Dietary nutrition is widely understood as a serious restriction in the use of dishes.
Diet is usually associated either with medical indications, or with the desire of the person himself to rid his diet of excess fats, carbohydrates, useless and even harmful substances.
With all this, the diet menu dishes can be very tasty and varied.
An example of such recipes can serve as a diet burgers in the oven from different ingredients.
General principles of cooking diet cutlets in the oven
To this dish was not only dietary, but also very tasty, looked good, you must follow certain rules.
1. Diet patties in the oven are made from lean meat - veal, chicken, rabbit, turkey, and low-fat fish. Pike, zander, tilapia, cod, pollock, pink salmon and others will be suitable as the last.
2. Before cooking, meat or fish fillets should be rotated two times through a meat grinder, and the mincemeat additives — onions, bread, and other ingredients offered by the recipe — should also be scrolled a second time.
3. The main problem in making burgers in the oven is to make them juicy. This is especially difficult with dietary meals, because there is a minimum of fat. To do this, use several techniques:
- Juicy adds onions, so put it no pity, at the rate of 1: 5 - 1: 3 in relation to meat, fish
- breadcrumbs retain moisture in themselves, and therefore, in meatballs, not allowing it to evaporate; soak bread well not in water, but in milk, then the chops will be especially tender
- the stuffing should be perfectly mixed
- when kneading, you can add a few spoons of cold water or milk
- before sending ready-made cutlets to the oven, it would be nice to slightly smear it with vegetable oil
- during baking, cover the pan with foil
- cutlets in the oven can not be overdone. 4. Serve diet patties with buckwheat, rice, fresh vegetables.
Recipes are offered at the rate of 500 g of meat or fish, this is for 2 regular servings. If you need more meatballs, simply increase the amount of raw foods.
Dietary chicken cutlets in the oven
Sticking to a diet does not mean completely abandoning meat. Traditionally allowed meat for dietary food is chicken, in particular, chicken fillet. It is rich in protein and at the same time has a rather low calorie content. The chicken fillet itself is convenient to prepare.
Ingredients
500 g chicken fillet
Large onion
100 grams of white bread without a crust
1 egg
100 ml of milk
Salt
Black pepper.
Method of preparation
Soak bread in milk for ten minutes.
Grind chicken fillet in a meat grinder with onion and breadcrumbs.
In the future mince add milk remaining from soaking bread, as well as salt and pepper to taste.
Form a few round or oval cutlets.
Put the chicken cutlets on a greased baking sheet and send in the oven over medium heat.
After 20 minutes, you can check the readiness by pushing the cutlet with a fork. From it should be allocated a clear light juice - a sign of readiness of the dish.
Serve best with a juicy side dish, for example, with fresh vegetables.
Veal and oat-flakes - the basis of diet cutlets in the oven
Groats oatmeal, or oatmeal, known to all, has a mass of useful properties. It improves digestion, is full of vitamins and at the same time contains a minimum of calories. That is why oatmeal is often used not only as cereal for porridge, but also as an additive for other dishes. Combined with tender and lean veal, they provide wonderful mincemeat for dietetic cutlets in the oven.
Ingredients
200 g low-fat veal
Half a cup of dry flakes rolled oats
Egg
Large onion
Salt
Pepper.
Method of preparation
Oatmeal pour the same amount of warm water and let stand. Meat mince, there we send onions.
Mix the meat with oatmeal, salt and pepper, add the egg.
Stir very carefully, form the patties.
Place on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes.
Dietary cutlets in turkey meat
Turkey is considered one of the most useful types of meat for baby and diet food. Minimum fat, easy digestibility, and yet it is not an allergen. For juiciness in this recipe, turkey mixes with zucchini. Cutlets in the oven are not just dietary, but very tender and tasty.
Ingredients
500 g turkey fillet
Small young squash, about 200-300 g
Egg
Soy sauce
Dill greens
Black pepper
Salt.
Method of preparation
Grate zucchini on a medium or small grater.
Put in a colander and let drain excess juice.
Grind meat in a meat grinder.
Mix meat with zucchini, add egg, soy sauce, pepper.
Salt with care, considering that soy sauce is salty.
Knead the minced meat well, make cutlets and lay in a greased baking sheet.
Bake for about 30 minutes in the oven over medium heat.
Serve this juicy delicate dish with a side dish of rice and vegetables.
Diets cutlets in the oven with a tender pouring
You can cook diet burgers not just on the baking sheet, but by filling them with a delicious milk sauce. So that the liquid does not evaporate too much, you can cover the form with foil at the beginning of baking. For the dietary effect, it is better to take milk and sour cream with low fat content.
Ingredients
500 g of dietary meat - chicken, turkey, veal, beef
Large onion
300 grams of white cabbage or zucchini
A glass of milk
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon flour
Salt
Spices optional.
Method of preparation
Meat mince along with onions.
