Carlson loved them! And we, too, since childhood, love these small round cutlets in a wonderful sauce. The meatballs are prepared quickly, and the meatball sauce gives them a special tenderness and juiciness.

Meatballs are distinguished from ordinary cutlets by the method of minced meat preparation: it must contain eggs, a greater amount of soaked bread and onions (and sometimes other ingredients) compared to cutlets, but the most important thing is that the minced meat for the meatballs must be beaten off. Otherwise, the meatballs will fall apart during cooking.

The most delicious meatballs are obtained from mixed minced meat. Feel free to add minced chicken or turkey - the taste of meatballs will only benefit from this. And it is a pleasure to mold meatballs from such minced meat, it is plastic and juicy.

If you add long-grain rice to the minced meat, you get hedgehog meatballs, kids love them very much. Sauce for meatballs with rice for a children's menu is best made from sour cream, milk or cream, without adding pepper.

However, you now have a great opportunity to choose your own meatball sauce. Our site has collected all the most interesting and simple recipes. And for those who decided to cook this dish for the first time, we offer a universal recipe for meatballs.

Meatballs

Ingredients:
500 g mixed minced meat
2 eggs,
2 onions,
150-200 g of stale white bread,
200 ml of milk for soaking bread,
salt, black pepper - to taste.

Preparation:
For minced meat, you can take pork, beef and chicken or turkey in equal amounts. If you bought ready-made minced meat, pass it through the meat grinder again to make it even softer. Grate the onion on a fine grater or chop with a blender until mushy. Soak white bread in milk and squeeze. Combine all the ingredients and mix well, then beat the minced meat on a countertop or cutting board. Slap the minced meat on the surface for about five minutes, and you will notice how its structure changes. Rolled tefllek - roll them in flour and fry quickly and quickly in hot vegetable oil until golden brown. It will seal all the juices inside the balls. Place the meatballs on a baking sheet or in a deep skillet, pour the meatball sauce and send to the oven or on the stove, over low heat and under the lid.

In the basic recipe for meatballs, you can add grated raw potatoes, boiled rice, cheese (hard or processed) and even cottage cheese. But the most important thing is still the sauce.

Simple tomato sauce for juicy meatballs

Ingredients:
2 tbsp. water,
2 tbsp. l. tomato paste
2 tbsp. l. flour,
1 tsp coriander,
5 black peppercorns,
½ tsp salt,
Bay leaf,
sugar to taste.

Preparation:
Dilute the tomato paste with water, add flour and the rest of the ingredients while stirring. Mix thoroughly and pour the prepared sauce into a saucepan with meatballs and simmer them with the sauce until tender. You can add a clove of garlic to the sauce.

Spicy sauce with orange juice

Ingredients:
½ stack. ketchup,
1 orange (juice)
¼ tsp hot sauce or chili,
2 tbsp soy sauce,
2 tbsp grain mustard,
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp starch (better than corn),
2 tbsp Sahara.

Preparation:
Combine orange juice, sugar, starch and apple cider vinegar and stir until sugar dissolves. In a separate bowl, combine the ketchup, soy sauce and hot sauce or red pepper and mustard. Pour everything into a heavy-bottomed skillet, place over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about five minutes. You can add orange zest to the finished sauce. The sauce is very tasty, sweet and sour, with a citrus aroma.

Classic white sauce

Ingredients:
1 tbsp. l. flour,
½ tbsp. l. butter,
2-3 st. broth.

Preparation:
Mash the butter and flour, put the mixture in a pan and bring to a hot state, while the flour should not turn yellow. Combine the mixture with vegetable, meat or chicken broth and, stirring with a spatula, bring to the desired density.

Sour cream sauce

Ingredients:
½ tbsp. sour cream,
1 tbsp. l. butter,
1 tbsp. l. flour,
1 tbsp. broth,
salt to taste.

Preparation:
Lightly fry the flour in oil, dilute with hot meat broth or vegetable broth, add sour cream and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes. At the end of cooking, strain the sauce, salt and stir.

