This dish is very practical It’s suitable for festive gatherings, because it doesn’t require a lot of time for preparing and everythings are baked at one time. All you need is only salads. We all agreed that we will prepare it again and again.

(6 cakes)

400-500 g minced meat

1 egg

1 onion

2 tsps. mayonnaise

1 tbsp. starch

salt

peppers

4-5 potatoes

pinch of caraway

2 cloves garlic

oil

6 slices cheese

Chop onion. Mix minced meat with onion, egg, starch. Season with salt and peppers. Devide meat to 6 parts and form thin cakes. Put them on a baking tray. Coat with mayonnaise (actually I forgot to do this).
Peel potatoes and cut in small cubes. Put in the bowl, sprinkle with a few tablespoons of oil, season with caraway seeds, garlic, salt and peppers. Mix everything. Put potatoes on meat and press a little bit. Bake in preheated to 220°C oven about 20 minutes. Then put cheese slices on top and put to the oven till cheese melts.

Source: Laikas į virtuvę

I think this is the last recipe with pasta for some time. Now I’ll take a break from pasta because now we eat a lot of salads, barbequed meat and everything we find in the freezer. Of course when autumn will be near, we gonna need warming and satisfying food, so pasta will be back. Some words about the recipe. It’s satisfying and good, and simple. Unfortunately I had only one third of cheese, but it didn’t ruined the taste.

(6 servings)

300 g pasta

400 g minced meat

1 onion

2 cloves of garlic

1 can (400 g) of chopped tomatoes

100 ml water

100 g feta cheese

150 g grated cheese

2 tsps. red bell pepper powder

salt

peppers

Boil the pasta. Fry minced meat with a chopped garlic and onion. Add water, chopped tomatoes and feta cheese. Season with paprika, salt and peppers. Put meat and pasta to a baking dish, mix well. Sprinkle with cheese and bake at 180°C preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Source: Sveikos šeimos virtuvė. Žurnalo “Sveika” serija. 2008

Meat balls just melts in your mouth. Very very tasty! Just if you gonna use soy sauce, be careful with salt.

Meat balls:

50 g bread crumbs

200 ml sour cream

1 onion

1 tbsp. butter

500 g minced meat

1 egg

1-2 tsps. salt

1/2 tsp. white peppers

butter for frying

Brown sauce:

1 tbsp. butter

1 1/2 tbsp. wheat flour

300 ml baking liquid

white or black peppers

salt

50-100 ml cream

soy sauce (optional)

In a bowl with sour cream mix bread crumbs and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Chop onion and fry in a pan with butter. Leave to cool. To the bread crumbs add onions, minced meat, season with salt, peppers and mix till solid texture. With a teaspoon take some meat and form balls with wet hands. Fry in a pan with butter while get nice brown color. Pour some hot water and simmer a littl bit – this liquid will be for sauce. Prepared meat balls put in warm place and prepare sauce. In a pan melt butter, pour flour and brown a little bit. Strain meat balls and pour liquid to the pan with browned flour. Mix well. Season sauce with salt, peppers, pour cream. If you like, you can use soy sauce to make brown sauce better color and the taste was more spicy. Put meat balls in to the sauce and serve.

Source: Lengvi receptai II

It’s pork braised in home made tomatoe sauce. I prepared this already two times. The first time I cut pork in thicker chunks, the second – in thinner. My hubby said that the second time was better. By the way, be careful with seasonings – when tomatoe liquid evaporates, the taste becomes stronger.

500 g lean pork

1 can (400 g) chopped tomatoes

1 onion

salt

pepper

paprika

thyme

oil

Cut pork in medium size chunks, beat a little bit with pounder. Sprinkle with peppers and paprika, fry shortly in hot oil from both sides. Put pork in a pot, season with salt, put sauted onion, chopped tomatoes with the liquid, thymes. Cover with a lid and braise till the pork will be tender.

Source: my old archive

Loved from the first bite Especially liked it my hubby – he’s the spicy food lover. For the children I didn’t even let them to taste Not because of jealousy, just they still love mild tastes.

