Meatballs with tomato sauce
Time: 1 hour.
- pork pulp – 300 grams;
- beef pulp – 300 grams;
- fresh tomatoes – 5 pcs.;
- large carrots – 1 pc.;
- onion – 2 heads;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- flour - as needed;
- vegetable oil;
- salt pepper.
- Rinse the meat and wipe with napkins. Cut into pieces. Pass the pork and beef through a meat grinder.
- Salt the minced meat and pepper. Add the egg. If the minced meat falls apart, then you can add 2 eggs.
- Peel the vegetables. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots. Divide the vegetables into 2 parts: one will go into the meat, and the other will go into the gravy.
- Add carrots and onions to the minced meat. Form meatballs.
- Place the tomatoes in boiling water for half a minute, then transfer them to cold water. Remove the skin with a slight movement of your hand. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes.
- Fry onions and carrots in a frying pan. Add tomato pieces. Add salt and pepper to the vegetables. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Place the meatballs in a heatproof dish. Pour vegetable gravy over them.
- Place the dish to bake in a preheated oven for half an hour.
- If there are no fresh tomatoes, then the gravy can be made from tomato juice or paste. In the latter case, you need to dilute the paste with water and add a little sugar, otherwise the gravy will turn out sour.
- To prevent the meatballs from falling apart during baking, you need to beat the minced meat well with your hands.
- Don't overdo it with flour, otherwise the meatballs will turn out tough. If possible, don't add it at all.
Meatballs with rice and minced meat, cooked with gravy in a frying pan
Our mental feelings directly depend on our life. What kind of people are present in it, how everyday life works and what we eat. Seductive meat in the form of balls will make you happier and give you satisfaction. and in an instant hunger will evaporate. Isn't this a reason to be in a great mood?
Juicy beef, intertwined with aromatic vegetables, salt, black pepper and sauce will deliciously entertain you during siesta. All that remains is to implement them.
Fish balls
Time: 1 hour.
- fish fillet (roach, pike or carp) – 0.5 kg;
- onion – 1 head;
- loaf – 100 grams;
- milk – 100 ml;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
for the gravy:
- homemade tomato juice – 300 ml;
- onion – 1 head;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- dry spices (basil, oregano) – a pinch;
- salt pepper.
Process description:
- Rinse the fish fillet and wipe with napkins. Cut into pieces. Pass them through a meat grinder.
- Cut the loaf into slices, pour milk over it. Leave for 15 minutes to soften the loaf.
- Peel the onion and pass through a meat grinder along with the loaf. Mix all ingredients for meatballs. Add the milk in which the loaf was soaked. Salt the minced meat and pepper.
- Beat the minced meat well, taking a whole piece and throwing it back hard. Repeat this 10 times.
- Prepare the gravy: peel the onion, chop it, fry it in a frying pan. Peel the carrots and grate them. Add to the onion, fry for 5 minutes. Pour in tomato juice, chopped garlic, spices, salt, pepper. Simmer the gravy until it boils away a little and thickens.
- Pour the gravy into the baking dish.
- Make the meatballs the same size. Place them on top of the gravy. It's okay if the meatballs aren't completely covered in gravy. It is enough for them to lie halfway in the sauce.
- Place the filled pan in the oven for 30 minutes. After 15 minutes, turn the meatballs over to ensure they cook evenly.
On a note:
- If the fish has a lot of bones, don't worry. Just scroll the minced meat 2 times, then the bones will be crushed and will not be felt in the dish.
- Be sure to cut off the crust from the loaf, otherwise it will be felt in the finished meatballs.
- It’s better, of course, to buy a carcass rather than a fish fillet. At least you can tell from it whether the fish is fresh or not. Fresh fish should have red gills, clear (not cloudy) eyes, and shiny scales.
Swedish guests at our table
Professional chefs believe that meatballs are one of the dishes of Swedish cuisine and it was in this country that they first tried to cook meatballs. In terms of taste, meatballs with rice in tomato sauce are no different from meatballs. But if we serve meatballs to the table as an independent dish, supplementing it with a side dish, then meatballs, as a rule, are added to soups to increase their calorie content and emphasize the taste.
Today we will talk about how to prepare meatballs according to traditional recipes, which can be served with a vegetable or cereal side dish. By the way, meatballs are prepared not only from minced meat. Seafood lovers can prepare them from fish fillets, first grinding them to the consistency of minced meat.
If this is your first time cooking meatballs, then you just need to familiarize yourself with some culinary subtleties:
- As you understand, the basis of the meatballs is minced meat. It's better to cook it yourself.
- To grind fish or meat fillets, use a meat grinder with a large attachment. According to your taste preferences, the minced meat can be ground in a food processor or blender.
