Pike cutlets with bacon - a recipe for a delicious and tender dish

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, oven, baking sheet, baking paper, cutting board, knife, meat grinder (electric or mechanical), 2 bowls, sieve, spatula, frying pan.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Fillet (750 g) wash, let drain water. We cut into arbitrary pieces. Salted lard (approximately 150 g) is slightly scraped from all sides, cut the skin and cut into pieces. We clean two onions, wash them, we cut them into quarters. We collect the meat grinder. It can be either an ordinary manual (mechanical) meat grinder or an electric one. Through the net, small bones that can be caught in the fillet are ground. We substitute a bowl under the exit of the meat grinder and start twisting the minced meat, alternately alternating the ingredients: fish, lard, onions, etc.
   
2. Knead the minced meat. Then salt it a little (to taste). It is important to remember that the lard is already salty, so try not to salt the minced meat. Add ground black pepper to taste to the minced meat. Using a mill, it is advisable to pepper with freshly ground pepper. Add paprika to taste. And mix well.
   
3. Put a frying pan on a stove over a big fire, pour 2 tbsp. l sunflower oil. When the frying pan warms up, turn down the heat.
   Since the forcemeat is very sticky, we form balls in the form of balls with hands dipped in water. Then the stuffing does not stick to your hands.
   
4. Pour 0.5 cups of sifted flour into a separate bowl. Roll the formed cutlets in flour, press on top, making them flatter, and send to the skillet.
   
5. Fry cutlets until golden brown on both sides. It is advisable not to overcook them.
   
6. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. The fried cutlets with a spatula are transferred to parchment paper and sent to the oven for 6 minutes (no more).
   
7. The dish is ready. Cutlets are very juicy.
   

Ways of decorating and serving

Pike cutlets can be served very nicely and originally with ordinary mashed potatoes. To do this, you need a large flat round dish.

• Mashed potatoes are laid out in the center of the dish.
• We trim the resulting slide from all sides with a spatula, making it even in the form of a platform from above.
• Spread parsley branches around the potatoes to the outer circle of the dish.
• Then put the patties in a circle on the potatoes (leave the top of the potatoes free).
• On top of the greens on a dish at the base of the cutlets, spread the Cherry tomatoes.
• On the edges of the potato platform remaining on top, place the chips at a certain angle and overlap each other so that the result is a “flower”.
• Pour canned green peas into the center of the resulting “flower”, and the dish is ready to serve.

Video recipe

This video shows the dynamics of the whole process of cooking cutlets from pike.

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