Albanian pork is an original meat dish, which is something between a chopped chop and a chop. Nevertheless, it always turns out tasty, very economical and has a lot of variations. Here are the best of them.
Albanian pork - general cooking principles
• Pork. Pulp is used, preferably without fat and lard. The meat is cut into small cubes, but it can also be thin straws.
• Bow. Used onions. Onions are always chopped finer than meat. In some recipes, it is crushed to gruel, which is also possible.
• Eggs. Always added, bind all the ingredients. For 500 g of meat, 2-3 pieces are used.
• Flour, starch. They make the mass thicker and also serve as binders. One thing can be added.
• Mayonnaise, sour cream, cream. Not always added. They improve the taste, make the mass look like dough, help combine the ingredients.
• Butter. Used for frying. You can take any. Stuffing is stuffed with a spoon, laid out in hot fat, a semblance of chop or fritters is prepared.
Albanian pork with onions and eggs
The classic Albanian pork recipe, which allows you to cook a lot of juicy and aromatic chops from a small amount of meat.
Ingredients
• 400 g of pork;
• 3 onions;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 l. sour cream;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• oil, salt and pepper.
Cooking
1. Cut the pork into small cubes, transfer the pieces of meat into a bowl.
2. Peel the onions, cut them a little finer than the meat. It is advisable to make thin slices so that they are fried and not crunchy. We shift to meat.
3. Now add eggs, starch, spices and sour cream there. Stir. Leave for an hour to pork marinated.
4. Evaluate the consistency. If sour cream or onion is too juicy, add flour. It should be a kind of meat dough.
5. Pour a layer of oil in the pan about 4 mm, put on the stove.
6. Spoon the pancakes out of the meat mixture, level the layer so that they are everywhere the same thickness. Fry.
7. After the pork is browned on one side, it must be turned over. We cover the pan, bring the meat to readiness for several minutes.
8. We take out of the pan, prepare the next batch.
Albanian pork with mushrooms
For this meat in Albanian you will need fresh champignons. Or use any other mushrooms to your taste, but the forest ones will need to be boiled.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of pork;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 1 onion;
• 250 g of mushrooms (champignons);
• butter;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• black pepper, paprika, seasonings for meat;
• salt to taste.
Cooking
1. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces. Spread in a pan with a spoonful of oil. First, boil water from the mushrooms, then lightly fry. Cool down.
2. Cut the meat into cubes. We chop even smaller one large onion. If the heads are small, then take two pieces.
3. Combine with warm, but not hot mushrooms.
4. Next, add mayonnaise and spices, stir.
5. Beat the eggs with a fork, also send to the meat with mushrooms and cover the flour. You can take part of the starch.
6. Let the minced meat with mushrooms stand for a while, marinate.
7. We heat oil in a skillet.
8. Using a spoon, we collect the cooked mass, prepare the pancakes, chops, as was done in the previous recipe.
Albanian pork with cheese and garlic
For the preparation of flavored meat in Albanian, you can use absolutely any cheese, but preferably hard. Another recipe feature is slicing meat into strips.
Ingredients
• 300 g of pork;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 70 g of cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• butter;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat into thin strips. Well, if the pork is slightly frozen or just chilled, it will make it easier.
2. Grate the cheese coarsely, add to the meat.
3. Onion chop very finely, you can kill with a blender, send to the rest of the ingredients.
4. Peel, chop the garlic and also shift to meat. Add salt, pepper if desired. Delicious and beautiful turns pork with turmeric, paprika. Stir the dry mixture.
5. Combine the eggs with two tablespoons of mayonnaise, shake, add to the pork and stir.
6. At the very end, add the flour. Stir.
7. Put the meat for 2-3 hours to marinate in the refrigerator, then fry the chops, as was done in the recipes above.
Albanian pork with eggplant
Albanian meat recipe prepared with eggplant and onions. The dish is economical, but very tasty and juicy. It is advisable not to exclude garlic, it turns out much tastier with it.
Ingredients
• 1 eggplant;
• 250 g of pork;
• 1 onion;
• 3 eggs;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• 3 branches of dill;
• butter and spices;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
1. Start with the eggplant. Cut into cubes or small strips and sprinkle with salt. Stir. Leave for a quarter of an hour to get rid of bitterness.
