You can cook meatballs in a creamy sauce in many ways, using greens, cereals and other products. Initially, this hearty and beloved dish was prepared by the Turkic peoples as follows - dried fruit was placed in the middle of minced meat, a ball was formed, which was then boiled and eaten. Over time, a hearty meal spread throughout Europe, became a national dish in many countries. This dish is similar to cutlets, but differs in the additional ingredients included in the composition. A tender and juicy dish will appeal to people of all ages.

Simple and versatile is the recipe for making classic meatballs in a creamy sauce.

To prepare food, you should stock up:

• minced meat - 550 g;
• ready boiled rice - 0.5 tbsp.;
• cream - 125 ml;
• cheese - 75 g;
• garlic - 1-2 cloves;
• starch - a teaspoon without a slide;
• provencal herbs;
• salt.

Minced meat can be used purchased or cooked yourself from pork, chicken or beef. Rice groats are boiled and cooled at room temperature. The main products are mixed, salt, spices are added to them, everything is kneaded until smooth. The longer the minced meat is kneaded, the more uniform and beautiful in structure the meatballs will turn out.

Cream sauce is made from cream, grated cheese (less than half the recommended portion), aromatic herbs and starch. Meatballs, formed in the form of small balls, should be laid out on a baking sheet, baked for 20 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 190 degrees. After that, they are poured with sauce and continue to bake for another 35 minutes.

Recipe with mushrooms

You can turn a seemingly ordinary dish into a real culinary masterpiece by cooking meatballs with mushrooms under a delicate creamy sauce.

A delicious dish is prepared from:

• meat - 350 g;
• mushrooms - 180 g;
• onions - turnips;
• greens;
• eggs - a couple of pieces;
• breadcrumbs;
• vegetable fat - 30 ml;
• butter - 40 g;
• cream - 180 ml;
• flour - a couple of tablespoons;
• salt, ground pepper.

The onion and greens (dill, parsley, basil or other to taste) are chopped, the meat is washed and ground into minced meat. All components will be combined with milk, breadcrumbs, beaten egg and spices. The mass must be thoroughly mixed and given the desired shape, making small neat meatballs. If there are a lot of balls, it is quite possible to place them in the freezer and use the semi-finished product as needed.

Meat blanks are fried on both sides in vegetable fat and folded onto napkins to remove excess oil. Separately, in a frying pan, heat the butter, fry finely chopped mushrooms (champignons, white mushroom or others to taste) on it for 7-10 minutes. After that, flour and cream, spices are added to them, everything is mixed. Further, meatballs are laid out in the sauce, which is on fire, and stewed for 15 minutes. The finished dish can be served with salad, stewed potatoes or porridge.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

Cooked meat rounds in a slow cooker are an ideal dish for people with diseases of the digestive organs and children whose body requires proper cooking without frying.

You can cook meatballs from:

• chicken breast, chopped later - 400 g;
• white loaf - a couple of slices;
• Luke;
• milk - 80 ml;
• cream - 400 ml;
• hard cheese - 200 g;
• garlic;
• dill;
• butter - 25 g;
• salt, pepper.

The breast is ground with onions, the loaf soaked in warm milk is squeezed out and passed through a meat grinder. Everything is subsequently combined, seasoned with spices and salt.

Cream is combined with grated cheese, chopped garlic and herbs. The multicooker bowl is lubricated with a piece of butter, and the formed meat product is laid out there. Next, the sauce is added, and the dish is cooked in the "stewing" mode for about 45 minutes.

With pickles

Minced fish is a tasty and dietary product that is the best suited for making meatballs. An unusual, but very pleasant taste of the dish will be given by a creamy filling with the addition of pickles - ideal for any holiday.

To prepare food, you should stock up:

• catfish meat (other fish can be used) - 300 g;
• rice cereal - ¼ cup;
• carrots;
• low-fat cream - 180 ml;
• pickled cucumbers - a couple of pieces;
• fresh dill;
• salt;
• spices.

The groats are washed and boiled until tender, cooled. The ground fish fillet is mixed with rice, salt and spices. From the resulting mass, balls of the same size are formed and sent to the cold.

This technique is advised to do by all culinary experts - when the mass stands a little before cooking, it combines products and spices, which will best affect the taste of the finished dish.

The carrot is rubbed on a grater, combined with cream and sent to the fire in a deep container. When the gravy boils, you need to lower the semi-finished meat into the container and cook for 20 minutes. After that, chopped pickles are added and at the very end, after 10 minutes, greens.

Chicken meatballs in creamy sauce

You can cook chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce in less than 1 hour. This dish will be ideal for a quick, but full-fledged lunch, will complement any second dish, adults and children will like it.

The product is prepared from:

• minced chicken - 400 g;
• onion;
• eggs;
• milk - 80 ml;
• white bread without crust;
• salt;
• pepper mixtures;
• vegetable fat;
• flour;
• cream - 220 ml;
• garlic;
• nutmeg;
• greenery.

