Combining different varieties of cheese and meat, professional chefs create the finest shades of the taste of delicious dishes.
These products are in good harmony in sausages and salads, cheese slices are added to minced meat and even used when stuffing bird carcasses.
Roasting meat and cheese is a popular, but by no means beaten, method thanks to the addition of vegetables, sometimes fruits, and, of course, variations with meat components.
Baked meat with cheese - general principles of preparation
• Any kind of meat is suitable for baking with cheese, the main requirement for this product is freshness and quality.
• It is best to take chilled or fresh pieces of pulp, but if the meat is still frozen, you need to thaw it completely without resorting to accelerated methods.
• The meat is baked with cheese in large chunks or minced in minced meat. Chunks are cut across the fibers, so the meat in the finished dish will be more tender.
• Large pieces are beaten off with a special chopper to soften and give the desired shape.
• Fatty hard cheese is best suited for these dishes. You can use sharp sharp varieties as you wish, mixing 2-3 grades of cheese is also acceptable.
• Cheese is used as chopped into pieces, and in the form of cheese chips.
Baked meat with cheese - "Bag of happiness"
Ingredients:
• six small chicken breasts;
• fresh mushrooms opened - 6 pcs.;
• 150 grams of hard "Russian" cheese;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 80 grams of unsalted feta cheese;
• two bunches of green onions;
• half a small bunch of fresh parsley;
• 120 ml of mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Dry the washed chicken meat by wetting each piece of it with a towel, beat off and grease on all sides with a mixture of mayonnaise with pepper and salt.
2. Cut into small pieces green onions and parsley leaves, and squeeze the garlic in the press or grate finely, cut the cheese into small squares.
3. Add the chopped green onions, parsley, garlic to the feta cheese and mix.
4. Without removing peels from the mushroom caps, remove the legs, and instead put a piece of cheese and cheese mixed with greens.
5. In the center of the beaten filet, put the stuffed champignon hat, flatten its edges and tie them with thread or tighten with wooden toothpicks. Also do with each slice of meat.
6. Lubricate all the “bags” with mayonnaise and put in a baked oven to bake.
7. Cook for half an hour, at a temperature of 180 degrees.
8. From the finished meat, remove the threads and bandage the "bags" with a feather of green onions.
Baked meat with cheese - "Extravaganza of flavors"
Ingredients:
• kilogram of veal (tenderloin);
• half a kilogram of slice cheese;
• a can of canned pineapple rings;
• 200 grams of mayonnaise, 55% fat;
• 0.5 cups of refined oil;
• 2 tbsp. l melted butter.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the veal into large chunks, each piece about a centimeter thick, and beat off lightly with a chopper.
2. Salt a little, pepper and fry each piece in vegetable oil. You don’t need to fry for a long time, as soon as the meat is covered with a delicate golden crust, remove from heat, dip in mayonnaise and transfer slices of meat to a baking sheet, which previously grease with slightly thawed butter.
3. For each such slice, put one pineapple ring, and cover with a thin slice of hard, mild cheese on top.
4. Put the roasting pan in the oven and bake at 200 degrees until cooked for about 35-40 minutes.
5. During baking, pour meat several times with syrup from a jar of pineapple.
Baked meat with cheese - Barcelona
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of beef (sirloin);
• 300 grams of ground beef;
• two small onions;
• one large chicken breast;
• small zucchini;
• egg;
• a mixture of ground paprika, black and red peppers, dried ground basil;
• 230 grams of hard squared cheese;
• 100 grams of champignons;
• 120 ml cream of 33% fat content;
• lemon - 1 pc.;
• refined olive oil.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the edges of the zucchini and remove the peel with a knife, if the vegetable is not young, cut it lengthwise into two parts and select the seeds with a spoon. Grate the pulp on a fine grater and gently squeeze the excess juice.
2. Cut the chicken into cubes, as small as possible.
3. Then combine the chopped chicken breast with zucchini pulp, egg and half finely grated cheese. Add salt to your taste, pepper and mix.
4. Remove the tender white skin from the mushroom caps, finely chop and fry the mushrooms in olive oil until the juice that appears during frying disappears.
5. Pour in all the cream and simmer until thickened.
6. Cut the loin of beef into steaks and beat off, covering with cling film or bag.
7. For half an hour, immerse the meat in a marinade made from freshly squeezed juice of medium lemon diluted in 50 milliliters of water and the prepared mixture from seasonings.
8. Drain the marinade, and pat the pieces of beef with a towel to remove any remaining moisture.
9. Cover the baking sheet with the small sides with a sheet of parchment paper and place the steaks on it.
10. Add homemade or minced meat, twisted through a "small" meat grinder, onions, cheese, an egg chopped on a fine grater and, slightly salted, knead well.
11. From the prepared meat, form small balls weighing about 60 grams and put one such patty on each steak. Just take it, it should lie exactly in the center of the meat piece, lacking 2 cm to the edges.
12. In the cutlet balls, make indentations that fill to the brim with mushrooms stewed in cream and sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese.
13. At the bottom of the oven preheated to 200 degrees, place a wide container with water, and only then a baking sheet with meat.
14. Bake for half an hour, then remove the dishes with water, and continue to bake the meat for another twenty minutes.
Baked meat with cheese - "Meat ice cream"
Ingredients:
• 550 grams of any stuffing;
• pork neck - 1 kg;
• a large head of onion;
• 600 grams of hard slice cheese - "Poshekhonsky";
• 200 ml of 55% fat mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the pork into chops, carefully beat it off with a special chopper and coat on all sides with mayonnaise mixed with ground pepper and salt.
