At the dawn of human development, people were content with eating mammoth meat fried over a piece of driftwood ignited by lightning. But now we, proud descendants of Neanderthals, can cook and eat cutlets! Moreover, we learned how to make them in a variety of ways: chopped, Pozharsky, classic, Kiev style, meatballs, zrazy... And these are all cutlets! I'm not even talking about schnitzels, escalopes, rice arancini and chickpea falafels. There are many varieties of cutlets, but in this article we will talk about a well-known dish from childhood. Such cutlets were prepared in kindergartens on huge baking sheets; grandmothers made them to deliciously feed their beloved grandson or granddaughter. Yes, yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Let's cook delicious cutlets in the oven with gravy. Step-by-step recipe with photos, I filmed each stage of preparing the dish so that even beginners could understand it.

Ingredients:

For the cutlets:

For the gravy:

How to cook cutlets in the oven with gravy (simple step-by-step recipe with photos):

Heat milk or low-fat cream. Cut off the crusts from white bread or loaf. All you need is crumb. Break it into pieces. Place in a deep bowl. Fill with milk. Wait until the bread absorbs the liquid and swells. This usually takes no more than 10-15 minutes.
In the meantime, you can do the most unpleasant procedure - grating the onions. In principle, you can grind it in a blender. It's even faster and easier. I don't recommend cutting with a knife. Then the onion will lose a large amount of juice, which makes the minced meat viscous and elastic. Therefore, the cutlets will most likely fall apart in the oven.
Add chopped onion to bread and milk.
Place the meat minced there as well. Most often I use combined minced meat. I take half pork and half beef. If the meat is lean, then I add a small piece of lard. The minced meat should not turn out dry, because the cutlets will not hold their shape. As you'll notice, there is no egg in the ingredient list. Protein makes the cutlets tougher, although it holds the products together well. I try to get along without it. Moderately fatty minced meat, soaked bread crumb and chopped onion together give an excellent cutlet mass. Whether in a frying pan or in the oven, cutlets turn out tender, soft and very tasty.
Squeeze one or a couple of cloves of garlic into a bowl, add ground black pepper and salt. The minced meat should be a little salty, and the spices in it should be well felt. Otherwise, the dish may turn out bland.
Stir. Knead the minced meat for 3-5 minutes. And then beat it off - throw it on the bottom of the bowl. The mass will become viscous, soft, pliable, and will not fall apart when forming cutlets.
I decided to cook the cutlets not only with gravy, but also with filling. I chose the simplest and most delicious - cheese. Cut it into small pieces so that they fit the length of an average cutlet. Instead of cheese, you can put mushrooms, eggs or other filling inside. You will get mini-zrazy. Or you can do without the filling.
Take some minced meat and form a flat cake. Place a piece of cheese in the center.
Cover the filling with a second portion of cutlet mixture. Form into a round or oblong patty. Line a rimmed baking sheet or baking pan with foil or parchment. Grease with oil. Place the cutlets. If desired, it can be breaded in flour. But I added flour to the gravy, so I decided not to use breading. You can immediately turn on the oven to 180 degrees.

You can cook minced chicken cutlets in the oven with sauce. After all, any side dish will turn out tastier if you pour sauce over it, and the cutlets themselves will be more tender. Minced chicken cutlets in the oven with sour cream sauce are suitable for baby food and for those who want to limit their consumption of fried foods, because the cutlets do not have to be fried in a frying pan, but can be cooked immediately in the oven.

The recipe for making dietary cutlets from minced chicken in the oven is simple, and even a novice housewife can handle it. The only secret is that it is better not to use ready-made minced meat. You will get truly juicy and tasty cutlets only if you make minced meat yourself from fresh chicken breast.

Cooking minced chicken cutlets in the oven

For minced meat:

- 1 chicken breast (600-700 g);

- 1 egg;

- 1 onion;

- 3 slices of toasted white bread;

- milk or cream (how much bread will take);

- salt, spices to taste.

Soak white bread in milk. Peel the onion. Skin the breast and trim the bones. Grind the meat, onion and soaked bread through a meat grinder. This will make the minced meat more uniform.

Add egg, salt, spices to it and mix well again.

Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and form the minced chicken into small round cutlets. Place them on a baking sheet and place in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15 - 20 minutes.

Now, to make juicy minced chicken cutlets in the oven, you need to prepare the sauce.

For sour cream sauce you will need:

• - 50 gr. butter;
• - 1 tbsp. l. flour;
• - 200 gr. sour cream;
• - 200 gr. broth.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the flour in it until golden brown. Add sour cream and broth into the flour, but very gradually so that lumps do not form.

By this time the cutlets should be ready. Check them with a toothpick. If clear juice appears when you press on them with a toothpick, it means the cutlets are ready. If the juice is cloudy, wait another 5 minutes.

