How to make delicious beef meatballs. Beef meatballs with rice

18.09.2020

Meatballs with rice are simple and hearty dish from minced meat and rice, which occupies a leading position in large families. Cooking needs simple products affordable and not very time consuming.

Meatballs are prepared on the stove, in the oven and in a slow cooker - there are many variations. In addition to rice, add onions, carrots. Prepare meatballs with gravy, sour cream or tomato sauce. We offer several recipes for homemade and delicious meatballs with rice. It is important to know that the rice in this dish is always pre-boiled, but not completely. Minced meat can be used in different ways: with chicken and turkey, the dish will turn out to be more dietary, with pork - more satisfying.

Meatballs with rice classic recipe

Classic meatballs with rice are served with a side dish. The most common and tasty option Is mashed potatoes.

Ingredients

Rice - 400 g;
Minced meat - 1 kg;
Carrots - 1-2 pieces;
Onion - 2 large onions;
Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
Sour cream - 200 g;
Water - 2 glasses;
Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
Salt and pepper to taste.

How to make classic meatballs with rice and minced meat

To cook meatballs for classic recipe you must start with rice. If you want to cook meatballs not today, but the next day, pour boiling water over the rice overnight. By the morning it will swell and will not require preliminary boiling. Otherwise, boil the rice. Fill the rice with water so that it covers it a little. Put on fire, bring to a boil, and reduce heat. We are waiting for the water to boil away. Cool cooked rice to room temperature.

In the meatball recipe, rice is always boiled, rice is not boiled when cooking "hedgehogs" with rice - this is an analogue of meatballs, but it is prepared a little differently.

Peel the carrots and three on a fine grater. Chop the onion as finely as possible. Fry the onion in vegetable oil, then add the carrots to it. Fry them together for 5 minutes.

Now let's do the minced meat. If you cook it yourself, then pay attention to the freshness of the meat. Fatty meat is not suitable for this dish. If you take purchased minced meat, pay attention to the fat content, Fat meatballs will disintegrate.

Combine minced meat, boiled rice until half cooked, frying of onions and carrots in a bowl.

Knead the mass well. Salt and pepper the future meatballs to taste.

We form balls from the mass. We put them in a saucepan in one or two layers. Take a thick-bottomed saucepan so that the meatballs do not burn during cooking. If there is no other saucepan, then put the cabbage leaves on the bottom, they will save the meatballs from burning, if there is no cabbage either, then make a pillow of grated carrots for the meatballs.

In some recipes, meatballs are pre-fried, you can do this so that the meatballs do not exactly disintegrate. In this recipe, they are not fried, they are whole and soft.

Dilute tomato paste in a glass of water. Add sour cream and the remaining water, mix well. You can add a little salt.

Fill the meatballs with sauce. The sauce should cover the meatballs by 2/3. If you don't have enough, add a little water directly to the saucepan.

We put the meatballs on low heat and cook under the lid for 35-40 minutes according to the recipe. Classic meatballs with rice and minced meat are served with vegetable side dish or with mashed potatoes. You can serve them as a separate dish.

Meatballs with rice in sour cream sauce

Thanks to sour cream, meatballs learn to be very tender and soft. It only takes 45 minutes to make the rice and gravy meatballs.

Ingredients:

Preparation

To prepare delicious meatballs with rice in sour cream sauce, cook the minced meat yourself. Twist 200 grams of pork meat and 200 grams of beef pulp. Stir. If you cook meatballs in sour cream sauce for children, it is better to use dietary meat: turkey and rabbit.
Rinse the rice well so that the water becomes clear, put in a saucepan, pour a glass of water and salt. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then reduce the gas to very low and cover the pan with a lid. Cook the rice until all the liquid has boiled away. Do not worry if the rice is not fully cooked, the meatballs will then undergo further heat treatment. To prepare minced meat for meatballs, the rice will need to be cooled.
Add 100 ml of water, salt and spices to the sour cream, mix.
In a bowl, mix the minced meat, squeezed garlic, salt, add a little ground black pepper. Stir the minced meat with the rice and mold the meatballs. It is desirable that they are the same size, so it is better to shape them with a tablespoon. The ideal size for a meatball is about a walnut.
Dip the prepared meatballs in flour or bread crumbs, fry for five minutes in butter or vegetable oil.
Then pour the meatballs with sour cream sauce, bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer the meatballs in sour cream sauce for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle the finished dish with finely grated cheese and finely chopped fresh herbs.

