Beats are the best recipes. How to properly and tasty cook fish, chicken, semolina, meat and potato balls

Tender meat balls are loved by all children and all grandmothers are sure to cook them. Everyone can please themselves with their favorite dish. Moreover, preparing meatballs is quick and easy, and their nutritional value is high. They are well digestible and contain only about 250 kcal per 100 grams.

Meat balls - a recipe for preparing a dish from minced beef, pork or chicken

A special feature of meat balls is the ability to use any types of meat or a mixture of them in their preparation.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg minced meat;
1 onion;
200 gr. crumb of white bread;
100 gr. milk for soaking the bread crumb.

Preparation:

The meat is ground using a meat grinder. Finely chop the onion with a very sharp knife. If desired, pour boiling water over the onion to remove bitterness. Mix minced meat, onions and spices in a deep container.
The crumb of white bread is soaked in cow's milk. It should become soft and absorb the maximum amount of liquid.
The soaked crumb is added to the minced meat. Mix the mixture thoroughly with your hands. Next, beat it well so that the consistency becomes dense and homogeneous.
Small round balls are formed from the resulting mass. Dip them on all sides in flour and place them in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil.
Fry the meatballs for about 3-5 minutes on each side until golden brown. Then bring the dish until fully cooked over low heat.

Baby semolina balls - a recipe “like in kindergarten”

Tender semolina balls are ready to become the best option for a tasty, satisfying and nutritious breakfast for both children and adults.

Have to take:

3 glasses of milk;
5 tablespoons of sugar;
1 tablespoon butter;
1 cup semolina;
2 eggs;
2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil for frying;
0.5 cups breadcrumbs.

Preparation:

Milk is poured into a deep container and brought to a boil, after which sugar and butter are added.
Stirring constantly, pour all the semolina into the boiling milk mass. The porridge for making meatballs is cooked with constant stirring over low heat for about 10 minutes.
When the porridge thickens, remove it from the heat and allow it to cool for about 5 minutes. Add chicken eggs to the slightly cooled mixture.
After mixing with the eggs, the mixture is left to cool completely. Often the preparation is done in the evening, so that in the morning you can simply form and fry the finished meatballs.
The balls are formed using a regular tablespoon, which helps give them a round shape.
Fry the finished products in a frying pan with a thick bottom for 3-5 minutes on each side. Serve with condensed milk, jam or jam.

How to cook potato balls - recipe with photo

If you adhere to the principles of a healthy diet, then cottage cheese should be present in your diet regularly. Moreover, it can be added to almost any dish.

Cottage cheese goes well with mashed potatoes, which make great meatballs. This dish can be prepared for dinner, served with sour cream or fried onions.

The meatballs taste like oven-baked mashed potatoes, but with a subtle sour taste. Thanks to cottage cheese and eggs, they turn out tender and very tasty. They should be eaten hot, but some gourmets also like cold meatballs. Then they become denser, like any cooled mashed potatoes.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Quantity: 5 servings

Ingredients

Potatoes: 600 g
Cottage cheese: 300 g
Flour: 90-120 g
Cumin: 0.3 tsp.
Eggs: 2 pcs.
Soda: 3 g
Lemon acid: pinch
Salt: to taste
Sunflower oil: for frying

Cooking instructions

Rice based dish recipe

Delicious rice balls are ready to become a good alternative to healthy and nutritious morning porridge.

You will need to take:

0.5 cups rice;
1 glass of milk;
2-3 tablespoons of sugar;
2 eggs;
1 tablespoon butter;
2-3 tablespoons of vegetable oil for frying.

How to do:

The rice is thoroughly washed and cooked over fairly high heat. When the rice boils and cooks for about 10-15 minutes, add milk, sugar and salt to the container with the boiling porridge. The future delicious rice balls are transferred to low heat. The rice should be completely cooked and absorb the milk.
The resulting thick milk porridge is left to cool for 5 minutes. When it cools down a little, add chicken eggs to the mixture. Next, the mass should cool completely and harden.
From the cooled mass, neat small round cutlets are formed, which are fried in hot vegetable oil in a frying pan.
Rice balls are served with jam, preserves, fruit, hot chocolate, and condensed milk.

