How to cook meatballs: recipes. Simple meatballs
Meatballs in sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
Minced meat -500 gr.
Rice (boil) -1 cup.
Onions - 2 pcs (fry in advance),
Garlic (chopped)
Egg,
Salt pepper.
Flour - 3 tablespoons (for breading).
Preparation:
Add rice, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, egg to the minced meat, mix well.
Form meatballs, bread them in flour, place in a greased pan and place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Then pour in the sauce and cook for another 15 minutes.
For the sauce, fry carrots + 1 table. a spoonful of sour cream (diluted in 0.5 cups of water) + salt, pepper, herbs, a little garlic. Boil.
Simple and amazingly delicious meatballs
Ingredients:
300 gr. minced meat
5 medium raw potatoes
1 large raw carrot
1 egg
1 small onion salt
pepper to taste
Preparation:
Grate potatoes and carrots on a coarse grater, add minced meat, egg, salt, pepper and onion, make meatballs, roll in flour and fry. Place in a saucepan, pour in gravy (who makes which one) and simmer for 15 minutes. The meatballs come out very tasty, and the inside is also colorful.
My gravy recipe:
Sour cream + water + a little mustard + half a spoon of tomato sauce + basil + salt + pepper + mushrooms = AMAZING!
Meatballs in tomato-mushroom sauce
Ingredients:
Minced meat-400 gr.
Onion - 2 pcs.
Garlic-2 cloves.
Bun_2 pieces (soak in cold milk).
Protein - 1 piece (raw).
Flour - 2 tablespoons (for breading).
Preparation:
Prepare minced meat + egg white (beat) + spices, form meatballs, bread in flour. Place in grease. form, put in warm-up. oven for 15 minutes at 200*.
Sauce:
50 g sushi. mushrooms (soak)
1 onion,
1 tsp volume. pastes,
0.5 cups mushroom broth,
2 tbsp. cream.
Fry mushrooms with onion + tomato. pasta, fry a little + broth with cream + spices.
Pour the sauce over the meatballs.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Meatballs with buckwheat and vegetables in sour cream and tomato sauce
Ingredients:
Minced chicken - 200 gr.
Minced pork - 200 gr.
Boiled buckwheat-100 gr
Carrots - 1 pc.
Onions - 2 pcs.
Garlic.
Salt pepper.
Yolk
Preparation:
Mix minced meat + buckwheat + fried. vegetables (carrots and onions) + raw yolk + change. garlic + spices. Mix well, form. balls, roll in flour, lightly fry. Then pour in the sauce, cover and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
For the sauce, mix 1 tsp. tomato. pasta + 2 tablespoons of sour cream + 1 glass of water (broth), spices.
When serving, sprinkle with herbs.
Garnish with fresh vegetables.
Chicken balls in cream cheese sauce
Very delicate balls, I think everyone will like them, both adults and children.
Ingredients:
500 gr. chicken fillet
1 onion
1 egg
3 cloves garlic
200 ml cream
150 gr. hard cheese.
Preparation:
Pass the chicken fillet through a meat grinder (ready minced chicken will also work), add onion and egg.
Mix everything and form balls (they will stick to your hands, wet your hands with water) and place in a heat-resistant bowl.
Place our balls in the oven at 200-250 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Mix the cream with garlic (pass the garlic through a press).
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. We take out our balls, fill them with cream and sprinkle them with cheese, and set them for another 15 minutes. The cheese will brown, our dish is ready.
Juicy meatballs
Ingredients:
1 kg of meat,
1 large onion,
1 large carrot
1 glass of rice,
2 eggs.
Preparation:
Pass the meat through a meat grinder, saute the onions and carrots and also through a meat grinder, boil the rice and add to the minced meat, beat in the eggs, add salt and pepper, mix well and leave the minced meat for 30 minutes. We form the meatballs and place them on a baking sheet, pour in the sauce and bake until done.
SAUCE:
1 can of tomato sauce,
1 glass of boiled water and
1 glass of sour cream.
Chicken meatballs in creamy sauce
Preparation:
We make regular meatballs from minced chicken, rice, and onions. Fry them on both sides, with onions and carrots, pour boiling water over them and add melted cheese. Then you can bake in the oven or simmer on the stove, covered. Stir the sauce several times to dissolve the cheese. That's it - you get a thick, creamy sauce - a minimum of time and money.