Sour cream sauce with onions

Ingredients:
½ tbsp. sour cream,
1.5 tbsp. l. butter,
1 tbsp. l. flour,
1 tbsp. broth,
1 onion
½ tbsp. l. hot sauce,
salt to taste.

Preparation:
Fry the flour in butter, dilute with hot meat broth or vegetable broth, add sour cream and cook over low heat for about 8 minutes. Separately fry the finely chopped onion in butter and add to the sauce. Then remove the prepared sauce from the heat, salt and add the hot sauce to taste.

Sour cream sauce with vegetables

Ingredients:
1.5 tbsp. low-fat sour cream,
1 tbsp. l. flour,
1 carrot,
1 onion
1 bell pepper
1 tbsp. any broth or just water,
salt and spices to taste.

Preparation:
Cut the onion into small cubes and fry it in a pan with heated vegetable oil until transparent. Then add the rest of the vegetables cut into small pieces to the onion and simmer together until tender. Then add flour to the pan and fry with vegetables until golden brown. Dissolve sour cream with broth and gradually pour the mixture into a pan with vegetables. Now salt the contents of the pan, season with spices, let it simmer for a few minutes and pour the meatballs with the prepared sauce.

Pink meatball sauce

Ingredients:
3 tbsp. any broth or water,
2 tbsp. l. tomato paste
2 tbsp. l. sour cream,
1 onion
2 tbsp. l. flour
1 st. l. Sahara,
2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil,
a mixture of peppers to taste.

Preparation:
Heat vegetable oil in a pan, fry chopped onions in it, add flour, mix well. Dissolve sour cream and tomato paste in broth or water and pour the mixture, stirring occasionally, into the pan. Add sugar and spices there to taste. Let the sauce simmer over low heat and pour the meatballs laid out on a baking sheet. Cover them with foil and place them in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes.

White milk sauce for meatballs

Ingredients:
1 tbsp. milk,
1 tbsp. l. flour,
vegetable oil,
salt, pepper, herbs.

Preparation:
Pour flour into a small amount of vegetable oil heated in a pan and stir it quickly. Then, stirring constantly, gradually pour in the milk and add the spices. Toss and quickly remove the sauce from the heat, otherwise it will become too thick.

Mushroom sauce with sour cream

Ingredients:
1.5 tbsp. sour cream,
250-300 g of champignons,
1-2 onions
1 tbsp. l. flour,
vegetable oil,
salt and spices to taste.

Preparation:
Take two pans. In one in vegetable oil, fry the mushrooms cut into small pieces, in the other - chopped onion. Combine the contents of two pans, add flour, stir and cook until the flour turns golden. Then add sour cream, salt and spices, let it boil for a few minutes and, after removing from heat, pour the prepared sauce into a blender, where mix the sauce until smooth. After that, pour the meatballs with the sauce.

See what a variety! Your meatballs will be a real hit on the dinner table!

Larisa Shuftaykina

Meatballs are a dish made from minced meat and shaped like balls. In addition to meat, they may include rice or other cereals, various vegetables, bread, bread crumbs and other ingredients.

Meatballs are quite popular in different parts of the world. In some countries, such as Sweden and Turkey, they are even a national dish. True, there they are called differently. Kufta, Swedish meatballs, arancini - all these are variations on the well-known meatballs.

In Eastern Europe, meatballs are traditionally made from minced pork and beef with rice, onions and carrots. Balls are formed from this mixture and stewed in tomato sauce. But the following recipe allows you to look at a familiar dish in a new way. Here minced meat will be replaced with chicken, and tomato sauce - with creamy. Thanks to this, the taste of the finished dish will turn out to be much softer than that of ordinary meatballs. We offer two recipes for chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce - in the first recipe we add a little garlic to the creamy sauce, the second recipe is chicken meatballs with cream and mushrooms.

