Hercules cutlets with mushroom gravy - a budget recipe from inexpensive and affordable ingredients. Agree, oatmeal, bouillon cubes, frozen champignons - these products separately do not cause any emotions. However, properly and skillfully cooked, they, as if by magic, can turn into a very tasty dinner or lunch. The dish is nourishing and healthy. If you are an opponent of food additives, then replace the bouillon cube with homemade chicken or meat broth, and instead of frozen shop mushrooms, pick up forest mushrooms, which, I think, many have in store in the freezer.
The recipe can be adapted for strictly vegetarian and lenten menus, removing from it animal products - egg and sour cream.
- Cooking time: 40 minutes
- Servings: 4
Ingredients for cooking Hercules with mushroom gravy.
For meatballs:
- 1 glass of rolled oats;
- 1 glass of water;
- 1 cube of broth;
- 1 onion;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 2 tbsp. l chopped greens;
- 1 tsp. curry powder;
- olive oil for frying.
For gravy:
- 100 g of frozen champignons;
- 50 g onions;
- 50 g celery;
- 100 g sour cream;
- salt, greens, olive oil.
A method of cooking rolls of rolled oats with mushroom gravy.
A glass of instant oatmeal “Hercules” poured into the container. In warm boiled water dissolve the bouillon cube. Fill the rolled oats with broth, mix and leave for 15 minutes to make the flakes swell.
Cut the onion onion finely, pass in the heated olive oil to a translucent state, salt to taste, add to the flakes.
Next, pour the curry powder, break the raw chicken egg and add the chopped fresh greens. You can put cilantro, but if you do not like its taste, then dill, parsley or green onions will do.
Mix the ingredients well, try the stuffing, add a pinch of salt if necessary. However, the bouillon cube contains a lot of salt, so you may not have to salt it.
Heat the pan well, lubricate with olive oil, fry the chops for 3 minutes on each side. For one serving you need a tablespoon with a hill of oatmeal dough.
Then prepare the gravy. Fry the finely chopped onion and stalk celery to a transparent state in olive oil, add frozen champignons to the pan, turn on a large fire. Frozen mushrooms immediately give up water when heated, they practically float in mushroom broth. Cooking all together for about 10 minutes, salt.
Grind ingredients with a blender, add sour cream and gravy is ready.
We sprinkle hercuses with mushroom sauce, sprinkle with fresh greens, and serve hot to the table. Enjoy your meal!
By the way, this recipe can be slightly modified to fit the lean menu. It is necessary to replace the meat broth with vegetables, remove the egg from the mince, put 1 \ 3 spoonful of baking powder in its place, and instead of sour cream, add soy yogurt to the mushroom gravy. The result is a nutritious lenten dish, which is also suitable for a vegetarian menu.
