Meatballs are one of the most common homemade dishes and go well with a variety of side dishes. Meat balls with the addition of rice are easy to prepare, but can be served both for a regular lunch and for a family celebration. This treat is usually combined with sauce or gravy, which adds richness and makes the taste more varied. It is recommended to fry the meatballs in a frying pan, bake them in the oven or in a slow cooker, but you must follow a certain technology and cooking time. Even a simple, common dish has its own characteristics, knowing which, in your own kitchen you can get a delicious masterpiece that can delight your household with its extraordinary taste and appetizing aroma.

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Before frying, you need to properly prepare and form the balls. Meatballs are made primarily from pork and beef, a combination of the two, but turkey or chicken fillets are also used. Boiled rice, onions, raw chicken eggs and spices are added as side ingredients. At your discretion or to implement a specific recipe, you can include other products that enhance the taste.

Advice! You should not use minced meat that is too fine in structure, as it may disintegrate during cooking.

To prepare classic meatballs with rice, prepare:

• 250 gr. twisted pork;
• 250 gr. twisted beef;
• 1 onion;
• 100 gr. dry rice;
• 1 tsp. salt;
• 1 testicle.

Finely chopped onion should be fried in a frying pan with oil until transparent, then mixed with minced meat. In the second step, boil the rice so that it is crumbly and does not stick together, add it to the meat. Break the chicken egg, salt the minced meat and mix the whole mass thoroughly. Next, form small balls, approximately the size of a walnut. Dust the meatballs with flour before cooking or immediately. The finished product can be fried or frozen.

To create this meat dish, it is not recommended to use minced meat purchased in a store, as it is less healthy and may have a crumbly structure. It is also better to prepare the fillet balls themselves at home, then you can be confident in their composition and taste. To obtain a more juicy consistency, you can add soaked stale bread to the minced meat, which can retain liquid inside.

Gravy and sauces

Traditionally, meatballs are baked in tomato paste or sour cream is added, seasoned with chopped vegetables, mushrooms, cheese, herbs and spices. There are different recipes for creating gravy, and all of them are an integral part of such a delicious dish. By experimenting with ingredients and making changes to suit your taste, you can diversify ordinary meat, giving it originality.

To create a delicate sour cream sauce, take:

• 500 ml low-fat sour cream, cream and milk (total volume);
• spices;
• Wheat flour.

Mix all milk ingredients and spices to taste. Pour them into the formed balls, heat the mixture and add a little flour for thickness. The meat should be fried in the liquid for about forty minutes over low heat.

Tomato sauce includes:

• 1 tbsp. l. flour;
• 1.5 tbsp. water;
• 1 tsp. tomato paste;
• 1 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• laurel leaves.

Pour a glass of water over the hot meatballs in a frying pan, add salt, bay leaves and tomato paste. These ingredients should be simmered for about ten minutes with the lid closed. At this time, combine the rest of the water, sour cream and flour, stir well so that there are no lumps. Pour the liquid mixture into the dish and carefully shake out the pan to distribute evenly. Afterwards, you need to fry the “rice cutlets” for about a quarter of an hour. The sauce will become even richer and more satisfying if you add grated carrots and chopped onions to it.

Preparation

To properly fry meat balls with rice, you must first bake them in oil until a golden brown layer is obtained over the entire surface. This process takes about ten minutes, and then the sauce is added to the meatballs and cooking continues under a closed lid for about another half hour. This sequence of actions will allow the dish to cook evenly, not fall apart, and be fully saturated with the sauce used. You can fry over medium flame, but it is recommended to simmer over low heat.

Frozen food should not be thawed before baking, otherwise it will lose its shape. But at the same time, the time spent in the pan needs to be slightly increased. It is recommended to use wheat or rice flour as a breading, but for example, crackers are not suitable for such a snack.

In a frying pan

The classic method is to cook juicy meatballs in a frying pan. The finished product is placed on hot sunflower oil and fried over medium heat for about ten minutes. In this case, you don’t have to close the lid, but you need to remember to turn the balls themselves over. The resulting golden brown crust ensures the preservation of the internal juice, sealing it on the outside, and adds zest when consuming the finished dish. Next, the meat is combined with the gravy, transferring the meatballs into it, or the sauce is added to the same frying pan, depending on the recipe used and personal taste needs.

How long to fry already baked “cutlets” with gravy? After connection, it is necessary to reduce the flame, close the lid and extinguish the contents for at least half an hour. This delicacy can be served with any side dish, especially meatballs are combined with mashed potatoes and buckwheat, and do not forget to pour hot gravy over them.

Oven

In addition to a frying pan, you can fry a homemade meat dish in the oven. To do this, form round lumps from the prepared minced meat and place them on a special baking sheet, greased with oil. In a cabinet preheated to 180 degrees, bake the product for about six minutes. Then remove the meatballs and pour any sauce you made on them, then return the pan to the oven. After thirty minutes of cooking, you can enjoy your favorite snack.

