Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets)

Brazilian

Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets)

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Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Pound the beef into thin cutlets and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Dust each cutlet in flour, dip in beaten egg, then coat in breadcrumbs.

  3. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat and fry the cutlets 3 minutes per side until golden and crisp.

  4. Drain briefly and serve hot with a squeeze of lemon, rice, and beans.

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Serve it with

A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets) carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Caldo Verde (Potato and Collard Green Soup)
Shellfish No
Eggs Yes Arroz de Forno (Baked Rice Casserole)
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
550 kcal
Protein
58 g
Carbs
28 g
Fat
23 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
1 g
Sodium
1180 mg
Saturated fat
6 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Bife a Milanesa (Breaded Beef Cutlets) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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