Gravy meatballs are delicious minced beef balls stewed in a thick, aromatic sauce. Do not confuse them with meatballs, there are several significant differences between them. Meatballs are most often cooked larger, because they are a separate full-fledged meat dish, for example, for dinner. Meatballs are fried or stewed in a pan, and can also be baked in the oven with or without sauce. Meatballs are cooked in broth, usually they complement some dish, for example,.

There is a wide variety of delicious meatballs, mostly distinguished by additional ingredients. You can add onions and carrots to meatballs, you can put rice, meatballs with mushrooms or vegetables stuffing, which are wrapped in minced meat, are delicious. Various sauces for meatballs can also be prepared and they will radically affect the taste. Well and most importantly, the meatballs themselves can be made from various types of meat. I do not want to see meatballs, but meatballs in a variety of preparations, all of them take the main prize.

Of course, I will not be able to cover all the options, but I will share many delicious with you.

  Meatballs with tomato sauce and sour cream gravy

It seems to me right to start with simple and classic recipes. They are usually the most sought after and popular. We are so used to meatballs from childhood that we often look for recipes for their preparation very similar to those prepared by our mothers and grandmothers, as well as hardworking cooks in kindergarten. And all this is not just. By the way, I’ll clarify that meatballs can be prepared for children and they really like them, both in taste and shape, and how many kids love gravy, I don’t need to tell you. You can choose any side dish according to your taste, but now let's learn how to cook delicious meatballs with gravy.

For meatballs you will need:

• minced meat - kg
• egg - 1 pc.,
• onions - 1-2 pieces,
• garlic - 1-2 pcs.,
• sour cream - 4 tablespoons,
• flour - 2 tablespoons,
• salt, pepper and spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. For meatballs, you can use both ready-made minced meat and roll it yourself from the selected meat. Choose pork, beef or a mixture of two minced meat to taste. One of my advice is not to make the meat too lean, that is, completely without fat. A small fat in the forcemeat will make the meatballs more juicy, and at the same time it will practically melt during heat treatment.

2. Cut the onions smaller, especially if cooked for children. Adjust the amount yourself, you can put one or two onions. The onion itself also helps to make meatballs softer and juicier. Combine the onion and the minced meat in a large convenient bowl. Grind the garlic on a grater or knife, and add it to the minced meat.

3. Break one raw egg into a bowl with minced meat and stir. The egg will help to achieve good stickiness of the minced meat so that future meatballs do not crumble in their finished form. Salt and pepper the minced meat to your taste.

4. Form from the received forcemeat equal balls of the average size. Roll them in flour so that when roasting you get a delicious golden crust, and all meat juices are sealed inside. Heat a skillet with vegetable oil and fry meatballs on medium heat from all sides to a slight blush.

5. Preparing the future gravy. This recipe is the simplest - mix tomato paste with sour cream, dilute with one glass of warm water.

6. Pour the resulting meatballs in a pan, cover and simmer for fifteen minutes.

7. In the process of boiling, the gravy will acquire a more saturated red color due to tomato sauce. Fifteen minutes later, under a lid over medium heat, the meatballs will be ready and soaked in delicious sauce.

Delicious meatballs with gravy are ready. Versatile and easiest recipe. If instead of sour cream put cream, the taste will be more delicate and with less acidity. Serve with a hot side dish, such as mashed potatoes, sprinkle with fresh herbs. Bon Appetit!

  Tender meatballs with rice baked in gravy in the oven

Almost all of us tried meatballs with rice, and many even know them under the name "Hedgehogs." They can also be cooked in a frying pan in a thick sauce, or they can be baked in the oven, which will only make them more tender, because there will be no drying frying in the pan, but only uniform heat from all sides. For the taste of gravy, we add onions and carrots to it.

You will need:

• minced meat - 600 grams,
• boiled rice - 1 cup,
• egg - 1 pc.,
• onion - 2 pcs.,
• carrots - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 cloves,
• tomato paste - 2 tablespoons,
• sour cream - 2 tablespoons,
• flour - 2 tablespoons,
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Cooking:

1. Roll the meat through a meat grinder or take the prepared meat. Put it in a bowl and add finely chopped onion and garlic. We need the second onion for gravy. Also, break the egg into the minced meat. Salt and pepper. Stir the minced meat first with a spoon, and then with your hands, so it mixes best.

2. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

3. Mix in a separate bowl sour cream and tomato paste. Add to them two tablespoons of flour and mix until a smooth paste.

4. Pour cold boiled water into a glass and gradually pour it into a future sauce in a bowl. Pour and stir a little, then add more water and stir, and so on until all the water has gone.

Flour is needed in such a sauce to add density. The same characteristic taste appears from her, which we remember from childhood in gravy, which was served in the dining room of the kindergarten and school.

5. Heat a skillet with oil. Cut the second onion into a small dice. Fry the onion in oil until transparent, then add the grated carrots to the pan and fry it over medium heat until the carrots soften.

6. Now pour the prepared tomato-sour cream sauce into a pan with onions and carrots. Stir, add a little salt and let it simmer for 2–3 minutes. Salt and pepper future gravy to your taste. Such it will be in salinity in the finished form.

7. Turn on the preheated oven 180 degrees. Take a baking dish and start forming meatballs. To do this, lightly moisten your hands with water and roll balls of a rather large size from the meat. Put the finished meatballs in shape. When everything is blind, take a pan with gravy and pour the meatballs on top. If the sauce is not enough, then add a little water, it will mix with the sauce during the boil in the oven.

8. Put the meatballs with gravy in the oven and bake them for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

After half an hour, the meatballs are ready. The headlight cooks very quickly, and we already had the rice ready. You will get very tender and tasty meatballs with aromatic thick gravy with onions and carrots. This is a very nutritious and hearty lunch or dinner. Choose the side dish as you wish. Eat for health!

  How to cook meatballs with gravy in a kindergarten

For those who are inexorably drawn by nostalgia to remember the same taste and cook meatballs as in kindergarten, I offer here such a good and detailed video. It describes the process of making meatballs and all the ingredients necessary for this. There is nothing complicated in such a recipe and the cooks did not keep military secrets with him. Now it will be available to you. Cook meatballs and do not forget tender pasta.

  Baked meatballs in a creamy sauce with cheese

Meatballs with rice are not perfect single gravy. Cream sauce is no less beautiful, and if you add cheese to it, then you can’t drag it by the ears. I can say this for myself and my family, but I’m almost sure that many will agree with me.

Cream is a delicate matter, so we will also bake meatballs in such a sauce.

You will need:

• minced meat - 600 grams,
• rice - 100 grams,
• cream 10% - 330 ml,
• cheese - 100 grams,
• garlic - 2 cloves,
• potato starch - 1 teaspoon,
• salt and spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. Prepare the minced meat, put it in a bowl convenient for stirring. Add the minced garlic, passed through a press or grated on a fine grater. Salt (about 0.5 teaspoon).

2. Boil the rice until half cooked. Add it to the minced meat. Add 0.5-1 teaspoon of your favorite mild flavor. For example, Provencal or Italian herbs are very suitable.

3. Stuff the minced meat with your hands, it turns out more evenly than with a spoon or spatula due to the fact that the minced meat is quite thick and lumpy.

4. Lightly dampen your hands with water and roll round large meatballs. Take a convenient deep baking dish and lay future meatballs on the bottom. Oiling is not necessary, because we will cook them in the sauce.

5. Stir the sauce in a separate bowl. To do this, pour cream into a bowl. Cheese grate, fine or coarse. Add cheese to cream, as well as spices and salt to taste. Pour a teaspoon of potato starch there, this is necessary to make the creamy sauce a little thicker. starch does not affect the taste at all. Mix everything well.

6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Put the meatballs in the form in the oven and bake for 20 minutes, during which time the meatballs will reach half-ready.

7. Pour the meatballs with the gravy that we prepared. Put the cheese remaining on the bottom (and it settles) on top of each meatballs, so that it is baked with a beautiful golden crust.

8. Put the meatballs with gravy back into the oven and bake for another 20-25 minutes. The sauce is respected, and the cheese is baked with a beautiful crust. Meatballs will be fully prepared.

Serve hot meatballs in a creamy sauce with side dishes and vegetable salads. Bon Appetit!