Unusually delicious meatballs
Ground meat
- 1 glass of rice
-2 chicken breasts (with skin for juiciness)
- 2 large onions
- 2 eggs
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2-3 tablespoons flour
- Pepper (I have assorted), salt to taste
Sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 teaspoons mustard
- 4 tablespoons boiled water
- 100-150 gr. hard cheese
- greens for decoration
Preparation:
Boil the rice until cooked, do not rinse, let it cool. Fry the onion and garlic in a small amount of sunflower oil until golden brown. Grind the meat and onions on a medium attachment, mix with rice, add eggs, flour, salt and pepper. We make a cutlet shape or round (at your discretion) and fry on both sides until half cooked, transfer to a baking sheet (two-layer ones are possible).
For the sauce, mix all the ingredients and pour it over our meatballs, sprinkling grated cheese on top, put in the oven for 15-20 minutes on medium heat!
Before serving, shake the greens.
Meatballs baked in the oven
Meatballs:
ground meat,
garlic,
salt,
pepper.
Preparation:
Mix the minced meat, beat it, form balls the size of a medium egg. Throw the balls into boiling, salted water and cook for 5-7 minutes, I got three batches. Don't pour out the broth, we'll need it later. Place the meatballs on a plate.
Next we make the sauce for the meatballs:
fry onions, carrots, not very finely chopped mushrooms, one jar of already chopped tomatoes, salt, pepper, add bay leaf, simmer everything well.
We put our meatballs in the form, pour in the prepared sauce diluted with broth. Sprinkle with chopped herbs and place in the oven at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs - we often forget about such a simple and tasty food. But there is both meat and vegetables here. Yes, and they are prepared differently. Some cook in a frying pan, some in the oven, some cook in a slow cooker. Yes, we are talking about meatballs, such delicious meat balls with additives. Let's figure out how they can be prepared simply, quickly and tasty.
Meatballs - step-by-step recipes with photos
Meatballs differ from cutlets not only in size: firstly, if meatballs are breaded, it is only in flour, and never in breadcrumbs; and secondly, the minced meat for them - meat or fish - must be supplemented with additional ingredients - cereals or vegetables.
Meatball menu:
Delicious meatballs with gravy
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 400 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1-2 teeth.
- Cottage cheese - 100 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Dry white bread - 1-2 slices
- Ready mustard - 1 tsp
- Any greens - to taste
- Salt, pepper, seasonings - to taste
- Flour for breading
For the sauce:
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Bell pepper - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Ketchup - 1 tbsp.
- Starch - 0.5-1 tbsp.
- Cold water - 1/4 cup
- Water - 1-1.5 tbsp.
- Salt, sugar - to taste
Preparation:
1. Place the bread in a cup and pour water over it until it soaks; this won’t take long.
2. Place the minced meat in a deep, large cup, remove the bread from the cup of water, squeeze it out and place it with the minced meat. Grind the onion in a blender or just with a knife and add to the minced meat and bread.
3. Grind the cottage cheese in a blender so that it is more plastic and not in pieces, again this can be done with a spoon, it will just take a little longer. We also add cottage cheese to the minced meat.
4. Finely chop the garlic, if you like, take 2 cloves, if not, then one. Break the egg into the minced meat and add the garlic there too. Chop the onion and add to the minced meat. Also add a teaspoon of mustard there.
5. Mix everything thoroughly, it is possible, and even better, directly with your hands. Salt, pepper, add any spices, herbs, to taste. I had a set of Italian herbs.
6. Finely chop the greens, I had parsley and dill and add to the minced meat.
7. And again mix everything thoroughly. The minced meat is ready.
We begin to form meatballs
To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, wet your hands in water.
8. Make a ball, roll it in flour
9. and put it on a plate. And so all the stuffing.
10. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan so that it covers the bottom and place on the fire.
11. The oil is hot, put the meatballs in the pan. Fry until golden brown.
12. Turn over and also fry on the second side. There is no need to fry it too much. We will still be stewing them, so they won’t be raw.
While the meatballs are frying, prepare the sauce.