In a blender, chop 1 small onion and meat. Add pepper, salt, soaked bread crumb and egg yolk with protein to the mixture (needed to hold the mass together). Everything is thoroughly mixed - with hands or a blender, after which meatballs are formed. From the declared amount of products, about 20 - 25 balls are obtained.

Separately, cream is combined with flour, a little salt and chopped garlic are added to them. A pinch of nutmeg doesn't have to be in the gravy, but it will make it more flavorful.

Meat semi-finished products are laid out in a pan, poured with sauce and stewed over medium heat. After 10 minutes, the dish will be ready.

From minced fish

For lunch for the whole family, it’s good to cook fish meatballs in a creamy sauce in the oven.

For this you need to stock up:

• fish fillet - 700 g;
• white bread or loaf - 60 g;
• bow;
• cream and milk - 250 ml each;
• flour;
• oil;
• ground pepper and salt.

Peeled onions with fillet and bread soaked in milk are passed through a meat grinder. A little whipped yolk with protein, butter and spices are introduced into the mass. The products are thoroughly mixed until smooth, after which rounds can be formed from them. To prevent minced meat from sticking, grease your hands in vegetable fat or dip them in water.

Rolling the blanks in flour, they need to be fried in fat in a pan, put on a baking sheet and pour cream with herbs. Simmer in an oven heated to 190 degrees for 15 minutes.

Hedgehogs with rice baked in the oven

The food is cooked for one hour, from:

• minced meat - 340 g;
• long-grain rice - 120 g;
• turnip onions;
• garlic;
• cream or sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
• tomato paste - 30 ml;
• salt and spices.

Rice is washed, boiled and after cooling mixed with minced meat (meat, onion and garlic). Spices are added to the mass, everything is mixed. Hedgehog balls are formed from such a base. Place them on a greased baking sheet and pour over the sauce. It is prepared from cream, pasta and a small amount of boiled water. Bake at a temperature of 210 degrees for about 35 minutes (with a closed container with foil) and 12 minutes in an open form.

In a food processor, all products are alternately combined - minced meat, onions, spices, rolls. When the mass is slightly infused, meatballs are formed from it, laid out on a baking sheet and sent to the oven for 20 minutes (temperature - 190 degrees).

Cream, chopped garlic with herbs and grated cheese product are mixed in a separate container. The filling goes to the meat balls, and the dish is cooked for another 30 minutes.

Turkey in creamy sauce

For children under one year old, toddlers and schoolchildren, the most tender turkey meatballs filled with creamy sauce are ideal. The dish is good to serve with pasta or porridge - children eat it with pleasure and will definitely ask for supplements.

To prepare food, stock up in advance:

• minced turkey - 650 g;
• rice - 100 g;
• black pepper;
• onion;
• butter - 55 g;
• salt;
• carrot;
• cream - 300 ml;
• spices.

In a food processor, you need to chop the poultry fillet, onion, add boiled cereals and spices to them. From the mass you need to fashion small lumps and bake them in the oven.

Separately, onions and carrots are fried in a pan, after which flour, butter and cream are added to them. After seasoning the sauce with spices, you can pour it over a slightly browned meat product and continue to bake for 20 minutes. At the end of cooking, you can give the dish a beautiful golden hue by selecting the "grill" mode. Served warm.

With the advent of a new day, the question “what to cook today?” Willy-nilly, again surfaced in my mind. Having looked into the refrigerator and having estimated the availability of food, it was decided to cook something from minced chicken, since both I and my children will never refuse such food. But I had another product that had been waiting in the wings for a couple of days - this was homemade cream. Adding two and two in my mind came up with chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce. It only remained to put the idea into practice.

I remember that I already laid out the cooking recipe, but those were pork meatballs, and even in tomato sauce. The essence is the same, but the recipes are completely different. And today I will replenish my collection of meatballs with this very interesting and tasty recipe. Yes, and it will not be difficult for me to do this at all, because chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce are very simple to prepare. And the result of cooking is very impressive with its tenderness, pretty appearance and, of course, soft creamy taste.

In general, I really like recipes based on minced chicken or chicken fillet. By the way, the minced meat for cooking these chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce is made just from the fillet. Of course, you can take ready-made minced chicken or cook it yourself from other parts of the chicken, but this chicken fillet dish is still tastier for me. As for cream for making sauce for meatballs, their fat content should not exceed 20-22%, otherwise the sauce will be too heavy for the stomach. The simplest 15% cream will work great. For the recipe, I used homemade cream, but it was not prohibitively fat, very similar to 20% store-bought.

Cooking time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:

• 700 g minced chicken
• 1 bulb
• 0.5 cups of rice
• 1 glass of water
• 350 ml cream
• 70 g cheese
• pepper
• green onions - a few stalks

Chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce in the oven

So, I have 700 g of minced chicken. With it, we will start cooking chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce. Oh yes, and do not forget to turn on the oven to warm up to 200 degrees. This will save us cooking time (we don’t have to wait for it to warm up later).

