Wheat gruel cutlets: recipes for cooking

Simple and hearty vegetarian dishes are becoming increasingly popular. Indeed, it is so easy to cook something delicious from the products at hand, not standing for several hours at the stove, and then suffering from the consequences of heavy meals. Wheatgrass opens up a huge scope for culinary creativity. It comes in two types: coarse and fine grits. Small, called "Artec" is used to make meatballs or cutlets. Recipes are different, and the number of sauces and seasonings to this dish and do not count at all.

How to choose the most delicious cutlet recipe

Cereal porridge is loved by many, but not many people know how to cook. And what to do if there is an impressive amount of the product, boiled in water, but in demand neither as a side dish nor as an independent dish. In order not to waste good things, you can implement a few simple recipes, getting on the output quite appetizing meatballs. Cooking has its own subtleties and secrets. To speed up the process, you take as a basis already cooked porridge of steep consistency. Then it is necessary to determine which recipe in terms of cooking complexity to choose and what can be used as a supplement to the main ingredient.

The classic variant

Cooking takes about 20 minutes if the porridge is already cooked. In addition to the mass of boiled wheat groats, the amount of which is 350 g, you will need:

• chicken egg - 1 pc;
• vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons;
• breadcrumbs - 50 g;
• salt to taste.

Porridge is mixed until homogeneous mass, beaten with egg and thoroughly kneaded. In a separate shallow bowl is poured breading. Shape small balls of wheat base, roll them in breadcrumbs, knead them slightly at the top and bottom and fry in boiling oil for 2-3 minutes on each side. Goes well with hot and sour sauces, mayonnaise-mustard mixture.

Cheese secret

Original flavor and quick preparation will surely make this dish one of the favorites in the diet. Ingredients:

• Wheat porridge - 2/3 cup;
• egg - 1 pc;
• hard cheese - 60 gr;
• ground black pepper;
• salt on the tip of a knife;
• breadcrumbs for breading;
• fresh herbs.

Mix the porridge with eggs, grated cheese and spices, form small cutlets, roll them in breading and fry in a hot pan in butter until golden brown. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped greens. As an option, you can grated cheese not to interfere with the base, and add portioned inside each cutlet.

Spicy with cabbage

The porridge itself has a very faint taste, to strengthen it and give new shades, different sets of spices are excellent. In a base of wheat porridge and egg are added: cardamom, ground black pepper, coriander, zira on the tip of a knife, 1/4 tsp turmeric. Also added to the mixture are:

• 1 grated onion;
• 150 gr. white cabbage chopped in a blender;
• 3 cloves of garlic of medium size;
• 1 tbsp. tomato paste.

If desired, you can turn a vegetarian dish into a meat dish by adding 200 g of minced meat. The mass is thoroughly kneaded, divided into small balls, which are given a cutlet shape, breaded and fried in a pan for 3-5 minutes over medium heat until tender.

You can experiment with recipes on their own, the good thing is that they are quite budget-friendly, do not require much money, and the result is very tasty, nourishing and healthy, suitable for dietary meals or just pleases with unusual flavors.