Traditional mince recipes always include onions among other ingredients, but they are not always needed, and there is a good reason to avoid them.
Almost every housewife has her own recipe for making cutlets. Some add milk and eggs to the mince, others vegetables and lard, ice cubes and mineral water.
However, one ingredient is always present in all recipes. And it is onions.
What are the benefits of onions for minced meat
Onions are usually added to minced meat to bind all the ingredients together and also to add juiciness to the meat.
Raw onions are usually added to the cutlet mixture before cooking at home or at the last moment after the order has been placed at a restaurant.
What happens if you don't add onions?
You don't have to add onions to the minced meat so that they don't overpower the taste of the meat, which should dominate it.
If there is no onion in the cutlets, it is customary to serve it separately as a gravy.
When onions are not added to minced meat
This ingredient should not be added to the mince if you plan to store it in the refrigerator for some time.
The point is that when stored, onions make the minced meat sour and tasteless.
