Pieces - General Cooking Principles
What are bits and what is their difference from cutlets? In fact, there is no big difference between these two dishes, they just make cutlets, as a rule, of elongated shape, and bitochka round. In addition, chops can be prepared not only from minced meat, but also add to them mushrooms, cheese, made from potatoes or even semolina. Cooked juicy bits in a thick sauce, with which most often served.
Bitties - preparing food and dishes
The main component of meat bits is mince meat. In recent years, many housewives do not burden themselves with the preparation of minced meat and buy it in stores. What's wrong with this product? First of all, the fact that under the guise of minced meat most often offer to buy old meat. In addition, when you buy a neck or pulp, you see the ratio of lard and meat. As for the stuffing, the employees of butcher shops and departments specifically put more fat into it. It is best to buy fresh meat, preferring soft parts, and prepare the stuffing yourself. Fish chops and chicken also need to be prepared from fresh ingredients.
But as for chunks of cereals or potatoes, you can easily take the leftover dinner - mashed potatoes or rice garnish, and get a tasty and satisfying dish.
As you already understood, bits are not ordinary burgers. For thick sauce to these products you can use vegetables, cream, flour. Cooking bits is best in a pan with a non-stick coating or in a skillet, the bottom of which must be pre-oiled.
Bitcheck Recipes:
Recipe 1: Fish Chips
If you cook the usual fish cakes, they will turn out dryish. Fish tits get juicy thanks to thick onion sauce. Unlike cutlets, you do not need to put bread in fish balls.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced white meat 400 grams
- Bulb onion 2 pieces
- Carrots 1 piece
- Cream 200 ml (non-fat)
- Butter 50 grams
- Spice
Cooking method:
- Peel and finely chop the bulbs. Half of one onion, use for chops, and the rest will go into a thick sauce.
- Wash carrots and rub on a fine grater.
- Combine minced fish, half of one onion, grated carrots, spices. Mold from the fish mass round bits.
- Put the butter on a hot frying pan and melt it. Put bits on a frying pan and fry them from both sides.
- When the meatballs get a golden hue, cover them with cream and add the chopped onions.
Simmer fish bits in onion sauce for about 10-12 minutes over medium heat with the lid closed. Serve the finished dish along with the sauce.
Recipe 2: Fish fresh fish chops
If you have not eaten herring from herring, then be sure to cook this dish! Put a bun into this product made of fish, so the chops will turn out to be more satisfying and strong. Be sure to breach fish products, otherwise the meatballs may fall apart during the extinguishing process.
Ingredients Required:
- Fresh herring 400 grams
- Milk 100 grams
- Unsweetened bun 150 grams
- Bulb 1 piece
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Breadcrumbs
- Seasoning
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Clean the fish from bones and skins, wash.
- Clean the onion.
- Soak the bun in milk for ten minutes.
- Grind the fish, bun, egg, onion and spices through a meat grinder. Make minced round bits and sprinkle with breadcrumbs each.
- Heat the pan and fry fish tits on it.
Recipe 3: Manna Cakes with Blueberry Sauce
Sweet candy from semolina will serve as an excellent breakfast for you or your children. Not all children love porridge, despite its usefulness. Why not cook an unusual dish no less useful than porridge, but in a different form? A special feature of these bits will be the additive in the form of a thick blueberry sauce. For its preparation it is best to use corn starch, but if you can not find it, then you can do with potato.
Ingredients Required:
- Milk 400 ml
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Semolina 100 grams
- Flour 5 tablespoons
- Water 2 cups
- Corn starch 5 teaspoons
- Blueberry 100 grams
- Salt
- Sugar
- Vanillin
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Cook semolina. To do this, bring the milk to a boil, pour semolina into it. Add sugar, vanilla and salt to taste. Boil for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Chill.
- Once the porridge has cooled down a little, add an egg, butter, 3 tablespoons of flour to it and knead well.