Multicooker

Another common method is stewing meatballs in a slow cooker. The whole process is not very different from frying in a frying pan, but it does have its own characteristics. Many housewives prefer this particular device, since in a special mode, cooking lasts more slowly and the meat has time to be saturated with all the accompanying ingredients.

Advice! One of the main nuances of baking in a slow cooker is that the rice-meat balls do not have to be fried first.

Having formed the meatballs, they are immediately placed on the bottom of a special container and filled with some kind of gravy. Turn on the “Extinguishing” mode for one hour and close the lid. During the entire process, there is no need to stir the contents, and after finishing, you can put an appetizing dish with aromatic sauce on the table.

Meatballs are a delicious and simple meat appetizer, universally suitable for various side dishes. Properly prepared minced meat, as well as gravy, will turn an ordinary dish into a real masterpiece. In addition, every housewife can experiment not only with ingredients, but also with frying methods.

You can prepare a large number of delicious dishes from minced meat. And one of these dishes is meatballs. They can be prepared quickly and in a very varied way, 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 significant. But you can distinguish one from the other.

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

Meatballs are also made from minced meat, but their size is much smaller than their counterparts. Minced meat is made with the addition of spices and herbs, after which they are boiled in broth, and therefore, they are often part of some dish, such as soup. You can look at the recipes for such soups.

Let's look together at how you can deliciously prepare this quick and favorite dish by many, using some very tasty recipes as an example.

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

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, cumin (you can use any for meat)
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

For the tomato sauce

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

Preparation:

We will divide the entire cooking process into three stages.

1. Cooking meatballs
2. Making tomato sauce
3. Cooking meatballs in tomato sauce

1. Cut the onion into small cubes. The less we cut, the better. Since the meatballs cook quite quickly, it will be good if the onion completely “dissolves” in the meat. Large pieces will not have time to do this, and the onion will be felt and crunchy on the teeth. And in products it is important to have a homogeneous base so that nothing stands out in taste.

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

2. Grate the carrots on a medium grater.

3. Chop the garlic. Burn the garlic at your own discretion, as you like. You can cut one or two cloves. Or you can do without it altogether. But it always gives a very important, very aromatic flavor note. Therefore, at least a little, but it is necessary to add.

4. We have ready-made minced meat, you can use whatever you like. Very tasty and tender meatballs are made from mixed minced beef + pork. But sometimes I cook this recipe using minced chicken. Then the dish turns out to be dietary and, pleasantly, more economical. And delicious too.

5. We should have rice pre-cooked until half cooked. This means that it had to be boiled for 10-12 minutes, then drained and allowed to cool. If you use short-grain varieties of rice, they will become very overcooked and quite sticky. This rice can be rinsed with warm boiled water.

If you take long-grain rice, and especially steamed rice, then you no longer need to rinse it.

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

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

Mix the minced meat thoroughly until smooth.

7. Let's start shaping our products. For this we need flour, and the minced meat itself.

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

If the minced meat sticks to your hands, and this can happen if it is slightly greasy, then you can moisten them with cold water before each new product.

8. Place flour on a small flat plate. Roll each ball in it on all sides and place on a cutting board.

9. Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan. It should be hot enough so that the meatballs can quickly fry both outside and inside. But also very hot so that they do not brown too much.

Place the finished fried products in a separate pan.

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

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

13. Then add tomato paste along with sugar and fry everything together for another 3 - 4 minutes.

14. Pour in hot water. Vary the amount of water yourself. 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 richer color, ground black pepper, salt and bay leaf. You can also add chopped herbs. I prepared it, and that’s why I now have greens for every taste. I add dill to the sauce. Let it boil for 5 - 7 minutes.

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

17. Place the finished products on a plate and pour over a small amount of sauce. Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs.

As you can see, the dish looks very appetizing and turns out delicious. In addition, it is prepared quite quickly and is 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 prepared with dried or fresh mushrooms. Have you ever prepared this recipe? Write, very interesting!

We will need:

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

For the gravy (sauce):

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

Preparation:

This recipe is not easy to prepare. Everything will take about 2 hours. Cooking the dish is divided into several parts, and each requires both time and labor; you don’t have to sit.

But it's worth it! The dish turns out simply excellent. Otherwise it shouldn’t be, mushrooms in combination with potatoes, and even with meat - it’s just a fireworks of flavor! You wouldn’t call mediocre meatballs “Russian”!

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

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

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

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

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

3. Cut the onion into small cubes. Try to cut it as finely as possible so that in the finished dish it does not crunch and is not felt at all.

4. Fry the onions and mushrooms in a small amount of oil, lightly salting them to taste. Use a minimum of oil, otherwise the dish will turn out too greasy. Our recipe also provides for its use.

5. Form small balls from the prepared minced meat. I got 7 of them. Based on the number of finished meat products, I also divided the mushroom filling into 7 parts, so that there would be enough of everything and nothing left. Then we need to form cakes from each ball. Place a mushroom and onion filling in the middle of each of them.

6. Then seal it so that the filling remains inside. This is a fine work, it is not advisable for the mushrooms to come out. Form all the balls at once. Then roll them in flour.

Place in a heated frying pan with a small amount of oil and fry first on one side and then on the other. Again, add minimal oil. 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!

