Flight of culinary fantasy - meat zrazy

Juicy meat zrazy with fresh vegetables and herbs will be a good "set" for both dinner and lunch. Meanwhile, minced meat or meat in the hands of the chef turns into a real easel for creating ingenious masterpieces. From it, he can easily make amazing rolls or cutlets, the golden brown crust of which looks delightful in the company of lettuce leaves and cucumbers. In addition, this dish is very satisfying and deliciously delicious. delicious tender zrazy

What's more, stuffed meats can be cooked in one hour or less.

Many take pork or beef as a meat "wrapper". Chicken or minced fish is also perfect for this. Perhaps, for the filling, you can take your favorite foods or what is in the refrigerator.

Game of flavors: mushrooms and minced meat

meat zrazy with mushrooms For the preparation of zraz from minced meat and mushrooms, simple blanks are made. First you need to grind the onion and meat fillet (500 g), mixing the pork and beef. Then wash the mushrooms (300 g), pour half a glass of milk, boil eggs (2 pcs.), Cut off two slices of bread and make breading. Instead of crumbs, you can take flour. In addition, rinse the parsley and basilto decorate the dish. So, the cooking process itself includes the following steps:

chop 2 onions and mushrooms;
first fry the onion (2-3 minutes), and then the mushrooms (10 minutes) and add some salt to it all;
cut eggs and add fried vegetables to them;
soak bread in milk;
drive 1 egg into the minced meat, and also add the pulp of bread, smothered garlic, ground pepper and salt;
mix the contents of the plate thoroughly;
start forming round cakes;
lay out the filling with a tablespoon;
beautifully wrap it in rolls;
roll in breading / flour;
fry in a well-heated skillet for about 3 minutes. each side (pour in 50 ml of vegetable oil);
sprigs of dill / parsley beautifully lay on the resulting zrazy from minced meat.

Since this dish takes a long time, the cutlets made can be frozen. Such ready-made semi-finished products are a lifesaver for busy people. However, after the patties are thawed, they will need to be soaked with a paper towel.

To prevent the zrazy from getting too dry, pour a little water into the pan and cover it with a lid. In such a steam installation, the dish should be held for no more than 7 minutes. This will allow the patties to become juicier and softer.

Color contrast: yellow eggs and green onions

These meat zrazy with an egg (the recipe from the photo can be seen below) is prepared using a slightly different technology. As usual, everything starts with minced meat. To prepare it you need:

pour three slices of white bread with milk and hold them for 15 minutes;
separate the chicken meat from the bones, because it is better to use the thighs in this dish;
cut the onion into four parts;
grind the fillets with onions in a blender / meat grinder, seasoning the mass with pepper and salt;
mix with bread and knead thoroughly with your hands.

To get a more viscous mass, the minced meat should be beaten well either in a bowl or on the table. Then the container with meat must be wrapped with cling film and refrigerated for a quarter of an hour.

Now it's time to tackle the filling. First boiled and then diced eggs. Onion feathers are chopped and fried a little in a little oil. This allows the product to become more aromatic, and most importantly softer. After that, all the ingredients are mixed and added.Next comes the process of forming meat zraz with eggs and onions, which is as follows:

the board must be covered with cling film and only then, with the help of a tablespoon, form minced meat pancakes, applying the filling;
to blind this pie by lifting the film by the edges and giving the mass the desired shape;
dump the resulting cutlet in breadcrumbs from crackers;
fry them in vegetable oil for several minutes;
then cover the pan with a lid and simmer over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes.

But Scottish cooks wrap a whole boiled egg in a regular chop. The idea is quite original. Now it is important to serve the dish correctly. You can make the presentation as contrasting as possible with the help of sliced tomatoes, onion feathers and corrugated lettuce leaves.

It is worth considering that the taste of minced meat with egg depends on how you cook them. Some people use an oven preheated to 200 ° for this, or a multicooker. Among other things, these delicious cutlets can be stewed raw. This heat treatment will take 45 minutes. To speed up this process, you can pre-fry them. Then the oven must be preheated to 180 degrees and the rolls must be baked for no more than a quarter of an hour.

