Meatballs with gravy step by step recipe. Grilled meatballs with rice in gravy in a pan

Meatballs with gravy step by step recipe. Grilled meatballs with rice in gravy in a pan

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Meatballs in the pan   will be very juicy and at the same time with a delicious ruddy crust. Cooking such meatballs at home can be done very simply and quickly. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will tell you how to mix the minced meat and what is the best way to prepare the sauce for meatballs, which we will fry in a pan. You can pick up spices for such a dish yourself. They will entirely depend on the meat you choose. The meatballs, fried in a pan, from chicken are more tender, and from beef - hearty.

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

You can cook any garnish for such a dish: you can boil buckwheat or rice porridge with meatballs and gravy, and you can also prepare a salad of fresh vegetables and wheat bread croutons.

Let's start cooking meatballs in a pan with spicy tomato-sour cream sauce for dinner.

Ingredients


  •    (500 g)

  •    (1/3 cup)

  •    (1 medium pcs)

  •    (1 PC.)

  •    (for frying)

  •    (1.5 cups)

  •    (1 tbsp)

  •    (1-2 tbsp.)

  •    (1 tbsp)

  •    (1 PC.)

  •    (taste)

  •    (taste)

Cooking steps

    Rice thoroughly washed several times in cold water, then cook in advance until cooked. Peel the onion and very finely chop with a knife or chop in a blender. Pick the meat to your taste: it can be beef, pork, chicken or turkey. We rinse the selected piece of meat, dry it and grind it in a meat grinder. Combine meat with onions in a deep bowl.

    Add pre-boiled rice to previously ground ingredients. Add one chicken egg and salt to taste in a bowl with ingredients. Knead the ingredients until smooth.

    We form neat meat balls from the created minced meat, do it with wet hands. We dump meatballs in wheat flour.

    We heat several tablespoons of vegetable oil in a dense frying pan, put the formed meatballs into a pan and fry from all sides until golden brown for 3-5 minutes without a lid.

    Bring tomato paste in one glass of cold water, salt to taste and mix thoroughly.

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

    Fill a glass half with water, add wheat flour and the specified amount of sour cream there. Thoroughly mix the liquid so that no lumps of flour remain.

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

    Meatballs during stewing should acquire a confident rosy hue and soak in the aromas of sauce, which, in turn, should be thick enough.

    Put the finished dish in portioned plates and serve hot with any garnish. The meatballs with gravy, fried in a pan, are ready.

    Bon Appetit!

There are a huge number of options for cooking meatballs - and this is not surprising, the dish is very tasty, healthy and nutritious. Both a child and an adult will be happy to eat it, so that it is also universal for any kitchen.

How to cook meatballs

The recipe for meatballs in tomato sauce is recognized as rather unusual. There are two options for making such meatballs - you can put out on the stove, or you can bake in the oven.

To stew on the stove, you must first fry them in sunflower or olive oil. Before this, brew meatballs in flour, fry in oil and place in a pan with a thick bottom or stewpan. If there are a lot of meatballs, put them in several rows. You need to cook them in the sauce on low heat for 30 to 50 minutes.

Let us dwell on the recipe with photos of meatballs in the oven. For the second option - baking in the oven - you should grease a deep baking dish with oil. From the minced meat, with your hands moistened in water, form meatballs, arrange them in a baking dish (as close as possible to each other). Now put them in the oven, the temperature of which will be 200 degreeslower it to 180 degrees   and bake for half an hour.

During this time, your meatballs should lightly brown, now is the time to pour them in tomato sauce and place in the oven for another half hour. In minced meat you need to add cooked rice or half cooked, if rice and carrots are present in your dish - they need to be passaged a little. Although, you can add raw vegetable ingredients.

Significantly improve the taste of the dish finely chopped greens, which should also be added to the stuffing itself.

For a change, you can add bell pepper or mushrooms to the minced meat, but they also need to be fried a little beforehand. Also in the middle of each meatballs you can add an egg or chopped parmesan.

