Meatballs - a wonderful dish. We are used to the fact that they are usually cooked with rice. Meanwhile, meatballs with buckwheat are no worse. The dish takes on a slightly different taste, is perceived in a new way. And sometimes people just don’t even notice that buckwheat was used instead of rice. This is especially true for children who do not like her. So with the help of buckwheat meatballs, kids can be a little tricked.
Meatballs in a creamy sauce: ingredients
To cook meatballs with buckwheat in a creamy sauce, we need:
- Minced meat (you can take pork and beef) - 0.5 kg.
- A couple of cloves of garlic.
- One onion.
- One hundred grams of buckwheat.
- "Amber" (processed cheese) - 100 g.
- One egg.
- Sour cream - 130 g.
- Dry Italian herbs - ½ tsp.
- Paprika - 1 tsp.
- Dill or parsley.
- Salt.
- Ground pepper.
How to cook meatballs with cream sauce?
To cook meatballs, you can use the prepared meat, or you can make it yourself. Of course, the home option is much tastier and better. But he will have to tinker with. Therefore, decide for yourself which option is most suitable for you. As you already understood, instead of traditional rice, we will use buckwheat. It must be boiled and cooled. Peel the onion and garlic and chop finely. Grind the greens. Add all these components to the minced meat and mix thoroughly. We should get a homogeneous mass.
Since we are preparing meatballs with buckwheat, we add chilled cereal and egg to the minced meat and mix everything again. Mass do not forget to pepper and salt. We send our preparation to the refrigerator for twenty minutes. And we will do the cooking of the sauce ourselves. Take sour cream and cream cheese, mix them in a pan, add a little water and send to the stove (on the smallest fire). The mixture will be heated until it acquires a uniform consistency. Cheese must be completely dissolved. If you wish, you can add a little salt to the sauce and add dry Italian herbs.
The cooking mold should be greased with vegetable oil. And then with wet hands you can begin to form our meatballs with buckwheat. The oven must be preheated. We send dishes with baked meatballs, pouring cream sauce for 35 minutes. As a side dish, you can serve mashed potatoes.
Meatballs with buckwheat in tomato sauce: ingredients
The meatballs in tomato sauce are very tasty . For cooking, take the following products:
- Minced meat - 350 g.
- A few carrots.
- ½ cup buckwheat.
- Flour - 6 tbsp. l
- Two onions.
- Tomato juice - 450 ml.
- Peppercorns.
- Bay leaf.
- Salt.
- Vegetable oil.
Cooking meatballs in tomato sauce
Peel the carrots and rub it on a coarse grater. Dice the onion. Fry vegetables lightly in a pan. Buckwheat must be boiled until almost cooked and cool. Then mix it with minced meat and half stewed vegetables. The resulting mixture must be salted and pepper.
Now, having wet your hands in water, we proceed to the formation of the meatballs themselves. We roll them and roll them in flour, and then fry them in sunflower oil on both sides. Then we spread the remaining vegetables on them and pour in tomato juice (if it is not there, you can use tomato paste diluted with water). Cover our meatballs with buckwheat and simmer them for ten minutes. Then you can add bay leaf, pepper to give gravy flavor. After five minutes, you can turn off the gas.
Meatballs in a slow cooker
You can cook meatballs with buckwheat in a slow cooker. It is fast, tasty and convenient. You will need these ingredients:
- Any stuffing - 300-400 g.
- Provencal herbs.
- One egg.
- Salt.
- Vegetable oil.
- Bulb.
- Two sweet peppers.
- Sour cream - 250 g.
Buckwheat meatballs, the recipes of which are presented in the article, are very simple to prepare. But even faster, you can feed your family by making this dish in a slow cooker. You only need forty minutes - and a delicious dinner is already on the table.
So, let's move on to cooking. First you need to boil buckwheat until half ready. You can do this on a regular stove or in a slow cooker. Then peel the sweet pepper and finely chop it. Put the minced meat in a plate, salt it and add pepper. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. If children choose it from any dish and do not want to eat, then you can outwit them. Just grate the onion and send it to the minced meat.
Add the egg, ground pepper and mix the whole mixture. And do not forget about buckwheat, it should also be added to the minced meat. Now that everything is ready, you can begin to form meat balls. At the bottom of the container in a slow cooker, pour a spoonful of vegetable oil. Next, spread the meatballs. If there is no suitable mode in the multicooker, then you can fry the dish for a couple of minutes, and then put it on the “Stew” program and thus cook the dish.
Meatballs in a double boiler
When preparing meatballs with buckwheat, do not forget about the double boiler. The dishes prepared with its help are suitable for those people who have problems with the digestive system. Not for nothing that doctors recommend preparing all food in a double boiler for those who are forced to adhere to a strict diet. Steam meatballs will also be good for young children, as their stomachs are not yet adapted to adult dishes. Any of our recipes is suitable for cooking in a double boiler. As a result, you get a good diet dish. Perhaps it will not be as tasty as with traditional fried cooking, but more useful.
Meatballs in mushroom sauce
To prepare meatballs with buckwheat in a creamy mushroom sauce, we need:
- Stuffing - ½ kg.
- One onion.
- A little cabbage.
- Salt.
- One egg.
- Seasonings.
- ½ cup buckwheat.
Add all the ingredients and a little finely chopped cabbage to the mincemeat (it gives juiciness to the dish). Also put the egg, salt and seasonings. Mix everything thoroughly. We’ll send the finished stuffing to the refrigerator. And we will proceed to the preparation of the sauce.
He will need the following ingredients:
- Mushrooms (any) - 250 g.
- One onion.
- One carrot.
- Two glasses of milk.
- Two tablespoons of flour.
- Salt.
It is necessary to chop carrots and onions, fry them until golden brown. Mushrooms are finely chopped. And also fry for seven minutes. Add the flour. Next, pour milk into a frying pan in a thin stream. Stir the mixture slowly. After a couple of minutes, the sauce can be removed from the stove.
Now you can return to the stuffing. With wet hands we will form meatballs from it and fry them a little in a pan. Then put in a baking dish and pour the cooked sauce. We send the dish to cook in the oven for 25 minutes. Ready meatballs, if desired, can be sprinkled with grated cheese. It melts quickly and gives the dish a special taste.