How to cook meatballs with gravy. Plain meatballs

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Meatballs with gravy in a pan will turn out very juicy and at the same time with an appetizing golden brown crust. Cooking such meatballs at home can be very simple and fast. A step-by-step recipe with a photo will tell you how to mix the minced meat and what is the best sauce to prepare for meatballs, which we will fry in a pan. You can choose the spices for this dish yourself. They will entirely depend on the meat you choose. Meatballs fried in a pan are more tender from chicken, and hearty from beef.

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

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

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

Ingredients

• 
  (500 g)
• 
  (1/3 cup)
• 
  (1 medium piece)
• 
  (1 PC.)
• 
  (for frying)
• 
  (1.5 cups)
• 
  (1 tablespoon)
• 
  (1-2 tablespoons)
• 
  (1 tablespoon)
• 
  (1 PC.)
• 
  (taste)
• 
  (taste)

Cooking steps

Wash the rice thoroughly several times in cold water, then cook in advance until tender. We clean the onion from the husk and cut it very finely with a knife or grind it in a blender. Choose the meat to your taste: it can be beef, pork, chicken or turkey. We wash 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 the previously chopped ingredients. Add one chicken egg and salt to taste to the bowl with the ingredients. Knead the ingredients until a homogeneous mass.



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



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



Dilute 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 halfway with water, add wheat flour and the indicated amount of sour cream. 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 simmer the meat balls for another 15 minutes, adding bay leaf to them.



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



We put the finished dish in portioned plates and Serve hot with any side dish. Meatballs with gravy, fried in a pan, are ready.



Bon appetit!

Small round cutlets are familiar to everyone firsthand. They are fried, baked and steamed. Before you cook meatballs, you should know that you can use any minced meat or a combination for the dish, add not only rice, but also cabbage, beans, buckwheat.

There are many cooking recipes, each of which has its own secrets.

A variety of recipes primarily concerns the preparation of sauces and gravies, which can be spicy, sweet, sour, with spicy notes from oriental spices.

Meatballs in tomato sauce from ½ kg of ground pork and beef can be easily prepared using the following products:

• carrots - 100 g;
• onion - 150 g;
• rice - 125 g;
• tomato paste - 50 ml;
• flour - 70 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• sugar - 1 teaspoon;
• salt, spices (coriander, pepper), bay leaf - to taste.

To enjoy ruddy meatballs with tomato sauce:

1. Rice is boiled and washed with running water.
2. The carrots are rubbed, and the onion is cut into cubes.
3. In a separate container, the minced meat is salted, peppered and mixed with carrots, ½ onions and rice.
4. With wet hands, balls are rolled from the mass, rolled in flour and fried in hot oil.
5. After the appearance of a golden crust, the remaining half of the onion is poured between the "cutlets" for several minutes.
6. Pasta, flour, sugar are diluted in 0.5 l of water, after which balls are poured with liquid.
7. The contents of the pan are seasoned and salted.
8. After ⅔ hours of stewing over low heat, the dish is removed from the stove and aged for about 10-15 minutes.

Advice! People who prefer diet food can replace pork and beef with poultry meat: chicken meatballs in tomato sauce are absolutely not inferior in taste.

Recipe in the oven

To taste the oven meatballs with gravy, using the set of products from the classic recipe, you can use the oven. This dish is suitable for people who adhere to a healthy diet, in which foods fried in oil are excluded.

Meatballs in the oven are prepared as follows:

1. Rice is boiled, vegetables are chopped.
2. Meatballs are molded from minced meat with rice and an egg and laid out in a saucepan.
3. In a separate container, paste, flour, sugar are dissolved in water, after which onion cubes and carrot chips are added to the dishes.
4. The balls are poured with sauce and placed for ⅔ hours in an oven at a temperature of 180 °.

Hedgehogs - meatballs with rice and gravy

Hedgehog meatballs owe their name to sticking out rice that looks like needles.

For the execution of a dish of ½ kg of minced meat according to this recipe, you will need:

• carrots - 100 g;
• onion - 200 g;
• rice (boiled until half cooked) - 250 g;
• tomatoes - 200 g;
• flour - 30 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 800 ml;
• salt, sugar, spices (coriander, pepper, suneli hops) - to taste.