Make sure that the fire is not too high and that the meatballs do not burn. When one side is browned, take two forks and use them to turn the products over to the other side.

You see how much fat has formed.

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

Fry in a separate frying pan until done with a minimum amount of oil. Add salt to taste.

8. Prepare sour cream sauce. To do this, fry the flour in a dry frying pan. To prevent it from burning, keep an eye on the fire; it should not be too big. You also need to stir it constantly. Fry for 2 - 3 minutes until slightly creamy.

9. Add butter, it is best to use 82% fat butter. As you can see, enough oil is used, but this is necessary. It is not recommended to reduce its amount. Thanks to the oil, the meatballs will turn out just the most tender. In addition, subsequently the excess oil will drain into the mold and it will not be necessary to use it.

After the butter melts, add sour cream and salt. I also add pepper to make the gravy spicier. At the same time, mix everything thoroughly. Bring to a boil and turn off. The mixture should thicken a little.

10. Prepare a baking dish. I will use an extra long glass ovenproof dish.

11. Place meatballs in the center of the form. Place potatoes around the edges.

Spoon sour cream sauce onto each meatball; it will look like a fur coat. They will bake in the oven under it and will not dry out at all. They will remain juicy on the inside, and the crust on the outside will also be preserved.

12. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the pan in it and bake until the contents are lightly browned. I kept it in the oven for 20 minutes. This time was enough for everything to be completely ready!

13. Then take out the mold and place the meatballs and potatoes into plates. Garnish with fresh herbs and fresh or canned cucumber. I cut

As expected, the meatballs turned out juicy, soft, tender and incredibly tasty. In addition, the mushrooms introduced the smell of the forest into them, and the butter gave it its unique aroma and taste. And all this in combination with your favorite fried potatoes is simply impossible to describe 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. Has this happened to you?

Turkish kofta in tomato sauce in a frying pan

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

We will need:

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

For the tomato sauce:

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

Preparation:

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

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

Mix the minced meat thoroughly until smooth.

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

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

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

4. Place the chopped tomatoes along with the sauce from the jar into a frying pan with onions. Add 50 ml of water, pepper and bay leaf, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

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

6. Place the resulting products in a frying pan with tomato sauce. Place cherry tomatoes nearby. 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. Chop fresh herbs, add them to the pan and close the lid again. Leave for 10 minutes, without heat.

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

These Turkish meatballs are very tasty, I tell you! Delicious, tender and aromatic!

Classic meatball recipe

We will need:

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

Preparation:

1. Remove all veins and films from the meat, and then pass it through a meat grinder. You can make broth from the scraps, adding seeds, of course.

Veins and films will not allow you to get tender and juicy minced meat, so they must be removed!

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

3. Cut the onion into very small cubes and fry in fat or vegetable oil. It should become soft and slightly toasted.

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

5. Mix the minced meat thoroughly until smooth and, after wetting your hands, form 8 meatballs.

6. Place them in a saucepan and pour in pre-cooked and salted broth. Cook for 30 minutes until done. The heat during cooking should not be too high. The meatballs should simmer moderately. The entire cooking time occurs 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 prepare sour cream sauce was described in the second recipe.

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

Meatballs in sour cream sauce, baked in the oven

These delicious meat balls can be cooked in more than just a pot and pan. They can also be baked in the oven. And for a change, let's prepare a completely different sauce.

And for variety, let’s take them and cook them immediately with a side dish, that is, with the addition of cabbage. Here it turns out like two in one - both a side dish and a main meat dish.

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

Preparation:

1. Prepare minced meat by grinding meat, bread and onions in a meat grinder. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. It is better to use freshly ground pepper. This will make our dish even more flavorful.

2. With wet hands, form balls of the same small size.

3. Cut the head of cabbage into small pieces so that a part of the stalk remains on each of them. It will hold the cabbage leaves together and they will not fall apart during further processing.

4. Place a pot of water on the fire, bring it to a boil and add salt to taste. Boil the cabbage in it until half cooked, or almost until done. Who likes it how? If you like your cabbage to be slightly crunchy, then use the first option, but if you like your cabbage to be soft, cook until almost done.

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

5. Place the finished cabbage in 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 sauce is added to it, all the meatballs are covered almost completely.

Place cabbage in it. Place the meat preparations on top of the cabbage.

7. Now let's start preparing the sauce. For this we need a frying pan with high sides. Melt the butter over low heat; you can also use vegetable oil if desired. But with butter there will be an additional delicate aroma and taste.

8. As soon as the butter melts, immediately add flour and fry it lightly. Be careful not to let it turn brown. Otherwise the sauce will have a bitter taste.

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

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

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

Heat the mixture thoroughly until it thickens slightly. Bring to a boil, immediately reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes with continuous stirring.

10. Pour the resulting sauce over the prepared cabbage and meatballs.

11. Sprinkle breadcrumbs and grated cheese on top.

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

Serve along with cabbage, sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs. Possibly with sour cream.

It turns out very tasty! Prepare it, you won’t regret it. Then everyone will ask you to cook it more than once.

