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Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms

This is a tasty tweak to original minced beef cutlets recipe. The mince is prepared exactly the same way and mushrooms and onions stuffing gives ground meat juiciness and extraordinary taste.

A bit of agility is required to put stuffing inside of minced meat cutlets, but once you get it – it seems easy: meat is sticky, so if you get some holes, they can be easily patched by adding a layer of mince on top of the hole.

To prevent meat from sticking to hands – rinse hands with cold water from time to time while assembling minced cutlets.

Ingredients:

  • 1.5lb of ground beef
  • 8 oz of field mushrooms
  • 2 big onions
  • 1 egg
  • About 1/4 of white bread loaf, at least 2-3 days old
  • 1/2 cup of milk
  • 1/3 cup of all purpose flour
  • Vegetable oil
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: you can use already ground beef or grind it yourself, if grinding meat yourself add an onion too, so you don’t need to chop it separately later; pour 2-3 table spoons of flour in to small bowl:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 1
  2. Warm up 1 table spoon of vegetable oil in skillet over moderate heat, peel and chop one onion, add to the skillet and fry until soft:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 2
  3. Clean mushrooms (I usually skin them too); chop mushrooms and fry them with onions stirring from time to time over:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 3
  4. While mushrooms are cooking scoop soft bread from the crust (you will not need crust for this recipe), put to the bowl and pour milk over it; let it soak for a bit:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 4
  5. Peel second onion, and chop it (you can use food processor, or blender, or even grate):
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 5
  6. Put ground beef to the bigger bowl:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 6
  7. Add an egg:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 7
  8. And chopped onion, season with salt and ground black pepper:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 8
  9. Mix using hands:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 9
  10. Squeeze milk from bread and mix it in:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 10
  11. Until you get homogeneous mince:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 11
  12. By now mushrooms and onions should be ready, salt them and season with ground black pepper to taste and mix:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 12
  13. And move fried mushroom and onions from skillet to a bowl to cool down:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 13
  14. Using your hands (wet hands with cold water for meat doesn’t stick to them) form minced cutlets and stuff them with mushrooms, for that:
    Scoop mince with tablespoon, roll ball
    Flat it a bit
    Make a small pit in the middle

    Add fried mushrooms and onions
    Enclose stuffing by meat layer
    Form minced cutlet w/ stuffing inside

    You will need to do it for all mince and mushroom/onion stuffing, but don’t have to do it all at once.
  15. Generously dust each cutlet from both sides in flour before frying:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 15
  16. Put several cutlets to the skillet warmed up with oil over moderate heat and fry until golden brown:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 16
  17. Flip cutlets ready from one side to other:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 17
  18. Repeat for all mince and mushroom stuffing, more ready cutlets to the separate plate:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms Recipe: Step 18
  19. Serve warm with your choice of side dish:
    Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms
Enjoy!