Each housewife wants to prepare a tasty and satisfying dish for her family, while spending a minimum of effort.
Casseroles are exactly what you need.
Affordable products, quite a bit of time, and your loved ones will be full and satisfied.
Casserole with cheese and minced meat - the basic principles of cooking
To cook a tasty casserole, you do not need to stand at the stove for hours. It is enough to grind all the products and cook the sauce. Ingredients can be mixed or laid out in the form of layers.
The most popular is a potato casserole with cheese and minced meat. It is made from raw or boiled vegetables, as well as mashed potatoes.
The casserole can be made not only from potatoes, but also from other vegetables. As a rule - it is zucchini, cabbage or eggplant.
Stuffing is used mixed, chicken or turkey. Better, of course, if it is homemade. It is pre-fried with onions.
Casseroles with cheese and minced meat are also made from pasta or cereals.
The ingredients are layered in a heat-resistant form. Each layer is smeared with mayonnaise or poured over tomato or white sauce. From above everything is plentifully sprinkled with cheese shavings and baked. Cooking time depends on whether products are used raw or boiled.
The finished casserole is cut into portions and served with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 1. Potato casserole with cheese, minced meat and tomatoes
Ingredients
- mayonnaise;
- half a kilo of potatoes;
- seasoning;
- meat headlights - half a kilogram;
- an egg;
- sour cream - 50 ml;
- table salt;
- medium bulb;
- an egg;
- cheese - 100 g;
- Three medium tomatoes.
Method of preparation
1. Put the minced meat in a bowl, season it with spices and salt. Add an egg. Knead well. 2. Wash peeled potatoes and cut them into circles of three millimeters thick. Put the vegetable on the bottom of the refractory mold. Smooth.
3. Combine sour cream with the same amount of water and a pinch of salt. Beat with a fork and pour over the potatoes.
4. Peel the onions, chop into half rings and place them on top of the potatoes. Lightly salted.
5. On top of the onion, lay an even layer of minced meat.
6. Wash tomatoes, wipe with napkins and cut into thin circles. Spread them on a layer of minced meat. Lightly salt again.
7. Make a thick net of mayonnaise on top of the tomatoes and sprinkle with cheese chips. Send the form to the oven for an hour. Bake at 180C. Take out the potato casserole with cheese and minced meat. Cool slightly and cut into portions.
Recipe 2. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and cauliflower
Ingredients
- mince any - 400 g;
- seasonings for chicken;
- 200 g carrots;
- black pepper;
- onion
- sea salt;
- half a kilo of cauliflower;
- Bulgarian pepper - pod;
- cheese - 100 g;
- cream - 300 ml;
- mayonnaise - 100 g.
Method of preparation
1. Carrot clean, wash, and three in large chips. Peeled onion in small cubes.
2. Fry the onions to transparency, then add the grated carrots and simmer until soft.
3. Disassemble the cauliflower into florets and boil for five minutes in lightly salted water. Then we recline on a colander and cool.
4. Cheese three in large chips. Free the pod of the Bulgarian pepper from the stem and cut the vegetable into rings.
5. Lubricate the refractory shape with a piece of butter. We lay out the casserole in layers:
• chopped meat. We pepper and salt;
• half fried vegetables;
• cauliflower;
• grated cheese;
• pepper rings;
• the remaining roasted vegetables;
• cheese shavings.
6. Combine mayonnaise with cream in a deep plate, season with spices for chicken and whisk with a whisk. Pour the casserole with the resulting sauce. 7. Heat oven to 180C. We put in her form and prepare 50 minutes.
Recipe 3. Potato casserole with cheese, minced meat and mushrooms
Ingredients
- potatoes - six pcs .;
- freshly ground pepper;
- pork and beef mince - 400 g;
- sea salt;
- 150 g of mushrooms;
- garlic - two slices;
- cheese - 100 g;
- an egg;
- onion;
- half a glass of sour cream and mayonnaise.
Method of preparation
1. Wash peeled potatoes, lightly dry them and cut into thin slices. Onion shred half rings. Mushrooms clean, rinse and cut into strips. Add the mushrooms in the stuffing, salt and mix.
2. Cheese large three. In a deep refractory form put half of the potato slices. Pepper and salt.
3. Put the onion on top of the potatoes. If you wish, you can pre-fry it until golden. Onion lay out the stuffing with mushrooms.
4. Sprinkle with all the cheese shavings. Top out the remaining potatoes, slightly pepper and salt.
5. Combine mayonnaise with sour cream. We drive an egg. Peel the garlic and squeeze it into the pot. Season with pepper and salt. Thoroughly whisk until smooth.
6. Fill the casserole with the prepared sauce. Put the form in the oven and bake at 200C. Shortly before the end of cooking, sprinkle with cheese and wait until it melts. We take out the finished potato casserole with cheese and minced meat, sprinkle with finely chopped fresh herbs.