Minced chicken meatballs in the oven

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

We will need:

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

For the gravy (sauce):

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

Preparation:

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

2. Of course, you don’t have to use it, but when I wrote an article about it, I was so inspired that now I want to cook it more often.

Moreover, we will not add it in vain; our products will receive an excellent taste note in its form. If you cook these meatballs at least once by adding liver, then you will always add it. Tested for myself.

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

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

5. In a large bowl, combine the minced meat, cabbage mixture and milk mixture. Mix thoroughly until smooth.

6. Make small meatballs from the minced meat. Place them on a lined and greased sheet of foil, which we previously lined a baking sheet with.

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

8. While they are baking, prepare gravy or sauce, as you prefer. To do this, melt the butter in a saucepan, then add flour in small portions, mixing thoroughly. You don't need high heat for this, otherwise the flour will start to burn, turn dark brown and add bitterness to the sauce.

Fry the flour for no more than 2 - 3 minutes.

9. Then, stirring constantly, pour in hot milk and hot broth. Salt the sauce to taste. Cook until thickened, stirring occasionally. To prevent it from turning out lumps, you can stir it with a whisk.

10. Remove the finished meatballs from the oven and place in a saucepan in the sauce.

11. Simmer in sauce for 7 minutes. After which you can serve with any side dish.

This dish has 100% taste. Delicious! Yes, and preparing it is not difficult. Everything is so simple that even someone who has never cooked anything can handle it.

Recipe for meatballs with rice and gravy in a frying pan

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

We will need:

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

Preparation:

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

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

I’ve already talked a lot about spices and pepper in previous recipes and I won’t repeat myself.

The minced meat should not be liquid. And if you cut the onion and did not twist it in a meat grinder, it will turn out that way.

3. Prepare meatballs. Take a little minced meat and form small balls, placing a small head of Brussels sprouts in each of them.

4. Fry the resulting products in a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil until beautifully golden brown.

5. Then pour broth into the frying pan, any broth - 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 for 15 minutes.

7. Then serve with sour cream, sprinkled with fresh herbs. Serve as a side dish or. Or you don’t have to serve anything, because the side dish is already inside!

8. Eat with pleasure!

Here is another interesting recipe that children really like, and it is also dietary. Therefore, it is suitable for feeding very young children.

Minced hedgehogs with rice in a slow cooker

This is a very simple recipe that won’t 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 you wish, gravy or sauce can be prepared according to any of the above recipes. The same sour cream sauce is perfect for these meatballs.

Well, by the way, “hedgehogs” are cooked in both tomato sauce and broth. True, such recipes do not have such a pronounced type of “thorns”, but nevertheless they also have this exotic name.

In conclusion, I would like to say that meatballs are one of the easiest dishes to prepare, and because of this, it is very loved and popular among housewives.

But if you get creative, you can make a wonderful culinary dish from ordinary meat balls in broth. And that’s exactly what I tried to achieve in today’s article. I chose unusual recipes for this 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 up to you to judge. If you liked the 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 may appear on the pages of my blog with a mention of the author's name.

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

Meatballs with gravy are delicious balls of minced meat stewed in a thick, flavorful sauce. Don't confuse them with meatballs; there are several significant differences between them. Meatballs are most often prepared in larger sizes because they are a separate, complete meat dish, for example, for lunch. Meatballs are fried or stewed in a frying pan, and can also be baked in the oven with or without sauce. Meatballs are boiled in broth; they usually complement some dish, for example.

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

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

Meatballs with tomato sauce and sour cream

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 very 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 like that. By the way, let me 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 the meatballs you will need:

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

Preparation:

1. For meatballs, you can use either ready-made minced meat or make it yourself from the chosen meat. Choose pork, beef or a mixture of two minced meats to suit your taste. My one piece of advice is not to make the minced meat too lean, that is, completely without fat. A little fat in the minced meat will make the meatballs more juicy, and at the same time it will practically melt during heat treatment.

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

3. Break one raw egg into a bowl with minced meat and stir. The egg will help ensure good stickiness of the minced meat so that future meatballs do not fall apart when finished. Salt and pepper the minced meat to your taste.

4. Form the resulting minced meat into even, medium-sized balls. Roll them in flour so that when frying you get a delicious golden brown crust and all the meat juices are sealed inside. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the meatballs over medium heat on all sides until lightly browned.

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

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

7. As it simmers, the gravy will take on a deeper red color thanks to the tomato sauce. After fifteen minutes, covered over medium heat, the meatballs will be ready and soaked in a delicious sauce.

Delicious meatballs with gravy are ready. The most universal and simplest recipe. If you put cream instead of sour cream, 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 frying 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 drying frying in the frying pan, but only uniform heat on all sides. To flavor the gravy, we will add onions and carrots to it.

You will need:

• mixed minced meat - 600 grams,
• boiled rice - 1 cup,
• egg - 1 piece,
• onions - 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.

