The casserole is a very convenient dish. It can be prepared in advance and served warmed up for breakfast or dinner. You can take a piece with you, you can eat it hot, or you can eat it warm.
In general, it is a universal thing.
However, the taste of this universal thing should be diversified - otherwise it will quickly get bored. Culinary traditions (modern) are such that in Russia, most often they prepare curd casseroles, potato, or from pasta (which is less common).
Why so - I do not know, because you can use anything for a casserole. This recipe came across to me a long time ago. And, although I do not often cook baboti at home, it deserves a place in the culinary piggy bank.
So, we take:
Main products
- A tablespoon of butter (and then we need a little more to grease the mold)
- A tablespoon of vegetable oil
- One onion (preferably white or not spicy red)
- One green apple, not very sweet
- A handful of seedless raisins (better than white)
- One lemon, from which we squeeze the juice and remove the zest
- Two pieces of dry white bread or half a cup of unflavored bread crumbs)
- One and a half glasses of good milk or cream
- About a kilogram of boiled lamb (you can take any meat, as long as it is lean)
- Fifty grams of almond petals (if not, and to hell with it)
- Three eggs
Spices:
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Tbsp curry powder
How do we cook
- Boil meat, make minced meat from it
- While the oven is heating to 180 degrees, dissolve the butter in a thick-walled dish, add a spoonful of vegetable oil there and simmer the finely chopped apple with curry in all this.
- We soak rusks or dry white bread in milk to disperse.
- Cut the onion into small cubes, mix it with minced meat, apple slices and breadcrumbs squeezed from milk. Add raisins, almonds (if any), lemon juice, zest and one well-beaten egg to the resulting mass.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Then we grease the form with oil, put the meat mass tightly into it, and make the filling. Beat the same milk or cream in which the bread or crackers were soaked with the remaining two eggs, adding the filling and also a little pepper.
- Fill our casserole with the mixture, send it to the oven until tender. Usually the cooking time in the oven is an hour and a half (a lot depends on what shape you have).
Traditionally, they decorate it with bay leaves (but in my opinion, this is not worth doing, because it gives a flavor that does not fit into the dish too much)
Enjoy your meal!