Meatballs with rice like in kindergarten

Remember this magic taste kindergarten meatballs? Let's try to reproduce. It will take 60 minutes to cook, you get 6 servings of meatballs with rice as in kindergarten.

Ingredients:

Preparation

V chopped meat add cooled rice and salt. Peel the onion and chop finely, add along with the eggs to the minced meat, pepper and mix.
Form small meatballs. To make them even and beautiful, place a plate next to cold water and wet her hands. Meatballs, like in kindergarten, are prepared without breading, so you have to use water.
Take a deep frying pan or stewpan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the meatballs, stirring, from all sides, until golden brown. Fry over medium heat, you do not need to bring the meatballs to readiness.
Mix half a glass of water with tomato paste, salt. When the meatballs are fried, pour over the resulting sauce and wait until boiling. As soon as the meatballs boil, gas immediately to a minimum, cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes.
Mix sour cream with flour, add 100 ml of water and pour the meatballs. Close the lid again and simmer for another 15 minutes. Serve with any side dish.

Meatballs with rice in the oven

Meatballs made from fatty minced meat will surely fall apart if they are not cooked in the oven. This recipe is perfect for fatty minced pork meatballs.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Rinse half a glass of rice thoroughly to keep the water clear. Place in a heavy-bottomed saucepan and cover with a glass of boiling water. Cook over low heat, covered, until all the water has boiled away. Leave the rice to cool. It should only be added to the minced meat when it has cooled down.
Rinse the minced meat, twist through a meat grinder and half the onion. Grate the carrots on a fine grater, divide into two parts. Add one half to the minced meat, leave the other for the gravy. Soak the bread in milk, mash it and add to the minced meat. Add cooled rice and egg. Season with salt, spices for meat, form meatballs.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, a little less than half of the norm indicated in the ingredients. Dip each meatball in flour and fry until golden brown.
Fry the grated carrots and chopped onions in vegetable oil. Add 4 tablespoons tomato paste and 1 liter purified water. When the sauce boils, add salt, reduce heat and simmer, covered, for five minutes.
Place the meatballs in a baking dish and cover with hot tomato sauce. Cover the baking dish with foil and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 40 minutes, serve with fresh herbs.

Cook meatballs with rice in the oven, you can at least every day, slightly varying the recipes.

Steamed meatballs with rice

For steamed meatballs, you need a sauce. You can take the recipe for sour cream or tomato, given above.

Ingredients:

Preparation

Rinse the round rice and cook in a glass of water. Season with salt while cooking. You do not need to cook until tender, the main thing is that the water boils away. Gas after boiling to a minimum.
Soak the crumb of the loaf in milk, leave for five minutes to swell. Mix the loaf with the cooled rice, add the eggs. Chop the onion in any convenient way: twist in a meat grinder, chop with a blender, grate or cut into cubes. Add chopped parsley or dill.
Minced meat for steaming meatballs is better to take dietary: turkey, rabbit, chicken breast.
Mix all prepared ingredients, salt, pepper and roll small meatballs.
You can sprinkle a bit on a cutting board and freeze the meatballs for future use.
Place fresh meatballs in a steamer pan and steam for 30 minutes. Steamed meatballs with rice are ready! Serve with stewed vegetables and any side dish.

Meatballs with rice and cabbage

Juicy and tender meatballs with cabbage in tomato sauce- it's incredibly tasty. Such a dish resembles cabbage rolls, it is also called lazy cabbage rolls.

