What to add to cutlets instead of bread: the experience of food bloggers

Traditionally, soaked bread is added to meatballs to increase the amount of minced meat and make it loose. But often this dish turns out to be battered, due to the wrong proportions of ingredients. If you add a little more bread, the cutlets will hardly be called meaty – they will turn out to be bruised and tasteless. But to make the dish juicy, you just need to add some ingredient to the minced meat. And there is such an ingredient.

Today, FoodOboz editorial team will tell you what Ukrainian food bloggers use to make cutlets juicy and truly meaty.

The ingredient that can replace bread in cutlets is potatoes. It goes perfectly with any meat, adds volume to the minced meat, and makes the dish delicious.

Pork cutlets with potatoes from hannavasileva

Ingredients:

• Minced pork 1 kg.
• Raw potatoes - 2 pcs.
• Onions - 3 pcs.
• Eggs - 1 pc
• Salt, pepper - to taste
• Breadcrumbs - to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Grind pork and onions with a meat grinder.
2. Add chopped onion, potatoes, egg, salt, and pepper to the minced meat.
3. Mix thoroughly and beat off.
4. Form small patties and roll in breadcrumbs.
5. Fry the pork and potato patties in heated vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown for 10-15 minutes.

Food blogger terechenko_alla86 adds garlic, herbs, and tomatoes in addition to potatoes. This makes the dish very flavorful.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500-600 g
• Potatoes - 2 pieces ⠀
• Onions - 2-3 pieces ⠀
• Garlic - 1 clove
• Greens.
• Tomatoes -1 pc ⠀
• Salt, pepper - to taste ⠀
• Oil ⠀

Method of preparation: ⠀

1. Add the onion chopped on a coarse grater to the minced meat.
2. Add finely chopped garlic, tomato, sliced potatoes, and finely chopped herbs.
3. Add spices and mix thoroughly
4. Form the patties. ⠀
5. Fry in a small amount of oil on one side, then turn over, cover, and cook over low heat for about 10-15 minutes. ⠀
6. Serve the cutlets with vegetables and fresh herbs.