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Steamed pumpkin cutlets for kids. Diet chicken-pumpkin cutlets. Pumpkin cutlets with minced meat in the oven

Pumpkin is popularly considered a storehouse of vitamins, the pulp of an orange vegetable is healthy and nutritious. It is used as a basis for making tender meatballs. If you add spices, fresh herbs to the grated pumpkin pulp, roll the cutlets in crispy breading, then they will turn out bright, juicy and tasty.

Bright-looking and mouth-watering pumpkin cutlets will decorate the table and delight the household. Even a beginner can handle the recipe.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin;
  • Egg;
  • Onion, head of garlic;
  • Spices (salt, pepper);
  • Flour;
  • Butter;
  • Fresh herbs (onions, parsley, dill);
  • Breadcrumbs.

On a note! You can choose any pumpkin. A bright orange vegetable contains more vitamin A. Beautiful small ornamental pumpkins are not suitable for eating.

Cooking instructions:

  • Training. It will take 0.5 kg of pumpkin. Cut the vegetable in half, remove the seeds. Peel off the skin, cut into medium pieces. The pumpkin is crushed with a blender, grater or meat grinder. If you get a lot of juice in a grated vegetable, then you can remove it with a spoon;
  • Peel potatoes and onions from the skin. Grind the ingredients separately in a blender or on a fine grater. Put the onion and potatoes in a bowl, mix thoroughly;
  • Place grated pumpkin, mass of potatoes with onions in one bowl. Add pepper, salt. Mix ingredients, leave for 10 minutes. It is necessary that the vegetables secrete juice. Squeeze the mass a little so that it turns out to be slightly wet;
  • In a bowl with chopped vegetables, add garlic grated in a blender, chopped fresh herbs (onion, dill, parsley), mix everything. Let the vegetable mixture brew a little, 5 minutes will be enough. After adding a little flour, so that it is convenient to form pumpkin cutlets;
  • Take a tablespoon of pumpkin minced meat, form a cutlet, sprinkle with breading. Carefully place the resulting cutlets on the preheated pan. Fry until a golden crust appears;

You can cook cutlets by lightly frying in vegetable oil, then bake in the oven. So, they turn out more juicy and retain the beneficial properties of pumpkin. Bake for 30 minutes, set the oven temperature to 200 degrees.

You should have about 15 small pumpkin patties. The finished dish can be decorated with the remaining herbs. Serve with sour cream sauce.

Pumpkin cutlets with minced meat in the oven

For cooking vegetable cutlets, you can use minced meat. The dish will be tasty, satisfying and healthy.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin
  • garlic clove, onion;
  • Egg;
  • Minced meat (pork, beef);
  • Bread;
  • Milk;
  • Spices (salt, ground black pepper, breading);
  • Flour;
  • Refined oil.

Cooking instructions:

  • Peel pumpkin (500 g) from seeds and peel, cut into pieces. Grate or grind in a meat grinder. Squeeze the vegetable mass with your hands, remove excess juice;
  • Grind onion and garlic in a blender;
  • Separate the pulp from the cooked pieces of bread, pour a small amount of milk, they should soak;
  • Add bread, pumpkin mass, grated garlic and onion to minced meat (300 g), mix everything;
  • Beat 1 egg, add to minced meat. Add spices to taste. If the patties fall apart, add a little flour to make the patties easy to form;
  • Put the pan on the stove, pour some oil. Roll cutlets in breadcrumbs, put in a pan. Fry over medium heat until golden brown. Then put the cutlets in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat are appetizing in appearance and very tasty!

Healthy cutlets with oatmeal

Cutlets made from minced pumpkin with the addition of oatmeal are healthy and easy for the stomach. They are served hot as a separate dish. In addition, you can prepare yogurt or sour cream sauce.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin;
  • Onion, garlic clove;
  • Flakes "Hercules";
  • Small potatoes;
  • Flour;
  • Salt;
  • Pepper;
  • Breading;
  • Sunflower oil.

Cooking instructions:

  • Pour cereal (1 cup) with hot water, leave for 10 minutes;
  • Prepare pumpkin (500 g): peel, cut into pieces, grate;
  • Grind peeled potatoes and garlic with a blender or grater;
  • Finely chop the onion;
  • Take a large bowl, place the pumpkin mass, potatoes, onions, garlic, add salt, pepper to taste;
  • Squeeze water from cereal, add to bowl with vegetables;
  • Mix all ingredients thoroughly. For the viscosity of the mass, you can add a few tablespoons of flour;
  • Put the pan on the fire, pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Moisten your hands with cool water so that the “minced meat” does not stick. Form small cutlets, roll in crushed breadcrumbs. Fry cutlets over medium heat until golden brown.

Healthy meatballs are ready!

Vegetarian option, with semolina

You can cook lean and tasty cutlets with the addition of semolina.

Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin;
  • Manka;
  • Onion.;
  • Salt;
  • Pepper;
  • Water;
  • Vegetable oil.