But don’t forget to keep an eye on the pan so that nothing burns.
13. Finely chop the onion. You can take a small onion here. Grate the carrots on a fine grater.
14. Take a deep frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil and heat it up. Add onion to the frying pan.
15. We also send grated carrots there. Mix everything. Let it fry for a few minutes.
16. Finely chop a not very large bell pepper and add to the onions and carrots. Mix everything again.
17. Also finely chop small tomatoes and add them to the vegetables.
18. Add a tablespoon of ketchup, to taste, a little more if possible. Simmer for 3 minutes, add salt and sugar.
19. Take an incomplete tablespoon of starch. We dilute it in 1/4 cup of cold water. Stir until there are no lumps. Pour the diluted starch into the sauce for the vegetables.
20. After a while the sauce has thickened, add a glass of water; if your sauce is still too thick, add a little more water little by little, pouring and stirring. Cover the pan with a lid and let the vegetables simmer for another 5-7 minutes over low heat.
21. After 5-7 minutes, add the fried meatballs to the boiling sauce. The sauce should cover the meatballs. Simmer until done for another 25-30 minutes over low heat.
The meatballs are ready.
Place on plates and garnish with herbs.
The meatballs turned out to be tasty and tender, thanks to the cottage cheese.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs baked in the oven
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 500-700 g.
- Onions - 4 medium heads
- Rice - 1 glass
- Carrots - 2 medium
- Tomato paste - 70 g.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Pepper, salt to taste
Preparation:
1. Place the rice in a saucepan, add about 2-2.5 cups of water and cook until half cooked, about 15 minutes after boiling.
2. While the rice is cooking, prepare everything else. Finely chop 2 onions, the rest for the sauce.
3. Add the onion to the minced meat, salt and pepper, break the egg. Mix everything.
4. Remove the rice from the stove, if necessary, drain the remaining water through a sieve, rinse and add to the minced meat.
5. Turn on the oven at 180°.
6. Prepare everything for the sauce. Cut the remaining 2 onions in half and cut into thin slices.
7. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
8. Grate the garlic on a fine grater.
9. Pour some oil into the frying pan and heat it up.
10. Place the onion in the pan and fry until golden.
11. Place carrots in the fried onions. Let it fry for 2-3 minutes. Add a little water so that it covers the vegetables and let simmer for 5 minutes.
12. Add tomato paste, garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
13. Grease a deep baking sheet with vegetable oil, form the minced meat into balls and place on the baking sheet. If the minced meat sticks to your hands, dip your hands in water.
14. Lay out a full baking sheet and pour the meatballs with our ready-made sauce. Place in the oven for 35-40 minutes.
15. Remove from the oven. The meatballs are ready. Can be served with any side dish.
We put the meatballs on a plate with a side dish of mashed potatoes. Decorated with greenery.
Bon appetit!
Special meatballs recipe
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 300 g.
- Onion - 1 head
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 30 g.
- Semolina - 2 tbsp.
- Dry herbs - 0.5 tsp. (We have an Italian set)
- Cream 10% -20% (preferably 20%) - 500 ml.
- Allspice - 3-5 peas
- Bay leaf - 2 leaves
- Turmeric - a pinch
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Olive oil (or any odorless vegetable oil) - 1-2 tbsp.
- Salt pepper
Preparation:
To prepare these meatballs, add a pinch of turmeric to the creamy sauce and serve with green paste. Spinach is added to the paste for color.
1. Let's start by preparing the sauce. Heat the cream almost to a boil and add spices, bay leaves, peppercorns and turmeric. Stir, cover and leave to brew.
2. Grind the chicken fillet and onion in a meat grinder, add egg, cheese, spices, add a little salt and pepper.
3. As a result, we got a rather soft mass.
4. Add semolina to it. If you don't have semolina, you can use breadcrumbs.
5. Mix everything and start making meatballs. We wet our hands with water, since the minced meat is sticky, and form balls. We make small balls to add beauty to the intended dish.
6. This amount of minced meat yielded two large plates of small meatballs.
7. For aroma and taste, add a couple of cloves of garlic to the olive oil heated in a frying pan. Without cutting it, just crush it with the flat of a knife and fry it lightly until the color changes slightly. There is no need to fry it too much, otherwise the dish may become bitter. Remove the pan from the heat briefly to allow the oil to cool slightly.
