There are dishes that are familiar to everyone. Literally everyone. Most often, the roots of the origin of these dishes are lost deep in history, but their current popularity and wide distribution speak for themselves. So the heroes of our story today, meatballs with gravy, can be safely attributed to the category of the most popular, most common dishes that have been loved by most of us since childhood. Small meat balls soaked in aromatic gravy, hot, juicy and so tasty; they are easy to prepare, easy to change according to your own taste preferences and almost impossible to spoil. This dish fits equally well in the menu of the most venerable cooks, and in the home menu of completely inexperienced housewives. Let us deal with you how to cook meatballs with gravy.

A variety of recipes for this dish is literally amazing. In every country, in every city, in every family there are their own special recipes and secrets that allow cooks and housewives to be sure that their meatballs are the most delicious in the whole world. And in fact, from which just these little tasty balls are not cooked! Literally everything that is at hand is at stake. Any kind of minced meat in any combination, minced poultry, minced fish fillet, even vegetable and mushroom minced meat for meatballs, lean and vegetarian. Add to the forcemeat indispensable spicy vegetables - onions, garlic, carrots, giving meatballs additional juiciness and aroma; cereals - rice, couscous, bulgur, millet, semolina, making meatballs more tender and soft, absorbing all the juices that stand out; the most incredible seasonings, fragrant herbs, spices and spices, allowing you to endlessly diversify the taste and aroma of your meatballs. And add here an almost endless assortment of gravy and sauces in which your meatballs are prepared, and you yourself can easily make sure that this dish can never bore you with its monotony, but on the contrary, will help you to diversify your menu at least every day, making you happy and your loved ones with new and new shades of taste and mouth-watering aroma.

Today, the site “Culinary Eden” has collected and written down for you the most important tips and small culinary secrets, coupled with proven recipes that will surely help even not-so-experienced housewives and tell you how to cook meatballs with gravy.

1. Without a doubt, the most common and popular meatballs can be safely called meatballs. Stuffing for them is prepared from one or two types of meat. Most often it is beef and pork. Of course, this stuffing is easiest to buy ready-made at the nearest store, but believe me, home-made stuffing made on your own will turn out to be much tastier and will more fully meet your requirements. To prepare the meat for meatballs, you will need fresh, not too fatty meat. To make your meatballs truly tender, pass the meat through the smallest grill of the meat grinder two to three times. Do not add eggs to the stuffing! Meatballs made from well-mixed minced meat keep their shape perfectly without them, but unnecessarily stiff eggs will be added to your meatballs without fail.

2. If you are going to cook meatballs in gravy, then you must add rice to the minced meat, which will help maintain the juiciness and tenderness of the meatballs themselves even after a long stew in the gravy. Best for cooking meatballs is round or medium grain rice. Boil it even until half-cooked, as is often advised in recipes, there is no need. It is much better to pour thoroughly washed rice in boiling water so that it completely covers the rice, leave for five minutes, and then rinse again in cold water. Such only boiled rice boiled water perfectly retains all its absorbent qualities, which means it will keep for you all the most delicious and aromatic juices that will stand out from the minced meat during cooking.

3. In addition to rice and meat, freshly chopped onions, and, optionally, garlic and coarsely grated carrots, are added to the meat for meatballs. All these vegetables will not only give your meatballs the necessary juiciness, but also add flavor and light sweetness. To add a special flavor to your taste, you can add your favorite spices, such as ground black pepper, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom and many others. You can also add a little finely chopped herbs - parsley, dill, cilantro, basil. All these additives will allow you to fully express your imagination and make your meatballs truly yours, one of a kind, a dish that you can be proud of.

4. Having prepared all the necessary ingredients, you just have to knead the minced meat and mold meatballs from it. To do this is easy and difficult at the same time. The thing is that minced meat for meatballs must be kneaded thoroughly. After collecting and mixing all the ingredients of the meat, knead it for at least 10 - 15 minutes. Well-mixed minced meat for meatballs should turn out to be dense, almost monolithic and in no case loose and crumbly. It is best to sculpt meatballs with your hands slightly dipped in cool water. Just pinch off small pieces of minced meat and roll a ball the size of a small apricot from them.

5. Before you pour gravy on your meatballs and leave to languish under the lid, they must be fried. This will allow the meat to “seize” and maintain its original shape even after a long stew. It is best to deep-fried meatballs. Pour so much vegetable oil into a deep pan so that the balls of meatballs dipped into it are completely covered with it. Heat the oil over high heat and lower the meatballs into it for a couple of minutes until a light, uniform golden crust forms. Remove the meatballs with a slotted spoon and lay them on a separate dish. This method of frying will help you maintain an attractive round shape of meatballs, and in addition, boiling oil instantly seals all the aromatic meat and vegetable juices inside your meatballs. If such a large oil consumption is not included in your current plans, then you can simply fry meatballs in a pan with a small amount of oil over medium heat for three to five minutes on each side. In this case, your meatballs, of course, lose their round shape, but remain all the same tasty and fragrant. The choice of frying method is yours.

6. Gravy, in which you will stew your meatballs, not only gives them special juiciness and softness, but also allows you to infinitely diversify the taste and aroma of the finished dish, because there are infinitely many recipes for various gravy. But there is one secret that unites them all - gravy should be moderately thick. You can thicken the gravy with three ingredients: flour, tomato paste and sour cream or very fat cream. These ingredients can be used individually or all together to achieve your desired taste. Just follow your chosen recipe, and everything will work out. However, avoid recipes that advise thickening gravy with starch, believe me, this gravy, more like a paste, will only spoil your dish.

7. Let's try to cook our first meatballs with gravy. Twice 200 gr. Through a meat grinder. beef and 300 gr. pork. Chop one large onion finely. Brew with boiling water and gently drain ½ cup round rice. Combine all the ingredients, salt and pepper to taste. Knead the minced meat thoroughly and form small meatballs. Fry meatballs in small portions in deep fat (for two minutes) or in a small amount of oil in a pan for 3-5 minutes on each side. Transfer the finished meatballs to a deep frying pan, oiled. In a glass of hot water, dilute 1 tbsp. spoon of tomato paste and pour into meatballs, add a couple of bay leaves, cover the pan with a lid and simmer over medium heat for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, mix ½ cup of lukewarm boiled water, 3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, ¼ teaspoon black pepper and salt to taste. Pour the sour cream mixture into the pan to the meatballs, cover and gently, in a circular motion, shake the contents of the pan so that the components of the gravy are mixed. Return the pan to a low heat and simmer your meatballs for another 20 minutes at the slightest boil. Remove the finished meatballs from the heat and let it brew for another 10 minutes. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving.

