How to cook minced meatballs. How to cook meatballs with rice? Meatballs: recipe
Meatballs - that's about such a simple and Tasty food we often forget. But there is both meat and vegetables. And they cook them in different ways. Some are in a frying pan, some are in the oven, some are cooking in a slow cooker. Yes, we are talking about meatballs, about such delicious meat balls with additives. Let's see 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, then only in flour, and never in breadcrumbs; and secondly, minced meat for them - meat or fish - must be added additional ingredients- cereals or vegetables.
Meatball menu:
Delicious meatballs with gravy
Ingredients:
- Minced meat - 400 g
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1-2 teeth.
- Cottage cheese - 100 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Dry White bread- 1-2 slices
- Ready-made mustard - 1 tsp
- Any greens to taste
- Salt, pepper, spices - to taste
- Flour for breading
For the sauce:
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Ketchup - 1 tablespoon
- Starch - 0.5-1 tbsp.
- Cold water - 1/4 cup
- Water - 1-1.5 tbsp.
- Salt, sugar - to taste
Preparation:
1. Put bread in a cup and fill it with water so that it is soaked, this is not long.
2. Put the minced meat in a deep large cup, remove the bread from the cup with water, squeeze it and put it on the minced meat. Chop the onion in a blender or simply 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 very much, then one. Break the egg into minced meat and send the garlic there. Chop the onion, 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 herbs, I had parsley and dill and add to the minced meat.
7. And again mix everything thoroughly. 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 pan so that it covers the bottom and put it on fire.
11. The oil is warmed up, put the meatballs in the pan. Fry until golden brown.
12. Turn over and fry on the other side as well. Do not fry too much. We will still stew them, so they will not be raw.
While the meatballs are fried, prepare the sauce
But do not forget to keep an eye on the pan so that nothing burns.
13. Finely chop the onion. You can take a small onion here. Rub the carrots on a fine grater.
14. Take a deep frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil and heat it up. We send the onion to the pan.
15. We also send grated carrots there. We mix everything. We give to fry for a few minutes.
16, Finely chop not very large bell pepper and add to onions and carrots. Mix everything again.
17. We also finely chop small tomatoes and send them to vegetables.
18. Add a tablespoon of ketchup, a little more to taste. Simmer for 3 minutes, salt, add sugar.
19. Take an incomplete tablespoon of starch. We dilute it in 1/4 cup cold water... Stir until there are no lumps. Pour the diluted starch into the vegetable sauce.
20. Sauce thickened after a while, add a glass of water, if your sauce is still too thick, add slowly pouring and stirring a little more water. We close the pan with a lid and let the vegetables stew for another 5-7 minutes over low heat.
21. In the boiling sauce, after 5-7 minutes, put the fried meatballs. The sauce should cover the meatballs. Simmer until cooked for another 25-30 minutes over low heat.
The meatballs are ready.
We lay out on plates, you can decorate with herbs.
It turned out delicious, tender, thanks to cottage cheese, meatballs.
Bon Appetit!
Oven baked meatballs
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. Put the rice in a saucepan, fill it with water, about 2-2.5 cups and cook until half cooked, about 15 minutes after boiling.
2. While the rice is cooking, prepare the rest. Finely chop 2 onions, the rest for the sauce.
3. Add the onion to the minced meat, salt, pepper, break the egg. We 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 180 °.
6. Prepare everything for the sauce. Cut the remaining 2 onion heads in half and cut into thin slices.
7. Rub the carrots on a coarse grater.
8. Rub the garlic on a fine grater.
9. Pour some oil into the pan and heat it up.
10. Put the onion in a frying pan and fry until golden.
11. Put the carrots in the fried onions. We give to fry for 2-3 minutes. Add a little water so that it covers the vegetables and let it stew for 5 minutes.
12. Add tomato paste, garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
13. Grease a deep baking sheet with vegetable oil, form balls from the minced meat and place on a baking sheet. If minced meat sticks to your hands, dip your hands in water.
14. We laid out a full baking sheet and fill the meatballs with our ready-made sauce. Put in the oven for 35-40 minutes.
15. We take out from the oven. The meatballs are ready. Can be served with any side dish.
We put meatballs with a side dish on a plate - mashed potatoes... Decorated with greenery.
Bon Appetit!
Special meatballs recipe
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet- 300 g.
- Bow - 1 head
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Cheese - 30 g.
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons
- 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 tablespoons
- Salt pepper
Preparation:
To prepare such meatballs in cream sauce added a pinch of turmeric and served a green paste. For color, spinach is added to the paste.
1. Let's start by making the sauce. Heat the cream almost to a boil and throw in spices, bay leaves, peppercorns and turmeric. Stir, cover and leave to brew.
2. Scroll the chicken fillet and onion in a meat grinder, add the egg, cheese, spices, salt and pepper a little.
3. As a result, we have got a rather soft mass.
4. Add to it semolina... If there is no decoy, you can take breadcrumbs.
5. Mix everything and start sculpting meatballs. We moisten our hands with water, as the minced meat is sticky and we sculpt balls. We sculpt small balls for the beauty of the planned dish.
