Juicy minced meat patties are one of the most popular dishes of Russian cuisine.
Traditionally, they are fried in butter and enjoy not only the most tender, melting in the mouth meat, but also a crispy appetizing crust.
However, this dish is no less tasty if you cook steamed patties in a double boiler.
Steam dishes are not only tasty, but also healthy.
Lack of oil makes them less calorie, and steam allows you to keep the maximum amount of vitamins and nutrients.
Cutlets cooked in this way will successfully fit into any low-calorie diet and are ideal for the first acquaintance of kids with meat or fish.
Steamed Patties - General Cooking Principles
Despite the lack of crisp, steam cakes are very tasty. Yes, and cook them much easier than fried. No need to stand at the stove, turn over, wipe the oil spray. For the hostess will do everything double boiler.
If there is no such device in the kitchen, it will be perfectly replaced by an ordinary colander or a metal sieve, preferably with a flat bottom. Steamed cutlets without steamers are cooked just as easily and quickly. It is necessary to install a colander on a pot of boiling water so that the bottom does not touch its surface. Put the patties on the bottom of the colander, cover the pan with a lid and, depending on the type of meat, keep steaming for 30-40 minutes.
Meat for steamed cutlets in a double boiler or without it is better to grind independently in a meat grinder or a powerful blender. The quality of the purchased product is questionable, so you should cook the stuffing at home. Especially if the dish will be offered to children.
Steam patties are made from beef, pork, chicken, turkey, rabbit, veal, fish. For juiciness, you can add your favorite vegetables: carrots, zucchini, potatoes, cabbage, beets.
Vegetarian meatballs steamed without a steamer or in it are made only from vegetables and cereals. This is a great option for a low-calorie diet that will help diversify the diet.
Cutlets in a chicken breast steamer
From the dietary chicken fillet obtained the most delicate dishes. Steamed chicken cutlets in a double boiler can be prepared for very young children and served with mashed potatoes, pasta, cereals, stewed or fresh vegetables.
Ingredients:
• large chicken breast;
• one bulb onion;
• egg;
• half a cup of milk;
• 100 grams of crackers or starched white bread;
• tablespoon sour cream;
• a clove of garlic;
• pepper and salt.
Cooking Method:
Wash the breast, blot with paper napkins, cut off the meat from the bone.
Crackers or bread soaked in milk. With bread, be sure to cut off a rough crust.
Onion peel and cut into small slices.
Bread squeeze.
Grind chicken fillet with marked bread and onion slices.
Finely grate the garlic.
Season with minced sour cream, pepper, salt, garlic, mix well.
Form small patties from ready-made mince and place in container.
Cook steamed patties in a double boiler for 30 minutes.
Cutlets in a ground beef steamer
Beef meat is tougher, but no less valuable than chicken fillet. In addition, it has a distinctive aroma that goes well with spicy garlic. In order to make steamed beef patties in a double boiler, they are cooked with soaked white bread and butter. Those who are on a low calorie diet, butter and bread must be removed from the recipe.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of beef pulp;
• two large onions;
• three cloves of garlic;
• two pieces of white stale bread;
• one chicken egg;
• half a cup of milk;
• 50 grams of butter;
• pepper and salt;
• breadcrumbs (optional).
Cooking Method:
Rinse the meat with running water, dry, cut into pieces.
Films and streaks cut.
From bread to cut the crusts and pour milk.
Grind beef in a meat grinder or combine. Chop the onions and garlic manually or scroll in a meat grinder along with beef.
Squeeze the bread from the leftover milk and also skip the meat grinder through the fine grate.
Combine meat, vegetables, bread, egg.
Season with minced salt and pepper and mix.
Let the mince stand for 15 minutes.
Form the patties, dipping them, if desired, in breadcrumbs.
Steam patties in a double boiler for 45 minutes.
Cutlets in fish steamer
For cooking steamed fish cutlets in a double boiler any variety of white and red fish will do. Mixed minced meat can be made by combining, for example, salmon and pollock, salmon and cod.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of any fillet (salmon, pollock, hake, salmon);
• one large onion;
• egg;
• two pieces of dried white bread;
• half a cup of milk;
• salt and spices for fish (optional).
Cooking Method:
Fish free from large bones and grind in any way.
Pour milk loaf, soak and squeeze.
Clean onion, chop together with fish or grate very finely.
Mix fish pulp, loaf, onion, egg, mix.
Season with minced salt and spices for fish, if you want a brighter flavor.
Form a long burgers, put in a container.
Cook steamed fish cakes in a double boiler for 25-30 minutes.
Serve with mashed potatoes, fresh or stewed vegetables, boiled rice.