Ingredients

• chicken breast fillet - 300-350 g;
• onion - 1 onion;
• white bread or roll - 1 piece;
• milk - 70 ml;
• chicken egg - 1 pc .;
• salt - 0.5 tsp;
• a mixture of ground peppers - 1/4 tsp;
• vegetable oil - 1 tsp.
• for the sauce:
• cream - 200 ml;
• flour - 1 tsp. without a slide;
• garlic - 1 slice;
• salt - 0.5 tsp;
• nutmeg - 1/4 tsp (not necessary).

Preparation

How to cook minced chicken

Our meatballs will include: chicken fillet, onions, eggs, rolls, salt, pepper. It is not necessary to use the breast, fillets and other parts of the bird will do.

Remove the skin from the chicken breast, if necessary, separate the fillet from the bones, rinse and dry.

Peel the onion, cut into several large slices and place in a blender bowl with a knife attachment. Chop the onion by turning on the blender.

Cut the fillet into large pieces and put on the onion.

A few short blenders and fillets turned into mince.

Season it with salt, a mixture of peppers, add an egg and a crumbled piece of bread, previously soaked in milk.

Stir the mixture for a few more seconds using the same blender and here we have a wonderful minced chicken.

How to form meatballs

The size of chicken balls can be from 2 to 5 cm in diameter, as you like. Moisten your palms with water, so the minced meat will not stick to them, and form meatballs. Put them in a frying pan greased with vegetable or butter.

I got 14 small meatballs.

Fry meatballs over medium heat under a closed lid for literally 3 minutes, not forgetting to turn them over.

How to make a creamy sauce

In a wide glass or bowl, combine a small amount of cream and flour. Stir very well so that no lumps remain. Add salt, chopped garlic and remaining cream. I also put in a pinch of ground nutmeg, I love its spicy aroma (optional, optional).

Pour the cooked creamy sauce over the chicken meatballs.

Simmer in a skillet with the lid closed for 5-7 minutes.

All! Done! Yes, yes, so fast!

I cooked rice as a side dish, for my taste this is the most suitable side dish for chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce.

Less than half an hour has passed, and on your table there is an incredibly tasty, delicate and aromatic dish!

The next day, the chicken meatballs will become even juicier, as they absorb some more creamy sauce.

Chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce with mushrooms

Meatballs are small balls of meat. They are cooked either in the oven or in a pan. I will suggest the second option.

This dish is prepared very quickly, so it can be safely prepared for dinner even on a weekday after work. Rice, pasta or mashed potatoes are served as a side dish for meatballs. For more juiciness, you can make chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce with mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• minced chicken - 400 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 1-2 cloves;
• bread crumbs - 2 tablespoons;
• rice - 3 tablespoons;
• cream 10-15% fat - 200 ml;
• champignon mushrooms - 100 g;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. Chop the onion very finely or chop it with a blender.
2. Grate the garlic on a fine grater or pass through a special press.
3. Boil rice until cooked.
4. Combine all prepared ingredients with minced chicken, add breadcrumbs, season to taste and mix thoroughly.
5. From the resulting mass, form balls the size of a tangerine.
6. Put the formed meatballs to fry on all sides in vegetable oil until a light crispy crust forms.
7. Meanwhile, cut the mushrooms into thin slices.
8. Transfer the fried meatballs to a baking dish, put the mushrooms on them and pour the cream together.
9. Send the form to the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 15-20 minutes. During this time, the cream will thicken and become a fragrant sauce, and meatballs with mushrooms are completely baked.

Advice:

• Before baking, you can add a bay leaf or a sprig of thyme to the cream. The sauce will become much more flavorful.
• For special mushroom lovers, you can make meatballs with champignons not only on top, but also inside. To do this, select the smallest mushrooms and wrap them inside each meatball.
• If the finished dish is sprinkled with grated cheese and fresh herbs, then it may well claim to be a festive one.
• Minced chicken can be replaced with turkey. Then the meatballs will become even more tender and dietary.
• Chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce will turn out softer if the minced meat is additionally chopped in a blender.

