Meatballs with mushrooms is a tasty and satisfying dish that can be served as a separate dish or with a side dish of mashed potatoes or stewed vegetables. There are many recipes for their preparation, as well as types of mushrooms and meat. You can make chicken or turkey meatballs, pork or beef will be delicious. Mushrooms are mainly used purchased in stores grown specifically for sale. These are champignons or oyster mushrooms. If you live near the forest, you can distinguish between edible mushrooms and love to collect them, then a dish of fresh gifts of the forest will turn out to be even more fragrant and tasty.
In the article, we consider a variety of recipes for meatballs with mushrooms, you will learn how to cook a dish, what sauce to make them tender and juicy. Detailed explanations of the work will help you easily cope with the preparation of this simple dish and serve it beautifully on the table.
Minced meat dish
To cook meatballs, prepare minced meat from two types of meat - pork and beef in equal quantities. Mushrooms used purchased - champignons. Before you start cooking meatballs with mushrooms, purchase the necessary products so as not to be distracted during cooking:
- Meat - 300 grams.
- Mushrooms - 200 grams.
- Hard cheese (your choice) - 50 g.
- 1 medium sized onion.
- Garlic - 2 prongs.
- Half a glass of rice (round grain is better).
- So much water.
- Tomato juice - 1 cup.
- 2 tbsp. l white flour.
- 3 tbsp. l thick sour cream.
- Salt, spices, dried dill, to taste.
- 1 tsp sugar - sand.
Cooking Meatballs
First of all, measure the right amount of rice and set it to cook. After cooking, drain the water and rinse it under the tap. Set aside to cool. In the meantime, peel the onions and garlic, cut into several pieces for convenience and drop into a blender bowl. Wash the champignons so that there is no land left, put there and grind finely on a blender.
Grind the beef and pork meat for meatballs with mushrooms in equal quantities in a meat grinder and beat it well. This is an important point in cooking, so be sure to do it. Stuffing should be taken in hand and tossed to the table or back into the bowl with force. Do this at least 4 times. This will knock out excess air from the minced meat, and it will be denser in the meatballs, without voids.
Grate hard cheese on a fine grater and add to a bowl of meat. We put rice and mushroom mixture there, add spices, dried dill and salt. Knead thoroughly with your hands to make the forcemeat homogeneous.
Meatballs with rice and mushrooms can be made in two ways - in a pan and in the oven. Let's consider each of them separately.
Oven use
To form a beautiful shape of meatballs, wet your hands under water. Roll the balls of the same size and place them on a baking sheet or in a pan (it should have a removable handle). In a separate bowl, mix the tomato juice with sour cream. In a glass, draw a spoonful of flour and gradually, add a thin stream of water to the top. In this case, constantly stir with a spoon so that the flour does not form lumps. Mix together the first and second blanks, add a spoonful of sugar and mix again.
It remains only to pour the filling on meatballs with mushrooms and close the pan with a lid (make sure that there are no plastic parts). If you laid out the formed balls on a baking sheet, then simply cover them with foil, carefully wrapping them around the container. Preheat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees, place a baking sheet inside and reduce the temperature to 180 degrees. Bake for 50 minutes. If you want the crust on the meatballs to brown, then remove the foil 10 minutes before turning off the fire. When serving, sprinkle the dish with fresh herbs. Ovens with mushrooms in the oven are very juicy and aromatic.
Frying pan
If you cook the dish on the stove, then first you need to fry the meat balls on both sides until golden. When all the meatballs are prepared, set them aside. Wash the pan and put it on the fire again. Peel one onion from the peel and chop it with small squares or half rings (optional). Sauté the onion in vegetable oil until golden brown and place a spoonful of tomato in the pan.
If tomato juice is used, pour a whole glass. Separately, mix the flour with cold water in a cup, check that there are no lumps, and pour to the onion, add a spoonful of sugar and salt the liquid. Then put the meatballs with mushrooms in the sauce and simmer for another 5 minutes so that they soak and become juicy. At the very end, put sour cream and hold for another 2 minutes. You can put sour cream before serving and sprinkle with chopped fresh herbs.