8. Strain the previously prepared cream into the frying pan.
9. Add a little salt, bring to a boil and place the meatballs in the hot cream.
10. Mix very carefully so that the meatballs are covered with cream and simmer until tender, uncovered for about 20 minutes, stirring constantly.
11. At the same time, let the pasta cook. We want the pasta and meatballs to be ready at the same time.
12. The sauce has thickened and the meatballs are ready. you can try them to check if they are ready. Remove the finished dish from the heat. The pasta is already cooked too.
13. Place the pasta in a ring on a serving plate.
14. Place the meatballs inside the ring.
Well, have you seen such beauty? And it’s delicious, you’ll lick your fingers.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs in the oven with gravy step by step recipe with photos
These meatballs will be semi-dietary. Turkey meat, but sour cream and cream.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
1. Finely chop 2 onions and parsley.
2. Place in a deep cup.
3. Add minced meat and garlic.
4. Add previously soaked and drained bread, salt and pepper to taste.
5. Mix everything thoroughly with your hands and beat off the minced meat. (Beat - this means we mold the well-mixed minced meat into a large bun and lift it 15 - 20 cm from the table and throw it into a cup. Do this several times. In order for the minced meat to become “lush”, it takes in air.)
6. Form meatballs, dipping your hands in water each time so that the minced meat does not stick to your hands.
7. Place the meatballs in a deep, heat-resistant bowl.
8. In a separate bowl, mix sour cream, cream, dill, salt and ground pepper.
9. Pour this sauce over the meatballs.
10. Cover the dish with foil.
11. Place in an oven preheated to 180° for about 40 minutes.
The dish is ready.
Look how much sauce is in the dish.
Serve with any side dish and herbs.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs with rice
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 400-500 g.
- Rice boiled until half cooked - 400-500 g (dry - about 1 cup)
- Onion - 1-2 heads
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Flour - 2 - 3 tbsp.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Greens - parsley, dill.
- Tomato paste - 50-70 g.
- Salt, pepper to taste
- Vegetable oil for frying
Preparation:
1. Grind the onion and garlic with a blender or finely chop with a knife. Place minced meat, rice (1 to 1) and onion with garlic in a deep bowl.
2. Beat in the egg, salt and pepper.
3. Mix everything until smooth.
4. Grease a deep mold or baking sheet with vegetable oil and begin making meatballs. We wet our hands with water before each meatball to prevent sticking. Filled the pan.
5. Let's start preparing the sauce. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Onion, you can use half a head, or a whole head if you like.
6. Dissolve flour in half a glass of cold water.
7. Fry the onion until golden brown.
8. Add carrots, mix, fry for 1-2 minutes.
9. Add tomato paste. Mix. Fry, stirring, for another 2-3 minutes.
10. Add water and bring to a boil. Add salt and pepper to taste. We also add finely chopped greens or add frozen ones. Simmer for a couple more minutes.
11. Pour in flour diluted with water. Stir constantly so that there are no lumps. Let the sauce simmer well.
12. The sauce is ready. Pour the sauce over the meatballs in the pan.
Place the meatballs in the oven, preheated to 180°, for 30-40 minutes.
Our dish is ready.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs in tomato sauce
Ingredients:
- Minced pork and beef - 500 g.
- Semi-cooked boiled rice - 1.5 cups
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Tomato paste - 1 tbsp. with a slide,
- Sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Salt, pepper, herbs, bay leaf, paprika - to taste,
- Flour, vegetable oil - for frying.
Preparation:
First we cook the vegetables.
1. Finely chop the onion.
2. Chop the garlic.
3. Grate the carrots on a fine grater.
4. Add rice, onion and garlic, egg, salt and pepper to a deep bowl with minced meat.
5. Mix everything until smooth.
6. Roll the minced meat into a bun (ball), roll it in flour, and so on throughout the minced meat. Place the balls on a cutting board.
7. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and place the meatballs on it.
