Albanian pork is an original meat dish, which is something between a chopped cutlet and chops. Nevertheless, it always turns out delicious, very economical and has a lot of variations. Here are the best of them.
Albanian Pork - General Cooking Principles
• Pork. Used pulp, preferably without fat and pieces of fat. The meat is cut into small cubes, but it can also be thin straws.
• Bow. Used onion heads. Onions are always cut smaller than meat. In some recipes, it is ground to a slurry, which is also possible.
• Eggs. Always added, bind all the ingredients. 2-3 pieces of meat are used per 500 g.
• Flour, starch. Make the mass thicker, also serve as binding components. One thing may be added.
• Mayonnaise, sour cream, cream. Not always added. They improve the taste, make the mass look like dough, help to combine the ingredients.
• Butter. Used for frying. You can take any. Stuffing is collected with a spoon, laid out in preheated fat, is prepared like a chops or fritters.
Albanian pork with onions and eggs
The classic Albanian pork recipe, which allows you to cook a lot of juicy and flavorful chops from a small amount of meat.
Ingredients
• 400 g pork;
• 3 bulbs;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 l. sour cream;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• butter, salt and pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut the pork into small cubes, transfer the pieces of meat to the bowl.
2. Peel the onions, chop them a little smaller than meat. It is advisable to make thin slices so that they are fried and crunched. Shifts to the meat.
3. Now add eggs, starch, spices and sour cream. Stir. Leave for an hour to marinate pork.
4. We evaluate the consistency. If sour cream or onion is too juicy, add flour. It should make a kind of meat dough.
5. Pour an oil layer of about 4 mm into the pan, put it on the stove. 6. Spoon spread pancakes from the meat mixture, level the layer so that they are the same thickness everywhere. Fry.
7. After pork is browned on one side, turn it over. Covering the pan, bring the meat to readiness for a few minutes.
8. Remove from the pan, prepare the next batch.
Albanian pork with mushrooms
For this meat in Albanian need fresh champignons. Or use any other mushrooms to your taste, but the forest will need to boil.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of pork;
• 2 spoons of mayonnaise;
• 1 onion;
• 250 g of mushrooms (champignons);
• butter;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• black pepper, paprika, seasonings for meat;
• salt to taste.
Cooking
1. Cut the mushrooms in small pieces. Put it in the pan with a spoon of butter. First, we boil water from champignons, then fry slightly. Cooling down.
2. Cut the meat into cubes. Chop even smaller one large onion. If the heads are small, then take two.
3. We combine with warm, but not hot mushrooms.
4. Next, add mayonnaise and spices, stir.
5. Beat eggs with a fork, also send to the meat with mushrooms and fall asleep flour. You can take some of the starch.
6. Give the minced meat with mushrooms to stand a little, marinate.
7. Heat the oil in a skillet.
8. Spoon recruit the cooked mass, prepare pancakes, chops, as was done in the previous recipe.
Albanian pork with cheese and garlic
For the preparation of fragrant meat in Albanian, you can use absolutely any cheese, but better than hard. Another feature of the recipe - cutting meat strips.
Ingredients
• 300 g pork;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 70 grams of cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• butter;
• 2 spoons of mayonnaise;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into thin strips. Well, if the pork is slightly frozen or just chilled, it will be easier to do.
2. We rub cheese roughly, we add to meat.
3. Chop the onion very finely, you can smash it with a blender, send it to the rest of the ingredients.
4. Peel, chop the garlic and also shift to the meat. Add salt, pepper if desired. Tasty and beautiful is obtained pork with turmeric, paprika. Stir the dry mixture. 5. Mix eggs with two spoons of mayonnaise, shake, add to pork and stir.
6. At the very end add flour. Stir.
7. Put the meat for 2-3 hours to marinate in the fridge, then fry the chops, as was done in the recipes above.
Albanian Pork with Eggplant
Recipe for meat in Albanian, which is prepared with eggplant and onions. Dish economical, but very tasty and juicy. Garlic is desirable not to exclude, it turns out much tastier.
Ingredients
• 1 eggplant;
• 250 g pork;
• 1 onion;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• 3 sprigs of dill;
• oil and spices;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
1. We start with eggplant. Cut into cubes or fine straw and sprinkle with salt. Stir. Leave for a quarter of an hour to get rid of bitterness.