In progress:

1. A mixture for meatballs is prepared from minced meat, chopped onion, boiled rice, eggs, pepper and salt.
2. Small koloboks are rolled from the mixture and placed in a saucepan with a thick bottom.
3. The second onion and carrot shavings are overcooked in a frying pan, where tomatoes grated in a blender are then added, often replaced by 50 g of tomato paste.
4. After frying the tomatoes, flour is added.
5. After a minute, boiling water is poured into the sauce, and everything is mixed so that flour lumps do not form.
6. After boiling, the gravy is salted, peppered, sugared and seasoned.
7. The sauce is poured into a pan with "hedgehogs", after which the dish is stewed for ⅓ hours until cooked.

Important! When preparing this dish, the meatballs are stewed in a saucepan, since the “needles” will disappear during the frying process.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

Meatballs with gravy can also be prepared in a slow cooker using the previous recipe.

The main difference lies in the preparation steps:

1. The sauce is prepared in the "Frying" or "Baking" mode, after which it is poured into a separate bowl.
2. Balls are rolled from the prepared minced meat and placed in the vacated bowl.
3. Meatballs are poured with gravy and cooked in the "Extinguishing" mode for about half an hour.
4. After the beep, the dish can be served at the table.

Cooking with cabbage

Traditional meatballs can be diversified by adding cabbage by preparing the ingredients from the basic recipe and adding 300 g of cabbage.

However, the cooking method is slightly different:

1. Onions are cut into cubes, carrots are rubbed, and cabbage is cut into slices.
2. Prepared vegetables are sautéed over low heat, after which they are ground in a blender or passed through a meat grinder.
3. Minced meat is mixed with rice, twisted vegetables, egg, salt and spices.
4. Meatballs are formed from the mixture, which are then fried on all sides.
5. In a frying pan, a mixture of tomatoes, flour and water is brought to a boil.
6. Then the meatballs are placed in a saucepan, poured with tomato sauce and stewed for about 25 minutes.

Meatballs like in kindergarten

At the sight of small cutlets, lunches in kindergarten are often recalled, when there was the most carefree period. Tasting a dish from childhood will help you fully immerse yourself in it.

For cooking, you need to purchase:

• minced meat - ½ kg;
• onion - 75 g;
• rice (boiled) - 125 g;
• tomato paste - 15 ml;
• sour cream - 25 ml;
• flour - 30 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 250 ml;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

To return to the past:

1. Minced meat is mixed with an egg, finely chopped onion and rice boiled until half cooked, salt and pepper.
2. Koloboks are rolled from the onion-meat mass and, if desired, rolled in flour, which has a bonding property.
3. The balls are fried in sunflower oil with the lid open on all sides.
4. At this time, paste and salt are diluted in ½ cup, after which the liquid is poured into the pan.
5. After 20 minutes of stewing, sour cream and flour are diluted in the second half of the glass.
6. The liquid is poured into meatballs, which continue to be stewed for a quarter of an hour until tender.

Original minced fish recipe

Many people think that meatballs are an exclusively meat dish, while forgetting about fish. On days of non-strict fasting or during a diet, fish balls will be a godsend to diversify your everyday diet.

From ½ kg of cod or hake fillet, you can cook fish meatballs by preparing the following ingredients:

• onion - 100 g;
• white bread - 70 g;
• tomato paste - 75 ml;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• oil (grows) - 75 ml;
• salt, sugar, lemon juice, spices, herbs - to taste.

To taste the original dish:

1. The fish fillet is cut into pieces and passed through a meat grinder.
2. Bread is filled with water, which is drained after the swelling of the product.
3. Onions and herbs are finely chopped.
4. Minced meat is mixed with an egg, squeezed bread, salt, spices, herbs.
5. Small balls are formed from the fish mass and placed in the refrigerator.
6. At this time, onions are fried in a pan and tomato paste diluted in 120 ml of boiling water and lemon juice are added.
7. Meatballs are placed in the sauce and stewed for a quarter of an hour.

