Minced meat roll recipes. Simple and tasty cooking meatloaf
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When you get bored with ordinary cutlets or meatballs, and there is no special opportunity or need to eat in restaurants or various delicacies, you can try to cook delicious and juicy meat rolls.
With their very delicate and unusual taste, they can conquer even very harmful connoisseurs of beauty, and solemn and refined appearance meatloafs will easily make them welcome guests on any everyday or even festive table.
The word “roll” itself comes from the French “Rouler”, which means “roll up”, and this is not at all surprising if we turn to the technique of making these wonderful dishes.
It is believed that the rolls belong to traditional European cuisine, which have an obligatory composition: medium-sized meat slices, in which the filling is wrapped.
It can be any, for example, vegetables, mushrooms, cheese, or, in addition, sometimes another type of meat is used as a filling, for example, crab or ham.
There are different types of meat rolls, some of them are made from whole pieces of meat, there are options where they are hammered or chopped into a piece, just like in the case of cooking ordinary cutlets.
The finished dish is served on the table cut across, if the rolls are large, they are watered own juice or a sauce prepared in advance.
In order for the dish to turn out really tasty, it is necessary to use only fresh products for its preparation, special attention must be paid to meat, because, to a greater extent, the final taste of the rolls will depend on it.
It is best to use chilled rather than frozen meat, pay special attention to its color - it should have a light shade, dark types of meat are usually old and it is unlikely that you can make a soft and juicy roll out of them.
For the preparation of meat rolls, preference is given to the following types of meat: chicken, veal, pork, or a combination of these. Depending on the filling that you use as a filler, you may receive different options and shades of the same dish, for example, if you add grated carrots to a chopped roll, the rolls will turn out to be very juicy, but if you are a spice lover, then add chili and make a sweet and sour sauce.
How to make chicken meatloaf?
As the main "wrapper" we will use chicken fillet, and so that the dish has its own flavor, and also not dryish, as is the case when using chicken, we add the second kind of meat - bacon, we use vegetables and herbs as a filling. To prepare such a yummy, we need:
- chicken fillet - 700 g;
- bacon - 200 g;
- curd cheese - 150 g;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
- parsley, dill - a small bunch;
- vegetable oil;
- black pepper, salt.
We thoroughly wash the chicken fillet, peel it from the film and cut it with a sharp knife into small layers, the thickness of each should not exceed 2 centimeters. Lightly beat the resulting pieces, then pepper and salt them to taste.
Then grease each prepared piece with a thin layer. curd cheese, is better suited with creamy taste... Pre-wash, peel and cut into small cubes bell pepper, chop the parsley and dill, mix, and sprinkle each chicken layer with the prepared filling.
Now we twist our rolls, so that they do not creep apart, you can tie each one with a thread, but, in fact, they should keep their own. The final touch - we wrap each roll with a sheet of bacon.
Now let's prepare the oven: preheat it to a temperature of 180 °, go to the baking dish - grease it vegetable oil and put the rolls into it. A better shape is suitable in which our rolls will lie tightly to each other. How much meat rolls do you think are cooked?
You are wrong if you think that this is a very long process - 30 minutes is enough, after which our mouth-watering rolls are ready to eat.
Minced meatloaf recipe with boiled egg
This version of meatloaf is very common and favorite among many housewives, because it is not difficult to make it, and a boiled egg is incredibly tasty to combine with. Try it! To prepare the dish you will need:
- a mixture of beef and minced pork- 500 g;
- chicken eggs - 5 pieces (you can use quail eggs, then they will need 7-8 pieces);
- milk - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- a bunch of parsley;
- pepper, salt.
To begin with, we will boil 4 hard-boiled eggs, and they will go to the filling. While the eggs are boiling, we will do the minced meat, for this we peel the onion and cut it into small pieces, chop the greens. Now whisk the milk with the egg and send this mixture into the minced meat, add chopped onions and herbs to the same place. Some housewives prefer to add bread crumbs to the minced meat, but this is a matter of taste, we do without them.
If the minced meat turned out to be too liquid, then you still have to add the bread, so you will balance its consistency. In order for the roll to be beautiful and regular in shape, it is advisable to use special oblong small-sized forms for baking it. But if you don’t have any, it’s not a problem, a regular baking sheet will do, on which the foil is lined, and a minced meat roll is already formed on it.
So, we spread the bottom of the baking sheet with foil, grease it with oil and spread a part of the minced meat on the bottom in a small layer (2-3 centimeters). Now on the prepared layer of minced meat we spread the peeled boiled eggs in one row, after which we cover them with the rest of the minced meat so that the eggs are inside, and a neat oblong roll is formed outside.
Make sure that the seam of the connection of the layers is on top, this will not allow all the juice to flow out during baking.
