Buckwheat cutlets with minced meat in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make buckwheat cutlets with minced meat in a frying pan? Prepare the ingredients for the cutlets. Minced meat can be used as meat or as a less high-calorie cooked from poultry meat. Minced meat can be wound from fresh beef and pork meat yourself, or purchased ready-made if you are confident in the quality of such a finished product.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the buckwheat thoroughly, repeatedly changing the water until it becomes transparent. Buckwheat groats need to be boiled until ready, and if time permits, it can be steamed by pouring boiling water over the groats and leaving for an hour under the lid in a saucepan. The cereal will become soft and crumbly. Drain the water, cool the cereal.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and finely chop it with a knife. If you cook minced meat yourself from meat, then onions can be passed along with meat through a meat grinder.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the cooked steamed or boiled buckwheat, minced meat and onions in a bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   Beat in the chicken egg, add salt and ground black pepper.

7. Step 6:

   

   Mix the ingredients well so that the mass becomes homogeneous in consistency. Some housewives recommend to beat off the minced meat.

8. Step 7:

   

   Make cutlets from the resulting mass, form cutlets with your hands soaked in cold water. Pan the cutlets in wheat flour.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into the pan. Warm it up. Put the cutlets on the warmed oil, fry them for 5 minutes on one side, until browned, then turn over and also fry on the second side.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then pour a couple of tablespoons of water into the pan, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the cutlets for 10 minutes. The liquid should completely evaporate. The cutlets are ready, serve them to the table with fresh vegetables and bread. If desired, you can prepare an additional side dish. Enjoy your meal!