Minced Meat

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

Minced meat is a food product that is obtained by grinding any type of meat - pork, beef, chicken, various types of game, fish, etc. The secret of truly delicious minced meat is in the right proportions between the amount of minced meat and a combination of spices. The spices depend on the type of dish you want to prepare with the minced meat.

Minced meat is used to prepare traditional Bulgarian recipes, which are emblematic of the native culture and with which we are popular around the world - stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice, meatballs, kebabs, sauerkraut, moussaka, etc.

Delicious minced meat it should be neither too greasy nor too dry, it should be juicy. Therefore, for minced meat is not suitable for grinding fat-free pork, but more blissful, which may even have some other veins. Always in the mixture between pork and beef, the amount of the latter is less.

Minced meat is a staple for many of our favorite dishes. In the native cuisine, minced meat dishes have traditions in preparation. Not only in our country, but all over the world, delicious meatballs, Stephanie roll, Bolognese sauce are prepared with minced meat, and the traditional Bulgarian moussaka would be unthinkable without minced meat.

There is no way to achieve a great taste of minced meat, even with a lot of spices, if we have not previously selected the meat with which to make it. Minced meat can be made from any type of meat - from game to poultry. The combination of the meats and the proportions in which they are mixed are very important.

Composition of minced meat

The chemical composition of minced meat depends on the type of minced meat of which it is composed - pork, beef, beef, etc. Additives such as eggs, yellow cheese, dry bread, spices, etc. change the composition of the minced meat. Minced meat is a "cholesterol food", but it is rich in protein and less fat, and has almost zero carbohydrate content. It is a good food for active athletes and for people who do hard physical work.

Selection and storage of minced meat

When choosing ready-made minced meat in a package, be sure to read the contents and if the amount of fat is high or there are improvers and preservatives, do not buy this product. Minced meat of different types of meat has a different color, the most blood red is minced beef. If you buy pork with a deep red color, it most likely means that it contains dyes.

A popular combination is the minced pork and beef mixture. If the pork is fatter, mix it in a ratio of 60 to 40 with beef, if it is not in a ratio of 70 to 30. If you are not sure about the quality of the finished product you are going to buy, you can always choose meat that to grind you on the spot in the store. This would ensure that you give your money for a really quality product.

The shops offer a palette of different types minced meat by purpose - minced meat for grilling, minced meat for healthy grilling, for Balkan grill, for barbecue, for frying, for princesses, for cooking, etc. This is more for commercial purposes, because you can also prepare meatballs with minced meat for princesses. They differ in the amount and types of added spices.

In the refrigerated display cases we can also find frozen minced meat, which must be cooked immediately after thawing and not re-frozen. Minced meat is a product that is better not to freeze, because it changes its taste and water content. For this reason, there is often salt in the minced meat, because salt has a preservative effect.

Many marketing tricks are related to the sale of minced meat, which in most cases disguise poor quality or half-spoiled meat. The finished minced meat is often mixed with salt, which acts as a preservative. This is in the best case, but in most different types of preservatives are added to the minced meat. Therefore, always grind your minced meat yourself at home or grind it on the spot with the store.

Ready minced meat of game meat or poultry can rarely be found and is almost not available. That's why we need to prepare it ourselves at home. Store the purchased minced meat in the refrigerator for up to several days. You can freeze it if you wish. If you keep the minced meat for a long time, it may stink.

Cooking with minced meat

From minced meat Bulgarian dishes are prepared, with which our cuisine is popular all over the world - the traditional moussaka, cabbage sauerkraut, stuffed peppers with minced meat and rice, meatballs and kebabs. The pie prepared with minced meat is also uniquely delicious. Serbian burger cannot be cooked if not minced meat.

As a rule, vegetables, spices, eggs, bread, breadcrumbs and other ingredients can be added to the minced meat to obtain a mixture from which dishes of different types and shapes are formed. It can be used for making soups, as well as for main dishes, grilled dishes (barbecue), making raw-smoked, cooked and dried sausages. The combination of horse, pork and beef is very good for a delicious sausage.

As when you make such a sausage, it is good to know that the percentage of the driest meat should be the highest. In this case, you can try mixing 60 percent horse, 20 percent fatter pork and 20 percent beef. Horse meat is free of fat and contains the purest protein.

It is also important to choose the right spices, but it is often a matter of individual taste. In general, minced spices overlap to a large extent with those for meat - cumin, allspice, salt, black pepper, sometimes paprika, chili, dried garlic and others. They complete each dish and can be the last "magic" for your delicious minced meat.

Grilled kebab recipe

Necessary products:minced meat - 500 g, cumin - 1 tsp, garlic - 3 - 4 cloves, salt - to taste, pepper - to taste

Method of preparation: Mix the minced meat well with the spices and the crushed garlic. Leave it to stand for about 30 minutes in the refrigerator. In a bowl, mix vinegar water. Dip your hands and shape into oblong and smooth kebabs. Grill them until done. About 15 kebabs are made from these products.

If you are a vegetarian or just avoid eating meat often and try to eat a diet, we offer you a recipe from vegetarian cuisine:

Recipe for soy meatballs

Necessary products: soybeans - 1 and ½ tsp, bread -3 thin slices of white, fresh milk - 1 tsp, onion - 1 head, parsley - ½ connection, black pepper, paprika, salt, breadcrumbs, oil.

Method of preparation: Soak the soybeans overnight in cold water. Wash it in the morning and simmer for an hour and a half. Then salt it, cool it and mash it until it looks like minced meat. Mix it with finely chopped and pre-fried onions, soaked in soy milk and slightly drained slices without the peel.

Mix with finely chopped parsley, salt, red and black pepper and more. spices to taste. From this mixture, form oval meatballs and roll them in breadcrumbs. Fry until golden in hot fat or bake soy meatballs in the oven, drizzling them with drops of oil. Bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees, turning on both sides.

Harm from the minced meat

The content of minced meat is relatively rich in non-essential fats, and pork has a high level of cholesterol. Heat treatment involving frying and grilling at high temperatures can produce trans fats in your diet. Recently, scientists have been alarming us more and more about the irreversible changes caused by the burning of animal fats at too high a temperature, as a result of which toxic and carcinogenic substances are created.