Grechanik - peculiar cutlets with buckwheat porridge inside. They can be cooked in a skillet, but it is more interesting to make a dish in the oven. To make it juicy and enjoy the taste, there are many different tricks. Here all the secrets of the Greek people are revealed and the best recipes are collected.
Grechanik with minced meat in the oven - general principles of cooking
For a dish you need boiled buckwheat. You can specially cook a little porridge or use the remnants of a side dish. It is only important that there is a crumbly croup, you should not use mashed potatoes and porridge mixed with sauces. Additionally, you need meat or chicken mince. We buy it or we twist it at home, the second option is much preferable. From homemade stuffing always turns out to be delicious, and the composition will not be in doubt.
What else they put in Greek:
· Egg
· Onions, garlic and other vegetables;
· Lard and other meat products;
· Sour cream, tomato.
In fact, out of all these ingredients, the cutlet mass is prepared. You can change the types of spices, quantity, add other components. Next, minced molded round or elongated products, baked. Often add all sorts of sauces and gravies, the composition of which can also change. Since twisted meat and boiled cereals are used, cooking time in the oven rarely takes more than 45 minutes at 180 degrees.
Simple Greekies with minced meat in the oven
The simplest Greek recipe in the oven. Minced meat for a dish is used of any kind, for example, pork with beef. Egg is used raw, spices can be taken of any kind.
Ingredients
· 700 g of minced meat;
· 120 grams of buckwheat;
· 100 g onions;
· Egg
· 10 g of garlic;
· 4 spoons of flour;
· A couple of tablespoons of butter;
· Salt and other spices.
Method of preparation
1. It is necessary to cook buckwheat. To do this, add to it two parts of water, that is, approximately 240 grams. Sent to the stove, throw a pinch of salt. Be sure to cover the saucepan. If you cook porridge without a lid, then you need much more liquid. 2. Grind onion, garlic and meat if not minced. Mix with boiled buckwheat and salt. Add the egg, knead. Mass, you can add a little parsley or other greens to patties.
3. Sculpt Greek. We make fairly large burgers approximately 90-100 grams. Smooth and roll in flour.
4. Lubricate the form, put the balls. You can have close and even close to each other. We put in the oven, cook a little more than half an hour, the temperature is 180-200 degrees.
Grechanik with minced meat and sour cream in the oven
Another simplest Greek recipe with minced meat in the oven, but with sour cream sauce. Meat is used of any kind, below is the number of boiled cereals. If there is no cereal, then take about 80 grams of buckwheat.
Ingredients
· 500 grams of minced meat;
· 200 grams of buckwheat;
· Egg
· Onion;
· 30 ml of soy sauce;
· 250 g sour cream;
· 3 cloves of garlic;
· 250 g of water.
Method of preparation
1. Mix with minced meat with boiled buckwheat, add to them finely chopped onion and one large egg, salt and pepper, sculpt balls of approximately the same diameter of 80-00 grams. Put them in the form and bake for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.
2. Making the fill. Just dilute sour cream with water, add soy sauce and add chopped garlic cloves. Stir thoroughly and be sure to heat up, pouring grechaniki with cold sauce is undesirable.
3. We take out the form. Pour the sauce over the Greek and immediately cover with foil. Now you can remove the temperature to 150 degrees. Return the dish and cook for another 20 minutes, let the buckwheat patties soak in soft gravy.
Mushroom Greek with minced meat in the oven
For such a dish you need quite a few mushrooms, but the Greeks will be pleased with a completely different aroma and unusual taste. Another recipe for the oven with the addition of minced meat. Tomato juice will be used for the gravy, it needs a little, but if you wish, you can simply dilute ketchup or pasta with water.
Ingredients
· 150 g of mushrooms;
· 100 g onions;
· 400 g minced meat;
· 2 eggs;
· 200 g of boiled buckwheat; · Butter and flour;
· 450 ml of tomato juice.
Method of preparation
1. Finely chopped mushrooms should be stewed silently in a skillet. You can add onions to them. Be sure to pour a couple of spoons of oil. As soon as the mushrooms begin to roast, reduce the heat. We are waiting for a moment and cool.
2. Mix boiled buckwheat with minced meat and cooked mushrooms. Add two eggs so that the Greeks get stronger. Be sure to salt, stir.
3. Sculpt balls from the prepared mass, sprinkle with flour and send into the mold. Bake until light crust.
4. Fill with salted juice (diluted paste) and let it stew until ready. You can cover or leave in this form. In the first variant, the Greek inhabitants will be more tender, the juice will not boil away.
