How to make Juicy Pork Meatballs (Kotleti) | Pork Kotleti Recipe

Hi! Welcome to my channel and Welcome! and Labdian. Today I'm going to show you one of my favorite recipes of all time. It's pork meatballs. They are so, so good, so yummy, so juicy and super easy to make. It is something that was a staple in my house, kotlety. So in Russian it's called svininy kotlety. And kotlety is something that you have in a Russian house all the time or Latvian house um and I remember my mom used to make a pot of it like I'm not talking like a giant giant pot of katlety and I absolutely love them you can eat them hot you can eat them cold you can eat them with different sort of sides like potatoes, buckwheat, rice, noodles, all sorts of things, salad and yeah I really think you're gonna enjoy this recipe guys so let's get started but before we do make sure you subscribe to my channel and I want to reach 100,000 subscribers so click the little bell it will notify you every single time I upload a new video which is every week so far by the way yeah let's get started in a food processor add onions together with garlic and then add egg and we're gonna blitz everything together if you don't have a food processor you can chop onions and garlic by hand but make sure it's nice and finely grated. I'm also adding some garlic powder, ground pepper and salt and I'm gonna blitz this until it's nice and smooth on a fast speed. As some of you know I have launched my online cooking school where you can learn how to make the most amazing cakes ever. I've got level 1, 2 and 3 for beginners to advanced and you'll be able to learn beautiful mousse cakes. You can also do this as a gift for somebody who loves cooking and baking. I think it's an awesome present and of course if you wanted to learn yourself. Each course has over 20 to 40 video lessons in there where I teach you all the skills, different cakes and unique designs. We also have a Facebook community group for all the bakers that join my course and you will have my unlimited support throughout teaching and learning. I really hope to see you in my online cooking school and if you have any more questions then leave the comments down below. Once it's all blitzed I'm gonna add my minced pork meat inside and I really like using a food processor as it gives it a really sort of whipped cutlets and they become super tender but again you don't have to use this you can use your hand and just whip this with your hand incorporating as much air as you can. Once it's all been mixed together we're going to take this out and place it into a large bowl. For now I'm also going to soak my white bread so I've just taken the white bits the middle bit from the bread and I've added some milk and I'm going to soak this for five minutes and this is really important to give your cutlets really sort of tasty and juicy and tender bite and you don't have to do this step but I really prefer it and it's quite an old-fashioned way how my granny used to make. So you want to just use your hands and kind of touch the bread and make sure it comes nice and soggy and soft. Then take your minced pork together with all the spices and egg and onions and then add together with your soaked milk bread and this is really important to make sure you get all the bits there and we're going to mix everything together you can use your spoon or you can use your hands it's completely up to you I'm gonna sort of do both and at this stage I'm adding a bit more milk just to make the mixture very very smooth and nice make sure you add a little bit of milk at a time because you don't want the mixture to be too wet meat takes up a lot of moisture and water or milk or any sort of liquid so it's really important to add a little bit at a time so you want to mix it all through and once it's mixed we're going to start shaping our meatballs or cutlet you want to take a large spoon like a tablespoon probably even two depending on what size you're going to make them and before you do that you want to make sure everything is prepped you have your plate i'm gonna use breadcrumbs to coat them and you also have a board where you're gonna place your cutlets so take a large spoon make sure your hands are nice and wet it will make it easier to shape the meatballs and then once you've created your shape you want to dip them right into your bread crumbs from around the sides edges and on top at the bottom and then just lightly press on top of it and it's done and you want to place this onto your board i like to get them all done before i fry them because your hands get dirty so if you're gonna roll some out and then fry and then you have to wash your hands several times so it just makes it a tad easier when you have got it all on your board lined up just like that the next step is to add some oil into your pan you can use sunflower oil or vegetable oil i also like to add a little bit of butter about a tablespoon just to give it super golden brown color and then I'm gonna add all my cutlets don't try and overfill them but just enough you can move them with your hand if you want to you know create more space for them and I'm cooking on quite low heat at the beginning because we really want that crunchy side and after about five to eight minutes you want to turn them around and you can see how golden and beautiful they've become the meatballs will shrink a little bit but not too much which i really like and your house is going to smell amazing i can't even describe how good they are and once they're done you can just serve them straight away on a plate you can keep them in a fridge or even freeze these they freeze really well after a few months and they're so juicy guys so delicious you can have them with anything you want salad potatoes rice buckwheat i'm just going show you how juicy and soft they are inside look at that oh my gosh i'm so hungry now yeah guys i hope you tried this recipe i can't wait to see your meatballs make sure you tag me at alice yummy food and enjoy loads of my other videos