Cooking instructions:

  • Prepare pumpkin. Remove seeds, peel, grind on a grater. Heat the pan, add a little sunflower oil, put the chopped pumpkin pulp and simmer over medium heat;
  • When the pumpkin is ready, add water, add salt, pepper to taste, boil. After pouring 2-3 tablespoons of semolina, stir constantly until the mass thickens;
  • Put the mass of pumpkin and semolina in a bowl, let cool;
  • Finely chop the onion, fry in a pan;
  • Add passivation to the pumpkin mass, mix thoroughly. Form bowls, roll in breadcrumbs, fry in a preheated pan;
  • Put the finished cutlets on a paper towel so that it absorbs excess oil. Before serving, the dish can be decorated with herbs.

Chicken cutlets with pumpkin


Ingredients:

  • Pumpkin;
  • Chicken fillet;
  • Onion
  • Spinach;
  • 2 eggs;
  • Cream;
  • Salt;
  • Pepper.

Cooking instructions:

  • Boil chicken fillet (500 g) in salted water. While the meat is cooking, you can prepare the pumpkin (1 kg). Peel and grind on a grater;
  • Cut spinach (50 g), hold a little in a dry heated frying pan, it should settle;
  • Chop the onion. Cool the chicken fillet, finely chop or pass through a meat grinder or blender;
  • Place chopped pumpkin, fillet, onion, spinach in a bowl. Add egg, spices to taste. Pour in a little cream so that the mass for the cutlets does not become liquid;
  • Form small patties. Cook on a steam bath for 40 minutes. Serve hot chicken cutlets with pumpkin, you can decorate with fresh herbs on top.

It turns out delicious cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat in the oven. To do this, fry a little in a pan, put on a baking sheet, place in the oven for 30 minutes, set the temperature to 200 degrees.

Probably not a single person will be able to refuse cutlets cooked in the traditional way from minced meat. But in order to somehow diversify your diet, make it more nutritious and less high-calorie, it is recommended to add pumpkin to classic homemade or chicken mince. This orange vegetable is high in nutrients, including the rare vitamin T, which aids in digestion. In our article we will talk about how to cook cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat. Let's imagine several recipes to choose from: in a pan, steamed, in the oven or in a slow cooker.

Delicious fried meatballs with pumpkin

A juicy, fragrant and appetizing dish can be prepared according to the following recipe. Minced chicken cutlets are especially tender. Due to their low calorie content, they can be consumed even during a diet.

Step by step cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat are prepared in the following sequence:

  1. Prepare minced meat (350 g) from chicken breast using a blender or meat grinder.
  2. Add finely grated pumpkin (3 tablespoons), chopped garlic clove and a small onion to it. Pour 50 ml of milk on top. Add salt, pepper and a pinch of cinnamon to taste.
  3. Sprinkle breadcrumbs onto a plate.
  4. Form cutlets. Roll them and put them in a pan with vegetable oil.
  5. Fry cutlets on both sides. Place on a paper towel for a couple of minutes, after which you can serve the dish to the table.

How to cook cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat in the oven?

Thanks to the juiciness of the orange vegetable, even dry chicken breast cutlets are tender and very tasty. You can use other types of minced meat, for example, pork with beef. The dish will be no less tasty.

Minced meat cutlets with pumpkin according to the recipe are prepared in the following sequence:

  1. Pork and beef (300 g each) cut into small pieces. Peel the pumpkin (250 g), and peel the onion. Cut the vegetables into pieces and grind together with the meat in a meat grinder.
  2. Soak a loaf (100 g) in milk.
  3. Add squeezed bread, raw egg, salt, pepper, a clove of garlic and any spices to taste into the prepared minced meat. Let it brew for 10 minutes.
  4. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place the patties on it. Send them to the preheated oven for 40 minutes (190°).

steamed pumpkin in a slow cooker

If you want to lose weight, you can safely cook the next dish. The calorie content of such chicken cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat is 124 kcal per 100 grams. At the same time, thanks to the method of steaming, they retain a large amount of nutrients.

You can make cutlets step by step like this:

  1. Soak a slice of a white loaf in milk (130 ml). Fillet (500 g) cut into small pieces. Peel and prepare pumpkin (260 g).
  2. Grind chicken fillet, soaked bread, pumpkin in a meat grinder.
  3. Add onion, egg and parsley fried in vegetable oil to minced meat. Mix thoroughly, salt.
  4. Pour some water into the multicooker bowl. Install the steam tray. Lay cutlets on it.
  5. Select the multicooker mode "Steam cooking". Cook the dish for 20 minutes. Serve with any side dish.

Cutlets with meat and pumpkin stewed in broth

One of the advantages of this dish is a delicious gravy that will go well with any side dish. In general, cutlets are prepared in the traditional way in a pan or in a slow cooker. The basis of the dish is minced pork and beef (500 g), raw egg, milk (3 tablespoons), pumpkin (5 tablespoons), salt to taste. The formed products are fried over high heat, and then stewed in a slow cooker.

