How to cook meatballs: recipes. Meatballs with gravy

19.10.2019

You can cook meatballs with rice for both lunch and dinner. Meatballs are a popular diet food dish. The secrets of cooking delicious meatballs in tomato sauce.

Meatballs are balls of minced meat stewed in sauce. Unlike cutlets, in addition to meat and onions, various cereals and vegetables are added to meatballs. Most often it is rice and grated carrots. In addition, there is another difference - meatballs are almost always stewed in sauce and usually served in it. For breading use rice or wheat flour.

You can stew on the stove under the lid or in the oven. The dishes for meatballs should be low and wide, it is desirable that they all fit in one layer in a large skillet with high sides. Perfect for use in the oven with a lid. In it, you can also serve the finished dish on the table. If meatballs are fried before stewing, then it is convenient to use two pans: fry in a small one and transfer to a large one to stew.

Meatballs are usually served with a side dish, which is pasta, or just boiled potatoes.

For cooking meatballs and rice requires:

Minced meat (pork or pork + beef) 500 g
Medium carrot 1 pc.
Onion 1 pc.
Round grain rice 1 cup
Chicken eggs 2 pcs.
Tomato paste 2 tbsp. l. (you can have a glass of tomato juice or 2 fresh tomatoes to taste)
Sour cream 2 tbsp. l.
Refined sunflower oil 4 tbsp. l.
Ground black pepper, salt, herbs (parsley, dill)
Flour for rolling

Recipe for meatballs

The best place to start is with rice. Choose sticky meatballs for meatballs. washed under cold water and put on a small fire. Such rice absorbs quite a lot of water, so 2 glasses of water are poured into a glass of cereal. not necessarily until fully cooked, 10-15 minutes is enough, then just leave it under the lid.

Meat is taken from pork or pork is mixed with beef. You can also use chicken or turkey to make diet meatballs. Grind the minced meat well to a homogeneous mass.

Then finely chop onion, grate carrots on a coarse grater. Lightly fry all this in sunflower oil in a small frying pan.

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Mix rice, minced meat and fried onions with carrots in a large bowl.

Add chicken eggs, salt pepper.

Balls are formed from the resulting mass, rolled in flour and tightly placed in a heated wide frying pan or baking sheet with sunflower oil.

Tomato paste and sour cream are mixed in a deep bowl or small saucepan, then diluted with water (you can use broth). Take about a glass of water, it is better to add it later if it turns out that it is not enough.

The meatballs are poured with the resulting sauce, so that upper layer was covered.
The pan is covered with a lid and left to stew over low heat or sent to the oven for 40 minutes.

The gravy soaks into the meatballs, giving them delicate taste, and gradually thickens, decreasing in quantity.

How to cook minced meatballs with gravy, step by step photos + 9 more delicious recipes: with tomatoes, rice, in the oven and in a frying pan, diet and kindergarten favorites and many others

Yesterday I told you about how to cook 1.5-2 kg of meatballs from 1 kg of meat. I have three recipes for such a slide of meatballs. Yesterday I told you how they can be cooked in a slow cooker in tomato sauce, and today a bonus for those who do not yet have a multi is cooking in a pan. The sauce, too, I took not tomato, but sour cream for a change. Try it, cook it, eat it!

Cooking is quite simple if the meatballs are already waiting in the freezer in the wings. If you haven’t made them yet, then you need a recipe for making meatballs with peas, which I talked about in the last topic. Remember? In the previous thread they looked like this:

I froze them on a board, which I immediately put in a plastic bag. I even got a board in tights =) This is so that she would not be cold in the freezer =)

As soon as the meatballs turned into meat "stone" balls, I just took the bag by the ears, turned it inside out and all the frozen meatballs immediately ended up in the bag. Today I took them out of the freezer like this:

Eight meatballs immediately migrated into a small bag and went to wait for tomorrow, and the rest will literally turn into dinner for the whole family in 30 minutes.

To cook meatballs with gravy in a pan, you need the following products:

1 large onion

salt and spices to taste

bunch of fresh or frozen dill

1-2 bay leaves

vegetable oil for frying

Time for preparing: if meatballs are waiting in the freezer, then 30 minutes is enough
Complexity: easy (most importantly, do not digest)

Cooking:

Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. We send it to fry in vegetable oil.

As soon as the onion became transparent and began to turn yellowish, add spices and salt. Add broth (or water) to the frying pan and bring to a boil.

And add half a glass of sour cream and lavrushka.

We mix.

Throw the meatballs into the boiling sauce, bring to a boil and reduce the heat. Under the lid over low heat, cook the meatballs for about 15-20 minutes (depending on the size of the latter).

In the meantime, peel the garlic (this time I have it small, so there are more cloves than 5-6 pcs.). We pass through the garlic press straight into the pan.

You can donate one meatball and cut it to determine readiness. Ready? At the last moment, add the remaining sour cream and dill, bring to a boil and turn off.

Serve the meatballs warm. Your family will be grateful for such a delicious dinner.