Meatballs in sour cream sauce

Sour cream sauce is a nutritious, satisfying supplement. And meatballs with such gravy will win the heart of any man who by nature loves to eat tightly and tasty.

To prepare such a masterpiece you will need:

• minced meat - 400 g;
• onion - 100 g;
• carrots - 100 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• cream (low-fat) - 250 ml;
• sour cream - 300 ml;
• salt, spices - to taste.

When preparing, follow these steps:

1. Peeled vegetables are chopped, fried and laid out in a bowl to cool.
2. Minced meat mixed with fried vegetables and an egg is formed into koloboks and fried in a clean, oiled frying pan.
3. The sauce is prepared from sour cream, cream, salt and spices by mixing the ingredients.
4. Sour cream sauce is poured into the pan and meatballs are placed, after which everything is stewed over low heat for about half an hour.

With the addition of mushrooms

The addition of mushrooms will add spicy notes to the dish. When preparing the ingredients, it is enough to replace the cream with the same amount of champignons.

But the cooking method has a number of differences:

1. Meatballs rolled from fried carrots and eggs, and then fried
2. A sauce is prepared from fried onions, mushrooms and sour cream.
3. The balls are placed in a saucepan, poured with the resulting sauce and sent to the oven at a temperature of 200 ° for ¼ hour.

On hand should be:

• minced meat - 600 g;
• sausage "mortadella" - 4 slices;
• egg - 2 pcs.;
• onion - 100 g;
• Parmesan cheese - 100 g;
• breadcrumbs - 40 g;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• oil (olive) - 50 ml;
• mashed tomatoes - 650 ml;
• water - 650 ml;
• salt, sugar, spices (basil, pepper), herbs - to taste.

When all products are on the table:

1. Garlic and onion are minced and fried in olive oil in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
2. After the onion becomes transparent, tomatoes, salt, spices are added to the contents, and then water is poured.
3. After boiling, the sauce is covered with a lid and simmered over low heat.
4. Minced meat, chopped sausage and grated cheese, crackers, eggs, chopped herbs, salt and spices are mixed in a separate bowl.
5. Meatballs are formed from the mixture, which are then placed one at a time in a boiling sauce.
6. After an hour of stewing, the dish is ready to eat.

I cook meatballs with rice with gravy very often. It doesn’t take much time to cook them, but while they are cooking, you can quickly prepare any side dish, and a full dinner or lunch is ready!

Another good thing about this recipe is that meatballs can be made and frozen, and, if necessary, taken out and cooked already with sauce.

Speaking of sauce, I always cook my favorite sauce with tomato paste and sour cream for meatballs.

Let's prepare all the products and start cooking minced meatballs with rice and gravy. The cooking time can be shortened if the rice is boiled ahead of time. If you have not done this, then it is with the preparation of rice that you need to start. Boil the rice in boiling salted water until cooked, see the rice cooking time on the packaging for it.

Put the minced meat in a bowl, add finely chopped onion.

Crack the egg into the minced meat and add salt and black pepper.

Finely chop the parsley with a knife and also put it in a bowl.

Put the boiled rice in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients. Mix well minced meat for meatballs.

From the minced meat we form meatballs, in size - a little larger than a walnut. Roll each meatball in flour.

Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the meatballs for 4-5 minutes on each side. Then add tomato paste to the fried meatballs. Add 200 ml of boiling water.

Pour flour into sour cream and add 100 ml of water. Mix everything well together, this is necessary so that the flour does not form lumps when added to the gravy.

Pour the resulting mixture into the pan to the meatballs. Salt and pepper the sauce to taste. Simmer meatballs in gravy over low heat for 15 minutes.

Serve ready-made meatballs with rice and gravy in portions with mashed potatoes or fresh salad.

Bon appetit!

Meatballs are rightfully one of the most beloved minced meat dishes. Both adults and children love them!

Looking to treat your family to these delicious meat balls in gravy?

Then our selection will definitely come in handy, in which there are as many as eight different, but very tasty recipes.

In our selection you will find both simple and light, as well as more exotic types.

Choose your family recipe and with our step-by-step photos you will succeed!