With fish: tasty and very healthy

Even if your family doesn’t like fish at all, it’s definitely worth trying to make delicious fish balls. Their delicate taste will literally conquer everyone. At the same time, such a product is very useful due to its high protein content and a small amount of calories.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg fish fillet;
1 onion;
1 egg;
200 gr. crumb of white bread;
100 gr. milk for soaking the bread crumb.

Preparation:

Fish fillets are thoroughly ground in a meat grinder. You can immediately roll it with onions. You can chop the onions with a knife and add them separately. The mass is thoroughly kneaded and beaten, adding salt and pepper.
The crumb of white bread is placed to soak in milk. It should absorb almost all the liquid. The soaked crumb is mixed into the minced fish. The mass should be homogeneous.
These meatballs are prepared in a frying pan or in the oven. They need to be fried in a frying pan for three minutes on each side, and then brought to readiness over low heat. Serve the dish with vegetables or mashed potatoes.

How to make cheese balls

Even on the festive table, the hostess will not be ashamed to place rosy and delicious balls of cheese. They can be prepared from either minced meat or fish.

Required Products:

700 gr. minced meat;
1 onion;
1 egg;
200 gr. crumb of white bread;
200 gr. cheese;
100 gr. milk.

Preparation:

Minced meat can be prepared from beef, pork, chicken, fish. During the preparation of minced meat, onions are added to the meat grinder. The minced meat is thoroughly kneaded until completely homogeneous.
The crumb needs to be soaked in milk and added to the minced meat. To prepare meatballs with cheese, you need to take a small amount of minced meat, make a flat cake out of it, put a piece of cheese, cover with the second part of the minced meat.
Fry the meatballs with cheese in a frying pan in hot vegetable oil. They cook for about 5 minutes on each side. Then leave the pan on low heat for another 10-15 minutes until done.

With mushrooms

Mushroom patties can be a great addition to a regular breakfast.

Ingredients:

0.5 kg of any minced meat;
1 onion;
200 gr. crumb of white bread;
200 gr. boiled mushrooms;
1 egg;
100 ml milk.

Preparation:

Minced meat and onions are minced in a meat grinder. Add the white bread crumb soaked in milk to the finished mass and stir thoroughly, then add the egg, salt and pepper.
To prepare meatballs with mushrooms, finely chop the boiled mushrooms and add them to the minced meat. An alternative option is meatballs with mushroom filling. To do this, you need to form small round balls. Place chopped mushrooms in the middle of each and carefully pinch the edges.
Mushroom bits are fried in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil for about 3-5 minutes on each side. They are brought to full readiness under the lid over low heat. Served with vegetables and herbs.

Cooking options - in the oven, in a frying pan, steamed

Depending on preferences, the housewife can cook the meatballs in a frying pan, in the oven, or make a steamed dietary dish.

To steam the delicacy, use a special steamer pan. Pour water into the bottom of the pan. The formed meatballs are placed on a wire rack and placed over the steam. Cook without turning for about 30 minutes. If you don’t have a double boiler, you can use a regular saucepan with an iron colander placed over it.

Those who prefer giving up fatty foods will love the meatballs cooked in the oven. Grease a baking tray with vegetable oil and place the formed meatballs on it in rows. They can be rolled in flour or breading. This dish is prepared for about 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

The classic method is meatballs in a frying pan. To do this, pour vegetable oil into the bottom of the frying pan and let it heat up. The formed meatballs are rolled on all sides in breading or flour and placed tightly in a frying pan. Fry for about 10 minutes, turning from one side to the other. Then bring to readiness under the lid over low heat.

What are meatballs and how are they different from cutlets? In fact, there is no big difference between these two dishes, it’s just that the cutlets are usually made in an oblong shape, and the meatballs are round. In addition, meatballs can be prepared not only from minced meat, but also by adding mushrooms, cheese, potatoes or even semolina. Juicy meatballs are prepared in a thick sauce, with which they are most often served.

Bitochki - preparing food and utensils

The main component of meat balls is minced meat. Recently, many housewives do not burden themselves with preparing minced meat and buy it in stores. What's bad about this product? First of all, because under the guise of minced meat they most often offer to buy stale meat. Also, when you buy the neck or flesh, you see the ratio of fat to meat. As for minced meat, workers in butcher shops and departments specially put more lard in it. It is best to buy fresh meat, giving preference to soft parts, and prepare the minced meat yourself. Fish and chicken balls also need to be prepared from fresh ingredients.