Now we close the prepared roll with foil, send it to a preheated oven at a temperature of 200 ° for 50 minutes. By the way, such a roll can be prepared without foil, for this it will need to be formed on spread cling film, roll the roll with it, and send it to a baking sheet without the film. The baking time is 40-50 minutes, do not forget to add water to the baking sheet.
As you can see, recipes for delicious homemade roll from pork, chicken or minced meat are simple, they can be prepared even by an inexperienced housewife who has an oven and, of course, desire. And in order to make your rolls the most delicious, we will give you some simple tips.
- If you are preparing minced meat rolls, then it is better to cook it with your own hands, and by scrolling the meat 2 times, then the dish turns out to be especially tender and soft.
- When cooking rolls from whole pieces of meat, it is better to tie them up with a thread or pierce them with a toothpick during baking, this will allow them not to fall apart during cooking.
Modern meatloafs - invention European cuisine, which has French roots.
Although about a slice of meat in which wrapped filling, mentioned much earlier, in recipes for the cooking of Ancient Rome. The dish has become so popular that it has taken root in the kitchens of many housewives.
It is cooked on weekdays for breakfast, dinner, lunch or treated for festive table guests. Rolls are made from both minced meat, and a whole piece. Why use turkey, pork, chicken, beef. They prepare products of various shapes and sizes, from small rolls fried in a pan to large "bricks" baked in the oven. Any products are used for the filling - hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, cheese, herbs, boiled carrots, pasta.
Meatloaf - food preparation
The roll is quite simple to prepare. If it is made from a single piece, a slice or layer of meat is beaten off with a kitchen hammer, rubbed with salt and spices and rolled into a sausage. To fix the shape, the roll is wrapped with threads and then baked.
Chopped meat is made in the same way as for cutlets - mixed with a soaked piece of bread or white bread, add onions, raw eggs, salt, pepper. Knead well, lay out half of the minced meat in the form of a rectangle, in the center of which boiled eggs are placed in a row. Cover with the other half of the minced meat, close up the edges, forming a roll. To prevent it from bursting when baking, and the steam can escape freely, several punctures are made from above with a fork or knife.
Recipe 1: Minced Meatloaf
From minced meat, you can make not only meatballs or cutlets, but also such a delicious and original roll with an egg. If you boil the eggs in advance and twist the meat into minced meat, you can quickly cook it for dinner. Children especially like this roll.
Ingredients: 1 kg of minced meat (preferably pork and beef), 2 slices of white bread, 4 hard-boiled eggs, 2 onions, 150g of cheese, salt, herbs, black pepper.
Cooking method
Soak the bread in water or milk, squeeze. Grate or finely chop the onion. Mix everything with minced meat, add salt and pepper and not only knead thoroughly, but also beat off for a couple of minutes so that the meat fibers adhere well to each other. The minced meat must be lifted and plopped back into the bowl with a little effort.
Lay foil on a sheet of a baking sheet, put all the minced meat on it, in the form of a rectangle. Sprinkle the surface with grated cheese and chopped herbs, and spread the eggs in the center of the minced meat in a row. Raising the edges of the foil, form a roll and caulk all the cracks.
Wrap the roll completely with foil, pour a little water into a baking sheet and bake for fifty minutes (200C). Then open the foil and bake the roll for another fifteen minutes, until a crust appears.
Recipe 2: Meatloaf in pita bread
Another variation on the lavash theme. This time with meatloaf. Such a simple dish that even novice cooks can cook it. It turns out to be insanely delicious.
Ingredients: 800g minced meat, 4 pita bread, 200g cheese (hard or semi-hard), onion, 1 egg, salt, pepper, pickled mushrooms (honey agarics) - 300g, vegetable oil for frying, fresh parsley, dill.
Cooking method
Fry the finely chopped onion. As the onion turns golden, add minced meat, salt and pepper and fry until tender. Add mushrooms to a slightly cooled mass. Better honey mushrooms, they are small, you don't even need to cut them. Instead of mushrooms, you can put olives, pickles, or even do without additives.
Spread randomly thin slices of cheese on pita bread, sprinkle with herbs and put the minced meat not very thickly, wrap in a roll. Stuff all the pita bread, put them in a mold and brush with a beaten raw egg. Bake for fifteen minutes (180C). Cut the finished rolls into pieces.
Recipe 3: Pork meatloaf with scrambled eggs and mushrooms
This is not really a roll, rather rolls, tk. small in size. Cut into pieces and laid out on a green lettuce pour, they are very reminiscent of forest stumps.
Ingredients: 0.5 kg of pork (tenderloin, meat for meatballs), breadcrumbs, vegetable oil. For an omelet: 5 eggs, flour, 1 onion, herbs, salt, 150g fresh mushrooms, salt pepper.
Cooking method
Cut the meat into slices as for chops. Season with salt, pepper, beat well with a hammer.
Prepare an omelet. Chop the mushrooms and onions finely and sauté until dark golden brown. Salt, cool.