Ingredients for 6 servings:

Preparation

Rinse the cabbage, remove the top leaves, cut out the hard veins. For the preparation of meatballs, we need 250 grams.
Chop the cabbage and peeled onions finely.
Grate the peeled carrots on a coarse grater.
Heat 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and sauté the carrots, onions and cabbage over medium heat until the cabbage and carrots are tender.
Rinse the rice thoroughly to make the water clear. Pour 2 cups of boiling water over and cook over high heat for 8 minutes. Then fold the rice into a sieve to drain the water and cool.
Add cooled rice to minced meat, cooled vegetable stew, egg, salt, add spices and knead.
Roll the meatballs and place them in the heated vegetable oil. Fry on all sides until you get golden brown... You will have to fry in batches, because you get a lot of meatballs.
If you do not want to cook all the meatballs, then fry as many as will fit in a pan, and put the leftovers in the freezer. Place the meatballs in a cauldron and pour boiling water over them so that they are half hidden.
When the water boils again, add the tomato paste and salt, mix, cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
Add sour cream mixed with 100 ml of water and pour into meatballs. Stir gently, as they are almost ready, and simmer for another 15 minutes.

Tips for housewives:

Meatballs with rice and minced meat can be prepared for future use. Roll up the balls and place them on the board or on a tray in one layer. Freeze in the freezer for several hours. As soon as they begin to "knock" against each other, transfer to a bag or container. You need to cook such meatballs without defrosting, simply putting them in a boiling sauce.
Don't buy parboiled rice for meatballs. It is best to take a round one.
It is very convenient for meatballs to boil rice in bags. You can also boil the rice in a large amount of water, and after the rice is ready, drain the water.
Minced meat for meatballs can be used by anyone, most importantly low-fat. Diet options- this is a chicken, a turkey, a rabbit. It is advisable to twist the minced meat yourself, even though you will know what it is made of.

It is difficult to find a person who would not like minced beef meatballs. Such meatballs are especially tasty if the minced meat is cooked with your own hands.

Ground beef meatballs: a great addition

Ingredients

Beef 700 grams Rice 150 grams Chicken eggs 1 piece (s) Carrot 1 piece (s) Bulb 1 piece (s) Sour cream 20% fat 150 milliliters Butter 45 grams Tomato paste 2 sachets Salt 1 pinch Ground black pepper 1 pinch Bay leaf 1 piece (s)

Servings: 5
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Cooking beef meatballs: recipe

If this dish is cooked in a gentle sauce based on tomato paste and sour cream, then the meatballs will turn out to be juicy and soft. Required Ingredients:

beef (0.7 kg);
rice groats (150 g);
one egg;
carrot;
large onion;
fat sour cream (150 ml);
butter (45 g);
2 sachets of tomato paste;
spices, laurel, salt, pepper.

Rinse the beef and twist it through a meat grinder. Then peel the vegetables, cut the onion into cubes, finely grate the carrots. Meanwhile, put a saucepan on the stove with rice groats(cook until half cooked).

Stew onions with carrots until soft. Mix the prepared ingredients, add the egg and all the spices to them. Mix everything and form balls. Then dip them in flour and fry so that they retain their round shape. Fried beef meatballs are carefully placed in a saucepan with a fairly thick bottom.

Cooking the sauce for beef meatballs

Now you need to prepare the sauce:

Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the sifted flour and mix.
Then carefully pour in the sour cream and mix again to prevent the formation of lumps.
Dissolve the tomato paste in 1.5 cups of water and add to the sour cream sauce.
Reduce the fire and simmer for another couple of minutes.
After that, the meatballs are poured with sauce, laurel and peppercorns are added and stewed (at least a quarter of an hour).

Then turn off the fire, and let the beef meatballs with rice stand for half an hour. So they will be even tastier and more tender.

Beef and bread meatballs

Instead of rice, you can add stale White bread... In this case, you need to prepare the following products:

beef meat (400 g);
cream (100 ml);
1-2 pieces stale bread;
a clove of garlic;
tomato paste(2 tablespoons);
flour;
milk;
salt, pepper and spices.

The meat is passed through a meat grinder twice. Add salt, pepper, spices and cream. Then add the bread soaked in milk.

Form large balls from the dough, roll them in flour and fry. Dissolve tomato paste in a glass of water and pour into a container with meatballs.
Add a little cream there.
Bring the dish to a boil and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.