6. From this amount of minced meat, two large plates of small meatballs turned out.
7. For aroma and taste in a preheated pan olive oil throw in a couple of cloves of garlic. Without slicing it, but simply crushing it with the plane of a knife and fry it lightly, until a slight color change. It is not necessary to deeply fry it, otherwise the dish may taste bitter. Remove the pan from the heat for a while to cool the oil a little.
8. Strain the previously prepared cream into the pan.
9. Salt a little, bring to a boil and put meatballs in hot cream.
10. Mix very gently so that the meatballs are covered with cream and simmer until tender without closing the lid for about 20 minutes, stirring constantly.
11. At the same time, set the pasta to cook. We need the pasta and meatballs to be ready at the same time.
12. The sauce has thickened, the meatballs are ready. you can taste them by checking readiness. Remove the finished dish from heat. The pasta has already been cooked too.
13. Spread the pasta on a serving plate in a ring.
14. Put meatballs inside the ring.
Well, have you seen such beauty? 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 bowl.
3. Add minced meat, garlic.
4. Add previously soaked and squeezed bread, salt and pepper to taste.
5. Mix everything thoroughly with your hands and beat off the minced meat. (To beat off - this means we mold the well-mixed minced meat into a large kolobok and, raising it 15 - 20 cm from the table, throw it into the cup. Do this several times.
6. We form meatballs, each time dipping our hands in water so that the minced meat does not stick to our hands.
7. Place the meatballs in a deep, heat-resistant dish.
8. In a separate cup, combine sour cream, cream, dill, salt and ground pepper.
9. Fill the meatballs with this sauce.
10. Cover the dish with foil.
11. Put in an oven preheated to 180 ° for about 40 minutes.
The dish is ready.
See 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.
- Cooked rice until half cooked - 400-500 g (dry - about 1 glass)
- Onions - 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. Chop the onion and garlic with a blender or chop finely with a knife. Put the minced meat, rice (1 to 1) and onion with garlic in a deep cup.
2. Drive in an egg, salt and pepper.
3. Mix everything until smooth.
4. Grease a deep mold or baking sheet with vegetable oil and start sculpting meatballs. We moisten our hands with water before each meatball so that they do not stick. We filled the baking sheet.
5. We begin to prepare the sauce. Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Onions can use half a head, if you like, a whole head.
6. Dilute flour in half a glass of cold water.
7. Fry the onions until golden brown.
8. Add carrots, stir, fry for 1-2 minutes.
9. Add tomato paste. We mix. Fry, stirring occasionally, 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 put frozen ones. Simmer for a couple of minutes.
11. Pour in flour diluted with water. Stir constantly so that there are no lumps. Let the sauce boil well.
12. The sauce is ready. Fill the meatballs in a baking sheet with sauce.
We send the meatballs to the oven, preheated to 180 °, for 30-40 minutes.
Our dish is ready.
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Meatballs in tomato sauce
Ingredients:
- Minced pork with beef - 500 g.
- Semi-cooked boiled rice - 1.5 cups
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Carrots - 1pc.
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon 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 vegetables.
1. Finely chop the onion.
2. Chop the garlic.
3. Rub the carrots on a fine grater.
4. In a deep bowl with minced meat, add rice, onion with garlic, egg, salt, pepper.
5. Mix everything until smooth.
6. Roll a bun (ball) from the minced meat, roll it in flour and so on the whole minced meat. We put the balls on a cutting board.
7. Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil and put meatballs on it.
8. Fry them over high heat until golden brown and turn it over.
9. The meatballs are ready. Now we will prepare the sauce for them.
10. Put 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 to this. Mix well, let stew for a couple of minutes.
14. Dilute the sauce with water.
15. Add bay leaves, 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 and pour them meatballs. Close with a lid and leave to simmer over low heat for 30-40 minutes.
That's it. 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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Almost every nation in the world has minced meat dishes in the form of balls in their kitchens. That is why the preparation of meatballs is very diverse. It is believed that the recipe for how to cook meatballs was first encountered among the Turkic peoples. So the Turkic dish kyufta is popular in the east.
1. Meatballs with gravy
Delicious combination dense beef meatballs with spicy garlic-mushroom sauce.
Ingredients:
- non-greasy Ground beef- 0.5 kg
- onion - 1 pc.
- egg - 1 pc.
- water - 100 ml
- sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.
- bread crumbs - 2 tbsp. l.
- dry dill
Gravy:
- mushrooms - 200 g
- garlic - 3 cloves
- flour - 2 tablespoons
- water - 1.5 tbsp.
- frying oil
Cooking method:
Stir sour cream with breadcrumbs, water and mix with other products for meatballs. Knead the mass thoroughly, and then beat off. Blind small balls, fry them over high heat. The purpose of roasting is not to cook, but to get a crust, even if the inside remains raw. Transfer them to a mold and bake. It will take about 15 minutes at 200 C.
Cooking the gravy:
Crush the garlic, but so that it keeps its shape. Can be flattened with the side of the knife. Fry it for a few minutes, then remove, and put in oil and fry the sliced mushrooms, and a little later add chopped onion. Add the oil remaining from the frying of meatballs, add flour and brown it. Then add water, salt and boil for a few minutes until the gravy thickens. You can garnish meatballs with boiled rice, potatoes.
