Meatballs - meat balls with rice. Although, why with rice?
They can be prepared with a variety of additives in the pan and in the oven.
Here are the best recipes and ideas for a boring menu.
Pork meatballs - general cooking principles
The most delicious meatballs are obtained from home-made minced meat. But the one purchased at the store will also work. You can add some beef or other meat. Almost always boiled rice goes to meatballs. And here it is important not to digest it, so that the grains remain whole, dense.
What else is added to meatballs:
• onions and other vegetables;
• eggs;
• spices;
• mushrooms.
Balls are molded from the cutlet mass. So that the stuffing does not stick, the hands are moistened in water. Then the meatballs are fried in a pan or baked in the oven. In some cases, fry first, then bake with sauce or stew. For pouring, use sour cream, tomato or a mixture thereof.
Meatballs are served with any side dishes, except rice (if it is present in minced meat). The dish is complemented by herbs, fresh or salted vegetables. Often they are cooked with potatoes in the oven, which is even easier and saves time. You can sprinkle cheese on top. Such a recipe is just below.
Pork meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce
A common recipe for juicy and delicious pork meatballs, which are cooked in a pan on the stove. For gravy you will need sour cream and a little concentrated tomato paste.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of minced pork;
• 1 egg;
• 1 spoon of tomato;
• 0.5 tbsp. rice;
• 1 onion;
• 3 tablespoons of oil;
• 4 tablespoons sour cream;
• 2-3 tablespoons of flour;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Rinse the rice, pour three glasses of water and boil until cooked. But we make sure that the grains do not fall apart and remain solid.
2. Drain the rice in a colander, let it cool.
3. Finely chop the onion and add to the minced meat. If you twist the meat yourself, then the onion can immediately be passed through a meat grinder.
4. Add boiled rice, egg, pepper and salt. Stir the cutlet mass so that the spices are evenly distributed.
5. Now we pluck the minced meat pieces of the same size, about 50 grams each. But you can make it smaller or larger. We form meatballs.
6. Heat the oil in a pan. Bread meatballs in flour, fry in a pan. No need to cover, just cook until golden brown on both sides.
7. Mix sour cream with tomato, dilute with a glass of water. Add salt and pepper.
8. Pour the fried meatballs with gravy, cover and simmer for about 15 minutes. We look at the readiness. At the end, you can add laurel, greens to the pan or sprinkle meat balls with garlic.
Oven pork meatballs
The recipe for simple and quick pork meatballs in the oven. The amount of gravy can be adjusted at your discretion. Instead of tomato, you can also use ketchup.
Ingredients
• 500 g of pork;
• 1 onion head;
• 50 g of tomato;
• 1 egg;
• 80 g of rice;
• spices, garlic.
Cooking
1. Cook rice in salted water. Then drain all the liquid.
2. Twist pork with onion and one clove of garlic. But you can without garlic or add dry.
3. Add salt and other spices, break the egg. Stuff the minced meat well with your hands. Then roll the balls, transfer to a greased form.
4. Put in the oven, bake meatballs at 200 degrees for 15 minutes, until a crust appears on them.
5. Add 250 ml of water to the tomato, season with spices and mix well. If you need to make a thick sauce, add 0.5 tablespoons of flour and shake well.
6. We take out a form with toasted meatballs, pour the balls with sauce and re-send to the oven.
7. Cook the dish for another quarter hour. Serve with any side dishes.
Cheese Pork Meatballs
Another recipe for pork meatballs, which are cooked in the oven. You will also need sour cream of arbitrary fat content and hard cheese, it needs a little.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of pork;
• 100 g of onion;
• 150 g of boiled rice;
• egg;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 200 ml sour cream;
• 120 g of cheese;
• dill, salt.
Cooking
1. Boil rice, shift the indicated amount to minced meat.
2. Grind onions, also one clove of garlic and add together with the egg.
3. Mass for meatballs needs to be salt, pepper and stir well.
4. Roll up balls the size of an ordinary chicken egg. We lay out in a greased form.
5. Put in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
6. Mix sour cream with 100 ml of boiled water. The sauce is also seasoned with a small amount of salt, pepper.
7. We take meatballs, pour sour cream. Sprinkle with chopped dill on top, a few branches are enough.
8. Grate cheese and sprinkle on top. We do everything at once and quickly.
9. Return the meatballs to the oven. Cook until golden brown for about fifteen minutes.
Pork Meatballs with Buckwheat
It is not necessary to add rice to meatballs. With buckwheat, they turn out no worse, healthier, healthier and tastier, if done correctly. The dish is cooked on the stove.