Steamed patties without cabbage steamer
During Lent, vegetable and vegetable dishes are an excellent substitute for meat and fish dishes. White cabbage burgers are very tasty: they turn out juicy, with a distinctive pungent aroma. Semolina gives tenderness to this dish and allows the stuffing to keep the desired shape. To make steamed burgers without a steamer, you will need a deep pan with a special stand or an ordinary colander.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of fresh cabbage (small head);
• two bulbs;
• three tablespoons of semolina; • one egg;
• salt pepper;
• some cooking oil for frying;
• breadcrumbs;
• two spoons of sesame.
Cooking Method:
Free cabbage from the top hard leaves, wash and dry.
Cut the cabbage as small as possible.
Pour some water into the pan, put the cabbage and put it under the lid until softened.
Bulbs finely chop.
Heat the oil and fry the onions until soft.
When the cabbage has cooled, cook the minced meat.
Put in the cabbage base semolina, onion, egg, mix everything until smooth.
Mass should infuse for 15 minutes.
Mix the breadcrumbs with sesame.
Form the patties, dipping them in breading.
Wait for the boiling water in the pan.
Lubricate the colander with a small amount of vegetable oil, put the cutlets on the bottom.
The cabbage is already extinguished, so for the final readiness of cutlets for a couple without a double boiler, it will take no more than 15 minutes.
You can serve them with boiled buckwheat or potatoes.
Steamed patties without a steamer of veal
Wonderful diet veal is perfect for making steamed patties without a steamer. For more tenderness, softened white bread and potatoes are added to the mince.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of veal;
• three pieces of stale white bread;
• one chicken egg;
• a glass of milk;
• medium sized potatoes;
• onion;
• pepper, salt, spices for minced meat.
Cooking Method:
Soak the bread in milk. Peel off pre-cut.
Meat chopped and chopped.
Scroll through the fine grinder of the meat grinder potatoes and onions.
Combine the meat, pressed bread from the milk, potatoes and onions.
Mix everything and mince again.
Add the egg to the minced meat, season with salt and spices.
Form small patties no larger than an egg.
Put in a colander or strainer, set over boiling water.
Cook veal cutlets steamed without steamers for 45 minutes.
Steamed patties without a steamer made of vegetables
If the meat is tired and you want something light and unusual, you can try a mix of vegetables and dried fruits as a cutlet mass. This unusual vegetarian recipe for steamed patties without a steamer may appeal to fastidious kids who love beets and prunes.
Ingredients:
• three medium sized carrots;
• two large potatoes;
• one large onion;
• two beets;
• 50 grams of prunes without pits;
• two tablespoons of semolina;
• large spoon of sesame;
• salt;
• two tablespoons of boiling water.
Cooking Method:
Wash the potatoes, wrap in foil and bake in the oven. You can simply boil it in uniform.
Semolina steamed with boiling water.
Grate the beets gently on the shallow side of the grater.
Drain beet juice.
Grate carrots just fine.
As small as possible chop the bow or grate it.
Cool potatoes and grate finely.
Prune cut into small pieces.
Combine vegetables, prunes and swollen semolina.
Salt and mix.
Form the vegetable cutlets and dip them in sesame.
Put in a colander, set over steam.
Cook the steamed patties without steamers for at least an hour so that the beets are completely boiled soft.
Steamed patties without a rabbit steamer
Dietary rabbit meat is useful for weakened people, children and young ladies who do not want to spoil the figure or want to correct it. Useful, fragrant, tasty burgers are also very tender and very juicy.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of rabbit meat (pulp);
• average carrot;
• large onion;
• one potato;
• two spoons of semolina;
• two eggs;
• spoon semolina;
• pepper and salt.
Cooking Method:
Prepared rabbit fillet cut and chop in any way.
Peel the vegetables, finely grate or skip through the meat grinder.
One egg divided into white and yolk. Put meat, potatoes, onions, carrots, semolina, whole egg and one yolk into a large bowl.
Fill the meat mass with salt, pepper, spices, mix well.
Sculpt burgers, put in a colander.
Beat the protein and coat them with patties.
Cook for a couple of 35 minutes.
Serve with fresh vegetables, potatoes, buckwheat, grated beets.
Steamed cutlets - tricks and helpful tips
- To keep the stuffing from sticking to your hands, make cutlets with wet hands, periodically dipping them into cold water.
- If the beef seems too dry, it can be diluted with fatty pork or grated vegetables: zucchini, carrots, potatoes.
- There is another way to preserve the juiciness of the steam patty. Each one needs to be wrapped in a piece of foil. When cutlets are cooked, each can be poured over the resulting juice.
- Softness of coarse meat fibers can be made by beating off the ready stuffing on a wooden board. Meat dough can simply be transferred from the palm of your hand to the palm.
- Butter will add great tenderness, air consistency, juiciness to steam cutlets.
- The semolina is put in liquid mince so that the steamed cutlets in a double boiler or colander do not fall apart. Helps to keep the form not only semolina, but also other cereals: pre-boiled rice or wheat.