- With wet hands, form balls of semolina, roll them in flour.
- Heat the pan, grease it with oil and fry the chops until golden brown.
- Cook the blueberry sauce. Wash berries and sort, chop or rub through a sieve. Pour blueberries in a saucepan with two glasses of water, boil, add sugar. In one glass of water, stir the starch separately and pour it into the pan. Cool the sauce to room temperature.
- Put the chops in a deep plate, cover with sauce and let them stand for 15-20 minutes in the refrigerator before serving.
Recipe 4: "Classic" semolina
Delicious, hearty and healthy dessert - this is what semolina is! To taste this dish looks like cheesecakes, only bits are obtained more airy and tender.
Ingredients Required:
- Semolina 100 grams
- Milk 200 ml
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Sugar
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Butter
- Vegetable oil
- Flour 4 tablespoons
Cooking method:
- First of all, cook semolina. To do this, bring the milk to a boil and pour into it a thin stream of semolina. Stir and boil for about six to seven minutes. Turn off the heat, add salt, sugar and vanilla, butter to porridge. Let the porridge stand for about 10 minutes after removing it from the heat.
- In the chilled semolina, beat the egg, add 2 tablespoons of flour, mix well.
- With wet hands, form balls of porridge, sprinkle them with flour.
- Heat the pan and grease it with vegetable oil.
- Fry the semolina bits for 3-4 minutes on each side.
Recipe 5: Chicken chops in a creamy sauce
Chicken chops get juicier cutlets due to the fact that they are stewed in a special thick sauce. For this recipe, in addition to the usual "cutlet" ingredients, you will need cream and melted cheese.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken fillet 400 grams
- Egg 2 pieces
- Bulb onion 1 piece
- Cream 200 ml
- Glass of water
- Processed cheese 100 grams
- Spice
Cooking method:
- Wash chicken fillet, remove films from it.
- Peel the onions and cut them into 4 pieces.
- Mince meat, onion, egg and spices. Form mincemeat bits.
- Heat a deep frying pan, grease with oil and place chops on it. Cook them for about 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Fill the balls with a mixture of cream and water.
- Rub the melted cheese on a grater and sprinkle with chops. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the chops for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
Recipe 6: Chicken chops with mushrooms
Tasty and delicate dish combines the tenderness of chicken and the aroma of mushrooms. Serve the ready-made chicken bits in a thick sauce.
Ingredients Required:
- 4 tablespoons flour
- Chicken fillet 400 grams
- Mushrooms 300 grams
- Fresh eggs 2 pieces
- Spice
- Cream 200 ml
- Water 100 ml
Cooking method:
- Wash mushrooms well and chop finely. Set aside half for the sauce to bits.
- Wash chicken fillet, remove films and pieces of fat. Mince an egg, chicken, half of the flour and mushrooms. Add spices.
- Shape round chunks of chicken mince, roll them in flour.
- Grease a hot frying pan with oil and place chops on it. Cook them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Mix water and cream, add mushrooms and salt to the mixture.
- Fill the chops with sauce and simmer them under a closed lid for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
Recipe 7: Meat chops
Meat tunic differ from cutlets in that they are more tender and juicy.
Ingredients Required:
- Pork 400 grams
- Chicken egg 2 pieces
- Bulb onion large 1 piece
- Seasonings
- Flour 4 tablespoons
- Tomato paste 4 tablespoons
- Sugar
- Water 200 ml
- Vegetable oil
- Sour cream 4 tablespoons
Cooking method:
- Peel the onions and cut them into 4 pieces.
- Wash carrots and grate.
- Wash the meat and cut it into pieces.
- Mince pork with vegetables.
- In egg mince and spices.
- Mold from the mass round bits, then roll them in flour.
- Put the bits on a hot pan, greased with oil. Cook them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Cook the sauce. Mix the tomato paste, sour cream, water, add 2 tablespoons of flour and stir so that there are no lumps.