Recipe 4. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and buckwheat
Ingredients
- two bags of buckwheat;
- a bunch of greens;
- 300 g mixed minced meat;
- black pepper;
- a quarter pack of butter;
- sour cream - 30 g;
- two eggs;
- apple;
- onion;
- sea salt;
- cheese - 100 g;
- carrot.
Method of preparation
1. Place the bags of buckwheat in boiling water and boil on low heat. Take out the bags, cool and put the cereal in a bowl. 2. Peel vegetables. Shred onion finely. Grind carrots on a coarse grater. Add vegetable oil to the pan. As soon as it warms up, dissolve the creamy in it. Fry the vegetables until browned and cool.
3. In mince add finely chopped onion, egg yolk and salt. Knead everything thoroughly. Protein whip into a stable foam. In the minced meat, add fried vegetables and whipped protein. Mix gently.
4. Remove the peel from the apple and rub it coarsely. Just chop the cheese. Add apples and cheese to buckwheat, hammer in an egg, pepper and salt. Stir.
5. Put buckwheat into deep silicone mold, spreading it along the bottom and sides. Place the minced chicken in the middle and flatten with a spatula.
6. Beat the egg with sour cream. Salt it. Pour the casserole with the mixture and leave to soak it well.
7. Send the casserole to the preheated 200C oven for 20 minutes. Then sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for another five minutes, until a crust appears on the surface. Before serving, decorate the casserole with cheese and minced meat with fennel sprigs.
Recipe 5. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and eggplants with Bechamel sauce
Ingredients
- eggplant;
- two carrots;
- salt;
- onions - 2 pcs .;
- black pepper;
- 150 g of cheese;
- half a pound of minced pork and beef;
- buckwheat - half a cup;
- dill and parsley;
- tomato paste - 50 g;
- two cloves of garlic.
- Bechamel Sauce
- butter - 40 g;
- 60 g flour;
- salt;
- dill greens;
- black pepper;
- Milk - one and a half cups.
Method of preparation
1. Wash eggplant and cut into half a centimeter thick circles. Put it in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and leave for half an hour. Then rinsed and spread on a napkin.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Spread eggplant and fry on both sides until golden brown. We shift on a plate covered with a disposable towel. 3. Clean the onion, rinse and cut it into quarters into rings. Coarsely cleaned and washed carrots rub.
4. Frying pan, where the eggplants were fried, wash, wipe and heat the oil in it. Fry the onion in it for two minutes, then put the carrot and continue to fry, stirring, for another five minutes. Roasted vegetables shift in a plate.
5. We sort out the buckwheat, wash and pour a glass of boiling water. Cook friable buckwheat porridge.
6. Rinse greens, dry and chop finely. Squeezed garlic squeezed through a press. Fry in hot oil mince. Then we shift it to the blender, add garlic, greens and tomato paste. Season with pepper and salt. We interrupt until homogeneity.
7. Spread eggplant mugs on the bottom. On top of them evenly lay the stuffing. The next layer is put roasted vegetables. Then distribute boiled buckwheat.
8. In the pan melt the butter, add flour to it and cook, stirring, until smooth.
9. We pour in a thin stream hotter milk, at the same time intensively mixing. Cook a few minutes from the moment of boiling. Salt, add chopped greens, mix and turn off the fire. Pour the sauce over the casserole.
10. Bake the dish at 180 ° C for 20 minutes. A few minutes before cooking, sprinkle with cheese shavings. As soon as it melts, remove, cool slightly and cut into portions.
Recipe 6. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and pasta
Ingredients
- mixed mince - a kilogram;
- sea salt and pepper;
- pasta - 400 g;
- olive oil;
- 400 g tomatoes;
- two onions;
- 300 grams of cheese.
Cream Sauce
- black pepper;
- half a pack of butter;
- liter of milk;
- flour - 100 g;
- sea salt.
Method of preparation
1. Pasta boil until done. Throw them in a colander. 2. Finely chopped onions. We pour tomatoes with boiling water and remove the skin from them. Pulp finely chopped.
3. Crushed onion fry until transparent in vegetable oil. Add the stuffing, and lightly fry it, stirring so as not to form lumps. Add tomatoes, pepper, salt and cook over medium heat for about 15 minutes.
4. Fry the flour in butter until golden. Pour milk in a thin stream, stirring continuously, and cook until thick. Season with pepper and salt. If you wish, you can add nutmeg or crushed garlic. Fill the casserole with sauce.
5. Grind cheese on a medium grater. We spread boiled macaroni into deep form and level with a spatula. Top half lay out the sauce. The next layer is put the stuffing. Smooth and pour the sauce. Sprinkle with cheese. We bake at a temperature of 180C for 20 minutes.
Casserole with cheese and minced meat - tips and tricks
- Use home-made minced meat for cooking.
- To make the dish juicy, add more finely chopped onion into the minced meat.
- It is advisable to add ground fat in a meat grinder to the minced chicken.
- To reduce the calorie content of a potato casserole, place the peeled raw potatoes for 20 minutes in cold water to get rid of excess starch.
