Minced meatballs - the simplest dish. The same minced meat can be used to prepare different types of meatballs, the products themselves can be served with various side dishes and sauces. This is a universal dish, because they are prepared from any type of meat. And now more about how meatballs are prepared from minced meat.

Classic meatballs with rice

We all come from childhood, so catering, which fed us in kindergartens, schools, student canteens, firmly stuck in our heads and taste preferences. Many still remember the distant taste of meatballs baked on a baking sheet, which were sticky, fragrant, in a light, but not at all tomato sauce, as usual. They seemed very tasty. We tried to find this classic recipe to remember that time.

Meatballs are made from minced meat, but they differ from cutlets in that they always contain a filler in the form of rice, vegetables or bread, they are shaped like balls and must be rolled in flour before frying or baking, but not breadcrumbs, as is done with cutlets. In addition, meatballs are usually cooked in sauce.

So, to cook classic minced meatballs with rice, you need an oven.

And the following products (given per serving):

• cutlet meat (you can use beef, pork, mixed minced meat, as well as veal and lamb) - 105 g;
• water - 12 g;
• rice - 11 g;
• onions - 29 g;
• animal fat (can be replaced with vegetable oil) - 4 g;
• flour - 8 g.

It is clear that if you are preparing for a family, then accordingly multiply the number of grams to the desired proportions.

Working process:

1. Cut the onion, sauté in fat.
2. Boil rice until half cooked. It is important to know that in this recipe and in all others, the rice is not washed after boiling in order to maintain its stickiness.
3. Mix onion with rice, add minced meat from cutlet meat, salt, pepper, mix and form medium-sized balls, cutting at the rate of three meatballs per serving.
4. Bread the balls with flour and place them on a greased baking sheet or a shallow frying pan in one row.
5. Bake until half cooked, transfer to a saucepan and pour milk so that the minced hedgehogs are almost covered. Put on fire and simmer over low heat. You can leave them on a baking sheet, if it is small, pour milk over it and send it to the oven on a minimum fire. After extinguishing, turn off and leave for the milk to be absorbed. So hedgehogs will absorb the delicious creamy taste.

Many people called such meatballs - hedgehogs.

With rice - like in kindergarten

Another recipe is circulating on the Internet, which is also called meatballs from kindergarten. This variant is actually called meatballs with red sauce, and you can find it in a 1985 cookbook. The taste is really soft and pleasant. You can make meatballs according to this recipe both from one pork, and from mixed ground pork and beef.

Here's what's required:

• 0.4 kg of finished minced meat;
• one egg, onion;
• a glass of rice;
• salt and pepper.