Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make lean vegan cutlets from lentils? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Take medium-sized carrots and onions, a potato tuber - large or 2 small ones. Any odorless oil will do. Lentils are green, as they keep their shape better. Rinse it well in several waters, add 2 cups of water, put it to boil. It will take about 25 minutes (after boiling). If you soak the lentils in advance, they will cook faster
Step 2:
Peel and rinse the onions and carrots. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater or cut into thin strips. Cut the onion into arbitrary cubes. Since the vegetables will be further crushed with a blender, the shape of the slicing is not fundamental.
Step 3:
Heat a frying pan, carefully pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil on it. Fry the vegetables, stirring occasionally, over medium heat for 6-7 minutes. Cool it down.
Step 4:
Wash and peel potatoes and garlic well. Grate them on a fine grater, drain the released juice. Drain carefully so that only the liquid leaves, and the starch remains. Thanks to him, the cutlets will keep their shape.
Step 5:
Try the lentils, if they have already become soft and there is too much water, make more fire and, stirring, evaporate all the liquid. Cool the finished lentils a little. To knead minced meat for cutlets, take a deep bowl. Transfer the fried onions and carrots, grated potatoes with garlic and lentils into it. Add salt and spices to taste.
Step 6:
Use a blender to chop all the ingredients. Mix thoroughly. If the minced meat turned out to be liquid and it is impossible to form cutlets from it, add flour in small portions, focusing on the appearance of the minced meat. It should not spread. Flour didn't come in handy for me this time.
Step 7:
The cutlets are very tender and if you make them too big, it will be inconvenient to turn them over. Minced meat the size of a large walnut is enough for one cutlet. Form cutlets and fry them on medium heat on both sides in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Step 8:
Such cutlets can be fried without adding oil. To do this, make the fire quieter, and increase the roasting time.
16 small cutlets are obtained from the specified number of products.
You can serve them with vegetables, various sauces or sour cream.
To taste, the cutlets are tender and spicy. I can't say that this is one of my favorite dishes. I like lentils more in the form of porridge or soup. But in order to diversify the family diet, they can be quite cooked.
If you use ready-made spice mixes, be sure to read the composition on the package. Often, salt is already present in such mixtures, take this into account, otherwise you risk over-salting the dish.
Instead of wheat flour, you can take whole grain or first grade.
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher.Make sure to use oil with a high smoke point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Ripe potatoes - 80 kcal/100g
- Baked potatoes - 70 kcal/100g
- Mashed potatoes - 380 kcal/100g
- Boiled potatoes - 82 kcal/100g
- Potatoes in uniform - 74 kcal/100g
- Fried potatoes - 192 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Spices dry - 240 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Green lentils - 323 kcal/100g