The classic recipe for meatballs from mixed minced meat step by step with a photo

For this recipe you will need half a kilogram of minced meat ( pork mixed with beef), 400 grams of boiled rice or 150 grams of rice cereal, onion, carrot, 50 grams of butter, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable, egg and salt with pepper and spices.

Getting down to cooking

If you use non-raw rice - boil it completely or half. Rinse it several times in water (it is recommended to wash the rice up to 8 times), it is necessary that the water becomes transparent. Dilute the washed rice with water, one to two, salt, pour water and bring to a boil.

Then make the fire minimal, cover the pan with a lid and cook 10 minutes. Now add him butter. cover, cover with a towel and give   infuse 15 minutes. While the rice is infused, peel the carrots and grate on a medium grater.

Peel and grate the carrots on a medium grater. Prepare the onion - peel and chop finely. Pass the onions and carrots in oil until a light golden crust forms on them. Now you need to wait until the rice and vegetables cool.

When all the ingredients are at room temperature, mix rice with minced meat, add the egg, salt and pepper, add the onions and carrots and mix thoroughly again. Stuffing should become homogeneous. Now form meatballs from it.

As always, it is best to work with minced meat with your hands moistened with water. Place meatballs on the prepared baking dish, put them as close to each other as possible. Put the mold in the oven (200 degrees), slightly reduce the temperature and cook meatballs at a temperature of 180 degrees   for half an hour.

When the meatballs have a light ruddy color - it is time to remove them from the oven, if you keep them in it, the taste will deteriorate.

How to serve meatballs

You can serve meatballs with any porridge (except rice, of course) or potatoes and sauce of your choice. While your dish is baked, you have half an hour to prepare a tasty and unusual sauce to make the dish irresistible. For instance, pink garlic and onion sauce.

To prepare it, you will need: a small onion, a couple of cloves of garlic, 200 grams of sour cream, the same amount of tomato juice, salt and pepper. Grind the garlic first, fry it a little, then peel and chop the onions and add to the garlic. When the onion turns golden, pour sour cream into the pan, let it steam for a couple of minutes and pour the tomato juice. Simmer all the ingredients on low heat for 8-10 minutes.

Meatballs are a very nutritious and healthy dish, and the unusual sauce to them in addition will not leave indifferent even the most picky gourmet.

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

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

So, the first thing we need to boil rice. To do this, pour it in a saucepan with clean water in a ratio of 1: 2, salt and put on medium heat. After the water boils, make the fire small and cook until rice is cooked, about 15-18 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook the gravy. In a frying pan, preheat ½ norms according to the recipe for vegetable oil and fry ½ diced onions until transparent. Cut the carrots into thin sticks 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 vegetables for 2 minutes.

Pour in a pan 100 ml of hot water and put sour cream, mix. Put out the contents for 5 minutes. At the end, add sugar, salt and black pepper to taste.

Due to the addition of flour, the gravy will not turn out to be a liquid, viscous consistency, but sour cream with tomato paste will give it a pleasant orange color.

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

It is better to take pork for this dish, it is fatty enough, but rice will balance it. But if you are a supporter of diet food - use minced veal or even chicken.

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

Add washed chilled rice, mix. The mass turns out to be malleable, you can easily make round meatballs from it.

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

On the other hand, also fry until browned.

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

Pour in pre-cooked gravy, put the pan on a small fire, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes under a closed lid.

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

Serve the meatballs with gravy and rice portionwise hot 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 pan

To prepare this dish, we need a small margin of time, because we need to complete the preparatory stage, which consists of cooking minced meat, steaming rice. Next, the main stage is the formation and frying of meatballs, as well as the preparation of the sauce. And the last stage - pouring meatballs with sauce and stewing over low heat.

for meatballs:

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

for sauce:

  • carrot root crop - 1 pc.,
  • turnip 1 pc.,
  • 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, sea sludge - 1.5 -2 hours. l.,
  • ground pepper - pinch.,
  • granulated sugar - 0.5 tsp.,
  • cinnamon (powder) - 0.5 tsp.,
  • dill greens.

