Cutlets in potato nests with quail eggs

An unusual dish made from ordinary products

Ingredients

• For cutlets
• minced meat (pork + beef) 300-400 g
• onion 1 pc
• champignons 6-7 pcs
• cheese (like Russian) 50-70 g
• egg 1 pc
• parsley
• salt
• freshly ground pepper
• For mashed potatoes
• potatoes 6-8 pcs
• milk 0.5 cups
• butter 10 g
• salt
• Additional ingredients
• quail eggs (by the number of cutlets) 8-10 pcs
• vegetable oil for frying
• greens (for decoration)

Directions

1. Peel the onion and chop finely.
2. Wash the mushrooms, dry and cut into small cubes.
3. Wash the greens, dry and chop.
4. Grate cheese on a coarse grater.
5. In a frying pan preheated with vegetable oil, fry the onions for 4 minutes.
6. Add mushrooms and fry, stirring occasionally, for 5-6 minutes.
7. Cool the mushrooms and onions a little.
8. Put the minced meat in a bowl, add the fried mushrooms and onions to it and mix well.
9. Add an egg to the minced meat (you can add only the yolk of a chicken egg or a couple of quail eggs so that the minced meat is not liquid in consistency), herbs, cheese, salt, pepper and mix well again.
10. Form small cutlets from minced meat.
11. Put cutlets on a frying pan heated with vegetable oil and fry on both sides until golden brown for about 6 minutes (until half cooked).
12. By this time, prepare mashed potatoes.
13. Peel and boil the potatoes in salted water until tender.
14. Drain the potato broth, and mash the potatoes with a crush.
15. In small portions, pouring in hot milk, prepare light airy mashed potatoes.
16. Put a piece of butter in the puree and mix again (it is better to beat a little with a mixer).
17. Put cutlets fried until half cooked on a greased baking sheet.
18. Fill a pastry bag with mashed potatoes and use the "star" attachment to plant the mashed potatoes around the patties so that "nests" are formed.
19. Break a quail egg into each "nest" and add a little salt.
20. Bake the nests at 180 ° C for about 20-25 minutes.