Meatballs with rice in tomato sauce step by step recipe with photo

Let's start with the classic recipe, which is often present in the menu of kindergartens, and simply in home cooking.

Ingredients

• minced meat - 500 gr
• rice boiled until half cooked - 1.5 cups
• chicken egg - 1 pc.
• medium onion - 1 pc.
• salt, pepper - to taste
• spices - coriander, zira (to taste)
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

For our tomato sauce

• carrot - 1 pc.
• medium onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 1 - 2 cloves
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. spoon with slide
• sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon
• paprika - 1 tbsp. spoon
• dill
• bay leaf - 2 pcs
• salt, pepper - to taste
• boiled hot water

Cooking

We chop the onion. It is better if the pieces are very small so that after cooking they do not stand out in the meat and do not crunch on the teeth.

We rub the carrots on a fine grater.

Mince the garlic. If you do not like it, you can not put it, but then the dish will lose some of its flavor.

We take minced pork / beef, and if you want the meatballs to turn out to be more dietary, then chicken or turkey will do.

Rice should be boiled until half cooked, 10 minutes, after which the water is drained. You can use either round or long grain rice, whichever you prefer.

Mix rice with minced meat, onion and garlic.

We put the egg there, salt, pepper, add spices to taste.

We mix everything into a homogeneous mass. You should get a beautiful, fragrant stuffing.

We begin to form meatballs.

We collect minced meat with a tablespoon and roll a ball from it between the palms. They should be the same size so that it does not happen that some of them will already be ready, and too large ones will remain raw.

If you moisten your hands with water before sculpting, the stuffing won't stick to your hands.

Then roll each ball in flour and place on a cutting board.

We put our meatballs in the pan.

Fry until golden.

Put the fried balls in a separate pan.

It's time to prepare the tomato sauce. To do this, place the chopped onion in a pan, fry until soft and light golden brown.

Then add the carrots, and together they should languish until the carrots become soft.

Mix the tomato paste with sugar and place in a pan. Mix and simmer another 3-4 minutes.

Pour 1-3 cups of boiling water into the frying, at your discretion. If you add less water, then the sauce will be thicker and there will be less of it.

If you add more water, then the sauce will be more and it will turn out more liquid.

Bring the sauce to a boil and add paprika, pepper, salt and bay leaf to it. Let it boil for 5-7 minutes.

Pour the meat balls with the prepared sauce and simmer everything together under a lid over low heat for 30 minutes.

Put the finished ones on a dish, pour over the sauce and sprinkle with fresh herbs.

They are very fragrant, juicy and tasty!

Meatballs with mushrooms and gravy in the oven

These meatballs are not simple. They are not ashamed to present even on the festive table!

They are cooked with mushrooms, potato garnish and delicate sour cream sauce. All together it is so delicious that it is impossible to break away.

Ingredients

• beef - 400 gr
• lard - 100 gr
• fresh or frozen mushrooms - 180-200 gr
• onion - 1 - 2 pcs
• potatoes - 8 pcs
• butter or vegetable oil - 100 gr
• salt, pepper to taste
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

For gravy (sauce)

• sour cream - 3/4 cup
• butter - 50 gr
• flour - 1 tbsp. spoon
• salt - to taste

Cooking

Scroll the meat with bacon in a meat grinder, salt to taste.

Beef can be replaced with other meats, including leaner ones, this is already a matter of your preferences.

If you take frozen mushrooms, then they need to be thawed.

You can use any mushrooms you like. We will have our own forest boletus, but they can be successfully replaced with champignons.

Boil the mushrooms in salted water for 10 minutes, then take out on a paper towel. We cut into small pieces.

Finely chop the onion.

Fry the mushrooms with onions in a small part of the oil until a beautiful golden color.

We roll koloboks from minced meat, flatten them, and put the mushroom filling in the center of each minced meat cake.

We close the mushrooms with minced meat so that it remains inside. Get big balls. They need to be rolled in flour.

We fry our koloboks on both sides until a beautiful golden brown.

It is convenient to turn them from one side to another with the help of two forks or spoons.

At the same time, we cut the potatoes for a side dish with such long sticks.

Fry until cooked in a small amount of oil, salt.

