Stuffed meatballs - the simplest dish. The same stuffing can be used to cook different types of meatballs, the products themselves are served with various side dishes and sauces. This is a universal dish, because they are prepared from any type of meat. And now more about how meatballs are prepared from minced meat.

Classic meatballs with rice

We all come from childhood, so the food service that fed us in kindergartens, schools, student canteens, firmly settled in our heads and taste preferences. Many still recall the distant taste of meatballs baked on a baking sheet, which were sticky, fragrant, in a light, but not at all tomato sauce, as usual. They seemed very tasty. We tried to find this classic recipe to remember that time.

Meatballs are made from minced meat, but they differ from cutlets in that they always have a filler in the form of rice, vegetables or bread, have the shape of balls and must be crumbled in flour before frying or baking, but not breadcrumbs, as is done with cutlets. In addition, meatballs are usually cooked in sauce.

So, to cook the classic meatballs from minced meat with rice, you need an oven.

And also the following products (given per serving):

  • cutlet meat (you can use beef, pork, mixed minced meat, as well as veal and lamb) - 105 g;
  • water - 12 g;
  • rice - 11 g;
  • onions - 29 g;
  • animal fat (can be replaced with vegetable oil) - 4 g;
  • flour - 8 g.

It is clear that if preparing for a family, then respectively multiply the number of grams to the desired proportions.

Working process:

  1. Chop the onion, spasserovat on fat.
  2. Boil until half cooked rice. It is important to know that in this recipe and in all other rice, after boiling, the rice is not washed to maintain its stickiness.
  3. Mix onion with rice, add minced meat, salt, pepper, mix and form medium-sized balls, cutting three meatballs per serving.
  4. Flour the balls with flour and transfer to a greased baking sheet or skillet in a row.
  5. Bake until half cooked, put in a saucepan and pour milk so that the hedgehogs from the minced meat are almost covered. Put on fire and extinguish over low heat. You can leave them on a baking sheet, if it is small, pour milk and send to a minimum fire in the oven. After extinguishing, turn off and leave so that the milk is absorbed. So hedgehogs absorb a delicious creamy taste.

Many people called such meatballs - hedgehogs.

With rice - like in kindergarten

On the Internet, another recipe walks, which is also called meatballs from kindergarten. In fact, this option is called meatballs with red sauce, and you can find it in the 1985 cookbook. The taste is really gentle and pleasant. You can make meatballs according to this recipe from both single pork and mixed pork and ground beef.

Here's what you need:

  • 0.4 kg of minced meat;
  • one egg, one onion;
  • a glass of rice;
  • salt and pepper.

For gravy:

  • a couple of spoons of sour cream;
  • a couple of tomatoes;
  • four tablespoons of flour;
  • spices and sugar.

Add the chopped onion to the minced meat. Boil the rice so that it is half-baked, cool and add it to the minced meat. Then put onion, salt, pepper and other spices, break the egg. Mix and blind meatballs.

For the sauce, grate the tomatoes on a grater, put sour cream, spices, sugar in them, fry the grated carrots a little, fry them in vegetable oil and pour the prepared sauce into it. Add a little water, bring to a boil and dip meatballs rolled in flour into the sauce. Stew on low heat until cooked.

In tomato sauce

Probably the most popular way is with tomato. Any minced meat is good for him. You can take a ready-made semi-finished product. Blind meatballs, sprinkled with flour, fry in a pan. When one side is browned, turn over and fry the other. Take out the products, and on the remaining fat from the frying, let the onion and carrots chopped on the grater. Pour the fried vegetables with tomato paste dissolved in water (one or two tablespoons of the paste). Season with salt, pepper, toss the lavrusha and immerse the fried meatballs in this sauce. Put it out for 15 minutes.

Minced Pork Meatballs

The surest decision is to cook pork meatballs. Always soft, juicy products go well with mashed potatoes and other vegetable side dishes.

For 700 g of meat is taken:

  • a glass of boiled rice until half cooked (some add raw cereal). At the same time, meatballs need to be cooked longer to boil rice;
  • two onions;
  • carrot;
  • a couple of glasses of tomato juice;
  • frying oil;
  • 0.5 cups sour cream;
  • spice.