8. Fry them over high heat until golden brown and turn them over.
9. Our meatballs are ready. Now we will prepare the sauce for them.
10. Place the onion in a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil.
11. Next, lay out the carrots.
12. Mix everything and fry a little, 3-4 minutes.
13. Add tomato paste here. Mix well and let simmer for a couple of minutes.
14. Dilute the sauce with water.
15. Add bay leaf, ground black pepper, salt, paprika.
16. Add greens. Can be fresh or frozen. We have dill.
17. Add sugar, mix everything and leave to simmer for 5 minutes.
18. The sauce is ready, pour it over the meatballs. Close the lid and leave to simmer over low heat for 30-40 minutes.
OK it's all over Now. Our dish is completely ready.
You can serve it with or without a side dish.
Bon appetit!
Video - Meatballs baked in the oven in sour cream sauce
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Meatballs are small balls of minced meat (usually meat), to which bread or rice, as well as onions and spices are added. There are a large number of meatball recipes, and in many countries they, under various names, are considered a national dish.
Basically, meatballs are served with a sauce in which they are cooked. Potatoes, cereals, and pasta are great as a side dish for meatballs. When serving, the side dish is usually poured with the sauce in which the meatballs were stewed, for greater aroma and rich taste.
Meatballs can be made from chicken, turkey, beef, pork, and fish. First, the meatballs are fried over high heat until a crust forms, then they are stewed in the prepared sauce in the oven, saucepan or frying pan. The most popular sauces for meatballs, whether made from meat or fish, are sour cream and tomato.
Chicken meatballs are very easy to prepare and turn out tender and juicy. In addition, they are considered light and low-calorie. Therefore, it is better to choose a side dish for meatballs that is also as healthy as possible.
Vegetables and herbs go very well with chicken meatballs. Firstly, such a dish for lunch or dinner is ideal for supporters of proper nutrition. Secondly, vegetables highlight the bright taste of meatballs well. Such a side dish could be stewed cabbage or green beans; they have very few calories, but a huge amount of nutrients. You can stew cabbage or beans immediately along with the meatballs; during cooking they will perfectly absorb the taste of the sauce.
Another healthy side dish option would be wheat porridge. Chicken meatballs in creamy or sour cream sauce go well with boiled or fried potatoes, as well as mashed potatoes, but such a dish will already be quite high in calories.
Beef meatballs are not as low-calorie and dietary as chicken meatballs, but they are still very healthy. And if you do not add rice and carrots to them, then the calorie content of such meatballs will decrease.
Beef meatballs go well with both a familiar side dish (boiled rice or mashed potatoes) and a rather unusual one - couscous. Couscous goes well with beef dishes; the finished porridge can be poured with sauce and meatballs placed on top. But you can serve the side dish separately from the main dish. Rice as a side dish can be varied by adding canned corn or peas.
Pork meatballs turn out very tasty without rice. Most often they are cooked in sour cream or tomato sauce; this dish turns out to be especially soft and tender. Pork meatballs are an ideal side dish that will absorb the sauce well. This could be mashed potatoes, rice, buckwheat or wheat porridge. It is better to cook the rice fluffy, so it will better take on the flavor of the sauce.
In addition, any crumbly porridge will go well with pork meatballs. You can prepare country-style potatoes as a side dish. To do this, peeled potatoes need to be cut into pieces and boiled. Fry the finished potatoes in a frying pan with butter. The potatoes develop a golden brown crust that perfectly complements the juicy, soft meatballs.
Fish meatballs are a simple and quick dish that includes various sauces and additives. Cook these
Meatballs can be made from different types of fish, for example, you can use pollock or pink salmon.Fish meatballs stewed in sour cream can be served with boiled potatoes. The potatoes need to be poured with the sauce remaining after stewing the meatballs. You can sprinkle the meatballs and potatoes with herbs on top.
Using a slow cooker or steamer for cooking, you can cook both the meatballs and the side dish at the same time. You can place rice or pasta in the bowl, and the meatballs on a special grill for steaming. Two dishes will be ready within 30 minutes, which greatly saves time spent in the kitchen.
Meatballs that are about to be stewed often have grains added to them. Thanks to them, the meat does not turn out dry, and the meat balls do not fall apart during the cooking process. Rice is usually used, but it is quite possible to replace it with wheat or semolina, couscous, or bulgur.
