Every housewife wants to cook a tasty and satisfying dish for her family, while spending a minimum of effort.
Casseroles are exactly what you need.
Available products, very little time, and your loved ones will be full and satisfied.
Casserole with cheese and minced meat - the basic principles of cooking
To cook a delicious casserole, you do not need to stand for hours at the stove. It is enough to grind all the products and prepare the sauce. The ingredients can be mixed or laid out in layers.
The most popular is a potato casserole with cheese and minced meat. It is prepared from raw or boiled vegetables, as well as mashed potatoes.
Casserole can be prepared not only from potatoes, but also from other vegetables. As a rule, it is zucchini, cabbage or eggplant.
Minced meat is used mixed, chicken or turkey. Better, of course, if he will be home-cooked. It is pre-fried with onions.
Casseroles with cheese and minced meat are also prepared from pasta or cereals.
The ingredients are laid out in layers in a heat-resistant form. Each layer is greased with mayonnaise or watered with tomato or white sauce. From above everything is sprinkled abundantly with cheese chips and baked. Cooking time depends on which products are used: raw or boiled.
The finished casserole is cut into batch pieces and served with sour cream or ketchup.
Recipe 1. Potato casserole with cheese, minced meat and tomatoes
Ingredients
mayonnaise;
a pound of potatoes;
seasonings;
meat headlights - half a kilogram;
egg;
sour cream - 50 ml;
salt;
medium onion;
egg;
cheese - 100 g;
three medium tomatoes.
Cooking method
1. Put the minced meat in a bowl, season it with spices and salt. Add the egg. Knead well.
2. Wash the peeled potatoes and cut into circles with a thickness of three millimeters. Put the vegetable on the bottom of the refractory mold. Even out.
3. Combine sour cream with the same amount of water and a pinch of salt. Beat with a fork and pour potatoes with this sauce.
4. Peel the onion, chop in half rings and lay them on top of the potatoes. Add a little salt.
5. On top of the onions, place the minced meat in an even layer.
6. Wash the tomatoes, wipe with napkins and cut into thin circles. Lay them on a layer of minced meat. Lightly salt again.
7. Make a thick mesh of mayonnaise on top of the tomatoes and sprinkle with cheese chips. Send the form to the oven for an hour. Bake at 180 C. Remove the potato casserole with cheese and minced meat. Cool slightly and cut in portions.
Recipe 2. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and cauliflower
Ingredients
any minced meat - 400 g;
seasonings for chicken;
200 g carrots;
black pepper;
bulb
sea salt;
half a kilogram of cauliflower;
bell pepper - pod;
cheese - 100 g;
cream - 300 ml;
mayonnaise - 100 g.
Cooking method
1. We clean the carrots, wash them and three in large chips. Peeled onions in small, small cubes.
2. Fry the onion until transparent, then add the grated carrots and simmer until soft.
3. Disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences and boil for five minutes in slightly salted water. Then we recline in a colander and cool.
4. Three cheese in large chips. We free the bell pepper pod from the stalk and cut the vegetable into rings.
5. Lubricate the refractory mold with a piece of butter. Lay out the casserole in layers:
• chopped meat. Pepper and salt;
• half the fried vegetables;
• cauliflower;
• grated cheese;
• pepper rings;
• remaining fried vegetables;
• cheese shavings.
6. We combine in a deep plate mayonnaise with cream, season with chicken spices and beat with a whisk. Pour the casserole with the resulting sauce.
7. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Put the form in it and cook for 50 minutes.
Recipe 3. Potato casserole with cheese, minced meat and mushrooms.
Ingredients
potato - six pcs.;
freshly ground pepper;
minced pork and beef - 400 g;
sea salt;
150 g of mushrooms;
garlic - two cloves;
cheese - 100 g;
egg;
bulb;
half a glass of sour cream and mayonnaise.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the peeled potatoes, gently dry and cut into thin slices. We chop the onion in half rings. We clean the mushrooms, rinse and cut into strips. Add the mushrooms to the minced meat, salt and mix.
2. Three large cheese. In a deep refractory form we put half the potato slices. Pepper and salt.
3. Onion spread on top of potatoes. If you want, you can pre-fry it until golden brown. We put the minced meat with mushrooms on the onion.
4. Sprinkle all with cheese. Spread the remaining potatoes on top, lightly pepper and salt.
5. Combine mayonnaise with sour cream. We drive in the egg. Peel the garlic and squeeze it into the fill. Season with pepper and salt. Beat thoroughly with a whisk until smooth.
6. Pour the casserole with prepared sauce. We put the mold in the oven and bake at a temperature of 200 C. Shortly before the end of cooking, sprinkle with cheese and wait until it melts. We take out the finished potato casserole with cheese and minced meat, sprinkle with finely chopped fresh herbs.
