Relatively recently, Russian housewives got acquainted with a product known throughout the world as “nest pasta”. How to cook pasta of such an unusual shape? Already now you can find a large number of filling options for the specified product. In particular, there are meat, mushroom, vegetable and even fish fillings. In fact, any filling is suitable for the named pasta. But before you start experimenting, you need to learn how to cook "nest pasta" correctly. In addition, below will be presented a simple recipe that is suitable not only for everyday, but also for the holiday table.

How to cook nest pasta?

There are some nuances here. All housewives who dream of learning how to cook minced pasta nests face a rather prosaic problem. So, in the process of heat treatment, pasta "nests" easily lose their original shape, turning into vermicelli. But this difficulty is not so difficult to solve. You can get rid of it with the help of a container that will not spoil the shape of the "nests". Such a container can be an ordinary frying pan with high sides. It must be filled with water and brought to a boil. Next, you need to place the "nests" in the boiling liquid, not forgetting to salt them. You can also cook pasta of an unusual shape in a saucepan. That's just the bottom of such a container should be wide enough. "Nests" will need to be carefully lowered into the pan so that they do not turn over on their side. As a rule, cooking such pasta lasts no more than 5 minutes. Although you can not ignore the time indicated on the packaging of the product.

Minced Pasta Nests: Basic Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 "nests" (pasta);
• 300 g of any minced meat;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 1 onion;
• spices (salt, oregano, pepper);
• ketchup and mayonnaise.

Preparing the nests

Bring the water to a boil and carefully place the pasta in it. At the same time, it is important to ensure that the pasta does not overcook, otherwise they will lose their shape. It is best to take them out of the pan when half cooked. In most cases, cooking should not last more than 3 minutes. after boiling water. You can get the "nests" with a slotted spoon. Pasta should be immediately placed on a baking sheet, thoroughly oiled.

Cooking "nests" of pasta with minced meat

TO minced meat add chopped onion, spices and salt. You can also experiment with garlic. Then carefully mix everything. In the pasta "nests" we make a small depression and put the minced meat there. We complete this simple composition with grated cheese. Next, mix ketchup with mayonnaise and dilute this mixture with water. Pour this sauce over the "nests" located on the baking sheet. We bake "nests" of pasta with minced meat at a temperature of 180 ° for 20 minutes. Before serving, the described dish can be decorated with herbs. "Nest pasta" has two important advantages. Firstly, they cook quickly, and secondly, they look festive. And most importantly - a dish prepared using the indicated pasta can be safely called Italian.

Today I want to bring to your attention a festive everyday recipe. These are minced meat nests stuffed with tomatoes and cheese. The dish baked in the oven is very tasty and beautiful. It will be able to please the eye and satisfy the gastronomic passions of both an ordinary eater and a true gourmet. Try to cook such meat "cheesecakes" yourself, I'm sure the guests will be delighted.

Let's go over the main ingredients:

• minced meat - 700 grams;
• onions - 1 large onion;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• cheese - 150 grams;
• sour cream - 1 tablespoon;
• tomato - 1 piece;
• salt - 1 teaspoon;
• pepper mixture - 1 teaspoon.

How to cook minced meat nests in the oven

The meat component of the dish is minced pork. It is quite possible to replace it with pork-beef or chicken-pork.

We clean the onion, cut into large pieces and chop in a food processor. If you twist minced meat from pieces of meat, then onions can also be passed through a meat grinder.

Add chopped onion, salt, a mixture of peppers and a chicken egg to the minced meat.

We mix everything well.

Break the egg into a separate bowl.

Add a tablespoon of sour cream and grated cheese.

Add salt to taste to the sauce and mix everything.

We cut one large tomato into plates, 4-5 millimeters thick.

We divide the minced meat in a bowl with a knife into equal parts, and then, from each we form balls of the same size. From each piece we make a meat cheesecake with a side height of 1 centimeter.

We put a slice of tomato into the nests.

We put cheese sauce on the tomato.

We put the baking sheet in the oven and cook the dish at a temperature of 200-220 degrees for 45 minutes. Meat protein will flow and curl from raw minced meat onto a baking sheet, therefore, the baking sheet should be covered with parchment for baking.