We rinse the rice to wash away the impurities, and pour hot water for 30 minutes. Next, we discard the rice in a colander.
  At this time, we clean the meat from films and fat, rinse and cut into pieces.

We twist it in a meat grinder along with onions and garlic.

Add the egg, spices and rice to the minced meat, mix and let it stand 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 hands. Be sure to roll them in flour, so that when frying, a golden crust is obtained.

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 sauce, become juicy and tender inside.

In a separate frying pan, prepare the sauce.

To do this, first pass the onions and carrots chopped in half rings and straws in a frying pan with oil, so that they become soft.

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

Pour the sauce into the fried meatballs, cover the pan with a lid.

Stew on low heat for 35 minutes.

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

Meatballs with gravy in a pan will turn out to be very juicy and at the same time with a delicious ruddy crust. Cooking such meatballs at home can be done very simply and quickly. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will tell you how to mix the minced meat and what is the best way to prepare the sauce for meatballs, which we will fry in a pan.

You can pick up spices for such a dish yourself. They will entirely depend on the meat you choose. The meatballs, fried in a pan, from chicken are more tender, and from beef - hearty.

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

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

Rice thoroughly washed several times in cold water, then cook in advance until cooked. Peel the onion and very finely chop with a knife or chop in a blender. Pick the meat to your taste: it can be beef, pork, chicken or turkey. We rinse the selected piece of meat, dry it and grind it in a meat grinder. Combine meat with onions in a deep bowl.

Add pre-boiled rice to previously ground ingredients. Add one chicken egg and salt to taste in a bowl with ingredients. Knead the ingredients until smooth.

We form neat meat balls from the created minced meat, do it with wet hands. We dump meatballs in wheat flour.

We heat several tablespoons of vegetable oil in a dense frying pan, put the formed meatballs into a pan and fry from all sides until golden brown for 3-5 minutes without a lid.

Bring tomato paste in one glass of cold water, salt to taste and mix thoroughly.

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

Fill a glass half with water, add wheat flour and the specified amount of sour cream there. Thoroughly mix the liquid so that no lumps of flour remain.

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

Meatballs during stewing should acquire a confident rosy hue and soak in the aromas of sauce, which, in turn, should be thick enough.

We put the finished dish in portioned plates and serve it hot to the table with any side dish. The meatballs with gravy, fried in a pan, are ready.

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

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

Cook the minced meat. Boil the rice a little, not until cooked. Add rice, egg, salt, black pepper to the minced meat. Stir well.

Cooking the sauce. Grate the carrots, 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 minced meat. Put in a pan.

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

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

The dish allows you to cook both juicy meatballs and a side dish. This technique allows you to kill two birds with one stone and save time. You can cook these small round cutlets from any meat: beef, pork, veal, or use mixed minced meat. The meatballs are stewed in a pan with high walls or a pan with a thick bottom. After serving to the table, you can pour them with sour cream, and, if desired, boil mashed potatoes, rice or spaghetti. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of cooking 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 things
  • 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 and cut into pieces. Onions and garlic peel and wash. We cut the products into pieces of such a size that they fit in the neck of the meat grinder. We also prepare a meat grinder by installing a nozzle with a medium strainer.

We twist the meat, garlic and onions through a meat grinder and add semi-boiled rice, which was cooked in salted water, to the resulting minced meat.

Season the minced meat with salt, 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 foods and spices are evenly distributed.

We form round meatballs the size of an average tomato. So that the stuffing does not stick to your hands, before forming each meatballs, moisten your palms with cool water.

We heat the pan with vegetable or other oil and put meatballs on the fry.

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

If you were stewing meatballs in a pan with high sides, then you can remove them from the heat. If you do not have a deep frying pan, then put the fried round cutlets in a pan, cauldron or wok in which you will stew them.

While the meatballs are fried, we will prepare the tomato paste sauce. In a separate pan, put tomato paste, allspice peas, bay leaves, a mixture of freshly ground peppers and salt.

