Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms
August 6th, 2011 in Beef, Main Dishes by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 1h
This is a tasty tweak to original minced beef cutlets recipe. The mince is prepared exactly the same way and mushrooms and onions stuffing gives ground meat juiciness and extraordinary taste.
A bit of agility is required to put stuffing inside of minced meat cutlets, but once you get it – it seems easy: meat is sticky, so if you get some holes, they can be easily patched by adding a layer of mince on top of the hole.
To prevent meat from sticking to hands – rinse hands with cold water from time to time while assembling minced cutlets.
Ingredients:
- 1.5lb of ground beef
- 8 oz of field mushrooms
- 2 big onions
- 1 egg
- About 1/4 of white bread loaf, at least 2-3 days old
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1/3 cup of all purpose flour
- Vegetable oil
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients: you can use already ground beef or grind it yourself, if grinding meat yourself add an onion too, so you don’t need to chop it separately later; pour 2-3 table spoons of flour in to small bowl:
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Warm up 1 table spoon of vegetable oil in skillet over moderate heat, peel and chop one onion, add to the skillet and fry until soft:
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Clean mushrooms (I usually skin them too); chop mushrooms and fry them with onions stirring from time to time over:
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While mushrooms are cooking scoop soft bread from the crust (you will not need crust for this recipe), put to the bowl and pour milk over it; let it soak for a bit:
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Peel second onion, and chop it (you can use food processor, or blender, or even grate):
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Put ground beef to the bigger bowl:
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Add an egg:
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And chopped onion, season with salt and ground black pepper:
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Mix using hands:
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Squeeze milk from bread and mix it in:
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Until you get homogeneous mince:
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By now mushrooms and onions should be ready, salt them and season with ground black pepper to taste and mix:
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And move fried mushroom and onions from skillet to a bowl to cool down:
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Using your hands (wet hands with cold water for meat doesn’t stick to them) form minced cutlets and stuff them with mushrooms, for that:
Scoop mince with tablespoon, roll ball 
Flat it a bit 
Make a small pit in the middle
Add fried mushrooms and onions 
Enclose stuffing by meat layer 
Form minced cutlet w/ stuffing inside
You will need to do it for all mince and mushroom/onion stuffing, but don’t have to do it all at once. -
Generously dust each cutlet from both sides in flour before frying:
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Put several cutlets to the skillet warmed up with oil over moderate heat and fry until golden brown:
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Flip cutlets ready from one side to other:
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Repeat for all mince and mushroom stuffing, more ready cutlets to the separate plate:
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Serve warm with your choice of side dish:
Minced Cutlets Stuffed with Mushrooms
