, add salt, pepper to taste, seasoning and mix everything well. It is better to beat the eggs a little first: this way the cutlets will be fluffy. At the end, add a little cream and stir everything again. The minced meat needs to be beaten so that the cutlets do not fall apart.

How to make “Nests” stuffed with mushrooms and cheese

Treat your family and friends to delicious meatballs filled with fried oyster mushrooms, canned olives and suluguni. A tasty, bright dish will decorate any table and give a lot of positive emotions during the tasting.

Cooking time: 1 hour 5 minutes

Number of servings: 7

Energy value

• calorie content – ​​146 kcal:
• carbohydrates – 5.3 g;
• fats – 9.7 g;
• proteins – 12.8 g.

Ingredients

• turkey fillet – 0.28 kg;
• veal – 0.3 kg;
• oyster mushrooms – 140 g;
• onion – 1 pc.;
• potatoes – 170 g;
• iodized salt - to taste;
• bran bread – 60 g;
• suluguni – 80 g;
• vegetable fat – 55 ml;
• corn starch – 40 g;
• green olives (pitted) – 100 g;
• oregano – 5 g;
• white pepper – 6-7 g;
• Provençal herbs - a pinch.

Step-by-step preparation

1. Remove the bones from the veal and turkey, wash well and cut into cubes. Place the meat in a food processor and grind.

2. Pour cool water over the bread and let it stand for 3-4 minutes. Then squeeze and combine with minced meat.
3. Salt the cutlet base, season with spices, add starch. Then stir vigorously with a tablespoon. To make the minced meat more flexible, it is recommended to add 50 g of boiling water.
4. Make small cakes from the meat mass, at least 2.5 cm thick. Then press them down a little in the center and raise the edges of the product so that you get a shallow basket.
5. Remove the skin from the onion, rinse it under the tap with water and chop it very finely. Remove the skin from the carrots, wash them, and grate them on a medium grater.
6. Place the onions and carrots in a frying pan and fry in oil for five minutes.

7. Wash the oyster mushrooms, cut into small slices, and add to the sautéed vegetables. Simmer the products together for 6-7 minutes until the moisture has completely evaporated.

8. Cut the suluguni into thin strips 5 cm long. Open the jar of olives and drain all the liquid from it.
9. Pour vegetable fat into a saucepan, set on fire and heat well.
10. Fill the meat products with mushroom filling, add 3-4 olives and cover with a net of sliced ​​cheese. Carefully place the meatballs on the grill surface and cook in a sealed container over moderate heat for thirty-five minutes.

Tip: frozen forest mushrooms (boletus, chanterelles, aspen boletuses, honey mushrooms) are good for filling. They need to be allowed to thaw, then finely chopped and fried with vegetables in a small amount of fat.

Distribute the meat delicacy on a tray, decorate with bell pepper rings, parsley sprigs and place on the table. It is advisable to offer it with freshly baked bread, tomato ketchup or tkemali. Help yourself to your health!

Cutlets “Nests” are a wonderful dish that can become a full meal or serve as a hot appetizer during a festive feast. And thanks to our recipes, even an inexperienced cook can handle it quickly and easily. Looking at the exquisite, elegant meatballs, none of the guests will guess that you spent only an hour of free time on their preparation!

Placing cutlets on a baking sheet

To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, first wet your hands in water or vegetable oil. Whatever is more convenient for you. Both options will do. We begin to form nest cutlets. Divide the minced meat into equal parts. This makes eighteen even pieces. The picture shows only part of the cutlets. If you take a larger baking sheet, everything will fit. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. It is better to cover a metal one with baking paper (parchment). Place the cutlets tightly next to each other on a baking sheet. They will become smaller as they bake, but if packed more tightly they will be juicy. The cutlets should not be small. We make a hole in them to put the tomatoes there. The products got their name cutlets-nests because they really look very much like a bird’s nest.

In our case, nest cutlets with a spicy filling. Place tomatoes mixed with cream inside the cutlets, add a little salt and pepper on top. Sprinkle generously with grated mozzarella on top of the tomatoes. A little ground nutmeg on top of grated cheese will give the cutlets a piquant flavor.

The cutlets are ready for baking.

How to cook “Cutlets “Nests””

First you need to prepare the minced meat. To do this, mix the minced meat, one onion twisted through a meat grinder, an egg, salt and pepper. Mix well, then form large cutlets from the resulting minced meat.

Heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the cutlets on one side for 1-2 minutes over high heat. We want one side of the cutlets to be covered with a crust, but the cutlets themselves remain raw inside.

No need to turn over. Fry on one side only.

Place the cutlets, fried on one side, on a greased baking sheet. Crust side down. Using your hands, make indentations in the center of the cutlets, forming “nests.”

From the specified amount of ingredients you get a whole baking sheet of beautiful nests. At the same time, fry finely chopped mushrooms and the second onion until soft.

Place fried mushrooms in the dimples. Lightly grease the top with mayonnaise (optional) and sprinkle with cheese.

Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 190 degrees, and bake for approximately 35 minutes until fully cooked. Serve hot. Bon appetit!

Let's bake

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the nest cutlets in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes at 180°C. Baking time depends on the oven. It is necessary for a browned crust to appear. How delicious the nest cutlets look in the photo! But in reality they are very tasty.

Any side dish will suit the nest cutlets. If you prepare mashed potatoes or some kind of porridge, you can use gravy from the prepared products. But since this is a high-calorie product, it is better to cook asparagus or spinach as a side dish. They are also suitable for dinner with a light salad or stewed vegetables.

Made from minced chicken with mushroom sauce

• Cooking time: 40 minutes.
• Number of servings: 7.
• Calorie content: 116.8 kcal.

Photo: youtube.com
Product set:

• minced chicken – 500 g;
• champignons – 300 g;
• tomatoes - 2 medium-sized fruits:
• onion – 1 head;
• cheese – 50 g;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• large bell pepper – 1 pc.;
• mayonnaise – 5 tsp;
• spices.

Advice! For a low-calorie dish, you should prepare the minced meat yourself from chicken breast, replacing the mayonnaise with sour cream.

Cooking instructions:

1. Separate the white from the egg and beat thoroughly with a whisk until thick.
2. Gently combine with salted minced chicken and spices.
3. First place bell pepper rings on a greased baking sheet. Place a bun of meat in each and make a hole with your hands or the bottom of a glass.
4. Wash the mushrooms, chop and sauté together with the chopped onion in a small amount of oil for about 7 minutes. Salt and add spices
5. Place on meat preparations, grease with mayonnaise, make a lid from a tomato slice and sprinkle with grated cheese.
6. Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes at 180 degrees.

The appearance of a golden brown crust will indicate the dish is ready. Swallow's Nest cutlets look great on the holiday table.

Options

Of course, you can make nest cutlets not only from pork or beef. If you use minced chicken or turkey as a basis, the cutlets will be dietary. You can also experiment and make them from rabbit. It is very healthy for children to eat fish, but getting them to eat it is very difficult. Prepare fish cutlets for them using the same principle. Don’t be afraid to experiment, try making your own changes to the nest cutlet recipe. For the filling, you can also use fried onions and mushrooms instead of tomatoes. And this will be a new dish.