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

Pour the cooked tomato sauce with 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 cooked meatballs with rice to the table hot, watering them with gravy, in which they were stewed.

Recipe 6: how to cook meatballs with rice in a 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 - a piece
  • carrots - 100 grams
  • tomato - 150 grams
  • bell pepper - 20 grams
  • tomato paste - 80 grams
  • bay leaves - 3 pieces
  • parsley - a pair of twigs
  • water - 100 grams.

Take the stuffing. For this dish, you can use any minced meat, mixed is good. Put the minced meat in a bowl.

Pour rice grits there. Groats should not be cooked.

Pour spices and salt into a bowl.

Break the egg there. Pour in flour.

Soak white bread in water.

Squeeze a piece of bread and crush it with your hands in a bowl with minced meat.

Mix everything thoroughly.

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

Pour a little oil into the pan, warm it. After that put the meat balls in the roasting pan. On medium heat, lightly brown meatballs.

In a separate bowl, mix coarsely grated carrots, slices of tomatoes. Moreover, the tomato must first be scalded with boiling water and peeled off from it, and then chop finely with a knife.

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

Pour in the same tomato paste and water. Stir everything well.

When the meatballs are browned, then you need to pour the liquid mixture into the pan. Put on top bay leaves and chopped parsley. Stew under the lid for 10 minutes.

Juicy meatballs can be eaten. Bon Appetit!

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

Meatballs with rice - a simple and tasty dish, the recipe is also simple. You can make sour cream or tomato sauce and stew meatballs with rice in it. But, in my opinion, meatballs are more dietetic without any sauces.

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

This recipe uses minced pork minced meat, however, beef and chicken minced meat is also suitable. If it is too dry, you can add a little butter to it.

Grate carrots, finely chop onions.

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

Boil rice until cooked.

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

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Meatballs - they still pronounce with different emphasis, but most gourmets eat them with the same pleasure, although it depends on the quality of minced meat, additives and sauce for gravy in which these delicious meat "balls" are prepared. Stuffing cutlets of meat and meatballs differs only in fillers. In eggs, more eggs, onions, and crumb are laid; Buckwheat, rice, beans and even cabbage may be included.

There are many options for cooking meatballs: they are stewed in various sauces, baked in the oven, fried, steamed. Meatballs can be prepared for everyone - for adults and children, for diet food and for lovers of spicy cuisine.

The sauce plays a crucial role in the preparation of meatballs - and this is where mastery is needed. For spiciness, pepper and tomato can be added to the sauce, for creamy tenderness - sour cream instead of tomato. How to cook great meatballs to please even the guests is described in a variety of recipes. We offer some of them here and promise you success in making delicious meatballs.

The necessary products for the preparation of meatballs

Stuffing for meatballs is best done from several types of meat, which, in combination with each other, compensate for their shortcomings (dryness, excessive fat content). For better stickiness, a raw egg, grated fresh potato or rice is introduced into the meatballs of meatballs.

For the same purpose, such minced meat is “beaten off”: they are beaten in small portions on a cutting board, that is, from time to time they forcefully throw a piece of minced meat from top to bottom. As a result, minced meat gains two advantages at once: stickiness and splendor.

Such thick and juicy meatballs are prepared from beef with garlic and mushroom gravy.

Ingredients:

  • low-fat ground beef - 500 grams;
  • fresh chicken egg - 1 piece;
  • natural sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
  • drinking water - 100 milliliters;
  • onions - 1 piece;
  • breadcrumbs - 2 tablespoons;

for gravy:

  • mushrooms - 200 grams;
  • wheat flour - 2 tablespoons;
  • drinking water - 1.5 cups;
  • fresh garlic - 3 cloves;
  • vegetable oil 3-4 tablespoons.