Crepes:

2 eggs

1/4 tsp. salt

120 g flour

350 ml milk

2 tbsps. oil

Filling:

300 g minced meat

2 tbsps. oil

1 carrot

1 onion

2 spray of parsley

3 tbsps. hot chilli sauce

1 clove garlic

salt

black pepper

95 g sour cream

2-3 tbsps. soy sauce

water or red wine

To sprinkle:

grated cheese

Beat eggs, salt, flour and milk till you get solid mixture. Mix in oil and bake 4-6 rather thick crepes.
Heat oil in a pan and fry minced meat. Peel carrot, grate and put in the meat. Then finely chop onion and parsley. Put them to the meat too. Pour hot chilli sauce, add chopped garlic, peppers and salt. Pour sour cream, soy sauce, wine or water. Saute filling till vegetables will be soft.
Put crepe on a plate. Sprinkle with some cheese. Put some filling and roll up. Put all crepes with filling to the bakind tray, sprinkle with more cheese. Bake in a 200°C preheated oven about 7-8 minutes, till the cheese melts. You can cut crepes in slices. Serve with fresh salads.

Source: Lengvi receptai I

500 g any meat, chopped in small chunks

3 eggs

3 tbsps. starch

150 g mayonnaise

salt

garlic

peppers

Mix all ingredients and put in glass bowl (1 liter capacity) and place in the fridge for 10-12 hours to marinate. When ready to bake, take the bowl, mix the mixture and put it with spoon it hot pan with a little bit of oil. Bake as pancakes.

Source: kuking.net

Mexican minced meat and bean chilli. Can be prepared very quickly. We were afraid that beans will blanket out other ingredients, but we were wrong and I am glad about that. We wanted something hot, and we got it

(4 servings)

500 g minced meat

2 onions

2 tbsps oil

2-3 garlic cloves

1 can (400 g) chopped tomatoes

1-1,5 tbsps dried chilli pepper powder or 1-2 hot chilli peppers

1 tsp. oregano

2 cans (400 g each) white beans in tomato sauce

1 red bell pepper

1 green bell pepper

salt

Heat the pan with oil and braise onions with minced meat (if you use fresh chilli peppers, braise them chopped too). Pour tomatoes, seasonings and braise a few minutes. The mix in beans, cut bell peppers, salt to taste and braise 10 minutes more. Serve with rice or French bread.

Source: Lengvi receptai II

My hubby likes hot dishes, so one day I decided to indulge him. After eating this dish he was very happy and with the smile in his face He even wasn’t disturbed that in this hotch-potch was corn, that he really doesn’t like. Tomatoes brought the right freshness. I think that this dish is really very good balanced.

(3 servings)

1/2 green chilli peppers, jelapeno (I used 2 small marinated chilli peppers)

1 onion

1 clove garlic

1/2 tablespoon oil

200 g mince meat

Taco seasonings or other spices to taste

150 ml rice

300 ml water

2 tomatoes

50 ml corns, frozen or from can

Wash, deseed and chop chilli. Peel and chop onion and garlic clove. Saute chilli, onion and garlic in stainless steel pot with oil. Put in mince meat and fry till it crumbles. Season with spices, put rice and pour water. Cover with a lid and boil about 15-20 minutes. Wash and cut in cubes tomatoes. Mix tomatoes and corn into the hotch-potch. Serve with crunchy salads and tablespoon of natural yoghurt or sour cream.

Source: Didžioji virtuvės knyga. 2004

Very moist meatloaf. The taste is very mild so very delicious with hot tomato sauce.

(6 servings)

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup oatmeal

1 cup shredded zucchini

1/3 cup finely diced onion

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1/2 teaspoon dried basil

1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

1/8 teaspoon dry mustard powder

700 g ground meat

1/2 cup hot tomato sauce

1 tablespoon grated Parmesan

Preheat oven to 175°C. Coat a large loaf pan with the vegetable cooking spray and set aside.
In a large bowl beat the eggs with a fork. Mix in milk, oatmeal and allow to rest for a few minutes. To the egg mixture stir in zucchini, onion, parsley, salt, pepper, basil, oregano and mustard powder. Add ground meat and gently combine. Place in prepared pan and press down slightly.
In a small bowl combine the marinara sauce and Parmesan cheese. Spread on top of meat. Bake for 1-1 1/4 hours. Allow meatloaf to rest for about 5 minutes before slicing.

Source: Eating Well… Living Thin

Very simple but still effective stew. Especially good when you have to feed your family with only five sausages.

(3 servings)

5 sausages

1 big red paprika

2 clove garlic

3 tablespoons ketchup

4 small tomatoes

oil for frying

Cut sausages in two pieces and then lengthwise. Heat some oil in the pan, put sausages. Then clean paprika and cut it into strips. Put to the pan with sausages. Prepare garlic cloves and crush them. Cut tomatoes into cubes. When paprika softens put garlic, tomatoes and ketchup in the pan and mix. Stew for 5-10 minutes more, while tomatoes become soft. If you like you can add herbs.

Source: kuking.net