Minced meat cutlets in the oven with cheese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake cutlets with cheese in the oven? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. For cutlets, you can take purchased minced meat, but I prefer to make cutlets from minced meat cooked at home. At the same time, the meat can be any — beef, pork, chicken, turkey. Just keep in mind that the cooking time will be different for different types of meat. Take any cheese, both hard and soft will do, the main thing is that it melts well and is delicious.

2. Step 2:

   

   How to make minced meat? Wash the flesh (I have pork), cut into pieces and pass through a meat grinder with a fine grate. Put the minced meat in a bowl and break an egg into it. Pre-wash the egg so that dirt does not get into the stuffing.

3. Step 3:

   

   Season the minced meat with salt and pepper, mix until smooth.

4. Step 4:

   

   So that the cutlets do not fall apart and keep the shape, beat off the cooked minced meat. To do this, collect the minced meat in your hand, lift it over the bowl and throw it back. Do this 10-15 times. At the end, you will feel how the minced meat will thicken and become more elastic.

5. Step 5:

   

   Grease a baking dish with a thick bottom with a small amount of vegetable oil. Form cutlets from minced meat, I got four pieces, and put them in a mold. Make a long strip along the cutlets. The shape should be slightly larger than cutlets.

6. Step 6:

   

   Prepare the gravy. How to make gravy? Put a frying pan with a thick bottom on medium heat. Put the butter and melt it. Sift wheat flour into the pan. Flour can be taken of the highest or first grade.

7. Step 7:

   

   Mix flour with butter until smooth.

8. Step 8:

   

   Gradually pour in the milk, mixing well each time until smooth. Do not pour the milk immediately, it will be very difficult to turn everything into a homogeneous mass.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wash the greens and chop them finely. Add it to the pan with gravy. It can be dill, parsley, cilantro, any to your taste.

11. Step 10:

    

    Stir, add salt and cook the gravy until thickened, about 2 minutes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Remove the pan from the stove and pour the gravy over the patties on top and the gaps between them.

13. Step 12:

    

    Grate the cheese on a coarse or fine grater and sprinkle the cutlets on top.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put in a hot oven, temperature 180 ° C, and bake minced meat cutlets with cheese for 40 minutes, until tender and golden brown.

15. Step 14:

    

    Remove the mold from the oven and immediately arrange the cutlets on plates. Any side dish is suitable for them, and they can also be served with fresh vegetables.

16. Step 15:

    

    Bon appetit.