Put the finished nests on portioned plates and serve with fresh vegetables or any other side dish.

The dish baked in the oven is very juicy and tender.

In principle, due to the fact that the filling contains a rather thick piece of tomato, no additional is required. Decide for yourself what to serve with, baked with tomato and cheese.

We offer to cook unusual second a dish that, together with a side dish, is served in separate portions in the form of pasta nests stuffed with minced meat, under a baked cheese crust.

Such pasta blanks are sold in any supermarket, but even if you could not find them, do not despair and boil ordinary vermicelli, giving it the desired shape when laying it in a baking sheet. Minced meat can be used according to your taste: beef, pork, chicken, etc.

Ingredients

• 1 bulb
• 200-250 g minced meat
• 4 things. pasta nests
• 30 ml vegetable oil
• 50 g hard cheese
• salt and ground black pepper to taste

Cooking

1. Peel the onion from the husk. Wash and cut into cubes. Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan or frying pan. Heat it up until it's hot. Pour onion slices and add minced meat. Salt and pepper to taste. You can add your favorite seasonings at this stage. Mix everything together and fry over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes until golden brown.

2. Put the pasta blanks in a saucepan or stewpan and pour in boiling water. Pour some salt and place the container on the stove, boiling them for about 10-12 minutes.

3. Remove the boiled “nests” with tongs and place them on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Gently spread the middle of each nest.

4. Then lay out 1.5 tbsp. l. fried meat filling in the center of each boiled billet. Optionally, you can break into minced meat on a quail egg, if you have them available.

5. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater and sprinkle the minced meat with it. Transfer the baking sheet to the oven and bake the dish for about 5-10 minutes at 200C.

6. It is necessary that the cheese is melted and baked.

7. Serve the finished dish hot, sprinkled with chopped herbs or green onions.

Note to the owner

1. As soon as the pasta nests are immersed in boiling water, you should slightly move them with a plastic spatula, prying from below. They are sometimes soldered to the bottom. Then they are easy to tear off, but the lower part is necessarily deformed, which is why the whole structure will fall apart.

2. In the description of the culinary process, it is proposed to break into each serving before baking quail egg. This is an interesting idea, but the chef's imagination is limitless. He can put a small boiled egg in the shell on the edge of the nest. A delicious composition will look very realistic. It will be appreciated by adult gourmets and young aesthetes - after curiosity, kids will have an appetite.

3. You must strictly adhere to the time specified for the last stage of cooking: 10 minutes is the limit. If the cheese chips are left in the oven for a long time, they become like brown rubber. It also spoils the taste.

4. Supermarkets sell nests made of rice noodles- Korean and Chinese. After boiling, their color is not as yellow and expressive as that of wheat vermicelli, but birds are different, some build unusual bright houses. When familiar products get bored, it's time to turn to overseas. Let the rest of the components remain unchanged - it will turn out great.

Pasta nests with minced meat are an unusual but easy-to-cook dish. His homeland is Italy. In this country, the population is very fond of various variations with pasta.

The dish does not require rare ingredients. They are freely available in our stores. The dish turns out to be nutritious and you do not need to add any side dish to it.

What will be needed?

The main problem of cooking can be special pasta designed for this dish. In big cities, you can buy them in any large store or shopping center. IN settlements less with their acquisition may be difficult.

For the dish you need to buy a pack of Tagliatelle pasta. These are thin spaghetti rolled in the shape of a bird's nest. The hostess will need 12 pieces of such balls. Minced meat can be prepared independently from chicken fillet, pork or purchase ready-made (500 g).

Of the spices, it is better to use only salt and black pepper. You should not put garlic or spicy, fragrant mixtures, because the taste will be too rich.

Required Ingredients

The rest of the ingredients are easy to find. Have to take:

• onions - 2 pcs.;
• 1 medium sized carrot;
• 2 tbsp. l. any red sauce;
• hard cheese - 150 g;
• 2 tbsp. l. sour cream and mayonnaise;
• spices.

You can make some changes according to your own taste and preferences. Adherents proper nutrition may not use mayonnaise in the recipe for nests of pasta with minced meat, but add more sour cream.

You can replace the broth in the option with cooking in a pan with plain water. During stewing, it will be saturated with fat from minced meat.

