Minced products such as dumplings, meatballs, cabbage rolls and cutlets are loved by everyone.

Classically, for their preparation, minced pork and beef are taken or other types of meat are added. They require oil or fat to prepare them. The dish turns out to be tasty, but high in calories.

Appetizing low-calorie cutlets can be steamed without oil. To make the cutlets tasty and low-calorie, you can use some culinary tricks.

How to cook diet cutlets correctly

1. Do not add a roll with milk and potatoes to cutlets.

2. For juiciness, you can add low-calorie vegetables to cutlets: onions, carrots and any kind of cabbage. It is cabbage that gives the cutlets juiciness and splendor, and not potatoes, as is commonly believed.

3. Cutlets do not need to be fried, with the addition of oil, but steam them. If the meat is dry, you can add a little fat-free sour cream (spoon) to the minced meat.

4. And, of course, do not use pork, fatty lamb and beef. For minced meat, it is better to take dietary varieties of fish and meat: chicken, rabbit meat, turkey, lean beef. You can cook vegetable cutlets: cabbage or carrot.

5. For a bunch of minced meat, it is not even necessary to add the whole egg, there will be enough protein. Although one egg per bowl of minced meat will not increase the calorie content much, the yolk makes the cutlets tender.

Steam cutlets will please, even those who are used to eating them fried. And cooking steamed cutlets is a pleasure - no grease splashes and burnt pans. It is complete protein dish, for people who care about their health and appearance. It is ideal for diet menus.

If you cook steamed vegetables or cereals as a side dish, not seasoned with a fatty sauce, you will not have to worry about your figure. Try to cook cutlets according to the proposed recipes, the result will delight you.

Steamed diet cutlets: recipes

Beef cutlets

You will need lean beef and vegetables:

Beef - 500 gr.

Onions - 2 heads.

Garlic - 2 prongs.

White cabbage - 300 gr.

Milk - 50 ml.

A bunch of greenery.

Spices and salt to taste.

Scroll the beef in a meat grinder with a fine grid.

Peel the cabbage and cut off about 300 grams. Scroll it into the minced meat.

Peel onion and garlic, mince and send to mince, to meat and cabbage.

Wash and chop the herbs very finely. Dill and parsley will do, especially basil. Put greens in minced meat.

Add egg, milk, salt and your favorite spices, suitable for minced meat.

Knead the minced meat well and beat off a little, collecting and throwing it into a cup. This will give it elasticity. Put the minced meat in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Wet your hands and shape out of it meat balls... Then give them the desired shape.

Lightly wipe the trays of the double boiler with a napkin moistened with vegetable oil, place the cutlets on them and place them in the double boiler for 25 minutes. You can also use the multicooker by setting the “steam” mode in it.

Amazing cutlets are ready!

Diet steamed fish cutlets

Any low-fat cutlet is suitable for these cutlets, fish fillet and vegetables. Most match fish cakes from blue whiting with carrots.

Blue whiting or pollock fish fillet-500 gr.

Carrots - 3 pcs. (medium specimens).

Onions - 2 pcs.

Dill - 1 bunch.

Semolina - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Low fat sour cream - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Scroll the fillet through a meat grinder, if small bones come across, then 2 times.

Peel and wash onions and carrots. Pass through a meat grinder and put in the minced meat.

Wash and finely chop the dill herbs.

Add greens, sour cream, semolina, spices and salt to the minced meat. Stir, beat off a little and put in the refrigerator. The semolina should swell.

Form balls with wet hands and cook in a multicooker or double boiler for 15 minutes.

According to the recipe for fish, chicken cutlets are also prepared. The ratio of vegetables will be the same, but place an egg instead of semolina.

Diet cutlets steamed are very tasty and healthy. Bon Appetit!

minys-kg.ru

Today I will tell you my recipe on how to cook diet beef steamed cutlets in a double boiler. Actually, I chose tender veal, added oat flakes, and the cutlets turned out to be juicy and healthy.

A series healthy recipes: beef baked in foil, juicy and tasty, step by step recipe with photo.

For cutlets, we need the following products:

• Veal - 0.5 kg.
• Egg - 2 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Oat flakes - 50 g.
• Milk or cream 100 g.
• Salt to taste.
• Breadcrumbs (for sprinkling) - 200 g.

Optional:

• Garlic - 1 clove
• Ground black pepper.

For dietary meals, it is better to take veal rather than beef. Veal is more tender and cooks faster. Wash fresh meat under running water. Cut with a knife into small pieces... We put it in a deep bowl.

Instead of bread, we will use oatmeal. They are healthier and more suitable for dietary nutrition. They also need to be prepared in advance before adding to the minced meat. Grind the oatmeal in a coffee grinder.

Pour the resulting flour into a container and fill it with hot milk or low-fat cream (10%). Leave for 10 minutes to swell.

Peel the onion. Cut into slices.

Beat eggs with a fork or whisk.

Grind meat and onions with a meat grinder.

At the end, pour out the swollen and cooled oat flour and pour in the eggs. Add salt and mix well. Chopped garlic and pepper can be added if desired.

Minced meat for cutlets is ready.

We dip our hands in water and form blanks for cutlets.

Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and put in one of the forms of a double boiler.

Cover with a lid. We fill the water tank and turn on the machine for 50 minutes. If, during cooking, the water in the container evaporates to the minimum icon, you can add it without turning off the steamer.

Safety precautions must be observed when using the steamer. For example, you must not remove the lid during cooking, as you can burn yourself with the steam.

A call will inform us about the end of cooking. The steamed veal cutlets are ready, but you can also make a gravy if you like. Along with the cutlets in a double boiler, you can also cook a side dish.

Put the finished cutlets on a plate.

Elena Naryadchuk cooked, bon appetit!

Of the options useful diet food: Lentil Puree Soup, see recipe with step by step photos.

polzavred.info

How to steam cutlets

A universal low-calorie dish, steamed cutlets, can be introduced into the diet of babies from the first year of life, the elderly and those who are on a diet. To understand how to make steam cutlets, you need to know only a few rules for preparing this dish:

1. It will help to get rid of fish cakes from an unpleasant smell lemon juice- a small amount of it must be added to the raw minced meat.
2. The size of the products affects the cooking time. If the food needs to be urgently put on the table, it is better to make the meat balls small.


3. If the minced meat is too liquid, more flour or crackers (the component indicated in the recipe) must be added to it.
4. Before cooking the minced meat, you need to beat it off - so the cutlets will turn out to be soft.
5. The splendor of the products is affected by the degree of minced meat grinding - the more it is crushed, the more magnificent the cutlets will be.
6. It is better to soak bread for minced meat in milk to make the products tastier. However, you can also use plain water.