  Original meatballs with buckwheat - Greek. Step-by-step video recipe

If you tried meatballs with rice, but they are already a little tired of you, then it's time to bring novelty to this wonderful dish. Add buckwheat instead of rice and you get a new kind of delicious meatballs. Such delicious meatballs are also cooked with thick rich gravy in which they are baked.

The ingredients are quite familiar: minced meat, onion, egg, flour and tomato paste. Instead of rice, boiled buckwheat. Add spices to your taste to make these meatballs spicy or sharp and please the household with a novelty.

Cook the meatballs with gravy more often and don't forget to add variety to them, changing sauces and additives. Do not forget the delicious side dishes and salads, lunch should be nutritious and healthy. I wish you good health and good mood!

Meatballs with rice - a delicious nutritious dish that can be combined with all kinds of side dishes and sauces. It is prepared in an elementary way and always succeeds. Many have remembered such food since the time of kindergarten.

Classic meatballs with rice - cook in the oven

To make the dish even more delicious, you can use minced pork mixed with a small amount of chicken, for example, in proportions 3/1. In addition to minced meat (350 g), you need to take: 140 g of rice, half an onion and carrot, 2 tomatoes, a glass of drinking water, salt, 3 tbsp. sour cream, 1 tablespoon tomato paste.

1. Rice is thoroughly washed in several waters and boiled until tender (about 12 minutes after boiling water).
2. Onions are passivated on any fat until golden and mixed with minced meat. Groats are added to the mass. Be sure to salt it. You can add any seasoning to your taste.
3. Small balls are rolled from the mixture, which are placed in a greased form and sent to the preheated oven.
4. Tomatoes and carrots are crushed in a blender, after which they are diluted with water with sour cream and tomato paste.
5. 15 minutes after the start of baking classic meatballs, they are poured with sauce and continue to cook for another 25 minutes.

You can serve food not only with a side dish, but also as an independent dish.

In tomato sauce

That tomato sauce is best combined with rice and meat balls. Children over 1 year old can safely regale themselves with ready-made treats. For him you will need: 450 g of pork and ground beef, 1 tbsp. white rice, onion head, egg, 4-5 tablespoons wheat flour, 1.5 tsp salt, 2 tbsp. tomato paste, 1.5 tbsp. water, granulated garlic.

1. Onion is added onion grated on a fine grater, salt, granulated garlic, and an egg is driven in.
2. Rice is cooked until cooked and mixed with meat.
3. Stuffing is carefully wrinkled hands. All ingredients should mix well, and the mass itself should become malleable and viscous.
4. Small balls are rolled from meat and rice and sprinkled with flour.
5. Meatballs are fried in hot oil until a golden crust appears.
6. Next, the meat balls are transferred to the stewpan, poured with salted water with tomato paste, if it is too acidic, you can add a little sugar to the components.
7. Stuffed meatballs with rice in tomato sauce for about 25 minutes.

The treat is served hot with mashed potatoes or any porridge.

In home cooking, we often resort to the use of semi-finished products, it is convenient, practical and does not take much time. But such an approach to family nutrition threatens to cause resentment among households, but the recipe can save the situation, how to cook meatballs with minced rice. This nutritious, delicate and incredibly tasty dish meets the requirements of all family members, and in addition, it only takes 40 minutes to cook it.

What are hedgehogs?

The word meatballs has an ambiguous origin. "Kiftelus" is a Moldavian word distorted by the Jews, which came from the Türks, in whom spherical cutlets from twisted meat were called "kyufta". Such balls could be of completely different sizes, from the diameter of a ping-pong ball to the volumes of a medium tomato.

One of the main differences between “hedgehogs” and cutlets along with the form is breading, because meatballs can be deboned exclusively in rice or wheat flour, but not in breadcrumbs or semolina.

In addition to the meatballs, in addition to the stuffing, additional ingredients may be included. Typically, these are cereals, for example, rice, dried fruits and vegetables: tomatoes, potatoes, carrots with onions. Thanks to such additives, meat balls can dramatically change not only their appearance, but also taste characteristics. In addition, such a measure can significantly reduce the heat treatment time for lunch, because with the presence of food additives, the stuffing becomes more friable.

