Cutlets "Smoked Eggs" from My Quail "

Cutlets "Smoked Eggs" from My Quail "

Category: Meat dishes

Ingredients
Minced cutlet, any, no spices, except for salt and pepper	600 g
Smoked paprika, not spicy	1 tsp
Turmeric	1/2 tsp
Quail eggs, boiled	8 pcs.
For breading:
Panko rusks	1/3 loaf
Wheat flour	3-4 tbsp. l.
Chicken eggs, raw	2 pcs.
Vegetable oil for frying

Cooking method

• First, history. I have a childhood friend who once happily married ... her mother's boss. Naturally, he is much older, and he always looked at our girly flock, bustling about in the kitchen on holidays, with almost fatherly tenderness. "Oh you, my quails!" - we have heard this phrase from him a thousand times. He taught us a lot - to enjoy simple joys, to appreciate eternal values. Including on the festive table. Olivier on New Year's Eve should certainly be with boiled sausage, in pickle - barley, and better than roundrumb steak can only be a "simple, human cutlet". And also the fact that a real man eats with pleasure everything that a woman has prepared for him. Even if it cannot be taken by mouth.
• Fortunately, just such a man was my husband. Which, I know, will protect me from all the hardships of life. And eat whatever I cook. Just the other day, he told me about this himself, when I was thinking about what to cook for the competition.
• And the son is ready for work and defense whenever there are delicious cutlets in the house, and he is also ready to forgive me for culinary failures. And he has a story that will be useful for us to understand what dish I made today.
• ... When my son was little, we loved to go to different museums with him. In the Paleontological, they looked at dinosaurs, and everything would have been fine, but ... In one showcase was a petrified masonry with oblong eggs that had not hatched in the prehistoric era. How the child begged me to take this nest home, sit it out with him, and then take the little dinosaurs for a walk to the playground! Honestly, I didn't have the heart to tell my son then that nothing would hatch from these eggs. I had to figure out on the fly that it was in this showcase that the hatching experiment was going on, and that scientists were working on it ...
• As for the eggs, they were not quite birdlike ... Well, about the same as I got these same cutlets.
• Well, now let's cook!
• Today I have minced meat from turkey breast fillets, with a good handful of instant multi-cereal flakes instead of bread, a small piece of leek, and for juiciness and spice, in addition to water, I added a little more cucumber marinade. I never pour marinades from vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, green olives, peppers), but use them to enhance the taste of minced meat, or into pickled soups. Black salt-pepper, this is of course not discussed, of course, season it as you like. And at the end, pour in a good teaspoon of smoked paprika. I do not like very spicy foods, so I bought myself a jar of sweet, and I actively use it in many dishes. For color, I also added half a teaspoon of turmeric - its sunny shade has not interfered with any food yet
• Knead the minced meat well, let it rest for half an hour in the cool.
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• Boil and peel quail eggs.
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• During this time you can make (if you don't have) panko crackers. If you don’t remember how, I’ll write you the simplest way. Cut slices of white bread without crusts into arbitrary cubes, which will then be conveniently grinded in a chopper. In the meantime, put in a plastic bag and put in the freezer.It is better if you take care of it the day before. When you need crackers, remove the bread from the freezer, grind it to even medium-sized crumbs in a chopper and lightly dry in a non-hot oven on a baking sheet - sprinkle on a non-stick mat in a thin, even layer.
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• You will need literally 5-7 minutes, 120 degrees (I will not say more precisely, I have an oven without a thermometer). Do not be distracted here, and do not be lazy to climb in to check and turn around after a while. Our task is to make sure that the color of the biscuits does not change, and remains white, and that moisture leaves. As soon as it crunches dry under hand, take it out. Leave it on a baking sheet for another minute or two, let it dry and cool. Well, if the crumbs on the corners of the baking sheet turned yellow a little, then ... don't pay any attention to this - we will still fry and everything will become one golden color.
• Crackers are very easy to make, and I always have a bag of frozen bread in the freezer - I prefer not to store ready-made ones, but to make a new portion each time.
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• When everything is ready, take convenient bowls and pour wheat flour into one of them, crackers into the other, beat eggs lightly in the third.
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• Divide the minced meat into eight equal parts, and "drown" in each of them a boiled quail egg.
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• Dip each cutlet in turn in flour, then in an egg, and finally in crackers. Lay out on a board, trying to give the finished cutlet the conditional shape of an oblong egg, where one end is blunt and the other is sharp.
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• In a skillet, heat vegetable oil over high heat and quickly fry the patties until golden brown.
• Here I can't help but share a life hack (a buzzword!) I heard in some culinary TV show: the most beautiful side of fried food will be the side on which you first lay out. If not all cutlets worked out equally well, keep this in mind and put it on the side that looks better after all. So you will achieve a more or less beautiful presentation.
• Place the semi-fried patties in a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes in a hot oven until tender.
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• A pleasant smoked aftertaste and a surprise in the form of a quail egg, I hope, will delight your defenders, both large and small.

The dish is designed for

8 pieces

Time for preparing:

1 hour

Cooking program:

stove, oven

Irisha, thank you so much for the recipe! My shilopopiks only eat minced meat. The cutlets are ordinary, they are already fed up with nuggets. I "broke" my whole head thinking of what to cook to feed the boys with meat, and here is such a gift! And if there is no smoked paprika? Will the great taste change?

[Tashenka]

Tashenka, smoked paprika is an option. I would say, a highlight for the festive table, so that simple cutlets become a little unusual. And so - do it calmly without her. Here, fine panko crackers are more important, which make a very tasty crust and a small egg inside, which pleases, for some reason, adult boys are no less than small ones

Caviar, what a recipe, what a story. You're doing fine .

[Gaby]

Gaby, thanks for good words!

Delicious and beautiful! Irina, thanks for the recipe and the paprika idea!

[lettohka ttt]

lettohka ttt, to your health! In winter, smoked paprika in meat dishes does not let you get bored with food on the fire.

what a touching story .... to hatch eggs together .... children's kindness and faith in a miracle! thanks and liked the recipe! good luck!

Beautiful cutlets. Will need to do with my granddaughter. She will definitely like it!
I'm taking it to bookmarks!

[Ikra]

Ikra, I'm with you! Great recipe, check it out right away

[natapit]

natapitTears are still welling up from that story. Although the son grew up like that, and now he would have to "incubate" everyone.
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toffee, I will be glad if you, the needlewoman, will find my recipe useful. Do it! The fact that grandmother and granddaughter cook will remain with the granddaughter for life, you yourself know! And I started cooking with my grandmother - she always gave me a piece of dough so that I could wrap my pie, or whip mousse, or trusted to decorate a sweet pie.

Mandraik Ludmila, Buttercup, thank you! Not the most masterpiece recipe, but I will be glad if someone likes the idea and pleases the result. Even on holidays it is not always possible to cook some complicated dishes, but you should always strive to have a simple cutlet with a "twist". Or with a testicle