Cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat: the best cooking recipes. Chicken-pumpkin steam cutlets


Calories: Not specified
Time for preparing: 30 minutes


Gentle by nature, filled with sweetish juice and moderate aroma, the pumpkin pulp is a unique additive for dough, fillings in pies, fritters and dumplings, roasts, sautéed and other fried and stewed platters. In addition, pumpkin flakes (and mashed potatoes) are perfect with minced meat for meatballs, burgers, meatloaf/terrine and meatballs. The composition of many chicken cutlets often includes a bun, semolina, starch, raw potatoes or other binders. Thus, they save the main product (chicken) and achieve juiciness, volume of products. Our detailed recipe with a photo will tell you how to prepare chicken cutlets from minced meat with pumpkin in a pan: it is neither dry nor excessively fat, and the taste clearly dominates chicken meat. Pay attention to this unusual one.

Cooking time: 30 minutes / Number of servings: 6-7 pcs.



Ingredients:

- minced chicken - 300 gr.;
- pumpkin - 250-300 gr.;
- egg (yolk) - 1 pc.;
- onion (small) - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- ground crackers- 50 gr.;
- dill - 1-2 branches;
- vegetable oil- for frying;
- salt, hot pepper - to taste.

How to cook with a photo step by step





1. For a characteristic cutlet flavor, be sure to take onion and one or two cloves of garlic. We clean from the husk. We cut off the hard pumpkin shell and remove the filamentous fibers with seeds.




2. Grind vegetables in a food processor or use a regular grater with large or medium-sized holes.




3. Add minced chicken fillet - approximately in equal proportions.






4. Season with chopped fresh herbs, salt, ground hot pepper (herbs optional), add egg yolk and mix thoroughly all layers.




5. We beat off the mass, with wet or oiled palms we form oblong blanks. Sprinkle thickly in breadcrumbs. Cover with bread wrap on all sides.




6. Semi-finished cutlets can be frozen on the board, after hardening, packed in containers and kept in freezer up to the occasion. Then fry in the usual way without thawing, immediately laying on a hot frying pan in vegetable oil.






7. Place with pumpkin inside a hot skillet with not large quantity vegetable refined oil. Fry until crispy, turn over.




We serve homemade cutlets from minced chicken and pumpkins with garnish, pickles, sauces and salads.













Enjoy your meal.

Minced chicken cutlets with pumpkin are an original and simple dish. Any hostess can cook them at home and please their loved ones.

Recipe for chicken cutlets with vegetables

Products:

  • 700 g chicken breast
  • 1 bulb
  • 200 g pumpkin
  • 12 cherry tomatoes
  • salt, pepper, seasonings to taste
  • breadcrumbs (optional)

miss chicken fillet together with onions through a meat grinder. If you already have minced meat then just finely chop the onion and mix it with the meat.

Grate the pumpkin on a fine grater or do it with a food processor.

Add it to the minced meat, salt and pepper to taste. You can add your favorite spices, such as thyme.

Mix everything.

How to cook meatballs in the oven

For cooking, it is very convenient to use a baking dish for cupcakes. This universal form is loved by many housewives, it can be used not only for baking, but also for fish or meat cutlets.

It is also convenient in that the juice remains inside and does not spread over the pan. Lubricate the mold thoroughly with vegetable oil beforehand.

  • Divide the minced meat among the cells. To make it easier to sculpt cutlets, moisten your hands with water. Before placing the minced meat in a mold, you can roll it from below in breadcrumbs. This is done in order to delay the separation of meat juice.
  • When you have laid out all the stuffing, make a well in each cutlet and put a tomato in it, pressing a little. If you do not like tomatoes, you can put something else in there. For example, fried mushrooms or a piece of cheese.
  • Top cutlets with mayonnaise, vegetable oil or sour cream.
  • Bake cutlets in an oven preheated to 200 ° for 30-40 minutes.

The dish is ready!