You don't have to be a child or follow a diet prescribed by your doctor to love meatballs. The dish itself can be so tasty that both strong men and elegant ladies crush it with great pleasure. And if you cook meatballs in a creamy sauce, it will be impossible to tear yourself away from them! There are several ways to choose from to make a wonderful gravy that will make your meatballs a masterpiece. By the way, any of them is also suitable for other meat dishes.

Basic recipe

The base itself is done the same way in almost all recipes. Of course, you can replace rice with buckwheat or play with different types of meat, experiment with seasonings or try a different breading - but these are details. The principle of cooking meat balls remains the same. Take half a kilogram of meat, grind with a soaked bun, pepper and salt. A glass of rice is boiled and added to the minced meat along with chopped parsley. If desired, crushed garlic can be added at the same time. An egg is driven in, the minced meat is kneaded, and small balls roll out of it. They are breaded in flour and fried until crisp on all sides for about ten minutes. Then they are transferred to a mold and baked - or stewed under a lid on the stove. And to make meatballs in a creamy sauce, the gravy itself is made. One hundred grams of hard cheese is rubbed into a glass with a little heavy cream, the mass is mixed and poured onto the meatballs. If you put them in the oven, then for ten minutes. But you should not take it out immediately after the time has expired, let it stand in the heat for the same time.

Unusual meatballs

Differences with basic cooking begin at the stage of minced meat preparation. And the author came up with his own recipe for gravy. Meatballs in a creamy sauce, first of all, will become softer and acquire a non-standard taste if you add an apple to the minced meat. It is cleaned, crumbles very finely and is introduced into the minced meat at the same time as the onion. The rolled meatballs are not fried, but for three minutes they are boiled in one and a half glasses of good broth (the calculation of products is based on the same pound of meat). A piece of butter is dissolved in a frying pan, a tablespoon of flour is poured into it; how it becomes golden - broth and a glass of milk are poured in. Boil - cream is introduced (near the stack). Grated cheese is poured last, and the gravy is poured into the meatballs. Such meatballs are stewed in a creamy sauce for about half an hour. The result is so wonderful that those who have tried the dish demand to cook it almost every day.

Mustard cream sauce

The meat balls themselves are made according to a standard recipe, transferred to a baking sheet (no need to fry) and baked in the oven for about 20 minutes. The zest of the recipe is in the gravy. And best of all, chicken meatballs are obtained in it - in a creamy sauce with mustard, they acquire a brighter and more pronounced taste. For him, a bunch of dill is finely chopped, a dessert spoon of flour is fried a little in a dry frying pan, a glass of low-fat cream is poured into it and vigorously stirred to avoid the formation of lumps. How it boils - add dill, a tablespoon of grain mustard and the same amount of ordinary (strong or Dijon - depends on how much you like spicy), a third of a spoonful of nutmeg and salt. The gravy is poured onto the toasted meatballs, and the meatballs in a creamy sauce with mustard are put in the oven for another quarter of an hour.

Tomato cream sauce

Again - cook the balls themselves in the most usual way and lightly fry. You can take other meat, including chicken fillet - under the influence of the tomato "cutlets" from it become very tender. For gravy, half a glass of homemade tomato juice is mixed with the same volume of cream, salt and selected spices. No juice - you can do with a third glass of tomato paste, diluted to the top with water. Next, meatballs in tomato-cream sauce are stewed for about a third of an hour. At the end, grated cheese is poured in, and the pan is left over the fire until it melts.

Cranberry Cream Sauce

With it, meatballs are usually prepared from a mixture of beef and pork. However, the principle remains the same: minced meat, rice, spices - and sticky balls are fried in vegetable oil. Differences begin only at the next stage. Firstly, meatballs in a creamy sauce with cranberries are usually not baked, but stewed. Second, the gravy ingredients are poured directly into the skillet, rather than being mixed separately. Cream is the first to go into business - at least 20% fat, an incomplete glass (about 150 ml). For three to four minutes, the contents of the pan are warmed up, then 40-50 ml of vodka is poured. It is not necessary to take a super-quality one - it will evaporate anyway - but you should not agree to moonshine either: spoil the taste of the dish. At the same time put a spoonful of cranberry jam and one and a half - frozen berries. You cannot stir with a spoon, you must occasionally shake the container itself - carefully and carefully. When the meatballs in a creamy sauce with cranberries boil, the fire is tightened to a minimum, and they are stewed for another five minutes. Tasty and unusual!