But as for the cereal or potato balls, you can easily take the leftovers from dinner - mashed potatoes or a side dish of rice, and get a tasty and satisfying dish.

As you already understand, meatballs are not ordinary cutlets. For a thick sauce for these products, you can use vegetables, cream, and flour. It is best to cook the meatballs in a non-stick frying pan or in a saucepan, the bottom of which must first be greased with oil.

Recipes for meatballs:

Recipe 1: Fish balls

If you cook regular fish cutlets, they will turn out a little dry. The fish balls will be juicy thanks to the thick onion sauce. Unlike cutlets, you don’t need to put bread in fish balls.

Required ingredients:

Minced white fish meat 400 grams
Onion 2 pieces
Carrot 1 piece
Cream 200 ml (low-fat)
Butter 50 grams
Spices

Cooking method:

Peel the onions and chop finely. Use half of one onion for the meatballs, and the rest will go into the thick sauce.
Wash the carrots and grate them on a fine grater.
Combine minced fish, half of one onion, grated carrots, and spices. Form round balls from the fish mass.
Place the butter in a hot frying pan and melt it. Place the meatballs in a frying pan and fry them on both sides.
When the meatballs acquire a golden hue, pour cream over them and add chopped onions.

Simmer the fish bits in the onion sauce for about 10-12 minutes over medium heat with the lid closed. Serve the finished dish along with the sauce.

Recipe 2: Fish balls from fresh fish

If you haven’t eaten herring chops yet, be sure to prepare this dish! Place a bun in this fish product, so the meatballs will turn out more satisfying and stronger. Be sure to bread the fish products, otherwise the meatballs may fall apart during the stewing process.

Required ingredients:

Fresh herring 400 grams
Milk 100 grams
Unsweetened bun 150 grams
Onion 1 piece
Chicken egg 1 piece
Breadcrumbs
Seasoning
Vegetable oil

Cooking method:

Remove bones and skin from the fish and wash.
Peel the onion.
Soak the bun in milk for ten minutes.
Grind the fish, bun, egg, onion and spices through a meat grinder. Make round balls of minced meat and sprinkle each with breadcrumbs.
Heat a frying pan and fry the fish bits in it.

Recipe 3: Semolina balls with blueberry sauce

Sweet semolina balls will serve as an excellent breakfast for you or your children. Not all children like semolina porridge, despite its usefulness. Why not prepare an unusual dish that is no less healthy than porridge, but in a different form? The special feature of these meatballs is the addition of thick blueberry sauce. To prepare it, it is best to use corn starch, but if you cannot find it, then you can get by with potato starch.

Required ingredients:

Milk 400 ml
Chicken egg 1 piece
Semolina porridge 100 grams
Flour 5 tablespoons
Water 2 glasses
Corn starch 5 teaspoons
Blueberries 100 grams
Sugar
Vanillin
Vegetable oil

Cooking method:

Cook semolina porridge. To do this, bring the milk to a boil, pour semolina into it. Add sugar, vanilla and salt to taste. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring. Refrigerate.
As soon as the porridge has cooled a little, add an egg, butter, 3 tablespoons of flour and knead well.
With wet hands, form the semolina mixture into balls and roll them in flour.
Heat a frying pan, grease it with oil and fry the meatballs until golden brown.
Let's prepare blueberry sauce. Wash and sort the berries, chop or rub through a sieve. Pour two glasses of water over the blueberries in a saucepan, boil, add sugar. In one glass of water, stir the starch separately and pour into the pan. Cool the sauce to room temperature.
Place the meatballs in a deep plate, pour over the sauce and let them sit for 15-20 minutes in the refrigerator before serving.

Recipe 4: “Classic” semolina balls

A tasty, satisfying and healthy dessert - that’s what semolina balls are! This dish tastes similar to cheesecakes, but the meatballs will be more airy and tender.

Required ingredients:

Semolina 100 grams
Milk 200 ml
Chicken egg 1 piece
Sugar
Vanilla
Butter
Vegetable oil
Flour 4 tablespoons

Cooking method:

First of all, let's cook semolina porridge. To do this, bring the milk to a boil and pour semolina into it in a thin stream. Stir and cook for about six to seven minutes. Turn off the heat, add salt, sugar and vanilla, butter to the porridge. Let the porridge sit for about 10 minutes after removing it from the heat.
Beat an egg into the chilled semolina porridge, add 2 tablespoons of flour, mix well.
With wet hands, form the porridge into balls and sprinkle them with flour.
Heat a frying pan and grease it with vegetable oil.
Fry semolina balls for 3-4 minutes on each side.