Cook meatballs with gravy like this:

  1. In the prepared meat for meatballs add water, sour cream mixed with breadcrumbs, a raw egg, chopped onions and knead thoroughly until smooth. The homogeneous resulting mass is “beaten off” on a cutting board by slapping minced meat cakes on it - it is commonly believed that this will give it splendor and stickiness.
  2. Roll small balls from the prepared meat and fry them in vegetable boiling oil only until golden brown. Put the semi-finished meatballs in a suitable refractory dish and place for baking in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 ° C.
  3. At that time . Fry in boiling vegetable oil in a separate pan, pressed, but retaining the shape, slices of peeled fresh garlic and remove. Fry the cooked fresh mushrooms in the same oil, a little later adding chopped onions and the oil remaining from frying the meatballs. Pour flour into it all while stirring, wait for it to brown, then add water, salt and continue cooking over low heat while stirring until the gravy thickens.
  4. Serve ready-made meatballs with gravy for any garnish: with rice, mashed potatoes, noodles and the like.

2. The recipe for cooking meatballs with rice

According to this recipe, children will definitely like meatballs - they are similar because of sticking rice grains in different directions to hedgehogs. Therefore, they are called so - hedgehogs. Who likes rice needles sticking out, choose long rice and lay it in the minced meat raw. With boiled rice, the "hedgehog" ball will not turn out so interesting - it will be tasty, but smooth.

Ingredients:

  • minced meat - 500 grams;
  • rice - 1 cup;

Fill:

  • natural fresh sour cream - 200 grams;
  • tomato paste - 1 tablespoon;
  • water - 1-1.5 cups;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

How to cook according to the recipe: meatballs with rice

  1. The selected rice can be soaked for 1 hour in water or boiled until half cooked. Grind peeled onions, introduce it together with salt and ground pepper into the minced meat and mix everything until smooth.
  2. From the prepared mincemeat, roll balls of the same volume (diameter 4-5 centimeters) and place them alternately in a pan greased with sour cream.
  3. Immediately prepare the pouring by mixing sour cream with tomato paste and spices, add water and pour the meatballs laid in the pan so that the sauce covers them almost completely. You can start extinguishing under a lid, and extinguish the last 10 of 30 minutes without a lid over low heat.

3. Recipe: meatballs in sour cream

Meatballs in sour cream is a delicious dish of minced meat. Stuffing can be any: ready-made or "homegrown." But chopped onions it is better to lightly fry them in vegetable oil beforehand to create the best aroma of prepared meatballs in sour cream.

Ingredients:

  • minced meat - 500 grams;
  • white stale bread - 150 grams;
  • fresh onions - 2 onions;
  • fresh chicken egg - 2-3 pieces;
  • salt and pepper - to taste;

For the sauce:

  • fresh natural methane - 200 grams;
  • premium wheat flour - 2 teaspoons;
  • water or meat broth - 100 milliliters.

According to the recipe: meatballs in sour cream to cook like this:

  1. Prepare minced meat: introduce stale white bread soaked in water or milk into it; raw or fried chopped onions; beaten eggs that make the mince lush and juicy; salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly - beat the minced meat slightly.
  2. From the resulting stuffing, make the same balls, roll them in flour and fry. Fry until fully cooked, and then put in thick-walled heat-resistant dishes.
  3. Prepare the sauce by mixing the broth, sour cream, salt and without lumps - flour. Pour the prepared meatballs with the resulting sauce and simmer for 5 minutes. Serve hot with the selected side dish and fresh vegetables.

With good stuffing, meatballs are a win-win dish, but you can also add a creative stream to the classic recipe: meatballs in tomato sauce. For example, add a little cottage cheese to the minced meat, and vegetables and starch to the sauce.

Ingredients:

  • ground beef - 400 grams;
  • cottage cheese - 100 grams;
  • fresh chicken egg - 1 piece;
  • fresh onions - 1 onion;
  • fresh garlic - 2 cloves;
  • crumb of white bread - 150 grams;
  • milk or cream - 2 tablespoons;
  • greens - according to preference;
  • ready mustard - 1 teaspoon;
  • salt and spices to taste.

