The classic Montenegrin splash is a large flat cutlet fried on a grill or pan. This is a traditional dish of Montenegro and the entire Balkan Peninsula. It is easy to prepare, you can make it yourself by studying the recipe and choosing the ingredients.
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Ingredients for Montenegrin cutlets
The basis of the splash is minced meat. It can be pork, beef or lamb. For the last two options, you need to add a little fat to make the dish hearty and not dry. Minced meat is made in a meat grinder, grinding the components several times. In Serbian national cuisine, meat is finely chopped.
Ingredients for Montenegrin splash :
- minced beef and pork, 300 gr.;
- onions – 1 pc.;
- two cloves of garlic;
- salt to taste;
- spices – ginger, coriander, ground black pepper, a mixture of herbs;
- cheese, hard grade – 50 gr.;
- olive and sunflower oil.
To prepare minced meat, you need a medium-sized saucepan. You can fry meat cakes on the grill or in a frying pan. when cooking on an open fire, wood from fruit trees is used.
Montenegrin dish recipe
For this national dish of Montenegro, you need to take mineral water. It will give the minced meat a special taste, make it softer. You need to grind the meat in a meat grinder twice. Then the cutlet will turn out homogeneous, there will be no seals inside. For the Montenegrin splash , you need to prepare the sauce. It is made separately from the main dish.
Cooking order:
- mix two types of minced meat in a saucepan, mix, add an egg.
- Sprinkle black pepper and salt.
- The onion is peeled and finely chopped.
- Stir minced meat for 10-15 minutes.
- Wet hands with water and form thin patties.
- Montenegrin splash is cooked only in olive oil.
It is fried in a pan or grill. Roasting time – 8-10 minutes, depending on the intensity of heating. On top you can pour greens – parsley, onion. The dish is served hot, on a separate small plate.
Splash in Serbian
Serbian pleskavica is distinguished by the addition of hard cheese. When the minced meat with spices is ready, grated cheese is added to it. This will give the patty a mild flavor. If the cheese is salty, the amount of salt should be reduced. Frying in vegetable oil, cooking time – 8 minutes.
Serbian cuisine secrets:
- The surface of the cutlets is smeared with olive oil.
- You can serve the dish along with cheese slices.
- You need to fry cutlets in a hot pan; in Montenegro, cast-iron models are used.
- Deep frying. So the cheese is completely dissolved, there will be no lumps.
Meat cakes are served with local sauce, fried potatoes or boiled rice. This dish is combined with vegetables – tomatoes, origami, radishes. You can make a salad without adding meat.
Sauce
For the sauce for the Montenegrin splash , you need bell pepper, feta cheese , onions, olive oil. You can use spices to taste – basil, paprika, a set of herbs. Bulgarian pepper is cut into two halves, the stalk and seeds are removed. Pilgrims are placed on a baking sheet or pan, the surface is rubbed with olive oil. Peppers are baked in the oven at a temperature of 160 ° for 10-15 minutes.
The pulp is mixed with the rest of the ingredients in a blender. The finished mixture is poured with oil. This sauce can be poured over meat patties or put in a separate gravy bowl.