Cucumbers – frequent guests on a table. They are traditionally salted, pickled, used as a component of salads, solyankas and okroshkas. But from these vegetables it is possible to prepare many refined dishes capable to please even gourmets. The stuffed cucumbers for which preparation it is possible to use various stuffings belong to such dishes.
Fresh cucumbers can be stuffed with various salads (fish, meat, vegetable) and a tax as snack. But if to fill cucumbers with nutritious or light forcemeats and to bake in an oven, then the full-fledged main course will turn out, tasty and fragrant. To prepare the stuffed cucumbers in an oven, the following ingredients will be necessary:
- 4 cucumbers (large); - 400 g of boiled meat;
- 100 g of onions; - 50 g of greens of parsley; - 30 ml of vegetable oil; - 100 g of sour cream; - ground black pepper; - salt.
The big outgrown cucumbers which need to be cleaned from a firm thin skin previously are suitable for this dish. Then cut cucumbers on halves and accurately remove with a tablespoon a core with seeds. Further make forcemeat. For this purpose any meat (beef, pork, chicken will approach) wash out, dry and boil until ready in the added some salt water then if necessary separate meat from bones and miss pulp via the meat grinder. Clean onions, small chop also to a spasseruyta on vegetable oil. Wash out greens of parsley, dry, crush and too slightly fry on vegetable oil. Then mix the browned onions and greens with forcemeat from boiled meat. Fill a stuffing with salt and a black sprinkling pepper and carefully mix. Stuff the prepared halves of cucumbers with a stuffing. Then lay cucumbers a section up on the oiled baking tray. Fill in each half with a teaspoon of sour cream and bake minutes 20 in an oven at a temperature of 200 wasps. It is possible to prepare the stuffed cucumbers and according to other recipe, for it it is required: - 1 kg of cucumbers; - 1 kg of meat (beef or pork); - 500 g of a girasol; - 100 g of carrots; - 100 g of onions; - 50 ml of vegetable oil; - 50 g of a grated cheese; - ¼ tsps of ground black pepper; - salt. Wash up large cucumbers, dry and cut circles about 3-4 centimeters thick. Then carefully remove a core from preparations. Peculiar cucumber rings have to turn out. Well wash a baking plate with flowing water meat, then dry a paper towel or a napkin and miss via the meat grinder. Wash up and peel carrots. Then grate, and small chop the onions cleaned from a peel. The onions and carrots prepared thus to a spasseruyta together on vegetable oil. Carefully wash out a girasol, clean and grate then connect to mincemeat and the browned vegetables. Add pepper and salt, properly mix everything. Grease a baking tray or a flat heat resisting pan with vegetable oil and establish vertically preparations from cucumbers, fill everyone with the made forcemeat, sprinkle from above vegetable oil and strew with a grated cheese. Then place the stuffed cucumbers in an oven and bake within 20-30 minutes at a temperature 200-220os.