Dietary nutrition is understood by many as a serious restriction in the use of dishes.
Diet is usually associated either with medical indications or with the desire of the person himself to rid his diet of excess fats, carbohydrates, useless and even harmful substances.
With all this, the diet menu can be very tasty and varied.
An example of such recipes are diet cutlets in the oven from various ingredients.
General principles for cooking diet cutlets in the oven
In order for this dish to be not only dietary, but also very tasty, look good, certain rules must be observed.
1. Diet cutlets in the oven are prepared from lean meat - veal, chicken, rabbit, turkey, as well as low-fat fish. As the latter, pike, zander, tilapia, cod, pollock, pink salmon and others are suitable.
2. Before starting to cook meat or fish fillet, you need to double-rotate it through a meat grinder, for the second time also scroll with minced meat additives - onions, bread and other ingredients offered by the recipe.
3. The main problem in making cutlets in the oven is to make them juicy. This is especially difficult with dietary dishes, because there is a minimum of fat. To do this, use several tricks:
- Onion adds juiciness, so it is laid without sparing, at the rate of 1: 5 - 1: 3 in relation to meat, fish
- bread crumb holds moisture in itself, which means in cutlets, preventing it from evaporating; Soak the bread well not in water, but in milk, then cutlets will be especially tender
- minced meat should be perfectly mixed
- when kneading, you can add a few tablespoons of cold water or milk
- before sending to the oven, the finished cutlets would be nice to grease a little with vegetable oil
- during baking, the pan is covered with foil
- cutlets in the oven must not be overexposed.
4. Serve diet cutlets with buckwheat, rice, fresh vegetables.
Recipes are offered at the rate of 500 g of meat or fish, this is for 2 regular servings. If you need more meatballs, just increase the number of source foods.
Diet cutlets in the chicken oven
Adhering to a diet does not mean completely abandoning meat. The traditionally allowed meat for diet is chicken, in particular chicken fillet. It is rich in protein and at the same time has a fairly low calorie content. The chicken fillet itself is convenient to prepare.
Ingredients
500 g chicken fillet
Large onion
100 g white bread without crust
1 egg
100 ml of milk
Salt
Black pepper.
Cooking method
Soak the bread in milk for ten minutes.
Grind the chicken fillet in a meat grinder with onion and bread crumb.
In the future mincemeat, add the milk left over from the soaking of bread, as well as salt and pepper to taste.
Form a few round or oval cutlets.
Put chicken cutlets on a greased baking sheet and put in the oven over medium heat.
After 20 minutes, you can check the readiness by pushing the cutlet with a fork. Transparent light juice should stand out from it - a sign of the readiness of the dish.
Serve best with a juicy side dish, such as fresh vegetables.
Veal and Hercules - the basis of diet cutlets in the oven
Hercules groats, or oatmeal, known to everyone, have a lot of useful properties. It improves digestion, is full of vitamins and at the same time contains a minimum of calories. That is why oatmeal is often used not only as cereal for porridge, but also as an additive for other dishes. Together with tender and low-fat veal, they give wonderful stuffing for diet cutlets in the oven.
Ingredients
200 g low-fat veal
Half a Cup of Dry Hercules Flakes
Egg
Large onion
Salt
Pepper.
Cooking method
Pour oatmeal with the same amount of warm water and let stand.
Pass the meat through a meat grinder, there we send onions.
Mix the meat with oatmeal, salt, pepper, add the egg.
Stir very carefully, form cutlets.
Put on a baking sheet, greased with vegetable oil, and bake in the oven for 25-35 minutes.
Diet cutlets in a turkey oven
Turkey is considered one of the most useful types of meat for children and diet. Minimum fat, easy digestibility, and yet it is not an allergen. For juiciness, turkey mixes with zucchini in this recipe. Cutlets in the oven are obtained not just diet, but very tender and tasty.
Ingredients
500 g turkey fillet
Small young zucchini, about 200-300 g
Egg
Soy sauce
Dill greens
Black pepper
Salt.
Cooking method
Zucchini grate on medium or fine grater.
Put in a colander and drain excess juice.
Grind the meat in a meat grinder.
Mix the meat with zucchini, add the egg, soy sauce, pepper.
Salt with caution, given that soy sauce is salty.
Stir the minced meat well, make the patties and lay in a greased baking sheet.
Bake for about 30 minutes in the oven over medium heat.
Serve this juicy tender dish with a side dish of rice, vegetables.
Diet cutlets in the oven with gentle filling
You can cook diet cutlets not just on a baking sheet, but pour them with delicious milk sauce. So that the liquid does not evaporate very much, it is possible to cover the mold with foil at the beginning of baking. For a dietary effect, it is better to take milk and sour cream with low fat content.
Ingredients
500 g of dietary meat - chicken, turkey, veal, beef
Large onion
300 grams of white cabbage or zucchini
A glass of milk
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon flour
Salt
Spices as desired.
Cooking method
Pass the meat through a meat grinder along with onions.