2. Meatballs with rice
More often such meatballs are called "hedgehogs" because of the boiled rice sticking out of the ball. Children love them very much. To make the "needles" stick out, you need to use raw rice... It is better to take not round, but long, like basmati. You can put it boiled, it will also be tasty, just the meatball will turn out smoother, without "thorns".
We need:
- minced meat - 0.5 kg
- rice - 0.5 tbsp.
- onion - 1 pc.
- ground black pepper
Fill:
- sour cream - 200 g
- tomato paste - 1 tbsp l.
How to cook:
Chop the onion. Either boil the rice until half cooked, or soak it for an hour. Mix rice, minced meat, onion, salt, pepper. Make balls (about 4-5 cm in diameter) and put in a frying pan greased with sour cream.
Mix the components for pouring, add water, maybe a glass, maybe a little more. It is necessary that the sauce covers the meatballs almost to the head. And simmer over medium heat for about thirty minutes.
3. Meatballs in tomato sauce
You can mold ordinary meatballs and cook in the usual tomato sauce with tomatoes and tomato paste... It will be delicious, but boring. And if you make an explosion of emotions and cook a dish that is rather simple, but tasty and extraordinary? Easily. It will turn out to be unusual and the minced meat itself, where cottage cheese is added, and the sauce, which has simply an indescribable taste.
Necessary:
- Minced meat - 0.4 kg
- Cottage cheese - 100 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc. large
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Bread - 2-3 slices (100-150 g)
- milk or cream - 2 tbsp. l.
- greens
- ready-made mustard - 1 tsp
- salt, spices
Sauce:
- Tomato - 2 pcs. large
- onions - 2 pcs.
- Bell pepper- 2 pcs.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- ketchup - 3 tbsp. l
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp l
- starch and sugar - 1 tbsp each l
- greens
- ground black pepper
- garlic - 2 cloves
- water or broth - 300 ml
Preparation:
Chop the onion and garlic (grated, blender). Add chopped meat and soaked in water (or milk) and pressed bread. Knead. The next step is to add the egg, cottage cheese and mustard. Cut the greens, pour in the milk and knead again. At the final stage, season with salt and pepper. You can limit yourself to this, or you can add other spices - nutmeg or Provencal herbs, For example. Roll up meatballs of your favorite size. Can be as cutlets or smaller. The main thing is to get round balls. Dip them in flour, fry and set aside for a while.
Prepare the sauce:
It is important for him to chop or grate the ingredients as small as possible. So, heat the oil. Lightly fry the onion in it, add the grated carrots, fry for a couple more minutes, add bell peppers and tomatoes and fry a little more. Then add sugar, salt, ketchup and tomato. Put out vegetable mix about three minutes.
Dissolve the starch in 50 ml of water and pour into the sauce. Stir, add water or broth (you can from a cube), chop the herbs and put chopped garlic. Cover the sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. There comes a crucial moment: meatballs are dipped into the sauce. It is necessary that they be completely covered by it. Close this almost finished dish with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with any side dish - rice, vegetables, potatoes.
4. Meatballs in sour cream sauce
The meatballs are very soft, with a delicate taste. Any meat is suitable for them. You can take ready-made minced meat or scroll through whole pieces through a meat grinder. If desired, onions can be pre-fried, this will add meat balls original taste.
We will need:
- Minced meat - 0.5 kg
- stale white bread - 150 g
- onions - 2 pcs.
- eggs - 2-3 pcs.
- salt pepper
- Sauce:
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Flour - 2 tsp.
- water or meat broth- 100 ml
Preparation:
Soak the bread in water (milk), squeeze lightly. It will be tastier in milk, but you can also in water. If you are scrolling the meat through a meat grinder, pass soaked bread and onions with it - fried or raw. Beat eggs and add to the minced meat. It is the beaten eggs that make the meatballs tender and juicy. Add salt and pepper. Knead the minced meat well and beat a little for airiness.
Roll up balls, roll in flour, fry. Their size is small, so they are fried until fully cooked. Transfer the meatballs to the cauldron.
For the sauce, combine sour cream, broth (or water), salt, and flour. Pour meatballs with this mass and cook, stewing for five minutes.
5. How to cook meatballs in the oven
Delicious meatballs with cheese. It makes the meatballs more tasty, and the tomato mass in which they are stewed - more juicy.
Ingredients:
- minced meat - 0.5 kg
- cheese - 150 g
- egg - 1 pc.
- onion - 1 pc.
- salt pepper
Sauce:
- Tomatoes - 4-5 pcs. large,
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- salt pepper
Preparation:
Chop the onion very finely, grate the cheese. Mix everything with minced meat, salt and pepper.
Remove the peel from the tomatoes, finely chop the pulp. You can do it faster - cut the tomato into halves and grate. The pulp gradually wears off, and the skin remains in the hands. Add a little salt to the tomato mass, add sugar. Here you have to try. If the tomatoes are sweeter, put a little less sugar, and vice versa. You need to rely on your taste. You can add herbs or allspice.
Pour the seasoned tomato mass into a mold and put in the oven, or simmer on the stove for 10 minutes to release the juice. Yes, such an interesting turn of events.