- Minced meat or fish itself is considered a bit dry. To make the meatballs juicy, be sure to add chopped onion.
- Traditionally, polished rice is added to meatballs. It can be pre-cooked until half cooked.
- To prevent the meatballs from disintegrating during heat treatment, use raw rice cereal, previously steamed in boiling water.
- You can also add bread crumbs soaked in a milk base or water to the meatballs.
- If the minced meatballs have a runny consistency, add a little high-grade sifted flour or breadcrumbs.
- You can cook meatballs in tomato sauce in a frying pan. First, lightly fry them and then simmer until fully cooked.
- Tomato sauce is a culinary classic. It can be prepared from fresh tomatoes, natural juice or paste.
- To make the tomato sauce aromatic, add seasonings, spices and a little granulated sugar.
- If you want the gravy to be thick, add sifted flour gradually. Remember to stir the sauce thoroughly to avoid lumps.
- If you cook meatballs in tomato sauce in the oven, be sure to cover the baking sheet with foil to maintain the juiciness of the dish.
- Give the finished meatballs time to brew, and then serve.
- You can add greens to the minced meat for juiciness. It is customary to decorate the finished dish with chopped herbs.
- If you are preparing meatballs to add to first courses, form the pieces and place them in the freezer for storage.
- A mixture of pepper, fine-grained salt, and paprika goes well with the taste of minced meat and fish.
- Fans of spicy and spicy food can add turmeric, suneli hops, chili, curry, etc. to minced meat.
Meatballs with green onions and parsley
Time: 1 hour 20 minutes.
- pork - 0.5 kg;
- soy sauce – 1 tbsp. l.;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- green onions - 3 feathers;
- parsley - a bunch;
- vegetable broth – 0.5 l;
- onion – 1 head;
- sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.;
- butter – 30 grams;
- salt pepper.
Process description:
- Rinse the pork and pat dry with a paper towel. Cut into pieces. Pass them through a meat grinder. Add soy sauce to the minced meat, squeeze the garlic through a press. Pepper and lightly salt the minced meat.
- Rinse the parsley and green onions, shake them off, and chop finely. Add to minced meat. Mix.
- Form the minced meat into meatballs.
- Fry the meat balls in a frying pan until they are browned. You need to fry over high heat. There is no need to worry that the meatballs will be raw inside, because they will also be baked in the oven.
- Melt the butter in a separate frying pan. Pour flour through a sieve. Fry it. Pour in the vegetable broth.
- Chop the onion as if for frying. Pour chopped onion into a frying pan with vegetable broth, pour in sour cream. Simmer the gravy for 10 minutes.
- Place the meatballs on a baking sheet or in a special heat-resistant form. Pour gravy over meat balls. Bake for 40 minutes.
On a note:
- The vegetable broth added to the gravy can be prepared from any boiled vegetables. For flavor, add bay leaf and allspice.
- Soy sauce gives the minced meat a spicy flavor. Do not forget that this product is quite salty, so watch the amount of salt you add so as not to oversalt the minced meat.
How to cook meatballs with rice so that they are delicious
Let your dish be shrouded in mystery, which will dissolve in its taste, structure and cooking process. And this is what these secrets are.
1. What else can you add to meat balls to make them fluffy and soft? Many people practice this method by mixing the meat mass with wet black bread crumb.
You can do this, just choose not a fresh loaf, but one that has been lying around for a day. Pour fresh milk or boiled water over the crumb. As soon as the bread swells, drain the excess liquid and grind it in a blender. All that remains is to add the mass to the twisted meat.
2. Also mix the meat with your favorite herbs and even chopped nuts. It will be very tasty.
3. Which meat to choose? Choose it with medium fat content, or mixed with beef and pork, chicken and even lamb.
4. If you only have beef meat, it’s okay. Mix it with chopped onions. This will help make the dish juicy and tender.
5. The blanks are formed by hand. And to prevent the minced meat from sticking to them, use one trick. Prepare a bowl of clean water and dip your hands in it. This way, when making koloboks, the mass will not stick to your palms.
6. Never mix meat with eggs. The dish will turn out tough and oaky. Then you will not see the softness of the delicacy, like your own ears.
7. There is another life hack. Before cooking meat balls, hide them in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. This way the dish will hold its shape perfectly.
8. And another secret to strong meatballs. Grind the meat in a blender at least 2 times, and then beat it, hitting it hard on the table surface. All! You can sculpt from such a mass. The balls made from it are guaranteed not to fall apart.
9. The dish will be very tender if you add a little semolina to it. For 500 gr. meat take 1 tbsp. a spoonful of semolina.