8. Spicy and delicious yummy mutton meatballs are obtained. Prepare minced meat from 400 gr. low-fat mutton, ½ cup boiled rice, one chopped onion, two chopped garlic cloves, 1 tbsp. tablespoons of chopped green cilantro or parsley, ½ teaspoon ground coriander, ½ teaspoon ground cumin, salt and pepper to taste. Form the meatballs and deep-fry them or in a pan. Prepare gravy separately. Heat 3 tbsp in a pan. tablespoons of vegetable oil, add one chopped onion and fry until golden brown. Then add three minced cloves of garlic, finely chopped small seedless chili, 1 teaspoon of paprika and 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds. Warm everything together, stirring constantly, for one minute. Then add 400 gr. finely chopped fresh or canned tomatoes, 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Stir in the sauce and simmer over low heat under a lid for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Put the fried meatballs in a greased baking dish, pour the finished gravy, cover with foil and bake in a preheated oven to 200 ° for 20 minutes, after a while remove the foil and bake your meatballs for another 10 minutes.

9. It is very simple to prepare tender and tasty meatballs from chicken in mushroom gravy. Soak two slices of white bread without a crust in a small amount of milk and squeeze. Pass through a fine grill meat grinder 500 gr. skinless chicken. Chop one small onion finely. Combine bread, minced chicken and onions, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped dill, salt to taste. Knead the minced meat thoroughly and form small meatballs. Melt 3 tbsp in a deep pan. tablespoons of butter, add one chopped onion and fry until transparent, then add 400 gr. fresh or frozen forest mushrooms and fry, stirring frequently, until all the moisture has boiled away and the mushrooms are slightly browned. Then add 2 tbsp. tablespoons flour, mix, pour 250 ml. boiling chicken broth, 50 ml. dry white wine and 3 tbsp. tablespoons of fatty (30%) cream. Stir, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to the smallest. In a hot mushroom sauce, dip the chicken meatballs, cover and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

10. Fans of fish dishes will surely like fish meatballs with white gravy. Pass through a fine grill meat grinder 700 gr. cod fillet or any other your favorite saltwater fish. Moisten three slices of white bread without a crust in milk and squeeze gently. Chop the onion finely. Combine minced fish, bread and onions, add a pinch of white pepper and salt to taste. Knead the minced meat thoroughly, form the meatballs and lightly pan in flour. Prepare the sauce separately. In a deep frying pan, heat 3 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil, add one chopped onion, one coarsely grated carrot and half sweet bell pepper, chopped into thin strips. Sauté the vegetables, stirring until golden brown. Then add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour, fill everything with one glass of boiling water and simmer, stirring constantly, for five minutes. Then add 200 gr. sour cream, 2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped dill. Stir everything and warm, not boiling for another couple of minutes. Remove the gravy from the heat. Lubricate the baking dish with butter, put your meatballs in it, fill it with hot sauce and bake in the oven preheated to 180 ° for 20 minutes.

And on the pages of "Culinary Eden" you can always find even more interesting tips and ideas that will surely tell you how to cook meatballs with gravy.

If you don’t have time, deal simultaneously with a meat dish and garnish sauce, then it is worth trying to cook meatballs with gravy. They will combine both options at once. The dish will complement any assorted vegetables, the usual mashed potatoes, cereals or pasta.

It is better to take not a ready-made meat, but a piece of fresh meat. For example, 800 g of fatty pork. And, besides her, 3 garlic cloves, salt, 1-2 chicken eggs, 4 tbsp. thick tomato paste without additives, oil, 2 white onions, 80 g of rice, bay leaf.

1. A piece of meat with garlic cloves and onion turns into a uniform mincemeat.
2. Groats are boiled in salt water until half ready.
3. Rice is combined with meat mass.
4. The ingredients are salted to taste.
5. Meatballs are molded from the resulting meat and fried in fat or oil.
6. In the same pan, the dish is stewed after boiling for another 45 minutes in a sauce consisting of 2 tbsp. water, tomato paste, salt and bay leaf.

If the dish is intended for children, then the meat balls should not be fried beforehand.

Oven recipe

Juicy meat balls with tender gravy can be prepared in the oven. No rare ingredients are needed for this, only: 450 g of minced meat, 65-75 g of tomato paste, salt, 80 g of rice, 1 tbsp. low-fat, liquid sour cream, egg, pepper mixture, 1 tbsp. with a hill of wheat flour.

1. Groats are boiled in salt water until half ready. It is first important to rinse it thoroughly.
2. The egg is minimally beaten with a mixture of peppers (usually hot, fragrant and black).
3. Meat, rice and egg mixture are combined. They are salting.
4. Meatballs should be the size of a small potato.
5. Tomato and sour cream are mixed and diluted with salted water. Flour dried in a dry pan is added to the sauce.
6. In the baking dish, the meat balls are laid out and poured with the resulting mixture. Cooking meatballs with gravy in the oven will be 40-45 minutes.

Served hot dish, decorated with rings of green onions.

Hedgehogs - meatballs with rice and gravy

To externally the dish really turned out to look like hedgehogs, you need to take long rice. And also: 270 g minced poultry, ¼ Art. cereals, a small egg, half an onion, 2 ripe tomatoes, salt, a small carrot, aromatic herbs, a little less than 2.5 tbsp. drinking water, a dessert spoon of wheat flour.

1. Rice is cooked in unsalted water for no more than 5-7 minutes. It should be minimally saturated with liquid and not boil.
2. The cereal is mixed with meat, an egg is driven into it, aromatic herbs and fine salt are added.
3. Miniature meatballs from the resulting stuffing are laid out in a container with a wide bottom.
4. Half of the white onion is chopped finely, carrots rub on the grater with the smallest cells, together the vegetables are passaged on any fat.
5. Last of all, tomatoes without skin are laid out for frying, and the contents of the container languish until the amount of liquid is reduced by 2 times.
6. Gravy is mixed with pan-dried flour, diluted with water, salted and cooked for 3-5 minutes. Then it is poured onto meat balls.
7. Right in the pan, the dish is stewed for 35-40 minutes.

If necessary, boiling water can be added during cooking.

In a slow cooker

The ideal lunch for a baby up to 3 years old is prepared according to this recipe. It is worth using minced turkey (480 g), as well as: half a glass of white rice, salt, 1 pc. onions and eggs, 3 dessert spoons of white flour, 40 g of sour cream and tomato paste, 350 ml of any broth.

1. An egg is driven into the minced meat, chopped onions, rice intervene and salt is added.
2. Small balls are formed from the mass, which are laid out in the capacity of the multicooker.
3. The tomato is mixed with fat sour cream, broth, salt and poured into a bowl.
4. In the "Stewing" program, the dish is cooked under a closed lid for 55 minutes.

In meatballs with gravy in a crock-pot for crumbs, you should not add spices.

Meatballs with gravy, like in kindergarten

Such refreshments will help even the most serious busy adults return to childhood. It is delicate and fragrant. And it is prepared quickly and simply from the following components: 0.3 tbsp. boiled round unboiled rice, 450 g of minced pork and beef, 2 large chicken eggs, salt, 2 large tablespoons of tomato juice, 1 tbsp. flour and sour cream, 70 g of hard cheese, 1.5 tbsp. purified water.

1. The meat product is mixed with cereals, eggs, and then salted to taste. You can add any aromatic herbs to the mass.
2. Meatballs are molded from the resulting mixture with your hands or with a special device, then crumble in flour and fry until golden.
3. It remains to pour the balls right in the pan with a salted mixture of sour cream, tomato juice, water and grated cheese, and then simmer them under the lid for 15-17 minutes with medium heating.

