Meatballs - 22 delicious home-made recipes

Meatballs are a unique meat dish that is almost impossible to spoil. They are prepared in a variety of ways and for every taste. Below you will find the most interesting and proven recipes for meatballs over the years.

Meatballs with rice - a classic recipe

Traditionally, meatballs are made from the most affordable products. These balls must contain minced meat, diluted with rice, and spices. In the future, you can experiment with a set of ingredients, but for now we will master the simplest recipe from childhood.

The necessary products for a kilo of minced meat and a couple of glasses of rice:

• sour cream - 1 glass;
• large onion head and carrots;
• a couple of spoons of tomato paste;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Pour rice in a couple of glasses of water, boil and reduce heat to a minimum.
2. Continue cooking until all liquid has boiled away.
3. Chop the onions and carrots and fry for several minutes.
4. Cool the rice and mix it in a bowl with minced meat and fry.
5. Knead the mass well and add spices to your taste.
6. Form the balls. Remember, you need to take lean meat, otherwise the meatballs will fall apart when you start cooking them.
7. Transfer the meatballs with rice into a pan with a thickened bottom.
8. A paste of tomato and sour cream is bred in a glass of water. You can put spices.
9. Pour meatballs with the mixture approximately 2/3 of the pot capacity. Add more water if necessary.
10. Cook over low heat for 40 minutes with the lid closed.

Cooking with Tomato Gravy

Do you remember these “table” meatballs with aromatic gravy, which was still very tasty to mix with mashed potatoes? Let's learn how to cook this yummy!

The necessary products for a pound of minced meat and half a glass of round rice:

• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• carrots and onions - each;
• flour - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• sugar - 1 tsp;
• a couple of parsley;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. First, wash the rice thoroughly several times, and then cook. Remember that for our dish you need round rice - it contains more starch, due to which the meat preparations will be dense and not fall apart.
2. Cut vegetables and mix them with minced meat and rice. Put also spices.
3. Moisten your hands and mold small pieces, then roll them in flour.
4. If you have some onion left, pour it to the meatballs and fry.
5. Dilute the pasta in half a glass of water and combine with sifted flour, sugar and spices.
6. Pour the sauce to the meat blanks and simmer the meatballs with gravy for about an hour over low heat.

Oven meatballs with sour cream sauce

Do you want another gravy, more interesting? You are welcome!

The necessary products for a pound of minced meat:

• egg;
• a pair of onion heads and a medium-sized carrot;
• cheese - a slice per hundred grams;
• fatter sour cream - half a glass;
• flour - how much will take the sauce;
• celery root;
• sweet pepper pod;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• at the discretion of the hostess, spices and salt are taken.

Step-by-step process:

1. Boil an egg and crumble it using an egg slicer.
2. Cut one head of onion with garlic and put them together with egg crumbs in minced meat. Stir and blind meatballs well.
3. Pepper is cut into small strips, the remaining onion is simply chopped, carrots are rubbed smaller. For other vegetables, put chopped celery root and fry for 5 minutes.
4. Add sour cream to the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil.
5. Combine flour and water, knead well so that there are no lumps left. Add to the sour cream portion.
6. Cover the baking sheet with foil and spread the minced meat blanks over it. Place them denser - so the juice will not “run away” and the dish will be juicier. Pour the gravy.

Meatballs in sour cream sauce are cooked for half an hour. Sprinkle grated cheese on top for a couple of minutes before cooking is complete.

Minced chicken

Such a dish will be less high-calorie and much more tender. It is better to give it to children and those who are on a diet.

The necessary products for 300 grams of minced meat and half a glass of rice:

• egg, turnip, carrot - each piece;
• canned tomatoes - 250 g;
• vegetable oil - a couple of spoons;
• Lavrushka and spices at the choice of the hostess.

Step-by-step process:

1. Boil the rinsed cereals in boiling water and pour a pinch of salt at the end.
2. Chop the onions finely, and chop the carrots in any convenient way. Mix them and fry for 5 minutes in a pan.
3. Let the prepared rice cool, mix with minced chicken.
4. Boil the egg and grind it with an egg slicer, then add to the meat mixture.
5. Put roasting in minced meat, add salt and spices.
6. Stir well and then form balls.
7. Put them in a pan, pour chopped tomatoes.
8. Stew meatballs for 50 minutes over low heat.

Turkey Diet Meatballs

Those who love healthy and wholesome food should definitely try this recipe!

Required Products:

• turkey fillet - 0.5 kg;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• spice;
• salt.

