Today I want to bring to your attention a festive and everyday recipe. These are meat nests made from minced meat stuffed with tomatoes and cheese. The oven-baked dish is very tasty and beautiful. It will be able to please the eye and satisfy the gastronomic preferences of both the ordinary eater and the true gourmet. Try making these meat “cheesecakes” yourself, I’m sure your guests will be delighted.
Let's decide on the main ingredients:
- minced meat – 700 grams;
- onions - 1 large onion;
- chicken egg – 2 pieces;
- cheese – 150 grams;
- sour cream – 1 tablespoon;
- tomato – 1 piece;
- salt – 1 teaspoon;
- pepper mixture – 1 teaspoon.
How to cook minced meat nests in the oven
Meat component of the dish - minced pork. It can be easily replaced with pork-beef or chicken-pork.
Peel the onion, cut into large pieces and chop in a food processor. If you make minced meat from pieces of meat, then the onion can also be passed through a meat grinder.
Add chopped onion, salt, a mixture of peppers and a chicken egg to the minced meat.
Mix everything well.
Break the egg into a separate plate.
Add a tablespoon of sour cream and grated cheese.
Add salt to taste to the sauce and mix everything.
Cut one large tomato into slices 4-5 millimeters thick.
Divide the minced meat in a bowl into equal parts with a knife, and then form balls of the same size from each. From each piece we make a meat cheesecake with sides 1 centimeter high.
We put a slice of tomato into the nests.
Put cheese sauce on the tomato.
Place the baking sheet in the oven and cook the dish at a temperature of 200-220 degrees for 45 minutes. From raw minced meat The meat protein will leak out and curl onto the baking sheet, so the baking sheet should be covered with baking parchment.
Place the finished nests on portion plates and serve with fresh vegetables or any other side dish.
The oven-baked dish turns out very juicy and tender.
In principle, due to the fact that the filling contains a fairly thick piece of tomato, no additional one is required. Decide for yourself what to serve with, baked with tomato and cheese.
By 04/24/2016
The kids will love this dish. Pasta nests with minced meat look so beautiful and interesting on a plate, I really want to try them. This is for kids original preparation pasta I'll definitely like it. And adults are unlikely to refuse to try them. The dish is tasty and spicy, very nutritious.
Important when buying pasta nests in the store, pay attention to the label. They must be made from durum wheat. You can buy wide or thin noodle nests. During cooking, try not to overcook the dish. The pasta should turn out al dente and should not lose its shape or fall apart at the end of cooking. Used as filling chopped meat. If desired, the list of ingredients can be supplemented, for example, with mushrooms, pre-fried in a frying pan, and vegetables. You can also make delicious nests with minced fish. The broth for preparing nests with minced meat must be prepared in advance. You can cook it from meat or poultry. If you don’t have time to tinker with it, you can dissolve a bouillon cube in boiled warm water.
Ingredients
- Pasta nests - 8 pcs
- Minced pork and beef - 600 g
- Onion - 1 piece
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Broth - 300 ml
- Hard cheese - 80 g
- Parsley - 10 g
- Salt - to taste
"! Lately, my son has fallen in love with scrambled eggs, and I’ve gotten into the habit of combining them with pasta or other foods. 😀 This is how a wonderful breakfast option was born when there was uneaten spaghetti left over from the evening. By the way, traditionally pasta nests are made from special pasta rolled in a special way. But I still plan to show this version of the dish. 😉 In the meantime, for pasta nests we take ordinary pre-boiled spaghetti...
Let's also take:
- raw eggs in the amount required for the number of eaters (in my case there were 4 eggs);
- butter(although it is possible to use a vegetable one, of course);
- cheese (optional, but it tastes better with it);
- good mood (this is especially important for breakfast 😉).
So, given that we have already boiled pasta or spaghetti, the process of preparing pasta nests in a frying pan will take literally 5-7 minutes.
Place butter in a frying pan and brush the surface with it. We don’t put it on fire yet - we need to form nests. We twist the spaghetti with a fork, and then carefully remove it into the frying pan to create a nest with a hole in the middle.
Sometimes I have to form a nest more than once, but after a short practice it turns out much better. 🙂
Sprinkle the surface of future nests with grated cheese. Now we put it on a hot burner or on the fire and warm up the macaroni and cheese for about two minutes.
Then add one egg to each nest.
Salt the eggs, cover with a lid and leave on the fire for two to three minutes. Next, you can take a spatula and gently adjust the pasta nests in the pan so that they are more round.
I usually make eggs with a runny yolk—that’s what my son and I like. But you can cook the nests longer. 😉
That's all, actually. A tasty, satisfying, cute breakfast is ready.