While the tomatoes are letting in the juice, mold the meatballs with wet hands and immerse them in the stewed tomato mass. Bake for 30 minutes until tender (200 C).
6. Meatballs in a slow cooker
Cooking meatballs in a slow cooker is a sheer pleasure. All you need is to load the products, everything else is done by herself. No need to follow the process, nothing will burn or run away. And after a certain time, all that remains is to pick up a delicious ready-made dish. Like meatballs, for example.
Compound:
- Minced meat - 0.5 kg
- egg-1
- ground pepper
- rice - 0.5 tbsp.
- onion - 1 pc.
For the sauce:
- bay leaf, salt, spices.
- water or broth - 400 ml
- flour, mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup (tomato paste) - 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
Boil rice. Chop the onion and mix with other components for meatballs. Blind balls and place in a bowl.
In a bowl, mix all the ingredients for the sauce thoroughly and pour over the meatballs. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode for 1 hour.
Cooking meatballs will turn out better and tastier if you do not take purchased minced meat, and cook it yourself from meat. It turns out to be more juicy, tk. it retains the meat juice.
To make the meatballs juicy and fluffy, soaked bread is added to the minced meat - it absorbs the meat juice, not allowing it to come out. It is better to use stale bread, because fresh gives the meatballs not very pleasant stickiness.
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Meatballs - a dish of minced meat in the form of balls. Almost every kitchen in the world has a similar dish, so the preparation of meatballs is diverse. At the same time, it is believed that the recipe for meatballs first appeared among the Turkic peoples, and it is not for nothing that the Turkic dish "kyufta" still exists in the East.
Over time, the name has changed to "meatballs", the recipe has changed over the centuries, from people to people. Today, the meatball recipe differs from the meatball recipe, first of all, by adding various cereals and vegetables to the minced meat. For example, meatballs with rice are widely known.
The most common are meatballs, such as ground beef meatballs. In addition, they make fish and chicken meatballs... As a rule, meatballs are prepared with gravy or in sauce: meatballs in sour cream sauce, meatballs in tomato sauce. Meatball sauce or meatball gravy can be spicy, sour, even sweet - it's a matter of taste.
There are a very large number of recipes for making meatballs. But we offer you six of the most common recipes for making meatballs:
1. Meatballs with gravy
A delicious combination of dense beef meatballs with spicy garlic-mushroom sauce.
Ingredients:
lean ground beef - 0.5 kg
onion - 1 pc.
egg - 1 pc.
water - 100 ml
sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.
bread crumbs - 2 tbsp. l.
dry dill
Gravy:
mushrooms - 200 g
garlic - 3 cloves
flour - 2 tablespoons
water - 1.5 tbsp.
salt
frying oil
Cooking method:
Stir sour cream with breadcrumbs, water and mix with other products for meatballs. Knead the mass thoroughly, and then beat off. Blind small balls, fry them over high heat. The purpose of roasting is not to cook, but to get a crust, even if the inside remains raw. Transfer them to a mold and bake. It will take about 15 minutes at 200 C.
Prepare the gravy. Crush the garlic, but so that it keeps its shape. Can be flattened with the side of the knife. Fry it for a few minutes, then remove, and put in oil and fry the sliced mushrooms, and a little later add chopped onion. Add the oil remaining from the frying of meatballs, add flour and brown it. Then add water, salt and boil for a few minutes until the gravy thickens. You can garnish meatballs with boiled rice, potatoes.
2. Meatballs with rice
More often such meatballs are called "hedgehogs" because of the boiled rice sticking out of the ball. Children love them very much. To make the "needles" stick out, you need to use raw rice. It is better to take not round, but long, like basmati. You can put it boiled, it will also be tasty, just the meatball will turn out smoother, without "thorns".
Ingredients:
minced meat - 0.5 kg
rice - 0.5 tbsp.
salt
onion - 1 pc.
ground black pepper
salt
sour cream - 200 g
water
tomato paste - 1 tbsp l.
Cooking method:
Chop the onion. Either boil the rice until half cooked, or soak it for an hour. Mix rice, minced meat, onion, salt, pepper. Make balls (about 4-5 cm in diameter) and put in a frying pan greased with sour cream.
Mix the components for pouring, add water, maybe a glass, maybe a little more. It is necessary that the sauce covers the meatballs almost to the head. And simmer over medium heat for about thirty minutes.
3. Meatballs in tomato sauce
You can mold regular meatballs and stew in regular tomato sauce with tomatoes and tomato paste. It will be delicious, but boring. And if you make an explosion of emotions and cook a dish that is rather simple, but tasty and extraordinary? Easily. It will turn out to be unusual and the minced meat itself, where cottage cheese is added, and the sauce, which has simply an indescribable taste.
Minced meat - 0.4 kg
Cottage cheese - 100 g
Egg - 1 pc.