The worst side dish for meatballs is cereal, which is already added to the composition of these meat balls. You should not serve rice or wheat porridge as a side dish if these grains have already been used to prepare the main dish. The same grain both in the main dish and in the side dish will create a feeling of monotony, the taste of the dish will not be so bright and rich.
Meatballs are appreciated by many due to the variety of recipes, large selection of sauces and simple cooking methods. Thanks to their juiciness and softness, this dish is prepared both by supporters of diets and proper nutrition, and by mothers for small children. You should choose a side dish for the meatballs, first of all, based on your personal taste preferences. But meatballs can also be an independent dish without a side dish if rice or other grains are added to them. The choice of side dish and its necessity is a matter of taste.
There are a huge number of options for preparing meatballs - and this is not surprising, the dish is very tasty, healthy and nutritious. Both children and adults will enjoy eating it, so it is also universal for any kitchen.
How to cook meatballs
The recipe for meatballs in tomato sauce is considered quite unusual. There are two options for preparing such meatballs - you can stew on the stove, or you can bake in the oven.
To stew on the stove, you should first fry them in sunflower or olive oil. Before this, bread the meatballs in flour, fry in oil and place in a thick-bottomed saucepan or saucepan. If there are a lot of meatballs, stack them in several rows. They need to be cooked in sauce over low heat for 30 - 50 minutes.
Let's look at the recipe with a photo of meatballs in the oven. For the second option - baking in the oven - you should grease a deep baking dish with oil. Form meatballs from the minced meat with your hands dipped in water and place them in a baking dish (as close to each other as possible). Now put them in the oven, the temperature of which will be 200 degrees, reduce it to 180 degrees and bake for half an hour.
During this time, your meatballs should brown a little, now it’s time to pour tomato sauce over them and place them in the oven for another half an hour. You need to add cooked rice or half cooked rice to the minced meat; if your dish contains rice and carrots, they need to be sautéed a little. Although, you can add raw vegetable ingredients.
Significantly improves the taste of the dish finely chopped greens, which should also be added to the minced meat itself.
For variety, you can add bell peppers or mushrooms to the minced meat, but they also need to be fried a little beforehand. You can also add an egg or chopped Parmesan to the middle of each meatball.
Classic recipe for mixed minced meatballs step by step with photos
For this recipe you will need half a kilogram of minced meat ( pork mixed with beef), 400 grams of boiled rice or 150 grams of rice cereal, onion, carrot, 50 grams of butter, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil, an egg and salt with pepper and spices.
Let's start cooking
If you use uncooked rice - Boil it completely or until half. Rinse it in water several times (it is recommended to rinse the rice up to 8 times), until the water becomes clear. Dilute the washed rice with water, one to two, add salt, add water and bring to a boil.
Then turn the heat to low, cover the pan with a lid and cook 10 minutes. Now add butter to it. cover with a lid, cover with a towel and let leave for 15 minutes. While the rice is steeping, peel the carrots and grate them on a medium grater.
Peel the carrots and grate them on a medium grater. Prepare the onion - peel it and chop it finely. Saute onions and carrots in oil until they form a light golden crust. Now you need to wait for the rice and vegetables to cool.
When all the ingredients are at room temperature, mix the rice with the minced meat, add the egg, salt and pepper, add the onion and carrots and mix thoroughly again. The minced meat should become homogeneous. Now form it into meatballs.
As always, it is better to work with minced meat with your hands moistened with water. Place the meatballs on the prepared baking dish, placing them as close together as possible. Place the pan in the oven (200 degrees), lower the temperature a little and cook the meatballs at a temperature of 180 degrees within half an hour.
When the meatballs have a light golden brown color, it’s time to remove them from the oven; if you leave them in it too long, the taste will deteriorate.
What to serve meatballs with
You can serve the meatballs with any porridge (except rice, of course) or potatoes and sauce of your choice. While your dish is baking, you have half an hour to prepare a delicious and unusual sauce to make the dish irresistible. For example, pink garlic onion sauce.
To prepare it you will need: a small onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, 200 grams of sour cream, the same amount of tomato juice, salt and pepper. First, chop the garlic, fry it a little, then peel and chop the onion and add to the garlic. When the onion turns golden, pour sour cream into the pan, let it steam for a couple of minutes and pour in tomato juice. Simmer all ingredients over low heat for 8-10 minutes.