In such gravy, it is delicious to stew other dishes, for example, cabbage rolls.

The original recipe for minced fish

If desired, you can cook meatballs even from minced fish. For softness, a white bun (about 150 g) is added to the dish, and it is also taken: 520 g of a product from fish, carrots and onions, salt, 2-3 tbsp. tomato paste, 2 tbsp. water, 1.5 tbsp granulated sugar.

1. Onion and carrot are rubbed on a coarse grater, and then fried in fat until soft. Then the components are stewed for a couple of minutes already with tomato paste.
2. A crustless roll is soaked in water.
3. Stuffing is mixed with pressed bread. Then it is salted and seasoned with spices, if desired.
4. Salt, sugar and boiling water are added to vegetables with tomato. Then, small balls of minced meat are immersed in the mass.
5. After boiling, the treat will languish under the lid with a small heat for 15-17 minutes.

Shredded garlic cloves will make gravy more gravy.

Chicken with Tomato Paste

This spicy dish will add a couple of sprigs of fresh rosemary and bay leaf. In addition to seasonings, it is taken: a small white bun, 650 g chicken, 60 g parmesan, salt, half a liter of water, a small spoonful of salt and sugar, a clove of garlic, 1 tbsp. milk, 2 eggs, olive oil, 2 tbsp. tomato juice.

1. Tomato paste with water is brought to a boil. Then salt, bay leaf, sugar and sprigs of rosemary are poured into it. Olive oil is poured in and the mixture is boiled for 20 minutes.
2. Chicken fillet turns into minced meat, mixed with squeezed bread after soaking in boiling water, chopped garlic, salt, eggs, grated parmesan.
3. Formed from the resulting mass, the balls are immersed directly in a boiling tomato with spices and cooked on a small fire for 45-50 minutes.

The treat goes well with buckwheat noodles.

In the sour cream sauce, baked in the oven

Sour cream sauce is always tastier based on the broth, rather than ordinary water. You can even use a finished cube. In addition to the broth (0.6 l), it is taken: 750 g of pork and minced chicken, 80 g of dried white rice, 2-3 garlic cloves, egg, salt, a slice of butter, 1 tbsp. low-fat sour cream, 25 g flour, a pinch of pepper mixture.

1. Semi-finished rice with the egg goes to the minced meat. Salt, seasoning and garlic cloves passed through the press are added to the mass.
2. The meatballs from the resulting mixture in a glass form are cooked in a hot oven to a minimum browning.
3. Sour cream and broth are mixed in a stewpan. As soon as the mass boils, the fire turns off, melted butter and salt are added to the other components of the gravy.
4. The meat balls are poured with sauce and simmer in the oven for about half an hour.

1. Stuffing is combined with milk, breadcrumbs, as well as eggs, beaten with salt and any aromatic herbs to taste.
2. Wet fingers form small balls from the mixture, which need to be fried to a delicious crust.
3. Thin slices of mushrooms are fried in butter in a second frying pan, flour is added to the mass, and with active stirring, a cream is poured into a thin stream.
4. The meat balls are immersed in the gravy and cooked until the mushrooms are ready and the liquid thickens.

The finished dish can be sprinkled with any grated cheese.

With gravy in the pan?

For such a recipe, you will need to stock up on dishes with high sides. And of the products used: 450 g of any mixed minced meat, salt, seasoning for meat, 5 feathers of green onions, carrots, 80 g of rice, a small onion, chicken egg, 1.5 tbsp. ketchup.

1. The cereal is cooked until half ready in salt water, after which it is combined with the meat mass. Half the onion (finely chopped), salt and special seasoning go there. After thorough kneading from the base, you can sculpt meatballs.
2. Chopped carrots and the rest of the bulbs are passivated on any fat. Balls of meat are laid out on them, and water with ketchup is poured on top so that it covers 2/3 of the meatballs.
3. The dish is cooked over medium heat until cooked.

From the minced meat you can cook a large number of delicious dishes. And one of these dishes is meatballs. You can cook them quickly and very varied, using not only meat, but also poultry and fish.

Sometimes they are confused with meatballs, they do not see any difference in these two dishes. However, it exists, although it cannot be called too substantial. But you can distinguish one from the other.

Meatballs are a separate dish that is cooked with gravy in a pan or in the oven. Moreover, not only rice, but also vegetables can be added to the stuffing. They can be served both with the side dish and without it.

Meatballs are also made from minced meat, but their size is much smaller than that of their counterparts. Stuffing is done with spices and herbs, after which they are boiled in the broth, and therefore, often, they are part of a dish, such as soup. Recipes for such soups you can see.

Let us together with you consider how you can deliciously cook this fast and beloved by many dishes on the example of very delicious recipes.

We will cook this dish with the addition of rice, and we will have tomato sauce as gravy. It will turn out incredibly tasty!

We will need:

• minced meat - 500 gr
• boiled rice until half cooked - 1.5 cups
• egg - 1 pc
• onion - 1 pc
• salt, pepper - to taste
• spices - coriander, zira (you can any for meat)
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

For tomato sauce

• carrots - 1 pc
• onion - 1 pc
• garlic - 1 - 2 cloves
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. spoon with a slide
• sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• paprika - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• dill
• bay leaf - 2 pcs.
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

We divide the entire cooking process into three stages.

1. Cooking Meatballs
2. Cooking Tomato Sauce
3. Cooking Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

1. Onion cut into small cubes. The less we cut, the better. Since the meatballs are cooked quickly enough, it will be good if the onion is completely "dissolved" in the meat. Large pieces do not have time to do this, and the bow will be felt, crunching on the teeth. And in products, a homogeneous basis is important so that nothing stands out to taste.

To prepare the meat, we need one onion head, and leave the second head for the sauce.

2. Rub the carrots on a medium grater.

3. Chop the garlic. Incense garlic on your own, whoever loves. You can cut one and two cloves. And you can do without it at all. But it always gives a very important, very aromatic flavor note. Therefore, at least a little, but must be added.

4. The minced meat is already ready, it can be used by anyone you like. Very tasty and tender meatballs are obtained from mixed minced beef + pork. But sometimes according to this recipe, I cook using minced chicken. Then the dish turns out dietary and, what is nice, more economical. And also delicious.

5. We must have ready rice pre-cooked to the floor of readiness. This means that it was necessary to boil it for 10-12 minutes, then drain the water and let it cool. If you use round-grain rice varieties, then they are very boiled and quite sticky. Such rice can be rinsed with warm boiled water.

If you take rice long grain, and even more steamed, then it is no longer necessary to wash it.

Add rice to the minced meat, put chopped onion and chopped garlic with it.

6. Then add the egg, salt, pepper and any spices for meat, if desired. I add my favorite spices - ground coriander and zira. I love them very much and add to any meat dishes.

Stuff the minced meat thoroughly until smooth.

7. Let's start shaping our products. For this we need flour, well, the stuffing itself.

Take a tablespoon of minced meat and roll a ball out of it. Try to take the same amount of minced meat every time so that the products are all the same size. This is important so that everything cooks evenly.