For the sauce:

  • ripe tomatoes - 2 pieces;
  • onions - 2 onions;
  • sweet pepper - 2 pieces;
  • carrots - 1 root;
  • ketchup - 3 tablespoons;
  • tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
  • granulated sugar - 1 tablespoon;
  • starch - 1 tablespoon;
  • fresh garlic - 2 cloves;
  • water or broth - 300 milliliters;
  • salt, ground black pepper and herbs - to taste.

According to the recipe: meatballs in tomato sauce to cook like this:

  1. Into the prepared minced meat, add chopped onions and garlic, pre-soaked bread crumb squeezed from water or milk. Mix and knead thoroughly until completely homogeneous.
  2. Finely chop the greens, mix it with cottage cheese, egg and mustard, combine with minced meat, season with salt and pepper and knead again thoroughly. You can dwell on this option, or you can expand the assortment of spices by adding nutmeg or Provence herbs.
  3. To make small identical balls out of the minced meat, roll in flour, fry in vegetable oil and transfer to a saucepan.
  4. To prepare the sauce, grind all the ingredients and, starting with onions, a little later, carrots, followed by sweet peppers and chopped tomatoes, fry in a pan in vegetable oil. At the very end, salt, pour sugar, put ketchup and tomato paste. Simmer all this mixture over low heat for 3-4 minutes. After these minutes, add starch, broth or water diluted in 50 milliliters of water, pour chopped herbs and chopped garlic. Simmer the sauce under the lid over low heat for 10 minutes.
  5. It remains to put the sauce in the saucepan with ready-made meatballs so that they are completely covered with it, and simmer the meatballs in the sauce for another 15 minutes over low heat. Serve hot with your preferred side dish and vegetable salad.

5. Homemade recipe meatballs in the oven

The taste of meatballs is very successfully ennobles the addition of cheese, even processed. Any hard cheese is suitable for this, although it is tastier with parmesan. In combination with tomato sauce, meatballs are very tasty.

Ingredients:

  • minced meat - 500 grams;
  • cheese - 150 grams;
  • chicken egg - 1 piece;
  • onions - 1 piece;
  • ground black pepper and salt - to taste.

For the sauce:

  • large ripe tomatoes - 4-5 pieces;
  • granulated sugar - 1 teaspoon;
  • salt and black pepper to taste.

According to the recipe meatballs in the oven to cook like this:

  1. Combine minced onion, grated cheese, salt, ground black pepper with ground meat and knead thoroughly until completely homogeneous.
  2. Prepare tomato dressing in a way convenient for you, excluding tomato skins. You can scald and remove them, or rub them cut in half on a grater - the skin will remain in your hands.
  3. Salt and sweeten the resulting tomato dressing to taste, add herbs to your preference and allspice. In a frying pan over low heat to darken for maximum allocation of juice.
  4. At this time, stick the meatballs and put them alternately in a tomato juicy mass, in which the meatballs should be baked in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 ° C until ready.

6. The recipe for cooking meatballs in a slow cooker

No need to exaggerate the "magical" properties of the multicooker - no one has canceled skillful hands yet. Yes, nothing will run away and will not burn, but it will be tasty only if you put deliciously prepared products for heat treatment there. The correct and simple recipe will help with this.

Ingredients:

  • minced meat - 500 grams;
  • boiled rice - 1 cup;
  • chicken egg - 1 piece;
  • onions - 1 piece;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

  • broth or water - 400 milliliters
  • flour - 2 tablespoons;
  • mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons;
  • natural sour cream - 2 tablespoons;
  • ketchup or tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
  • bay leaf - 1 piece;
  • salt and spices to taste.

Cook meatballs in a slow cooker like this:

  1. In the usual way, prepare minced meat for meatballs according to the above recipes. Put the same meat balls and put them in the multicooker bowl.
  2. In a separate convenient dish, mix the necessary products for the sauce, pour the laid meatballs on it and turn on the “Stewing” mode for 1 hour, after which you will get unusually aromatic and tasty meatballs.