Steamed minced meat cutlets are cooked both in a double boiler and in a multicooker using a special attachment. In the absence of the above technique, a regular pot of water with a colander mounted on top will work. Products do not have to be made from minced meat - vegetables are often grated on a fine grater for the base. In this case, the dish can be either sweet or salty.

Steam cutlet recipe

Fish, with minced meat or fresh vegetables - any cutlets will be tasty and, most importantly, useful if steamed. Steamed food is different from fried food delicate taste and no less pleasant aroma. If you want to learn how to make a dietary dinner for the whole family at home, consider a few simple step by step recipes below.

In a frying pan

• Servings Per Container: 3 Persons.
• Calorie content: 186 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

To steam a dish without a multicooker or steamer, use a regular skillet. Minced meat can be used whatever you like - beef, turkey, chicken, or even mix several types. If you want to appreciate the excellent taste chicken cutlets cooked in a pan, proceed step by step as indicated in the recipe below.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 600 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onions - 0.5 pcs.;
• salt, spices - to taste;
• carrots - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the meat with a meat grinder twice. Season with salt and season.
2. Grate the carrots finely, chop the onion. Add vegetables to the minced meat.
3. Drive an egg into the mixture, mix everything until smooth.
4. Moisten your hands with water, mold an oval-shaped product.
5. Pour water into the pan, salt it, add seasoning if desired.
6. When the liquid boils, reduce the heat, put the cutlets, cover the dishes with a lid and leave the dish to cook for half an hour.
7. Turn off the heat, let the dish stand for 10 minutes.

In a double boiler

• Cooking time: 2 hours.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content: 75 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

If you stick with healthy eating and low-calorie food, you will definitely love the vegetable steamed cutlets cooked according to the recipe below. If you wish, you can change the list of ingredients, for example, add fresh herbs to the products - this will help to give the dish an even richer and brighter taste. Check out how to make a steamer diet lunch like this.

Ingredients:

• spices, herbs - to taste;
• dried apricots (or prunes) - 50 g;
• semolina - 2 tbsp. l .;
• beets - 2 pcs.;
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• water - 2 tbsp. l .;
• white sesame - 50 g;
• potatoes - 3 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. Put all the vegetables in a saucepan, boil until tender, cool, peel.
2. Grind carrots and beets using small grater knives. If necessary, drain food from liquid.
3. Add finely chopped onion and dried fruits to the beet-carrot mixture.
4. Stir the workpiece, salt, put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
5. Form from minced vegetables balls, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
6. Place the items on the steamer tray and cook for 10 minutes.

In a multicooker

• Cooking time: 45 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 2 Persons.
• Calorie content: 132 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

The recipe is suitable for those who prefer to eat lean meat. Steamed veal cutlets made in a multicooker are tasty and healthy, while cooking them is very simple and quick. You can serve products with any sauce you like, but often meatballs are cooked with vegetable side dish for example with cauliflower or broccoli.

Ingredients:

• wheat crackers - 2 tbsp. l .;
• salt to taste;
• veal - 200 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

1. Wash fresh meat, cut into small pieces, chop with a food processor.
2. Peel the onion, cut into slices, put in the bowl of the combine, chop.
3. Pour crackers to the onion, beat in an egg, salt the mixture. Turn on the technique, turn the ingredients into a homogeneous mass.
4. Combine the meat with the onion and egg mixture and form into small balls. Roll the blanks in breadcrumbs.
5. Place all products on the bottom of a steaming dish.
6. Place the dish in the multicooker bowl, which is half filled with water beforehand.
7. Cook the dish for 30 minutes with the Steam setting and the lid closed.
8. Arrange the finished cutlets on plates, sprinkle with fresh herbs - this will help give them a unique aroma.

In a saucepan

• Servings Per Container: 8 Persons.
• Calorie content: 143 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

Instead of a steamer or multicooker with a steaming function, you can also use a regular colander - you need to place it on a commensurate saucepan. Try steaming chicken cutlets, for example, that taste just as good as fried meat dishes. This method of cooking does not spoil the products, they remain tasty and tender, as if they were cooking in a double boiler.

Ingredients:

• oil (drain) - 100 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• milk - 100 ml;
• bread crumbs - 100 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• chicken - 700 g;
• bread - 3 slices;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• pepper, salt to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Grind the meat with vegetables a couple of times through the fine nozzle of a meat grinder.
2. Pour the bread with milk, when it softens, send it to the meat grinder too.
3. Drive an egg into the resulting minced meat, add soft butter.
4. Salt the mixture, season, let it brew for 15 minutes.
5. Make balls of minced meat, roll in breadcrumbs.
6. Pour water into a saucepan. When it boils, place a colander on top, put the formed products on the bottom.
7. Leave the dish to cook in this way for 40 minutes.

Steam cutlets in the oven

• Cooking time: 1 hour.
• Servings Per Container: 10 Persons.
• Calorie content: 168 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

Many people love baked dishes, especially those on a diet. Foods are cooked with a minimum amount of fat, while the ingredients used retain most of their nutrients... If you want to diversify your dietary menu, pay attention to this recipe - it will tell you how to cook steamed beef patties in the oven.

Ingredients:

• beef - 1 kg;
• oil (vegetable) - 5 ml;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• onions - 3 pcs.;
• salt, spices - to taste;
• semolina - 50 g.

Cooking method:

1. Twist the meat, onions through a meat grinder, add spices, salt to the resulting minced meat, mix everything.
2. Add eggs, semolina to the meat mass, mix again.
3. Spread the foil on the bottom of the baking sheet, sprinkle with oil.
4. Blind the desired shape of the product, put on a baking sheet, cover with foil.
5. Bake for 40 minutes by placing a baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

Steamed beef cutlets

• Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 10 Persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 148 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch / dinner.

If you decide to cook steam cutlets from ground beef then follow this recipe... It describes the process step by step. Prepare products with added butter and softened bread, so they will be especially tender. However, remember that for a diet with a minimum calorie content, these two components should still be removed from the recipe.

Ingredients:

• egg - 1 pc.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• milk - 0.5 cups;
• oil (drain) - 50 g;
• White stale bread- 2 pieces;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• beef pulp - 700 g;
• seasonings, salt - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Cut the crust off the bread slices, pour the milk over the crumb.
2. Wash the meat, dip the excess moisture with a napkin, cut into pieces, remove the film, veins.
3. Grind the meat with a food processor or meat grinder.
4. Peel the onions, garlic, chop them by hand, or scroll with the meat.
5. Squeeze the bread, send it after the beef in a meat grinder.
6. Combine all ingredients, add egg, seasonings, stir. Leave the workpiece to brew for 15 minutes.
7. Form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs.
8. Steam the food for 45 minutes.