If the stuffing sticks to your hands, and this can be, if it is slightly oily, then they can be moistened with cold water before each new product.

8. Pour the flour onto a small flat plate. Roll each ball into it from all sides and put on a cutting board.

9. Warm a small amount of oil in a pan. It should be hot enough so that the meatballs can quickly fry in it, both outside and inside. But also very hot so that they do not over-brown.

We lay the finished fried products in a separate pan.

10. Let's start cooking tomato sauce. To do this, fry the remaining onions in a separate pan in a small amount of oil. Fry it until soft or slightly golden.

12. Add the carrots and darken all together until the carrots are soft.

13. Then add the tomato paste along with sugar and fry all together for another 3 to 4 minutes.

14. Pour in hot water. The amount of water you vary. It all depends on how much liquid you want to have in the dish. You can add from 1.5 to 3 glasses.

15. Bring the sauce to a boil, add paprika, it will give us a more saturated color, ground black pepper, salt and bay leaf. You can also add chopped greens. I harvested it, and so now I have greens for every taste. I add dill to the sauce. Let it boil for 5 to 7 minutes.

16. Pour the meatballs laid in the sauce into the sauce and simmer over low heat with the lid closed for 30 minutes.

17. Put finished products on a plate, pour a small amount of sauce. Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs.

As you can see, the dish looks very appetizing, and it turns out delicious. In addition, it is prepared quickly enough and not at all difficult.

  “Russian” meatballs with mushroom filling in sour cream filling, cooked in the oven

Unlike many recipes, meatballs prepared in this way have their own name and are called "Russian". A distinctive feature is that they are cooked with dried or fresh mushrooms. Have you ever cooked on such a recipe? Write, very interesting!

We will need:

• beef - 400 gr
• lard - 100 gr
• fresh or frozen mushrooms - 180-200 gr
• or dried - 30 - 40 gr
• onions - 1 - 2 pcs.
• potatoes - 8 pcs.
• butter or vegetable oil - 100 gr
• salt, pepper to taste
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

For gravy (sauce):

• sour cream - 3/4 cup
• butter - 50 gr
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• salt to taste

Cooking:

This recipe cannot be called easy to prepare. For everything, everything will take about 2 hours. Cooking dishes is divided into several parts, and each requires both time and labor costs, you don’t have to sit.

But it's worth it! The dish is simply excellent. Otherwise, it should not be, mushrooms in combination with potatoes, and even with meat - it's just flavoring fireworks! “Russian” - mediocre meatballs would not be called!

1. Wash the meat, dry it and cut it into small pieces with the bacon. Then scroll it in a meat grinder, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of water and salt to taste. Mix.

Water is added to the minced meat so that it is more juicy. Products from such minced meat are more tender and tasty, they have more juice. But add a little so that the stuffing does not become liquid, otherwise it will then be difficult to form meatballs.

In principle, any meat can be used, including two or three varieties can be mixed. It will only taste better.

2. Rinse fresh mushrooms, defrost frozen ones, soak dry ones in water, and then boil in salted water. I use frozen boletus mushrooms, we frozen these mushrooms ourselves. But if you don’t have your own mushrooms, then you can buy champignons and use them.

I thawed the mushrooms, and then cut into small pieces.

3. Onion cut into small cubes. Try to cut it as small as possible so that in the finished dish it does not crunch and does not feel at all.

4. Fry the onion with mushrooms in a small amount of oil, slightly salting them to taste. In this case, use a minimum of oil, otherwise the dish will turn out to be too fat. Our recipe also provides for its use.

5. From the prepared meat, form small balls. I got 7 of them. By the number of finished meat products, I divided the mushroom stuffing into 7 parts as well, so that everything was enough and nothing was left. Then we need to form cakes from each ball. In the middle of each of them put a filling of mushrooms with onions.

6. Then grind so that the filling remains inside. Jewelry work, it is not advisable that the mushrooms crawl out. Form all the balls at once. Then roll them in flour.

Put on a preheated frying pan with a small amount of oil and fry first on one side and then on the other. Add a minimum of oil again. Our meatballs contain fat, it will evaporate and the products will be fried in oil and fat at the same time.

So it’s no coincidence that they turn out so delicious. Everything is thought out!

At the same time, make sure that the fire is not too large, and that the meatballs do not burn. When one side is browned, take two forks, and with their help turn the products on the other side.

See how much fat has formed.

7. In the meantime, our products are fried, let's deal with potatoes. It must be cleaned and cut into small slices or cubes.

Fry in a separate frying pan until cooked on a minimum amount of oil. Salt to taste.

8. Cook the sour cream sauce. To do this, fry the flour in a dry pan. So that it does not burn, watch the fire, it should not be too large. You also need to constantly stir it. Fry for 2 to 3 minutes until slightly creamy in color.

9. Add butter, it is best to use 82% butter. As you can see, enough oil is used, but it is necessary. Reducing its amount is not recommended. Thanks to the oil, the meatballs will turn out simply the most tender. In addition, excess oil subsequently drains into shape and can not be used.

After the butter has melted, add sour cream, salt. I also add pepper to make the gravy sharper. In this case, mix thoroughly. Bring to a boil and turn off. The mixture should slightly thicken.

10. Prepare a baking dish. I will use an elongated glass heat-resistant mold.

11. Put meatballs in the center of the mold. Place potatoes at the edges.

Put sour cream sauce on each meatball, it will turn out like a fur coat. Under it, they will be baked in the oven, and will not dry out at all. They will remain juicy inside, and the crust outside will also remain.

12. Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Put the pan in it and bake until it is slightly browned. I kept in the oven for 20 minutes. This time was enough for everything to be completely ready!

13. After which, remove the form, put the meatballs with potatoes in the plates. Garnish with fresh herbs and fresh or canned cucumber. I cut

As expected, the meatballs turned out to be juicy, soft, tender and incredibly tasty. In addition, mushrooms introduced the smell of wood into them, and butter gave its unique aroma and taste. And all this combined with your favorite fried potatoes - simply impossible to convey in words! Be sure to cook this dish, it will become your favorite!

Here is a recipe called “Russian Meatballs”, original and tasty. Did you like? Sometimes, when you read a new recipe, you even feel the taste of the dish before you even start cooking. Did this happen to you?

  Turkish kyufta in tomato sauce in a pan

Since the dish is oriental, we will cook it from lamb.

We will need:

• lamb flesh - 700 gr
• onion - 1 pc
• garlic - 3 cloves
• greens - a small bunch
• spices - coriander, zira (or others for meat)

For tomato sauce:

• onion - 1 pc
• canned tomatoes in own juice - 400 gr
• cherry tomatoes - 300 gr
• greens - a small bunch
• olive oil - 3-4 tbsp. spoons
• pepper
• bay leaf

Cooking:

1. Rinse the meat, dry it and pass through a meat grinder along with onions, garlic and herbs. Add salt, ground black pepper to taste.

It is best to grind pepper yourself, so the dish will turn out not only tasty, but also incredibly aromatic.

Stir the minced meat thoroughly until smooth.

2. Cut the second onion into small cubes and fry until soft or golden brown in a preheated skillet with high sides in oil.