Cooks secrets how to cook delicious meatballs

  1. When choosing home-made or purchased minced meat, one needs to incline towards the freshly-made home-cooked one, as it does not lose its natural juiciness, which guarantees high quality finished meatballs.
  2. We cannot ignore the presence of minced bread crumbs soaked in milk or water, because it is the bread crumb that maximally holds tasty and healthy meat juice in meatballs. Bread crumb from stale bread does not give unwanted stickiness to prepared meatballs. Give preference to stale white bread.

Homemade meatballs - a wonderful hot meat dish that goes perfectly with any side dish, from boiled rice to steamed vegetables. Most housewives at least once in their life cooked meatballs with gravy, and each already has its own favorite recipe for this dish. We offer you 3 easy-to-cook, but no less tasty meatball meat recipes that are perfect for a family Saturday dinner.

Gravy Meatballs with Rice

Meatballs with rice is an excellent dish for a hearty family dinner. They are prepared simply, quickly and are liked by everyone - from small to large. Even the most demanding meat dishes, children are ready to eat such meatballs with gravy every day. Gravy is also useful if you are serving this dish with a side dish. The main difference between hedgehogs with rice and meat from meatballs is that for meatballs with gravy, you must first boil rice.

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Ingredients

  • Minced pork or mixed - 300 gr;
  • Raw rice - 100 gr;
  • Chicken egg - 1 pc;
  • Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp;
  • Tomato paste - 2 tbsp;
  • Onions - 1 pc;
  • Sour cream - 80 gr;
  • Carrots - 1 pc;
  • Sugar - 0.5 tsp;
  • Wheat flour - 1 tbsp;


How to cook delicious meatballs with rice and gravy

So, the first thing we need to boil rice. To do this, pour it in a saucepan with clean water in a ratio of 1: 2, salt and put on medium heat. After the water boils, make the fire small and cook until rice is cooked, about 15-18 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook the gravy. In a frying pan, heat half the norm according to the recipe for vegetable oil and fry 0.5 diced onions until transparent. Cut the carrots into thin sticks 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 vegetables for 2 minutes.

Pour in a pan 100 ml of hot water and put sour cream, mix. Put out the contents for 5 minutes. At the end, add sugar, salt and black pepper to taste.

Due to the addition of flour, the gravy will not turn out to be a liquid, viscous consistency, but sour cream with tomato paste will give it a pleasant orange color.

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

It is better to take pork for this dish, it is fatty enough, but rice will balance it. But if you are a supporter of diet food - use minced veal or even chicken.

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

Add washed chilled rice, mix. The mass turns out to be malleable, you can easily make round meatballs from it.

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

On the other hand, also fry until browned.

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

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Pour in pre-cooked gravy, put the pan on a small fire, bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes under a closed lid.

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

Serve the meatballs with gravy and rice portionwise hot 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!

Chicken meatballs with sour cream sauce in a pan

The combination of tender chicken with fragrant creamy notes of sauce has long been familiar to everyone. Chicken and gravy for meatballs based on sour cream are very harmoniously combined to taste and look like you spent more than one hour preparing this dish, although this is not at all the case. Chicken meatballs in sour cream sauce are so easy to prepare that not even the most experienced cook will cope with them.

Ingredients:

  • Minced chicken - 500 gr;
  • Onions - 1 pc;
  • Rice - 100 gr;
  • Sour cream - 200 ml;
  • Garlic - 1 clove;
  • Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp;
  • Salt, ground black pepper to taste.