Onions - 1 pc. large
Garlic - 2 cloves
Bread - 2-3 slices (100-150 g)
milk or cream - 2 tbsp. l.
greens
ready-made mustard - 1 tsp
salt, spices
Tomato - 2 pcs. large
onions - 2 pcs.
bell peppers - 2 pcs.
carrots - 1 pc.
ketchup - 3 tbsp. l
tomato paste - 2 tbsp l
starch and sugar - 1 tbsp each l
salt
greens
ground black pepper
garlic - 2 cloves
water or broth - 300 ml
Preparation:
Chop the onion and garlic (grated, blender). Add minced meat and soaked in water (or milk) and pressed bread. Knead. The next step is to add the egg, cottage cheese and mustard. Cut the greens, pour in the milk and knead again. At the final stage, season with salt and pepper. You can limit yourself to this, or you can add other spices - nutmeg or Provencal herbs, for example. Roll up meatballs of your favorite size. Can be as cutlets or smaller. The main thing is to get round balls. Dip them in flour, fry and set aside for a while.
Prepare the sauce. It is important for him to chop or grate the ingredients as small as possible. So, heat the oil. Lightly fry the onion in it, add the grated carrots, fry for a couple more minutes, add bell peppers and tomatoes and fry a little more. Then add sugar, salt, ketchup and tomato. Simmer the vegetable mixture for three minutes.
Dissolve the starch in 50 ml of water and pour into the sauce. Stir, add water or broth (you can from a cube), chop the herbs and put chopped garlic. Cover the sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. There comes a crucial moment: meatballs are dipped into the sauce. It is necessary that they be completely covered by it. Close this almost finished dish with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with any side dish - rice, vegetables, potatoes.
4. Meatballs in sour cream sauce
The meatballs are very soft, with a delicate taste. Any meat is suitable for them. You can take ready-made minced meat or scroll through whole pieces through a meat grinder. If desired, the onions can be pre-fried, this will give the meat balls an original taste.
Ingredients:
Minced meat - 0.5 kg
stale white bread - 150 g
onions - 2 pcs.
eggs - 2-3 pcs.
salt pepper
Sour cream - 200 g
Flour - 2 tsp.
Salt
water or meat broth - 100 ml
Preparation:
Soak the bread in water (milk), squeeze lightly. It will be tastier in milk, but you can also in water. If you are scrolling the meat through a meat grinder, pass soaked bread and onions with it - fried or raw. Beat eggs and add to the minced meat. It is the beaten eggs that make the meatballs tender and juicy. Add salt and pepper. Knead the minced meat well and beat a little for airiness. Roll up balls, roll in flour, fry. Their size is small, so they are fried until fully cooked. Transfer the meatballs to the cauldron.
For the sauce, combine sour cream, broth (or water), salt, and flour. Pour meatballs with this mass and simmer for five minutes.
5. Meatballs in the oven
Delicious meatballs with cheese. It makes the meatballs more tasty, and the tomato mass in which they are stewed - more juicy.
Ingredients:
minced meat - 0.5 kg
cheese - 150 g
egg - 1 pc.
onion - 1 pc.
salt pepper
Tomatoes - 4-5 pcs. large,
Sugar - 1 tsp
salt pepper
Preparation:
Chop the onion very finely, grate the cheese. Mix everything with minced meat, salt and pepper.
Remove the peel from the tomatoes, finely chop the pulp. You can do it faster - cut the tomato into halves and grate. The pulp gradually wears off, and the skin remains in the hands. Add a little salt to the tomato mass, add sugar. Here you have to try. If the tomatoes are sweeter, put a little less sugar, and vice versa. You need to rely on your taste. You can add herbs or allspice. Pour the seasoned tomato mass into a mold and put in the oven, or simmer on the stove for 10 minutes to release the juice. Yes, such an interesting turn of events.
While the tomatoes are letting in the juice, mold the meatballs with wet hands and immerse them in the stewed tomato mass. Bake for 30 minutes until tender (200 C).
6. Meatballs in a slow cooker
Cooking in a slow cooker is a real pleasure. All you need is to load the products, everything else is done by herself. No need to follow the process, nothing will burn or run away. And after a certain time, all that remains is to pick up a delicious ready-made dish. Like meatballs, for example.
Ingredients:
Minced meat - 0.5 kg
salt
egg-1
ground pepper
rice - 0.5 tbsp.
onion - 1 pc.
bay leaf, salt, spices.
water or broth - 400 ml
flour, mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup (tomato paste) - 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
Boil rice. Chop the onion and mix with other components for meatballs. Blind balls and place in a bowl.
In a bowl, mix all the ingredients for the sauce thoroughly and pour over the meatballs. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode for 1 hour.
Meatballs - useful tips experienced chefs:
The meatballs will turn out to be tastier if you do not take purchased minced meat, but cook it yourself from meat. It turns out to be more juicy, tk. it retains the meat juice.
To make the meatballs juicy and fluffy, soaked bread is added to the minced meat - it absorbs the meat juice, not allowing it to come out. It is better to use stale bread, because fresh gives the meatballs not very pleasant stickiness.
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Gulhayo Rakhimova
Meatballs with gravy are perhaps one of the most delicious meat dishes. Especially suitable for feeding children. Few people know that this dish is prepared in many countries, and in Sweden it is national. In each country, it has its own special name. For example, in South Asia and the Middle East it is called kyufta. Kufta is prepared very often and is a traditional food. In Sicily, fried meatballs using rice are called arancini.