I picked up a few more recipes that I like the most and are very easy to prepare.

rice delight

So, let's start with recipes with rice, which does not allow our delicious minced meatballs to fall apart. By the way, that's why they are sometimes called "hedgehogs". If the cereal is raw, then our beast will be prickly. Below are options with a prickly "hedgehog" and a soft "hedgehog".

Meatballs in white sauce

We will need:

bulb;

4 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;

How to cook:

Rice cooked until half cooked, filter it and mix with minced meat.

Add half of the roughly chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste.

We knead the minced meat well, moisten our hands and form balls the size of Walnut; coat them in flour.

Coarsely chop and cook in a liter of salt water two carrots, celery and an onion, cut into 4 parts. When it all boils, add the meatballs and cook them until the rice is ready.

Fry the flour in a dry frying pan, stirring constantly so as not to burn.

We mix sour milk with fried flour and an egg, beat it all with a fork or whisk.

Pour this mixture into a saucepan with a thick bottom, filter as much of the cooled broth from meatballs there as necessary to make a liquid gravy. We put on a small fire and cook, stirring constantly. As soon as the gravy boils, remove the pan from the heat, add a little more broth. We put lemon juice in there.

Put the balls into the prepared sauce and simmer over low heat until they are cooked.

Sprinkle the top with chopped parsley.

The dish is delicious with a side dish or on its own.

"Hedgehogs" with gravy

Ingredients:

bulb;

2 tbsp. l. fat for frying;

50 g of tomato paste;

How to cook:

We grind the meat in a meat grinder 2 times, along with fried, finely chopped onions.

Pour the raw cereal, egg, spices and knead well. We divide the mass into balls the size of a tennis ball and lightly fry.

Fry the tomato paste, dilute it with water or broth, give it there Bay leaf, add salt, spread the "hedgehogs" and simmer over low heat until the rice is ready.

"Hedgehogs" with gravy are served warm.

Meatballs in the oven

Yes! They can not only be fried in a pan, but also baked. To do this, we will prepare a pillow of vegetables so that our dish acquires a wonderful aroma and excellent taste.

With leeks

Ingredients:

potato;

50 g of tomato paste;

100 g fat;

half a bunch of parsley;

Cooking:

Peel raw potatoes, three it on a coarse grater and put it to the meat. And also add black pepper, one egg, a tablespoon of coarsely chopped parsley and salt to taste.

Knead and form medium-sized meatballs.

Coarsely chop the leek and cook in a small amount of salted water until soft and the liquid evaporates. Then add oil there and fry the onion, adding paprika, diluted tomato puree and warm water.

Fry a little on both sides and spread on the onion along with the fat on which they were fried.

Add water to ⅔ of the height of the meatballs.

Bake in the oven at medium temperature until the liquid has evaporated. When it has evaporated, add the beaten egg with lemon juice and bake for another 10 minutes.

With tomatoes

Ingredients:

Cooking:

Mix minced meat with coarsely chopped onion, herbs. Salt and pepper to taste.

Leave to lie down for 2 hours so that the products get to know each other.

We form round meatballs 1 cm thick.

Place chopped tomatoes in a heavy bottomed saucepan.

Put the balls on top and cover them with tomatoes. Bake in a medium hot oven.

Served with seasonal vegetables.

dietary

Meatballs are not only a very tasty minced meat dish, but also healthy. Thanks to this, everyone can enjoy them: those who follow the figure, and the kids, and those who have health problems. Below I offer several options for the dietary solution of this dish.

For the little ones

Ingredients:

15 g buns;

Cooking:

We clean the meat from fat, veins and films.

Grind twice with a bun soaked in cold water, without a crust.

Grind the resulting mass in a mortar (or interrupt with a blender) along with butter and tightly whipped protein.

With wet hands, cut into portioned oblong-shaped cutlets and put in a frying pan. Pour a glass of water there (you can use low-fat broth).

Cover with parchment paper and put in the oven for 30 minutes.

Serve with mashed potatoes or carrots.

Yummy from the garden

Ingredients:

medium bulb;

200 ml of broth;

50 g of tomato paste;

Cooking:

Cut the onion into slices and fry in sunflower oil.

If using rice, then rinse it. If you put a bun, then soak in cold water. Grind all products in a meat grinder and knock out well.

Form into round balls and coat in flour.

Fry on both sides in a pan and fold in deco.

Prepare gravy for meatballs:

Fry flour until golden brown.

Cool and dilute with broth (can be replaced with water).

Fry the tomato paste in sunflower oil.

Mix with flour and broth, salt, sugar a little.

Together with the tomato, you can add sour cream to the gravy.

For taste, grate the garlic on a fine grater and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

Serve with mashed potatoes.

Health food

With intestinal disorders, you have to give up a lot, but our stewed beauties will do now. I offer cooking options.

For one serving:

a pinch of salt.

Cooking:

We pass the meat through a fine grate of a meat grinder along with garlic, salt and beat it very well.

We form four cutlets, which we cook for a couple.

If you do not have a double boiler, then you can use improvised materials. We take a tall saucepan, a cup and a plate that will fit in the saucepan in diameter. Now we collect: pour water (500 ml) into the pan, throw bay leaves and peppercorns. We put a cup there, and on a cup-plate, greased with oil. Now put meatballs on top, cover with a lid and soar for about half an hour.

