Beetroot cutlets

Delicious independent dish or vegetable side dish for meat! Beetroot is a vegetable from which you can cook a lot of interesting dishes, even cutlets that will appeal to those people who do not like this root vegetable at all.
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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 17 % 4 g
Fats 29 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 54 % 13 g
115 kcal
GI: 0 / 38 / 62

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make beetroot cutlets? Cook the beetroot in a uniform or peel and boil the root vegetable cut into pieces. It seems to me that when cooking and baking vegetables whole, more nutrients remain in them, and the beets retain their bright color. Cook the whole beetroot for about 25 minutes, the readiness can be checked with the tip of a sharp knife or fork, they should easily enter the vegetable. To make the beetroot in the skin cook faster, you can add a pinch of soda to the water in the pan.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Let the vegetable cool down. Peel and chop the beets with a blender, fork or grate. If you want the beet mass to be homogeneous as minced meat in the finished product, then, of course, it is better to use a blender, when grated, the beetroot will remain in the cutlets in small pieces.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In a separate bowl, beat the chicken egg, add salt and ground black pepper to taste, whisk the ingredients with a fork to make a homogeneous mixture.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In a bowl with grated beetroot, add semolina, pour in the egg mixture, a tablespoon of thick sour cream. Mix the ingredients thoroughly.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Pour semolina or breadcrumbs into a plate. With a tablespoon, put a little beetroot minced meat in a plate.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    And carefully with clean hands form dense beetroot cutlets in breading. Pour vegetable oil into the pan. Warm it up.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Put the cutlets on the preheated oil, fry them on medium heat for about 2-3 minutes on one side, then turn over and let the cutlets brown on the second side. Remove the cutlets from the pan, serve to the table as a side dish to a meat dish, or as an independent dish with sour cream or mayonnaise. It turns out delicious, simple and satisfying. Enjoy your meal!

Cooking beetroot cutlets is not only an easy way to diversify the menu and make children, most of whom do not like beetroot, eat it with pleasure and ask for more additives, but also a great way to attach the remains of beetroot cooked for salad or other dishes in an original way.

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. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Beetroot - 40   kcal/100g
  • Dried beetroot - 278   kcal/100g
  • Boiled beets - 49   kcal/100g
  • Semolina - 340   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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