Pour sour cream sauce over the cutlets and place them back in the oven for 10 minutes.

Sprinkle the finished dish with herbs and serve with any side dish of your choice. Chicken cutlets made from minced breast meat in the oven are considered dietary dishes, and many will be happy to follow such a diet.

Modern housewives, due to their busy lives, prefer to prepare quick, but at the same time satisfying and tasty dishes. Cutlets occupy the leading position among meat dishes. But they cannot be classified as healthy foods. Cutlets in the oven with gravy are a completely different matter. This dish will not leave anyone indifferent.

There is no single recipe for making cutlets in culinary practice. Each housewife prepares them in her own way, adding certain ingredients, so the taste of the dish is different. You can choose any meat fillet or ready-made minced meat. Cutlets are also made from fish fillets and offal, most often from beef or chicken liver.

The sauce gives the cutlets a special taste and juiciness. Here, too, no one limits your culinary imagination. Minced meat cutlets in the oven with gravy will become your favorite everyday dish.

Compound:

• 1 kg minced meat;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• onion head;
• 0.3 kg of wheat bread;
• 100 ml cow's milk;
• a mixture of peppers, seasonings and salt to taste;
• 5 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• mustard and ketchup to taste.

Preparation:

1. It is best to choose chilled mixed minced meat. Place it in a convenient bowl.
   
2. Peel the onion head and chop it into small cubes. The onion can be twisted in a meat grinder.



3. First break the bread into slices and place in a bowl.
4. Fill it with cow's milk at room temperature and leave for a few minutes to soften.
5. Squeeze the soaked bread crumb thoroughly and add to the minced meat.
   


6. Mix all ingredients thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass.
7. Grease a baking sheet or heat-resistant form with refined vegetable oil.


8. Place a little mustard in a separate bowl and add salt to taste.
   
9. Add about 2 tbsp to the bowl. l. ketchup or other tomato sauce.
   


10. We also add the cow's milk in which the bread was soaked.
11. Stir and pour the prepared sauce over the cutlets.
    
12. Place the pan in the oven for about 50-60 minutes. Bake at a temperature of 200°.
13. Serve the cutlets with mashed potatoes or vegetables.

Cream cheese symphony

Many housewives cooked cutlets in the oven with sour cream sauce. This meat dish turns out to be quite juicy, aromatic and extremely tasty.

On a note! If you want to reduce the nutritional value of the finished dish, bake chicken cutlets with gravy. Their recipe is simple. To prepare the sauce, choose fermented milk products with a minimum percentage of fat content and freshly squeezed tomato juice.

Are you used to being surprised? Prepare cutlets with a new spicy and aromatic sauce.

Compound:

• 6 pcs. cutlets made from minced meat;
• 2 tbsp. cow's milk;
• soft butter – 100 g;
• 100 g hard cheese;
• 3 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
• allspice, spices and salt to taste.

Preparation:

Ideal addition to pasta

Cutlets baked in the oven with gravy are most often served with a side dish of potatoes or pasta. If you prefer the second option, be sure to make a cheese sauce that will be in perfect harmony with both pasta and cutlets.

Compound:

• 500 g minced meat;
• a piece of bread;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• onion head;
• 1 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oil;
• processed cheese – 150-200 g;
• dried dill, salt and other spices - to taste;
• cow's milk – 160 ml;
• 3 pcs. garlic cloves.

Preparation:

1. Place the cooled minced meat in a bowl.
2. Peel the onion and finely chop it with a knife.
3. Fill the bread slice with milk. After 5-7 minutes, carefully squeeze it with your hands and add the soaked bread to the minced meat.
4. We also add spices, salt, chicken egg and chopped onion.
5. Knead the minced meat thoroughly until it has a homogeneous texture, lightly beating the entire mass on the table surface.
6. Grease a baking sheet with oil, form cutlets and place them in a prepared heat-resistant dish.
7. Place the cutlets in the oven for 20 minutes. Bake at a temperature threshold of 180°.
8. In a separate container, combine cow's milk and processed cheese.
9. Using a blender, beat these ingredients.
10. Add garlic passed through a press and finely chopped dill.
11. Mix thoroughly.
12. Remove the cutlets from the oven and pour the prepared sauce on top.
13. Place the pan in the oven again and cook for another quarter of an hour at a temperature of 220°.

Note for fish lovers

People who lived in the USSR remember very well that every Thursday was fish day. In the canteens they prepared cutlets from fish fillets, but their taste sometimes left something to be desired. Today you can cook fish cutlets in the oven with gravy, which will become a real culinary masterpiece.

Compound:

• 900 g fish fillet;
• 2 onions;
• 200 g bread crumb;
• 4 things. fresh tomatoes;
• 100 g wheat flour;
• chicken egg – 1 pc.;
• ½ tbsp. cow's milk;
• 25 ml refined vegetable oil;
• 300 ml filtered water;
• carrots - 1 root vegetable.

