Casserole with minced meat and vegetables in the oven

How to make a casserole with minced meat and vegetables in the oven? Get busy preparing vegetables. Pour the water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences and boil for 5-6 minutes until it softens.

Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil, add ground beef. Fry it until cooked, constantly stirring with a spatula and crushing the pieces so that the mass turns out to be more tender and homogeneous. As soon as the minced meat is browned, transfer it to a separate plate.

Peel onions and carrots, wash, dry. Cut the onion into small cubes, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the celery into small pieces.

In the frying pan in which the minced meat was fried, melt the butter and send the vegetables to it. Fry for 5-7 minutes until they are soft and the onion is transparent. Add paprika, thyme, ground black pepper, fry for a minute until the aroma of herbs appears.

Add tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce and dry red wine. Boil until reduced in volume. Pour in the broth, reduce the heat to low and cook until the sauce thickens and the vegetables are fully cooked.

Add the beef and stir. Discard the finished cauliflower in a colander and leave the water to drain.

In a saucepan, heat half of the milk almost to a boil. Stir the other half with starch in a separate bowl. Pour the starch mixture into the milk, boil until thick, stirring constantly and turn off.

Grate the cheese, add to the milk, sprinkle with ground white pepper, stir until the cheese melts.

 Turn the oven to 180 degrees to warm up.
Start assembling the casserole. Grease the mold with vegetable oil, put half of the cauliflower, half of the meat mixture on the bottom and pour half of the sauce. Then repeat again: cabbage, meat mixture and the remaining sauce. Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes until the cabbage is completely cooked.

Let cool for 10 minutes and serve.

Bon appetit!

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which one is better not to use at all, read here .

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