In the same place, grind zucchini or cabbage, don't let such ingredients bother you, they will add juiciness to cutlets, and their own taste will not be noticeable. Mix vegetables with meat, salt, knead well.
Form cutlets and put on a baking sheet.
Send to oven at medium temperature for 20 minutes.
While the burgers are baked, grind the flour with a spoon or two of milk, put sour cream, salt, pour out the rest of the milk, mix well.
Pour the chops with milk mixture, sprinkled with spices.
Next you need to hold the baking sheet in the oven for another 10 minutes so that the sauce warms up well and soaks the burgers.
This dish will fit a delicate soft side dish, for example, mashed vegetables of any kind.
Dietary chicken patties in the oven
For diet cutlets, you can use not only minced meat in the full sense of the word, that is, meat passed through a meat grinder. Chopped with a knife, it can be the basis of a wonderful dish of pleasant taste and original consistency.
Ingredients
500 g chicken fillet
1-2 bulbs optional
Garlic clove
2-3 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
Salt
Dill herbs or other herbs.
Method of preparation
Chicken fillet, it is advisable to take a bit frostbitten, so it is easier to grind.
Cut the meat into small cubes with a knife.
Also, as small as possible, chop up the onions. The bigger it is, the juicier the dish will be.
Finely chop the garlic and then the greens.
Mix all ingredients, salt.
You should get quite a liquid mass consistency sparse sour cream. However, it should not spread too much.
Turn on the oven.
Put the mass on the greased baking sheet with a spoon, leaving the distance between the cutlets in case of easy spreading.
Put in the oven, where the minced meatballs should immediately grab under the influence of temperature.
Cook until rosy - 15-20 minutes.
Serve with vegetables, herbs, sour cream or other sauces.
Dietary fish cutlets in the oven
For dietary food is great fish. It is rich in beneficial trace elements, protein, which is easily digested. Useful fatty acids are also one of the advantages of fish, and they are not an obstacle to dietary nutrition. However, if the goal is to lose weight, it is better to choose more lean river and sea fish as the basis for such a dish. Ingredients
500 g low-fat fish fillets - pike, pollock, tilapia, pike perch, bream, pink salmon, cod
Large onion
100 g white bread
Half a cup of milk
Parsley, dill
Salt
Black pepper.
Method of preparation
Thawed fish fillets until softened, cut into pieces, chop with a meat grinder or blender.
Soaked bread in milk thoroughly knead.
Chop the bulbs, chopped with a knife, blender or minced.
Mix all ingredients, add chopped greens, pepper and salt.
Wet hands to form a small round patties.
Put in a greased burgers and send in the oven over medium heat.
Cook for about 20 minutes.
Serve with rice, vegetables, spicy or milk sauce.
Dietary fish cakes in the oven with onion garnish
Fish patties themselves usually do not have a bright rich taste. All this is given to them by spices, as well as a properly chosen side dish. An unusual onion side dish will emphasize the softness and tenderness of fish cutlets, and the use of oatmeal will give them texture and additional benefits.
Ingredients
500 g fish fillets
500 g onions
50 g cereal oat-flakes - not instant cereal, but ordinary
1 egg
Half a cup of milk
Salt
Black pepper
Spices for fish
Soy sauce
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
Thaw fish fillets and turn through a meat grinder.
Hercules pour milk, let stand for ten minutes, mix with meat.
Add egg and spices for fish, salt.
Knead the stuffing, form cutlets of the desired shape.
Put in a greased baking sheet and place in the oven over medium heat.
After 20-30 minutes, the cutlets will be ready.
While the fish patties are baked, make a side dish.
To do this, heat the oil in a frying pan. Chop onion thinly into half rings.
Fry in butter until light golden brown.
When the onions redden and get rid of excess liquid, pepper it and sprinkle with soy sauce. Stir well and turn off the heat. After a couple of minutes, put on a plate of chops.
Cook secrets and tricks of cooking diet cutlets in the oven
Each cook or housewife uses his own, gained over the years or received from senior secrets of skill. Due to this, the dishes are very tasty, beautiful and healthy. There are also secrets in cooking diet patties in the oven.
- Minced meat for cutlets should be very tender, so it is advisable to double it through a meat grinder. Before this, it is necessary to remove all the veins from meat or fish, to prevent the ingress of fish bones except for the smallest ones.
- Do not neglect the dishes, where zucchini, cabbage and even pumpkin are added to the mincemeat - this will not spoil the taste, but simply add tenderness and juiciness to the meatballs.
- Those who like a richer taste can add various aromatic herbs and spices in thyme mince in the oven - thyme, basil, oregano, allspice.
- After baking, cutlets should not be left in the oven for more than five minutes, otherwise they will dry out.
- Diet patties with a minimum of fat are tasty and cold. If you plan to use them cold, you need to transfer from a baking sheet into a container or dish, let cool completely and put in the refrigerator.
Bon appetit!