3. For the recipe, we will use it with the sauce. I have my own homemade tomatoes. If there are none, then you can buy them at the store. Or, as a last resort, replace with tomato paste with the addition of water, as in the first recipe.

Cut the tomatoes from the jar into large cubes, provided that the tomatoes no longer have a peel. If they are with skin, then it must first be removed.

4. Put the chopped tomatoes with the jar sauce in a pan with onions. Add 50 ml of water, pepper and bay leaf, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

5. Meanwhile, form meatballs. It is better to do this with wet hands so that meat and fat do not stick to your hands. Formed balls should be about 4 cm in size.

6. Put the resulting product in a pan with tomato sauce. Lay out cherry tomatoes next to it. Or you can do without them, this is optional.

7. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

8. Grind fresh herbs, pour it into the pan and close the lid again. Leave on for 10 minutes, already without fire.

9. Serve the prepared meatballs with sour cream and fresh herbs.

These Turkish meatballs are very tasty, I tell you! Tasty, delicate and fragrant!

  Classic meatball recipe

We will need:

• meat - 500 gr
• egg 1 - 2 pcs (depending on size)
• white loaf - 80 - 100 gr
• milk - 0.5 cup
• onion - 2 pcs (small)
• chopped parsley - 1 - 2 tsp
• salt, pepper to taste
• fat - 30 g (or vegetable oil)

Cooking:

1. Remove all lived and films from the meat, and then pass it through a meat grinder. From the scraps, it will be possible to weld the broth, adding seeds, of course.

Veins and films will not allow you to get a gentle and juicy stuffing, so they must be removed!

2. Soak a piece of the loaf for a short time in milk, then squeeze and rub through a sieve using a tablespoon or pestle. And also pass through a meat grinder along with meat.

3. Onion cut into very small cubes and fry in fat, or vegetable oil. It should become soft and slightly fried.

4. Add the fried and cooled onions, egg, salt, pepper and parsley to the minced meat. And we have already introduced the roll, twisting it through a meat grinder.

5. Stuff the minced meat thoroughly until smooth and wet your hands to form 8 meatballs.

6. Put them in a pan and pour in pre-cooked and salted broth. Cook for 30 minutes until cooked. Cooking fire should not be too large. Meatballs should simmer moderately. All cooking takes place with the lid closed.

7. From the broth in which our products were cooked, you can prepare sour cream sauce and serve it with it. How to cook sour cream sauce was described in the second recipe.

You can also serve with any side dish of vegetables or rice, or other cereals.

  Oven baked meatballs in sour cream sauce

These tasty meat balls can be prepared not only in a pot and pan. They can also be baked in the oven. And for a change, let's make a completely different sauce.

And for a change we take and cook them immediately with a side dish, that is, with the addition of cabbage. It will turn out as two in one - both a side dish and a main meat dish at once.

We will need:

• meat - 300 gr
• white loaf - 1 slice
• white cabbage - 600 gr
• onion - 2 pcs.

For sour cream sauce:

• sour cream - 5 full tablespoons
• milk - 1 - 1.5 cups
• flour - 3 tbsp. spoons
• butter - 3 tbsp. spoons
• salt, pepper - to taste

For sprinkling:

• breadcrumbs - 2 tbsp. spoons
• cheese - 50 gr

Cooking:

1. Cook the minced meat, grinding in a meat grinder meat, bread and onions. Add salt and black pepper to taste. Pepper is best used freshly ground. So our dish will be even more fragrant.

2. Wet hands to form balls of the same small size.

3. Cut the cabbage into small parts so that on each of them there remains a part of the stalk. She will keep the cabbage leaves together and they will not fall apart during further processing.

4. Put a pot of water on the fire, bring it to a boil and add salt to taste. Boil cabbage in it until half-cooked, well, or almost until done. Who loves how. If you like cabbage crunching slightly, then use the first option, if you like soft cabbage, cook until almost ready.

But keep in mind that she will still languish in the oven.

5. Throw ready cabbage into a colander and let all the water drain.

6. Prepare a baking dish and grease it with oil. It should not be too large, so that when adding sauce to it, all meatballs are almost completely covered by it.

Put cabbage in it. On top of the cabbage, lay out the meat blanks.

7. Now we are going to make the sauce. For him we need a frying pan with high sides. Melt butter over low heat, vegetable oil can also be used if desired. But with butter, an additional delicate aroma and taste will appear.

8. As soon as the butter is melted, immediately add the flour and lightly fry it. At the same time, make sure that it does not turn brown. Otherwise, the sauce will have a bitter taste.

You can add ground nutmeg to the sauce. It will give the sauce a pleasant nutty flavor.

9. Immediately add sour cream, mix thoroughly. And then milk. It must be preheated and added hot. The mixture must be constantly stirred, you can use a whisk or a spatula for this.

Add milk as you like, if you like more gravy, add 1.5 cups of milk. If less, add 1 cup

Warm the mixture well, it should slightly thicken. Bring to a boil, immediately reduce the heat and darken it for 5 minutes with continuous stirring.

10. Pour the prepared cabbage with meatballs with the resulting sauce.

11. Sprinkle top with breadcrumbs and grated cheese.

12. Put the mold in preheated to 180 degrees and bake until cooked. Readiness is determined by the appearance on the top of the dish a pleasant golden crust.

Serve with cabbage, sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs. It is possible with sour cream.

It turns out very tasty! Cook, do not regret it. Then everyone will ask to cook it more than once.

  Oven meatballs in the oven

As I said, you can use chicken or turkey to cook meatballs. So I bring to your attention the following recipe.

We will need:

• chicken or turkey breast fillet - 500 gr
• chicken liver - 200 gr
• cabbage - 200 gr
• onion - 1 pc (small)
• garlic - 2 cloves
• milk - 100 ml
• egg - 2 pcs.
• breadcrumbs - 1 cup
• salt, pepper - to taste

For gravy (sauce):

• chicken stock - 400 ml
• butter - 70 -80 gr
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
• milk - 180 ml
• salt to taste

Cooking:

1. Cook the minced meat. To do this, pass the chicken or turkey skinless fillet through a meat grinder. Also grind and chicken liver.

2. You can certainly not use it, but when I wrote the article about, I was so inspired that now I want to cook it more often.

In addition, we will add it not in vain, our products will receive an excellent taste note in its form. Ate at least once cook such meatballs by adding a liver, then you will always add it. It is checked on itself.

3. Peel the onion and garlic, chop the cabbage into pieces and grind in a blender.

4. Beat eggs with a fork, add breadcrumbs, milk, salt and pepper to it.

5. In a large bowl, mix the minced meat, the cabbage mass and the milk mixture. Stir thoroughly until smooth.

6. To make small meatballs from the forcemeat. Put them on a foil sheet that has been laid and oiled, with which we pre-lined the baking sheet.

7. Place the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 210 degrees. And bake meatballs 15 - 20 minutes until fully cooked.

8. In the meantime, they are baked, prepare gravy or sauce, as you like. To do this, melt the butter in a saucepan, then add the flour in small portions, mixing thoroughly. A big fire is not needed for this, otherwise the flour will start to burn, become dark brown in color and give the sauce bitterness.

