Dietary nutrition is based not only on the use of certain types of products and refusals from other components.
Much depends on the method of culinary processing of food.
The most beneficial and gentle for the digestive system is cooking steamed dishes.
They do not directly contact with the heating surface, they do not have a crispy crust, they are prepared without oil.
All this is a guarantee that the cooked dish will be dietary.
Among these dishes and steamed diet burgers.
Basic principles of cooking steamed dietetic cutlets
• For dietetic cutlets, do not use pork, fatty mutton and beef. The best choice is chicken, lean beef and veal, rabbit, fish.
• Steaming not only eliminates the use of excess fat, but also leaves clean the stove and dishes that would be used during frying.
• Steamed diet patties can be made from vegetables, as well as meat and fish using cereals.
• For heat treatment of such cutlets steamers or pans are suitable, where grates are put, according to the type of maneuver. Steam cooking functions are also available in modern multicookers.
• If there is no special device, you can use a regular saucepan with a small amount of water and a strainer installed on it with products. Top sieve is covered with a lid.
• The best garnish for steam dietetic cutlets - vegetables, fresh or also steamed, boiled, steamed.
• All recipes are based on 500 grams of meat or fish. This is about two servings of the finished dish. If you need more food, just increase the amount of food.
Dietary steamed beef patties
Low-fat beef is nutritious and moderate in calories, a good source of protein. And cooked in the form of magnificent cutlets in a double boiler, will delight you with a delicate texture and pleasant taste. Ingredients
500 g of young beef, veal without veins and fat
50 g white bread
100 ml of milk
1 medium onion
Salt
Black pepper.
Method of preparation
Soak bread in milk for 10 minutes.
Meat washed, cut and mince or blender with onions and bread.
Add salt, pepper, pour in the remaining milk from soaking.
Knead minced meat well. If too dense, just add milk or cold water - literally a spoon.
Form the patties. Place on a greased steamer.
Cook under the lid for half an hour.
Most Popular: Steamed Diet Patties from Chicken
Chicken - the most suitable meat for the diet. Chicken breast is commonly used for this purpose. Vegetables and oat-flakes will make mince from it especially tender.
Ingredients
500 g chicken fillet
2 carrots
2 onions
2 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons oatmeal cereal
2-3 tablespoons of milk
Dill
Salt
Black pepper.
Method of preparation
Turn chicken meat through a meat grinder, you can use a blender for grinding.
Also chop the onions - in a meat grinder, in a blender or carefully chopped with a knife.
Grate carrots on a fine grater or use the same blender.
Dill bunch finely chopped.
Mix vegetables, add rolled oats and milk, herbs, salt and pepper. Let stand for 15 minutes so that the oat-flakes collect moisture.
Form small patties.
In a steamer on a grill, oiled, place the patties and send to cook for 20 minutes.
Serve with sour cream, tomato or tomato sauce. Can be with soy sauce.
Chicken and bran steam cakes
Bran help digestion. This is a rough fiber that is not digested by our body, but it is necessary for the development of beneficial microflora. In combination with kefir and healthy chicken meat give a particularly positive effect on health.
Ingredients 500 g chicken breast
1 onion
1 egg
3 tablespoons with a hill of bran, wheat can be replaced with oats
Half a cup of kefir, preferably 1%
Salt
Parsley and cilantro as desired.
Method of preparation
Bran mix with kefir and leave for a few minutes to swell, with 1 spoon of bran left.
Cut chicken breast and mince or blender.
Chop the onion in the same way.
Finely chop the greens with a knife.
Mix kefir-bran mass with meat, onion, salt, break an egg, pour the greens.
Stir the minced meat thoroughly and put chops of arbitrary shape and size.
Roll in the bran left and lay out on a wire rack, after having been lubricated with oil.
Cook in a double boiler for 20 minutes.
Such burgers are very good with fresh vegetables.
Fish tenderness - diet steamed fish cutlets
Any fish, river or sea, is suitable for meatballs. For dietary food it is worth avoiding especially fatty varieties. Pike, bream, pike perch, large crucian carp, navaga, pink salmon, pollock, cod, whiting, tilapia, scab are well suited. The main thing - completely rid the pulp from the bones, which is especially important for river fish. To avoid such problems, you can take the finished fillet.
Ingredients
500 g fish fillets
1 onion
1 potato
2 tablespoons of milk
1 chicken egg
Salt
Dry aromatic herbs.
Method of preparation
Boil potato, knead with milk.
Grind the fish in any suitable way. You can do this not only with a meat grinder or blender, but also just with a knife. Only in this case the fish fillet should be frostbitten.
Also do with the onion.
Mix all ingredients in one soft, quite juicy mass.
Form oblong patties.
