Cutlets with side dish

The most popular dish for lunch and dinner on weekdays! Cutlets with a side dish: mashed potatoes, pasta or buckwheat are one of the most common dishes in our country. Such a dish is served to the table, starting from kindergartens, canteens in school institutions, various organizations, in restaurants, cafes and even at home. The popularity of this dish is caused by the fact that it is prepared quite simply, quickly, and it turns out delicious and satisfying, the combination of meat and carbohydrates in the form of a side dish supplies the body with energy for a long time, which prolongs its efficiency and activity.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 28 % 8 g
Fats 28 % 8 g
Carbohydrates 45 % 13 g
153 kcal
GI: 67 / 25 / 8

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    As a side dish, we will cook the most favorite mashed potatoes, especially for young children. Cutlets can be made from any meat to taste, but it tastes better from a mixture of pork and beef. Let's start with the preparation of mashed potatoes. Potatoes are washed, cleaned and cut into large pieces of arbitrary shape.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Put the potatoes in a saucepan, rinse to wash off excess starch, pour cold clean water. We put it on fire. When the water boils, reduce the heat to medium, add a pinch of salt and cook for about 25 minutes, until the potatoes are soft. Readiness can be checked with a fork or knife.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    While the potatoes are cooking, we will make cutlets. Fresh pork and beef meat is thoroughly washed, dried with paper towels, cut into small pieces and scroll the meat in a meat grinder. In a bowl, crumble white bread, pour milk and let it swell, leave for 15 minutes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put minced meat in a bowl with bread.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel and finely chop the onion with a knife. We send it to a bowl with minced meat. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. We drive in a chicken egg.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Mix the mass thoroughly so that it becomes homogeneous in consistency. Minced meat for cutlets is ready.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    The potatoes are cooked. Part of the water in which the potatoes were cooked is drained. Potatoes with the remains of the broth are kneaded with a hand pusher or blender to a state of puree, homogeneous in consistency. Add butter and salt to the puree to taste, mix. Mashed potatoes are ready.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Pour wheat flour into a plate, it can be replaced with breadcrumbs. With our hands soaked in cold water, we form small cutlets from minced meat, each of them is rolled in flour from all sides. Pour vegetable oil into the pan. We warm it up. We put the cooked cutlets on the butter. Fry them for 3 minutes on one side, until browned.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Then turn over and fry on the other side until browned.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Pour a little water into the pan so that it covers the cutlets no higher than the middle. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat to slow and simmer the cutlets for 25 minutes until the liquid has completely evaporated. Remove the lid, let the cutlets dry. Remove the cutlets from the pan and serve with hot mashed potatoes as a side dish to the table. Bon appetit!

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
  • Melted beef fat - 871   kcal/100g
  • Fat beef - 171   kcal/100g
  • Lean beef - 158   kcal/100g
  • Beef brisket - 217   kcal/100g
  • Beef - okovalok - 380   kcal/100g
  • Beef - lean roast - 200   kcal/100g
  • Beef shoulder - 137   kcal/100g
  • Beef - ribs - 233   kcal/100g
  • Beef - ham - 104   kcal/100g
  • Beef - tail - 184   kcal/100g
  • Boiled ham - 269   kcal/100g
  • Beef corned beef - 216   kcal/100g
  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Pork fat - 333   kcal/100g
  • Pork meat - 357   kcal/100g
  • Pork - lean roast - 184   kcal/100g
  • Pork chop on a bone - 537   kcal/100g
  • Pork - schnitzel - 352   kcal/100g
  • Pork shoulder - 593   kcal/100g
  • Boar's leg - 113   kcal/100g
  • Pork - 259   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • White bread - 266   kcal/100g

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