Preparation:

1. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder or take ready-made minced meat. Place it in a bowl and add finely chopped onion and garlic. We will need the second onion for gravy. Also break an egg into the minced meat. Add some salt and pepper. Stir the minced meat first with a spoon and then with your hands, this is how 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 to 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, and so on until all the water is gone.

Flour is needed in this sauce to add thickness. It also gives off that same characteristic taste that we remember from childhood in the gravy that was served in the canteen of kindergartens and schools.

5. Heat 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 over medium heat until the carrots soften.

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

7. Turn on the oven to preheat at 180 degrees. Take a baking dish and start forming the meatballs. To do this, lightly moisten your hands with water and roll the minced meat into fairly large balls. Place the finished meatballs in the mold. When everything is assembled, take a frying pan with gravy and pour the meatballs on top. If there is not enough sauce, add a little water; it will mix with the sauce while boiling in the oven.

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

After half an hour, the meatballs are ready. The far cooks very quickly, and we already had the rice ready. You will get very tender and tasty meatballs with a fragrant thick gravy with onions and carrots. This is a very nutritious and satisfying lunch or dinner. Choose a side dish at your discretion. Eat for your health!

How to cook meatballs with gravy like in kindergarten

For those who are inexorably drawn by nostalgia to remember that same taste and cook meatballs like in kindergarten, I offer this good and detailed video. It describes 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 a military secret with it. Now it will be available to you too. Prepare the meatballs and don’t forget the tender pasta.

Meatballs in cream sauce, baked with cheese

Meatballs with rice are not just perfect with tomato sauce. The creamy sauce is no less wonderful, and if you add cheese to it, then you won’t be able to pull it off by the ears. I can say this for myself and my family, but I’m almost sure that many will agree with me.

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

Preparation:

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

2. Boil the rice until half cooked. Add it to the minced meat. Add 0.5-1 teaspoon of your favorite mild spices. For example, Provençal 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. Lightly wet your hands with water and roll into large round meatballs. Take a comfortable deep baking dish and place future meatballs on the bottom. It is not necessary to spread butter, because we will cook them in sauce.

5. Stir the sauce in a separate bowl. To do this, pour cream into a bowl. Grate the cheese on a fine or coarse grater. Add cheese to the cream, as well as spices and salt to taste. Add 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. Place the meatballs in the oven and bake for 20 minutes, during which time the meatballs will be half cooked.

7. Pour the gravy we prepared over the meatballs. Place the remaining cheese at the bottom (it will settle) on top of each meatball so that it bakes with a beautiful golden brown crust.

8. Place the meatballs and gravy back in the oven and bake for another 20-25 minutes. The sauce will reduce and the cheese will bake into a beautiful crust. The meatballs will be completely ready.

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

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

If you've tried meatballs with rice, but 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 type of delicious meatballs. Such delicious 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 your household with a new product.

Make meatballs with gravy more often and don't forget to add variety to them by changing sauces and additives. Don't forget delicious side dishes and salads; lunch should be nutritious and healthy. I wish you health and good mood!

Such a simple dish as meatballs with rice is very easy to prepare at home in a frying pan. Use one of the recipes and everything will turn out delicious!

• Minced pork or mixed – 300 g;
• Raw rice – 100 g;
• Chicken egg – 1 piece;
• Vegetable oil – 4 tbsp;
• Tomato paste – 2 tbsp;
• Onion – 1 piece;
• Sour cream – 80 gr;
• Carrots – 1 piece;
• Sugar – ½ tsp;
• Wheat flour – 1 tbsp;
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste.

So, first of all we need to boil the rice. To do this, fill it in a saucepan with clean water in a ratio of 1:2, add salt and place on medium heat. Once the water boils, reduce the heat to low and simmer until the rice is tender, about 15-18 minutes.

Meanwhile, start preparing the gravy. In a frying pan, heat ½ the amount of vegetable oil according to the recipe and fry ½ of the diced onion until transparent. Cut the carrots into thin slices or chop on a coarse grater, add to the onion and fry together until the carrots are soft.

Then add tomato paste and wheat flour, mix very well so that the flour does not form lumps, and fry with the vegetables for 2 minutes.

Pour 100 ml of hot water into the pan and add sour cream, stir. Simmer the contents for 5 minutes. Finally, add sugar, salt and black pepper to taste.

Due to the addition of flour, the gravy will not have a liquid, viscous consistency, and sour cream and tomato paste will give it a pleasant orange color.

Meanwhile, the rice for the meatballs is cooked. Rinse it under cold running water and drain in a colander before adding it to the minced meat, allowing all excess water to drain.

It is better to use minced pork for this dish; it is quite fatty, but rice will balance it out. But if you are a supporter of dietary nutrition, use minced veal or even chicken fillet.

Mix the minced meat, finely chopped remaining half of the onion, egg in a deep bowl, and season to your taste with salt and ground black pepper.

Add washed, cooled rice and stir. The mass turns out to be pliable, you can easily form round-shaped meatballs from it.

Fry the formed meatballs in the remaining vegetable oil on one side until golden brown, turn over with a spatula.

Fry the other side in the same way until browned.

Transfer the fried meatballs to a thick-bottomed saucepan or wide, deep frying pan with a lid.