Unusual meatball recipes

In minced meat, you can add not only rice or bread, but also other ingredients. For example, beans or mushrooms.

How to cook delicious meatballs

Just as genius lies in the details, the depth of flavor of the main course is also revealed in the sauce to it. Meatballs with gravy are a favorite dish of many gourmets!

1 h 15 min

240 kcal

4.85/5 (41)

If there are not so many cooking options regarding the meatball recipe itself, then there are a great many options for sauces for them. We will tell you about the most popular and delicious of them.

But in the beginning, of course, meatballs should be cooked.

How to cook meatballs with gravy in a pan

You will need:

Secrets of cooking meatballs

Minced meat for meatballs can be anything - traditionally this pork or half pork with beef, but it could also be chicken or turkey.
Do the first roast in a frying pan without a lid and always on both sides, otherwise, when transferred to a saucepan and a frying pan for stewing, the meatballs may fall apart.
The density of the sauce is up to you, if you added a lot of flour and the gravy came out thick, you can always dilute it to the desired consistency. To do this, use boiling water.
An egg is not a required ingredient in this dish. If you follow all the proposed proportions, the meatballs will keep their shape even without adding an egg.

Now let's move on to the varieties of sauces for meatballs.

Meatballs in tomato sauce - a universal recipe with a photo

To cook meatballs in tomato sauce, use the recipe above until the tomato paste is added to the meatballs. After all, we will have completely different sauce.

So for the tomato sauce you will need:

50 grams of butter,
a couple of tablespoons of flour
400 grams of low-fat sour cream,
a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste,
salt pepper,
4 bay leaves.

Melt in a small saucepan butter. Pour two tablespoons of flour into it, fry it, while constantly stir to avoid lumps. When the flour and butter starts to foam, remove the sauce from the heat. Take a larger pan and bring 400 grams of sour cream to a boil in it.
Add boiled sour cream to butter with flour. Mix thoroughly and add tomato paste or puree to the mixture. Keep mixing everything. To get the right consistency, dilute your sauce with water or broth, salt, pepper and boil.
Pour the resulting sauce into the meatballs laid out in the pan for stewing and simmer them in it for 40 minutes.
In the recipe for this sauce, you can avoid adding sour cream by replacing it with equal amount milk or water.

If for some reason you cannot eat tomatoes, you can cook no less delicious sour cream sauce for meatballs.

Meatballs in sour cream sauce - a simple recipe

For this sauce need: half a liter of sour cream, a tablespoon of flour, onion, one carrot and vegetable oil.

Fry the chopped onion in vegetable oil, fry until soft.
Now add coarsely chopped carrots to the onion, mix and fry for 4 minutes.
Add flour to the resulting mixture, mix and fry more 2 minutes.
Gradually add sour cream, continue to fry, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Bring the sauce to a boil and pour over the meatballs.
In this sauce meatballs should “drown” completely, so if you didn’t get enough of it, add water or broth to the dish.

Meatballs with gravy go well with potatoes in any form (mashed, boiled in pieces, or fried). It will be delicious to serve vegetable stew, vermicelli or any cereal with meatballs. Whatever your choice, meatballs are a great nutritious lunch or dinner for both big and small gourmets.

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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.

Enjoy your meal!

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 - very useful and tasty dish that everyone likes, regardless of age. Fragrant cutlets of meat and rice 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.

Time for preparing: 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:

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.
Meatballs are formed from the resulting mass and rolled in flour.
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.
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. By using 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.

Rice groats must be thoroughly washed with a colander several times, then boiled over low heat until half cooked.
Then drain the water and let it cool, then rinse again and mix with minced chicken.
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.
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.
In a frying pan greased with sunflower oil, chopped onions and coarsely grated carrots are fried.
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.
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.
In an oven preheated to 225 degrees, place a baking dish with meatballs tightly wrapped in foil for 60 minutes.
After 30 minutes, you can taste the sauce and, if necessary, add salt, pepper or some boiled water.
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

Rice must be boiled until half cooked and mixed with minced meat.
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.
Meatballs are formed from the resulting mass and sprinkled with flour.
Then the meat balls must be fried on both sides in a hot frying pan, in total about 10 minutes.
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.
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.
Now simmer the meatballs for 15-20 minutes 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

Chop the onion very finely, mix with steamed rice, yolks and prepared minced meat until smooth. Add salt and pepper.
Mix 200 ml of boiled water with sour cream, ketchup and flour. Stir the mixture thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
Form meatballs from minced meat and place them in a multicooker container in one layer.
Select the frying program on the device, add the available vegetable oil and fry the meatballs until a crust appears.
Turn off the multicooker. Pour meatballs with prepared sauce, add bay leaf and spices to taste.
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

Boil rice until almost half cooked and mix with prepared minced meat and egg.
Chop the onion very finely and in a hot frying pan bring it to a state of transparency, mix with the previously prepared mass to a homogeneous consistency.
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.
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.
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.