Fry flour no more than 2 - 3 minutes.

9. Then, constantly stirring, pour in hot milk and hot broth. Salt the sauce to taste. Cook until thickened, stirring occasionally. So that it does not turn out lumps, you can interfere with its whisk.

10. Remove the prepared meatballs from the oven and put in a saucepan in a saucepan.

11. Stew in the sauce for 7 minutes. Then you can serve with any side dish.

The taste of such a dish is 100%. Delicious! Yes, and cook it is not difficult. Everything is so simple that even someone who has never prepared anything can handle it.

  Recipe for meatballs with rice and sauce in a pan

This is a very interesting recipe, with a surprise inside. Who is trying this dish for the first time. always surprised at this, and with interest examines what kind of filling there is. And all because inside is Brussels sprouts.

We will need:

• minced meat - 400 gr
• boiled rice until cooked - 1 cup
• broth - 1 - 1.5 cups
• egg - 1 pc
• garlic - 2 - 3 cloves
• brussels sprouts - 300 gr
• salt, black pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - for frying

Cooking:

1. Boil Brussels sprouts for 3 - 5 minutes in salted water. Then lay in a colander and let the water drain.

2. In the meantime, cook the minced meat. To do this, finely chop the onion, chop the garlic using a press. Mix all this together with minced meat and add rice, which was previously boiled until half-cooked. Add egg, salt, spices and black pepper.

I have talked a lot about spices and peppers in past recipes and will not be repeated.

Stuffing should not turn out liquid. And if you chopped onions, and did not twist it in a meat grinder, it will turn out that way.

3. Cook the meatballs. Take a little mincemeat, and form small koloboks, placing a small cabbage of Brussels sprouts in each of them.

4. Fry the resulting products in a pan, in a small amount of vegetable oil until a beautiful golden crust.

5. Then pour the broth into the pan, any meat, chicken or vegetable. If it is not salty, then add salt and pepper to taste.

6. Simmer over low heat with the lid closed 15 miut.

7. Then serve with sour cream, sprinkled with fresh herbs. Serve as or garnish. And you can not serve anything, because the side dish is already inside us!

8. Eat with pleasure!

And here is another interesting recipe that children really like, in addition, it is also a diet. Therefore, it is suitable for feeding very young children.

  Minced hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker

This is a very simple recipe, which does not take much time to prepare. I suggest watching a video on this topic, where watching will take less time than reading.

True, this recipe does not quite fit into today's selection, since it is prepared without gravy. But if there is a desire, gravy, or sauce, you can cook according to any of the above recipes. For such meatballs, the same sour cream sauce is perfect.

Well, by the way, they prepare "hedgehogs" in tomato sauce and in broth. True, in such recipes there is no such pronounced type of "thorns", but nevertheless they also have this exotic name.

In conclusion, I want to say that meatballs are one of the simple dishes to prepare, and because of this, it is very beloved and popular among housewives.

But if you show creativity, then from ordinary meat balls in the broth you can cook a wonderful culinary dish. And this is exactly what I tried to achieve in today's article. I chose unusual recipes for the article, each of which has its own “zest”. And it is she who makes the taste of the dish simply unforgettable.

How I managed to do this is for you to judge. If you like recipes, like and share them with your friends. Surely, they will also want to enjoy a delicious meat dish.

If you have interesting recipes, then share them with us. Recipes can be posted in the comments. The most interesting recipes can go to the pages of my blog with the name of the author.

And I wish you all the best! And bon appetit to those who cooked meatballs today!

Alexander Gushchin

I can not vouch for the taste, but it will be hot :)

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Different dishes migrated from Asian to European cuisine. For a couple of centuries, some seemed strange, but in the current realities to meet many among the dishes of a home menu or cafe is commonplace. Recipes include the choice of minced meat to taste, cereals, vegetables, gravy, but how to make meatballs tasty?

Cooking Meatballs

Juicy meatball in the photo beckons with its mouth-watering appearance. Someone wants to feel a delicate taste, and someone prefers meat balls with a crispy crust, but not many people know how to cook meatballs to make them like that. The classic recipe involves a combination of minced meat, rice, when it remains to form balls from the resulting mass, and then put them out in the sauce. You can do this on a stove, in the oven or in a slow cooker; it’s best to choose a low pot or pan from the dishes.

Minced meat

This is the main component that directly affects the taste of the finished dish. The classic recipe provides that the meat is taken on meatballs (pork, beef), often these types are mixed in equal proportions. For the dietary option of the famous second course, chicken, turkey meat is chosen. How to cook meatballs with an original taste, but healthy? Take minced fish, for the preparation of which inexpensive species are suitable (pollock, hake).

Sauce

This second major component has its own special mission. If you choose and prepare the sauce for meatballs correctly, then the finished dish will turn out to be juicy, tender, mouth-watering. Gravy will turn them into an independent hot second or will allow you to choose any side dish to taste: mashed potatoes, spaghetti, vegetable stew. A common version of the sauce is sour cream or tomato, but the most delicious meat balls are obtained by mixing these types.

Meatballs - recipe

The methods for preparing a well-known dish are not much different from each other. To make meat balls look as appetizing as in the photo of the culinary resource, you will have to strictly observe the proportions of the ingredients. Any step-by-step recipe for cooking meatballs contains a description, recommendations that reveal culinary secrets so that the “hedgehogs” turn out soft, with a crispy crust, do not fall apart. Among the options it will not be difficult to find a recipe with an original taste that will surprise guests.

Gravy Meatballs

Juicy, with a delicate taste and always with a golden brown crust - these are the ideal balls with meat and rice. How to cook meatballs with gravy in a pan so that they do not fall apart? First you need to fry them: to do this, take a pan without a lid, gently turn the balls a couple of times, and then transfer to another deep bowl, pouring the sauce.

Ingredients:

• minced meat (pork, beef) - 800 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• boiled rice - 150 g;
• bow - head;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• spices, herbs - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Combine boiled rice with fried onions and minced meat.
2. Transfer to a bowl, add egg, rice, mix.
3. Blind balls, lay out evenly.
4. Prepare gravy by mixing tomato paste with sour cream, spices.
5. Pour sauce, simmer for half an hour.

In the oven

With this culinary recipe, it is very easy to learn how to cook a dish familiar from childhood. How to cook juicy meatballs? The minced meat before the formation of balls should be "beaten off", i.e. pick up, lift, throw on the table, so repeat several times. A step-by-step description of the process will help to avoid unpleasant surprises, and making tips in the oven taste good is useful advice.

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 800 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• rice - 100 g;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• tomato juice - 0.5 cups;
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Mix rice cooked until half cooked with minced meat, onion.
2. To prepare the gravy, take tomato juice, dilute with sour cream.
3. Form balls, roll in flour, fry in a pan
4. Pour sauce, simmer for 30 minutes in the oven.

With rice

The classic recipe for cooking a dish well known from childhood suggests that in addition to minced meat, this cereal will be its second component. If you do not want to spend a lot of time cooking, you can serve this nutritious dish. How to cook meatballs with minced meat with rice? First, select large grains, boil and cool, and therefore proceed to the main process.

