Pork and beef cutlets with fried onions

To prevent pork and beef cutlets in the pan with fried onions from turning out dry, the pork for the filling should be medium or even higher fat content. If the minced meat is lean, you can add a small piece of ground pork fat.

If you don't like bread in cutlets, you can prepare them another way. To give pork and beef cutlets softness and airiness, instead of soaked bread, a lot of onions are added. But not raw, rather well-fried in sunflower oil. This onion enriches the cutlets with its flavor and makes them tender and very tasty. The meat is distinctly felt in them, and the onion only adds aroma and taste, as its pieces are almost imperceptible.

Ingredients

• pork meat or ready-made minced meat – 600 g;
• beef (beef minced meat) – 300 g;
• garlic;
• egg – 1 pc;
• raw onion – 500 g;
• ground black pepper;
• nutmeg or coriander;
• bay leaf;
• sunflower oil for frying.

Cooking

1. Cut the onion into cubes. At first, it may seem that there's too much, but that's not the case – when fried, its volume will significantly decrease.

2. Fry the onion well in sunflower oil until golden brown. At the very end, add pepper and the other spices (except for the bay leaf) and fry them together with the onion – their aroma reveals itself best when interacting with sunflower oil.

3. Grind the fried onion in a meat grinder.

4. If not using ready-made minced meat and making it yourself, it is advisable to grind it after the onion. It will "pick up" all the onion that usually remains inside the meat grinder. Then mix the two types of minced meat (pork and beef), ground onion, egg, and salt.

5. If the minced meat is coarsely ground, you can additionally add 2-3 tbsp of semolina to it so that the cutlets do not fall apart when frying. In medium-ground minced meat, adding semolina is not necessary.

6. Shape the minced meat into cutlets (preferably medium-sized).

7. Fry them on both sides, then add the bay leaf, pour in water (about 1/3), and simmer the cutlets for about 10 minutes under a lid on low heat. Then uncover and evaporate the remaining water.

Pork and beef cutlets with fried onions are ready. Enjoy your meal!