Recipe 5: Chicken meatballs in creamy sauce

Chicken meatballs turn out juicier than cutlets due to the fact that they are stewed in a special thick sauce. For this recipe, in addition to the usual “cutlet” ingredients, you will need cream and processed cheese.

Required ingredients:

Chicken fillet 400 grams
Egg 2 pieces
Onion 1 piece
Cream 200 ml
Glass of water
Processed cheese 100 grams
Spices

Cooking method:

Wash the chicken fillet, remove the films from it.
Peel the onion and cut into 4 parts.
Pass the meat, onion, egg and spices through a meat grinder. Form the minced meat into balls.
Heat a deep frying pan, grease with oil and place the meatballs on it. Fry them for about 2-3 minutes on each side.
Fill the balls with a mixture of cream and water.
Grate the processed cheese and sprinkle on the meatballs. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the meatballs for about 10 minutes over medium heat.

Recipe 6: Chicken balls with mushrooms

A tasty and tender dish combines the tenderness of chicken and the aroma of mushrooms. Serve the cooked chicken pieces in the thick sauce.

Required ingredients:

Flour 4 tablespoons
Chicken fillet 400 grams
Mushrooms 300 grams
Fresh eggs 2 pieces
Spices
Cream 200 ml
Water 100 ml

Cooking method:

Wash the mushrooms well and chop finely. Set aside half for the sauce for the meatballs.
Wash the chicken fillet, remove films and pieces of fat. Pass the egg, chicken, half the flour and mushrooms through a meat grinder. Add spices.
Form round balls from minced chicken and roll them in flour.
Grease a hot frying pan with oil and place the meatballs on it. Fry them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
Mix water and cream, add mushrooms and salt to the mixture.
Pour the sauce over the meatballs and simmer them under a closed lid for about 10 minutes over medium heat.

Recipe 7: Meat balls

Meat balls differ from cutlets in that they are more tender and juicy.

Required ingredients:

Pork 400 grams
Chicken egg 2 pieces
Large onion 1 piece
Seasonings
Flour 4 tablespoons
Tomato paste 4 tablespoons
Sugar
Water 200 ml
Vegetable oil
Sour cream 4 tablespoons

Cooking method:

Peel the onion and cut into 4 parts.
Wash the carrots and grate them.
Wash the meat and cut into pieces.
Mince the pork and vegetables through a meat grinder.
Mix the egg and spices into the minced meat.
Form round balls from the mixture, then roll them in flour.
Place the meatballs on a hot greased frying pan. Fry them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
Prepare the sauce. Mix tomato paste, sour cream, water, add 2 tablespoons of flour and stir so that there are no lumps.
Pour over the meatballs and simmer them for at least 10 minutes with the lid closed.

Recipe 8: Potato balls

If you have mashed potatoes left after dinner, don’t rush to throw it away, because even the next day you can prepare a delicious and satisfying breakfast!

Required ingredients:

Mashed potatoes 400 grams
Breadcrumbs
Butter
Spices
Chicken egg 2 pieces
Fresh dill
Garlic

Cooking method:

Beat the egg into the mashed potatoes and stir.
Peel the garlic and squeeze it through a press into puree.
Wash and cut the dill. Add to puree.
Form the potato mixture into balls and roll them in breadcrumbs.
Heat a frying pan and grease it with a piece of butter. Fry the potato balls on both sides for two minutes.

Serve the finished dish with sour cream or cream sauce.

Recipe 9: Minced meat balls

If you decide to cook minced meatballs, it is best to make this dish with rich sour cream sauce. It is best to use two types of minced meat - this will make the meatballs juicier.

Required ingredients:

Minced pork 200 grams
Minced beef 200 grams
Onion 2 pieces
Flour 8 tablespoons
Chicken egg 2 pieces
Seasonings
Butter
Water 150 ml
Fresh parsley
Sour cream 200 ml

Cooking method:

Peel the onion and chop finely.
Combine the minced meat, egg and half the onion, add salt and spices. Form the resulting meat mass into round balls and roll them in flour.
Heat a frying pan and grease it with a piece of butter.
Place the meatballs in a frying pan for 2-3 minutes on each side.
Prepare the sauce. Wash the greens and chop finely. Stir sour cream in water, add onion and chopped parsley.
Pour the sauce over the meatballs and simmer them under a closed lid for about 8-10 minutes.

