Meatloaf from minced meat with egg - for the holiday and not only

What can be prepared from minced meat, when the chops are already tired or when you need a dish for a festive table? And maybe you do not have enough time for cooking to feed a large family? Prepare a meatloaf with minced meat and egg. It is prepared easily and quickly, it turns out very satisfying, and for the holiday allows you to experiment with stuffing and decorations.

A classic minced meatball recipe with an egg. Products: beef pulp - 600 g, wheat bread - 100 g, bulb onion - 4 onions, a glass of milk or water, egg - 3 pieces, parsley, pepper, salt, vegetable oil.

Bread without a crust is soaked and pressed lightly. Meat washed and cut into pieces, along with onions and bread we pass through a meat grinder. Minced salt, add seasonings and mix.

Eggs boil, clean and cut along. Onion cut into cubes and fry in oil. We lay out on a table a damp napkin or a food film, lay out the prepared forcemeat in the form of a rectangle in the thickness of 2 sm. In the middle in one row we spread half of eggs, from above we sprinkle them with the fried onions. Raising the ends of the film, connect the edges of the meat layer and tear them. Lay the roll in a greased form or a pan so that the seam is at the bottom and put in a preheated oven. To a meatloaf from minced meat and egg has acquired an appetizing crust, you can pour it with a batter or just a shaken egg. Bake at a temperature of 220-240⁰ С for about an hour. Ready-made rolls are served hot or cold with potatoes, vegetables, buckwheat or rice.

In the preparation of a roll, the filling can be varied and added to the egg vegetables, mushrooms, rice. For example, such a recipe: a meatloaf from minced meat with eggs and mushrooms. Products: minced meat (you can take any) - 700 g, champignons (any fresh ones: oyster mushrooms, white and others), two onions, one small carrot, five eggs, two slices of dried bread, salt, pepper and vegetable oil.

Mine mushrooms (if it's other mushrooms, then they are pre-cleaned and boiled) and cut into small pieces. We heat the frying pan, do medium fire and fry mushrooms. Onions cut into small cubes, carrots three on a grater. Add half of the cut roots to the mushrooms, salt, mix everything. Reduce fire and stew under the lid.

Boil hard-boiled three eggs, clean and cut small pieces. Soak the loaf in water or in milk, squeeze it, let's go through the meat grinder with the remaining onion and add it to the stuffing. We drive two eggs, add salt and add spices, mix well. If the stuffing turned dryish, you can add a few spoonfuls of cold water. We lay out the forcemeat on a food film in the form of a rectangle about two cm thick. We put the mushrooms on an equal level, stepping slightly from the edges, then chopped eggs. Gently roll the roll.

Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, grease the baking tray with oil, lay out the roll and bake for one hour. Then we rub the roll with a crushed yolk and brown in the oven at 200 ° C.

The real decoration of the festive table will be a meatloaf in a dough. Products for its preparation: 200 grams of pork mince, 150 grams of minced veal, one layer of puff pastry, half a kilogram of fresh mushrooms, one onion, two eggs, 7 pieces of prunes and dried apricots, a quarter of a glass of pine nuts, as many raisins, a mustard spoon, Butter, lemon juice, salt, pepper and sugar.

Champignons mine and cut into thin plates. Onions are cleaned and cut into small cubes. In a heated frying pan, place mushrooms with onion, salt, pepper and add a couple drops of lemon juice. Constantly stirring, fry on high heat. When the mushrooms are fried, remove the frying pan from the plate.

Prunes with dried apricots are cut into small cubes and added to ground meat. We also put cedar nuts, raisins, mustard, toasted mushrooms, drive one egg, mix everything thoroughly.

From the dough cut off a small strip for decoration. We spread the layer on the film, lay the ground layer on the whole surface of the dough with an equal layer, leaving a few inches on the edges unfilled. We fold the roll as if we were preparing a meatloaf with minced meat and egg - we raise the ends of the film and connect the edges of the dough, we grease the seam with an egg and press it tightly. Grease the pan with oil and roll the roll.

From the test, we make narrow strips and lay them on a roll in the form of a lattice. The surface is lubricated with yolk. Leave the roll for half an hour. After heating the oven to 200C and bake for about an hour. If the roll becomes burnt, you need to close it with foil.