It's time for the sour cream sauce. Put the flour in a dry frying pan.

Add butter 82%. Do not be afraid of its quantity, everything is calculated with precision so that the meatballs turn out to be tender and tasty.

After the butter has melted, add sour cream to the company. Salt, you can pepper to taste. Bring this mixture to a boil and turn it off. The sauce should thicken a little.

Grease the baking dish. Put the meatballs in the center, and potatoes around the edges.

Pour sauce over them with a spoon so that it completely covers them.

We put in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for 20 minutes. The contents of the form will brown beautifully.

Our dish is ready. It remains only to put it on plates and serve it to the table.

Here is such a beauty. Can be served with pickled cucumber.

Meatballs under sour cream remain tender, juicy, do not dry out. All components of the dish perfectly harmonize with each other. Amazing yummy!

You should definitely try this recipe, you will definitely love it.

Meatballs without rice in tomato sauce in a pan

Are there meatballs without rice? Of course, we have such a recipe!

Appetizing meat balls in tomato sauce will appeal to those who do not like rice.

We use lamb in this recipe, but you can substitute it with any other meat.

Excellent meatballs are obtained from veal, chicken and turkey.

Ingredients

• lamb (or other meat) - 700 gr
• onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 3 cloves
• greens - a small bunch
• spices for meat to taste

For tomato sauce

• onion - 1 pc.
• canned tomatoes in their own juice - 400 gr
• cherry tomatoes - 300 gr
• greens - a small bunch
• olive oil - 3 - 4 tbsp. spoons
• pepper
• Bay leaf

Cooking

We make minced meat: grind the meat through a meat grinder along with onions, garlic and herbs.

Mix all the ingredients of minced meat until smooth.

Chop the onion and fry in a frying pan with high sides until golden.

We open tomatoes in our own juice. Remove the skin and cut them into small pieces.

We put our tomatoes in a pan with onions, put bay leaves, salt / pepper to taste there, pour it all with 50 ml of water, simmer for 10 minutes.

We roll small buns.

We put them in the resulting tomato sauce. For beauty, you can add cherry tomatoes to them.

Bring everything to a boil and simmer slowly for 20 minutes.

Ready! Serve with fresh herbs and enjoy!

Classic meatball recipe

These meatballs are very tender. They are suitable for baby food because they are not fried in oil before stewing.

Children from one and a half years old who know how to chew well can eat them.

Ingredients

• meat (veal, chicken) - 500 g
• chicken egg 1 pc
• round grain rice - 50 g
• loaf - 80 - 100 g
• sour cream - 3 tbsp
• milk - 0.5 cups
• onion - 2 pcs (small)
• natural chicken broth - 1 l
• salt, pepper to taste
• vegetable oil - 30 g

Cooking

We pass the meat through a meat grinder. You can do it twice to make it even more tender.

Soak the loaf in milk for a few minutes, then squeeze and also scroll through the meat grinder to the meat.

Chop the onion and lightly fry for softness, after which we also place it with the meat. You can not fry, if it is important, but then cut it very finely so that the onion is well boiled in meatballs.

An egg will also go into the minced meat, and do not forget to salt and pepper. Mix all the ingredients of minced meat until a homogeneous mass.

At this stage, we introduce washed and dried rice into the minced meat. Stir, trying to distribute it well in minced meat.

There is no need to additionally boil the rice; during the cooking of meatballs, it will cook perfectly.

We form small cutlets, put them in a saucepan and pour the broth.

We cook our meatballs for 30 minutes over medium heat, they should boil moderately, the lid is covered, but do not close completely so that the broth does not escape.

When the meatballs are cooked, add sour cream to the broth in which they were cooked. You will get a light and tasty gravy.

Serve to the table, pouring gravy, with any side dish.

Tender, soft and delicious!

Meatballs with cabbage in sour cream sauce baked in the oven

A wonderful recipe that allows you to cook a dish right away with a side dish.

Baked in the oven with sour cream sauce, they will lie on a delicious cabbage pillow.

This is a recipe without rice. But if desired, it can be added to minced meat.