Creamy mushroom sauce

Another recipe for the oven. Although if you want to cook chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce with mushrooms, it will still be better to stew them - five minutes after adding the gravy. For beef, pork, or a combination of both, it is best to use the oven. The balls themselves are made as standard and are fried before using the sauce. For gravy, melt two tablespoons of butter, in which a spoonful of flour is allowed for thirty seconds. When it turns brown, a glass of broth is poured in (from the same meat that was put on the meatballs). Stir until the sauce is smooth. Then add a large spoonful of brown sugar and pre-fried mushrooms (preferably forest). After boiling, the gravy is boiled for five minutes and poured into the meatballs. If you cook meatballs in a creamy mushroom sauce in the oven, sprinkle them with lemon and leave in the oven for ten minutes. For chickens that are stewing, lemon will be superfluous.

How to make delicious meatballs

An article on how to cook meatballs with creamy sauce in two ways: in the oven and in a pan. There are two detailed recipes and tips for making them.

30 min

210 kcal

5/5 (2)

Meatballs Are meat balls made from minced meat. They suit absolutely any side dish, and a variety of cooking options sauces and gravies no mistress can leave indifferent to them. In addition, you can cook them very quickly, without spending a lot of money, but simply using the leftover meat or minced meat from the refrigerator. If you do not prepare fatty and heavy sauces for them, then this dish can be called dietary, since there is nothing in them except meat and vegetables.
The meatballs are always tender and soft, easily digestible and do not harm the stomach, so this dish is great for small children and old people.

Cooking meatballs in the oven

Kitchen appliances: meat grinder, plate, baking sheet, oven.

Ingredients

Cooking process

1. Breasts, onions, carrots. All the components are washed, cut into pieces and passed through a meat grinder.
   
2. Minced meat, spices, cream. Add salt, pepper, other spices to taste and a little cream to the minced meat and mix everything thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous, slightly liquid mass, but without excess moisture.
   
3. Minced meat, cream. We form balls of minced meat and get on a baking sheet.
   
4. Fill the meatballs with creamso as to cover them. Salt and pepper a little again. We send it to the oven, heated to 180 °, for 15-20 minutes.
   
5. When the meatballs are ready, they will be covered with a golden crust, which means they can be served.
   

Video recipe - meatballs in the oven

Now watch the video and check if all the cooking steps are clear to you. The girl prepares and comments on her every action, so that you can find out a couple of useful things about spices and other features of cooking meatballs.

Cooking meatballs in a pan

• Time for preparing: 25-30 minutes.
• Servings: 7-8 servings
• Kitchen appliances: meat grinder, plate, frying pan, fork or spatula.

Ingredients

• Chicken breasts - 500 g.
• Large onion - 1 PC.
• Carrot - 1 PC.
• Egg - 1 PC.
• Garlic - 2 teeth.

• Cream - 200 ml.
• Milko - 200 ml.
• Flour for breading.
• Salt pepper.
• Greens.

Cooking process

1. Breasts, onions, carrots. We clean, wash the vegetables and pass them along with the meat through a meat grinder.
2. Minced meat, egg, garlic, spices. Mix the minced meat and add the egg to it. Squeeze the garlic into the same place (or cut it very finely), salt, pepper and mix well again.
   
3. Minced meat, flour, cream, milk. Roll up small balls from minced meat, wrap them in flour and put them on a platter.
   
4. Put meatballs on the oil heated in a pan and fry until golden color on both sides.
   
5. Then pour into meatballs cream and milkso that the liquid covers them. Cover with a lid and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat.
   
6. Ready meatballs can be laid out immediately on a side dish or on a separate dish and sprinkle with herbs... Enjoy your meal!
   