Step-by-step process:

1. Process and chop vegetables.
2. The fillet is cut into pieces, and then chopped in a meat grinder. Make sure that no large parts remain.
3. Stir the vegetables with the minced meat and manually mold the balls. Wet your hands in advance so that the stuffing is not sticky to the palms.
4. Take a pan with a thick bottom and transfer the meatballs from turkey there.
5. Pour boiling water so that it half-covers the balls and set for half an hour on a slow fire.

Serve with sour cream and herbs.

Steaming a multicooker dish

Steamed meatballs will not cause you any difficulties in cooking. But they will surely turn out juicy if you don’t overdo them inside the bowl.

Required Products:

• minced meat - 0.5 kg;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• rice - ½ cup;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. To make meatballs in a slow cooker, it is preferable to take pork or ground beef for cooking. Stir it with finely chopped vegetables.
2. Do not forget to add your favorite spices to the forcemeat that suit your taste.
3. Moisten your hands with cold water and make small meatballs.
4. Lubricate the multicooker mesh for steaming with a teaspoon of vegetable oil.
5. Put the meat blanks in the basket and pour a couple of liters of hot water into the bowl.
6. Turn on the “Steam cooking” program on the device for half an hour.

Wait for the sound signal about the end of the mode and serve a gentle dish to the table.

Meatballs without rice, but with cabbage

Required Products:

• minced pork - 1 kg;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• pasta - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• cabbage - 0.5 kg;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• rast. oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• laurel. sheet;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. To cook meatballs without rice, use any mincemeat.
2. Grind the cabbage with a knife or mince. Then add the vegetable mass to the minced meat. Enter the appropriate spices.
3. Chop onions and carrots.
4. Fry them in a pan for literally a couple of minutes.
5. Add tomato paste, lavrushka, 2 cups of water and spices to the vegetable mass. Stir and boil the mixture.
6. Pour some flour into the sour cream, mix and make sure that no lumps form. Add the mixture to the pan and boil again.
7. Fashion small pieces from the minced meat.
8. Put them in the prepared filling, boil and simmer with the lid closed for 40-50 minutes.

Oven meat balls with mushrooms

Do you like unusual dishes? Then try to cook meatballs with the addition of mushrooms!

For three hundred grams of minced meat, take the same or slightly less mushrooms, half a glass of rice, as well as:

• A glass of tomato juice
• a couple of garlic cloves;
• sour cream - three spoons;
• onion;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• sugar - 1 tsp;
• cheese - 50 g;
• spices, as always, by eye and the taste of the hostess.

Step-by-step process:

1. Boil the rice in slightly salty water and let it cool to an acceptable temperature.
2. Chop onions, garlic and mince them with mushrooms. Or grind in any convenient way.
3. Stir the minced meat. Put to it cooled rice, mushroom mix, grated cheese and spices.
4. Form the balls and put them in a suitable baking dish.
5. Mix tomato juice with sugar. Wait for the crystals to completely dissolve.
6. Next, put sour cream there and mix again.
7. Stir the flour in half a glass of water.
8. Combine the flour portion with the tomato and pour the gravy into the workpiece.
9. Oven meatballs are cooked for about an hour. Do not forget to cover the form with foil.

Serve the meatballs in tomato sauce with mushrooms along with rice as a side dish or with mashed potatoes.

Beef and Rice

A slightly modified recipe for classic meatballs.

The necessary products for a traditional pound of minced meat and half a glass of rice:

• a glass of sour cream fatter;
• garlic cloves a couple of pieces;
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• onion - 2 heads;
• spice;
• lavrushka.

Step-by-step process:

1. Cook rice. If you eat more salty foods, then add salt to the water.
2. Mix rice with chopped onion and spices.
3. When the cereal has cooled to an acceptable temperature, mix it with minced meat.
4. Roll the balls from the resulting composition.
5. Heat oil well.
6. Roll each billet in flour and send to the pan.
7. While the beef meatballs are fried, prepare the sauce. To do this, cut the second onion and begin to pass it in a pan with a small amount of oil.
8. Add sour cream and a glass of boiling water, as well as salt and spices.
9. Pour one part of the sauce to the bottom of the pan, where meatballs will be further prepared.
10. Put them there and fill with the remaining sauce. Simmer a little more than half an hour over low heat.

Serve the finished dish with fresh chopped herbs.

Oven-baked meatballs with potatoes

The necessary products for a pound of minced meat and half a glass of round-grain rice:

• onion - 1 pc.;
• potatoes - 0.6 kg;
• sour cream - 150 g;
• larger egg;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• Tom. paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• a piece of cheese a hundred grams;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Boil rice in salted water.
2. Chop the onion finely and mix it manually with the minced meat.
3. Then put the cooled rice and beat the egg. Mix well again.
4. Add the spices for the meat.
5. Fashion the balls and put them in a greased form.
6. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
7. Cut the potatoes into large pieces.
8. Next in line sauce. For it, chop the garlic in a garlic press and mix it with tomato paste and sour cream.
9. Mix the potatoes with the resulting sauce and put on the balls.

