Let's remember today (or learn) to cook meatballs baked in the oven. For experienced housewives, this is an opportunity to diversify the dishes served by their beloved family. For hostesses who are just beginning to climb the heights of culinary excellence, the recipes below will be a good help.
Useful meatballs from the oven
Oven-baked meatballs belong to the category of more preferable dishes than fried goodies in a pan. In step-by-step recipes for their preparation there is no similar heat treatment. Therefore, such food can be given even to children. In addition, the preparation of meatballs baked in the oven takes a minimum of time and effort. And the process itself is simple and clear, even to novice housewives.
With sauce and rice
Cook the meatballs, baked in the oven, with sauce. We will need a frying pan, but not for roasting the meat semi-finished products themselves, but for preparing a tasty and fragrant sauce.
The composition of the products for the dish:
- minced meat - 500 grams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- raw, washed rice - 100 grams;
- onions - 2 pieces;
- one large carrot;
- sour cream - 1 large spoon;
- tomato - 1 tablespoon;
- a tablespoon of flour;
- garlic - to taste;
- vegetable oil - 2-3 tablespoons;
- sugar and salt to taste;
- ground pepper and bay leaf.
Cooking process
We cook meatballs with rice, baked in the oven with sauce, as follows:
- Rice is pre-boiled until half cooked, and washed in cold water using running water and a colander.
- Onion (one) free from all inedible and finely chop it.
- Introduce the egg, salt and pepper into the minced meat, do not forget about the garlic passed through the press. Mix thoroughly and beat off the meat product thoroughly.
- When the rice has cooled, mix it with minced meat and onions.
- From the resulting mass we form meatballs and put in a non-stick form, covered with special baking paper. If there is no such paper, it is quite acceptable to generously lubricate the bottom of the mold and lay the products for further preparation.
We set the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees and send our meatballs there for 25 minutes. Do not forget to follow the products throughout the term.
Sauce for the dish
Cooking the sauce to get the perfect meatballs baked in the oven in gravy. Gravy will give the dish tenderness and beauty. We follow all the rules of step-by-step preparation:
- We clean the second onion and cut it as you like.
- We wash the carrots, dry them and grate the coarse fraction.
- Pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil into a skillet and fry the prepared vegetables over medium heat.
- In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with tomato and flour. We do this carefully, avoid the appearance of lumps.
- Add boiled water (1 cup or more) to the bowl, your preference will be the main factor here. If you want liquid gravy, take more water. Cooking a thicker sauce does not require additional liquid.
Pour the mixture into a frying pan and cook for five to eight minutes over low heat. Do not forget to salt the sauce.
The final stage of preparation
We remove meatballs from the oven that have been successfully baked for 25 minutes, and fill them with the sauce obtained, and again send them into the bowels of the oven. Bake meatballs in the oven until cooked for another 25 minutes. After the specified time, we remove the pan with a beautiful, fragrant and satisfying dish and proceed to the tasting.
Ovens with potato garnish in the oven
The second method of preparing this dish is not very complicated, any housewife can handle it, and even more so the one that wants to please its family with something delicious.
The option of cooking meatballs baked with potatoes in the oven is very versatile. In one dish we get an appetizing second course and a side dish that goes well with it. Sour cream sauce gives even more taste and tenderness to the dish. It envelops each vegetable slice and delicately soaks into the potatoes.
But, what is the use of describing the taste of the dish, the wisest decision will be to cook it and try it personally. Before you begin the process of creating this culinary masterpiece, you need to make sure that you have all of the products listed. Only then do we start cooking meatballs baked with potatoes in the oven.
We will need
- minced meat - 600 grams;
- Ready, half-cooked rice - 80 grams;
- two onions;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- one kilogram of potatoes;
- a glass of sour cream;
- tomato sauce - 60 grams;
- spices and salt;
- oil - to lubricate the mold.
How to cook
- Stuffing mix with salt, pepper, chopped onion and rice.
- Carefully wash the potatoes, peel and cut into slices.
- In a bowl, mix sour cream, tomato, spices, garlic (through a press).
- Put two-thirds of the finished sour cream mixture into a bowl with chopped potatoes and mix the vegetables and sauce.
- In a non-stick form, pre-lubricated with vegetable oil without aroma, spread 1/2 of all the potatoes.
- We make meatballs and put them on a layer of potatoes.
- Pour with the remaining sour cream sauce the form prepared in this way.
Cover the contents of the baking sheet with foil (shiny side down). We send to prepare for 45-50 minutes. After this time, the meatballs baked with potatoes in the oven will be ready.
Minced chicken
The next variation is a more dietary one. Of course, such meatballs can not be called low-calorie food, but for the stomach and the whole body they are very good. Oven baked chicken meatballs go well with pasta or mashed potatoes.
Essential Ingredients
- chicken breast (or fillet) - 700 grams;
- garlic - three prongs;
- chicken egg - one piece;
- boiled water - 100 milliliters;
- sour cream (or sour cream product) - 300 grams;
- cheese - 100 grams;
- seasonings, salt to taste.
From this number of products, we should get 9 meatballs of the same caliber. Cooking time will take at least forty minutes.
Cooking steps
Grind the chicken meat in any way possible and add crushed garlic, an egg to it. Flavor with salt, pepper, and mix all the ingredients. We form a batch of meatballs and send them to a non-stick form, oiled. We set the oven temperature to 200 degrees, and cook the resulting chicken balls for at least ten minutes.
