Fish cutlets with cottage cheese in the oven

Washed and dried fillet of white fish is passed through a meat grinder twice. The second time is necessary to guarantee to get rid of small bones that could accidentally remain in the piece. If the fish was bought whole, before grinding, we clean off the scales, cut off the head, fins and gut the fish. Rinse well under running water, dry with paper towels and after that remove the fillet, cutting the prepared carcass along the ridge.

Only onions are used from vegetables in this cutlet recipe. We clean it, wash it, cut it if the head is large, and chop it with a knife - chop it quite finely.

Heat a small frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil over medium heat, spread the chopped onion, fry it until golden brown with frequent stirring. Then add the fried onion to the minced meat and mix. For a more dietary option, or if the cutlets will be eaten by small children, the onion can not be fried, but crushed raw with a meat grinder or blender. This method will allow you to get juiciness and add flavor to the cutlets, but the onion pieces will not be felt particularly.

Add cottage cheese to the minced fish with onions. It is better to take a fat one - then it will not be baked with rubber grains, and the finished dish will turn out to be more tender. We send eggs, salt, ground pepper, semolina to the same place. Mix everything thoroughly. We leave the mass for 20 minutes so that the semolina swells and the minced meat acquires a dense consistency (we do not send it to the refrigerator - at room temperature the process will be faster and better).

While the minced meat reaches the desired state, turn on the oven at 200 degrees. With our hands soaked in water, we form round or oblong cutlets. We put them on a baking sheet, you can tightly to each other. At the bottom, between the cutlets, pour a little water so that during cooking they do not dry out, but turn out soft. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Serve hot with any side dish.

Bon appetit!