Pour in the pre-prepared gravy, place the pan over low heat, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes with the lid closed.

During this time, the gravy will be slightly absorbed into the meatballs, and they will become juicy and incredibly soft.

Serve the meatballs with gravy and rice hot in portions with a side dish or as a separate, independent dish. Thanks to the gravy, meatballs do not need additional sauce or sour cream. Bon appetit!

Recipe 2: meatballs with rice, with gravy in a frying pan

To prepare this dish, we need a small amount of time, because we need to complete the preparatory stage, which consists of preparing minced meat and steaming rice. Next, the main stage is forming and frying the meatballs, as well as preparing the sauce. And the last stage is pouring sauce over the meatballs and simmering over low heat.

for meatballs:

• fresh meat (pork) - 500 g.,
• rice - 150-200 g.,
• onion - 1 pc.,
• garlic - 2 cloves,
• chicken egg - 1 pc.,
• salt, sea salt - 1.5 tsp,
• ground pepper - a pinch.

for the sauce:

• carrot root - 1 pc.,
• 1 turnip onion,
• tomato paste (sauce, ketchup) - 2 tbsp. l.,
• sour cream - 100 g.,
• wheat flour - 2 tbsp. l.,
• water - 1 l.,
• lemon juice - 1-2 tsp,
• salt, table salt, sea silt - 1.5 -2 hours. l.,
• ground pepper - a pinch.,
• granulated sugar - 0.5 tsp,
• cinnamon (powder) - 0.5 tsp,
• dill greens.

We rinse the rice to remove dirt and soak it in hot water for 30 minutes. Next, drain the rice in a colander.
At this time, we clean the meat from films and fat, wash it and cut it into pieces.

Grind it in a meat grinder along with onions and garlic.

Add the egg, spices and rice to the minced meat, mix and let it sit for a while.

Then we form round meatballs, approximately 40-50 g each. We do this with wet hands, then they will turn out neat and will not stick to our hands. Be sure to roll them in flour so that when frying you get a golden brown crust.

Next, fry our meatballs in a frying pan heated with oil on both sides for several minutes, over high heat. We need to get a crust, and then they will be stewed in the sauce, they will become juicy and tender inside.

Prepare the sauce in a separate frying pan.

To do this, first sauté the onions and carrots, chopped into half rings and strips, in a frying pan with butter until they become soft.

Pour sour cream and water into the frying pan, add spices and bring the sauce to a boil.

Pour the sauce over the fried meatballs and cover the frying pan with a lid.

Simmer over low heat for 35 minutes.

Recipe 3: minced meatballs with rice in a frying pan (step by step)

Meatballs with gravy in a frying pan will turn out very juicy and at the same time with an appetizing golden brown crust. You can prepare such meatballs at home very simply and quickly. A step-by-step recipe with photos will tell you how to mix the minced meat and what is the best sauce to prepare for the meatballs, which we will fry in a frying pan.

You can choose the spices for this dish yourself. They will entirely depend on the meat you choose. Meatballs fried in a frying pan are more tender from chicken, and more filling from beef.

We will prepare a special gravy for meatballs in two stages: first from tomato paste, and then from sour cream and flour. Meatballs stewed in this mixture will be infused with the flavors and aromas of all the ingredients.

• meat - 500 gr
• rice - 1/3 cup
• onion - 1 pc.
• chicken egg - 1 pc.
• vegetable oil - for frying
• water - 1.5 cups
• wheat flour - 1 tbsp.
• sour cream - 1 tbsp.
• bay leaf - 1 pc.
• ground black pepper

Wash the rice thoroughly several times in cold water, then cook in advance until tender. Peel the onion and chop it very finely with a knife or grind it in a blender. Choose the meat to suit your taste: it can be beef, pork, chicken or turkey. We wash the selected piece of meat, dry it and grind it in a meat grinder. Combine meat and onion in a deep bowl.

Add pre-cooked rice to the previously crushed ingredients. Add one chicken egg and salt to taste to the bowl with the ingredients. Mix the ingredients until smooth.

We form neat meat balls from the minced meat, do this with wet hands. Dump the meatballs in wheat flour.

Heat a few tablespoons of vegetable oil in a thick frying pan, place the formed meatballs in the pan and fry on all sides until golden brown for 3-5 minutes without a lid.

We dilute the tomato paste in one glass of cold water, add salt to taste and mix thoroughly.

When the meatballs have acquired a pleasant golden color, pour the diluted tomato paste into the frying pan. Simmer the meatballs under a closed lid for 10-15 minutes over low heat.

Fill a glass halfway with water, add wheat flour and the specified amount of sour cream. Mix the liquid thoroughly so that no lumps of flour remain.

After the specified time for stewing the meatballs, pour a mixture of sour cream and flour into the frying pan. Over the same low heat, continue to simmer the meat balls for another 15 minutes, adding a bay leaf to them.

During the stewing process, the meatballs should acquire a firm golden brown hue and be saturated with the aromas of the sauce, which, in turn, should thicken sufficiently.