Cooking like this:

  1. Turn the meat through the fine grill of the meat grinder, and send the onion there too.
  2. Add salt and pepper, other spices that you like.
  3. Add rice
  4. Stir, arrange meatballs.
  5. Fry for a couple of minutes on both sides over high heat to get a beautiful crust, but remained raw inside.
  6. In a pan with leftover oil, fry the carrots and the second onion grated on a coarse grater.
  7. Transfer to a refractory form, sprinkle with fried onions and carrots.
  8. Pour with a mixture of tomato juice and spices, simmer until tender. Serve with sour cream.

How to cook ground beef?

Ground beef meatballs with rice are prepared in the same way as regular meat from more fatty pork. Lean beef needs gravy, so you can cook it from sour cream and tomato paste. But there is another interesting recipe in which white bread is used instead of rice. This dish is worth a try!

For 400 g of beef pulp, passed through a meat grinder, is taken:

  • a couple of pieces of stale wheat bread;
  • one or two cloves of garlic;
  • 100 g cream;
  • 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato paste or a little more homemade tomato;
  • flour, milk, salt and pepper to taste.

Stuffing is best done by passing the meat twice through a meat grinder. Then salt it, add half the cream, spices, crushed garlic and bread soaked in milk.

Knead and shape meatballs. Roll in flour, fry in oil or fat. Pour tomato paste diluted in a glass of water into a pan with meatballs, pour in the remaining cream and simmer over the smallest fire for twenty. Sprinkle the prepared meatballs with dill or parsley.

Minced chicken meatballs with gravy

For children's and dietary tables, chicken meatballs with gravy are perfect. They are prepared from a prepared semi-finished product or from a self-twisted chicken breast.

Product Composition:

  • a pound of minced meat;
  • a glass of rice;
  • a pair of garlic cloves and a pair of onions;
  • 1 egg
  • spice;
  • flour for deboning.

In oil, fry the onion, first chopped in half rings, and then the garlic (a small fire so that the garlic does not burn). Add the overcooking to the minced meat, rub the garlic in the same place, add spices and mix well.

Wet meatballs to shape meatballs and roll in flour. While preparing the sauce, put them in the refrigerator. For the sauce, you can take tomato paste and flour, fried in oil - this is a traditional red tomato sauce. And you can mix a little tomato paste with sour cream. Next, fry the meatballs a little and pour the sauce. Put out another ten minutes, and the dish is ready!

With sour cream gravy

Meatballs are good and just sour cream. Using the method given here, cook the minced meat, make meatballs and sauté. By the way, in sour cream they will be equally tasty and without roasting, but fewer calories.

Pour the balls with sour cream and sprinkle with a mixture of Italian herbs or dried parsley. Stew until tender and serve with a side dish of potatoes.

Steamed diet option

The diet option eliminates the frying of meatballs, you also do not need to fry onions, they put it in minced meat in raw form. And garlic is generally excluded. These meatballs can be given even to small children.

And they are done like this:

  1. Pass 300 g of chicken or turkey fillet through a meat grinder, adding half the onion and half the carrot;
  2. knead the minced meat by adding salt;
  3. boil a quarter cup of rice until tender and cool;
  4. mix with minced meat and add a little chopped parsley;
  5. make meatballs and place in a double boiler, after adding a bay leaf to the water;
  6. steam for a quarter of an hour.

If there is no double boiler, you can use a colander installed on top of the boiling water in the pan, which you need to cover.

In the meantime, prepare the sauce - blanch the tomato, peel, finely chop. In a stewpan put slices of tomatoes, add a little water. To salt. The sauce is ready. Pour them steamed meatballs and serve.

With mushrooms

An original and unusually tasty version of meatballs with mushrooms will decorate the holiday table. They are prepared from ordinary minced meat with rice, but their dressing will be unusual.

For it you will need mushrooms - the most fragrant and delicious, of course, forest, but you can take oyster mushrooms and champignons.

If the mushrooms are fresh, then they are pre-fried over high heat to enhance the taste and aroma.

