Lenten Dishes: Cutlets From Vegetables And Legumes

There are interesting and very simple cutlet recipes that will add variety to the diet of those who fast or refuse meat food for personal reasons.

Vegetables and beans can not only be stewed or boiled. There are interesting and very simple cutlet recipes that will add variety to the diet of those who fast or refuse meat food for personal reasons.

Bean cutlets

 

Ingredients:

300 g red beans, 2-3 potatoes, 1 onion, 5 g celery, 5 g paprika, 2 garlic cloves, breadcrumbs.

Boil the beans in salted water (this will take 1.5-2 hours, so sometimes the liquid will have to be added). You can just use canned beans - they are ready. Finely chop the onion and fry. Boil potatoes, you can in uniform.

Next, puree with a blender or mash the beans and vegetables with a crush, combine into a total mass. If necessary, salt, add crushed garlic, celery, paprika. If the resulting mixture is not thick enough, then add a little flour. Mix everything until smooth, form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry.

onion cutlets

 

For cutlets you will need:

2-3 large onions, 100 g oatmeal, 100 g flour, 3 garlic cloves, 5 g dried celery, 5 g ground coriander, 5 g dried cilantro, 5 g sugar, salt, breadcrumbs.

Pour boiling water over oatmeal (so that the water barely covers it), add sugar, a pinch of salt, half of the spices. Cover and leave for 10 minutes, then remove and let cool. It is needed as a connecting element for ingredients (usually eggs play this role).

Peel the onion and chop as finely as possible. Send to porridge, add the remaining spices, crushed garlic, salt. Let the mixture brew for a quarter of an hour so that the vegetable is saturated with spices. After adding flour, mix.

With wet hands, form small flat patties and fry until slightly browned over medium heat in oil.

Lentil cutlets

Ingredients:

150 g of red or orange lentils, 50 g of semolina, carrots, onions, 3 cloves of garlic, 5 g of hot ground pepper, 60 ml of soy sauce, 60 g of tomato paste, breadcrumbs.

Chop the onion, grate the carrots, fry them for 5-8 minutes in a heated deep frying pan with vegetable oil, then add crushed garlic and tomato paste, sweat them together a little. Pour in dry lentils, mix, pour in 200 ml of boiling water and soy sauce, add salt and hot red pepper (you can take curry, chili or a mixture for adjika). Stew beans and vegetables for a quarter of an hour, if necessary, adding water. After pouring semolina, mix, cover with a lid, put out the fire after 2 minutes and leave until the cereal has absorbed all the liquid.

Then mix again, check for salt, form small cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in oil over medium-high heat.

cabbage cutlets

 

Ingredients:

400 g of white cabbage, onion, 3 cloves of garlic, 100 g of flour, 10-15 g of salt, 50 g of dill, 5 g of dried celery, 5 g of white pepper.

Chop the cabbage as finely as possible, but do not crush with a blender. Salt and leave for 20 minutes, so that the vegetable starts up the juice. When this happens, add the chopped onion, crushed garlic, finely chopped dill, celery and white pepper. Mix, add flour. If the mixture is too dry and does not come together because of this, add a little water.

Then form small but plump cutlets. They will be with pieces of cabbage sticking out and there is nothing to worry about, you should not make large ones, because they will most likely fall apart. Fry on both sides in oil in a hot pan and serve.

Pea cutlets

 

You will need:

400 g peas, onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 100 g flour, 10 g dried cilantro, 5 g paprika, salt, breadcrumbs.

Rinse the peas in 2-3 waters, pour 1.5 liters of water, salt and cook for about 2 hours. By the way, split peas cook two times faster. In the first 15-20 minutes, you will need to remove the foam, and then stir regularly and add water if necessary. Peas need to be boiled when it itself becomes like a pate. After it becomes like this, cool it.

Chop the onion and fry with crushed garlic. Send it to porridge, add flour, paprika and cilantro there. Stir, shape into small flat patties and roll in breadcrumbs.

Life hack! Buy pea flour, beat in an egg, add spices, fried onions and garlic. Form into balls and fry in oil.

carrot cutlets

 

Ingredients:

5-6 large carrots, 100 g semolina, 5 g sugar, 5 g paprika, 10 g dried cilantro, 200 ml boiling water, 50 g flour, 100 g dill.

Peel the carrots, grate and put in a preheated pan with vegetable oil. Fry for 10-12 minutes, stirring regularly, then pour in boiling water, add sugar, salt and cilantro. Stew a little and add semolina, mix, cover, put out the fire, leave the cereal to swell for a quarter of an hour.

Cool the resulting mass, add flour and finely chopped dill. Form small oblong patties, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in oil over medium-high heat.

Chickpea cutlets

 

You will need:

300 g of chickpeas, 4 cloves of garlic, onion, 100 g of dill, 5 g of paprika, turmeric, cumin, cardamom, soda.

Chickpeas pour 1 liter of warm water, add soda and leave overnight.

In the morning, change the water, salt and cook for 20-25 minutes. If you don't want to boil chickpeas, buy canned boiled chickpeas. Next, mash it with a crush or puree with a blender, add paprika, cumin, cardamom, turmeric, crushed garlic, chopped onion and chopped dill. Mix until smooth.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, line a baking sheet with baking paper. From the prepared mass, form oblong small cutlets with wet hands, put them on parchment. Send to the oven for 10-15 minutes.

Beet cutlets

 

You need the following ingredients:

2-3 large beets, 4 garlic cloves, onion, 5 g oregano, 100 g semolina, breadcrumbs.

Boil the beets (it will take 2-2.5 hours depending on its size), the main thing is not to forget to add water in the process. After cooling, peel and grate.

Chop the onion and fry with crushed garlic, after 5 minutes add grated beets to them, salt a little, add oregano and mix. Simmer for a little less than a quarter of an hour, then pour in 50 ml of boiling water or vegetable broth and pour in the cereal. Cover with a lid and leave the semolina to swell for 10 minutes.

After cooling the mixture, if it is very liquid, add flour. With wet hands form small patties, roll in breadcrumbs and fry. On each side for 7-9 minutes, while it is better to cover with a lid so that they are also steamed inside.

Bon appetit!