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 500 g;
• rice - 200 g;
• water - 400 ml;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 head;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• cream or sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Stir the egg with minced meat, salt, add finely chopped onion, garlic, boiled rice.
2. Form balls, fry in a pan. Transfer to pan.
3. Make a sauce: dilute cream (sour cream), tomato paste with hot water, pour meat balls with rice.
4. Quench the dish under the lid for a quarter of an hour.

In a slow cooker

A useful and convenient kitchen appliance is ideal for preparing a delicious second. Any kind of minced meat is suitable, you can choose pork or turkey, a good option is assorted. It is better to mix it with large white rice, and the remaining products should be added strictly according to the recipe to prevent the formed balls from falling apart. It's time to get down to business and learn how to cook meatballs with a slow cooker.

Ingredients:

• minced pork - 500 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• rice - 120 g;
• water - 200 ml;
• onion - 2 heads;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• ketchup - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Chop onion, add minced meat, egg, thoroughly washed rice, salt.
2. For gravy, combine sour cream, ketchup, flour, stirring until smooth. Then pour a glass of water, beat the sauce again.
3. Form balls, fry for several minutes.
4. When a crust forms, pour the sauce, set the mode "Stew", which will take about half an hour.

Minced chicken

Poultry meat is considered dietary, representing an easily digestible protein. A well-known dish will come out low-calorie, but how to cook meatballs to make them tender? To do this, it is better to take the breast, and before cooking the minced meat, marinate it for a couple of hours in mustard or kefir. If you want to make the dish spicy, then you should cook chicken meatballs in the oven with curry or a mixture of peppers.

Ingredients:

• minced chicken - 600 g;
• boiled rice - 200 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato paste (ketchup) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• breadcrumbs - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the onion, garlic, fry, add to the minced meat with rice.
2. Beat the egg separately, pour the egg mass into the mixture, mix.
3. Form balls, fry in a pan.
4. Make a sauce, mixing sour cream with tomato paste, pour into a pan.
5. Simmer until cooked for no more than 15 minutes.

Ground beef

Another variant of a dish well known from childhood, which proves how nutritious is the combination of meat with rice, pearl barley or buckwheat. How to cook meatballs from beef so that they retain a delicate taste, while being soft? It is better to do the mince yourself, then beat off well, and any cereal should be boiled first.

Ingredients:

• ground beef - 500 g;
• rice (buckwheat, barley) - 100 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• water - 1 cup;
• sour cream - 200 g;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the onion, garlic, pour into minced meat, add rice. To stir thoroughly.
2. Blind balls, roll in flour, fry in hot vegetable oil until golden brown.
3. Transfer to pan, pour sour cream, add water.
4. Simmer for about 40 minutes over low heat.

In sour cream sauce

The taste of this dish melting in the tongue in the finished form will captivate immediately. Especially the child will like chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce, and adults can add mustard or ketchup to make the taste more piquant. How to cook chicken meatballs? Connect the child to this process, he will definitely like to mix products and sculpt meat “hedgehogs” with his own hands.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 600 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• cheese - 200 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• sour cream - 300 ml;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Finely chop the onion, combine with the minced meat, add the egg, knead.
2. Squeeze the garlic in sour cream under a press, mix well.
3. Form “hedgehogs”, put in one layer on the bottom of the dishes, put in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
4. Pour the grated cheese into sour cream with garlic, dilute with hot water, pour the dish, leave for another 20 minutes.

Pork

Nutritious, but easy for the stomach - this explains the popularity of this second course. To make pork minced meatballs with sauce gravy, add soaked white bread. Vegetable stew is suitable for garnish, and for dinner it is better to serve meat balls with gravy as an independent dish in combination with a salad (cabbage, greens, cucumbers, etc.).

Ingredients:

• pork - 1 kg;
• egg - 2 pcs.;
• rice - 200 g;
• tomato paste - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• bow - 1 head

Cooking method:

1. Twist the meat, make minced meat.
2. Boil rice, mix with minced meat, eggs, finely chopped onions.
3. Blind balls, roll in flour, fry.
4. Then pour tomato paste, a glass of water, pour out chopped carrots.
5. Stew under the lid until cooked.

From fish

This cooking option is inferior to meat recipes, but it cooks faster and is useful. How to cook fish meatballs? If done correctly, it will be difficult to refuse the supplement. The most delicate taste helps to preserve the gravy, and the finished dish will appeal to even those who do not particularly favor sea or river fish, useful in the menu of a person.

Ingredients:

• fish fillet - 800 g;
• milk - 200 ml;
• white bread - 50 g;
• tomato paste - 60 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• spices to taste

Cooking method:

1. Crush the bread, soak in milk, pass the fish through a meat grinder along with onions.
2. Roll balls, brew, put in one layer.
3. Fry the tomato paste with flour in a pan, pour half a glass of water, stew.
4. Pour the fill onto the fish balls, bake in the oven for half an hour.

Egg Meatballs

The taste of the finished dish is almost no different from chicken cutlets. If there is a desire to make a quick diet dish, then egg meatballs are perfect for this. Serve them to the table better with vegetables, herbs, boiled potatoes. This variant of the familiar dish will complement the daily menu of fans of healthy eating and will be suitable for those who follow the weight.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 5 pcs.;
• potatoes - 1 pc.;
• bread –300 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• fat - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• spices to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Beat 4 eggs, beat as if on an omelet, add onion, fry.
2. Soaked bread in milk, boil boiled potatoes through a meat grinder along with fried eggs.
3. In the resulting mixture add a raw egg, a tablespoon of flour.
4. Form balls, simmer until tender.

To bake, stew, or fry meatballs from minced meat is a matter of taste. In order for meat balls to turn into a gingerbread reminiscent of a carefree childhood, you will have to get acquainted with some culinary tricks. Here are some practical tips from the masters, with the help of which it will turn out to cook an appetizing second that will not disappoint with either taste or appearance:

• Before adding to the composition of the future dish, cereal should be boiled.
• To make a crisp, you can use wheat, rice flour, breadcrumbs.
• Use one pan for frying, and the other for stewing, i.e. shift into it a half-finished dish.

Video

Juicy meatballs are a favorite dish of adults and children. In different countries, housewives cook it in different ways. For example, in the Czech Republic, meat balls are not fried, but immediately stewed in tomato sauce. Popular Swedish meatballs are made very small and served with lingonberry sauce. In our country, they are most often cooked with rice in the oven, steamed or fried in a pan. From our article you will learn how to cook meatballs with rice and aromatic sauce.

Classic recipe

These meatballs will remind you of delicious dinners that cooks prepared for you in kindergarten and at school. If you want to revive these pleasant memories, then carefully read the recipe:

• Peel one small onion and small carrot. Put the vegetables in a blender bowl and chop. If you wish, you can rub them on the smallest grater.
• Boil 200 grams of rice until tender in slightly salted water.
• Mix 600 grams of minced meat (pork and beef) with prepared ingredients. Add to them salt and ground pepper to taste.
• Form small balls from the minced meat and carefully lay them in rows in a three-liter pan.
• In a separate bowl, mix three tablespoons of tomato paste, 150 ml of sour cream, dry basil, salt and half a liter of boiling water.

