Veal Zrazy with Cheese and Olives

Veal zrazy according to this recipe is a very tasty meat dish with an unusual taste, which is provided by the filling of cheese and olives (not surprising, because these products are perfectly combined!). Such zrazy look very original in section. Be sure to try this dish!

Summary

Ingredients

• Veal (pulp) – 500 g
• Hard cheese – 100 g
• Pitted olives – 100 g
• Milk – 160 ml
• Egg – 1 pc.
• White bread – 130 g
• Bulb onions – 1 pc.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Sunflower oil – 80 ml
• Dried Italian herbs – 1 teaspoon
• Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Wash the meat and dry it with a paper towel. I have veal, you can use beef.
2. Cut the veal pulp into small pieces. Peel the onions and carrots. Cut the onion into slices and the carrots into slices.
3. Transfer the meats, onions, and carrots to a blender or food processor and chop until smooth. You can also use a meat grinder, but then the minced meat will not turn out to be plastic enough to prepare stuffed products.
4. Transfer the minced meat to a bowl.
5. Soak pieces of bread in milk.
6. Squeeze the milk out of the bread, crush and add to the minced meat bowl. Add the egg, salt, and dry Italian herbs mixture to this.
7. Knead the minced meat until the ingredients are evenly distributed in it.
8. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
9. Cut the olives into rings.
10. Form zrazy. To do this, moisten your hands with water and mold flat cakes from the minced meat (8 pieces are obtained from the specified number of products).
11. Place grated cheese and olives on each meat cake.

    

12. Blind the edges of the cake so that the filling is inside, and the products acquire an oval, slightly flattened shape.
13. Heat the sunflower oil in a skillet. Place the zrazy in a skillet and fry on one side over medium-high heat for 5-7 minutes.
14. Then turn the zrazy over, reduce the heat, cover the pan with a lid, and cook for another 10-15 minutes.

    

15. Veal zrazy with cheese and olives, ready. Serve hot zrazy with any side dish. Bon Appetit!