Boil half a glass of rice in a glass of water. It turns out a little undercooked, but that's how it is.

Let's take onions. What are meatballs without onions? It will give the dish a noble aroma. In order not to cry over the onion, I chop it in a blender. The smaller the better, you can even turn it into porridge.

We combine minced chicken, rice, onion, a third of a teaspoon of ground black pepper, half a tablespoon of salt and finely chopped green onions. Why are there green onions? Exclusively for color, well, a little for taste and aroma. Such chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce look very nice in the context when colorful dots of green onions come across in them.

Mix the minced meat thoroughly with our hands, and then proceed to “sculpting”. With hands moistened in water, we collect the same portions of minced meat and make pretty balls out of them. Put the raw meatballs in a baking dish.

Bake chicken meatballs at 200 degrees for 30 minutes (until light brown).

While the chicken meatballs were in the oven, I was preparing the cream sauce. More specifically, cream cheese sauce. So, I have 350 ml of cream. We don’t get attached to the figure, if you wish, you can completely get by with 200 ml of cream, just there will be less sauce.

Add about 70 g of finely grated any hard cheese to the cream. Pepper the sauce, but do not add salt, as the cheese will add a salty note to the sauce.

Pour the cream sauce over the chicken meatballs and return the form with them back to the oven. Reduce the temperature to 160 degrees and bake the dish for another 10 minutes.

Chicken meatballs in a creamy sauce are ready. As it cools slightly, the cream sauce will thicken slightly.

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

There is a wide variety of delicious meatballs, mostly differing in additional ingredients. You can add onions and carrots to meatballs, you can put rice, meatballs with mushrooms or stuffed with vegetables that are wrapped in minced meat are tasty. Various sauces for meatballs can also be prepared and they will drastically affect the taste. Well, and most importantly, the meatballs themselves can be made from various types of meat. I don't want to see meatballs, but meatballs in a variety of preparations all take the main prize.

Of course, I won’t be able to cover all the options, but I will share many tasty ones with you.

Meatballs with sour cream tomato sauce

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

For meatballs you will need:

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

Cooking:

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

2. Finely chop the onion, especially if you are cooking for children. Adjust the quantity yourself, you can put one or two onions. The onion itself also helps to make the meatballs softer and juicier. Mix the onion with the minced meat in a large, handy bowl. Grind the garlic on a grater or with a knife, also add it to the minced meat.

3. Break one raw egg into a bowl of minced meat and stir. The egg will help to achieve good stickiness of minced meat so that future meatballs do not crumble when ready. Salt and pepper the minced meat to your liking.

4. Form even balls of medium size from the minced meat. Roll them in flour so that when frying they get a delicious golden crust, and all the meat juices are sealed inside. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the meatballs over medium heat from all sides until a light blush.

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

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

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

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

Tender meatballs with rice baked in gravy in the oven

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

You will need:

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

Cooking:

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

2. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

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

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

Flour is needed in such a sauce to give density. It also gives rise to the very characteristic taste that we remember from childhood in the gravy that was served in the canteen of the kindergarten and school.

5. Heat up a frying pan with oil. Cut the second onion into small cubes. Fry the onion in oil until translucent, then add the grated carrots to the pan and fry them over medium heat until the carrots soften.

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

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

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

Half an hour later, the meatballs are ready. Far cooks very quickly, and we already had rice ready. You will get very tender and tasty meatballs with fragrant thick gravy with onions and carrots. This is a very nutritious and satisfying lunch or dinner. Choose the garnish of your choice. Eat for health!

How to cook meatballs with gravy like in kindergarten

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

Meatballs in creamy sauce baked with cheese

Not a single tomato gravy, meatballs with rice are excellent. The creamy sauce is no less beautiful, and if you add cheese to it, then you can’t drag it by the ears. I can say this for myself and my family, but I am almost sure that many will agree with me.

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

You will need:

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

Cooking:

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

2. Boil rice until half cooked. Add it to the mince. Add 0.5-1 teaspoon of your favorite mild flavored spices. For example, Provence or Italian herbs work very well.

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

4. Slightly moisten your hands with water and roll into round large meatballs. Take a convenient deep baking dish and place future meatballs on the bottom. Buttering is not necessary, because we will cook them in sauce.

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

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

7. Fill the meatballs with the gravy we prepared. Put the remaining cheese on the bottom (and it will settle) on top of each meatball so that it bakes with a beautiful golden crust.

8. Put the meatballs with gravy back in the oven and bake for another 20-25 minutes. The sauce will be reduced, and the cheese will be baked with a beautiful crust. Meatballs will be completely ready.

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

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

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

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

Cook meatballs with gravy often and don't forget to add variety to them by changing sauces and toppings. Do not forget delicious side dishes and salads, lunch should be nutritious and healthy. Health to you and good mood!