2. Slice the cheese with oblong, narrow slices and chop each piece “lengthwise” onto wooden skewers soaked in water for a couple of hours.
3. Then stick the cheese on all sides with minced meat mixed with finely grated onions. Form a “blank” that looks like a serving of ice cream and, wrapping a piece of beaten pork, wrap in foil.
4. Place the “ice cream” on a baking sheet, add a little water and put in the oven to bake for forty minutes.
5. When serving, remove the foil.
Baked meat with cheese - Anapa
Ingredients:
• 800 grams of chilled chicken;
• 800 grams of pork, pulp;
• two pork greasy "nets";
• 500 g of slice cheese "Kostroma";
• four large lemons;
• three large ripe tomatoes;
• sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
• small zucchini.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the grease net in advance. To do this, fill it with cold water, add the lemon cut into small pieces and put in the refrigerator. Water with lemon needs to be changed every two and a half hours, and the grid should be washed.
2. After 10 hours, drain the water from the bowl and transfer the soaked net to a colander.
3. Cut the pork and chicken fillet into wide slices and beat it gently. Broken pieces of meat should be approximately the same size.
4. Pork "net", cut into large pieces, in two sizes of meat.
5. In the center of each such piece, put a pork cue ball, tomatoes, half rings of zucchini and red bell pepper chopped into strips, chopped into thin rings, and on top of the vegetables put a plate of cheese. Cover the beaten chicken fillet.
6. Carefully so that the filling does not fall out, wrap the prepared semi-finished product with a net and fry in non-aromatic sunflower oil until a soft, slightly golden crust is obtained, laying it downside down on a frying pan.
7. Transfer the cake mix to the baking sheet, and bake for twenty minutes in the oven at 150 degrees.
Baked meat with cheese in pita bread - "Meat Julienne"
Ingredients:
• two thin Armenian lavash;
• one large boiled chicken breast;
• 400 grams of pickled mushrooms, chopped;
• small onion;
• 200 grams of hard "Dutch" cheese;
• 50 ml of medium-fat mayonnaise;
• raw chicken egg - 1 pc.
Cooking method:
1. Onions (in small slices) spasser to a light amber color in refined oil.
2. Combine the onions with mushrooms separated from the marinade, boiled breast, chopped into small squares, spices and grated hard cheese.
3. Add table salt and combine with mayonnaise.
4. Then spread the prepared filling with a thin layer on the layers of pita bread and roll two separate rolls.
5. Lubricate the surface of each with a well-spattered egg and bake in the oven for a quarter of an hour, at 180 degrees.
Roll of meat baked with cheese - "Tenderness"
Ingredients:
• minced meat, any - 550 gr.;
• 120 ml of pasteurized, 2.5% fat milk;
• 300 grams of champignons, fresh;
• 120 grams of Yaroslavl hard cheese.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the milk into the minced meat, add salt, mix and let it brew for half an hour.
2. Meanwhile, cut the mushrooms into medium-sized plates and fry them until fully cooked in butter or refined vegetable oil.
3. Spread the foil on the table, grease it with odorless vegetable oil and spread it in a thin, from 0.8 to 1 cm layer, stuffing.
4. Put the fried mushrooms on top of the minced meat. You can also add a few chopped boiled eggs.
5. On top of the mushrooms, grate the cheese, wrap the roll and wrap it in foil.
6. Bake such a roll for at least 30 minutes, when the oven is heated to 170 degrees.
7. After baking, remove the foil and cut the meatloaf into 1.5 cm slices.
Baked meat roll with cheese - "Mediterranean"
Ingredients:
• pork pulp - 1 kg;
• 800 grams of fat, fresh;
• 700 grams of pitted prunes;
• 540 grams of "Dutch" squared cheese;
• 450 grams of walnut kernels.
Cooking method:
1. One and a half centimeter slices, as for chop, chop the pulp and finely chop the salt and sprinkle with coarsely ground black pepper.
2. Lay the meat pieces over the cling film with a rectangular overlap, so that the edge of one piece only slightly covers the edges of the other.
3. On top, lay fresh lard, sliced in thin plates, onto it are the same cheese plates.
4. Cheese is covered with pitted prunes soaked in hot water and chopped walnut kernels.
5. Carefully, using the film, roll a rectangular layer with the filling in the roll and, bandaging the thread in several places, transfer it to a baking sheet.
6. Bake in the oven for one hour, at 180 degrees.
7. Remove the roll from the oven, sprinkle with a thin layer of grated cheese and put back into the oven for ten minutes.
Baked meat with cheese - tricks and tips
• If you want to fry the veal before baking, then do it very quickly, such meat is already very tender.
• When preparing a dish such as "Extravaganza of flavors", before baking, pour a little pineapple syrup diluted in water on a baking sheet, the meat will be more tender and juicier.
• Prune is best taken with sourness. Sweet dried fruits after steaming can be acidified with lemon juice.
• For a roll, prunes can be used not only whole, no less tasty will be a dish if instead of whole berries put mashed potatoes from them.
• On a baking sheet with meat baked with cheese in foil, add a little water. The meat is baked more evenly and will be juicier.
• Cutting fresh lard thinly with plates will be much easier if it is previously slightly frozen.