Try to cook beef meatballs, the recipe for which is simpler than the previous one. They can be served with mashed potatoes.

Instead of tomato sauce, you can make a savory mushroom and garlic flour sauce.

"If you want to live long, throw away the frying pan." This wise phrase is worth remembering, even if you are not ready to completely abandon fried food, and you need to replace at least part of it with steamed or boiled dishes.

You can make ordinary cutlets from minced meat, or you can make meatballs in a saucepan, and the latter will not only be more healthy food but also save you a lot of time. You just put meatballs in a saucepan and go about your business - you do not need to fry each batch, turn over, check readiness. No smoke in the kitchen and no greasy pans. In a word - only pluses. And if you get used to such food, then the absence of a fried crust will be a plus for the taste.

Ingredients:

boneless meat (beef) - 300 gr.;
onions - 3-5 pcs.;
carrots - 1 pc.;
chicken egg - 1 pc .;
rice - 100 gr.

How to cook beef meatballs with rice

1. First, let's prepare the products. Defrost meat, clean vegetables.

2. Cut the meat into small pieces and scroll through a meat grinder. We will carry out the same procedure with onions and carrots.

3. Add to our minced meat egg, the specified amount of rice, and salt and pepper to taste.

4. Thoroughly mix the minced meat for future meatballs.

5. Prepare a suitable medium-sized saucepan. Form small meatballs from minced meat, and put on the bottom of the pan. It is not recommended to lay out more than two layers, since the meatballs may lose their shape during the cooking process.

6. Pour about 50-100 ml into a saucepan with meatballs. boiling water, close the lid and put on a small fire to cook. During the cooking process, water can be topped up if necessary.

It so happened that homemade beef meatballs have become a familiar dish in our home.

First, the meatballs cook very quickly. Even after work, when you are very tired, cooking meatballs practically does not take much time, the main thing is that the meat is defrosted in advance. Secondly, meatballs in tomato sauce go perfectly with almost any usual side dish: rice, mashed potatoes, couscous. And, thirdly, what is important, meatballs are always very tasty. It would seem like balls of minced meat stewed in sauce. Nothing special.

But in many world cuisines meatballs are one of the main dishes. However, it is often difficult to distinguish meatballs from very similar products: Sicilian meatballs with rice, klops, korokke ... the difference in the method of preparation and the composition of the minced meat. But almost always, meatballs contain additive - filler. Often it is rice, cereals or onions, but more often it is soaked bread.

Unlike meatballs, which are fried (Italian frittatella - fried) or boiled in broth, they are stewed in sauce. However, usually they are fried a little, so they keep their shape better.

When cooking meatballs, like any other dish of this type, it is extremely important to cook good stuffing... The word minced meat comes from lat. farcio - "I'm filling". Those. what they start with. In this case, we do not start anything, but we use crushed products to prepare an independent dish.

An amazing invention - a meat grinder. Meat or fish is perfectly chopped with knives into a homogeneous minced meat. We even, but three on a grater. I still remember manual meat grinders from my childhood, which were screwed to the table. If desired, if the meat is tough and sinewy enough, you could easily tear off the meat grinder along with the table top. Tolley case is a modern food processor. Multifunctional electrical devices for the machining of products. With a huge number of attachments and accessories. Of which only the meat chopping attachment is used. I know from myself.

It so happened that some time ago we began to very rarely buy pork for cooking. The doctors insisted. Most of the familiar meat dishes we began to cook from beef or veal. Had to tweak the homemade recipes a bit, but as it turned out, it was worth it. In general, beef dishes are even tastier.

I'll tell you how we cook beef meatballs - almost on duty homemade dish.