At first glance, it may seem that meatballs are ordinary cutlets, but this different dishes... The first difference is the shape. The meatballs are mostly made in the form of small balls, the size of which varies. The second distinguishing feature is breading. If the cutlets are breaded in breadcrumbs, then the meatballs are in flour (rice or wheat). The third and main difference is that foreign additives are always mixed into the meat. Most often these are cereals, for example, boiled rice. Sometimes small pieces of tomatoes, dried fruits are added.
Juicy and tender meat balls very quickly become a favorite food of children and adults. However, when meatballs with gravy are being prepared for children, over-adding spices and onions should be avoided, especially if the child has not reached the age of one. If your offspring does not like to eat meat, then it is worth preparing meatballs for him. The child will like them right away, which you can't pull back by the ears.
The main feature of the famous culinary masterpiece is cooking and serving it directly in gravy, which is similar in consistency to sauce.
Often meatballs are used as independent dish, without the presence of a side dish, which reduces the cooking time and facilitates the work of the hostess. After all, they are served not only for everyday, but also for the festive table.
It is also worth noting the usefulness of this appetizing dish, thanks to its vitamin and mineral composition (calcium, selenium, sodium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, as well as vitamins of groups A and B). If the meatballs are steamed, then they can be safely eaten by people on a diet or building muscle.
The most delicious recipes
A variety of recipes allows you to experiment with tastes and choose your favorite option for your household. After all, meatballs, like other meat foods, can be cooked different ways... They can be stewed, fried, baked, or steamed. Preparing them at home will not be difficult even for novice housewives.
Ingredients can vary, depending on your personal taste preferences. Often buckwheat, rice, barley, flour, carrots, onions, eggs and various spices are added to the bulk.
Minced meat can also consist of different types of meat at the same time. Ready-made meatballs can be combined with porridge, vegetables or salads for a side dish, or can be served as an independent main course for lunch.
To prepare meatballs with rice and gravy, you need to take:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 100 g of rice;
- 1 egg;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- 1 PC. Luke;
- 1 PC. carrots;
- some vegetable oil;
- ground salt and pepper to taste.
First of all, you need to boil the rice, but leave it a little damp inside. Combine rice with egg and minced meat. Season with salt and pepper, then stir.
For the sauce, you need to chop the onion and grate the carrots. Fry the mixture in oil for a couple of minutes. Add a little water, tomato paste and sour cream to the pan with the mixture. Boil all this over low heat for about 10 minutes. Remember to add some pepper and salt to the sauce.
Make balls from a mixture of minced meat and rice and put them in a skillet with sauce. Cover the dish with a lid and continue simmering for 40 minutes over low heat. If the sauce thickens, add a little water.
With tomato watering
To make meatballs with tomato sauce, necessary:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 2 pcs. Luke;
- 125 g rice;
- 1 PC. carrots;
- 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- 4 things. bay leaf;
- 1 tsp Sahara;
- 6 pcs. peppercorns;
- 3 tbsp. l. wheat flour for breading and gravy;
- salt, coriander and ground pepper to taste.
Boil the rice a little and rinse it with cold water. Add chopped onions, grated carrots and boiled rice to the minced meat. Season the mixture with salt and pepper. In order for the balls to be smoother and more beautiful, moisten your hands first. Then roll the meatballs in flour and fry.
For gravy, dilute half a liter of water with tomato paste and flour. Add sugar, spices and salt. Sometimes the flour on the meatballs themselves, which was used for breading, is enough to thicken the gravy. Pour meatballs in a frying pan with water, pasta and flour and simmer under the lid for a little more than half an hour.
A very simple recipe for meatballs in sour cream sauce with garlic. Those who are not a fan of this plant can exclude it from the recipe. So, we need:
- 250 g each pork and ground beef;
- 1 egg;
- 2 pcs. Luke;
- 200 ml sour cream;
- 250 ml cream;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tbsp. l. flour;
- salt and spices to taste.
Peel and chop the onion, then fry in a skillet. Mix the two types of minced meat and add half of the fried onion, egg and seasoning with salt to the mass. Make balls from the mass.
Preheat the oven and set the temperature to 180 degrees. Put the meat balls in a deep and greased form and put everything in the oven for 6 minutes.
Cook the sauce in a deep skillet. First, fry the flour, and then pour in the sour cream and cream, add the onion. Squeeze the garlic into the prepared sauce, add salt. The final touch should be filled with meatballs sour cream sauce... Cook the dish for 30-40 minutes.
Meatballs without rice with gravy
Meatballs without rice with creamy sour cream sauce are very tasty and juicy. Required Ingredients:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 3 pcs. Luke;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 5 tbsp. l. sour cream;
- 5 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- 1 egg;
- 2 tbsp. l. flour for breading;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- pepper and salt to taste.
Finely chop the onion and garlic and add them to the minced meat. Season the mixture with salt, pepper and add the egg, and then stir. Dip the prepared meat balls in flour and fry in a skillet.
For the sauce, mix tomato paste with sour cream and add water to the mixture. Add the mixture to the meatballs and simmer for another 15 minutes.