Video recipe - meatballs in a pan

You can also watch the video to make sure you get it right. In addition, in the video you can find for yourself a couple of useful tips and see the cooking process with your own eyes.

What meatballs are served with

Meatballs are an excellent meat dish for any side dish. Therefore, you can apply to them potatoescooked in different ways porridge, pasta, spaghetti... But I would not recommend stewed vegetables, although everyone has their own taste. You can just eat a couple of meatballs with bread or flat cake or add to them salad, boiled eggs or omelet... It all depends on your taste!

• In order for the minced meat to hold better and not fall apart, you need to place it in a bag and slightly beat off on a table or cutting board.
• Onions for meatballs need cut very finely or mince.
• To make the meatballs juicier, you can add a little dry bread.

Other options

• The above is only a cooking option.
• You can cook them from other minced meat, for example, from beef, pork or even fish -
• Besides cooking or in a pan, there is a cooking method.
• You can add rice or bread to meatballs, prepare sour cream, tomato or other sauce for them. You can also add small meatballs (meatballs) to soup. There are a lot of recipes, you just have to try.

What do you add to meatballs and with what sauce do you cook them? Maybe you know the secrets of making meatballs? Share it in the comments and make other people's lives even better!

Creamy sauce is the perfect addition to meatballs. A delicate gravy envelops each meatball, making the dish tasty and juicy. The meatballs themselves are prepared in a standard way, from minced meat with rice, then fried in flour breading and stewed in sauce. At the discretion of the culinary specialist, you can experiment with different types of meat, use buckwheat instead of rice, add other seasonings or replace breading. You can also complicate the sauce, for example, add grated cheese to it, and then bake the meatballs in a creamy sauce in the oven until golden brown. But today we will cook meatballs in a creamy sauce in a frying pan according to the classic recipe.

Ingredients

for meatballs

• minced beef-pork 500 g
• rice 0.5 tbsp.
• salt 1 tsp
• onions 1 pc.
• chicken egg 1 pc.
• a mixture of ground peppers 2 chips.
• wheat flour 2-3 tbsp. l.
• vegetable oil for frying

for sauce

• butter 30 g
• wheat flour 0.5 tbsp. l.
• meat broth 250 ml
• cream or sour cream 200 ml
• a mixture of ground peppers 1 chips.
• parsley for serving

Recipe for meatballs in a creamy sauce in a pan (photo)

1. Boil rice until half cooked. We fall asleep 0.5 tbsp. rice in boiling salted water (for 2 tablespoons of water - 1 tsp. salt), cook for 5 minutes from the moment of boiling. We drain the boiling water, while we do not rinse the rice, just let it cool.
2. 
   Combine boiled rice and minced meat in a deep bowl. Add egg, salt and pepper. Here we put onions, finely chopped with a knife or grated.
3. 
   Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. It should turn out to be uniform, the ratio of meat to rice is 1: 1 or 2: 1, respectively.
4. 
   We roll up small balls with a diameter of 2-3 cm (if necessary, you can dip your hands in oil or water). It turns out 30-35 pieces.
5. 
   Breaded meat balls in flour and immediately put them in a pan with heated vegetable oil.
6. 
   We put meatballs in a pan in small portions in one layer and fry on all sides until golden brown.
7. 
   Prepare the cream sauce separately. To do this, dissolve a piece of butter in a saucepan or in a frying pan.
8. 
   Then add 0.5 tablespoons of flour and add it a little, literally 10-15 seconds, stirring constantly with a spatula.
9. 
   Pour in a glass of good meat broth. As soon as it boils, add heavy cream or sour cream. Warm up the sauce without boiling, add ground pepper. Adjust the amount of salt to taste, focusing on the salinity of the broth.
10. 
    Pour the fried meat balls with hot sauce.
11. 
    Cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes (or send to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees).
12. 
    Sprinkle meatballs in a creamy sauce with finely chopped parsley and serve hot. You can complement the dish with a light salad or sliced \u200b\u200bfresh vegetables.