Recipe 10: Cheese balls

If you want to prepare a delicious and sophisticated dish, then prepare some meatballs with cheese. As a base, you can use not only minced meat, but also pure mashed potatoes or with mushrooms, and boiled cereal.

Required ingredients:

Minced beef 400 grams
Hard cheese 200 grams of any salty variety
Chicken egg 2 pieces
Flour 2 tablespoons
Onion 1 piece
Bun 100 grams
Milk 100 ml
Butter
Spices

Cooking method:

The onion needs to be peeled and finely chopped.
Soak the bun in milk for 10 minutes.
Combine the minced meat, egg, bun and onion and pass it all through a meat grinder.
Grate the hard cheese.
Before forming the balls, place a little grated cheese in the middle of each, cover it with minced meat and bread it in flour.
Grease a hot frying pan with oil and fry the meatballs on it for 2-3 minutes on each side. It is best to serve the balls while they are hot - then the cheese will stretch when melted.

Recipe 11: Rice balls

Rice is a healthy and tasty cereal. Rice porridge is served as a side dish for meat and fish, used to prepare pilaf and oriental rolls, and cooked with dried fruits and sugar. If you have leftover rice after a meal, do not rush to throw it away. A few simple manipulations and you will get a tasty and unusual dish - rice balls! This recipe describes the preparation of unsweetened meatballs, but you can also add sugar and candied fruits instead of onions and salt, and then you will get a dessert dish.

Required ingredients:

Boiled rice porridge 300 grams
Egg 2 pieces
Onion 1 piece
Butter

Cooking method:

Peel the onion and chop finely.
Beat the eggs into the rice, add the onion, salt and mix well.
With wet hands, form the rice mixture into balls and roll them in flour.
Grease a hot frying pan with butter. Place the rice balls in a frying pan and fry them on both sides until golden brown.

It is best to fry the meatballs in butter rather than vegetable oil.
If you are preparing meatballs, be sure to simmer them in thick creamy, tomato or sour cream sauce - this will make the dish much juicier.
To prevent the meatballs from falling apart during cooking, coat them in flour or sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
To give the balls a perfect round shape, you can beat them with a knife. After all, the word “beats” comes precisely from the verb “beat”.

Not everyone knows how to quickly and deliciously make homemade meatballs. It should be noted that there is nothing complicated about this. To verify this statement, we recommend making this dish yourself. To do this, we will present several detailed recipes.

Delicious homemade meatballs: step-by-step recipe

To make such an unusual lunch, you will have to purchase the following products in advance:

pork pulp without fat - about 700 g;
large egg - 2 pcs.;
bitter onions - 2 pcs.;
soft ripe tomatoes - 4 medium pcs.;
high-calorie mayonnaise from any manufacturer - 2 large spoons;
high-grade light flour - 3 large spoons;
any hard cheese in the form of slices - about 150 g;
deodorized vegetable oil - use for frying.

Meat processing

The meatballs, the recipe for which we are considering, can be prepared using any product. We decided to use lean pork. It needs to be washed thoroughly, all inedible elements cut off, and then finely chopped. It should be especially noted that this ingredient must be chopped, and not crushed in a meat grinder or blender.

Preparing the base

To thoroughly fry meatballs in a frying pan, you should prepare a thick and aromatic base. To do this, you need to add beaten eggs, chopped onions, high-calorie mayonnaise from any manufacturer, as well as chopped herbs, salt, flour and pepper to the chopped pieces of pork. As a result, you should get a viscous dough, like for pancakes.

Frying on the stove

Before frying the meatballs in a frying pan, it should be thoroughly heated with oil. After this, you need to put the kneaded base into a hot bowl using a large spoon. These products need to be fried on both sides. Next, you need to remove the meatballs from the pan and place them on paper towels. This procedure will eliminate excess fat, making the products drier.

Bake in the oven

After frying the meatballs, you should begin heat treating them in the oven. To do this, you need to rinse the tomatoes thoroughly and then chop them into thick slices. As for the cheese, you only need to cut it into thin but wide slices.

