Pork cutlets with mushrooms

Pork cutlets with mushrooms, cheese, and pickled cucumbers will spend time both in the skillet and in the oven. Combined cooking methods will speed up the readiness of the meat. The dish will have an interesting taste: a soft thin crust made of flour and egg batter - like ‘fried’ cutlets, while the juicy meat pulp will be like that of pork baked in the oven. The mushrooms and pickled cucumbers form a delicious tandem, as cutlet meat needs to be complemented with some sour product. Cheese of medium saltiness is chosen, it will melt and become an appetizing crust. – как у «сковородочных» отбивных, а сочная мясная мякоть – как у свинины, запеченной в духовом шкафу. Грибы и маринованные огурцы образуют вкусный тандем, ведь отбивное мясо нужно дополнять каким-нибудь кислым продуктом. Сыр выбирают средней солености, он расплавится и станет аппетитной корочкой.

Caloric content: 231 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Yield: 3 servings.

Ingredients

• pork – 400 g;
• champignons – 120 g;
• cheese – 120 g;
• pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs;
• eggs – 1 pc;
• onion – 1 pc;
• vegetable oil – 70 ml;
• flour – 1/3 cup;
• salt – ¾ tsp.

Preparation

1. The combined technology is convenient in that it allows you to prepare a piece of meat cut from any part of the pork carcass. Even the direction of the meat fibers in the cut will not matter much.

2. Slice the champignons into thick plates and sauté in vegetable oil for 3-4 minutes, sprinkling with a small pinch of salt.

3. Cut the piece of pork into slices, removing fat and membranes. Each piece is beaten on both sides, the thickness of the meat after beating is 5 millimeters.

4. The cutlets are sprinkled with salt, then breaded in wheat flour.

5. Beat the egg with a fork and a pinch of salt, dip the cutlets in the egg batter.

6. Fry the pork cutlets sequentially over medium heat, without covering the skillet with a lid. Each side is fried for no more than one minute.

7. Slice the onion into rings. Half of the rings are laid out in a baking dish, on top of which the cutlets are arranged.

8. The remaining onion is poured on top so that the rings lie on each cutlet. The meat will bake quickly: to prevent the onion from remaining raw in the finished dish, the rings must be very thin.

9. The cutlets are covered with cucumber slices. It is preferable to use sharp pickled cucumbers, the thickness of the circles is 3-4 millimeters.

10. The champignons are arranged in such a way that all the cucumbers are covered by mushrooms. The cheese crust should bake directly on the mushrooms, barely touching the cucumbers.

11. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and generously sprinkle it over the cutlets.

12. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, bake the cutlets for 15 minutes.

13. Pork cutlets with mushrooms, cheese, and pickled cucumbers are served hot. The pork will be very tender. A side dish can be omitted, limiting yourself to your favorite vegetable salad, as the cutlets are very filling.