In the Soviet Union, canteen food preparation was on a pretty good level. The fact is that many workers did not have much time to prepare food at home. In addition, most factory and factory workers ate lunch in canteens. For this reason, the level of food in these establishments was acceptable.
Thanks to cooks from Soviet canteens, many recipes for familiar dishes became economical. For example, there are ways to prepare cutlets with a minimum amount of meat.
Stuffing in cutlets is the key product. But to make the cutlets more juicy and puffy, a few additional ingredients were used.
Often in the canteens for puffiness of cutlets used soda
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The taste of this component did not suit the workers. Therefore, soda was soon replaced by oat flakes.
Mixing minced meat and crushed oat flakes, and then baking the formed cutlets in the oven, they turned out puffy and flavorful. So cooks began to avoid dense and flattened cutlets.
The fact is that the flakes in the process of cooking swell. This prevents the juice from the cutlets from leaking out during frying and baking. The structure of the cutlets becomes more porous, which makes them puffier.
Also, cutlets with oat flakes in the composition do not require a large amount of vegetable oil, which is good for health.
It is worth trying to replace baking soda and flour in the cutlets with oat flakes to make sure the effectiveness of the advice yourself.