Diet steamed fish cakes

• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 88 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

Any fish is suitable for cooking according to this recipe, for example, pike perch, cod, pollock. You can also use pink salmon, crucian carp, pike perch, bream, pike. No family member will refuse these delicious fish cakes, but if you are going to feed a small child, then it is better to take the fish fillet so that there are no bones in it.

Ingredients:

• egg - 1 pc.;
• dry aromatic herbs, salt - to taste;
• potatoes - 1 pc.;
• fish (minced fish) - 500 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• milk - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Boil raw potatoes, peel, mash with a fork, mixing with a couple of tablespoons of milk.
2. Grind the fish in any way.
3. Chop the onion, mix with fish, potatoes until a soft, juicy mass is obtained.
4. Form an elongated product.
5. Grease the steamer rack and steam for 20 minutes.
6. Serve with a low-fat white sauce or lemon juice.

Steamed cabbage cutlets

• Cooking time: 40 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content: 99 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

The taste of such products is not familiar to everyone, because many think that cabbage cutlets are edible only when fried. However, they can also be steamed. Here you just need to properly prepare the main ingredient - cabbage. In addition, for the brightness of the taste of the dish, many housewives roll cutlets in a mixture of bread crumbs with sesame seeds.

Ingredients:

• oil (vegetable) - 1 tbsp. l .;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• crackers - 2 tbsp. l .;
• semolina - 2 tbsp. l .;
• sesame seeds - to taste;
• spices, salt - to taste;
• fresh cabbage - 500 g;
• egg - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

1. A young tender cabbage finely chop, salt, put to fry in a pan. Cover the crockery with a lid. Turn off the heat when the food is soft.
2. Let the cabbage brew for 5 minutes, then add the semolina, spices and mix everything.
3. Cool the cabbage, then beat the egg into it, mix again.
4. Blind cutlets, roll them in a mixture of rusks with sesame seeds.
5. Put the cutlets on the steamer grates (you do not need to grease them, because the cabbage was fried with oil).
6. Leave the dish to cook for 15 minutes.
7. Serve with sour cream.

Chicken

• Cooking time: 50 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content: 175 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch.

Very tasty and tender dietary chicken steamed cutlets are obtained from the poultry fillet. Such products made with a double boiler are suitable even for very young children - many babies love to eat them with mashed potatoes, cereals, pasta or stewed vegetables. Find out how to prepare a meat-based dietary and hearty lunch.

Ingredients:

• garlic - 1 slice;
• sour cream - 1 tbsp. l .;
• pepper, salt - to taste;
• milk - 0.5 cups;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• breast - 1 pc.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• bread crumbs (or stale white bread) - 100 g.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the breast well, get wet, remove the bones.
2. Pour rusks or bread with milk.
3. Chop the peeled onion into slices.
4. Squeeze the bread, chop together with fillets and onion slices. It is better to use a blender for chopping.
5. Chop the garlic using fine grater divisions.
6. Add sour cream, seasonings, garlic to the minced meat, mix.
7. Blind small-sized products, put on the steamer grate.
8. Cook for 30 minutes.
9. Serve with any side dish you like.

Steamed oat cutlets

• Cooking time: 30 minutes.
• Servings Per Container: 5 Persons.
• Calorie content: 100 kcal.
• Purpose: for lunch / dinner.

If the household does not favor useful oatmeal, then this recipe for cooking oatmeal steamed cutlets will help you out a lot. Products are prepared on the basis of flakes, eggs, bouillon cube. Many more housewives add spices to the minced meat, with them the taste becomes brighter. The dish goes well with fresh cucumbers and tomatoes - great option for a light dinner.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• chicken broth cubes - 2 pcs.;
• water - 2 glasses;
• oil (vegetable) - for lubrication;
• salt to taste;
• flakes - 2 cups;
• sour cream - for serving.

Cooking method:

1. Bring water to a boil, dissolve the cubes. Pour flakes into the liquid, stir, and then remove the dishes from the heat.
2. Letting the flakes brew for 5 minutes, beat into them chicken eggs, stir until smooth.
3. Lubricate the bottom of the steamer pan with a small amount of oil, send balls made of oatmeal onto it.
4. Steam the products for 15 minutes.
5. Arrange cutlets on plates, pour sour cream over each portion.

sovets.net

Steamed potato and beef cutlets

Products:

500 gr. beef pulp;

2 small potatoes;

1 pinch of sea salt.

How to cook steamed potato and beef patties:

Boil the potatoes and crush them into a homogeneous mass.

Beat the egg with a whisk and add to mashed potatoes when it cools a little (otherwise the egg will curdle and not sticky).

Scroll the beef through a meat grinder (it is better to install a shallow grate). Add salt to the meat.
Combine minced meat with potato mass. Form cutlets.

Cook the patties in a double boiler for about 20 minutes.
Note to the hostess: you can add yesterday's mashed potatoes to the cutlets.

Recipe for dietary beef cutlets with cottage cheese

Products:

700 gr. veal;

100 g cottage cheese;

50 gr. oat flour;

onion to taste;

dill to taste;

a pinch of freshly ground black pepper;

salt and nutmeg to taste.

How to cook diet beef cutlets with cottage cheese:

Chop the onion and brown a little in vegetable oil. Detach egg white from the yolk.

Add egg whites, fried onions, chopped greens, oatmeal to the minced meat made from veal. Knead the minced meat thoroughly, add salt and some spices to taste.

Blind round balls. Steam diet cutlets.

Note: Oatmeal can be made from bran by grinding them with a blender.

Cutlets "Delicate"

Steamed beef cutlets with pork.

Homemade minced meat is much tastier and better, and if you master all the subtleties of its preparation, then diet cutlets in your family will often be served for dinner or lunch.

Products:

500 gr. beef pulp;

200 gr. pork pulp;

2 potato tubers;

1 large onion;

at your discretion greens.

How to cook "Delicate" cutlets:

Prepare minced meat from lean pork and beef cuts. Grate peeled potatoes, finely chop the onion and herbs. Combine all ingredients, season with salt.

Blind cutlets. Cook in a slow cooker by placing the patties in a steaming container. In half an hour, the dish will be ready.

To avoid spending a lot of time in the kitchen, freeze the cooked minced meat, and then use it as needed.

stolov-ka.ru

Ingredients for steamed cutlets recipe

• veal or lean beef - 300 gr;
• the yolk of one egg;
• onion - 1 pc. (small);
• boiled carrots - 1 pc. (small)
• raw carrots - 1 pc. (large);
• potatoes - 6-7 pcs;
• ground pepper, basil, nutmeg - pinch at a time;
• salt to taste;
• thick sour cream - 1 tbsp. l;
• green onions- a few feathers.