Meatballs with bell pepper in gravy
Time: 50 minutes.
- minced pork and beef – 0.5 kg;
- sweet pepper – 4 pcs.;
- capers – 2 tsp;
- wine vinegar – 1 tsp;
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.;
- onion – 1 head;
- white stale bread – 2 slices (150 grams);
- milk – 150 ml;
- greens - a bunch;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- salt pepper;
- vegetable oil.
- Rinse the pepper and remove the seeds inside. Cut the vegetables into thin strips. Place crushed bell peppers on a hot frying pan. Simmer until soft (about 10 minutes).
- Cut the onion into small cubes. Fry in a separate pan.
- Soak the bread in milk for 10 minutes.
- Prepare the minced meat: add chopped garlic, salt, pepper, fried onions, soaked and finely crumbled bread, as well as herbs. Mix the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. It should turn out sticky, with a uniform consistency, then the meat balls will not disintegrate in the oven.
- Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil.
- Make meatballs from the minced meat. Place the meat balls on a baking sheet with a distance from each other. Bake for 15 minutes.
- While the meatballs are browning in the oven, you need to prepare the gravy: add capers to the fried peppers, pour in vinegar, add pepper. Add tomato paste. Mix the gravy thoroughly.
- Pour the gravy over the top of the meatballs. Gently level it with a spoon so that each meatball is coated with the vegetable gravy. After 30 minutes you can turn off the oven.
- It is better, of course, to pass the soaked bread together with onions through a meat grinder. Then the minced meat will definitely have a uniform consistency. But if you buy ready-made minced meat, then just crumble the bread with your hands and cut the onion with a knife.
- You can add walnuts ground through a meat grinder to the gravy. They will add satiety to the dish.
- You can check the readiness of the meatballs by piercing one meatball with a fork. If the fork fits well and cuts the meatball softly, then the dish is ready. If the meat is still red when cut, then you need to wait a little longer and get the dish out later.
Meatballs in the oven 2 recipes
Do you want a dish that looks like it came from a Russian oven? Are you sure that you can taste such exotic food today only in your grandmother’s village? Nothing like this! A modern stove is also capable of a lot.
And, having ceramic pots on the farm, it won’t be difficult to please yourself with aromatic stewed potatoes and meatballs.
We will cook meatballs in the oven in pots with potatoes and mushrooms, here you have the most authentic Russian food!
Meatballs in the oven step by step recipes with photos
If you don’t have pots or for some reason are too lazy to take them out of the cupboard, this is not a reason not to read the recipe further. Prepare baked meatballs in sour cream sauce in a sleeve or baking bag.
Or place them in a heat-resistant form or frying pan without a handle, pour in the sauce and put in the oven, as will be suggested in the second option for preparing meatballs with rice. The sauce for meatballs can be not only sour cream.
Dairy bechamel type, cheese, tomato (both tomato-based and with tomato paste), creamy, honey-mustard, with the addition of wine, berry (for example, cranberry or currant) are suitable.
Meatballs in the oven with potatoes and mushrooms in pots
To prepare, take two ceramic pots with lids.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg potatoes,
- 200 gr. leek,
- 300 gr. frozen mushrooms,
- 300 gr. minced meat (mix pork and beef),
- pepper,
- Bay leaf,
- vegetable oil,
- salt.
Peel the potatoes, cut them coarsely, fry them separately for a short time, not forgetting to add salt.
Remove from the pan to a plate.
Defrost the mushrooms and fry them immediately with the onions in the same place as the potatoes.
Salt and pepper the minced meat. We make tiny meatballs. It’s better to stick them all at once so that they can be placed in hot oil at the same time. Turn over and cook for three minutes until browned on all sides.
Place potatoes, mushrooms and onions, and meatballs in pots in layers. We alternate everything until we fill them to the top.
Fill the pot with water exactly up to halfway and put it in the oven, making sure to cover it with lids. We set the temperature to 180°.
After an hour, open the lids, throw in a bay leaf, add a couple of spoons of sour cream - and back for ten minutes. Place pickled cucumbers and pickled tomatoes in a bowl. And we serve the dish piping hot right in the pots. Potatoes with mushrooms, meatballs, sour cream sauce - you can’t stop eating!
How to make meatballs in the oven with potatoes and mushrooms baked in pots was told by Latushkina V., recipe and photo by the author.
Tender chicken meatballs with gravy in the oven
Time: 1 hour.
- chicken fillet – 700 grams;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- green onions - 4 feathers;
- cilantro – 0.5 bunch;
- breadcrumbs - 3 tbsp. l.;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- kefir – 150 ml;
- onion – 2 heads;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- mayonnaise – 4 tbsp. l.;
- lime – 0.5 pcs.;
- salt pepper.
