Cutlets at home - 5 delicious recipes with photos step by step

A simple option for making homemade cutlets

Ingredients:

• Minced meat ─ 600 g.
• Bow ─ 1 pc.
• Chicken egg ─ 1 pc.
• Milk ─ 200 ml.
• White bread ─ several pieces.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Vegetable oil ─ for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Separate the husk from the onion and chop it to a puree state, scroll through a meat grinder or grind on a fine grater. When rubbing onions, you need to moisten your hands and a vegetable in cold water ─ this method will help get rid of tears.
2. Pour milk over the bread and leave the mixture for 10 minutes. It is imperative to add bread to the cutlets, then they will be soft and airy, so that individual parts do not remain dense, you can pass the crumb through a meat grinder.
3. Combine minced meat in a large bowl, add onion gruel and bread squeezed from milk. Knead the mass until a homogeneous composition is obtained and add spices, add the egg.
4. Re-mix all the minced meat, beat it well so that the cutlets are as juicy and soft as possible. During the beating process, excess moisture will be removed from the mass, which will simplify the frying process.
5. From the resulting mass, you need to form small cutlets. You can additionally bread them in flour or breadcrumbs, or fry them without breading.
6. Pour enough vegetable or olive oil into the pan. Fry the cutlets on one side and then turn over to the other. You need to fry the meat dish until golden brown.

Homemade cutlets are ready. This is the easiest way to prepare a dish. They can be served with any side dish. When serving, it is worth decorating them with herbs.

Kiev cutlets at home

Chicken Kiev is a chicken fillet, inside of which is a filling of chilled butter and herbs. Hard cheese is often added to the filling. It gives more tenderness and aroma to the dish. In the classic version of cooking, cutlets must be rolled in double breading, and then fried in vegetable oil. An important point in cooking is the correct heating of the vegetable oil, if it is overheated, the cutlet will burn on the outside, but remain moist on the inside.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast ─ 2 pcs.
• Butter ─ 200 gr.
• Chopped greens ─2 tbsp
• Chicken egg ─ 3 pcs.
• Bread crumbs ─ 5 tbsp.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Vegetable oil ─ for deep-frying.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the chicken breast in half to make 4 pieces. You can get four cutlets from them.
2. It is necessary to cut off a piece that always flakes off from the bulk. Cut the fillet so that it opens and a deep layer is obtained. To do this, you need to carefully make an incision with a knife, moving from the thick part of the breast, and then open the fillet.
3. It is important to wipe off excess moisture from the chicken breast with a paper towel.
4. The breast is covered with cooking film and gently beat off so as not to damage or break through the meat. After beating, spices are added, namely salt and pepper. Send the meat to the refrigerator.
5. Cut pieces also need to be beaten off and placed in the freezer.
6. Mix chopped dill with butter, transfer the mass to cling film, roll up and send to the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
7. Drive chicken eggs into a separate plate, add breadcrumbs to the other.
8. Cut the cooled butter into 4 parts.
9. Put the main mass of the beaten fillet on the cutting surface, put a piece of butter closer to the wide part, cover with the beaten off small part and press the butter firmly on top and on the sides.
10. They begin to roll up the Kiev cutlet from the wide part to the narrow one, trying to press it tightly to get rid of the air.
11. First, the cutlet is dipped in a mixture of flour, then in an egg mass, and then rolled in breadcrumbs. After the cutlet is again dipped in the egg mixture and rolled in breadcrumbs. This technique is called double batter.
12. The cutlets are placed in the freezer until the oil is completely warmed up.
13. Chicken Kiev should be fried in a deep saucepan after the vegetable fat is fully heated.
14. Cutlets are dipped one by one in boiling oil, fried on 2 sides until golden brown, but not brown. Small cutlets need to be fried for 6 minutes on each side, if the breast is dense, frying lasts up to 15 minutes.
15. You can check the quality of frying cutlets with a knife. Chicken fillet, need to be slightly cut along the surface. If it bleeds, continue cooking in the microwave or oven.

The dish is served directly hot, because if a lot of preparations are prepared, they should be frozen and cooked immediately before eating.

Belarusian cutlets

The method of cooking cutlets in Belarusian involves the use of minced meat in equal proportions with potatoes. The use of root vegetables allows you to reduce the cost of the cooking process and create simple and quick cutlets.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes ─ 500 gr.
• Minced meat ─ 500 gr.
• Onions ─ 1 pc.
• Chicken egg ─ 1 pc.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper ─ to taste.
• Crackers or flour ─ for breading.
• Vegetable oil ─ for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the onions and cut into small cubes. Fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown. It should become transparent.
2. Peel potato tubers, boil in slightly salted water until cooked. Cool, grate or pass through a meat grinder.
3. Combine minced meat with fried onions, mashed potatoes, knead the mass thoroughly, add chicken egg, pepper and salt.
4. The mass must be thoroughly mixed, beat off until a homogeneous consistency is formed.
5. Form small cutlets from the resulting mixture, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs, depending on personal preference.
6. Fry the cutlets in heated vegetable oil on both sides until cooked. Make sure that the dish does not burn.

Cutlets are suitable for storage and heating. Bon Appetit.

Chopped chicken cutlets in French

Despite the fact that this cooking option involves frying cutlets in vegetable oil, compared to meat dishes, chicken cutlets always win. They are healthier and more nutritious. It is very easy to prepare them; you will need fresh chicken fillet and other ingredients.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet ─ 500 g.
• Egg ─ 2 pcs.
• Mayonnaise ─ 3 tablespoons
• Wheat flour ─ 2 tablespoons
• Onions ─ 1 pc.
• Salt to taste.
• A mixture of peppers ─ to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the onions and cut into medium-sized cubes.
2. Rinse the chicken fillet thoroughly under running water, dry with paper towels, cut into small cubes.
3. Combine the onion with the fillet, mix thoroughly, add salt and pepper.
4. Add chicken eggs to the meat mixture, mix thoroughly.
5. Add 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise. If the mixture is too runny, you can add a little potato starch.
6. Stir the finished mixture with a spoon; in terms of density, it should turn out like sour cream. Flour should be introduced according to the principle of how much the dough will take.
7. Put the cutlets in a frying pan with a spoon, fry on each side for 3-4 minutes.

Serve the finished dish hot with mashed potatoes. Exotic lovers can add a few drops of lemon juice to the minced meat to add freshness to the dish. Bon Appetit.