How to cook steam cutlets

Twist the meat in a meat grinder or chop it in a food processor. Ready minced meat also admissible, but you never know for sure its quality. Meat is easier to “control”.

Add the onion grated on a fine grater to the resulting minced meat (you can twist it along with the meat).

Chop boiled carrots and a few green onions finely. Put the vegetables in the minced meat.

Separate the yolk from the egg white, add to the minced meat and vegetables.

In order for the cutlets to be juicy, put a spoonful of thick sour cream in the minced meat.

Spices can be eliminated or added to your liking. The recipe uses ground black pepper, ground paprika, basil and ground nutmeg (pinch each). You need to add spices after the minced meat is mixed.

The salt in the minced meat is added last. The minced meat is kneaded again and put into the refrigerator for half an hour.

Use chilled minced meat to make small oblong or round patties.

To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, moisten your palms with cold water.

A side dish for steamed cutlets can be prepared from any vegetables, but since potatoes and carrots are almost always available, this is the easiest and most convenient option.

Cut the peeled potatoes into slices.

Carrots can be cut into strips, cubes, circles - at your discretion.

Put the vegetables in a colander, add a little salt. Pour enough water into the pot so that it does not reach the bottom of the colander. Place the colander in a pot of water. Cover, simmer heat. Make sure that steam does not escape from under the lid.

After 5 minutes, put the cutlets on the vegetables. Cover tightly and cook for another 20 minutes. The water in the pot should be constantly boiling.

Put the steamed cutlets on a plate along with the vegetables. For steamed cutlets, you can offer sour cream, olive oil as a sauce, or add a piece of butter to a plate.

What can you make steamed cutlets from?

Of course, from a wide variety of meat. The most diet cutlets are obtained from turkey or chicken fillet... Children are especially fond of them - for example, this recipe will be very to their taste. Very good fish cakes cooked with delicate culinary using a double boiler or colander.

Secondly, you can steam vegetable cutlets, both from some vegetables and with the addition of cereals (rice, buckwheat, oatmeal). Cereals are added to meat cutlets... No surprises or secrets: we take any recipe for cutlets that we like, we don't bread, but instead of using a frying pan or oven, we use steam.

And here is one of the most diet recipes steam cutlets that I know (perfect for exacerbation of gastritis and "exit" from the acute stage of pancreatitis):

Pour a handful of oatmeal ("no cooking") with boiling water, insist. Add to them 100 g of minced turkey (preferably fillet), some freshly chopped greens such as parsley (onions not worth it), a couple of tablespoons of boiled milk and a spoonful of olive oil. Form cutlets and steam.

Who benefits from steam cutlets?

This meat dish is good for everyone and belongs to healthy writing due to its low fat content, reduced calorie content and delicate cooking. But such nutrition is especially important if there are gastroenterological problems. In fact, steamed cutlets are a dish of the medical menu.

Steam cutlets will come to your table even if in the house Small child... This is understandable: the child's digestive system has not yet been fully formed, it is gentle and must be spared. Meanwhile, steamed meat rich in proteins and microelements can be given to a one-year-old baby.

Finally, steamed burgers are a matter of individual taste. I remember how a friend, who almost completely switched to steamed food, shared her impression: “I can no longer imagine how one can love harsh tastes - salty, peppery, fatty ... It's a different matter for a steam kitchen, when nothing interferes with the taste of the product itself! "

Nutritionists are advised to include fish dishes in the diet more often. After all, it contains proteins necessary for the body and easily assimilated by the body, a lot of trace elements and vitamins, polyunsaturated fatty acids. The fish will be most useful if it is baked or stewed, however, fish can be cooked in a pan or in a multicooker so that it will not bring the body anything but good. Slightly less useful, but no less tasty products from minced fish especially if cooked correctly. For those who look after their health, perfect choice there will be steamed fish cakes, delicious and dietary at the same time. Tips experienced chefs and recipes selected by us for the readers of the beauty in you online magazine will enrich your diet with delicious and healthy fish dishes.

Subtleties of technology

First of all, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the recommendations experienced chefs... Armed with this knowledge, even a novice hostess can cook delicious steamed fish cakes.

• Do-it-yourself minced fish will be tastier than ready-made. After all, you will not put anything superfluous in it, using only fish fillets. For minced meat, take fresh and not too bony fish. If you are going to make cutlets from river fish, rotate its pulp through a meat grinder several times to be sure: there will be no bones in the minced meat.
• Usually butter or lard is added to add juiciness to the minced fish, but these additives significantly increase the calorie content. ready meal... Therefore, diet cutlets are made without these additives, but it is worth choosing fish varieties for them that are not the driest varieties.
• In order for the fish cakes to be softer and more luxuriant, they add bread dried and then soaked in milk, cream or water. For diet cutlets, water is more suitable, in extreme cases - milk, but it is better to refuse cream.
• In order for the cutlets to keep their shape, eggs are usually added to the minced meat. However, you can also make lean cutlets by replacing the egg with starch, potatoes or semolina.
• Onions are often added to fish cakes. You should not pass it through a meat grinder so that the minced meat does not become liquid. Better not to be lazy and chop the onion with a knife.
• Typically, cutlets are steamed using a steamer or multicooker. But even if you don't have one like this kitchen appliances, you can make steamed fish cakes by placing them in a colander and placing it over a pot of water.
• For steaming cutlets, you do not need oil or breading. This also makes them dietary.

Based on the given rules and tips, you can make delicious minced fish steamed cutlets using any of the recipes you like.

Tip: if you are cooking cutlets in a multicooker, you can cook a side dish in the main bowl of the machine at the same time. It can be rice, buckwheat, corn porridge, lentils.

A simple recipe for steamed minced fish cutlets

This recipe is the simplest and most common. IN classic version milk is used for cooking. If cutlets are made for a lean table, water is taken instead of milk, and the egg is replaced with a spoonful of starch.

Components:

• fish fillet - 0.5 kg;
• bread - 50 g;
• onions - 100 g;
• egg - 1 pc. (or 20 g of starch diluted in 20 ml of water);
• milk or water - 100 ml (you can also take soy or coconut milk);
• salt, seasonings - to taste (if you are on a diet, do not overuse spices).

Cooking algorithm:

1. Finely chop the onion.
2. Rinse the fillet. Dry with napkins, pass through a meat grinder.
3. Soak stale bread in warm milk or water.
4. Stir in all the ingredients in the recipe.
5. Beat the minced meat against the board to make it tighter. Shape into patties and steam for 20 minutes.