Beat the eggs, add salt, a spoon or two flour, chopped herbs and cooled mushrooms with onions. Stir and bake omelettes. About the size of a meat chop. Their number should be equal to the number of meat slices. Here you need to guess.
Put an omelette on a slice of meat, roll up a roll, secure with toothpicks so that it does not turn around. Dip in breadcrumbs, dip in a beaten egg, fry in a large amount of butter until tender. Or fry until crisp on the stove, and until ready to bring in the oven, baking for fifteen minutes (190C), covering with foil so as not to burn.
Remove the toothpicks, cut the rolls into three or four pieces, put on lettuce leaves.
Recipe 4: Meatloaf in dough
This dish looks like a pie, but it is not a pie, it is a roll of meat in a dough. Which turns out to be beautiful, tasty and cooks quite quickly. Better to take ready-made puff pastry.
Ingredients: 700g minced meat, 1 onion, 1 clove of garlic, 1 a raw egg(for minced meat), a small bunch of parsley, black pepper, 50g butter, 2 tsp. lies. mustard, salt, 3 hard-boiled eggs (for the filling), 400-500g of puff pastry.
Cooking method
Finely chop the garlic, onion and parsley and fry on butter... Cool down.
Beat the egg, pour a small part to grease the roll, add the rest to the minced meat. Put fried vegetables and mustard there. Season with pepper, sprinkle with salt and stir.
Boiled eggs peel and cut in half.
Roll out the dough to make a rectangle. If the package contains two pieces of dough instead of one large one, make two small rolls. Put half of the minced meat in the form of a small rectangle in the middle of the layer. Spread the halves of the eggs in the center. Cover with the rest of the minced meat. You should get two rectangles: one large - from dough, and on it, in the middle, the second small - from minced meat.
From the long sides of the dough rectangle, cut into strips two centimeters wide, cutting them from the edge to the roll. This is necessary so that it is convenient to wrap the roll, applying overlapping strips on both sides of the minced meat. You can decorate the roll with scraps of dough. Grease it with an egg and bake for 40 minutes (180C). Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven.
Recipe 5: Peritoneal Meatloaf
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Ingredients: 1.5KG pork belly, salt, 2 tsp. adjika, spices and herbs: black pepper, hot pepper, basil, ground paprika, a pinch of dry garlic (or according to your taste).
Cooking method
It is necessary to choose a good, fleshy piece of the belly, peritoneum on the market. Wash it, dry it and spread generously with herbs and spices on both sides. Don't forget to add salt. If imagination raged, or the soul requires additional delights, you can put slices of cheese, pickled mushrooms, pickled cucumbers, greens on the layer, but it will be delicious without them. Roll the meat into a roll and secure. If there are special devices, such as silicone clamps, then them. If not, wrap with ordinary threads.
Put the roll in the baking sleeve, pierce it in several places so that steam comes out, and send it for one and a half to two hours (it all depends on the weight of the piece of meat) in a preheated oven (200C).
Allow the roll to cool down and put it in the refrigerator right in the bag, without unfolding. In the morning, remove the bag and threads and cut the roll into thin slices. Put a leaf of lettuce on the bread, on top - a piece of roll. And you can enjoy the natural meaty taste.
To prevent the roll from falling apart during baking, put it on a baking sheet with the seam down.
- If the roll is prepared from minced meat, it is better to make the minced meat with your own hands. To make the mass more tender and homogeneous, twist the meat twice.
- It is convenient to form a roll with a towel or cling film. So it will turn out smooth and neat. Lay the minced meat layer on the surface and, lifting the edges of the film or towel, collect a beautiful roll.
- Meat roll is served both hot and cold.
- Instead of chicken eggs you can use quail, only their number must be increased.
Spread the beef cutlet mass on a damp napkin or gauze in an even layer 15-20 mm thick, 200 mm wide and the length of the baking sheet on which the roll is intended to be baked. In the middle of the cutlet mass layer in its entire length, lay the minced meat, prepared in the same way as for chopped slices. Using a napkin, the edges of the cutlet mass must be connected so that a meat shell of even thickness is formed around the minced meat.
Transfer (roll) the roll formed in this way from a napkin onto a baking sheet greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs with the seam down and level. Grease the surface of the roll with a beaten egg, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, pierce on top in three or four places with a knife, sprinkle with butter and lie in the oven.
Before serving, cut the finished roll into portions and pour over with red, onion, sour cream or spicy tomato sauce. Garnish any crumbly porridge, boiled pasta, mashed potatoes, fried or boiled potatoes or vegetables.
Ingredients:
Beef 115, wheat bread 23, milk or water 35, eggs 20, onions 60, rusks 10, ghee 10, sauce 75, garnish 150, pepper.
Cooking method:
Cut the beef into pieces;
put the filling on the minced meat;