Bean cutlets are a dish for vegetarians and meat eaters

Cutlets are a delicious and popular dish. But it turns out they can be cooked not only from meat or fish. For vegetarians, as well as for those who adhere to the requirements of fasting, there is a variation of this dish, prepared from beans.

Cutlets from beans - it's not just tasty, but alsoit is useful, because beans, like other legumes, are a source of vegetable protein, a substance absolutely necessary for those who do not consume animal food.

So, to cook cutlets from beanslean, we need a glass of dry beans. The variety of its special value does not have, you can take both red and white. Also, a couple of boiled potatoes in medium size, grams of fifty dried mushrooms, 3 tablespoons of flour and a teaspoon of salt will be required. Instead of flour, you can use oatmeal, or ground in a coffee grinder "Hercules". From spices we will use dried granulated garlic, black pepper and, if desired, coriander.

Since we use dry foods (mushrooms and beans), they should be soaked in water for several hours beforehand. After that, the products are cooked separately until soft.

Boiled beans, potatoes, mushrooms need goodto grind. The easiest way is to use a blender or a meat grinder. But in the absence of these devices, you can crush potatoes and beans, and mushrooms just finely chopped. If the mass is too thick, then it needs to be diluted with water a little. Those who do not strictly observe fasting, water can replace milk.

From the obtained plastic mass we make small cutlets and fry them in a frying pan on both sides. Cutlets from beans are best served with vegetable salad and tomato sauce.

Another option for preparing this dish isinvolves the use of potatoes. In this case, puree from beans is added in white milk soaked in milk or water. According to this recipe, you can add a raw egg to the mass, but you can do without it.

Another interesting recipe is bean cutlets withvegetables. The beans are prepared with minced meat, as in the first recipe. Meanwhile, a finely chopped onion is fried in a frying pan in oil and a carrot is worn on a shallow grater. Fry vegetables with a slight heating until soft. Add the ready-made vegetables in the puree of beans, season it to taste and form the cutlets, panning them in flour or breadcrumbs. This dish needs a sauce. To cook it again fry onions with carrots and add tomato paste or tomato juice to vegetables. If necessary, add water, salt, pepper and cook on low heat until the vegetables are ready. In the finished sauce, add the finely chopped greens.

In the event that there is no time to mess withsoaking and cooking beans, you can prepare an express version of cutlets. To do this, you need to buy canned beans and drain the jar from the jar. Otherwise, cutlets from canned food are prepared in exactly the same way as in the first recipe.

Those who do not fast, but just want to diversifyyour menu, can cook cutlets from beans with various additives. For example, in grind beans can be added grated cheese or crumbled cheese.

You can cook cutlets from beans withthe addition of minced meat. In this case, for 400 grams of ready-cooked boiled beans, you need to take about 150 grams of ground beef, a couple of eggs, a bulb and 2 tablespoons of potato starch.

Chop the boiled beans together with the oniononions. If desired, in these patties you can add a little garlic, as well as any spices to your liking. After that, in the minced meat, break the eggs, pour the starch and mix the mass to homogeneity. We form small cutlets and fry them in oil, having previously rolled them in breadcrumbs. We serve such cutlets with tomato or sour cream sauce and any side dish. Bon Appetit.