Place the finished dish in portioned plates and serve hot with any side dish. Meatballs with gravy, fried in a pan, are ready.

Recipe 4: how to cook meatballs with rice in a frying pan

• Minced meat 500 g
• Rice 100 g
• Chicken egg 1 piece
• Sour cream 100 g
• Tomato paste 1 tbsp
• Carrot 1 pc.
• Onion 1 piece
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper to taste
• Ground paprika to taste
• Vegetable oil for frying

Let's prepare the minced meat. Boil the rice a little, not until done. Add rice, egg, salt, black pepper to the minced meat. Mix well.

Prepare the sauce. Grate the carrots and finely chop the onion.

Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil for 2-3 minutes. Add tomato paste, a little water and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Then add sour cream, salt, spices. Bring to a boil, remove from heat.

Form meatballs from the minced meat. Place in a frying pan.

Pour the sauce over the meatballs. Return the pan to the heat. If the sauce is very thick, add water. Cook covered over low heat for 40 minutes.

Recipe 5: how to make meatballs in tomato sauce in a frying pan

The dish allows you to cook juicy meatballs and a side dish at the same time. This technique allows you to kill two birds with one stone and significantly save time. These small round cutlets can be prepared from any meat: beef, pork, veal, or mixed minced meat. The meatballs are stewed in a frying pan with high walls or a saucepan with a thick bottom. When serving, you can pour sour cream over them, and, if desired, boil mashed potatoes, rice or spaghetti as a side dish. A step-by-step recipe with photos of preparing meatballs in tomato sauce with rice will allow you to easily repeat this wonderful dish, even if you have never cooked it in your kitchen before.

• Meat – 1 kg
• Onions – 2 pieces (medium size)
• Rice – 100 grams
• Garlic – 3-4 cloves
• Tomato paste – 3 tablespoons
• Bay leaf – 3-4 pieces
• Allspice peas – 6-7 peas
• Ground black pepper – 0.5 teaspoon
• Salt - to taste
• Any seasonings and spices for meat - to taste
• Refined sunflower or other vegetable oil - for frying

Wash the meat, dry it and cut it into pieces. Peel and wash the onions and garlic. Cut the products into pieces of such a size that they fit into the neck of the meat grinder. We will also prepare a meat grinder by installing an attachment with a medium sieve.

Grind the meat, garlic and onions through a meat grinder and add semi-boiled rice, which has been boiled in salted water, to the resulting minced meat.

Season the minced meat with salt, ground black pepper and your favorite spices. I added: a mixture of freshly ground peppers, ground ginger and ground paprika.

Mix the minced meat well so that the ingredients and spices are evenly distributed.

Let's form round meatballs, the size of a medium tomato. To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, wet your palms with cool water before forming each meatball.

Heat a frying pan with vegetable or other oil and fry the meatballs.

Fry the small cutlets on each side for about 3-4 minutes until a light golden crust forms.

If you simmered the meatballs in a high-sided frying pan, you can remove them from the heat for now. If you do not have a deep frying pan, then place the fried round cutlets in a saucepan, cauldron or wok in which you will simmer them.

While the meatballs are frying, prepare the tomato paste sauce. In a separate frying pan, add tomato paste, allspice, bay leaf, a mixture of freshly ground peppers and salt.

Fill everything with water, mix and boil for about 7-10 minutes.

Pour the prepared tomato sauce over the meatballs. Close the pan with a lid and put them on the stove to simmer over low heat after boiling for 1 hour.

Serve the finished meatballs with rice hot, pouring over them with the gravy in which they were stewed.

Recipe 6: how to cook meatballs with rice in a frying pan (with photo)

• minced meat – 500 grams
• steamed rice – 80 grams
• spices for meat – 5-7 grams
• a raw egg
• table salt - to taste
• wheat flour – 80 grams
• white bread - piece
• carrots – 100 grams
• tomato – 150 grams
• bell pepper – 20 grams
• tomato paste – 80 grams
• bay leaves - 3 pieces
• parsley - a couple of sprigs
• water – 100 grams.

Take minced meat. You can use any minced meat for this dish; mixed minced meat works well. Place minced meat in a bowl.

Add rice cereal there. The cereal should not be cooked.

Add spices and salt to a bowl.

Break the egg there. Add flour.

Soak white bread in water.

Squeeze out a piece of bread and crumble it with your hands into the bowl with the minced meat.

Mix everything thoroughly.

Form balls from the prepared minced meat. Choose the size of the balls according to your taste.

Pour a little oil into the frying pan and heat it up. After this, place the meat balls in the roasting pan. Over medium heat, brown the meatballs slightly.

In a separate bowl, mix coarsely grated carrots and tomato pieces. Moreover, the tomato must first be scalded with boiling water and the skin removed from it, and after that finely chopped with a knife.

Cut the pepper into small pieces and place it in a bowl with the other ingredients.

Pour in tomato paste and water. Stir everything well.

When the meatballs are browned, you need to pour the liquid mixture into the frying pan. Place bay leaves and chopped parsley on top. Simmer covered for 10 minutes.

You can eat the juicy meatballs. Bon appetit!

