What is meatballs? Balls the size of a walnut, sometimes slightly larger than cherries. Who likes it! Ordinary meatballs - meatballs - are familiar to most soups. But not only in the soup are these meat balls good.
How to cook meatballs? There is no particular difficulty in this process: minced meat with onions (or without) and spices, plus an egg. For minced meat, beef, pork (individually and mixed) and chicken are equally suitable. The balls are molded (with a nut or less) and are prepared further. The whole point is in the word "next."
Meatballs recipe in soup.
Soup is made according to a simple recipe with variations: potatoes, water or broth, roots, fried onions and carrots. When the potatoes are almost cooked, carefully send the meatballs into the boiling soup. There is a subtlety here: you should not put a raw egg in meatballs for soup. It will make the broth cloudy, and meatballs will not creep out without an egg, being sent to a boiling liquid. Soup can be made with lots of vegetables by adding pumpkin, bell peppers, green peas and so on. After boiling, the meatballs are cooked for no more than 10 minutes on low heat.
Meatballs in soup cooked for a child can look like funny octopuses, which will greatly facilitate eating such a dish. One has only to pre-stick the raw meatball with spaghetti straws, broken into 3 parts, and funny centipede creatures will swim in the broth.
Baked meatballs recipe.
It is good to add a slice of white bread soaked in milk and a little softened butter if the meatballs are made from chicken meat into the mincemeat for such meat balls. Onions are laid, according to personal preferences, without onions - also good. The meatballs are molded, laid on a baking sheet and baked for about 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 190 °. Then the meatballs need to be laid in a baking dish. The main thing in this dish is sauce. It can be milk (spasser flour to golden color, pour hot milk, add salt, pepper and spices and bring to a boil), tomato (fry onions until golden, add tomato, fry again, add a tablespoon of flour, dilute with water, bring to a boil, spices - salt, sugar, pepper and others - to taste) or any other.
Pour the meatballs in the baking dish with sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese and send again to the oven for 10 minutes. Very tender balls are obtained under a crispy cheese crust!
Meatballs Recipe with Fruit Sauce
A very unusual recipe for meatballs, which is not often used by housewives, and in vain! In summer and autumn, when all the counters are full of fruit abundance, this recipe will perfectly diversify everyday cuisine and will be a surprise for the whole family.
Balls of meat for the preparation of such a dish can be baked, and you can boil or fry. All cimes is in fruit sauce. Consider a winter set of fruits (for 600 g of minced meat): 2 oranges, a can of canned pineapples, 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce, honey - also 2 tablespoons, 2 tablespoons of starch.
Squeeze the juice from one orange, pulp the second - cut, as it turns out, send it to the saucepan, pour about the same amount of pineapple syrup there as it turned out orange. Add tomato sauce and up to 1 liter of water, in which meatballs were cooked. In the same saucepan we send honey and pineapple slices (large - cut). We try, if necessary, add spiciness (pepper), sweets (sugar), etc. In a separate bowl, dissolve the starch in 0.5 cups of water and pour it into the total mass with a thin stream, constantly stirring. Bring to a boil. The sauce is ready.
Further - 2 options: pour meatballs with sauce and boil for 3 minutes or send to the oven and bake (you can again with cheese) - 5-7 minutes at 190 °.
The sauce is made from different fruits, with and without pulp. Plums, apricots, peach, grapes, apples with lemon and honey are perfect - also great.
Meatballs are a universal product, diversifying which will not cost much labor for any housewife. The main thing is that as a result of using the same meat, completely dissimilar, non-standard dishes will be obtained.