Video - How to cook chicken cutlets in the oven

Enjoy your meal!

Fragrant and most importantly - healthy cutlets can be prepared at home in 30 minutes. These are chicken and pumpkin cutlets. The benefits of pumpkin have been known to us for many years, it cleanses the body, it is rich in many vitamins that our body needs so much. Yes, and chicken fillet has always been considered fast-digesting and dietary meat. By combining these products, we get light and mouth-watering cutlets. They can be perfectly introduced into the diet of children and women who follow their figure. We fried them in a pan, but you could also steam them in a slow cooker, for example, because many people are not recommended to eat fried foods. For cooking cutlet with chicken and pumpkin we need 30 minutes, the number of servings is 4.

Ingredients

  • Chicken fillet - 400 grams __NEWL__
  • Pumpkin varieties Honey - 200 grams __NEWL__
  • Chicken eggs - 2 pieces__NEWL__
  • Onion - 1 head__NEWL__
  • Fresh parsley - 1 bunch __NEWL__
  • Salt Extra - to taste__NEWL__
  • Freshly ground black pepper - to taste __NEWL__
  • Vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons__NEWL__
  • Wheat flour - 3 tablespoons__NEWL__

Cooking steps:

Let's prepare all the products for cooking cutlets with chicken and pumpkin. At the heart of this dish we have chicken fillet, but you can replace this meat with pork, but cutlets with chicken will be much healthier. Pumpkin is a popular vegetable in the cold season, so we will add it to our dish and we will not regret it at all, the cutlets will turn out juicy and meaty. The variety of pumpkin is important, I use - Honey, but there is also Muscat, these varieties are very sweet and create a pleasant composition of taste.

Chicken fillet with onion must be passed through a meat grinder, preferably twice, so that the cutlets are airy. Peel and rub the pumpkin coarse grater. Place the ingredients in a deep bowl.

Add chicken eggs, chopped parsley, salt, freshly ground black pepper, flour, knead good stuffing for cutlets, with hands. You can add any greens - dill, cilantro, basil, to your taste.

Minced meat is ready, put a frying pan on the stove, when it is pricked, pour vegetable oil. We spread the cutlets with a wet spoon, like pancakes. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

We fry the cutlets until the minced meat is finished. You can serve them warm immediately. Perfect for garnish mashed potatoes or boiled rice. For a healthier lunch, you can serve fresh vegetables, then you will definitely charge your body with a lot of vitamins and minerals.

Tender chicken cutlets with pumpkin will appeal to all family members, including children, starting from one year old. The recipe is very simple, requires a minimum of effort, and in the end you get a tasty and hearty meal, besides useful, because the cutlets are steamed. Some cutlets not eaten immediately can be stored in the refrigerator for a couple of days. You can freeze semi-finished products and store in the freezer for up to three months.

Publication author

Lives in Sterlitamak. When she got married, she discovered wonderful world“Something_to_prepare”. Time passed, bored traditional dishes began the search for new flavors. "When I saw how you can photograph food, I wanted to learn the art of whetting the appetite from a distance. So my rich hobby piggy bank recently replenished with another item - food photography. I dream of 48 hours a day to implement all my ideas!)"

  • Recipe author: Olga Kolesnikova
  • After cooking, you will receive 18 pcs.
  • Cooking time: 25 min

Ingredients

  • 300 gr pumpkin
  • 900 gr chicken fillet
  • 80 gr onion

Cooking method

    Prepare the ingredients. Wash pumpkin, peel.

    Pass pumpkin pulp and chicken fillet through a meat grinder. Peel the onion, chop. Mix vegetables with meat, salt to taste.

    Form cutlets. Pour 1 liter of water into the multicooker bowl or steamer pan. Place cutlets in a steaming container. Place the container in the multicooker, select the “Steamer” mode or put it on the pan.

    Prepare chicken cutlets with pumpkin 25 minutes.

    Enjoy your meal!