Recipe 7, step by step: meatballs in a frying pan with rice

Meatballs with rice is a simple and tasty dish, the recipe is also simple. You can make a sauce from sour cream or tomatoes and simmer minced meatballs with rice in it. But, in my opinion, the meatballs turn out more dietary without any sauces.

• Minced meat - 700 grams
• Rice - 1 cup
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Salt, pepper, bay leaf - to taste

This recipe uses minced pork, however, minced beef and chicken will also work. If it's too dry, you can add a little butter to it

Grate the carrots and finely chop the onion.

Fry carrots and onions in sunflower oil until they become corn-colored. The main thing is not to overcook the onions!

Boil the rice until done.

Mix minced meat, eggs, boiled rice and half of the fried vegetables (we will use the other half later). Add salt, pepper and any spices to your taste.

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How to cook delicious meatballs

How to cook meatballs with tomato sauce. Cooking options in the oven, in a cauldron or in a slow cooker. Detailed recipe with photos and videos.

1 h 10 min

180 kcal

4.75/5 (4)

What meat dish can compete with cutlets? These are, of course, meatballs with tomato paste! Unlike cutlets that came to us from France, meatballs are typical representatives of Turkic cuisine. The idea of ​​cooking meat balls in gravy comes from the times when the Turkic nomadic people cooked all their food in one pot at once. But to this day, meatballs have already received their own gravy, which is best suited for their taste.

Kitchen appliances: stove, oven or slow cooker.

Ingredients

Meatballs:

Tomato sauce:

• Tomato paste – 3 tbsp. l.;
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp. l.;
• Onion – 1 pc.;
• Water or broth – 2-3 glasses;
• Flour – 1-2 tbsp. l.;
• Salt, pepper, spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

How to choose the right ingredients

To prevent the minced meat from spreading when forming the meatballs, and also to prevent the dish from turning out too fatty, choose pork-beef or minced pork with a small amount of fat. Rice can be used either round or long.

Recipe for meatballs with rice in tomato sauce

Meatballs with tomato sauce can be cooked in the oven, in a frying pan, or using a slow cooker. The preparation of the meatballs themselves and the sauce is practically the same, so I will briefly describe each method of heat treatment of the dish at the end, and I will indicate all possible nuances of the recipe as I proceed.

1. So, first, rinse the rice well and add the required amount of water to it, put it on the fire, bring to a boil and cook until half cooked, then add the excess water and leave to cool.
   
   
2. While the rice is preparing, let's start with the vegetables. Peel the onions and carrots, wash them, cut the onions into small cubes
   
   
3. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
   
   
4. Place the minced meat in a bowl or other deep container that is convenient for you. To it add the required amount of onions, carrots and slightly cooled rice, salt, pepper and mix thoroughly until smooth.
   
   
   

   Did you know?
   Adding carrots to the minced meat will help you form meatballs easily.

5. We form balls from the finished minced meat, like cutlets, and place them separately so that they do not stick together and interfere with further work.
   
   
6. Now let's prepare the sauce. Pour the remaining chopped onion into a hot and oiled frying pan and fry a little
   
   
7. Then add flour
   
   
8. To absorb excess oil, stir constantly to prevent lumps from forming.
   
   
9. Continuing to actively stir, add water or broth, then sour cream and tomato paste, season to taste and bring to a boil.
   
   
   

The further preparation process depends on what kitchen appliances you use.
Multicooker:
Distribute vegetable oil evenly over the multicooker bowl. We fix the bowl in the device, set the “Frying” or “Multi-cook” mode and lay out the meatballs.
Fry on all sides until lightly crusted, turn off the mode, pour the sauce over the meatballs, add a little water in case the sauce is thick, close the lid and simmer in the “Stew” mode for 50 minutes.

Oven:
Place the meatballs fried in a frying pan on a baking sheet, pour the sauce on top and cook for 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 ºC.

Kitchen stove:
Place the pre-fried meatballs in a deep cauldron, pour in the sauce and simmer over low heat for about 50 minutes.

Video recipe

The video shows step by step the process of cooking meatballs in a slow cooker using uncooked rice.

What are these meatballs served with?

If the tomato meatballs contain grains, they can rightfully be considered an independent dish. Will also go well with mashed potatoes and boiled crumbly porridges or even pasta and vegetables. Wash down your meal with any drink of your choice.

If you suffer from heartburn, blanch the onion before adding it to the minced meat.
You can add diced tomato to the minced meat. This will give the meatballs more juiciness.
Minced rice can be prepared faster using the microwave. To do this, place the rice with water (1:1) in the microwave in a special bowl with a lid for 2-3 minutes until the liquid is completely absorbed.

Possible other preparation and filling options

Rice in meatballs can easily be replaced with buckwheat or oatmeal, thereby giving them a special, specific taste. You can include eggs, bell peppers, herbs or mushrooms in the minced meat. You can also make sauce for meatballs from tomato paste without sour cream, although this will somewhat “simplify” the flavor palette of the meat dish. If desired, you can include grated or crushed garlic in the sauce.

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