Oven meatballs are cooked for about 50 minutes.

With cheese sauce

And this option is sure to appeal to gourmets. The aroma is just unbelievable!

Required Products:

• minced meat - 0.4 kg;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• milk - 1 cup;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• cheese - 100 g;
• greenery;
• tomato - 2 pcs.;
• bell pepper pod;
• a spoonful of vegetable oil;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Vegetables are chopped and fried for a while.
2. Stuffing is salted to the taste of the hostess and flavored with spices.
3. Small meat blanks are formed.
4. Then pour milk into a bowl, pour finely finely chopped greens, grated cheese, flour into it and shake well.
5. Mix the resulting sauce with vegetables and boil for a couple of minutes.

Then put the meatballs there and simmer over medium heat with the lid closed for half an hour.

In a sour cream and tomato sauce in a pan

The necessary products for 350 grams of minced meat:

• sour cream - half a glass;
• two tablespoons of tomato paste and vegetable oil;
• greenery bunch;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Combine the minced meat with the seasonings.
2. Form the meatballs and sauté them. Do not overdo it with the addition of oil.
3. Make the sauce at the same time. To do this, mix sour cream with pasta and seasonings.
4. Pour some water into the mixture and fill it with meatballs.
5. Boil and make sure that part of the liquid evaporates.

Serve sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Meatballs, like in kindergarten with gravy

This taste comes from childhood. It must be passed on to your kids.

The necessary products for ... well, you remember, half a kilo of minced meat and half a glass of rice groats:

• egg - 1 pc.;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• laurel. sheet;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Boil the rice in slightly salted water until half cooked.
2. Mix it with pork or beef or chicken.
3. Chop the onion and put it there.
4. Next, beat the egg into the mixture and add spices.
5. Knead the mass and form small balls out of it.
6. Roll each billet in flour.
7. Fry with butter.
8. Then transfer the meatballs as in kindergarten to a pot and pour gravy.

Simmer on low heat with the lid closed for 15 minutes.

Pork meatballs with rice

The necessary products for a pound of minced meat mixed with a glass of rice:

• onion and carrot;
• eggs - a couple of pieces;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• greenery;
• oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• sour cream and flour - a pair of spoons;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Rinse the rice and boil it until cooked. For this, 10-15 minutes will be enough.
2. Chop onions and carrots, and then fry them a little in a pan.
3. If necessary, mince again through the meat grinder. It is necessary that there are no large pieces left in it.
4. Combine the cooled rice with the minced meat and the egg.
5. Blind balls of the same size and roll them in flour.
6. Make a sauce of sour cream and tomato paste. Add spices there if desired. Mix the gravy with the frying and pour the meatballs with it.

Stew for half an hour over low heat and serve with chopped herbs.

Meatballs in pots with vegetables

An unusual and tasty option for fans of a hearty meal.

The necessary products for half a kilo of any stuffing:

• potatoes - 4 pcs.;
• a pair of bell pepper pods;
• eggplant - 2 pcs.;
• hot pepper - ½ pod;
• greenery;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Mix the minced meat with salt and spices, as well as finely chopped herbs. Roll the balls.
2. Peel the vegetables and cut them into large cubes.
3. Lubricate the bottom and walls of the pots with a little oil, and then put the vegetables in there. Add salt and spices.
4. Put the meat balls on top and pour about 80 milliliters of water into each pot.
5. Send the pots for 40 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Meatballs can be obtained when the potatoes are completely ready.

Steam meatballs with buckwheat and zucchini

A gourmet dish, a completely unusual taste. Be sure to try it!

Required Products:

• minced meat - 0.6 kg;
• zucchini - 400 g;
• buckwheat groats - 100 g;
• tomato paste - 1 glass;
• carrots - 1 pc.;
• lean any oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Soak buckwheat in cold water for 2-3 hours.
2. Slice the onions and carrots and fry them with a little oil and spices.
3. Finely chop the zucchini and mix it with minced meat and buckwheat. Also, half of the frying is put there.
4. Form balls and transfer them to a double boiler.
5. Steamed meatballs with zucchini cook for 45-50 minutes.
6. While there is time, make the gravy. To do this, mix the tomato paste and the rest of the fry.

Serve the meatballs with buckwheat to the table with herbs and sour cream.