Place on a greased grill and send to steam for 20 minutes.
Serve with low-fat white sauce. For example, based on milk. Or simply sprinkled with lemon.
Dietary steam cakes “Fisherman-loser”
The comic name of this dish seems to remind of the situation when the fisherman returned home without a single fish. And instead of rich soup or fried karasikov wife quickly prepares a meal of what is. In fact, such simple meatballs diversify the diet menu. The use of canned fish makes the recipe not only affordable and budget, but also adds a certain flavor.
Ingredients
1 can of canned fish in oil or own juice - saury, mackerel, tuna or others
1 onion
Half a cup of dry rice
1-2 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Salt
Black pepper.
Method of preparation
Rice pour water in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook viscous porridge
Salt, pepper, let cool.
Fish canned knead, pre-drain part of the juice and oil.
Finely chop the onion and fry in butter until soft. If you need a leaner dish, dispense with oil and frying, just chop the onion and mash, a little salt.
Combine all the above components, add flour, mix. The number of eggs and flour need to adjust the thickness of the stuffing. It should be very soft and at the same time dense, not spread.
Form patties of the desired shape.
Put in a double boiler on a greased grill and cook for 10-15 minutes. The main products in the composition of minced meat are ready, so it takes a minimum of time for the egg to grab.
Serve with vegetables.
Steamed diet patties from minced vegetable
These original burgers have an unusual taste. They have no meat, they can be used as breakfast, dinner or side dish to the meat dish. Prunes give them a smoky flavor.
Ingredients
1 large carrot
1 medium beet
2 medium potatoes
1 large onion
5 pieces of prunes
2 tablespoons of semolina
1-2 chicken eggs
Salt
Ground black pepper.
Method of preparation Boil potatoes in a uniform or bake in the oven.
Peel, chop to puree.
Soak prunes in warm water. Half an hour finely chop with a knife.
Onions also chop as small as possible.
Carrots and raw beets rubbed on a fine grater, put in a colander to stack extra juice. This juice, diluted with boiled water, you can drink.
Mix all kinds of vegetables, eggs, salt, pepper, semolina.
Stir thoroughly, the mince will be watery, but it needs to be allowed to stand. For 10 minutes, the semolina will take in excess moisture.
Form round patties, spread out on a grill, oiled.
Steam for about half an hour, considering the use of raw vegetables.
Steamed cabbage diet patties “Who would have thought?”
Cabbage cutlets are not familiar to everyone. But even those who have tried and cooked them know that such cutlets should be well fried. However, you can cook this dish of cabbage and steamed. True, for bright taste the cabbage itself must be properly prepared.
Ingredients
500 g fresh cabbage
1 onion optional
2 tablespoons of semolina
1 tablespoon vegetable oil optional
1 egg
Salt
Any spices to taste
Breadcrumbs
Sesame seeds.
Method of preparation
Cabbage is desirable to choose young and tender. If it is hard, remove all thick streaks. Thinly chop.
Salt a little and stew in a frying pan.
If desired, you can do it with a spoonful of vegetable oil. For a more dietary effect, do not add oil.
Stew under the lid. When the cabbage is completely soft, turn off the stove.
After five minutes, add spices and semolina, mix thoroughly.
Allow to cool, hammer the egg, mix again. You can walk a blender for greater tenderness stuffing.
Form the patties. Roll in breadcrumbs mixed with sesame.
If cabbage was quenched with butter, do not grease the grids. If not, then put the cutlets, pre-lubricated grill oil.
This dish comes to readiness in just 15 minutes. Serve with low-fat sour cream. Such burgers are delicious and cold.
Tricks and secrets of cooking steamed dietetic cutlets
Steamed dishes can seem unaccustomed to tasteless. It is connected with our food preferences, when thanks to frying, some spicy or too bright spices, the real flavor of the product is clogged up with artificial seasonings. Steaming helps to uncover this taste. A few secrets will improve the dish.
- To achieve a particularly dietary effect, bread and potatoes can be eliminated in minced meat.
- Vegetables will give real juiciness to cutlets - onions, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, if chopped and put into mincemeat.
- Diet patties do not turn over or do any manipulations while cooking. Therefore, there is less risk that they will disintegrate, and introducing an egg into the stuffing is not necessary. In any case, in order for the products to keep their shape, they need only egg white, without yolk.
- The inclusion of eggs in the mince of raw yolk will make the burgers more tender, but at the same time will increase the calorie content. True, because of one yolk, it will not increase much.
- If the meat or fish is dry, you can pour a spoonful of milk, cream, sour cream into the mince.
- Spice, spice, fragrant herbs will give additional pleasant notes to cutlets. Dill, coriander and other seasonings to taste can improve the taste perception of steamed diet cutlets.
Bon appetit!
