Vermicelli casserole with minced meat is a tasty and simple dish that even a beginning hostess can cook.
Especially kids will like it, because almost all children love pasta.
Noodle and noodle casserole - basic cooking principles
For cooking casseroles use vermicelli from durum wheat. It keeps its shape perfectly and will not add extra calories to the dish. The noodles are dipped in boiling water and boiled, stirring for a couple of minutes, until half cooked. Then it is thrown back on a sieve and washed under running water.
Minced meat can be pork, beef, mixed or chicken. It all depends on how nutritious you want to get. You can buy it ready, but it is better to make it yourself, to be sure of the quality of the product.
In addition to the stuffing, they use vegetables to make the filling. Onions clean, wash, finely chop and fry in a little oil. Add the stuffing and continue to fry, breaking up lumps with a spatula. Stuffing salt, pepper, mix and cool.
In addition to the noodles and meat filling, it is necessary to prepare the fill. It can be based on milk, sour cream or cream. Dairy products are combined with eggs, seasoned with spices and thoroughly shaken with a whisk or mixer.
The casserole is formed in two ways. In the first, the noodles are combined with meat filling, mixed and laid out in a form, leveled and poured with sauce. In the second case, the vermicelli is divided in half. One half is laid out in a form, on it lay out the meat filling, which is covered with pasta.
The casserole is cooked for about half an hour at 200 ° C. To form a ruddy crust on the surface, the casserole is sprinkled with grated cheese and baked for another ten minutes.
Recipe 1. Vermicelli casserole with minced
Ingredients
spices;
cheese - 100 g;
pound of ground beef; black pepper;
bulb;
sunflower oil;
one and a half stack vermicelli;
three eggs;
sour cream - 350 g
Method of preparation
1. Put on a moderate fire a large pot of water. Dip the noodles in boiling water and cook for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly, until half cooked. Fold in a colander and rinse under running water.
2. Peel and rinse the onion. Put the finely chopped onion into the pan with the heated vegetable oil. Fry, stirring with a spatula, until golden. Add ground beef and fry, carefully kneading with a spatula, until the color changes. Then we cover with a lid and boil over low heat for about ten minutes. Salt, season with spices and mix. Set aside and cool.
3. In a separate bowl combine sour cream with half a cup of boiling water. Shake with a whisk and drive in eggs. Salt and season with spices. Thoroughly whisk until smooth.
4. We mix the noodles, boiled until half ready, with the minced meat and mix. We spread in the form. Fill all with egg-sour cream mixture and level. Sprinkle with grated cheese on top and send to the oven for half an hour. We bake at 200C. Serve, sliced and irrigated with sour cream.
Recipe 2. Vermicelli casserole with minced meat as in kindergarten
Ingredients
one chicken breast;
parsley;
small vermicelli - a glass;
milk - half a stack;
oil plums. - 30 g;
chicken egg - three pcs .;
tomato paste - 10 g
Method of preparation
1. Boil the noodles in plenty of water, pre-salting it lightly. Pasta recline in a colander and leave to glass all the liquid. We shift in a bowl, put the oil and mix.
2. Wash my chicken breast, put it in a saucepan with water and boil until cooked. Do not forget to shoot noise in time. Take out the meat, cool it and twist through the meat grinder.
3. Combine chicken mince with pasta and mix with clean hands. It is important! Ingredients need to mix it up with your hands. 4. Beat eggs into milk. Stir until homogeneity with a whisk. We spread the noodles into heat-resistant form, level them and fill them with egg-milk mixture. Sent for forty minutes in the oven. We bake at 180C.
5. In chicken broth, dilute tomato paste and boil the sauce in a saucepan until half the liquid has evaporated. Cut the baked casserole in portions and serve, watering with tomato sauce and sprinkling with chopped parsley.
Recipe 3. Vermicelli casserole with minced meat with green peas
Ingredients
a pack of small vermicelli;
sunflower oil;
ground beef - 250 g;
frozen green peas - 30 g;
bulb onions.
Method of preparation
1. Clean the bulb and chop with a sharp knife or using a blender. Heat the oil in the pan. We put in it finely chopped onion and minced meat. Fry, carefully kneading with a spatula, until all liquid is evaporated. Season with spices and salt. Add green peas, mix and simmer for a couple of minutes. We set aside to cool.