After the main ingredients are prepared, all the fried meatballs should be placed on a baking sheet, and a slice of tomato should be placed on top of each product, which should be covered with a slice of cheese. In this form, the dish must be sent to the oven. It is recommended to bake it for half an hour at a temperature of 210 degrees.

How should you serve a delicious meat dish?

After the meatballs are well baked in the oven, they should be carefully removed from the baking sheet and distributed among plates. Next to the meat products, it is advisable to place some kind of side dish, as well as a fresh vegetable salad.

How to cook breaded meatballs with sauce?

There are many options for preparing this dish. In this section of the article we will tell you how to make breaded meatballs with sauce. For this we need:

chicken fillet without bones and skin - about 700 g;
large egg - 1 pc.;
bitter onion - 1 pc.;
stale white bread - about 100 g;
high fat sour cream - 2 large spoons;
premium flour - about 100 g;
salt, sprigs of herbs and pepper - use as desired;
country milk - about 100 ml;
breadcrumbs - a full glass;
tomato sauce - 2 large spoons;
deodorized vegetable oil - use to lubricate the sheet.

Preparing the base for the meatballs

We talked above about how to cook pork chops. However, this dish will turn out more tender if it is made using chicken breasts. To do this, the fillet, cleared of bones and skin, should be thoroughly rinsed in cold water and then chopped very finely. Next, you need to add a beaten egg, chopped onions and stale white bread to the meat product, which must be soaked in warm milk in advance.

After mixing the main ingredients, add salt, herbs, as well as pepper and high-grade flour. You should end up with a fairly thick base.

Preparing the sauce for the meatballs

To make chicken fillet meatballs juicy, they should be baked using a flavorful sauce. To prepare it, you need to mix sour cream with tomato paste, and then add pepper and salt.

Product formation

Once the sauce and minced meat are ready, you can safely begin forming the meatballs. To do this, you need to take a couple of large spoons of the base in your hands and mold them into round, but not very thick, cutlets. Next, they should be rolled in breadcrumbs and placed in a mold greased with cooking or vegetable fat.

Heat treatment of semi-finished products

After preparing the semi-finished products, they must be placed in the oven and baked for about 20 minutes. Next, all the products need to be turned over with a spatula and poured with aromatic sauce. If desired, you can also place a slice of hard cheese on each piece. In this form, the meat lunch must be placed in the oven and cooked for 20-25 minutes. During this time, the meatballs should be completely baked and absorb the flavors of the sauce.

How should you serve meatballs at the dinner table?

After the meat dish of chicken breasts is ready, you need to carefully remove it from the sheet using a spatula, and then place it on plates. Each piece should be served with an additional side dish, as well as vegetable salad and herbs. For example, boiled pasta or crushed potatoes go well with the presented lunch.

Let's sum it up

Now you know how to make meatballs at home. Such products can be prepared not only from pork or chicken breasts, but also, for example, from lamb or beef. In any case, the presented lunch will be very satisfying, aromatic and tasty. Try it and you will certainly see for yourself.

When your family has seemingly tried all possible options for hot meat dishes, but you still want to cook something new, try meat balls with gravy for lunch. In terms of the cooking method, they are a little reminiscent of ordinary cutlets, since the meatballs are based on mixed minced meat, onions and spices. But unlike cutlets, the meatballs are first fried in oil and then simmered in the oven, along with gravy. As a result, you get an incredibly juicy meat dish, covered with a delicious golden brown crust on top.

You can serve meatballs as a separate dish or in addition to a simple side dish, such as mashed potatoes, boiled rice or buckwheat porridge.

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Ingredients

Minced pork and beef – 500 gr.;
Chicken egg – 1 pc.;
Wheat flour – 2 tbsp;
Onion – 1 pc.;
Carrots – 1 pc.;
Vegetable oil – 60 ml;
Tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.;
Salt and ground black pepper to taste;
Fresh herbs for decoration.

How to cook minced meat balls with gravy in the oven

To save time, use ready-made mixed minced meat, also called homemade, or prepare it yourself. Grind the pork and beef pulp in a meat grinder in equal proportions and place the resulting minced meat in a bowl.

Peel the onion. Cut it into very small cubes, or grind half the onion together with the meat in a meat grinder. Add 1/2 of the onion slices to the minced meat, the rest will be used to prepare the gravy.