Food preparation

First you need to do minced meat. If you bought it ready-made, then you only need to add spices and finely chopped onions to it. To cook minced meat yourself, you need to pass 500 g of any meat twice through a meat grinder.

Boil pasta in salted water for 3 minutes. You don't need to keep them on fire any longer. The product must be undercooked. Vegetables should be peeled and washed well. Onions are cut into medium cubes, and carrots are rubbed on a coarse grater.

Nests of pasta are laid out in a baking dish. Inside each is placed ready minced meat. It should be clearly visible above the surface of the paste.

If you add a little minced meat to the nests, then during the stewing it will sink and the dish will lose its characteristic shape.

Cooking

First you need to roast. The onion is allowed to become transparent in a pan. Then carrots are added here. These ingredients are fried for 10-15 minutes.

The sauce is added to the mass, diluted with a small amount (250 ml) of water. The frying should languish over low heat for another 10 minutes. The resulting sauce must be poured over the cooked nests of pasta with minced meat.

A tablespoon of sour cream or mayonnaise is placed on top of each. Topped with grated hard cheese. The cooked dish is placed in the oven for baking for an hour. The temperature must be at least 180 ˚С.

The form with the finished dish is taken out of the oven, the nests are separated from each other with a spatula. Before serving, the dish can be sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Such nests will be an excellent, original decoration. holiday table. Because the banal mashed potatoes as a side dish will not surprise anyone. Also, the original serving can cause appetite even in the most capricious child who does not like meat.

Variation of a dish cooked in a frying pan

Minced pasta nests can be made with a few changes to the recipe. The number of ingredients remains the same as in the first option. If the pan is small, then the consumption can be halved.

In this case, you do not need to boil the pasta in advance. Minced meat is prepared according to the same principle. Another difference is the lack of frying. Be sure to boil the meat broth, which will be needed to prepare pasta nests with minced meat, the photo of which is posted in the article. It can be cast in advance when preparing the first course.

A large onion grated on a fine grater is added to the minced meat. Thus, it will become juicier and tastier. Carrots are not used in the recipe.

The nests are laid out in a pan. Minced meat with a slide is placed inside each. The broth is poured. A small amount of mayonnaise or sour cream is laid out on the nests. It should half cover all the ingredients of the dish.

The mass in the pan should be stewed for about 20 minutes. At this time, the cheese must be grated on a coarse grater. The greens are finely chopped. Each nest is sprinkled with cheese. The pan is again closed with a lid and put on fire.

When the cheese is completely melted, sprinkle the dish with herbs on top. All liquid must evaporate during the extinguishing. When serving, the nests are separated from each other and served in portions. TO original dish you can offer any purchased or self-made red sauce in a separate bowl.

Pasta "Nests" became very popular. You can cook many different dishes with them, both for gourmets, vegetarians and omnivorous citizens 🙂 This time we will teach you how to cook nests with meat fried with vegetables. Believe me, it will be delicious!

Nests with meat: ingredients

• 8 large "nests"
• 300-400 grams boneless pork tenderloin
• 1 large onion or a couple of small ones
• 1 medium sized carrot
• 3 bell peppers: red, green and yellow
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• Vegetable oil for frying meat and vegetables
• Butter for nests

Nests with meat: preparation

The first step is to prepare a delicious meat roast, which will fill our nests. To do this, cut the meat tenderloin into small cubes and fry in a pan with vegetable oil until pieces acquire an imitative appearance.

Cut the onion into cubes and put it on the meat. Fry until the onion turns golden.

We chop the carrot into thin long slices, approximately like pilaf and send it to the pan with meat and onions, continue frying.

Now it's the turn of the peppers. If they are very large, leave some of them on the borscht, by the way, you can chop the pepper and then quickly use it for cooking. The remaining peppers, previously chopped into cubes, are sent to the pan. Simmer for ten minutes over medium heat.

When our ingredients in the pan are almost ready, add tomato paste, mix well and simmer for seven minutes over low heat.

Place nest pasta in a saucepan or skillet with high sides. Place a piece of butter in the center of each nest. Pour salted boiling water over two centimeters.

Close the lid and simmer for about 10 minutes.