Tastier than cabbage rolls: hearty buckwheat cutlets with meat for dinner

A great alternative to stuffed cabbage is delicious, hearty buckwheat cutlets, which are much lighter. You only need a few ingredients to make them, the main ones being buckwheat and meat.

Cook Victoria shared a recipe for delicious buckwheat cutlets with meat and spices on Instagram.

Ingredients:

• dry buckwheat - 150 g
• onion (large) - 1 pc.
• meat - 1 kg
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• oil - for frying
• spices: salt, pepper, favorite - to taste
• flour - for rolling

For the filling:

• tomato sauce - 1 tbsp.
• onion - 1 pc.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash buckwheat and boil it in salted water until tender. Cool.

2. Finely chop the onion and fry in a little oil until soft.

3. Pass the meat through a meat grinder.

4. Beat the eggs, add the minced meat, fried onions, spices and mix thoroughly. Finally, add the cooked buckwheat and mix again.

5. Form cutlets with your hands.

6. Heat a little oil in a frying pan. Lightly roll the formed cutlets in flour and fry on both sides until golden brown. After that, put them in a baking dish, top with fried onions and pour tomato paste and water. Cook in the oven at 200 C for 40-50 minutes.

Serve with herbs!