- Fill meat chops and simmer them for at least 10 minutes under a closed lid.
Recipe 8: Potato cones
If you still have mashed potatoes after dinner, then do not rush to throw it away, because even the next day you can make a delicious and rich breakfast!
Ingredients Required:
- Mashed potatoes 400 grams
- Bread Crumbs
- Butter
- Spice
- Chicken egg 2 pieces
- Fresh dill
- Garlic
Cooking method:
- In the mashed potatoes, beat the egg, mix.
- Peel the garlic and squeeze it through the press in mashed potatoes.
- Wash and chop the dill. Add in mashed potatoes.
- Form balls of potato mass and roll them in breadcrumbs.
- Heat the pan and grease it with a piece of butter. Fry potato bits on both sides for two minutes.
Serve the finished dish with sour cream or cream sauce.
Recipe 9: mincemeat
If you decide to make mincemeat chops, then this dish is best done along with a fat sour cream sauce. It is best to use two types of minced meat - so the bits are juicier.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced pork 200 grams
- Minced beef 200 grams
- Onion 2 pieces
- Flour 8 tablespoons
- Chicken egg 2 pieces
- Seasonings
- Butter
- Water 150 ml
- Fresh parsley
- Sour cream 200 ml
Cooking method:
- Peel and chop the onion.
- Combine minced meat, egg and half onion, salt and add spices. From the resulting meat mass, form round balls and roll them in flour.
- Heat the pan and grease it with a piece of butter.
- Spread fry bits in a frying pan, for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Cook the sauce. Wash greens and chop finely. Stir sour cream in water, add onion and chopped parsley.
- Fill the chops with sauce and simmer them under a closed lid for about 8-10 minutes.
Recipe 10: Cheese Pieces
If you want to cook a delicious and delicious dish, then cook the chops with cheese. As a basis, you can use not only minced meat, but also mashed potatoes in pure form or with mushrooms, boiled grits.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced beef 400 grams
- Hard cheese 200 grams of any salty variety
- Chicken egg 2 pieces
- Flour 2 tablespoons
- Bulb onion 1 piece
- Bun 100 grams
- Milk 100 ml
- Butter
- Spice
Cooking method:
- Onions must be peeled and finely chopped.
- Soak the bun in milk for 10 minutes.
- Combine minced meat, egg, bun and onion, and all this is minced.
- Hard cheese grate.
- Before shaping the meatballs, put a little grated cheese in the middle of each one, wrap it in minced meat and breaded in flour.
- Grease a hot frying pan with oil and fry bitochki on it for 2-3 minutes on each side. Serve the meatballs best, while they are hot - then the melted cheese will be dragged.
Recipe 11: Rice cones
Rice - healthy and tasty cereals. Rice porridge served as a side dish for meat and fish, used to make pilaf and oriental rolls, cooked with dried fruit and sugar. If you have left after the meal rice, do not rush to throw it away. A few simple manipulations and you get a tasty and unusual dish - rice chops! This recipe describes how to make unsweetened chops, but you can also add sugar and candied fruits instead of onions and salt, and then get a dessert dish.
Ingredients Required:
- Boiled rice porridge 300 grams
- Egg 2 pieces
- Onion 1 piece
- Flour
- Butter
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Peel and finely chop the onion.
- In the rice, beat the eggs, enter the onion, salt and mix well.
- Use wet hands to mold balls of rice mass and roll them in flour.
- Grease a hot frying pan with butter. Put the rice bits in the pan and fry them on both sides until a golden crust appears.
Smells - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Bitters are best roasted in butter, and not on vegetable.
- If you are cooking meat balls, then be sure to extinguish them in a thick cream, tomato or sour cream sauce - so the dish will turn out much juicier.
- So that the meatballs do not break up during the cooking process, coat them with flour or sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
- To give the beaters a perfect round shape, you can beat them with a knife. After all, the word "bits" comes precisely from the verb "to beat."