2. During this time, you can chop the onion, chop the garlic and cut the pork into small strips. If you cut the eggplants into cubes, then the meat also means that.
3. Put spices in the meat, add sour cream, pour in the flour and stir.
4. At the end break the eggs, shake it all together. Leave on the table so that the mixture is slightly marinated.
5. Rinse the eggplants. Gently squeeze so as not to damage the pieces.
6. Heat up a couple of spoons of butter, put eggplants and fry for two minutes over high heat, no need to keep for a long time.
7. Now you need to cool the eggplant, so that it does not seal the egg and do not thin the dough. Then we combine everything, mix well.
8. If you have time, then let the mixture still stand. If not, proceed to frying. Spread chops of arbitrary size with a spoon on the pan and fry on both sides until cooked.
Albanian pork in the oven
The recipe for low-fat pork dishes, which is cooked in the oven and does not require as much butter. Many people like this cooking option, because they do not need to stand at the stove.
Ingredients
• 600 g pork;
• 2 onions;
• 1 egg;
• 120 g of flour;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Pork for this recipe can be cut into cubes or straws, throw in a bowl. 2. Onions are cleaned, cut into several parts and mash with a blender. It should make gruel. You can immediately grind the peeled garlic cloves.
3. Shift the onion to the meat, stir.
4. Now add all the other ingredients on the recipe. Flour goes more, because with onions the mass will be thinner. Spices put at its discretion, carefully stir everything.
5. Put a silicone mat on a baking sheet or spread a sheet of parchment. Lubricate with a few drops of vegetable oil.
6. Spread the meat in the form of chops with a spoon. It is not necessary to make them thin, you can make thick patties. Only cooking time will increase.
7. We put in a heated oven to 190 degrees. Bake for half an hour. We look at readiness. If necessary, we increase the time.
Albanian pork in the oven with a secret
A variant of appetizing pork in Albanian, and even stuffed! In fact, you just need one fresh tomato. Similarly, it will be possible to take a piece of cheese or ham, bacon, who likes what kind of filling. But with tomato, the meat is even juicier and tastier.
Ingredients
• 400 g pork;
• one onion;
• one egg;
• a tomato;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• spoon of sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat, sprinkle with spices, add the egg and a spoonful of sour cream. Stir, let the pork marinate.
2. Clean the onion, twist or rub. It should make gruel. If there are pieces, they can burn in the oven. Stir together with the meat.
3. Cut the washed tomato in circles according to the number of chops. You can put another stuffing inside or combine a tomato with a piece of cheese. But the slice should be thin.
4. Lubricate the silicone pad or paper, put a thin layer of meat, then a tomato or other stuffing and cover it with the meat mixture from above.
5. We form all the chops in this way.
6. Send the baking tray to the oven, bake for 30-35 minutes at 200 degrees. You can sprinkle the top with oil to make the crust more beautiful.
Albanian Pork with Pickled Onions
Spicy pork recipe for which pickled onions. This dish turns out to be interesting in taste, many people like it more. Ingredients
• 2 bulbs;
• 0.4 kg pork;
• 2 spoons of mayonnaise;
• spices;
• 3 eggs;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• vinegar;
• 1.5 tablespoons of starch.
Cooking
1. Onion cut into cubes, throw in a bowl.
2. Connect 80 ml of water, 50 ml of table vinegar, 1 tsp. sugar and mix well. Fill the bow, leave for half an hour.
3. During this time, you can marinate the meat. We cut it with usual pieces (cubes or straws), add mayonnaise, eggs, flour with starch. But you can take one thing.
4. Pepper and salt mince, carefully stir and set aside, even if marinated a little.
5. Onions we merge in a colander. Leave for a few minutes, let the water drain well. Then shake the last drops and pour in to the meat.
6. It remains only to mix everything well and you can start cooking! Fry the usual way in the oil in a pan, as was done in the recipes above.
Albanian Pork - Tips and Tricks
• The meat will be beautiful and ruddy if the pork is “tinted” with turmeric, paprika or other spices.
• If the stuffing turned out to be thick and does not spread over the pan, add another spoonful of sour cream (mayonnaise, milk), but in no case water.
• Albanian meat can be made relatively dietary if cooked from lean pork without fat in a dry pan with a non-stick coating.
