Casserole with meat - general principles and methods of cooking
Need to quickly cook a hearty lunch? Then the casserole is what you need. For her, absolutely any vegetables, cereals, fruits, meat and even porridge remaining from yesterday are suitable. We offer you recipes for meat casseroles. Most often for their preparation they use minced or finely chopped fillets, since large pieces are poorly baked. And to make the dish quite juicy, do not forget to fill it with a suitable sauce.
Meat pudding can be baked both in the oven and in the microwave. Twenty minutes - and a delicious, hearty, juicy dish shines with its aroma, and the deliciously-ruddy crust will not leave indifferent any household. Such a love for meat casseroles is quite understandable. After all, it is not only fast and tasty, but also very economical - food leftovers from past yesterday, such as pasta, rice, buckwheat, sausage slices, cheese, etc. Baking is good because there are no specific rules for it - experiment with food as you please.
Meat Casserole - Food Preparation
The main ingredient of our casserole is meat. Absolutely anyone will do: chicken, pork, beef, rabbit, or other types of your choice. As a rule, for cooking, meat is minced using a meat grinder or kitchen knife. The second method requires a bit of time, because the pieces should not be too large. As an alternative, proven minced meat, purchased just for this occasion, is perfect.
Recipe 1: Casserole with meat “in Russian”
This casserole will save in the most unforeseen situation when you need to cook something quick and tasty. The list of ingredients is very simple and accessible to everyone.
Ingredients:
- potatoes 10 pieces
- four carrots
- four onions
- minced meat (pig and beef) 600 gr.
- 150 gr. any hard cheese
- greenery
- spices for meat
- one and a half glasses of water (meat broth)
- two table. lie sour cream
- four tablespoons mayonnaise
- a couple cloves of garlic
- One tablespoon of ketchup
Cooking Method: 1. Clean the potatoes, cut them into thin circles and place half in an even layer on the bottom of the greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with salty spices for meat (or salt + pepper).
2. The second layer is laid stuffing. Also sprinkle with spices. Chop the onion half rings and lay it on the stuffing. Next, sprinkle with grated carrots. And close the remaining potatoes. Season with spices.
3. Making the sauce: mix boiled water (meat broth) with sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup, chopped garlic and greens. Salt (not enough, because the solid products are already salty).
4. Received sauce pour our dish and send it to the oven for one hour (bake at a temperature of 200-230C). Fifteen minutes before the readiness we take the casserole and sprinkle it with grated cheese. Then - again in the oven, until ready.
Recipe 2: Casserole with meat and zucchini
Have you ever tried a casserole with beer? If not, be sure to try. Beer, of course, must be non-alcoholic, and the zucchini, which is part of the dish, is young (slightly larger than a large cucumber). In the recipe, beef can be replaced with any kind of meat to your personal taste.
Ingredients:
- 400 gr. beef
- three eggs
- half a cup of milk
- 300 gr. squash (without seeds)
- Three tablespoons of grated cheese
- onion head
- 150-170 gr. smoked sausage
- 150 ml of beer
- two tablespoons (butter) butter
- to taste salt, pepper
- for decoration greens
Cooking Method:
1. Beef fillet finely chopped with a knife, grind smoked sausage. Cut the onion into small cubes. Fry the cooked ingredients in the pan until half cooked.
2. Then pour beer into the pan, add salt, pepper and simmer for about forty minutes.
3. Squash zucchini in small cubes and fry separately in butter.
4. Lubricate the form and lay out on it stew with beer and zucchini, alternating ingredients. Beat eggs slightly with a fork. Salted, mixed with milk and grated cheese. The resulting sauce pour the contents of the pan.
5. Send the dish to the oven and bake for about twenty minutes at 200C temperature. When serving, sprinkle with casserole chopped greens.
Recipe 3: Casserole with meat, rice and vegetables
Meat casserole with vegetables and rice is a versatile dish that is a full meal. Imagine, instead of separately boiling rice, stewing vegetables and cooking meat patties, you can combine all this in one dish - mix, pour sauce and bake quickly in the oven. Ingredients:
- 100 gr. rice
- two medium eggplants
- two onions
- four cloves of garlic
- to taste of mint
- 400 gr. ground lamb
- 400 gr. tomatoes
- three spoons of vegetable oil
- 30 gr. butter
- two art. spoons of flour
- half a cup of milk
- to taste nutmeg
- 100 gr. cheese
Cooking Method:
1. Cut the eggplants into circles, sprinkle them and leave for half an hour so that the salt stretches the bitterness. Then pour the juice, wash and fry the circles until half cooked. Rice also boil until half ready.
2. Fry the onions and lamb meat separately (first the onions, then add the mince). We do not add much oil, if necessary - a little liquid. At the end put the sliced tomatoes, mint and chopped garlic. Salt, pepper, mix.
3. Make the bechamel sauce: fry the flour in vegetable oil for this, then pour in the milk, not forgetting to stir constantly. As a result, we should have a sour cream sauce. To taste add pepper and nutmeg.
4. And now the main thing, in the form we lay out in layers:
- rice
- braised minced meat
- eggplant circles
- rice again
- minced meat
- eggplant circles
5. Fill all with bechamel sauce. Sent in the oven for ten minutes. We take out, sprinkle with grated cheese and again - in the oven until golden brown. The dish is ready. Enjoy your meal!
Casserole with meat - useful tips from experienced chefs
- If you plan to make a casserole of large pieces of meat, then pre-beat them with a kitchen hammer or a large knife handle. This is done very simply: the meat is cut into slices, covered with cling film and beats on both sides;
- If in the recipe of the casserole cheese is used, with which the dish is sprinkled on top, then it must be added at the very end, otherwise the casserole dries or burns ahead of time.
