Cooking recipe: how to cook traditional Russian kotleti
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Published by: Dmitri Kartashov on 24/11/2007
This is dish is simple to do and does not take much time either. All the ingredients used are easy to get and the recipe is simple to remember. You can make as much as you like of those burgers and keep them in the fridge or freezer. As a side dish you cane make the mashed potatoes, see my previous post, or you can just boil some spaghetti with crated cheese.
Ingredients
Minced beef (500g), Minced pork (500 g), Onion (2), Button mushrooms (100g), Egg (1), Flour (100g), Salt and Pepper (to taste
First, I mix up beef and pork together; add the egg, finely chopped onion, salt and pepper. You can use a blender if you like or just get your hands dirty and work it well, both of the methods will do.
Chop the second onion and start frying it with a little of vegetable oil, when the onions are fried to golden colour add your chopped mushrooms and fry together until the mushrooms are cooked.
Add the fried onions and mushrooms to the meat and mix well. That's it the main bit is done now the cooking part.
Make the kotleti approximately 8cm long, 5cm wide and 2cm height. Use all the meat you have to make the kotleti and leave them on the plate ready to be fried.
Get the flour and evenly distribute it on the plate. Heat the frying pan up with oil, when it's hot enough put the heat on the medium.
Take one of the koleti and deep it in to the flour from every side and put it on the frying pan, same applies to the rest. Fry as many kotleti on the pan as you can, leaving 1cm space between them. Fry them around 10-15 min on each side, the pan should be covered with a lid. Once you've fried the first part, put the fried kotleti with all the oil left in the pan to the sauce pan. Wash the frying pan and do the same for the rest of the meat.
When that's done just put the sauce pan on the very slow heat and simmer for around 20 min. That's it!!! When served you can sprinkle some green onions on top. Happy food eating!!!