Recipe 4. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and buckwheat
Ingredients
two bags of buckwheat;
a bunch of greenery;
300 g of minced meat;
black pepper;
a quarter packet of butter;
sour cream - 30 g;
two eggs;
an Apple;
bulb;
sea salt;
cheese - 100 g;
carrot.
Cooking method
1. Place buckwheat bags in boiling water and boil over low heat. Take out the bags, cool and transfer the cereal into a bowl.
2. Peel the vegetables. Chop the onion finely. Grind carrots on a coarse grater. Pour the vegetable oil into the pan. Once it warms up, dissolve the cream in it. Sauté the vegetables until golden brown and cool.
3. Add the finely chopped onion, egg yolk and minced salt to the minced meat. Knead thoroughly. Whisk protein in a stable foam. Add minced vegetables and whipped protein to the minced meat. Mix gently.
4. Remove the peel from the apple and grate it coarsely. Also chop the cheese. Add apples and cheese to buckwheat, beat the egg here, pepper and salt. Shuffle.
5. Put the buckwheat mass in a deep silicone mold, distributing it along the bottom and sides. In the middle, place the minced chicken and level it with a spatula.
6. Beat the egg with sour cream. Salt. Pour the casserole with the mixture and leave it to soak well.
7. Place the casserole in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 20 minutes. Then sprinkle the casserole with grated cheese and bake for another five minutes, until a crust forms on the surface. Before serving, casserole with cheese and minced meat garnish with sprigs of dill.
Recipe 5. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and eggplant with Bechamel sauce
Ingredients
eggplant;
two carrots;
salt;
onion - 2 pcs.;
black pepper;
150 g of cheese;
half a kilogram of minced pork and beef;
buckwheat - half a glass;
dill and parsley;
tomato paste - 50 g;
two cloves of garlic.
Bechamel sauce
butter - 40 g;
60 g of flour;
salt;
dill greens;
black pepper;
milk - one and a half glasses.
Cooking method
1. My eggplant and cut into circles half a centimeter thick. Spread in a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and leave for half an hour. Then rinse and spread on a napkin.
2. Heat the oil in a pan. We spread the eggplant and fry on both sides until golden brown. We shift to a plate covered with a disposable towel.
3. Peel the onion, rinse and cut it in a quarter with rings. Coarsely cleaned and washed carrots.
4. In the pan where the eggplants were fried, wash, wipe and heat the oil in it. Fry the onion in it for two minutes, then put the carrots and continue to fry, stirring, for another five minutes. Put the fried vegetables in a plate.
5. Buckwheat groats sorted, washed and pour a glass of boiling water. Cooking loose buckwheat porridge.
6. Rinse the greens, dry and chop finely. Squeezed peeled garlic through a press. Fry minced meat in preheated oil. Then transfer it to a blender, add garlic, herbs and tomato paste. Season with pepper and salt. We interrupt to homogeneity.
7. We spread eggplant mugs on the bottom of the form. On top of them we evenly spread the stuffing. Put the fried vegetables in the next layer. Then we distribute boiled buckwheat.
8. In a pan, melt the butter, add flour to it and cook, stirring, until smooth.
9. Pour hot milk into a thin stream while stirring vigorously. We cook a couple of minutes from the moment of boiling. Salt, add chopped greens, mix and turn off the heat. Pour the casserole with sauce.
10. Bake the dish at 180 C for 20 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese chips a few minutes before cooking. As soon as it melts, take out, cool slightly and cut portionwise.
Recipe 6. Casserole with cheese, minced meat and pasta
Ingredients
mixed forcemeat - kilogram;
sea salt and pepper;
pasta - 400 g;
olive oil;
400 g of tomatoes;
two onions;
300 g of cheese.
Cream sauce
black pepper;
half a packet of butter;
liter of milk;
flour - 100 g;
sea salt.
Cooking method
1. Boil pasta until cooked. Throw them back in a colander.
2. Finely chop the onion. We pour tomatoes with boiling water and peel them. Finely chop the pulp.
3. Fry chopped onion until transparent in vegetable oil. Add the minced meat, and lightly fry it, stirring so that lumps do not form. Add tomatoes, pepper, salt and cook over medium heat for 15 minutes.
4. Fry the flour in butter until golden brown. Pour in a thin stream of milk, continuously mixing, and cook until thickened. Season with pepper and salt. If you wish, you can add nutmeg or crushed garlic. Pour the casserole with sauce.
5. Grind the cheese on a medium grater. We spread the boiled pasta into a deep form and level it with a spatula. Spread half the sauce on top. The next layer put the stuffing. Level and pour the sauce. Sprinkle with plenty of cheese. Bake at a temperature of 180 C for 20 minutes.
Casserole with cheese and minced meat - tips and tricks
Use your own minced meat for cooking.
To make the dish juicy, add more finely chopped onions to the minced meat.
It is advisable to add ground meat in a meat grinder in minced meat.
To reduce the calorie content of potato casseroles, place peeled raw potatoes for 20 minutes in cold water to get rid of excess starch.
