Minced meat cutlets in the oven with gravy

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cooking minced meat cutlets in the oven with gravy.

2. Step 2:

   

   Break the loaf into pieces and fill with cold water, leave for 10 minutes. It is necessary to fill it with cold water so that the loaf becomes soft, but leaves its structure. From hot water, it is brewed and turns into porridge. Instead of a loaf, you can take white bread, but cut off all the crusts.

3. Step 3:

   

   Do not squeeze the bread too hard, and put it in the blender bowl. Peel the onion, rinse and cut, add to the bun. Punch everything until smooth. Instead of a blender, you can skip everything through a meat grinder with a fine grate.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the minced meat in a bowl and break the egg there. Minced meat is best homemade from pork and beef in equal proportions. Minced pork with chicken is also perfect.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add the rolled bun with onion to the bowl with minced meat.

6. Step 6:

   

   Season everything with salt, pepper and add paprika. If you don't have it or don't like it, just don't add it.

7. Step 7:

   

   Mix everything well and beat off until the stuffing is compacted and elastic. To do this, lift the minced meat over the bowl and throw it back. Do this about 10-15 times.

8. Step 8:

   

   Pour flour into a bowl. It can be absolutely any kind, the main thing is that it is without garbage and not spoiled. With wet hands, divide the minced meat into identical parts and form cutlets from them. Put it in a bowl with flour.

9. Step 9:

   

   Baking dish, I have 20 * 15 centimeters, grease with vegetable oil. Roll the cutlets from all sides in flour and place them tightly in a mold.

10. Step 10:

    

    Put in a hot oven and bake the cutlets for 20 minutes. Cutlets should be compacted and become elastic. This is necessary so that after adding gravy they do not fall apart.

12. Step 11:

    

    While the cutlets are baking, peel the onion and finely chop. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and put the onion.

13. Step 12:

    

    Peel, wash and grate the carrots on a fine grater. Add it to the frying pan with onions.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put on medium heat and fry for 2 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Add tomato sauce to the pan, pour in water and stir. Instead of tomato sauce, you can take ketchup in the same proportion. Or tomato paste, but 2 times less.

16. Step 15:

    

    Add sour cream to the pan. Take sour cream of good quality so that it does not curdle into flakes later.

17. Step 16:

    

    Season everything with salt, pepper and add a little sugar to balance the acid from the tomato. Stir, bring to a boil, but do not boil.

18. Step 17:

    

    Remove the cutlets from the oven and pour the prepared gravy over them.

19. Step 18:

    

    Return the mold to the oven and bake the cutlets in gravy for 15 minutes.

20. Step 19:

    

    Remove the cutlets from the oven and serve immediately. Absolutely any side dish is suitable for these cutlets, due to the fact that they are served with gravy.

21. Step 20:

    

    Bon appetit.