Chicken mince is a relatively inexpensive product that is easy to cook on your own. Cutlets from it turn out tender and juicy, but often there is one and the same dish hardly anyone wants. Therefore, any housewife does not hurt to know what to cook from minced chicken, except for meatballs. Moreover, there are at least a hundred recipes of delicious dishes from it.
Cooking Features
Chicken mince make pies, casseroles and other dishes. The technology of their preparation is different, however there are general rules that it is desirable to observe in any case.
- Purchased chicken mince can be made from different parts of the chicken, include skin fragments, cartilage. All this makes it less tasty and healthy compared to homemade. For this reason, making minced chicken, if there is such an opportunity, is better on your own.
- Do not use only chicken breast for stuffing. In this case, the product will be useful and dietary, but not too juicy. If, however, minced meat is made from lean poultry meat, its juiciness can be increased with the help of lard, onion, and vegetables.
- Onion when minced is minced with a knife. If you scroll through the meat grinder, the mince will be liquid.
- To increase the density of minced meat, you can beat it on a cutting board. The need for this arises when you want to form balls of it or patties.
- It will be easier to make minced chicken products if you wet your hands with water. In this case, he does not stick to his hands so much.
If you follow the instructions in each particular recipe, you will probably be able to cook from it a tasty dish that you want to see on your table.
Potato roll with minced chicken
Composition:
- minced chicken - 1 kg;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 5 kg;
- wheat flour - 50 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes in a uniform, cool and peel. Grind it grated. Add egg and flour to the potato mass. Salt lightly and mix thoroughly.
- Spread the potato mass on a piece of cling film. It should be a layer about a centimeter thick.
- In the minced chicken, beat the remaining eggs.
- Wash the peppers, cut the stalks, remove the seeds. Cut the flesh of the peppers into small pieces and add them to the minced meat. Put some pepper and salt in it. Knead by hands. Pour 30 ml of vegetable oil into the pan and fry the minced chicken on it for 5-7 minutes until cooked.
- Spread the minced meat on the potato layer, leaving a distance of about a centimeter around the edges.
- Roll the potato mass with minced meat into a roll using a film.
- Lubricate the form with vegetable oil and put the roll in it with a “seam” down.
- Heat an oven to 180 degrees and place a blank in it. Bake the potato roll with minced chicken for half an hour.
Before serving, the roll should be cut into portions, put into plates, sprinkled with sour cream or another sauce to your taste, sprinkled with fresh greens, previously chopped with a knife. This roll can be prepared for lunch or dinner. This is a complete hearty meal.
Lazy Stuffed Cabbages from Chicken
Composition:
- minced chicken - 0, 5 kg;
- white cabbage - 150 g;
- water - 150 ml;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- carrots - 150 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- tomato paste - 50 ml;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- wheat flour - 50 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Shred cabbage as small as possible.
- Peel and chop the carrots on a fine grater.
- Add eggs, salt, pepper to the minced chicken. Mix thoroughly.
- Put minced vegetables in the mince, mix again.
- Form balls of the resulting mass, roll them in wheat flour and fry in a frying pan in hot vegetable oil until golden brown, put it in a saucepan.
- Mix tomato paste with sour cream, dilute this mixture with water.
- Fill the minced chicken meat stuffed cabbage with the resulting sauce. Place the pot on the stove.
- Stew 30 minutes after the sauce boils, simmer.
Lazy stuffed cabbage rolls served as a separate dish, watering with sour cream or sauce, in which they were stewed. However, if you offer them a side dish in the form of mashed potatoes or rice, this will not be anything bad.
Chicken “balls” of puff pastry
Composition:
- frozen puff pastry - 0, 5 kg;
- chicken mince - 0, 5 kg;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- chicken egg (yolks) - 3 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- At room temperature or in the refrigerator, thaw the dough. It must thaw out completely, otherwise it will be difficult to work with it. For this reason, you need to get the dough out of the freezer beforehand.
- Pass the garlic through the press, add to the stuffing. Salt it and pepper.
- Peel the onions, finely chop them with a knife.
- Chop cheese on a coarse grater.
- Add cheese and onions to the minced chicken. Knead the minced thoroughly with your hands. Put in half an hour in the fridge.
- Form balls with a diameter of 4-5 cm from cooled minced meat.
- Roll out the dough and cut it into strips about 1 cm wide.
- Wrap meat balls in strips of dough to resemble tangles.
- Separate yolks from proteins. Proteins are not required, and the yolks must be whipped.
- Dip into "buns" yolks and fold them into a form.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Put in it a form with “koloboks”. Bake them for 30 minutes.
“Koloboks” with tender chicken stuffing will surely please the children, but adults will eat them with great pleasure.
Chicken minced snack “Quail legs”
Composition:
- 50 g of salted straw;
- 200 g ground beef;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1 tbsp. wheat flour;
- 30 ml of water;
- salt to taste.
For batter:
- 1 chicken egg;
- 50 g ground crackers.
For frying:
- 100 g of vegetable oil.
Method of preparation:
- In a bowl, break the chicken egg and lightly salt it. Shake a fork in a lush foam, pouring water. Add flour and knead the dough.
- Allow the dough to rest for exactly 15 minutes, covering it with cling film to activate the gluten.
- Then roll it on a board, sprinkled with flour, into the layer and cut circles with a glass or a cup, not forgetting to dip their edges into flour.
- Put 1 tsp on each circle. ground beef. Approximately also formed dumplings, if they sculpt by hand.
- Put salted straw in the middle of the mince.
- Pinch the edges of the circles to form small patties.
- Then use a sharp knife to cut each pie in half strictly in the middle, but do not pinch the cuts. You get a mini-billet.
- Form thick batter from beaten egg, pinch of salt and breadcrumbs. Heat the vegetable oil in the pan and fry the quail legs dipped in batter for 1-2 minutes on both sides. Be sure to ensure that the appetizer is not burnt.
- Put the legs on the fresh greens with which the dish was decorated, and serve them hot and hot to the table, not forgetting the various sauces!
“Quail legs” made from minced chicken can be put on the festive table. They are suitable if the feast is organized by the type of buffet table.
Pita Lasagna with minced chicken
Composition:
- minced chicken - 0, 5 kg;
- Armenian lavash - 4 pcs .;
- tomato paste - 80 ml;
- cream - 100 ml;
- milk - 0, 3 l;
- wheat flour - 35 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- onions - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the onion and fry it in vegetable oil for 5 minutes.
- Add the mince, keep frying on low heat for 10 more minutes. Add salt, pepper, tomato paste. Reduce heat and extinguish for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the cream, stir and cook under the lid for another 5 minutes.
- In a clean pan, melt the butter, add the flour and fry it. Gradually add the milk, prepare the sauce.
- In pita bread, cut the edges to fit the shape. Pour some sauce on the bottom of the form and place the first leaf of pita. Put a third part of minced chicken on it. Put the next leaf of pita bread, pour it over the sauce, put half the remaining minced meat. Put the third leaf of pita bread, pour it over the sauce, put the remaining mince on it. Cover with the last pita bread, pour the remaining sauce.
- Finely grate the cheese and sprinkle with lasagna.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place the lasagne in it. Cook it for 10-15 minutes.
If you like Italian cuisine, you will surely like the dish prepared for this recipe.
Showing imagination, you can yourself think of what else you can cook with minced chicken, except for meatballs. After all, there are many different options.
