By Sergey Skudaev
I work full-time as a Software quality analyst, I have a tiny web publishing business and I am a dedicated cook in my family. I hate cooking because I have to cook when it is necessary to cook and not when I am in the mood for cooking. If I were free to cook when I want to, I would, probably, love cooking.
I joke: "If you cook very tasty stuff, then it would be eaten for one day and the next day you have to cook again. So...? Cook food that tastes bad! This way you will have a break while food, which no one likes, is not eaten completely"
I am kidding. The recipe, I am going to share with you, produces a delicious dish. Buy 3 pounds of ground beef. It should not be exactly 3 pounds. Actually, I never measure or weight components of which I prepare food. I use feelings... Take approximately 3 pounds of ground beef. You can use ground chicken as well or a mixture of beef and turkey, beef and pork or beef and chicken.
Usually, I buy ground beef at Publix. The taste of the end product you cook depends mainly on ground beef quality. The best of course is self-made ground beef from your own cow. My senior brother has PhD in Physics, but he has a little farm and two cows. He lives in Siberia (Russia ) and I witnessed how he milked his cow by himself. Not every American PhD in physics can do that. I am not kidding. Please see the picture. He does not have problem with taste of beef. His cows eat grass…
My Brother Yury, PhD in Physics, with two his cows
Well, I have no choice and I buy ground beef in a supermarket. There is no direct correlation between cost and taste. You may buy the most expensive brand and it will not guarantee anything. Let's hope that we will be lucky.
Place about 3 pounds of ground beef or whatever in a pot and add 2 eggs. Place a piece of bread in a cup, pour a half of a cup of milk, and stir bread with milk. Add it to the pot. Cut one or two onions. I cut it by hand. First, I cut an onion by half, and then I cut each half into small pieces, as small as I can. Add the onion to the pot. Add salt; optionally add black ground pepper, garlic, Italian seasoning etc. See picture
Now stir all components thoroughly. Take a pan, pour in canola oil. Do not worry about calories now. Later, I ll tell you a secret how to make it low fat. Put a pan on the oven, set heat to medium. Start to make cutlets and when the oil becomes hot, place the cutlets in the pan. See picture 2. Cover the pan.
Fry the cutlets for 5 minutes, Open the pan then turn them over and close the pan. Again, fry them for about 5 minutes. Open the pan and try to move each cutlet to make sure it is not stuck to the bottom. Then cover the pan. Set it to low heat. Check after 5 minutes. The juice should appear. Move each cutlet if it is not stuck. If everything is OK, cover the pan and leave it for 30 minutes. It is very important. Before you leave them make sure that:
1. Cutlet's are not stuck. to the bottom.
2. Heat is not too high.
3. The pan is covered.
In 30 minutes, while oil still is boiling, using a fork, pick up each cutlet and put it in the clean, dry, pot. This way, all oil will be left in the pan. If you let cutlets to cool in the pan, they will soak the oil inside.
You are done. Use boiled or fried vegetables, or mashed potatos as a side dish.
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