Process description:
- Rinse the chicken fillet and cut into pieces. Pass the fillet through a meat grinder. Add chopped green onions to the minced meat, be sure to leave one feather for gravy.
- Chop the cilantro and also add to the minced meat. Beat the egg into the mixture. Add breadcrumbs. Salt, pepper, add any spices to taste.
- Form meatballs of the same size from the minced meat. In order for these small cutlets to be the same as for selection, you need to take the minced meat with a teaspoon or a tablespoon (depending on the size of the meatballs you want to get).
- Prepare the gravy: mix kefir with mayonnaise. Add chopped onion to the liquid ingredients. Squeeze the juice from half a lime.
- Peel the onions and carrots. Grind. Fry vegetables in a frying pan for 10 minutes. Then add kefir and mayonnaise sauce. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Place the meatballs in a heatproof dish. Pour gravy over the meat dish.
- Bake the meatballs at 180 degrees for half an hour.
- To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands while forming the cutlets, you need to pick it up with wet hands.
- To make the meatballs juicier, you can add ground beef or pork to the ground chicken.
Meatballs with vegetables and chickpeas in a frying pan
For the meatball recipe you will need:
- For the meatballs:
- minced meat (beef or mixed) - 300g
- salt - 1/4 tsp;
- ground black pepper - to taste;
- onions - 1/2 pcs.;
- garlic - 1 clove.
For the vegetable part:
- chickpeas (nahut, chickpeas) - 1/2 cup;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
- tomato paste - 2-3 tbsp;
- cumin (ground) - 1 tsp;
- paprika (hot) - 1 tsp;
- black pepper (ground) - 1/2 tsp;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Meatballs with bacon in milk sauce
Time: 1 hour 20 minutes.
- pork tenderloin – 700 grams;
- bacon – 300 grams;
- onion – 1 head;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- salt pepper;
- khmeli-suneli seasoning;
for the gravy:
- carrots – 2 pcs.;
- onions – 2 pcs.;
- bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- chicken broth – 200 ml;
- butter – 40 grams;
- flour – 2 tbsp. l.;
- cream – 150 ml;
- salt pepper.
- Rinse the meat and dry it with a paper towel. Grind the tenderloin through a meat grinder. Also chop onion and garlic with meat. Add seasoning, salt. Mix the minced meat thoroughly with your hands. Beat the minced meat. If it falls apart, you can add an egg.
- Prepare the gravy: heat the butter over low heat. Add flour. Reduce the heat to low, simmer the flour for 2 minutes, constantly stirring it with a spoon.
- Peel the vegetables, cut the peppers and carrots into strips, and the onion into cubes. Fry vegetables in a separate pan until soft. Salt and pepper them. Then pour the vegetables into the pan with the butter. Pour in cream and chicken broth. Simmer the gravy for 10 minutes.
- Place the meatballs in the pan in one layer.
- Cut the bacon into thin slices. Wrap each meatball in bacon.
- Pour warm gravy over meatballs. Place in the oven to bake for 50 minutes.
- Meatballs can be frozen raw to save time later on preparing the baked dish.
- You can put a little semolina in the minced meat. It will absorb the juice, and the meat balls will end up very juicy.
- If there are pieces of uncooked meat left in the meat grinder, do not throw them into the minced meat. They will be felt in the finished dish, which will not be very pleasant.
Author: Elena Bolshova
Recipe for meatballs with vegetables
Ingredients
- 1 zucchini;
- 1 onion;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 tomato;
- 1 sweet bell pepper;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt;
- mixture of spices (paprika, savory, basil, dill, coriander);
- vegetable oil for frying.
For the meatballs:
- 200 g minced pork and beef;
- 1/2 onion;
- 1/3 cup boiled rice;
- 1-2 tbsp. l. milk;
- salt, ground black pepper.
Cooking steps
Wash and peel the vegetables.
Coarsely chop the onion, carrots, zucchini and pepper.
Fry the onions and carrots in vegetable oil, then add the zucchini, pepper and tomato cut into slices, one by one. Squeeze the garlic, add salt, add spices, a little water, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the vegetables are soft.
To prepare meatballs, mix minced meat with rice, chopped onion, salt and pepper. The minced meat for meatballs should be soft, so you can add 1-2 tablespoons of milk. I prepared the meatballs ahead of time and stored them in the freezer.
When the vegetables are almost cooked, add the meatballs to them, add a little more water (if necessary), bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer covered for another 15 minutes.
Meatballs with vegetables prepared according to this recipe turn out very tasty, aromatic and satisfying.
Bon appetit, make your loved ones happy!