Add the chicken egg to the bowl. As in any other dish where minced meat needs to be given a certain shape, an egg is useful to ensure that this shape does not fall apart during heat treatment.

Season the ingredients in a bowl with salt and ground black pepper. Mix thoroughly. If desired, you can add ground chili pepper or paprika to the minced meat.

Form the minced meat into meat balls, giving them an oval shape, and roll them in flour.

Pour some vegetable oil into the frying pan and heat it. Fry the cooked meatballs on both sides in vegetable oil until a light golden brown crust forms. Place the fried cutlets in a baking dish, also greased with oil. Try to choose a shape that is not too large, so that in the future the meatballs will be almost completely covered with gravy.

Start preparing the gravy. Peel the carrots and chop them using a grater. Next, the carrots and remaining onions need to be fried in hot vegetable oil until soft.

As soon as the vegetable slices become soft, add tomato paste to the pan and pour in about 200 ml. boiled water. Bring ingredients to a boil over high heat. If you think the gravy is too thin, stir 1 tsp in a separate glass. starch and 3 tbsp. clean water. Pour the resulting liquid into the boiling gravy and mix thoroughly. You will notice how the sauce begins to thicken right before your eyes.

Pour the resulting gravy into a baking dish.

Place the minced meat balls with gravy in the oven, set the temperature to 200 degrees in advance. Simmer the dish in the oven for 20-25 minutes. After removing the pan from the oven, sprinkle the chops with chopped fresh herbs.

Appetizing meatballs with gravy are ready. Serve them hot with your choice of side dish or as a meal on their own.

I don’t cook pure meat cutlets so often and usually exclusively for the male half, since the female half still prefers cutlets. But, to be honest, no one has ever given up the cue balls.

I make them differently each time, it all depends on the products I have on hand.

Today I bought everything specially, I knew that I would also cook for you. Therefore, this time I have the ideal selection of meat products: beef, pork and chicken breast.

I prefer to add less beef, and equal parts of pork and chicken. It is from minced meat in this proportion that the meatballs are the most harmonious, that is, meaty and juicy, but at the same time very tender.

For meatballs, I usually (like this time) buy a neck, both beef and pork. It is the most tender, with a sufficient amount of fat; the minced meat from it always turns out perfectly juicy.

The chicken breast can be replaced with thigh fillets or other parts of the chicken, it doesn’t matter. However, today the cut breast looked so tempting that I decided not to bother.

For 15 ready-made meatballs we will need:

200 grams of beef neck
400 grams pork neck
400 grams chicken breast fillet
1 onion
1 raw egg
2 cloves garlic
salt, ground black pepper to taste
crushed crackers for breading
butter for frying

For the gravy:

2 tablespoons tomato paste
glass of hot boiled water
salt, granulated sugar to taste

I washed all the meat and cut it into equal pieces:

Scrolled through a meat grinder. A whole head of onion also went there:

For those who like it, you can add a couple of cloves of garlic, I personally am one of those fans:

Now the minced meat is finally ready for making meatballs, you just need to keep it in the refrigerator for an hour, for this I transfer it to a special container with a lid.

In an hour I start forming the balls. They are usually made round and slightly pressed on top so that they do not swell during frying. You can bread it in flour, but I prefer it in breadcrumbs:

I put the raw meatballs on the table (so that I can then put everything on the hot frying pan at once):

It is recommended to fry them in butter, like all meat products, but sometimes I deviate from this rule and fry them in vegetable oil, although not today. Still, with butter they seem to turn out juicier and tastier!

I fry them for about ten minutes on each side until golden brown at a temperature of 200 degrees, and only then turn down the heat, cover the pan with a lid and let them simmer for another twenty minutes until done.

This is how you can eat them:

You can’t imagine how tasty, aromatic, incredibly juicy they are! They even squirt juice when you bite them. The best option for our men, agree!

For children, I cook meatballs in tomato sauce.

To do this, I dilute 2 tablespoons of tomato paste in boiled hot water, add some salt, sweeten it and pour it into the frying pan with the meatballs:

I let them simmer in this sauce for five to ten minutes, and then serve them with any side dish along with tomato sauce:

I assure you, you won’t be able to pull them away by the ears; from such meatballs, they won’t even remember about the meatballs!