Preparation:

1. We thoroughly wash the chilled fish fillet and grind it in a meat grinder.
2. Grind one onion together with the fish fillet.
3. Soak the bread crumb in warm water or milk.
4. Add to fish fillet.
5. Beat in a chicken egg, salt, season with herbs and spices.
6. Mix all ingredients thoroughly until the minced meat has a uniform consistency.
7. We make cutlets and bread them in sifted flour.
8. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan or saucepan.
9. Place the fish cutlets and fry for literally two minutes.
10. Chop the second onion and carrots in the usual way and saute until tender in a separate frying pan.
11. Place the sautéed vegetables on a baking sheet and add the fried cutlets on top of the vegetable bed.
12. Peel fresh tomatoes and cut into small cubes.
13. Sprinkle the cutlets with tomatoes and add filtered water.
14. Place the pan in an oven heated to a temperature of 200°.
15. Simmer for about 20 minutes.

In our country, cutlets are balls of minced meat, which can be meat, fish, vegetables or mixed. There are literally countless recipes for their preparation. In everyday life, for ordinary lunches and dinners, they are most often fried in a frying pan. It would seem that this is fast, not a lot of effort is spent, however... let's compare. Today we will cook cutlets with gravy in the oven. This method of cooking will actually take us less time, because, firstly, in one version they will be baked immediately along with their side dish - potatoes and gravy, and secondly, while they are “standing” in the oven, you can do something - others: prepare a salad, leave the kitchen altogether and relax or do some other things. After all, when cooking in the oven, you don’t need to turn them over, you don’t need to watch them so that they don’t burn. So in the end it's easier. Plus it brings some variety to the usual menu.

Cutlets with potatoes in the oven - step-by-step recipe

Ingredients

• minced meat (pork) – 500g;
• loaf – 100g (2 slices);
• milk – 100ml;
• spices (cumin, thyme, pepper mixture) - a pinch;
• onions – 1-2 pcs;
• tomatoes – 2 pcs;
• vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
• tomato paste – 1 tbsp;
• water – 1 glass;
• potatoes – 700g;
• salt - to taste.

The above quantity of ingredients is enough for 6 servings - 1 piece per serving. If you need to change the amount of ingredients to increase or decrease the number of servings, calculate them this way: the weight of one cutlet is about 100 g, of which 1/5 is a loaf, and the amount of milk is equal to the weight of the loaf. Potatoes can also be defined “by the piece” based on how much each person eats. For me it’s 2 medium potatoes per 1 cutlet. If you ground the meat yourself and added onions to it, then to prepare our cutlets you will need 1 onion from the indicated 1-2 pieces. The second is needed only if there are no onions in the minced meat and, therefore, you will need to chop it in a blender or finely chop it with a knife and mix it with it. Now, as for the meat itself. It is better to take either pork or a mixture of pork and beef.

Preparation:

1. Usually, white bread or a loaf is added to make it more soft and juicy, although I also like to add finely grated potatoes. Cut the crust off the bread, crumble it into a cup and fill it with milk. By the way, stale bread is ideal. Let stand for 5 minutes.
2. Add spices to the minced meat. This is optional, I wrote their approximate composition, you can change it to your liking. If there is no onion in it, add it as I wrote above. Salt.
   
3. Squeeze the soggy bread directly with your hands and place it in the meat. Knead well with your hands until smooth and form into a patty. I like them to be oblong.
   
4. Place the cutlets in a baking dish of sufficient size. At first I didn’t calculate it correctly and the potatoes and gravy ended up in a heap on them, but this is not suitable for baking in the oven, so I had to rearrange them.
   
5. Turn on the oven to warm up to 200°C. When hot, place the cutlets in the oven for 15 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, prepare the gravy. For it, cut the onion into half rings.
   
7. Lightly fry in a frying pan in heated vegetable oil.
   
   
8. Wash the tomatoes and cut into arbitrary pieces. Place in the pan with the onions.
   
9. Add tomato paste. If you have tomato sauce (like I do), you can add that instead of pasta.
   
10. Pour 1 glass of hot water, add salt to taste and simmer for 5 minutes.
    
11. Wash the potatoes, peel them and cut them into slices lengthwise.
    
12. Place the potatoes in the pan on top of the cutlets (you can see in my photo it turned out to be a mound, there wasn’t enough space, that’s what I was talking about).
    
13. Then pour gravy over it.
    
14. Cover tightly with foil and place in the oven for 45 minutes or until the potatoes are done.
15. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs and serve.
    

Cutlets in the oven “like a kindergarten”

We recently had an argument about what they were like in kindergarten with sour cream or tomato sauce? The main one won in skeet, i.e. I and that's why you see tomato instead of sour cream.