Ingredients
• 600 g minced pork;
• 70 g of buckwheat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• 100 ml ketchup;
• flour;
• 120 g sour cream;
• 200 ml of water;
• garlic, pepper, oil.
Cooking
1. Rinse the buckwheat. Select the spoiled grains, pour 1.5 parts of water and boil until tender. The grains should not be boiled, they will be a little stiff, as the liquid is added less than the norm.
2. Twist the pork with onions and garlic.
3. Break the minced egg and the cooled buckwheat. Porridge should not be hot.
4. Now add any favorite spices: pepper, cumin, paprika, seasoning mixes and mix well.
5. Wet your hands. We make balls, put it on a cutting board.
6. Roll each meatball in flour, fry in a pan. Brown on both sides and immediately transfer to the saucepan or in the saucepan.
7. Combine ketchup with sour cream, add water and shake. Now salt and spices are also added here to your taste, you can squeeze a clove of garlic.
8. Pour the fried meatballs with sauce.
9. Quickly bring to a boil, reduce the heat to the minimum and simmer the meat balls on the smallest fire for 10-15 minutes. Stir and touch them is not necessary to maintain integrity.
10. At the end, we throw laurel, greens on top and turn it off. Let’s stand for a while, so that the dish is saturated with aromas and ready!
Pork meatballs with mushrooms
For such meatballs from pork, you can use any mushrooms. The addition of an egg cannot be neglected, as it will hold together
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of pork;
• 0.07 kg of rice;
• 0.2 kg of mushrooms;
• butter;
• 0.25 l sour cream;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 100 g of cheese;
• egg.
Cooking
1. If forest mushrooms, then immediately boil. Champignons do not need this. Finely chop, put in a frying pan with a spoonful of oil and lightly fry. Add chopped onion, pass with mushrooms for a couple of minutes.
2. Boil rice until cooked, drain the water.
3. Combine the twisted pork with mushrooms and rice. Mix.
4. Add spices, break the egg, stir well and sculpt the meatballs.
5. Fry in a skillet in the park for about 2 minutes on both sides.
6. Turn on the oven to warm up.
7. Add 100 ml of water to the sour cream, squeeze the garlic, season with spices.
8. Cheese must be grated and also put in sour cream. You can even use processed cheese here. Stir thoroughly.
9. Top the meatballs with the prepared mixture.
10. Bake for 25 minutes or just look when ready.
Pork meatballs with vegetables
Recipe for pork meatballs, but without rice. They can be cooked both on the stove and in the oven. Tomato ordinary sauce with flour.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of meat;
• 2 onions and carrots;
• egg;
• 100 g of tomato;
• a spoon of flour;
• seasonings, oil.
Cooking
1. Peel the vegetables. We cut the beam into cubes, transfer to a frying pan and begin to passer. Add the grated carrots. Cook the vegetables on moderate heat for about five minutes. Cooling down.
2. Mix with twisted pork.
3. Add spices and egg, mix.
4. Form meatballs, fry in a pan for three minutes on each side. We clean.
5. Add flour to the pan, fry a little in oil. We mix the tomato with a glass of water, pour in a thin stream into the flour, warm the sauce and season with salt and pepper.
6. Return the meatballs to the pan, cover, simmer in the sauce for ten minutes. Add laurel, sprinkle with herbs.
Oven pork with potatoes in the oven
The recipe for a simple dish of meatballs immediately with a side dish. Instead of mayonnaise, you can use fat sour cream.
Ingredients
• 0.4 kg of pork;
• 0.1 kg of rice;
• onion;
• egg;
• 6-7 potatoes;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• 150 g of cheese (optional).
Cooking
1. Twist the onion with pork. Cook rice, combine with minced meat. Season with spices, lay the egg and stir. We make meatballs.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, add half the mayonnaise to it, salt and stir.
3. Put the potatoes in a greased form. We stick meatballs between the slices. From above, grease each with mayonnaise.
4. Put in a preheated oven, cook at 180 degrees 35 minutes.
5. We get, we fall asleep with grated cheese.
6. Re-clean the dish in the oven, bake for another 10-15 minutes. We look at the potato readiness.
Pork meatballs - tips and tricks
• Meatballs will be more interesting if you put a piece of cheese inside each.
• If the meat is small, you can add any other products to the mass, as in cutlets: potatoes, carrots, soaked bread.
• If the forcemeat from the egg becomes liquid, you can add a couple of tablespoons of semolina, it will swell and absorb excess moisture.
• To fill meatballs, you can use not only tomato or sour cream, but also the famous bechamel sauce. It is prepared simply, but it turns out to be very tasty and rich, creamy.