Steamed chicken meatballs
Delicious meatballs are also obtained from chicken. You can buy minced meat ready in the store, but it is advisable to grind it yourself, so that it is clear what is there. For minced meat, choose chicken breast.
Enough will be 250 grams. The remaining ingredients are:
- 1 onion.
- White bread - 1 slice (approximately 60 grams).
- Round rice - 50 g.
- Oyster mushrooms - 110 g.
- Spices and salt to taste.
How to cook
Put the rice cooked until cooked. Chop onion finely and cut into small pieces of oyster mushroom. Preheat the pan, pour vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the bowl, cover the onions first, and when it becomes transparent and turns golden, put mushrooms in the pan. Extinguish until tender and pour everything into a sieve over a bowl so that the glass has excess oil.
Soak a slice of bread for a couple of minutes in warm water, then squeeze it in your hands and throw it into a bowl, breaking it into small crumbs. Add boiled rice, mushrooms with onions, grilled chicken breast in a meat grinder, pour spices - black pepper, coriander, dry herbs - and salt. Mix thoroughly and form beautiful identical balls. Put them in a double boiler and cook until cooked. Since the meatballs are steamed, they turn out juicy, however, you can separately make gravy or sour cream sauce and serve it in a saucepan to the side dish.
Boiled meatballs from turkey
Turkey meat is considered dietary, it turns out to be rather dry, so we will cook such meatballs with mushrooms in a creamy sauce. To prepare the dish you will need:
- Turkey fillet - 250 g.
- A slice of lean pork - 150 g.
- 1 onion.
- A slice of white bread - 80 grams.
- 4 cloves of garlic.
- 100 g of any mushrooms.
- 150 g of heavy cream.
- 1 tablespoon of flour.
- A pinch of salt.
According to this recipe, meatballs are prepared separately, and mushrooms are included in the sauce. How to act, we will tell further in the article.
Cooking!
The first thing to do is prepare the stuffing. It consists of peeled garlic cloves and an onion, divided into 4 parts, turkey meat and pork, soaked in cold water and squeezed a piece of bread. Grind everything in a meat grinder, add salt (spices if desired) and mix thoroughly into a homogeneous mass.
In a pan, draw 2 liters of water, and when it boils, dip all the meat balls into the water. Salt and cook for 15 minutes.
While the meatballs are boiled, we will prepare the sauce. Put chopped and pre-washed mushrooms in a pan, in our case, champignons. Pour them with a glass of broth and throw 2 cloves of garlic, and chopped in the garlic. In the glass, draw the required amount of cream, pour a tablespoon of flour and mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Salt and pour the liquid into the pan. Then put the boiled meatballs in a creamy sauce, cover and simmer for another 10 minutes over low heat. Sprinkle with finely chopped fresh dill before serving. As a side dish, rice, mashed potatoes or baked vegetables are suitable.
Meatballs with mushrooms in sour cream sauce
The next version of meatballs is cooked in the oven. The stuffing includes 1 kg of chicken, a couple of garlic cloves, one medium-sized onion, boiled rice (be sure to rinse it under wastewater after boiling). Pass meat, onions and garlic through a meat grinder, salt and pepper to taste. Put rice in minced meat and mix thoroughly again. Pour white flour flour in a saucer. Form small balls with your hands and roll on all sides in flour.
Pour vegetable oil onto a preheated pan to cover the bottom and lay the meatballs. Fry on both sides until golden brown.
Sauce making
Cut champignons (300 grams) into large pieces, chop the carrots and onions and put everything to simmer over low heat. Then put a spoonful of tomato and 3 tablespoons of sour cream. Add a little broth (a glass or two, depending on the number of meatballs), salt and spices. When the sauce is ready, put the meatballs in it and spoon them on top so that they are completely wrapped. Cover the pan and place in the oven for 20 minutes. According to reviews, it is very tasty to eat them with rice.
As you can see, making delicious meatballs is easy. Delight your loved ones with new dishes! Enjoy your meal!