Ingredients

• any meat - 300 gr
• white loaf - 1 slice
• white cabbage - 600 gr
• onion - 2 pcs

For sour cream sauce:

• sour cream - 5 full tablespoons
• milk - 1.5 cups
• flour - 3 tbsp. spoons
• butter - 3 tbsp. spoons
• salt, pepper - to taste

For sprinkling:

• breadcrumbs - 2 tbsp. spoons
• cheese - 50 gr

Cooking

Cooking minced meat: we pass meat with a loaf soaked in milk, onions through a meat grinder. Salt, pepper.

We roll small buns.

We cut the cabbage into slices like this. The sheets should be held on by the stalk so that they do not fall apart during cooking.

Pour the cabbage with water, add salt and cook until almost cooked. Then it will still reach us in the oven.

When the cabbage reaches the desired condition, it is soft enough, turn off the heat, and drain the water from the pan.

Grease a baking dish with oil.

We spread our cabbage on the bottom, meatballs on top of it.

Put the flour in a dry frying pan, butter to it.

The flour will be toasted in the oil until light golden, be careful not to start burning or the sauce will be ruined.

If you want the sauce to take on a more piquant taste, add ground nutmeg.

Add sour cream and milk heated to a high temperature, as well as spices, to the pan. The mixture must be constantly stirred.

Slowly bring the mixture to a boil (stirring constantly), let it gurgle not much for 5 minutes, then turn it off. The sauce will thicken a little.

Pour it into a baking dish, it should completely hide the cabbage and meatballs.

Sprinkle breadcrumbs and grated cheese on top.

We heat the oven to 180 degrees, put all this beauty there for 30 minutes. Cooking time may vary depending on the oven.

The surface of the dish should be nicely browned.

The dish is ready. We lay it out for serving along with cabbage.

It turns out amazing!

Chicken meatballs in the oven

Chicken or turkey meatballs are a healthy and dietary dish.

We know how to cook them deliciously! Write down the recipe:

Ingredients

• chicken or turkey fillet - 500 gr
• cabbage - 200 gr (you can without it)
• small onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 cloves
• milk - 100 ml
• chicken egg - 2 pcs
• breadcrumbs - 1 cup
• salt, pepper - to taste

For the gravy (sauce):

• chicken broth - 400 ml
• butter - 70 -80 gr
• flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
• milk - 180 ml
• salt - to taste

Cooking

Cooking minced meat. To do this, pass meat, onions and cabbage through a meat grinder. Add spices to taste.

Beat eggs, milk, breadcrumbs in a separate bowl.

Then add to minced meat. Thoroughly mix everything together.

We form small balls and put them on a baking sheet, on a sheet of foil, greased with oil.

Bake at 210 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.

This recipe has a very tasty milk sauce. While the meatballs are baking, we will prepare it.

Melt the butter in a saucepan or pan, add flour to it. Lightly fry it for 2-3 minutes, not letting it darken, over medium heat.

Once they are ready, take them out of the oven and place them in the gravy.

Simmer everything together for another 5-7 minutes over low heat. Then we serve it to the table!

A very tender and tasty dish.

Recipe for meatballs with rice and gravy in a pan

A recipe with a surprise that will surprise your guests. Inside each meatball we will have Brussels sprouts.

She is very helpful! And it's delicious when paired with meat. Try it yourself.

Ingredients

• minced meat - 400 gr
• boiled rice until half cooked - 1 cup
• broth - 1 - 1.5 cups
• egg - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 - 3 cloves
• Brussels sprouts - 300 gr
• salt, ground black pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - for frying

Cooking

Boil Brussels sprouts in salted water for 3-5 minutes. After that, drain the water, and dry the cabbage on a paper towel.

Minced meat is combined with rice, salt, pepper.

We take the minced meat on the palm of our hand and place a head of Brussels sprouts inside each “pancake”. We close it inside.

Fry the balls in a pan until golden brown.

In the same pan, add the broth and simmer over low heat for another 15 minutes.

Done, serve with any side dish. Crushed potatoes are very good.

They are just as good on their own.

Children's meatballs "Octopussy"

Recipe No. 4 The classic cooking recipe (see above) is also suitable for baby food.