In general, this dish is quite satisfying, because, for example, meatballs with rice from pork minced meat have calorie values \u200b\u200bof as much as 220 kcal. However, there is also a dietary alternative - chicken or veal meat, in which case the energy value will be no more than 140-150 kcal per 100 grams.

Any recipe on how to cook meatballs with minced meat and rice in a sauce begins with a minced meat, and the taste and juiciness of the prepared dish depend on the quality of the meat base. To cook the meat composition at the highest level, you should adhere to some rules.

1. For minced meat, you can take any type of meat, including poultry, most importantly it should be sufficiently fat. If we take more lean meat, then it should be diluted with fat or butter.
2. Twist the fillet too finely is not worth it. Passing once through the middle nozzle of the meat grinder will be enough.
3. Onions can also add juiciness to the products, which can also be skipped immediately with meat or cut into small cubes and then mixed with the meat mass.
4. Rice preparation is also important in this process. As a rule, cooked rice is used for meatballs, but we recommend washed cereals only with boiling water for 10 minutes. This approach has its advantages. In the process of extinguishing the “hedgehogs” the gluing enzymes of rice will serve as a kind of glue for minced meat and meatballs then will not fall apart.
5. Naturally, rice is not the main astringent component, and its role is played by a raw chicken egg, which should also be added to the general meat batch.
6. After all the ingredients have been mixed, you can salt and anneal the spices and minced garlic through a press of meatballs.

In the next stage of preparation of minced meat, great importance is given to the rules of kneading. In this case, most likely, the mass should be discarded, not kneaded. Raising the bowl of minced meat, you can several times with an effort to throw it into the bowl. This approach will serve as a guarantor of the strength of the balls.

However, there is one more nuance - cooling. After all the manipulations with the rice-meat mass, it should be sent to the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. And in order not to waste time, during this period you can begin to prepare the sauce.

Stuffed meatballs with rice have a lot of different cooking methods. We can boil them, stew or steam, as well as fry and even bake in the oven. Here, as they say, a matter of taste. However, the classic Turkic version of this dish involves cooking and serving meatballs in gravy.

This rule has been adhered to since the discovery of this dish, when meat "hedgehogs" were cooked in a common pot with thick sauce, and this trend has persisted to this day, and many European culinary houses cannot even imagine a different way of cooking these meat balls.

Often, restaurants resort to watering the meatballs with the wrong sauce in which they languished, and this, I must say, is extremely unpleasant to the quality of the treat. Everything in the dish should be in harmony, so the best move would be to use the same dressing in which the spherical cutlets were stewed.

The best sauce for these purposes is overcooked onion, turnip and leek, tomatoes, garlic and celery, diluted with meat broth with sour cream and flour as a thickener.

Ingredients

•   - 0.6 kg + -
• Rice - 180 g + -
•   - 2 heads + -
•   - 4 slices + -
•   - 1 root vegetable + -

I cook meatballs with rice with gravy very often. To prepare them, you don’t need so much time, but while they are preparing, you can quickly cook any side dish, and a full dinner or lunch is ready!

Another good thing about this recipe is that the meatballs can be made and frozen, and, if necessary, removed and cooked already with the sauce.

If we talk about sauce, then I always cook meatballs for my favorite sauce with tomato paste and sour cream.

We’ll prepare all the products and start cooking the meatballs from minced meat with rice and gravy. Cooking time can be reduced if the rice is boiled in advance. If you have not done this, then it is with the preparation of rice that you have to start. Boil the rice in boiling salted water until tender, see the cooking time for the rice on the packaging for it.

Stuffing the minced meat in a bowl, add the chopped onion.

Drive an egg into the minced meat and add salt and black pepper.

Finely chop the parsley with a knife and spread it in a bowl.

Put the boiled rice in a bowl to the rest of the ingredients. Knead the meat for meatballs well.

From the minced meat we form meatballs, in size - a little larger than a walnut. Roll each meatball in flour.

In a pan, heat the oil and fry the meatballs for 4-5 minutes on each side. Then add tomato paste to the fried meatballs. Add 200 ml of boiling water.

Pour flour into sour cream and add 100 ml of water. Stir everything together, this is necessary so that the flour does not form lumps when added to the gravy.