You can serve mashed potatoes as a side dish for steamed cutlets. Do not forget only that in Lent and it must be cooked in water, without adding milk, cream or butter. For dieters, these mashed potatoes are even healthier.

Lean fish cakes with steamed potatoes

The minced meat of these steamed cutlets contains potatoes, thanks to which they keep their shape well. At the same time, the energy value of the dish with the addition of potatoes remains low.

Components:

• minced fish - 0.5 kg;
• potatoes - 0.3 kg;
• fresh herbs - 150 g;
• onions - 150 g;
• salt, spices - to your taste.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Grate raw potatoes, as for cooking potato pancakes, squeeze.
2. Mix with minced fish.
3. Add salt, spices, finely chopped onions and herbs. Instead of greens, you can use fresh onions, then from onions you can refuse.
4. Knead the minced meat, form patties. Steam them for 20-25 minutes.

Steamed fish cakes according to this recipe can be served without garnish. If you still want to make a side dish, use for it fresh vegetables, green beans, green pea.

Steamed minced fish cutlets with semolina and cheese

Semolina makes cutlets more tender and fluffy. It is only important to choose semolina made from hard varieties wheat, otherwise the dish will not be dietary. Cheese will make the dish soft creamy taste, although it will slightly increase its calorie content.

Components:

• fish fillet - 0.5 kg;
• onions - 75 g;
• processed cheese - 70 g;
• semolina - 1 tbsp. l .;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Scroll the fish fillets through a meat grinder.
2. Grate the cheese. It will be easier to cope with this task if the cheese is not kept in the freezer for a long time before.
3. Chop the onion with a knife.
4. Mix all the ingredients with the egg and spices.
5. Having formed medium-sized patties, steam them for 25 minutes.

The semolina will swell during the cooking process, giving the cutlets a splendor. These cutlets taste amazingly tender, and they look appetizing. They can be served with any side dish.

Steamed fish cutlets with carrots

This dish contains one egg, but you can do without it by slightly increasing the amount of flour. Then the recipe will become lean.

Components:

• minced fish - 0.5 kg;
• carrots - 150 g;
• onions - 150 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
• dried herbs, salt to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Grind pre-washed and peeled carrots on a fine grater.
2. Chop the onion finely with a knife.
3. Mix the minced meat with chopped vegetables, beat in an egg, add dried herbs, salt.
4. Place the minced meat patties on the wire rack of your steamer or microwave. Start a suitable program ("Steam" in the microwave, "Fish" in the double boiler). Cook for 20 minutes.

Thanks to the addition a large number vegetables, steamed fish cakes according to the above recipe are doubly useful.

Diet fish cakes with bran

Bran is very useful for cleansing the body, improving the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and preventing obesity.

Components:

• minced fish - 0.5 kg;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onions - 75-100 g;
• water - 100 ml;
• bran - 50 g;
• salt to taste.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Finely chop the onion.
2. Grind the bran in a coffee grinder or blender, fill it with warm water, let it swell.
3. Mix the minced meat with onion, bran, egg. Don't forget to add some salt.
4. Make cutlets from the resulting mass and steam them. Cooking time is 20 minutes.

Cutlets made according to this recipe satisfy hunger well and leave a feeling of fullness for a long time. This dish belongs to the category of dietary ones.

Diet fish cakes with cottage cheese

Another type of diet cutlets, which are very tasty and healthy at the same time, are prepared from minced fish with the addition of cottage cheese.

Components:

• fish fillet - 0.4 kg;
• low-fat cottage cheese - 0.2 kg;
• chicken egg - - 1 pc.;
• complex seasoning for fish - to taste;
• fresh dill - 50 g.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Cut the fish fillet into pieces and pass through a meat grinder, alternating with cottage cheese (we also pass it through a meat grinder).
2. Chop the dill finely with a knife, beat the egg. Mix it all with minced meat, adding seasoning.
3. After wetting your hands in water to prevent the minced meat from sticking, form small patties. Place them on a wire rack and cook over steam for about 20 minutes.

The most delicate dietary minced fish cutlets with cottage cheese are unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. Those who have not even thought about the benefits of a healthy diet will also be smart about them.

Unusual fish cakes with olives

Steamed fish cakes stuffed with whole olives are not a shame to serve to the festive table.

Components:

• fillet of sea fish - 0.3 kg;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onions - 75 g;
• milk - 50 ml;
• bread crumbs - 2 tbsp. l. with a slide;
• salt, spices - to taste;
• pitted olives - 8 pcs.

Cooking algorithm:

1. Chop the onion finely.
2. Grind the sea fish fillets through a meat grinder.
3. Heat milk or water, pour in bread crumbs.
4. Combine the minced meat, onion and rusks soaked in water with beaten egg, salt and spices.
5. Form 8 balls from the resulting mass, hide an olive in each ball.
6. Place on a wire rack and steam for 20 minutes.

Very unusual fish cakes with a "surprise" will appeal to children, for whom it is best to cook dietary meals with steam, not in a frying pan. Instead of a side dish for such an unusual appetizer, you can serve olives, olives, pickles, fresh cherry tomatoes - whichever you prefer.

Steam fish cutlets are not only healthy, but also very tasty. Diet meals can beautify even festive table... Knowing the recipes for their preparation, it is not scary to decide to follow a diet.

Meat cutlets are a hearty everyday dish, without which it is difficult to imagine a cozy home cooking... However, fried minced meat products are too high in calories, therefore they are not recommended by nutritionists for problems with the digestive system and excess weight. An excellent alternative is steam cutlets, which can be used even in the diet of sick people and small children. If you prepare a hot dish correctly, it will delight you with its softness, juiciness and delicate taste.

List of recipes in the article:

How to cook diet steamed burgers

Photo by Shutterstock

How to cook diet cutlets in a double boiler

The most delicious steamed cutlets are obtained by mixing different types of meat, such as beef and pork. When preparing baby food, it is recommended to combine dietary veal and chicken fillet (breast). It is very useful to combine meat with grains.

For 0.5 kg of finished minced meat, you will need:

• onions (2 heads)
• egg (1 pc.)
• oatmeal (3 tablespoons)
• table salt to taste
• freshly ground black pepper (for adults) to taste
• frozen onion feathers (1 bunch)
• vegetable oil for lubrication

Scroll the onion in a meat grinder, put in the minced meat. Drive in a raw egg, add salt and pepper to your taste. Use small oatmeal instead of the traditional bread crumb - they are healthier, moreover, this addition will give the cutlets an unusual rich taste. To meat products become juicier, add very finely chopped onion feathers to the minced meat. It is recommended to pre-wash them, grind them and put them in the freezer (use without defrosting!). Mix everything thoroughly.