Diet meatballs
Meatballs according to this recipe are suitable not only for losing weight ladies, but also for young children. Required Ingredients:
- 300 g minced chicken;
- 0.5 pcs. Luke;
- 0.5 pcs. carrots;
- 50 g of rice;
- 1 tomato;
- greens and salt to taste.
Add finely grated carrots and onions to the minced meat. Boil the rice until almost cooked. Rinse it with cold water and add to the meat mixture. Pour chopped greens into the mass, salt and mix.
Scald the tomato and peel it off. After that, chop it finely and put it in a saucepan with a little water. Simmer the mixture over low heat for 10 minutes. Salt the sauce and add herbs.
Place the formed meat balls on a tray and pour water into a double boiler. Cook for 30 minutes. If there is no steamer, then you can replace it with a saucepan with a colander, in which the meatballs will be cooked.
For meatballs with cheese, you need to take:
- 500 g minced meat;
- 1 egg;
- 2 slices of white bread;
- 200 g of cheese;
- 2 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
- herbs, salt, seasonings to taste.
Grate the onion and add to the minced meat. Add soaked bread, egg, seasonings and salt there. Cut the cheese into cubes. Form cakes from the meat mixture, in the center of which place a little cheese. Then roll the cakes into balls so that the cheese is in the center.
Put the meat balls with cheese on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
Time to make the sauce. Chop the onion and fry. In a skillet, add flour, tomato paste, seasonings and salt to the onion. Cook for three minutes and add the herbs at the end.
In order for the meatballs to always turn out and be tasty and juicy, you must follow a few simple rules.
- To keep the meatballs intact and not fall apart, you need to immediately fill them with hot water.
- If you are still afraid that they will fall apart, then you should cook them right away in the oven.
- If this or that cereal is present in the recipe, then the proportions must be strictly observed. After all, a large amount of cereals will make rice or buckwheat from a meat dish.
- When mixing several types of minced meat at once and adding cereals to them, you need to give time to the mass to infuse so that the ingredients are saturated with each other's aromas.
- In order for the meat balls not to stick to your hands, the latter must first be moistened in water.
- It is better to put the blinded balls in the refrigerator for a couple of minutes to make them stronger.
- For greater adhesion of the ingredients, add an egg or grated potatoes to the mass.
Conclusion
There are no special difficulties in how to cook meatballs with gravy. By observing the proportions and simple cooking technique, you can get this juicy and healthy dish the first time. The rich recipe allows you to experiment and choose the most delicious recipe.
The big plus of the dish is that it is perfect for both adults and children. Also meatballs look good on festive table and fill the room with a pleasant meaty aroma.
Mother of two children. I lead household for more than 7 years - this is my main job. I love to experiment, I constantly try various means, methods, techniques that can make our life easier, more modern, richer. I love my family.
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 its own favorite recipe for this dish. We offer you 3 easy to prepare, but no less delicious recipe meatballs, which are perfect for a family Saturday lunch.
Meatballs with rice and gravy
Meatballs with rice - great dish for a hearty family dinner. They are prepared simply, quickly and are liked by everyone - young and old. Even the most demanding meat dishes children are ready to eat these meatballs with gravy every day. The gravy will also come in handy if you will be serving this dish with a side dish. The main difference between hedgehogs with rice and meat from meatballs is that for meatballs with gravy, you must first boil rice.
Ingredients
- Minced pork or mixed - 300 gr;
- Raw rice - 100 gr;
- Chicken egg - 1 pc;
- Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons;
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- Bulb onions - 1 pc;
- Sour cream - 80 gr;
- Carrots - 1 pc;
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp;
- Wheat flour - 1 tbsp;
How to make delicious meatballs with rice and gravy
So, the first thing we need to do is boil the rice. To do this, pour it in a saucepan with clean water in a 1: 2 ratio, salt and put on medium heat. After the water boils, reduce the heat to low and cook until the rice is cooked, about 15-18 minutes.
In the meantime, start making the gravy. In a skillet, heat half of the recipe for vegetable oil and fry 0.5 diced onions until transparent. Cut the carrots into thin cubes or chop on a coarse grater, add to the onion and fry together until the carrots are soft.
Then add the tomato paste and wheat flour, stir very well to prevent the flour from forming lumps, and fry with the vegetables for 2 minutes.
Pour 100 ml of hot water into a frying pan and add sour cream, stir. Put out the contents for 5 minutes. Finally, add sugar, salt and black pepper to taste.
Due to the addition of flour, the gravy will not turn out to be a liquid, viscous consistency, but sour cream with tomato paste will give it a pleasant orange color.
Meanwhile, the rice for the meatballs was boiled. Rinse it under running cold water and discard in a colander before adding to the minced meat, let all excess water drain.
Minced meat for of this dish it is better to take pork, it is quite fatty, but rice will balance it. But if you are a supporter diet food- use minced veal or even chicken fillet.
In a deep bowl, stir the minced meat, the finely chopped remaining half of the onion, the egg, and season to taste with salt and black pepper.
Add washed chilled rice, stir. The mass turns out to be pliable, you can easily mold round meatballs from it.
Fry the formed meatballs on the remaining vegetable oil on one side until golden brown, turn over with a spatula.