Meatballs are a very nutritious and healthy dish, and the unusual sauce added to them will not leave even the most picky gourmet indifferent.
Homemade meatballs are a wonderful hot meat dish that goes perfectly with any side dish, from boiled rice to steamed vegetables. Most housewives have cooked meatballs with gravy at least once in their lives, and each already has her own favorite recipe for this dish. We offer you 3 easy-to-prepare, but no less delicious meatball recipes that are perfect for a family Saturday lunch.
Meatballs with rice and gravy
Meatballs with rice are an excellent dish for a hearty family dinner. They are prepared simply, quickly and are liked by everyone - young and old. Even the most demanding children when it comes to meat dishes are ready to eat these meatballs with gravy every day. The gravy will also come in handy if you serve this dish with a side dish. The main difference between hedgehogs with rice and meat and meatballs is that for meatballs with gravy, you must first boil the rice.
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Ingredients
- Minced pork or mixed – 300 g;
- Raw rice – 100 g;
- Chicken egg – 1 piece;
- Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp;
- Tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
- Onion – 1 piece;
- Sour cream – 80 gr;
- Carrots – 1 piece;
- Sugar – 0.5 tsp;
- Wheat flour – 1 tbsp;
How to make delicious meatballs with rice and gravy
So, first of all we need to boil the rice. To do this, fill it in a saucepan with clean water in a ratio of 1:2, add salt and place on medium heat. Once the water boils, reduce the heat to low and simmer until the rice is tender, about 15-18 minutes.
Meanwhile, start preparing the gravy. In a frying pan, heat half the amount of vegetable oil according to the recipe and fry 0.5 diced onions until transparent. Cut the carrots into thin slices or chop on a coarse grater, add to the onion and fry together until the carrots are soft.
Then add tomato paste and wheat flour, mix very well so that the flour does not form lumps, and fry with the vegetables for 2 minutes.
Pour 100 ml of hot water into the pan and add sour cream, stir. Simmer the contents for 5 minutes. Finally, add sugar, salt and black pepper to taste.
Due to the addition of flour, the gravy will not have a liquid, viscous consistency, and sour cream and tomato paste will give it a pleasant orange color.
Meanwhile, the rice for the meatballs is cooked. Rinse it under cold running water and drain in a colander before adding it to the minced meat, allowing all excess water to drain.
It is better to use minced pork for this dish; it is quite fatty, but rice will balance it out. But if you are a supporter of dietary nutrition, use minced veal or even chicken fillet.
Mix the minced meat, finely chopped remaining half of the onion, egg in a deep bowl, and season to your taste with salt and ground black pepper.
Add washed, cooled rice and stir. The mass turns out to be pliable, you can easily form round-shaped meatballs from it.
Fry the formed meatballs in the remaining vegetable oil on one side until golden brown, turn over with a spatula.
Fry the other side in the same way until browned.
Transfer the fried meatballs to a thick-bottomed saucepan or wide, deep frying pan with a lid.
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Pour in the pre-prepared gravy, place the pan over low heat, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes with the lid closed.
During this time, the gravy will be slightly absorbed into the meatballs, and they will become juicy and incredibly soft.
Serve the meatballs with gravy and rice hot in portions with a side dish or as a separate, independent dish. Thanks to the gravy, meatballs do not need additional sauce or sour cream. Bon appetit!
Chicken meatballs with sour cream sauce in a frying pan
The combination of tender chicken meat with aromatic creamy notes of sauce has long been familiar to everyone. The chicken and sour cream-based meatball sauce are very harmoniously combined in taste and look as if you spent more than one hour preparing this dish, although this is not the case at all. Chicken meatballs in sour cream sauce are so easy to prepare that even the least experienced cook can handle them.
Ingredients:
- Minced chicken – 500 g;
- Onion – 1 piece;
- Rice – 100 g;
- Sour cream – 200 ml;
- Garlic – 1 clove;
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- Boil the rice until half cooked, cool it. It is best to use long-grain rice; it will not stick together during the process of forming the meatballs.
