Zrazy meat with various fillings

Dishes from minced meat quite often appear on our table. After all, they are affordable, quickly prepared and, most importantly, very tasty. But if the usual chops are boring, then you can diversify your menu and make such an interesting dish, like meat zrazy.

The name of this dish is of Polish origin, in translation it means "separated, cut piece". The fact is that earlier zrazes were prepared not from minced meat, but from whole pieces of meat, from them they made something like chops and wrapped in the resulting layers of stuffing.

To prepare zraza meat will need a minced meat of good quality. You can take minced meat from one kind of meat, for example, pork or lamb. But the dish will turn out tastier if you cook (or buy) a mixed stuffing made from several types of meat. Excellent option: beef, turkey and pork in a one-to-one ratio. However, it is possible to prepare forcemeat according to one's own taste, but it is better that it be fat enough, otherwise the prepared dish will turn dryish. If there is only lean forcemeat, then it is necessary to add a butter to the filling of the juicy dish.

The composition of minced meat for the shots is exactly the same as for the preparation of cutlets. That is, in the meat scrolled through the meat grinder (600 grams) it is necessary to add finely chopped (or grated on a grater) bulb, milk bread soaked in milk (2 slices), salt and pepper. Bread can be replaced with semolina, which is soaked for half an hour in milk. The specified amount of minced meat will need half a cup of cereals. Stuffing must be well kneaded and knocked out. The process of knocking out stuffing is that the whole mass is collected in a ball and thrown into the bowl with force. Do this every 10-15 times. Then stuffing should be put on the cold, about half an hour.

In addition to minced meat, for cooking zrazy meat, you will need to prepare the filling. There are lots of options, you can choose to your taste. Classic recipe - chopped boiled eggs, mixed with fried onion or green onions. You can use stewed cabbage as a filling, especially a spicy taste if you take sauerkraut. An interesting option is zrazy meat with mushroom filling. Mushrooms can be used any - fresh or frozen mushrooms, dried forest mushrooms or salted mushrooms. Mushrooms need to be boiled (except salted), cut and mixed with fried onions, you can add a boiled egg to the filling.

As a filling, boiled cereals are often used - for example rice with butter and boiled egg or buckwheat with mushrooms. And you can prepare zraza meat with cheese, putting as a filling on a bar of hard cheese or a spoonful of soft fused.

Forming zrazy meat is not difficult. For this, minced meat is divided into portions, as in the preparation of cutlets. Then a bag of minced meat is put on a palm and a cake is made from it. In the middle of the prepared billet lay a little pre-prepared filling, and the palm begins to compress, connecting the edges of the meat cake. We got something like a pie, but instead of the dough, we used minced meat.

If it is supposed to fry zrazy in a frying pan, then they will need to roll in breadcrumbs. But a more useful option for this dish is obtained if you bake zrazy in the oven. By the way, this method of cooking requires less, because you will not need to stand by the frying pan, turn over the cutlets and watch that they are not burnt. Zrazy can be baked simply so or fill them with sauce (sour, tomato or any of their own taste). And if they are baked several times with the juice or sauce that has been set aside, the taste of the dish will be very gentle.

Zrazy can be cooked and steamed or put out in a small amount of broth or salted water in a frying pan under the lid. In the latter case, the heating should be small, so that the liquid does not boil away, and the zrazes are not burnt.

And with what will we serve zrazy meat, the recipe of which is given above? Garnish for this dish can be anything - potatoes, porridge or pasta. And if you used a cereal filling, the best side dish is a salad of fresh vegetables.