Beef meatballs. Step by step recipe

Ingredients for beef meatballs (servings 2)

Beef (lean) 350 g
Cream (milk) 100 ml
Stale white bread 1 piece
Garlic 1 clove
Salt, black pepper, coriander, sugar, flour, vegetable oil, tomato paste taste

The main feature of meatballs that distinguishes them from other similar dishes is sauce. Beef meatballs are served with sauce. Rather, meatballs are served in a sauce, which is usually quite a lot. Once I thought, beef meatballs in sauce are more like thick soup with meatballs.
Any meaty part of the carcass is suitable for meatballs, preferably a shoulder blade, a back part.
So. If the meat has time to defrost, you need to cook the minced meat. The usual meat grinder is manual, electric. Free the beef from bones and, if possible, from tendons and films. It is also better to cut off excess fat. Any meaty part of the carcass is suitable for meatballs, preferably a shoulder blade, a back part. The so-called "goulash sets" have shown themselves very well - small pieces of pulp, most likely, trimming. Minced meat turns out to be good.
Grind the meat. You can do it twice.
Spices for meatballs - just salt and pepper. But, to your taste, I advise you to add 1-2 pinches of ground coriander and ground nutmeg on the tip of a knife. Stir the minced meat with a fork so that the spices are evenly distributed.
Spices for meatballs - just salt and pepper
Next, add milk or cream to the minced meat. A little - a quarter of a glass is enough. Actually, white soaked in milk is usually added to the minced meat stale bread... But, as a rule, it is extremely difficult to guess the exact amount of milk and stale bread. Once, studying the experience of chefs, I noticed that they often say “add a loaf soaked in milk”, but they do it a little differently.
In many recipes for meat products, you can find the word "biscuit". These are not cookies, which I really love. From Italian galetta - dry (stale) bread ground to a state of fine crumbs. It is usually used for breading. But, at its core, it is still bread that is perfect for minced meat. Unlike store bread crumbs, which is not clear what they consist of, crumbs (biscuits) cooked at home will have a well-known origin.
We always buy houses " french baguette"- a long fresh roll that is perfect for sandwiches or toasts. She's great at it. And if you dry a baguette and grate it on a fine grater, you get an excellent biscuit, without impurities - fresh and aromatic.
Add crumbs to the minced meat in small portions and knead
Add crumbs to the minced meat in small portions and knead. As soon as the minced meat stops sticking to the fork, there is enough biscuit. The consistency of the minced meat should be similar to soft dough for pizza. Very quickly, the crumbs in the minced meat will get wet from the cream. However, if for some reason you do not like this method, just add a loaf soaked in milk to the minced meat.
Wet a large plate with cold water. Moistening your hands with water, roll balls slightly larger from the prepared minced meat walnut... And put them on a damp plate.
Moistening your hands with water, roll balls from the prepared minced meat, slightly larger than a walnut
Heat 3-4 tbsp in a skillet. l. vegetable oil. Roll the meatballs in flour. Please note - in flour, not breading. Put the beef meatballs in the heated oil and fry on all sides. It is very convenient to just stir the beef meatballs with a spatula.
Roasting time - 3-4 minutes. It is enough for the beef meatballs to begin to brown slightly, very slightly.
It is enough for the meatballs to begin to brown slightly, quite slightly.
Next comes the stage of making the sauce. Add one garlic clove, if desired. If you don't like garlic, just skip this step. But, this is important, the garlic should not be fried too much. Add the tomato immediately.
We usually make tomato sauce. You can make good tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes, type . But this is a fairly seasonal sauce. And out of season there are two options. The first is to dilute 2 tablespoons of tomato paste in 300 ml of water. The second, simpler one is to take 1.5 glasses of good tomato juice... Pour the tomato into a saucepan with meatballs. Add the remaining cream immediately. However, experience has shown that instead of milk or cream, you can add 2-3 tbsp. l. sour cream.
Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper. I recommend adding a pinch of coriander, as well as 1-2 tsp. Sahara. The sauce will come out sweet and sour and very aromatic. How .

Meatballs - a dish of minced meat in the form of balls. Almost every kitchen in the world has a similar dish, so the preparation of meatballs is diverse. At the same time, it is believed that the recipe for meatballs first appeared among the Turkic peoples, and it is not for nothing that the Turkic dish "kyufta" still exists in the East.

Over time, the name has changed to "meatballs", the recipe has changed over the centuries, from people to people. Today, the meatball recipe differs from the meatball recipe, first of all, by adding various cereals and vegetables to the minced meat. For example, meatballs with rice are widely known.