Pour meatballs with the resulting sauce, put the pan on medium heat and simmer the dish until the meat is ready.

Meatballs for children

This recipe is great for baby food. To cook meatballs for children in milk, you will need:

• Boil until cooked 250 grams of rice.
• Mix it with 500 grams of minced meat, chopped onion, salt and ground pepper.
• The resulting homogeneous mass should be covered with cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• When the necessary time has passed, form round balls of minced meat and place them in a baking dish at a short distance from each other.
• Pour one liter of milk into the mold so that it almost completely covers the meatballs.
• Place the meatballs in the preheated oven and leave it there for 40-50 minutes.
• When the dish is ready, pour most of the milk into a bowl and mix it with a little flour. Return the sauce back and place the pan in the oven for another ten minutes.

Serve the finished dish to the table with a side dish of pasta or stewed vegetables.

Meatballs with rice in tomato sauce

Here is another popular option for making tasty and juicy meat balls. If you want to diversify your menu, you can enter additional ingredients into their composition. It can be sweet bell pepper, mushrooms or fresh forest mushrooms. To cook meatballs with rice in tomato sauce according to the classic recipe, carefully read the instructions:

• Take 150 grams of dry rice cereal, rinse it thoroughly and boil it until tender. So that the grains do not stick together, at the end you can add a little butter to the pan.
• Peel the carrots and onions, and then chop with a grater and knife. Fry the vegetables until translucent with a little vegetable oil.
• Combine 500 grams of minced meat with one chicken egg, cooled roasting and boiled rice. Add salt and pepper to them.
• Mix the products until smooth, and after that, mold medium-sized balls from the resulting stuffing.
• Place the meatballs in a tight enough shape to each other and put in the preheated oven for half an hour.
• To prepare the sauce, fry the chopped onion in vegetable oil. Add salt, pepper, three tablespoons of sour cream and 200 ml of tomato juice to the pan. Simmer the sauce over low heat until cooked.
• When the meatballs are covered with a golden brown, they should be removed from the oven and pour in tomato sauce. After that, return the form to the oven and cook the dish for another half hour.

Serve the meatballs to the table hot with any side dish, pouring them with sauce beforehand.

Fried meatballs

Having prepared this juicy dish according to our recipe, you will surely leave it in your cookbook forever. How to make meatballs from minced meat and rice is described below.

• Cook 500 grams of minced pork.
• Fry chopped onions and carrots in a pan.
• Boil 60 grams of round rice.
• Combine all the prepared ingredients in a large bowl, season with salt and pepper. Stir the minced meat thoroughly and make medium-sized meatballs out of it with wet hands.
• Preheat the pan, pour a small amount of vegetable oil into it and fry balls on it from both sides.
• For the sauce, mix under two tablespoons of sour cream and tomato paste, and then dilute them with half a liter of boiled water.
• Transfer the fried meatballs to the pan and pour them with sour cream and tomato sauce.
• Simmer on low heat for approximately 40 minutes. At the end, if necessary, add salt and other spices.

Cool the meatballs a little and serve for dinner with a salad of fresh vegetables.

Meatballs in a slow cooker

If you are waiting for guests or you need to cook dinner for the whole family, then you will be helped by an indispensable assistant - a crock-pot. This device allows you not to be distracted by cooking, and you can do urgent things. When the dish is ready, you just have to get it and call the guests to the table. The recipe for meatballs in a multicooker is quite simple:

• Make 500 grams of homemade minced meat from beef and pork.
• Chop the onion and chop finely.
• Boil half a glass of rice.
• Combine the ingredients, add salt, pepper and a raw egg to them. Knead all the ingredients thoroughly.
• Form the balls from the minced meat and put them in the appliance bowl.
• Mix 500 ml of water or broth with two tablespoons of flour, two tablespoons of tomato paste, the same amount of sour cream (it can be replaced with cream or mayonnaise) and chopped onions.
• Pour the meatballs with the resulting sauce and put the slow cooker in the "Extinguishing" mode for one hour.

As you can see, the recipe for meatballs in the multicooker is not at all complicated, and even a novice cook can cope with it. So feel free to get down to business, and when the dish is ready, serve it to the table with your favorite side dish.

Meatballs in a double boiler

If you urgently need to feed a hearty meal several hungry men, then this recipe will help you cope with the difficult task. To cook meatballs for a couple, you will need:

• Prepare a mixture of 500 grams of minced meat, 100 grams of boiled rice, one egg, chopped onion, salt, pepper and a small amount of soy sauce.
• Stir the food well, and then form medium-sized balls with wet hands.
• Grease a bowl of a double boiler with vegetable oil and put meatballs in it.

Cook the dish until cooked and serve it on the table with buckwheat porridge and fresh vegetable salad.

Chicken Meatballs

Here is a recipe for a budget dish that can be served for lunch or dinner for the whole family. Cooking chicken meatballs with rice is very simple:

• Boil 100 grams of rice until half cooked and rinse in cold water.
• From chicken breasts, cook 500 grams of low-fat minced meat.
• Peel one onion and three cloves of garlic. Grind them and add to the chicken.
• Mix the minced meat with rice, add salt, pepper, a couple of tablespoons of sour cream and seasoning "Provencal herbs".
• Blind balls of the same size with wet hands, roll them in flour and put in a baking dish.
• Put the meatballs in the preheated oven for half an hour.
• Make a sauce of 150 grams of sour cream, 500 ml of water and dry basil.
• Remove the prepared meatballs from the oven, pour them with sauce and return to the oven.

Knowing how to make chicken meatballs, you can always quickly and satisfyingly feed your family.

American Meatballs

You will definitely like this kind of meat dish, which is not quite usual for us. How to cook meatballs with rice, read on:

• Twist 500 grams of pork in a meat grinder with one onion. Mix the resulting minced meat with one chicken egg, salt and pepper.
• Two cream cheese or 200 grams of hard cheese, grate and mix with minced meat.
• Make small round meatballs.
• Dip four large tomatoes in boiling water for ten seconds, and then remove, free them from the skin and finely chop.
• Put the tomatoes in a pan, add salt, sugar, allspice and simmer until they have enough juice.
• Dip meatballs in the resulting sauce and send them to bake in the oven until cooked.

Hot meatballs can be served with any garnish.

Meatballs in mushroom sauce

You can make this fragrant dish from forest mushrooms or fresh champignons. How to cook meatballs with rice?

• For minced meat you will need to mix 300 grams of chopped meat, half a glass of boiled rice, chopped onions, salt and spices.
• Form balls and cook them in a slow cooker for 40 minutes.
• Fry 200 grams of chopped mushrooms and one onion in vegetable oil, add one packet of cream and a couple of spoons of sour cream to the frying. Add starch mixed in water to the products.
• Pour the meatballs with the resulting sauce and cook them together for another half hour.

We will be glad if the recipes collected in this article come in handy. We also hope that you have received the answer to the question of how to cook meatballs with rice, and you will no longer have difficulties with the preparation of dishes.