In the same place, grind the zucchini or cabbage, do not be confused by such ingredients, they will add juiciness to the patties, and their own taste will not be noticeable.
Mix vegetables with meat, salt, knead well.
Form cutlets and put on a baking sheet.
Put in the oven at medium temperature for 20 minutes.
While the cutlets are baked, grind the flour with a spoon or two of milk, put sour cream, add salt, pour the rest of the milk, mix well.
Pour cutlets with milk mixture, sprinkled with spices.
Next, you need to hold the baking sheet in the oven for another 10 minutes so that the sauce warms up well and soaks the patties.
A delicate soft side dish, for example, puree from any vegetables, is suitable for this dish.
Dietary chicken pancakes in the oven
For diet cutlets, you can use not only minced meat in the full sense of the word, that is, meat passed through a meat grinder. Chopped with a knife, it can become the basis of a wonderful dish with a pleasant taste and original consistency.
Ingredients
500 g chicken
1-2 bulbs optional
Garlic clove
2-3 eggs
2 tablespoons flour
Salt
Dill or other herbs.
Cooking method
It is advisable to take the chicken fillet slightly frozen, so it is easier to chop.
Cut the meat into small cubes with a knife.
Also chop the onion as finely as possible. The more it is, the juicier the dish will be.
Finely chop the garlic and then the herbs.
Mix all the ingredients, salt.
A rather liquid mass of thin sour cream consistency should be obtained. However, it should not spread too much.
Turn on the oven.
Put the mass on a greased baking sheet with a spoon, leaving the distance between the patties in case of light spreading.
Put in the oven where chopped meatballs should immediately seize under the influence of temperature.
Cook until golden brown - 15-20 minutes.
Serve with vegetables, herbs, sour cream or other sauces.
Dietary fish cutlets in the oven
Fish is great for dieting. It is rich in useful trace elements, a protein that is easily digested. Useful fatty acids are also one of the advantages of fish, and they are not a hindrance to diet. However, if the goal is to lose weight, it is better to choose more lean river and sea fish as the basis for such a dish.
Ingredients
500 g fish fillet of low-fat varieties - pike, pollock, tilapia, zander, bream, pink salmon, cod
Large onion
100 g white bread
Half a glass of milk
Parsley, dill
Salt
Black pepper.
Cooking method
Thaw the fish fillet until incomplete softening, chop, chop with a meat grinder or blender.
Melt bread soaked in milk thoroughly.
Chop the onions by chopping with a knife, a blender or passing through a meat grinder.
Mix all the ingredients, add chopped herbs, pepper and salt.
Wet hands form small round patties.
Put the patties in a greased form and put in the oven over medium heat.
Cook for about 20 minutes.
Serve with rice, vegetables, spicy or milk sauce.
Dietary fishcakes in the oven with onion garnish
Fish cakes themselves usually do not have a bright rich taste. All this is given to them by spices, as well as a properly selected side dish. An unusual garnish of onions will emphasize the softness and tenderness of fish cutlets, and the use of oatmeal will give them texture and additional benefit.
Ingredients
500 g fish fillet
500 g onions
50 g Hercules groats - not instant cereals, but ordinary
1 egg
Half a glass of milk
Salt
Black pepper
Seasonings for fish
Soy sauce
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking method
Thaw the fish fillet and crank it through a meat grinder.
Hercules pour milk, let stand for about ten minutes, mix with meat.
Add egg and spices for fish, salt.
Stir the minced meat, form the patties of the desired shape.
Put in a greased baking sheet and place in the oven over medium heat.
After 20-30 minutes, the patties will be ready.
While the fish cakes are baked, prepare a side dish.
To do this, heat the oil in a pan. Chop thinly onions with half rings.
Fry in oil until light golden brown.
When the onion is reddened and gets rid of excess fluid, pepper it and pour over soy sauce.
Stir well and turn off the heat. After a couple of minutes put on plates with cutlets.
Chef's secrets and tricks for cooking diet cutlets in the oven
Each cook or hostess uses his own secrets of craftsmanship, acquired over the years or received from the elders. Thanks to which the dishes are very tasty, beautiful and healthy. In cooking diet cutlets in the oven, too, have their secrets.
- Minced meat for cutlets should be very tender, so it is advisable to double-pass it through a meat grinder. Before this, it is necessary to remove all veins from meat or fish, to prevent the ingress of fish bones, with the exception of the smallest ones.
- Do not neglect dishes where zucchini, cabbage and even pumpkin are added to the minced meat - this will not spoil the taste, but simply add tenderness and juiciness to the patties.
- For those who like a richer flavor, you can add various aromatic herbs and spices - thyme, basil, oregano, allspice to the minced meat for the cutlets in the oven.
- After baking, cutlets should not be left in the oven for more than five minutes, otherwise they will dry out.
- Diet cutlets with a minimum of fat are tasty and cold. If you plan to use them cold, you need to transfer from a baking sheet to a container or dish, let cool completely and put in the refrigerator.
Enjoy your meal!