The most common are meatballs, such as ground beef meatballs. In addition, they make fish and chicken meatballs... As a rule, meatballs are prepared with gravy or in sauce: meatballs in sour cream sauce, meatballs in tomato sauce. Meatball sauce or meatball gravy can be spicy, sour, even sweet - it's a matter of taste.

There are a very large number of recipes for making meatballs. But we offer you six of the most common recipes for making meatballs:

1. Meatballs with gravy

A delicious combination of dense beef meatballs with spicy garlic-mushroom sauce.

Ingredients:

non-greasy Ground beef- 0.5 kg
onion - 1 pc.
egg - 1 pc.
water - 100 ml
sour cream - 2 tbsp. l.
bread crumbs - 2 tbsp. l.
dry dill

Gravy:

mushrooms - 200 g
garlic - 3 cloves
flour - 2 tablespoons
water - 1.5 tbsp.
salt
frying oil

Cooking method:

Stir sour cream with breadcrumbs, water and mix with other products for meatballs. Knead the mass thoroughly, and then beat off. Blind small balls, fry them over high heat. The purpose of roasting is not to cook, but to get a crust, even if the inside remains moist. Transfer them to a baking dish and bake. It will take about 15 minutes at 200 C.

Prepare the gravy. Crush the garlic, but so that it keeps its shape. Can be flattened with the side of the knife. Fry it for a few minutes, then remove it, and put it in butter and fry the sliced mushrooms, and add chopped onion a little later. Add the oil remaining from the frying of meatballs, add flour and brown it. Then add water, salt and boil for a few minutes until the gravy thickens. You can garnish meatballs boiled rice, potatoes.

2. Meatballs with rice

More often such meatballs are called "hedgehogs" because of the boiled rice sticking out of the ball. Children love them very much. To make the "needles" stick out, you need to use raw rice. It is better to take not round, but long, like basmati. You can put it boiled, it will also be tasty, just the meatball will turn out smoother, without "thorns".

Ingredients:

minced meat - 0.5 kg
rice - 0.5 tbsp.
salt
onion - 1 pc.
ground black pepper

salt
sour cream - 200 g
water
tomato paste - 1 tbsp l.

Cooking method:

Chop the onion. Either boil the rice until half cooked, or soak it for an hour. Mix rice, minced meat, onion, salt, pepper. Make balls (about 4-5 cm in diameter) and put in a frying pan greased with sour cream.

Mix the components for pouring, add water, maybe a glass, maybe a little more. It is necessary that the sauce covers the meatballs almost to the head. And simmer over medium heat for about thirty minutes.

3. Meatballs in tomato sauce

You can mold regular meatballs and stew in regular tomato sauce with tomatoes and tomato paste. It will be tasty, but boring. And if you make an explosion of emotions and cook a dish that is rather simple, but tasty and extraordinary? Easily. It will turn out to be unusual and the minced meat itself, to which cottage cheese is added, and the sauce, which has simply an indescribable taste.

Minced meat - 0.4 kg
Cottage cheese - 100 g
Egg - 1 pc.
Onions - 1 pc. large
Garlic - 2 cloves
Bread - 2-3 slices (100-150 g)
milk or cream - 2 tbsp. l.
greens
ready-made mustard - 1 tsp
salt, spices

Tomato - 2 pcs. large
onions - 2 pcs.
bell peppers - 2 pcs.
carrots - 1 pc.
ketchup - 3 tbsp. l
tomato paste - 2 tbsp l
starch and sugar - 1 tbsp each l
salt
greens
ground black pepper
garlic - 2 cloves
water or broth - 300 ml

Preparation:

Chop the onion and garlic (grated, blender). Add minced meat and soaked in water (or milk) and pressed bread. Knead. The next step is to add the egg, cottage cheese and mustard. Cut the greens, pour in the milk and knead again. At the final stage, season with salt and pepper. You can limit yourself to this, or you can add other spices - nutmeg or Provencal herbs, for example. Roll up meatballs of your favorite size. Can be as cutlets or smaller. The main thing is to get round balls. Dip them in flour, fry and set aside for a while.