Classic "Hedgehogs" made from pork and ground beef

For a pound of ground beef, prepare the following products:

• bulb and large egg;
• bell pepper pod;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• rice - half a glass;
• sour cream and tomato paste - a couple of spoons;
• Lavrushka
• salt;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Rinse the rice and boil it in salt water.
2. Grind garlic cloves with onions and half pepper. Sauté the vegetable mixture with a little oil.
3. Salt the minced meat, chop it with spices, pour the frying, egg and mix well.
4. Fashion the meatballs.
5. Now finely chop the rest of the pepper and send to fry for a couple of minutes.
6. Put the billet in the pan, add a couple of glasses of water, pasta with fried pepper and sour cream.

Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat until the meatballs "reach" until cooked.

Meatballs in tomato and garlic sauce

For a pound of minced meat you will need these products:

• white crumb - 100 g;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• half a glass of milk;
• a pair of onion heads;
• greenery;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• a piece of cheese a hundred grams;
• a couple of spoons of pasta and vegetable oil;
• spice;
• salt.

Step-by-step process:

1. Finely chop the greens, grate the cheese.
2. Soak the crumb in a glass of milk. Then wring out.
3. Combine minced meat, eggs, crumbs, grated cheese and herbs in a bowl. Add spices to suit your meat tastes.
4. Mix well and form small balls.
5. Chop the onions with garlic cloves finely, then fry them for a couple of minutes.
6. Stir the paste with salt in a liter of boiling water. You can use regular tomato juice.
7. Pour the gravy into the pan to the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil.
8. Immediately after boiling, put the meatballs and reduce the heat to a minimum.

Simmer with the lid closed for 50 minutes over low heat.

Spaghetti with meatballs - quick dinner

Such an option for the hostess, who does not want to stand at the stove for too long today. Fast, juicy and very tasty.

Required Products:

• minced meat - 300 g;
• spaghetti - 200 g;
• greenery;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• ketchup and tomato sauce - 1 cup;
• fresh basil;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Chop onion and basil.
2. Mix them with minced meat and do not forget to add seasoning to taste.
3. Form small meatballs and fry them with butter. Visually, you can determine the readiness when they are covered with a golden brown.
4. After that, add tomato sauce to the pan and simmer for 10 minutes over low heat.
5. At this time, boil spaghetti with a spoonful of oil until tender. Put them on a plate.

Put ready meatballs with sauce on top and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Fish meatballs in sour cream sauce

The necessary products for a pound of fish fillet and half a glass of rice:

• bulb and large egg;
• a block of cheese up to one hundred grams;
• sour cream - a glass;
• seasonings.

Step-by-step process:

1. Rinse thoroughly rice and cook until half cooked, add salt.
2. If you use fish fillet, then pass it through a meat grinder so that there are no large pieces left. It is even easier to buy minced fish, but only in a trusted place.
3. Combine the resulting mass with cooled rice, egg and chopped onions.
4. Spices are added at the end. In a dish that small children will eat, it is better not to add a lot of pepper.
5. Cook the sour cream sauce. To do this, mix the grated cheese with sour cream and spices. If the gravy turns out to be too thick, add some milk to it.
6. Form the meatballs from the minced meat and fill them with the resulting sauce.

Then send the mold with the blanks to the oven for 25-30 minutes.

Swedish meatballs at home

Required Products:

• minced meat - 0.6 kg;
• bread crumb - 100 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• oil - 60 g;
• milk - 2 glasses;
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• thyme;
• onion - 1 pc.

Step-by-step process:

1. Finely chop the onion and mix it with minced meat, egg, bread and spices.
2. Blind small meatballs.
3. Heat in a pan and fry the meat balls on it. They should turn out no more than a walnut.
4. When the meatballs are ready, take them to a plate.
5. Put butter and flour in the remaining fat. Fry just a minute.
6. Start adding milk a little while stirring constantly.
7. Add spices and continue to cook the sauce until it thickens to the desired consistency.
8. Put meatballs in a hot sauce.
9. Serve with mashed potatoes or rice.

Meatballs with cheese filling

Required Products:

• minced meat - 0.5 kg;
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• cheese - 200 g;
• white bread - 2 slices;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• greenery;
• spice.

Step-by-step process:

1. Peel and chop the onion. Mix it with minced meat and egg.
2. Use hard cheese. Cut it into small cubes, about a centimeter.
3. Make balls of minced meat and place inside each piece of cheese. Squeeze tightly.
4. Put the blanks on a baking sheet and send for 25-30 minutes in the oven.
5. At the same time, prepare the sauce. To do this, chop the remaining onion and put the onion mass in tomato paste, mix with flour and spices.
6. Stew the sauce for a couple of minutes and add chopped fresh herbs.
7. Serve the meatballs with the gravy. As a side dish, rice, buckwheat or mashed potatoes are suitable.