In the meantime, we need to mix the ingredients for the sauce. Combine sour cream and water in a deep bowl, add your favorite spices and salt. After ten minutes, we remove the form with baked chicken balls, fill them with sauce, sprinkle with cheese chips, and again send to the oven.
We note the time: twenty minutes after re-placing the chicken meatballs in the oven, they are ready.
Cheese baked meatballs
Fans of cheese dishes will appreciate this recipe. Cooking such a dish is a pleasure, this recipe is so simple to execute. You can serve meatballs as an independent dish, without a side dish, or with mashed potatoes, rice and pasta.
For this recipe for meatballs baked in the oven, you will need these components:
- Stuffing - half a kilogram. It can be beef pork or chicken pork.
- Raw chicken egg - 1 piece.
- One onion.
- White loaf - 100 grams.
- Milk - 200 milliliters.
- Three garlic cloves passed through a press.
- Ground black pepper and salt we take to taste.
- Sour cream product - 4 tablespoons.
- Hard cheese - 40-50 grams.
- Tomato paste (or ketchup) - 2 tablespoons.
- A glass of chilled boiled water.
- Oil for greasing a baking sheet.
Step-by-step cooking
Stuffing mix with salt, pepper, finely chopped onions. We introduce a raw egg and prepared garlic into the mass.
Dip the slices of the loaf in milk, after a minute we squeeze out the excess liquid and put the bread in the stuffing mass. The minced meat is thoroughly kneaded and beat out no less hard.
With wet hands, we proceed to the formation of large meatballs. Inside each item we place a cube of cheese.
Lubricate the form in which we will bake our meatballs with vegetable oil.
In a separate deep plate (or other suitable container), mix sour cream with tomato. We add boiled cold water in small portions, and each time we thoroughly mix the composition. Salt and, if necessary, pepper, the resulting sour cream sauce.
Pour all the meatballs with sauce and send to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. The baking time of the dish should be at least 35-40 minutes. Now our fragrant and tender meat balls are ready. Serve the dish better immediately, in hot form, with or without garnish.
Meatballs in the oven (in milk)
The dish turns juicy and is perfect for baby food. The delicacy is also suitable for a diet table, due to the fact that the meatballs do not have tomato paste, various roasts and tomatoes. Minced meat choose to your taste: chicken, beef or pork - all these types have proven their worth.
Ingredients for the dish:
- Five hundred grams of any minced meat.
- 1 liter of milk.
- Half a glass of uncooked rice.
- Raw egg.
- Pepper and salt to taste.
Cooking meatballs in the oven
Pass the meat through a meat grinder twice. Add salt and pepper to the mass. We introduce the raw egg into the minced meat and beat off the semi-finished product.
We wash the rice grains to clear water and cook until half-ready. Cool the porridge. After the rice has cooled, mix it in a deep bowl with minced meat. The mass for the formation of meatballs is completely ready for the next step in the process.
With wet hands we take portions of forcemeat and form balls from them - future meatballs. We get a good non-stick form and grease it generously with oil. We put meatballs at a certain distance from each other. Fill the meat balls with milk. The liquid should cover the meatballs from the stuffing almost completely.
We heat the cabinet to 180 degrees and place the prepared semi-finished products in milk inside. How many baked meatballs in the oven? About 30-35 minutes. But do not rush to take out the form with the finished dish and hold it in the oven for another half hour, turning off the cabinet and not opening the door. During this time, the meatballs absorb the remaining amount of milk and cool slightly. Now they can be served for lunch (or dinner). Tasty, juicy and tender fragrant meat balls will please the whole family, and households will require supplements.
With mushrooms
And here’s another very tasty recipe for meatballs baked in the oven with mushrooms and vegetables. We will need products:
- meat - 1 kilogram;
- onion;
- 70 grams of semi-finished rice;
- egg -1 piece;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- seasonings and salt.
Cooking Technology:
Make minced meat from meat: pass the meat product through a meat grinder and add rice, chopped onion, salt, spices and an egg. Mix everything thoroughly, turning into a homogeneous mass.
We prepare the sauce from the following products:
- 300-400 grams of any mushrooms;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- onion - 1 piece;
- sour cream product - 3 large spoons (fat content is not important);
- tomato or ketchup - 3 tablespoons;
- broth or water - half a liter;
- mushroom seasoning;
- flour - for breading products;
- vegetable oil.
Cooking:
Stick meat balls no larger than walnuts. Roll products in flour. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into the mold, place all the prepared products in it, send to the preheated oven for 7 minutes. After this time, remove the baking sheet with meatballs, turn the products over to the other side and place them again in the oven. After another seven minutes, a golden crust should be obtained on both sides.
We prepare the sauce while our meatballs are fried in the oven. Cut mushrooms (fresh) into 4-6 segments. We don’t cut too finely, as they are very much reduced in size after cooking.
Pour three tablespoons of vegetable oil into the pan and fry the onions until golden. Add grated or diced carrots. Cook the vegetables on low heat for about five minutes. Add mushrooms and fry all the ingredients for another ten minutes.
Introduce the sour cream and tomato sauce. Pour in the broth, salt and pepper. Showered with seasonings. Mix our mushroom sauce thoroughly and wait for it to start boiling.
In a heat-resistant form we put half of the ready-made mushroom sauce. Stack meatballs on top. We cover them with the second half of the sauce and cover the form with foil.
Set the prepared form with meatballs in the oven. At 200 degrees, bake meatballs for half an hour. As soon as 30 minutes have passed - the dish is completely ready!