2. During this time, you can chop the onion, chop the garlic and cut the pork into a small stripe. If you cut the eggplant into cubes, then the meat, then, so too.
3. Put spices to the meat, add sour cream, add flour and stir.
4. At the end, break the eggs, shake everything together. We leave it on the table so that the mixture is slightly marinated.
5. Rinse the eggplant. Gently wring out so as not to damage the pieces.
6. Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil, put the eggplant and fry for two minutes over high heat, do not need to hold for a long time.
7. Now the eggplant needs to be cooled slightly so that it does not seal the egg and does not thin the dough. Then we combine everything, stir well.
8. If there is time, then let the mixture stand still. If not, then proceed to frying. Spread chops of any size with a spoon on a frying pan and fry on both sides until cooked.
Albanian pork in the oven
The recipe for a low-fat pork dish, which is cooked in the oven and does not require so much oil. Many people like this cooking option, as there is no need to stand at the stove.
Ingredients
• 600 g of pork;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1 egg;
• 120 g flour;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Pork for this recipe can be cut into cubes or strips, fold into a bowl.
2. Peel the onion, cut into several parts and mashed with a blender. It should be gruel. Immediately chopped peeled garlic cloves.
3. We shift the onions to the meat, stir.
4. Now add all the other ingredients according to the recipe. There is more flour, since with onions the mass will turn out to be thinner. Put spices at our discretion, stir everything thoroughly.
5. Place a silicone mat on a baking sheet or spread a sheet of parchment. Lubricate with a few drops of vegetable oil.
6. Spread the meat in the form of chops with a spoon. It is not necessary to make them thin, you can make thick cutlets. Only the cooking time will increase.
7. We put in the oven warmed up to 190 degrees. Bake for half an hour. We look at the readiness. If necessary, then increase the time.
Albanian pork in the oven with a secret
A variant of delicious pork in Albanian, and even stuffed! In fact, you just need one fresh tomato. Similarly, it will be possible to take a slice of cheese or ham, bacon, who likes what filling. But with a tomato, the meat is even juicier and tastier.
Ingredients
• 400 g of pork;
• one onion;
• one egg;
• a tomato;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• a spoon of sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat, sprinkle with spices, add the egg and a spoonful of sour cream. Stir, let the pork marinate.
2. Peel the onion, twist or rub. It should be gruel. If there are pieces, they can burn in the oven. Stir with the meat.
3. The washed tomato is cut into circles according to the number of chops. You can put another filling inside or combine a tomato with a piece of cheese. But the slice should be thin.
4. Lubricate the silicone mat or paper, put a thin layer of meat, then a tomato or other filling and cover with meat mixture on top.
5. We form all the cutlets in this way.
6. Send the baking sheet to the oven, bake for 30-35 minutes at 200 degrees. You can sprinkle oil on top to make the crust more beautiful.
Albanian pork with pickled onions
A savory pork recipe for which onions are pickled. This dish turns out to taste more interesting, many like it more.
Ingredients
• 2 onions;
• 0.4 kg of pork;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• spices;
• 3 eggs;
• 1.5 tablespoons of flour;
• vinegar;
• 1.5 tablespoons of starch.
Cooking
1. Onion cut into cubes, drop into a bowl.
2. Combine 80 ml of water, 50 ml of table vinegar, 1 tsp. sugar and mix well. Pour onion, leave for half an hour.
3. During this time, you can marinate the meat. We cut it in ordinary pieces (cubes or straws), add mayonnaise, eggs, flour with starch. But you can take one thing.
4. Pepper and salt the minced meat, mix thoroughly and set aside, let it be a little marinated too.
5. Drain the onion in a colander. Leave for a few minutes, let the water drain well. Then shake off the last drops and pour over the meat.
6. It remains only to mix everything well and you can start cooking! Fry in the usual way in oil in a pan, as was done in the recipes above.
Albanian Pork - Tips & Tricks
• The meat will turn out beautiful and rosy if the pork is “tinted” with turmeric, paprika or other spices.
• If the minced meat is thick and does not spread over the pan, add another spoonful of sour cream (mayonnaise, milk), but in no case water.
• Albanian meat can be made relatively dietary if cooked from lean pork without fat in a dry frying pan with a non-stick coating.