To do this, onions and carrots are sautéed in the bowl in the "Frying" mode. After 10 minutes, cutlets are laid out to them and completely filled with water. Salt and spices are added. The multicooker mode "Extinguishing" is set for 20 minutes. After the specified time, the lid must be slightly opened, add fresh dill and let the dish brew for another 15 minutes.

Pumpkin cutlets are very nutritious and healthy, they can be offered to a child for breakfast or afternoon snack.

How to cook pumpkin cutlets?

Products:

Pumpkin 1 kg.

Milk 1 tbsp.

Semolina 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Sugar to taste

Eggs 2 pcs.

Vegetable oil

Pumpkin cutlets preparation:

Peel the pumpkin and grate it on a coarse grater. Put the grated pumpkin in a saucepan and add a glass of milk. Simmer until cooked under the lid. Add salt and sugar at the end of the stew to taste. Enter the semolina into the stewed pumpkin, in a thin stream, stirring constantly, and cook for 5-7 minutes, then remove the porridge from the heat and cool. When the porridge has cooled, put it in a bowl, mix and add two eggs. With wet hands, form small patties from the minced vegetable and roll them in breadcrumbs. Fry pumpkin cutlets on both sides until golden brown. Place them on a paper towel after frying to remove excess oil. Offer pumpkin cutlets for a children's afternoon snack, breakfast or dinner with tea, compote or yogurt.

For cooking you will need:

  • 1 cup minced pumpkin
  • 1 cup minced meat (beef + pork)
  • 1 bulb
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tbsp. l. of bread
  • 0.5 cup milk
  • breadcrumbs
  • frying oil

You can add it to vegetable puree, make vegetable stews, soups, put it in salads, and also make decoctions from it. Thanks to its versatility in cooking and a complex of vitamins C, B1, B2, B5, B6, E, PP and rare vitamin T, it is incredibly useful in a children's diet. Today we will cook meatballs with pumpkin.

DO NOT also forget that minced meat must be cooked immediately before cooking. In extreme cases, minced meat can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 hours or in the freezer for no more than 30 days. The meat must first be cleaned of films and tendons.

Cooking meatballs with pumpkin:

1. Grate the pumpkin on a fine grater.

2. Twist the meat twice through a meat grinder.

3. Finely chop the onion or also twist it through a meat grinder.

4. Soak a piece of bread in a small amount of milk.

5. Combine all prepared products. Add egg and salt.

6. Stir the minced meat well so that it becomes uniform and elastic.

7. Next, we form cutlets from minced meat and roll them in breadcrumbs.

8. Fry in a pan with sunflower oil on both sides.

9. Bon appetit!

Today I will share with you a recipe for cooking pumpkin cutlets in a slow cooker. This year I had an excellent harvest of pumpkins. She was born so much that I have to cook various dishes with her almost every day. And so that the pumpkin does not become boring, I constantly experiment with it in the kitchen.

For example, I really like stewed pumpkin with apples, porridge with pumpkin, pies and buns. At one time, I constantly made meatballs with the addition of pumpkin. But recently I decided to cook purely pumpkin cutlets, without the use of meat. And I can say with confidence that these cutlets turned out to be quite good.

The taste of pumpkin cutlets cooked in a slow cooker is very pleasant and tender. I also really liked the texture. As for the taste itself, the cutlets turned out to be very fragrant and a little sweetish. If you want to muffle the sweetness in cutlets, then you can add garlic passed through a press. Then the taste of the cutlets will change significantly, they will also become quite spicy. And I recommend eating pumpkin cutlets with sour cream!

Ingredients for pumpkin cutlets

  1. Pumpkin (fresh) - 400 grams
  2. Water - 3 tablespoons
  3. Milk - 1 multi glass
  4. Semolina - ¾ multi glass
  5. Flour - 1 teaspoon
  6. Salt on the tip of a knife
  7. Egg - 1 piece
  8. Olive oil - for frying

How to cook pumpkin cutlets in a slow cooker

To cook pumpkin cutlets in a slow cooker, we clean the pumpkin from seeds, pulp and skin. It is the peeled pumpkin that you will have to get 400 grams. Maybe a little more. The more pumpkins, the tastier it will be. We rub the pumpkin on a fine grater and put it in a saucepan. We add water. On the slow cooker, set the "Baking" mode for 20 minutes.

In the pan where we have the stewed pumpkin, we pour cold milk and mix everything well.

Next, add semolina. On the control panel of the multicooker, we set the "Baking" mode. We prepare the pumpkin-semolina mixture for cutlets on the selected mode for 5-7 minutes.

Pour the pumpkin-semolina mixture into a deep bowl. Add one chicken egg, salt and flour to it. We mix everything well.

Pour olive oil into a saucepan. If you do not have olive oil, then you can use vegetable oil, odorless. We form cutlets and put them in a pan.

If desired, cutlets can be rolled in breadcrumbs. On the multicooker, set the "Baking" mode. Set the time to 40 minutes. Fry our pumpkin cutlets in a slow cooker on each side for 20 minutes. Bon Appetit!