Cooking:

  1. Boil the rice until half cooked, cool it. It is best to use long-grain rice, it does not stick together during the formation of meatballs.
  2. Use ready-made chilled minced meat or wind it yourself. The most useful and non-greasy part of the chicken is its breast, so it is best to use it for minced meat.
  3. Chop the onion very finely or mince it along with the chicken. Add rice to the bowl of meat.
  4. Salt, pepper the minced meat and mix it thoroughly.
  5. To make meatballs from minced chicken, you do not need to add an egg to it, since it is already quite elastic. Moisten your hands with cold water so that the ground meat does not stick to them, and make a batch of small meatballs. Put them in the refrigerator for 10-20 minutes to cool.
  6. Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan. Put chicken meatballs in it. Try to stack them in one row. Turn the meatballs as they brow in the pan.
  7. As soon as the meatballs are fried, add a little hot water to the pan, then immediately put all the sour cream and mix well. Cover and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. There is another option for cooking gravy. After the meatballs are fried, transfer them to a small pan.
  8. In a separate pan, fry onions and grated carrots, and only then add sour cream, garlic and hot water. Having prepared the gravy separately, pour it into the pan to the meatballs and simmer for 15 minutes under the closed lid.
  9. Add garlic clove, a little salt and black pepper to the chicken meatballs with gravy. Stir again and remove from heat. After 5 minutes spent under a closed lid, meatballs with sour cream sauce will be ready. Serve them with mashed potatoes or boiled rice, garnished with fresh herbs on top. Bon Appetit!

Cooking Tips:

  • If the sauce is too thin, stir 1 teaspoon in a separate glass. potato starch and 3 tsp water. Stir gently and slowly so that the starch does not form lumps. Then pour the resulting liquid into the hot gravy. You will notice how it instantly begins to thicken. The same effect can be achieved if you add a few tablespoons of wheat flour to the gravy and mix thoroughly.
  • To make chicken meatballs more tender, just exclude rice from the recipe. Meatballs will still keep their shape well, but at the same time they will become more uniform in texture.
Meatballs with tomato paste gravy in the oven (without rice)

When there is very little time to prepare dinner, dishes from the oven become a real salvation. I sent the necessary prepared ingredients to the stove and you can calmly go about your business, only occasionally glancing at what is happening outside the door. These simple dishes include homemade meatballs with gravy. The undoubted advantage of this dish is that simple and clear products are used for its preparation, and the result will not disappoint with its taste.

Ingredients:

  • Minced meat (pork + beef) - 500 gr;
  • Egg - 1 pc;
  • Onions - 1 pc;
  • Carrots - 1 pc;
  • Tomatoes - 2 pcs;
  • Tomato paste - 2 tbsp;
  • Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp;
  • Wheat flour - 3 tbsp;
  • Salt, ground black pepper to taste.

Cooking:

  1. To save time, use ready-made stuffing or wrap it in advance and freeze for the future. Flavored and tasty meatballs are obtained from minced meat made from beef and pork in equal proportions.
  2. Salt, pepper the minced meat, stir in the raw egg. Form wet meatballs with wet hands and put them in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. The smaller the size of the meatballs, the faster they will brown in the oven, and later they will be better saturated with sauce. If you make large meatballs, the upper part will be with a delicious crust, and the lower one will be incredibly juicy from gravy. The main thing is that they all be about the same size.
  3. At this time, prepare the gravy. Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrots in warmed vegetable oil until soft. Send tomatoes cut into small cubes there. Mix tomato paste with a glass of boiling water.
  4. Add flour to the pan and immediately pour water with tomato paste. Stir thoroughly so that no lumps form from the flour and leave to simmer under a closed lid over low heat for about 5 minutes.
  5. In a greased baking dish, put the chilled meatballs in a row and send them to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Usually this time is enough for meatballs to brown.
  6. Then pour the gravy into the mold and put it back into the oven this time for 25-30 minutes.
  7. Sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs before serving. As you can see, meatballs cooked without rice and gravy keep their shape perfectly, do not fall apart and have a uniform texture. Boiled pasta, buckwheat or mashed potatoes can serve as a side dish for such a hot dish. Bon Appetit!

Cooking Tips:

  • If you are a lover of spicy, then when frying vegetables in a pan, add to them a small pod of chili peeled seeds, or season the gravy with ground red pepper.
  • A more delicate taste of the sauce can be achieved by adding a few tablespoons of sour cream during stewing.
  • Meatballs will gain an interesting and original taste if finely chopped and fried vegetables, such as carrots, tomatoes and bell peppers, are mixed in raw minced meat.