Ingredients

• minced beef - 500g;
• stale white bread - 100g;
• milk - 2 tbsp;
• salt - to taste;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp;
• flour - 1 tsp;
• butter - 50g.

Cooking process

1. You definitely need stale bread. Cut off the crusts, crumble into a cup and fill with milk. Let stand for 5 minutes.
2. Then transfer it to a bowl with the minced meat. For children in the garden, it seems to me that beef is suitable, as it is a more dietary and lean meat. Salt and mix well.
3. We form small round balls and place them on a small baking sheet with sides.
4. In 1 liter of hot water from a kettle, dilute tomato paste and add a little salt.
5. Melt a piece of butter in a frying pan and fry the flour in it, stirring continuously for 1-2 minutes or until it darkens a little. Pour 3 tbsp. water with tomato paste and stir to form a thick sauce. If it is too thick, add a little more liquid. Then pour in all the remaining tomato water and stir.
6. Pour the resulting gravy into the baking tray with the cutlets and place in an oven heated to 180°C for 1 hour. During cooking, remove the baking sheet and turn the meat balls over.

Serve with mashed potatoes or pasta.

Chicken cutlets in the oven

Ingredients

• minced chicken - 500g;
• white bread - 100g;
• butter - 100g;
• chicken broth - 1 liter;
• carrots - 1 piece;
• greens (parsley and dill) - 1 small bunch each;
• salt and pepper - to taste.

How to cook them

1. Just like last time, we don’t need fresh bread, at least yesterday’s bread. And we will take only the crumb, which we will pour in a small amount of broth (2 tablespoons will be enough).
2. Cut the butter (frozen) into 6 pieces.
3. We wait for it to swell a little and mix it with the minced meat. Salt and pepper. Divide the entire mass into 6 equal parts, flatten each into a flat cake, and place a piece of butter in the center. Form a ball. And so on with all six.
4. Place in a baking dish.
5. Peel the carrots and grate them on a fine grater. Wash the greens and finely chop them with a knife. Sprinkle the cutlets with herbs and carrots. Fill with broth.
6. Place in the oven and bake at 180°C for 40 minutes.

That's all the recipes that I wanted to bring to your attention today. Save, cook and treat.

Hello, hostesses!

Today we have a nostalgic recipe: we will prepare wonderful cutlets, which are often served in canteens or kindergartens.

They are so soft and delicious and completely drown in the flavorful gravy. Traditionally, they go perfectly with mashed potatoes.

Ingredients:

• Meat - 900 g
• White bread - 200 g
• Milk - 200-250 ml
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 1-2 cloves
• Salt pepper
• Breadcrumbs

For the gravy:

• Meat broth - 1 l
• Onion - 1/2 pcs
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Tomato paste - 2-3 tbsp. l
• Flour - 50 g
• Allspice - 3-5 peas
• Bay leaf - 2 pcs
• Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l
• Butter - 30 g

Preparation:

First, let's prepare the minced meat.

Take pork or half pork and beef, cut it into small pieces.

Soak loaf or white bread in milk. Cut one onion into slices. Scroll everything together through a meat grinder.

Season the ground ingredients with salt and pepper to taste and knead with your hands until smooth.

To do this, mix and beat the minced meat, scooping it whole into your palm and forcefully throwing it back into the bowl.

You need to beat the minced meat so that it becomes denser and excess air comes out of it. Then the cutlets will keep their shape well and have perfect edges.

Of course, do not overdo it so that it does not fly apart.

When it's ready, let it sit for a while, about 10-15 minutes.

Now you can form cutlets from it.

Tossing the minced meat from hand to hand while modeling, further compact them.

Then they will be very smooth and beautiful.

Roll them in breadcrumbs and place on a greased baking sheet.

Place the pieces in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

While they're simmering in the oven, let's make the gravy.

To do this, fry the flour in a hot, dry frying pan, stirring constantly, until it reaches a pleasant light beige hue.

Pour a glass of broth over the toasted flour and stir.

You should get a fairly liquid sour cream consistency.

Sauté everything together for another 3-4 minutes and add tomato paste. Mix well.

Now pour the rest of the broth into the pan and bring to a boil.

Next, with constant stirring, pour in the diluted flour.

Cook the gravy for about 15 minutes, stirring until it thickens slightly.

After that, the finished gravy needs to be blended with a submersible blender or a regular one until it looks completely homogeneous.

All the carrots and onions in it should be chopped so much that there are no pieces left.

Remove the cutlets from the oven. They should have already grabbed and half-prepared.

Pour the gravy over them so that they are completely covered and in this form return them back to the oven for another 15-20 minutes until fully cooked.

These are such wonderful cutlets from childhood! They are beautiful, fragrant and very tasty!

Serve with your favorite side dish. Bon appetit!