The resulting mixture is poured into a pan to meatballs. Salt and pepper gravy to taste. Stew meatballs in gravy over low heat for 15 minutes.

Ready-made meatballs with rice and gravy are served in portions with mashed potatoes or fresh salad.

Bon Appetit!

There is nothing easier than cooking such meatballs with rice in the oven. And now you will see for yourself. I will show you how to cook this dish, and repeating all my instructions you will get exactly the same beautiful and delicious meatballs with rice, do not even doubt it.

Meatballs with rice are generally a very economical and budget dish. From 500 g of meat I got 15 teftelin the size of a large walnut or a small mandarin. This is a whole mountain of meatballs. Of course, this amount is also achieved due to the presence of rice in the minced meat. But rice is not for saving, or rather, not only for it, but for a more delicate consistency of finished meatballs. Without rice, meatballs are of course tasty, but tighter, even cooked in sauce. With rice, the meatballs are incredible. Try it yourself and you will see for yourself.

I would also like to say that such meatballs with rice, cooked in the oven, are ideal for the children's menu. There is no roasting, the meat can be taken completely not greasy, the dish turns out exclusively dietary.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Ingredients:

• 500 g pork
• 0.5 cup rice
• 1 onion
• water (1 glass for rice and 2 glasses for sauce)
• 3 tbsp tomato paste
• salt (1 tsp in minced meat and 1 tsp in sauce)
• 1 tbsp Sahara
• ground pepper
• 2-3 sprigs of parsley to decorate the dish

Cooking meatballs with rice

We need to cook rice that is not brought to readiness. To do this, boil 0.5 cups of rice in one cup of water, do not salt. Cook the rice over low heat with the lid closed.

  While the rice is being cooked, we prepare the minced meat from pork and onion. Personally, it’s more convenient and faster to cook such stuffing in a blender.

  To do this, I cut the meat into cubes, peeled the onion into 4 parts, then I start the blender and after 2 minutes I have a pretty good stuffing ready.

  Mix boiled rice and minced meat in a convenient, deep and roomy container. We got about the same amount of rice and minced meat in volume.

  Add a teaspoon of salt and a good pinch of ground black pepper to the resulting minced meat. Once again, carefully mix the minced meat with your hands.

  With wet hands, we collect portions of minced meat and form meatballs the size of a large walnut. After making sure that the meatball turned out whole, without cracks, put it in a pre-cooked form, where the meatballs with rice will be baked. We do not lubricate the form.

I managed to divide the forcemeat into exactly 15 meatballs, which perfectly filled my baking dish.

  We send the form and our still raw meatballs with rice into the oven preheated to 200 degrees, where they will be baked to a barely visible golden crust. In time it is about 40 minutes.

  While the meatballs with rice are browned in the oven, we will prepare the sauce. Why is there a sauce at all in this dish? The fact is that meatballs with rice, although tasty by themselves, are baked in tomato sauce and they break all taste records. In the process of baking, meatballs will absorb part of the sauce and become incredibly juicy. Tomato sauce will give meatballs with rice a bright rich color, as well as enrich their taste.

How to cook this simple sauce for baking meatballs. In two glasses of water, we dilute 3 tablespoons of tomato paste, a tablespoon of sugar (without a hill) and a teaspoon of salt, and also add a little ground pepper. Stir the sauce until dissolved in a liquid salt and sugar. Tomato sauce for baking meatballs with rice is ready.

  Take the meatballs with rice, browned at this point, from the oven and pour in the freshly cooked tomato sauce. Then we send the form with meatballs back to the oven and bake the dish for another 25 minutes.

  As can be seen in the photo, meatballs with rice absorbed almost the entire tomato sauce. Ready-made meatballs look very appetizing, and the aroma comes from them, I'm not afraid of the word, divine :)

Finely and finely chop several parsley branches and sprinkle with it still hot meatballs right in the form. The aroma and taste of fresh parsley will perfectly complement the already perfect meatballs with rice.

  We serve such meatballs with rice as an independent dish or with a side dish. Ideal with mashed potatoes. And do not forget to pour meatballs with garnish with the remains of tomato sauce in which they were baked. Bon appetit and see you soon!