Scientists estimate that 100 g of breaded fried beef patties provides approximately 364 kcal. If the same food is steamed, then the calorie content of the product will be only about 180 kcal!

Form the patties and place them in a double boiler, the bottom of which should be lightly greased with vegetable oil. If you do not have a special device, make an improvised one: fill a saucepan of a suitable diameter with water by a third, place a colander on top and seal it with a lid. Steam cutlets should be boiled for 30 minutes.

Cooking chicken steamed cutlets

Delicious and hearty cutlets can be made from chicken fillet and potatoes. If desired, before placing in a double boiler, minced meat products can be lightly rolled in bread crumbs- cutlets will not stick to your hands and will not retain their shape better after heat treatment.

Beef is rich in vitamins, micro-, macronutrients, amino acids. It saturates the body with useful substances, normalizes the work of the cardiovascular, nervous, digestive systems, reduces the level of harmful cholesterol, activates metabolic processes, and strengthens bones. But so that meat is only beneficial for losing weight and proper nutrition(PP), you need to follow the rate of its use and choose the right product.

Diet beef steamed cutlets are an excellent protein base for lunch. They make the diet more varied, supply the body with useful substances, and relieve hunger for a long time. Weight loss will be stable and easy if ground beef is prepared correctly.

What beef is suitable for weight loss, proper nutrition and diet

Not all housewives have minced beef cutlets tasty, juicy and safe for the figure. A dish cooked in a skillet is high in calories. And steamed or baked meatballs are not as delicious as fried ones. To make it tasty and healthy dish, you need to choose the right meat and cook it right.

It is better to cook steamed or baked diet cutlets from minced meat cooked with your own hands. This requires a meat grinder or food processor. Fresh or chilled beef is used for diet and nutrition. After freezing, meat loses many nutrients and becomes drier.

Tenderloin, brisket, undersheets, meat trimmings are used as a basis for diet cutlets. It is better to make it from lean meat, the fatty parts will not work for this purpose.

If you choose ready-made minced meat, then pay attention to the color of the product, it should be bright red. Shredded meat should be free of stickiness, unpleasant odors. It is also worth paying attention to the degree of grinding, if the consistency of the mass is puree, then, most likely, the product is of poor quality. Fresh ground beef has well-defined grains of medium size.

Attention! Beef steamed or baked cutlets can be regularly eaten by healthy people under 30 with a normal metabolism, who lead an active lifestyle. During the diet, you need to drink plenty of water to speed up the elimination of purine substances that are released during the breakdown of meat.

Be sure to see:

Gallery image with caption:

Gallery image with caption: Gallery image with caption: Gallery image with caption:

Choosing the best ways to make minced beef patties

Every housewife should know how to cook minced meat for dietary beef cutlets. To prepare the chopped base, the crumb is cut into plates (1 cm each), then along the fibers and across.

Before grinding in a meat grinder, fat, veins, films are cut off from fillets. You cannot leave them, as they will clog the grate, squeezing the juice out of the meat, then the minced meat will become too wet.

It is better to chop the onions separately, as they change the viscosity of the meat mass. Therefore, you should not twist the vegetable through a meat grinder along with beef. Pieces of meat are passed through a meat grinder 2-3 times, and then beat with a blender.

To be steamed or baked beef cutlets were more airy, you need to beat off the minced meat. To do this, the mass is sharply collected, thrown onto the surface or into a bowl until it becomes elastic and stops sticking to your hands.

Salt destroys muscle proteins, absorbs moisture, so it is added at the very end. If you do this earlier, then the beef cutlets will be dryish and crumbly.

For a stable weight loss, choose a suitable heat treatment method. Better to steam diet cutlets, bake or stew. Frying increases the calorie content of the dish.

It is interesting! Fried cutlets contain approximately 380 kcal, stewed - 230 kcal, steam - 190 kcal.

For a couple

Steam cutlets are juicy, tender and fluffy. For this purpose, use a double boiler or a pressure cooker. If this technique is not at home, then cook dietary meal you can use a saucepan with boiling water and a colander. After such heat treatment, the nutritional value of steamed beef cutlets decreases, they are easier to digest, and do not overload the digestive tract.

Minced meat is prepared as described earlier, then cutlets are sculpted with wet hands, water is poured into a double boiler, the container is greased with olive oil and laid out. You need to distribute the balls not very tightly so that they do not stick together. Prepare steam balls in the "Steam cooking" mode 30-50 minutes.

The steam cooking method is suitable for those who are losing weight, supporters of PP, children, people with diseases of the digestive tract.

In the oven

Baked diet beef patties take longer to cook than fried ones, but they retain more of the health benefits and don't need to be at the stove all the time. It is enough to form balls, roll them in breading and spread on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. It is not recommended to use vegetable oil or other fat.

It is interesting! If you add 2-3 tbsp. To the beef base. tablespoons of water or low-fat milk, then the diet cutlets will be juicy.

The yolks make the dish airy and soft, with a diet it is recommended to use 1-2 pieces. for 1 kg of meat. To obtain a delicate consistency, ground beef is sent to the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes before heat treatment.

The optimum temperature for cooking diet beef cutlets in the oven is from 180 to 200 degrees. Cooking time is from 30 to 50 minutes, but not more than an hour. To increase the juiciness of the dish, 15 minutes before the end of cooking, add ½ cup of boiling water to the mold.

In a multicooker

Steam diet beef cutlets in a slow cooker are prepared in about the same way as in a double boiler. The bottom of the steaming container is greased with olive oil, the balls are laid out so that there is a distance between them, and they do not stick together. Then water is poured into the pan, a container with cutlets is placed on top. The dish is prepared for half an hour in the "Steam cooking" mode.

There is another option for making diet steamed meatballs:

1. Fry the cutlets on both sides in the mode of the same name, having greased the bottom with olive oil beforehand.
2. Add water to the multicooker (up to the middle of the cutlets), close the lid, cook on the Stew program for 20 minutes.

You can also cook a beef dish using the Bake program (20 minutes on each side).

In a frying pan

Diet beef cutlets are not allowed to be fried in oil. After such processing, the calorie content of the dish increases, it is saturated with carcinogens. With the regular use of such food, weight increases, the concentration of cholesterol increases, and the risk of cancer increases.

As a last resort, you can fry the diet beef patties in a non-stick frying pan. They can also be stewed in a mixture of olive oil and water (1: 2).

Lowest calorie steamed recipes for losing weight

There are several ways to cook steamed or baked beef patties. The base is often combined with minced chicken to soften the dish. Diet meatballs with the addition of vegetable puree have a delicate texture and pleasant aroma. Cottage cheese makes their taste softer, and the texture - delicate, and prunes give a specific aroma and original taste.