Cooking gurus recommend stewing meat zrazy in some kind of sauce. For example, you can pour fruit yogurt or sour cream mixed with herbs on the cutlets. As a result, they become saturated with liquid and let the juice out.

Say: "S-s-s-s-r"

The melted filling can only bring a smile to the guests' face. However, instead of chicken or pork for meat zraz with cheese (see the photo of the recipe below), some recommend using fish fillets. It is desirable that there are few bones in it. In this case, pollock (up to 1 kg) is best suited. It must be well rinsed, peeled and minced along with the onion. To make the minced meat easily molded, it is mixed with two tbsp. l. decoys. This is necessary in order to form large spheres, which should then be broken and put in the middle a tidbit.

It's time to take care of the filling. In no case should it interrupt the exquisite taste of fish. Therefore, it is best to choose sour cheese for her. Again, it's not worth coming up with something new, you just need to take:

green onions, which are successfully replaced with dill /parsley;
finely chopped boiled egg;
100 g of hard Dutch / Russian cheese (medium-sized grater is used for grinding).

In this cooking technology, onion feathers do not need to be fried, so that the cutlets do not begin to disintegrate due to excess fat.

Cooked foods should be gently mixed and seasoned with spices. From the resulting mass, it is necessary to mold miniature balls, which are beautifully settled in the middle of large spheres of minced fish. Subsequently, the resulting "koloboks" should be sprinkled with flour and fried in a deep frying pan, sparing no oil.

The main thing is that the filling "sits"

In this difficult matter, the most important thing is a successful selection of minced meat filling for zraz. Otherwise, you can simply translate products or cause disapproval of the family and distinguished guests. In this regard, you need to be able to correctly combine products with different types of meat. Here are several options for such a tandem:

Pork plus an omelet. The first step is to beat 2 eggs with 3 tablespoons of milk. Add bell pepper cubes and dill there. Fry in a pan until tender, then cut into strips and twist together with minced meat.
Cabbage is the head of everything. First, the onion is stewed with carrots and chopped cabbage. Then a piece of meat is beaten off, the filling is wrapped in it and tied with a thread. After frying, the tourniquet is cut off, but the rolls continue to be stewed in horseradish sauce.
Minced pork and beef with prunes. Rinse and finely chop the prunes. Mix it with hard cheese (50 g), ground nuts and smothered garlic.Put the filling on the pancakes made from minced meat and connect according to the principle of a pie.
Carrot and onion mix. Cut the onion into strips and grate one carrot on a coarse grater. Fry vegetables in a little oil and fill with minced chicken zrazy.
Duet: cheese and pickled cucumber. This is a completely extraordinary solution for pork and chicken cutlets, but it still sounds delicious. For the filling, it is necessary to chop cucumber, parsley and dill, grate two types of cheese (Georgian suluguni and, for example, Gouda). Season all this with mayonnaise.
Rice or buckwheat to choose from. One of these boiled cereals can be mixed with boiled eggs. In this case, greens should be added to this mixture. It could even be cilantro.
Vegetable stew. As an experiment, some breaded broccoli with cauliflower. In addition, you can simply boil green peas and mix them with herbs and dried apricots. Another option is sauerkraut, which will add a special flavor to your meal.

To prepare the filling, you often have to fry a lot of ingredients. In this case, you need to choose lean meats. Otherwise, you will end up with a dish called “+3 kg to the figure”.

At the same time, you can use flour, semolina or crackers for breading. As you can see, almost all products that are in the hostess's "arsenal" are suitable for creating this dish. Mashed potatoes, porridge or spaghetti will serve as a side dish for such meat dishes. If the filling contains cereals, then a spring salad of cucumbers, greens and radishes is most suitable for juicy cutlets. In this case, you should not neglect drinks. These "delicacies" go well with red wine and even cognac. Freshly squeezed sweet and sour juice is a good addition to this idyll of flavors.

Video recipe for meat zraz with omelet