And the last recipe at the request of moms. A simple and delicious recipe for funny "octopuses" from the chef. It will help feed the unwilling!

Ingredients

• Minced chicken - 150 g (for 1 serving)
• Rice boiled
• Onion - half
• Spaghetti
• Greenery

Cooking

How to cook these charming meatballs, see the video tutorial:

They turn out very tasty, light and dietary. Kids from such "octopuses" are delighted, it's checked!

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Bon appetit and all the best!

Meatballs are a unique dish that is prepared with any sauce. Any meat is suitable as a basis, mixing of two types is not forbidden.

Most recipes use rice, it is this product that makes the meatballs tender and also allows you to achieve a loose structure.

The sauce is the key to success: during cooking, the dish is saturated with these components, absorbing most of its taste and aroma.

Meatballs with gravy - a step by step recipe with a photo

Meatballs are a very healthy and tasty dish that everyone likes, regardless of age. Fragrant meat and rice cutlets with delicious gravy, many of us remember from kindergarten age.

So why not cook one of your favorite kids meals now? Moreover, the whole process is not particularly difficult and will take about an hour in time.

Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Quantity: 6 servings

Ingredients

• Beef meat: 600-700 g
• Rice: 1/2 cup
• Egg: 1 pc.
• Carrots: 1 pc.
• Bow: 1 pc.
• Sweet pepper: 1 pc.
• Tomato paste: 1 tbsp. l.
• Salt:
• Pepper, other spices:

Cooking instructions

Chicken and Rice Variation

One of the easiest recipes for cooking meatballs with rice and gravy.

For meatballs with rice and gravy you will need the following: Ingredients:

• minced poultry meat - 0.8 kg;
• onions - 4 pcs.;
• rice cereal - 1 cup;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• small apple - 1 pc.;
• salt and pepper to taste.
• carrots - 2 pcs.;
• tomato paste - 4 tbsp., l .;
• flour - 1 tbsp., l .;
• cream - 0.2 liters;

Cooking:

1. Rice is thoroughly washed and boiled almost until cooked, after which it must be allowed to cool and mixed with minced meat, chopped onion and apple, coarsely grated carrots, beaten egg, salt and pepper - all ingredients are mixed until smooth.
2. Meatballs are formed from the resulting mass and rolled in flour.
3. To prepare the gravy, chopped onions are fried in a hot frying pan, after a while finely grated carrots are added to it, all this is fried over low heat for about 5 minutes. After that, flour, tomato paste, cream are added - all products are mixed, and water is added until the required density is obtained. Bring the gravy to a boil, add seasoning and salt to taste.
4. Meatballs are laid out in a deep frying pan and poured with gravy. The dish is stewed over low heat for about half an hour. After cooking, it is served with any side dish.

Recipe in the oven

Meatballs cooked in the oven are much healthier than just fried in a pan. With a simple recipe, you can create a delicious and healthy dinner with an amazing aroma that awakens an incredible appetite.

Ingredients:

• minced chicken - 0.5 kg .;
• 2 small onions;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• 1 carrot;
• rice groats - 3 tbsp., l .;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• sour cream - 5 tbsp., l .;
• sunflower oil - 4 tbsp., l .;
• salt, pepper and spices to taste;
• water.

As a result, you get about ten servings of delicious meatballs with gravy.

Cooking meatballs with gravy in the oven.

1. Rice groats must be thoroughly washed with a colander several times, then boiled over low heat until half cooked.
2. Then drain the water and let it cool, then rinse again and mix with minced chicken.
3. Add eggs to the workpiece, a teaspoon of salt, pepper and spices. The resulting mass must be thoroughly mixed so that a continuous homogeneous consistency is obtained.
4. Then we sculpt small balls from the workpiece - meatballs and place them on the bottom of any dish, the main thing is that it be deep for baking.
5. In a frying pan greased with sunflower oil, chopped onions and coarsely grated carrots are fried.
6. As soon as the vegetables are softened, mix them with 200 ml, water, sour cream, salt and spices - all this is cooked until it boils.
7. Meatballs in a baking dish are filled to the middle with ordinary boiled water. Next, gravy is added, all this is sprinkled on top with finely grated garlic. As a result, the sauce should completely hide the meatballs under it.
8. In an oven preheated to 225 degrees, place a baking dish with meatballs tightly wrapped in foil for 60 minutes.
9. After 30 minutes, you can taste the sauce and, if necessary, add salt, pepper or some boiled water.
10. Ready meatballs are served for lunch or dinner with a side dish at the discretion of the hostess.