Prepare the sauce. It is important for him to chop or grate the ingredients as small as possible. So, heat the oil. Lightly fry the onion in it, add the grated carrots, fry for a couple more minutes, put bell pepper and tomatoes and fry a little more. Then add sugar, salt, ketchup and tomato. Put out vegetable mix about three minutes.

Dissolve the starch in 50 ml of water and pour into the sauce. Stir, add water or broth (you can from a cube), chop the herbs and put chopped garlic. Cover the sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. There comes a crucial moment: meatballs are dipped into the sauce. It is necessary that they be completely covered by it. Close it almost ready meal lid and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve with any side dish - rice, vegetables, potatoes.

4. Meatballs in sour cream sauce

The meatballs are very soft, with delicate taste... Any meat is suitable for them. You can take ready-made minced meat or roll the whole pieces through a meat grinder. If desired, the onions can be pre-fried, this will add meat balls original taste.

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 0.5 kg
stale white bread - 150 g
onions - 2 pcs.
eggs - 2-3 pcs.
salt pepper

Sour cream - 200 g
Flour - 2 tsp
Salt
water or meat broth- 100 ml

Preparation:

Soak the bread in water (milk), squeeze lightly. It will taste better in milk, but you can also in water. If you are scrolling the meat through a meat grinder, pass along with it the soaked bread and onions - fried or raw. Beat eggs and add to the minced meat. It is the beaten eggs that make the meatballs tender and juicy. Season with salt and pepper. Knead the minced meat well and beat a little for airiness. Roll up balls, roll in flour, fry. Their size is small, so they are fried until cooked. Transfer the meatballs to the cauldron.
For the sauce, combine sour cream, broth (or water), salt, and flour. Pour meatballs with this mass and simmer for five minutes.

5. Meatballs in the oven

Delicious meatballs with cheese. It makes meatballs more tasty, and the tomato mass in which they are stewed - more juicy.

Ingredients:

minced meat - 0.5 kg
cheese - 150 g
egg - 1 pc.
onion - 1 pc.
salt pepper

Tomatoes - 4-5 pcs. large,
Sugar - 1 tsp
salt pepper

Preparation:

Chop the onion very finely, grate the cheese. Mix everything with minced meat, salt and pepper.
Remove the peel from the tomatoes, finely chop the pulp. You can do it faster - cut the tomato into halves and grate. The pulp gradually wears off, and the skin remains in the hands. Add a little salt to the tomato mass, add sugar. Here you have to try. If the tomatoes are sweeter, put a little less sugar, and vice versa. You need to rely on your taste. You can add herbs or allspice. Pour the seasoned tomato mass into a mold and put in the oven, or simmer on the stove for 10 minutes to release the juice. Yes, such an interesting turn of events.

While the tomatoes are letting in juice, mold the meatballs with wet hands and immerse them in the stewed tomato mass. Bake for 30 minutes until tender (200 C).

6. Meatballs in a slow cooker

Cooking in a slow cooker is a real pleasure. All you need is to load the products, everything else is done by herself. No need to follow the process, nothing will burn or run away. And after a certain time, all that remains is to pick up a delicious ready-made dish. Like meatballs, for example.

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 0.5 kg
salt
egg-1
ground pepper
rice - 0.5 tbsp.
onion - 1 pc.

bay leaf, salt, spices.
water or broth - 400 ml
flour, mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup (tomato paste) - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

Boil rice. Chop the onion and mix with other components for meatballs. Blind balls and place in a bowl.
In a bowl, mix all the ingredients for the sauce thoroughly and pour over the meatballs. Turn on the "Extinguishing" mode for 1 hour.

Meatballs - useful tips experienced chefs:

The meatballs will turn out to be tastier if you do not take purchased minced meat, but cook it yourself from meat. It turns out to be more juicy, tk. it retains the meat juice.

To make the meatballs juicy and fluffy, soaked bread is added to the minced meat - it absorbs the meat juice, not allowing it to come out. It is better to use stale bread, because fresh gives the meatballs not very pleasant stickiness.
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Gulhayo Rakhimova