Cutlets in gravy as in the dining room

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cutlets in gravy as in the dining room? Prepare the products for the cutlets. My minced meat is mixed, beef is pork. In general, minced meat from any meat will do. Instead of milk, you can take water.

2. Step 2:

   

   Peel and chop the onion. For cutlets, I prefer to chop finely — pass through a meat grinder, punch with a blender, grate. But you can just cut the onion with a knife.

3. Step 3:

   

   Break the bun and pour the milk. If the crusts are very hard, then it is better to cut them off. After a few minutes, remember the pieces with your hands and turn them over so that the bread is evenly moistened. When the loaf is soaked, squeeze it out of the milk.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the minced meat, chopped onion, a bun squeezed from the liquid, salt and pepper in a bowl. Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands.

5. Step 5:

   

   Minced meat should become absolutely homogeneous and viscous in consistency. You can additionally beat it off, then the cutlets will not fall apart when frying. Or add an egg, although they didn't do that in the canteens.

6. Step 6:

   

   Preheat a frying pan over medium heat, pour vegetable oil on it. Form cutlets with wet hands and roll them in breadcrumbs. Put the pan-fried cutlets in the pan. If you are not sure of your dexterity, then first blind all the cutlets and only then put them in the pan.

7. Step 7:

   

   Fry the cutlets on both sides over high heat until a crust forms.

8. Step 8:

   

   Then reduce the heat, cover the pan with a lid and leave for about ten minutes so that the cutlets are fried to the end.

10. Step 9:

    

    While the cutlets are frying, do the gravy. How to make gravy? Prepare the products. Instead of tomato paste, I took mashed tomatoes. You'd better take pasta, tomatoes are a little sour. The amount of butter can be reduced to 50 grams.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put butter in a preheated frying pan and melt it over low heat.

12. Step 11:

    

    Pour the flour into the butter.

13. Step 12:

    

    Quickly working with a whisk, dissolve it in oil.

14. Step 13:

    

    Put the tomato paste. My tomatoes were frozen, that's why they look like this.

15. Step 14:

    

    Stir the paste until smooth. The sauce will noticeably thicken.

16. Step 15:

    

    Then, with constant stirring, pour a glass of water into the sauce — the gravy will become the desired consistency. Add salt and pepper to taste, leave to bubble for a couple of minutes.

17. Step 16:

    

    Add sour cream to the gravy, stir, bring to a boil and turn off. Pour the gravy over the cutlets before serving. Bon appetit!