If they are frozen, then it is also worth frying. But the dried mushrooms are pre-boiled, the broth is stored for sauce, and the mushrooms themselves, squeezed and cut into strips, are fried. In the fried meatballs, mushrooms are laid on top, pour mushroom broth and stew, at the end adding a little sour cream.

Italian-style meatballs

A very unexpected and original recipe for Italian cooks will appeal to you.

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Need to:

  • 0.6 kg of ground beef;
  • 250 g low-fat cottage cheese;
  • some parmesan cheese;
  • one lemon;
  • one egg;
  • medium sized onion;
  • pine nuts - 6 tbsp. spoons;
  • two thirds of a cup of breading in the form of crackers;
  • some olive oil;
  • mashed tomatoes - as much as you wish, according to your taste;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • seasonings such as dried basil, parsley and black pepper.

Sauce:

  • a pound of mashed canned tomatoes;
  • 300 g chopped tomatoes;
  • 125 ml of red dry wine;
  • balsamic vinegar and salt.

Cooking:

  1. Chop parsley, garlic and onions.
  2. Rub the cottage cheese.
  3. Remove the lemon peel.
  4. A couple of Art. tablespoons of oil to heat and fry peeled nuts in it. Add onions and garlic, basil.
  5. Mix cottage cheese with minced meat, add parsley, breadcrumbs, egg, grated parmesan and lemon zest.
  6. After stirring, add more fried onions and nuts.
  7. Salt so that the minced meat is a little more salty than necessary.
  8. For 10 minutes, send it to the refrigerator, then take it out and make meatballs.
  9. For the sauce, take a pan with a wide bottom, put the tomatoes and warm them, add wine and vinegar there, and then warm them again, but do not boil.
  10. In a separate frying pan in a small amount of oil, fry the meatballs to brown on both sides. Place them in a tomato sauce with a slotted spoon. Meatballs immersed in the sauce should boil over low heat for another quarter of an hour.

Delicious Fish Meatballs

Very tasty meatballs are obtained from fish. Both river and sea fish will work, but you need to take either fillet or fish with a small number of bones. As usual, put minced salt, pepper, and rice. Do not put much rice in fish meatballs, so as not to make them excessively dry and stiff. They do not put onions, they are too aromatic and can clog the natural flavor of the fish. But a clove of garlic does not hurt, it will enhance the fish flavor.

Instead of onions, you can chop a little feathers of green onions, as well as add a handful of chopped dill or parsley.

Fried balls are put in a pan and poured with either sour cream or tomato sauce - both options are good.

With cabbage

Cabbage meatballs are more juicy, tender and light at the expense of vegetables. Be sure to try cooking them.

Products:

  • 750 minced meat;
  • 400 g shredded cabbage;
  • a glass of rice;
  • egg;
  • one carrot;
  • one onion;
  • pepper, salt;
  • cooking oil.

For gravy:

  • sour cream;
  • nutmeg;
  • salt;
  • tomato paste;
  • pepper and thyme.
  1. Chop the cabbage, scroll through the meat grinder with minced meat and mix.
  2. Add spices and salt to the minced meat.
  3. Chop the onions and carrots and add them in oil, then add pepper, peas, bay leaf, a little water and tomato paste. Boil it.
  4. Put flour in sour cream and mix. Then add this mixture to a pan with carrots and onions. Boil it.
  5. Roll small meatballs from minced meat and dip them into the sauce.
  6. Simmer all together until meatballs are ready under the lid.

Homemade meatballs in a slow cooker

It is very quick and easy to cook meatballs in a slow cooker. To do this, you need to boil a glass of rice, discard. In the frying mode, fry the onion and grated carrots. In 700 g of minced meat (500 g of beef and 200 g of pork) put the fried vegetables and add rice, spices, salt. Stir, roll the balls and put in the bowl. Then pour hot slightly salted water and add a little tomato paste. Put out 40 minutes.

Tip: To prevent the balls from falling apart after frying, do not make them too large. And you should not add water to the minced meat - this will preserve the strength of the connection of rice and meat.

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