How to cook them in a pan

To prepare meatballs and gravy, you will need the following ingredients:

• minced poultry meat - 0.6 kg;
• half a glass of rice cereal;
• a small onion;
• one chicken egg;
• salt to taste.
• boiled water 300 ml;
• 70 g of medium fat sour cream;
• 50 g flour;
• 20 g of tomato paste;
• Bay leaf.

Cooking

1. Rice must be boiled until half cooked and mixed with minced meat.
2. The onion is fried until transparent and, together with the egg and salt, is added to the prepared rice with minced meat - all this is whipped to a homogeneous consistency.
3. Meatballs are formed from the resulting mass and sprinkled with flour.
4. Then the meat balls must be fried on both sides in a hot frying pan, for a total of about 10 minutes.
5. As soon as the meatballs are browned, they must be half poured with boiling water, add tomato paste, salt and throw a bay leaf. Cover and simmer for approximately 25 minutes.
6. After that, add a mixture of flour, sour cream and half a glass of water, it should be homogeneous - without lumps. Pour all this into meatballs, cover them again with a lid and shake the pan so that the mixture is evenly distributed in the dish.
7. Now, for 15 - 20 minutes, simmer the meatballs until fully cooked.

Recipe for multicooker

Among housewives, it is believed that cooking this dish is a very troublesome and time-consuming task, a device such as a slow cooker can make the task easier. To do this, you need the following set of products:

• minced meat - 0.7 kg;
• steamed rice - 200 g;
• 1 onion;
• 2 yolks of chicken eggs;
• 300 ml of boiled water;
• 70 g of ketchup;
• 250 g sour cream;
• 5 teaspoons of vegetable oil;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• Bay leaf.

Cooking

1. Chop the onion very finely, mix with steamed rice, yolks and prepared minced meat until smooth. Add salt and pepper.
2. Mix 200 ml of boiled water with sour cream, ketchup and flour. Stir the mixture thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
3. Form meatballs from minced meat and place them in a multicooker container in one layer.
4. Select the frying program on the device, add the available vegetable oil and fry the meatballs until a crust appears.
5. Turn off the multicooker. Pour meatballs with prepared sauce, add bay leaf and spices to taste.
6. Set the slow cooker to the extinguishing mode for 40 minutes - this is enough for complete readiness.

Meatballs with the taste of childhood "like in a kindergarten"

Nothing supernatural is needed to prepare a delicious and healthy dish from childhood. A simple set of ingredients and a little patience and meat balls on your table:

• minced meat - 400 g;
• 1 small onion;
• egg;
• half a glass of rice;
• 30 g flour
• 50 g sour cream;
• 15 g of tomato paste;
• 300 ml of boiled water;
• salt;
• Bay leaf.

Cooking

1. Boil rice until almost half cooked and mix with prepared minced meat and egg.
2. Chop the onion very finely and in a hot frying pan bring it to a state of transparency, mix with the previously prepared mass until a homogeneous consistency.
3. Roll small spherical cutlets from the workpiece and roll them in flour. Fry in a hot skillet for about 3 minutes on each side so that a crust is obtained.
4. Mix a glass of boiling water with 15 grams of tomato paste, salt, pour the meat balls with the resulting mixture, add bay leaf, salt and leave under a closed lid over low heat for a quarter of an hour.
5. Mix one hundred milliliters of water with 50 grams of sour cream and 30 grams of flour so that there are no lumps, and add to the meatballs. Shake the pan well so that everything is thoroughly mixed, and simmer for about a quarter of an hour until cooked.

Is it possible to cook them without rice? Of course yes!

In most recipes for this dish, rice is present among the set of ingredients, but there are also those that allow you to do without this product and get no less tasty meatballs. One of these methods is below.