2. Bring water to a boil in a large saucepan. Pour vermicelli into it and boil, stirring for two minutes. We recline the pasta in a colander and rinse under running water. Leave that all liquid glass.
3. Level the meat filling in the pan. Top lay out vermicelli evenly. Heat oven to 275C. We put a frying pan in it and cook three minutes on the grill.
Recipe 4. Vermicelle casserole with minced meat and cheese sauce
Ingredients
small noodles - 300 g;
ground paprika;
minced chicken - 300 g;
Dutch cheese - 100 g;
processed cheese with aromatic herbs - 150 g;
broth - a glass;
tomato paste - 75 g;
flour - 50 g;
large onion bulb.
Method of preparation
1. In a large saucepan, bring water to a boil. We salt it and we lower small vermicelli. Cook, stirring, until half ready. We turn back the pasta in a colander and thoroughly rinse under running water. 2. Rinse the cleaned onion, finely crumb and pass to transparency in vegetable oil. Add the minced meat and continue to fry, kneading with a spatula, until the meat changes color. Put the tomato paste, season with ground paprika and pepper. Salt, stir, cover and cook for another couple of minutes.
3. Combine boiled vermicelli with meat filling and mix. Heat-resistant baking mold is greased and we put in it a mixture of noodles with minced meat. Leveling.
4. Pour a glass of broth into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Put the sliced melted cheese and stir until it melts. Dilute the flour in cold broth and add the mixture to the saucepan, stirring continuously. Cook until mixture thickens, and remove from heat.
5. Pour the noodles with cheese sauce and sprinkle with finely grated cheese. We bake at 200C for half an hour.
Recipe 5. Vermicelli casserole with minced meat and mushrooms
Ingredients
300 g small vermicelli;
3 eggs;
300 g of mushrooms;
stack milk;
large onion;
1/2 kg of minced chicken;
cheese - 300 g;
oil grows - 40 ml.
Method of preparation
1. Peel and wash onion. Crumble a vegetable. Mushrooms clean, wash, dry and cut into slices. In a red-hot skillet, add vegetable oil. Fry the onions with the mushrooms, stirring for ten minutes over medium heat.
2. Add the minced chicken to the pan and continue to fry, carefully kneading with a spatula, for a quarter of an hour. Pepper and salt. Stir and leave to cool.
3. Boil two and a half liters of water in a saucepan. Salt it. Put vermicelli in boiling water. Pour in a spoonful of vegetable oil and cook, stirring, until tender. Throw the vermicelli in a colander and cool.
4. Coarsely grate cheese. Place the noodles in a bowl, beat the eggs into it, pour in the milk, salt and add the cheese. Stir. Lubricate the heat resistant form with oil. Spread half the noodle mixture and smooth. On it lay out the stuffing of minced meat and mushrooms. Cover it with the second half of the noodles. Send to preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes at 200 ° C. Remove the baked pudding from the oven. Serve warm, cut into portions.
Recipe 6. Vermicelli casserole with minced meat and vegetables
Ingredients
large carrots;
cheese - 100 g;
six pods of sweet pepper;
two eggs;
three tomatoes;
Half a kilo of minced meat;
two glasses of fine vermicelli.
Method of preparation
1. Grease the deep heat-resistant form with oil. Peel the carrots. Wash the vegetable and finely rub. Put the chopped carrot on the bottom of the form.
2. Sweet pepper, free from the stem, carefully clean the seeds. Vegetable chop finely. Wash tomatoes, wipe and cut into small cubes. Vegetables divided into two parts. Spread half the tomatoes and pepper over the carrots.
3. Sprinkle the vegetables with small dry noodles. Top with remaining pepper and tomatoes. Sprinkle with small vermicelli again. Add minced meat with salt, season with spices and beat in eggs. Thoroughly knead. It should make a watery mass. Put the mince over the vermicelli evenly. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
4. Preheat oven to 170C. Put the form in it and bake 1 hour 40 minutes. Take out the form, cut the casserole in portions and serve with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Noodle mince casserole - tips and tricks
- For cooking, you can use not only small vermicelli, but other pasta as well.
- Boil the vermicelli no more than four minutes so that it does not turn into a sticky mass.
- Be sure to rinse the pasta so that they do not stick together.
- You can add finely chopped ham or sausages to the mince.