What could be easier than cooking pasta; anyone can handle this task. But if you make something beautiful out of ordinary noodles restaurant dish, then it can even be submitted to festive table. Today we are learning how to cook pasta nests with minced meat in the oven.
The ingredients are the most common, but delicious sauce and original presentation will make the dish a real masterpiece. A special one will help with this egg noodles, which is already twisted in the form of nests. All that remains is to lay out the minced meat, pour the aromatic sauce over everything and bake in the oven. Meat pasta nests with minced meat are tasty, tender and aromatic. Give it a try.
Pasta nests with minced meat in the oven: step-by-step recipe
Ingredients:
- Egg noodles (nests) – 6 pcs.;
- Minced pork – 180 g;
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 1 clove;
- Hard cheese – 70 g;
- Tomato ketchup – 50 g;
- Sour cream – 50 g;
- Water – 0.5 l;
- Salt, a mixture of ground peppers.
How to cook pasta nests with minced meat in the oven
Prepare everything you need. The oven pan must be chosen so that the nests fit tightly, otherwise they will spread out during the baking process; its height is also important; you should not use one that is too shallow.
Peel the onion and chop it with a knife. Add to the minced meat, add salt and a mixture of ground peppers.
To pour into a container of a suitable size, combine sour cream and ketchup, add finely chopped garlic, and season.
Stir and pour in a glass of cold water.
Dry and fragile pasta nests are difficult to fit tightly into the mold without breaking. To do this, each of them must be dipped in boiling water for a few seconds, this will soften the pasta.
Place the nests in the baking dish as close to each other as possible.
Divide the minced meat into 6 parts, make balls and place in the recesses.
Sprinkle with grated hard cheese. Pour prepared tomato-sour cream sauce. The liquid level should reach two-thirds of the height of the pasta nests. So, if the sauce is not enough, just add the required amount of water or broth.
Place in a preheated oven and bake on the top tier at 170 degrees for 25-30 minutes. During this time, the liquid will be completely absorbed into the noodles and they will become soft without losing their shape.
Serve the pasta nests with minced meat hot, in addition offer vegetables and fresh herbs.
step by step recipe with photos
We suggest preparing an unusual second course, which, along with a side dish, is served in separate portions in the form of pasta nests stuffed with minced meat, under a baked cheese crust.
Such pasta preparations are sold in any supermarket, but even if you couldn’t find them, don’t despair and boil regular noodles, giving it the desired shape when placing it on a baking sheet. You can use minced meat according to your taste: beef, pork, chicken, etc.
Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 200-250 g minced meat
- 4 things. pasta nests
- 30 ml vegetable oil
- 50 g hard cheese
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Preparation
1. Peel the onion. Wash and cut into cubes. Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan or frying pan. Heat it until hot. Pour in the onion slices and add the minced meat. Salt and pepper to taste. At this stage you can add your favorite seasonings. Mix everything together and fry over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes until golden brown.
2. Place the pasta pieces in a saucepan or saucepan and pour in boiling water. Add a little salt and place the container on the stove, boiling them for about 10-12 minutes.
3. Remove the boiled “nests” with tongs and place them on a greased vegetable oil baking tray Gently pull apart the center of each nest.
4. Then add 1.5 tbsp. l. fried meat filling into the center of each boiled piece. If you wish, you can break a quail egg into minced meat, if you have them in stock.
5. Hard cheese grate it on a fine grater and sprinkle it over the laid out minced meat. Move the baking sheet to the oven and bake the dish for about 5-10 minutes at 200C.
6. It is necessary that the cheese melts and bakes.
7. Serve the finished dish hot, sprinkled with chopped herbs or green onions.
Note to the hostess
1. As soon as the pasta nests are immersed in boiling water, you should move them slightly with a plastic spatula, prying them from below. They sometimes get soldered to the bottom. Then they are easy to tear off, but the lower part will definitely become deformed, causing the entire structure to fall apart.
2. In the description of the culinary process it is suggested to break into each portion before baking quail egg. This is an interesting idea, but the chef's imagination is limitless. He can place a small boiled egg in the shell on the edge of the nest. The delicious composition will look very realistic. It will be appreciated by adult gourmets and young aesthetes; children will develop an appetite following their curiosity.
3. You must strictly adhere to the time specified for the last stage of preparation: 10 minutes is the limit. If cheese shavings sit in the oven for too long, they will look like brown rubber. Its taste also deteriorates.
4. Supermarkets sell nests made from rice noodles– Korean and Chinese. After boiling, their color is not as yellow and expressive as that of wheat vermicelli, but birds are different, some build unusual light houses. When you get tired of familiar products, it’s time to turn to overseas ones. Let the remaining components remain unchanged - it will turn out great.