Greek liver with minced meat in the oven
Buckwheat is ideally combined not only with minced meat, but also with liver. In this embodiment, all these ingredients are combined. Liver can be taken beef, chicken or other species. When using pork by-product, it is advisable to soak it first in milk.
Ingredients
· 1,5 glasses of boiled buckwheat;
· 250 g of liver;
· 250 grams of minced meat;
· Small onion;
· one egg;
· 2 spoons of semolina;
· 1.5 cups sour cream.
Method of preparation
1. To twist the washed up and if necessary soaked liver together with one head of onions through the meat grinder. Add the semolina, stir, leave to swell.
2. If the stuffing is not ready, then grind the meat, poultry. Also boil buckwheat, if there is no cereal. Be sure to cool.
3. Mix all the ingredients, add the egg. Do not forget to add the cutlet mass with buckwheat, then sculpt the balls. They should not spread much. But if the semolina does not take all the moisture, then you can fill up a little flour or crackers.
4. Put the Greek with the liver in the oven, cook for about twenty minutes. Then take out and richly grease sour cream. Cook another quarter of an hour. If desired, this dish can be sprinkled with grated cheese. A delicious crust will not spoil it.
Grechanik with minced meat and pepper in the oven
Another option juicy Greek from the oven with minced meat and vegetables. In this embodiment, used bell pepper. You can take a frozen vegetable, if there are no fresh pods. Sometimes it is even sliced, which further simplifies the process of cooking.
Ingredients
· 2/3 cup buckwheat;
· 500 g of any minced meat;
· 150 g onions;
· 150 g of bell pepper;
· 1 egg;
· 1 carrot;
· 30 g of oil;
· 50 g of tomato paste;
· 200 g sour cream;
· 1.5 tablespoons of flour.
Method of preparation
1. Approximately 150 grams of onion chop finely and add to the twisted meat. The second part will be used to make the sauce.
2. Wash the cereal, boil until done. Water add exactly twice as much. Do not forget to salt buckwheat.
3. Free the Bulgarian pepper from the seeds and cut them into pieces, pour them into a bowl. Add to it cooked porridge, then minced meat and egg, stir and salt. If the egg got a small size, it is better to take two pieces.
4. We sculpt the Greekans, send them to be baked.
5. Immediately proceed to the sauce. Fry the remaining onion in butter and add a carrot to it. As soon as they are lightly browned, pour out the flour, stir. In the paste, add a few spoons of water, lay out next. Give this mass warm up, pour a glass of boiling water. Salt sauce, pepper, cook until boiling.
6. Remove the griddle from the stove, add sour cream, stir.
7. By this time, the Greeks should already be slightly browned. Pour them over with a cooked red sauce with sour cream, cover with foil. Sometimes the forms are covers, you can use them. Cooking dish is about the same amount of time.
Grechaniki with minced meat and cabbage in the oven
This version of the Greek inhabitants is somewhat reminiscent of lazy cabbage rolls, since it uses white cabbage. To extinguish the dish will need any broth, as well as a piece of foil.
Ingredients
· 200 g of boiled buckwheat;
· 200 g of white cabbage;
· 500 grams of minced meat;
· 2 eggs;
· 300 ml of meat broth; · Garlic and spices.
Method of preparation
1. Put the stewed buckwheat, we need ready porridge. Also immediately boil the kettle. We chop the specified amount of cabbage into small cubes. Fill with boiling water. Give the vegetable to limp for ten minutes, then send it to a colander.
2. Grind garlic, you can add it more or less at its discretion. Mix with minced meat and cooked, measured buckwheat. Add to them scalded white cabbage, and then eggs. Luke is not here, but you can add as desired. Mix thoroughly and salt.
3. We sculpt ordinary Greekans, we spread them in high form close to each other. We put baked. Waiting for the appearance of a light crust, cook at 200 degrees.
4. Broth boil. You can dilute the cube or other concentrate.
5. We take out the Greek, pour hot broth and cover. Now remove the temperature to about 160, you need to put out the dish in the broth for tenderness and bring to final readiness.
Grechanik with minced meat in the oven - tips and tricks
· The buckwheat itself is a little dry, so for meatballs made from it it is better to use fatty mince or add a piece of bacon, more juicy vegetables.
· It is possible to breach the Greek inhabitants not only in flour or in breadcrumbs. Bran, ground porridge, and semolina are also excellent for this purpose.
· We do not forget that most of the gravy is absorbed into the Greek inhabitants, so you do not need to salt the sauce too much or add a lot of strong spices to it.
· Grechanik can be cooked in cream or use bechamel milk sauce for them. Also, any of the above dishes can be sprinkled with cheese.