On the other hand, fry in the same way until browned.
Transfer the sautéed meatballs to a heavy-bottomed saucepan or a wide, deep skillet with a lid.
Pour in the pre-prepared gravy, put the saucepan over low heat, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes under the lid closed.
During this time, the gravy will absorb a little into the meatballs, and they will become juicy and incredibly soft.
Serve meatballs with gravy and rice in portions hot with garnish or as a separate dish. Thanks to the gravy, meatballs do not need additional sauce or sour cream. Bon Appetit!
Chicken meatballs with sour cream gravy in a pan
The combination of gentle chicken meat with aromatic creamy notes of sauce has long been familiar to everyone. Chicken and sauce for meatballs based on sour cream are very harmoniously combined in taste and look as if you spent more than one hour cooking this dish, although this is not at all the case. Chicken meatballs in sour cream sauce are so easy to prepare that even not the most experienced chef can handle them.
Ingredients:
- Minced chicken - 500 gr;
- Bulb onions - 1 pc;
- Rice - 100 gr;
- Sour cream - 200 ml;
- Garlic - 1 clove;
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
- Salt, ground black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- Boil rice until half cooked, cool it. It is best to use long grain rice, it will not stick together during the formation of meatballs.
- Use ready-made chilled minced meat or wind it yourself. The most useful and lean part of the chicken is its breast, so it is best to use it for minced meat.
- Chop the onion very finely or mince it along with the chicken. Add rice to the meat bowl.
- Salt and pepper the minced meat and mix it thoroughly.
- To mold meatballs from minced chicken, you do not need to add an egg to it, since it is already quite elastic without it. Wet your hands with cold water to raw minced meat don't stick 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 skillet. Transfer the chicken meatballs to it. Try to keep them in one row. Turn the meatballs over as they brown in the pan.
- As soon as the meatballs are fried, add some hot water to the pan, then immediately add all the sour cream and mix well. Cover and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. There is another option for making gravy. After the meatballs are fried, transfer them to a small saucepan.
- Fry in a separate skillet onion and grated carrots, and only then add sour cream, garlic and hot water there. Having prepared the gravy separately, pour it into a saucepan for the meatballs and simmer under a closed lid for the same 15 minutes.
- Add a garlic clove, a little salt and black pepper to the chicken meatballs and gravy. Stir again and remove from heat. After 5 minutes spent under a closed lid, meatballs with sour cream sauce will be ready. Serve with mashed potatoes or boiled rice and garnish with fresh herbs on top. Bon Appetit!
Cooking tips:
- If the gravy seems too runny, stir 1 tsp in a separate glass. potato starch and 3 tsp. water. Stir gently and slowly to prevent the starch from forming lumps. Then pour the resulting liquid into the hot gravy. You will notice how it instantly begins to thicken. You can achieve the same effect by adding a few tablespoons of wheat flour to the gravy and stirring thoroughly.
- To make the chicken meatballs more tender, simply eliminate rice from the recipe. The meatballs will still hold their shape well, but will become more uniform in texture.
Oven meatballs with tomato paste gravy (no rice)
When there is very little time to prepare dinner, dishes from the oven become a real salvation. I sent the necessary prepared ingredients to the stove and you can calmly go about your business, only occasionally glancing at what is happening behind the door. These 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 mince (pork + beef) - 500 gr;
- Egg - 1 pc;
- Bulb onions - 1 pc;
- Carrots - 1 pc;
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs;
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons;
- Wheat flour - 3 tbsp;
- Salt, ground black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
- To save time, use ready-made minced meat or wind it up in advance and freeze it for future use. Fragrant and tasty meatballs are obtained from minced meat made from beef and pork in equal proportions.
- Salt, pepper the minced meat, stir in it a raw egg... Form small meatballs with wet hands and refrigerate for 15 minutes. The smaller the meatballs are, the faster they will brown in the oven, and later they will be better saturated with the sauce. If you make large meatballs, then the upper part will be with appetizing crust and the bottom is incredibly juicy from the gravy. The main thing is that they are all about the same size.
- At this time, prepare the gravy. Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots in heated vegetable oil until soft. Send tomatoes cut into small cubes there. Mix the tomato paste with a glass of boiling water.
- Add flour to the pan and immediately cover with water and tomato paste. Stir well so that no lumps form from the flour and leave to simmer under a closed lid over low heat for about 5 minutes.
- In a greased baking dish, put the chilled meatballs in one row and send them to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. This is usually enough time to brown the meatballs.
- Then pour the gravy into the mold and put it back in the oven, this time for 25-30 minutes.
- Sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving. As you can see, meatballs with gravy cooked without rice hold their shape perfectly, do not fall apart and have a uniform texture. A side dish for such a hot dish can be boiled pasta, buckwheat or mashed potatoes. Bon Appetit!
Cooking tips:
- If you are a spicy lover, add a small peeled chilli pod to them when frying vegetables in a pan, or season the gravy with ground red pepper.
- More delicate taste sauce can be achieved by adding a few tablespoons of sour cream to it while stewing.
- Meatballs will acquire an interesting and original taste if you mix finely chopped and fried vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes and bell peppers, into the raw minced meat.