Hercules meatballs lean

Lean, dietary, hearty and healthy dish! Cutlets from hercules, despite the lack of meat in the composition, are quite satisfying and nutritious. This is a great option for a lean menu, and they can also be served as a side dish to a meat dish.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 12 % 3 g
Fats 12 % 3 g
Carbohydrates 77 % 20 g
104 kcal
GI: 25 / 65 / 10

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients according to the list. Hercules should be used for such a dish the most ordinary, instant oatmeal will not work. As a binding component, we use potatoes instead of eggs. To make the cutlets less caloric, you can not use breadcrumbs for them.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Thoroughly rinse the grits and pour boiling water, leave for half an hour so that the grits swell well. We drain the water from the bowl with the cereal and squeeze it out, but you do not need to squeeze all the liquid from the oatmeal, it is necessary that the minced meat be moist.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Wash the potato, peel it and cut it into large pieces.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    For a pleasant aroma and taste, add garlic to the ingredients. Garlic cloves are peeled from the husk.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel the onion and cut into large pieces.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Put potatoes, garlic and onions in the blender bowl and chop. If there is no blender, vegetables can be twisted in a meat grinder.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Combine the ingredients: vegetables and oatmeal, add spices: salt and ground black pepper to taste. Mix the mass well.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    If the cutlets will be fried without breading, then the minced meat should be spread on the pan with a spoon. But in order for the cutlets to turn out beautiful and smooth, with a crispy brown crust, the cutlets can be rolled in flour or breadcrumbs. Moistened with cold water with our hands, we form a cutlet from the oatmeal mass, we roll them from all sides in breadcrumbs.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour vegetable oil into the pan, heat it well, spread the cutlets on the preheated oil. Fry the cutlets on both sides until golden brown for 3-4 minutes on each side, over medium heat.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Then cover the pan with a lid and keep the cutlets on the fire for another 5 minutes so that they are well baked inside and become lush. We remove the cutlets from the pan, if it seems that they have absorbed a lot of oil, then we put them on a paper napkin so that the excess oil is absorbed into the paper. We transfer the cutlets to a serving dish and serve them 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
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Oat flakes - 305   kcal/100g
  • Raw Hercules - 390   kcal/100g
  • Breadcrumbs - 347   kcal/100g

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