Steamed beef cutlets with chicken

Diet cutlets from beef and chicken are low-fat, aromatic, soft. You can add a little milk to make them juicy. Caloric content - no more than 170 kcal.

Step by step recipe:

Serve Diet Steamed Beef and Chicken Meatballs with Rice or vegetable puree, greens.

With cabbage

Delicious, healthy and nutritious steamed beef patties with the addition of cabbage can be eaten by those who are losing weight and children. The meat base is mixed with white or cauliflower, which gives the dish an unusual aroma and juiciness. The nutritional value does not exceed 159 kcal.

Recipe:

1. Prepare 350g ground beef.
2. Grind 100 g cabbage in a blender into small pieces.
3. Mix the above ingredients, add the yolk, 1 tbsp. l. ground bran, salt, mix.
4. Form the patties, cook them in a double boiler or slow cooker for about 30 minutes.

Eat diet steamed meatballs with buckwheat and vegetable cuts.

With potatoes

Delicate, appetizing steamed beef patties will quickly and permanently relieve hunger. It's simple and quick recipe, and the result will delight everyone. The energy value- 209 kcal.

Cooking steps:

1. Boil and mashed 2 potatoes.
2. Mix the cooled puree with the egg.
3. Twist 500 g of beef through a meat grinder, add a pinch of salt, ground pepper.
4. Toss the meat and potatoes.
5. Blind cutlets, steam for 20-40 minutes.

Delicious dietary steamed beef cutlets with a delicate consistency are obtained.

Meatballs with cheese in tomato sauce

Steamed meatballs with grated cheese in gravy have a very tempting look and amazing taste. 100 g of a dish contains 153 kcal.

Recipe:

Serve chopped beef diet platter with garnish, garnish with chopped herbs.

With zucchini

Losing weight will definitely like the incredibly juicy, soft and tender steamed cutlets with zucchini. Energy value - 136 kcal.

Recipe:

1. Cut into pieces and mince the beef (650 g).
2. Chop the onion, add to the meat base.
3. Twist 500 g of zucchini in a blender, squeeze the juice, mix the pulp with the base.
4. Add 1 crushed garlic clove, egg, 2 tbsp. l. ground oatmeal, salt, spices, stir.
5. Steam for 30 minutes.

Use green onions or lettuce to garnish your diet meal.

With cottage cheese

It is not difficult to cook steam cutlets with cottage cheese, but already in half an hour Tasty dinner he'll be ready. Nutritional value - 195 kcal.

Recipe:

1. Simmer chopped onions until transparent.
2. Mix 700 g minced beef with egg, onion, chopped herbs, 2 tbsp. l. ground bran and the same amount of skim milk, 100 g of cottage cheese. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Form the meatballs, steam for 25 minutes.

You can even eat such dietary meatballs for dinner.

With prunes

For lovers of interesting flavor combinations cutlets with prunes will be to your taste. Nutritional value - 218 kcal.

Cooking steps:

1. Mix 500 g of chopped beef with finely diced onion, 2 tbsp. l. ground bran, egg, salt. Stir.
2. Divide the meat mass into cutlets, put 2 prunes inside each.
3. Pour cold water into the steamer, put the workpieces in the container, simmer on the program of the same name for half an hour.

Use chopped herbs and olives to decorate your diet meal.

Useful video

Main conclusions

Steam diet cutlets will perfectly complement the slimming menu. To prepare them correctly, you need to follow these rules:

1. Prepare minced meat from lean beef.
2. Mince the meat 2-3 times, then whisk in a blender to create soft, airy meatballs.
3. For cooking steamed beef cutlets, bright red minced meat without stickiness and unpleasant odor with pronounced granularity is suitable.
4. For a juicy diet, combine the base with chopped courgette, pumpkin, carrots, or some potatoes. For the same purpose, add some skim milk or water to the composition.
5. Use ground bran and egg to bind the ground beef ingredients.

For diet beef steamed cutlets, use low-calorie ingredients to lose those extra pounds without much difficulty. If you have a few favorite recipes low-calorie meals minced meat, then share them in the comments.

Diet food is based not only on the use of certain types of foods and the rejection of other components.

Much also depends on the way food is cooked.

The most beneficial and gentle for the digestive system is steam cooking.

They do not directly contact the heating surface, do not have a crispy crust, and are cooked without oil.

All this is a guarantee that the prepared dish will be dietary.

Among these dishes and steamed diet cutlets.

Basic principles of steaming diet cutlets

For diet cutlets, do not use pork, fatty lamb and beef. The best choices are chicken, lean beef and veal, rabbit, fish.

Steam cooking not only eliminates excess fat, but also leaves a clean stove and utensils that would otherwise be used for frying.

Steamed diet cutlets can be prepared from vegetables, as well as from meat and fish using cereals.

For heat treatment of such cutlets, steamers or pots, where the grates are placed, are suitable, like a mantover. Steam cooking functions are also available in modern multicooker.

If there is no special device, you can use a regular saucepan with a little water and a sieve with products installed on it for steam cooking. The top of the sieve is covered with a lid.

The best side dish for steamed diet cutlets is vegetables, fresh or also steamed, boiled, stewed.

All recipes are based on 500 g of meat or fish. This is about two servings of the finished meal. If you need more food, just increase the amount of food.

Diet steamed beef cutlets

Lean beef is nutritious and moderately high in calories, a good source of protein. And cooked in the form of fluffy cutlets in a double boiler, it will delight you with its delicate texture and pleasant taste.

500 g young beef, veal without veins and fat

50 g white bread

1 medium onion

Soak the bread in milk for 10 minutes.

Wash the meat, chop and mince or blender with onion and bread.

Salt, pepper, pour in the milk left over from soaking.

Knead the minced meat well with your hand. If it's too dense, add a little milk or cold water - literally a spoon.

Form cutlets. Place on a greased steamer rack.

Cook covered for half an hour.

Most Popular: Steamed Chicken Diet Cutlets

Chicken is the most suitable meat for dietary nutrition. For these purposes, it is usually used chicken breast... Vegetables and rolled oats will make the minced meat especially tender.

500 g chicken fillet

2 cloves of garlic

2 tablespoons of rolled oats

2-3 tablespoons of milk

Turn chicken meat through a meat grinder, you can use a blender for chopping.

Also chop the onion - in a meat grinder, in a blender or chop thoroughly with a knife.

Grate carrots or use the same blender.

Finely chop a bunch of dill.