- Use ready-made chilled minced meat or roll it yourself. The breast is considered the healthiest and leanest part of the chicken, so it is best to use it for minced meat.
- Chop the onion very finely or mince it with the chicken. Add rice to the bowl with meat.
- Salt and pepper the minced meat and mix it thoroughly.
- To make meatballs from minced chicken, you do not need to add an egg to it, since it is already quite elastic. Wet your hands with cold water to prevent the raw mince from sticking to them and make a batch of small meatballs. Place them in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes to cool.
- Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan. Place chicken meatballs in it. Try to put them in one row. Turn the meatballs over as they brown in the pan.
- As soon as the meatballs are fried, add a little hot water to the pan, then immediately add all the sour cream and mix well. Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. There is another option for preparing gravy. Once the meatballs are fried, transfer them to a small saucepan.
- In a separate frying pan, fry the onions and grated carrots, and only then add sour cream, garlic and hot water. After preparing the gravy separately, pour it into the pan with the meatballs and simmer under the lid closed for the same 15 minutes.
- Add a clove of garlic, a little salt and black pepper to the chicken meatballs with gravy. Stir again and remove from heat. After 5 minutes spent under a closed lid, the meatballs with sour cream sauce will be ready. Serve them with mashed potatoes or boiled rice, garnished with fresh herbs on top. Bon appetit!
Cooking tips:
- If the gravy seems too thin, stir 1 tsp in a separate glass. potato starch and 3 tsp. water. Stir gently and slowly so that the starch does not form lumps. Then pour the resulting liquid into the hot gravy. You will notice how it will immediately begin to thicken. The same effect can be achieved by adding a few tablespoons of wheat flour to the gravy and mixing thoroughly.
- To make chicken meatballs more tender, simply omit the rice from the recipe. The meatballs will still hold their shape well, but will be more uniform in texture.
Meatballs with tomato paste sauce in the oven (without rice)
When there is very little time to prepare dinner, oven dishes become a real salvation. Send the necessary prepared ingredients to the oven and you can calmly go about your business, only occasionally looking at what is happening behind the door. Such simple dishes include homemade meatballs with gravy. The undoubted advantage of this dish is that simple and understandable products are used for its preparation, and the result will not disappoint with its taste.
Ingredients:
- Homemade minced meat (pork + beef) – 500 g;
- Egg – 1 piece;
- Onion – 1 piece;
- Carrots – 1 piece;
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs;
- Tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp;
- Wheat flour – 3 tbsp;
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- To save time, use ready-made minced meat or roll it up in advance and freeze it for future use. Fragrant and tasty meatballs are obtained from minced meat prepared from beef and pork in equal proportions.
- Salt and pepper the minced meat, stir in a raw egg. With wet hands, form small meatballs and place them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. The smaller the size of the meatballs, the faster they will brown in the oven, and subsequently the better they will be soaked in the sauce. If you make large meatballs, the upper part will have an appetizing crust, and the lower part will be incredibly juicy from the gravy. The main thing is that they are all approximately the same size.
- At this time, start preparing the gravy. Fry finely chopped onion and grated carrots in hot vegetable oil until soft. Add tomatoes cut into small cubes there. Mix tomato paste with a glass of boiling water.
- Add flour to the pan and immediately add water and tomato paste. Mix thoroughly so that no lumps form from the flour and leave to simmer under a closed lid over low heat for about 5 minutes.
- Place the chilled meatballs in a single row in a greased baking dish and place them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Usually this time is enough for the meatballs to brown.
- Then pour the gravy into the mold and put it in the oven again, this time for 25-30 minutes.
- Before serving, sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs. As you can see, the meatballs with gravy prepared without rice hold their shape perfectly, do not fall apart and have a uniform texture. Boiled pasta, buckwheat or mashed potatoes can serve as a side dish for such a hot dish. Bon appetit!
Cooking tips:
- If you are a fan of spicy food, then while frying vegetables in a frying pan, add a small pod of seeded chili pepper to them, or season the gravy with ground red pepper.
- A more delicate taste of the sauce can be achieved if you add a few tablespoons of sour cream to it when stewing.
- Meatballs will acquire an interesting and original taste if you add finely chopped and fried vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes and bell peppers, to the raw minced meat.
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