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Steamed meatballs with pumpkin. Cutlets with pumpkin and minced meat: the best cooking recipes. Recipe for steamed chicken and pumpkin cutlets

Pumpkin vegetable cutlets are a healthy treat for children of all ages. Delicious and healthy pumpkin cutlets are easy to prepare. It is enough to give about half an hour and a nutritious dish is ready for consumption. Do you love vegetable cutlets, but do not know how to cook them? Then this easy and affordable recipe will definitely come in handy for you. Hurry up to cook it, because such appetizing cutlets of bright orange color will make your family dinner even tastier!

Composition:

- large-fruited sweet pumpkin - 500 g;
- sterilized cream (15%) - 50 ml;
- semolina "Uvelka" - 1 tbsp. (with a slide) spoon;
- white sugar - 1 tbsp. (with a slide) spoon;
- 1 egg (separate the yolk during cooking);
- breadcrumbs.

Cooking:

1. Wash the pumpkin, remove the thick skin, and then grate on a fine manual grater.

2. Pour the cream into the grated pumpkin pulp, mix with a spoon. Transfer this mass to a small frying pan and simmer under a closed lid for about 5 minutes.

3. Add semolina, yolk and sugar to the hot mass according to the recipe. Mix the ingredients until smooth.

4. Make small cutlets. Beat the protein yourself with a fork or use a food processor. Dip the blanks in the beaten protein, and then gently sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Fry the finished cutlets until golden brown on both sides. Bright and incredibly tasty cauldron

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 the cutlets, then you can add garlic passed through the press to them. 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!

Probably not a single person will be able to refuse cutlets prepared 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.

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!

The recipe for making cutlets with a photo, see below.

Unusually tender and tasty cutlets are obtained chicken with pumpkin. Steam cooking makes them dietary and low-calorie. At the same time, the taste of cutlets does not suffer at all. Diet does not mean bland and tasteless. These chicken and pumpkin cutlets are proof of that! To prepare steam cutlets, you can use a double boiler or a slow cooker with the "steamer" mode.

I spied the recipe for these cutlets in one of the culinary magazines and immediately wanted to taste what they taste like. I tried and fell in love with them, so I recommend it to everyone! Chicken-pumpkin steam cutlets can be given to children, as well as to those who are losing weight and observing a sparing diet due to illness.

Recipe for steamed chicken and pumpkin cutlets

For cooking we need:

  • half a kilo of chicken fillet;
  • ¼ medium pumpkin;
  • a couple of slices of bread;
  • 1/3 cup milk;
  • 1 egg;
  • 1 onion;
  • salt to taste

Pour the bread crumb with milk for a few minutes. Skip the chicken fillet through a meat grinder. Peel the pumpkin from seeds and peel, cut into pieces. Onion cut into cubes. Pumpkin also scroll in a meat grinder. Add the soaked bread, chopped onion and rolled pumpkin to the minced chicken. Finely knead the minced meat with your hands, knead the egg and salt. Knead minced meat for about 15 minutes.


Pour water into the double boiler (if you have a slow cooker, also pour water and select the “Steam Cooking” mode). With slightly damp hands form small cutlets and put them in a double boiler (slow cooker). Steam chicken cutlets with pumpkin are cooked quite quickly, about 25 minutes in a double boiler. Finished steam cutlets Serve warm with your favorite side dish. Steamed rice or stewed vegetables are good here.

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