Mix vegetables, add rolled oats and milk, herbs, salt and pepper. Let stand for 15 minutes to allow the rolled oats to absorb moisture.

Form small patties.

Place cutlets in a double boiler on a greased wire rack and send to cook for 20 minutes.

Serve with sour cream, tomato or tomato sauce. It can be with soy sauce.

Diet chicken and bran cutlets

The bran aids in digestion. This is a coarse fiber that is not digested by our body, but it is necessary for the development of beneficial microflora. Combined with kefir and healthy chicken meat have a particularly beneficial effect on health.

500 g chicken breast

3 heaped tablespoons of bran, you can replace wheat with oat

Half a glass of kefir, preferably 1%

Parsley and cilantro if desired.

Mix bran with kefir and leave for a few minutes to swell, while leaving 1 spoonful of bran.

Cut the chicken breast and mince or blender.

Chop the onion in the same way.

Finely chop the greens with a knife.

Mix the kefir-bran mass with meat, onions, salt, break an egg, pour in the herbs.

Mix the minced meat thoroughly and stick the cutlets of any shape and size.

Roll in the remaining bran and put on a wire rack, having previously greased it with oil.

Cook in a double boiler for 20 minutes.

These cutlets are very good with fresh vegetables.

Fish tenderness - steamed dietary cutlets from fish

Any fish, river or sea, is suitable for cutlets. For dietary nutrition, you should only avoid especially fatty varieties. Pike, bream, pike perch, large crucian carp, navaga, pink salmon, pollock, cod, blue whiting, tilapia, and greenling are well suited. The main thing is to completely rid the pulp of bones, which is especially important for river fish... To avoid such problems, you can take a ready-made fillet.

500 g fish fillet

2 tablespoons milk

Dry aromatic herbs.

Boil potatoes, mash with milk.

Chop the fish in any suitable way. You can do this not only with a meat grinder or blender, but also with a knife. Only in this case the fish fillet should be slightly frozen.

Do the same with the onion.

Mix all the ingredients into one soft, fairly juicy mass.

Form oblong patties.

Place on a greased wire rack and steam for 20 minutes.

Serve with a low-fat white sauce. For example, milk-based. Or simply sprinkle with lemon.

Dietetic steam cutlets "Fisherman-loser"

The comic name of this dish, apparently, reminds of the situation when the fisherman returned home without a single fish. And instead of rich fish soup or fried crucian carp wife on hastily prepares lunch from what is. In fact, such simple cutlets will diversify the dietary menu. Usage canned fish makes the recipe not only affordable and budgetary, but also adds certain notes of taste.

1 can of canned fish in oil, or own juice- "saury", "mackerel", "tuna" or others

1/2 cup dry rice

2 tablespoons flour

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Pour rice with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook a viscous porridge

Season with salt and pepper, let cool.

Mash canned fish, after draining part of the juice and oil.

Finely chop the onion and fry a little in oil until soft. If you need more lean dish, do without oil and frying, just chop the onion and mash, add a little salt.

Combine all the named components, add flour, mix. The amount of eggs and flour should be used to regulate the density of the minced meat. It should be very soft and at the same time dense, not spread.

Form the patties into the desired shape.

Place in a double boiler on a greased wire rack and cook for 10-15 minutes. The main products in the minced meat are already ready, so it takes a minimum of time for the egg to set.

Serve with vegetables.

Diet steamed cutlets from minced vegetables

These original cutlets have an unusual taste. They do not contain meat, they can be used as breakfast, dinner or as a side dish. meat dish... Prunes give them a certain smoky flavor.

1 large carrot

1 medium beet

2 medium potatoes

1 large onion

5 prunes

2 tablespoons semolina

1-2 chicken eggs

Ground black pepper.

Boil potatoes in their skins or bake in the oven.

Peel, chop until puree.

Soak prunes in warm water. After half an hour, finely chop with a knife.

Chop the onion as fine as possible.

Grate carrots and beets raw on a fine grater, place in a colander to drain off excess juice. This juice, diluted with boiled water, can be drunk.

Mix all kinds of vegetables, eggs, salt, pepper, semolina.

Mix thoroughly, the minced meat will be watery, but it needs to be allowed to stand. In 10 minutes, semolina will absorb excess moisture.

Form round patties, place on a greased wire rack.

Steam for about half an hour, taking into account the use of raw vegetables.

Steamed cabbage diet cutlets "Who would have thought?"

Cabbage cutlets are not familiar to everyone. But even those who have tried and cooked them know that such cutlets need to be fried well. However, you can cook this dish with cabbage and steamed. True, for a bright taste, the cabbage itself must be properly prepared.

500 g fresh cabbage

1 onion optional

2 tablespoons semolina

1 tablespoon optional vegetable oil

Any spices to taste

It is advisable to choose young and tender cabbage. If it is tough, remove all thick veins. Chop finely.

Add a little salt and send to the pan to stew.

If desired, you can do this with a spoonful of vegetable oil. For a more dietary effect, do not add oil.

Simmer under the lid. When the cabbage is completely soft, turn off the stove.

After five minutes, add spices and semolina, mix quickly and thoroughly.

Allow to cool, beat in an egg, mix again. You can walk with a blender for more minced meat tenderness.

Form cutlets. Roll in breadcrumbs mixed with sesame seeds.

If the cabbage has been stewed with butter, do not grease the grates. If not, then lay out the cutlets, having previously greased the grates with oil.

This dish comes to readiness in just 15 minutes.

Serve with low-fat sour cream. Such cutlets are also delicious cold.

Tricks and secrets of steaming diet cutlets

Steamed food can be unacceptable. This is due to our food addictions, when, thanks to frying, some spicy or too bright spices, artificial seasonings, the real taste of the product is hammered. Steam cooking helps to reveal this flavor. And a few secrets will improve the dish.

• To achieve a particularly dietary effect, you can exclude bread and potatoes in minced meat.
• Vegetables - onions, carrots, zucchini, cabbage, will give real juiciness to the cutlets, if you grind them and add them to the minced meat.
• Diet cutlets are not subject to turning or other manipulations during cooking. Therefore, there is less risk that they will disintegrate, and it is not necessary to introduce the egg into the minced meat. In any case, in order for the products to keep their shape, they only need egg white, without the yolk.
• The inclusion of raw egg yolk in the minced meat will make the cutlets more tender, but at the same time increase the calorie content. True, because of one yolk, it will not increase much.
• If the meat or fish is dry, you can pour a spoonful of milk, cream, sour cream into the minced meat.
• Spices, spices, and aromatic herbs will add additional pleasant notes to the cutlets. Dill, coriander and other seasonings to taste can improve the taste of steamed diet cutlets.

Bon Appetit!