Meatballs in sour cream sauce is a dish that people enjoy cooking and eating around the world. Of course, the names of this dish, as well as the nuances of cooking are different for different peoples, however, the fact that meatballs are balls made from minced meat or fish with the addition of vegetables, cereals or mushrooms that are cooked in a sauce or broth.
It is generally accepted that Turkic tribes are the “inventors” of meatballs, but later this incredibly tasty dish was prepared all over the world, and each nation made its own changes in the recipe. As a result, today there are a large number of recipes for cooking meatballs, and each culinary specialist will be able to choose the most suitable option for him.
In Russian cuisine, meatballs in sour cream sauce are considered a classic version of this common dish .
For the preparation of this dish you need minced meat, and it is desirable that it was prepared from different varieties of meat. For example, meatballs made from minced meat made from pork, beef and turkey are always successful. You will also need to boil white rice in such an amount that its finished weight corresponds to one third of the forcemeat weight. That is, if we have 600 grams of meat, then the finished rice should be 200 grams. You will also need a large onion and chicken eggs (for our amount of minced meat you need to take two pieces). In addition to all of the above, you will need to fry oil, salt, black pepper and other spices to taste.
For the sauce you will need to take a two-gram package of sour cream, a spoonful of butter and a full teaspoon of flour.
We start cooking the meatballs in sour cream sauce with the preparation of minced meat. Onions need to be cut very finely, and even better chopped in a blender or grater. To add splendor to minced meat, egg whites are best whipped in foam. Now put the minced meat, ready rice, eggs, onions in a bowl and knead everything very carefully, preferably with your hand. Do not forget to salt and add spices to your taste. We cover the bowl with minced meat with cling film and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to insist.
While the minced meat is in the refrigerator, prepare the sauce. To do this, pass the flour a little on butter or margarine, add sour cream, season with salt and let it boil for five minutes with low heat.
From the prepared meat we form meatballs the size of a ping-pong ball. So that the stuffing does not stick to your hands, they need to be moistened with cold water. Bread our buns in flour and fry in oil. When all the meatballs are fried, put them in a deep frying pan, pour the finished sour cream sauce and let it boil for ten minutes with low heat.
And if there is not enough time for cooking, then you can cook a light version of the dish “Meatballs in sour cream sauce”. In this case, the operation of frying the meatballs is excluded, and the formed balls in raw form are folded into a deep form, pour them with sauce and bake in a preheated oven.
Serving meatballs in sour cream sauce is best with mashed potatoes. However, the side dish can be chosen to your taste.
As a dietary option for this dish, you can cook meatballs in milk sauce. In this case, instead of sour cream, we will use low-fat milk. Stuffing for dietary meatballs is best prepared from turkey or chicken. Instead of rice, you can put finely chopped and pre-stewed white cabbage. Formed meatballs need to pour sauce and bake in the oven without prior frying.
And if you want to cook something delicious for dinner, then you should try such an option as meatballs in white sauce. In this recipe, meatballs are baked with bechamel sauce, which is prepared on the basis of butter, chicken broth and flour. To give the sauce more sophistication, finely chopped boiled porcini mushrooms can be added to it.
As you can see, a great number of variants of this dish can be invented. The main thing is to have imagination and a little culinary skill so that the meatballs turn out so that you lick your fingers!