Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, oven, kitchen scale, grater, pan, frying pan, garlic shop, cutting board, knife, 2 bowls, flat plate, tablespoon, fork, foil, paper towels.
Ingredients
beet | 300-400 g |
semolina | 2 tbsp. l |
garlic | 2-3 cloves |
chicken egg | 1 PC. |
white bread | 150-180 g |
milk | 200 g |
breadcrumbs | 100-150 g |
vegetable oil | 1-2 tbsp. l |
salt | taste |
ground black pepper | taste |
Step cooking
- To prepare vegetable cutlets, you first need to bake or boil 300-400 g of beets. Rinse thoroughly under running water before doing so. To bake beets, wrap it individually in foil and place in an oven preheated to 220 ° C for about 1-1.5 hours, depending on the size of the vegetables. If you prefer to cook beets, then place them in a pot of cold water, bring to a boil, and then cook for about another 1 hour on low heat. Check the readiness of the beets with a knife or fork - it should be completely soft and easily pierced. You can prepare vegetables the night before.
- Soak in about 200 grams of milk a couple of slices of white bread with a total weight of 150-180 g. Peel the cooled beets and peel them on a coarse grater, then place it in a deep bowl. Add one chicken egg to beets, then salt and pepper with black ground pepper to taste. If you wish, you can add your favorite spicy spices to beetroot stuffing.
- Peel 2-3 small cloves of garlic. Use the garlic to squeeze the garlic into a bowl of beets. Then pour 2 tbsp. l semolina. Soak the soaked bread with your hands and squeeze out so that there is no excess liquid, then add it to all the ingredients. Mix everything well with a spoon until smooth. Leave the mass for about 10 minutes to swell semolina.
- Pour about 1-2 tbsp into the pan. l vegetable oil and lightly heat on the stove. With moistened hands, form medium-sized cutlets and dip them in breadcrumbs on all sides, then put them on a preheated pan.
- Fry the patties on both sides until golden brown over low heat, about 10 minutes on each side.
- If you wish, you can first put the finished cutlets on paper towels so that they absorb excess oil, and then transfer them to a dish and decorate with a sprig of your favorite greens.
Serve such juicy and fragrant meatballs as an independent dish with a delicate sour cream sauce. Also, they are well suited to any side dish. Beetroot patties are equally tasty both hot and chilled.
Video recipe
How to prepare all the ingredients for beetroot stuffing and make fragrant cutlets, you can look in more detail at the video.