Meatballs are the perfect complement to any side dish. Tomato-sour cream sauce for meatballs can make the dish more juicy, mouth-watering and hearty. It will be enjoyed with pleasure by both adults and children.
The article presents two recipes for cooking meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce - in the oven and in a pan.
Recipe One: Oven Cooking
It takes about 90 minutes to cook the meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce in the oven .
Of the ingredients required:
- minced meat from beef, pork or chicken - 600 grams;
- onions - one thing;
- rice - 60 grams;
- salt - 7 grams;
- ground black pepper - 2 grams;
- a mixture of herbs (parsley, basil, dill) - 10 grams;
- sour cream - 20 grams;
- tomato paste - 12 grams;
- bay leaf - one piece;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- water - 200 milliliters;
- wheat flour - 25 grams.
Cooking:
- Boil the rice until half cooked. Then rinse the product with cold water.
- Chop the onion finely.
- Combine minced meat, rice, 5 g of a mixture of herbs, chopped onions, salt and pepper in one dish. Mix well.
- Dip your hands in cool water and form small meatballs (about 4 centimeters in diameter). Put the meatballs in a pre-greased baking dish.
- In a separate container, mix the ingredients for the sauce (tomato paste, pepper, sour cream, flour, vegetable oil, 5 grams of dried herbs and salt). Mix food well and add 200 milliliters of water to the container. Mix the ingredients again.
- Pour the resulting tomato-sour cream sauce into a form with meatballs.
- Cover the baking dish with foil.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Put the meatballs in the oven for 35 minutes. Then remove the foil and put the meatballs in the oven again for 5 minutes to make them brown.
Such meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce can be served as an independent dish or as an addition to the side dish.
Cooking meatballs with gravy in a tomato and sour cream sauce in a pan
Cooking time - 50 minutes.
You will need:
- minced chicken - 300 g;
- tomato paste - 25 g;
- sour cream - 80 g;
- onions - one middle head;
- boiled rice - 30 g;
- water - 180 milliliters;
- salt - 9 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 milliliters;
- Provencal herbs - 4 grams;
- nutmeg - on the tip of a knife;
- Suneli hops - 5 g;
- fresh or dried dill - 15 grams.
Cooking.
- Boil the rice and rinse it with cold water.
- Chop the onion very finely.
- Mix boiled rice, onion, minced meat, salt, 3 grams of suneli hop and greens in one bowl.
- Wet hands, form meatballs with a diameter of 5 centimeters from the resulting mixture.
- Pour the vegetable oil into the pan and heat it. Put meatballs in a pan.
- While the meatballs are fried, cook the tomato and sour cream sauce. Mix sour cream, tomato paste, Provencal herbs, salt, nutmeg and sun hop in one dish.
- Pour the meatballs with the mixture.
- When the sauce boils, reduce the heat to a minimum.
- Cook meatballs with a closed lid for 8 minutes.
Garnish the finished dish with finely chopped fresh herbs of dill or parsley.
Rice in this recipe can be replaced with buckwheat or pearl barley.
What can I serve the dish with?
As mentioned above, meatballs will perfectly complement any side dish:
- paste;
- potatoes (fried or mashed);
- vegetable stew;
- buckwheat porridge;
- pearl barley porridge;
- rice (brown or white).
Appetizing meatballs go well with any vegetable salad.
Finally
Meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce are a very tasty and satisfying dish, especially if you add it to your favorite side dish. If you do not have time to constantly cook meatballs, then you can make a harvest and freeze the meat balls for the future. As a last resort, buy a ready-made semi-finished product.
The dish is made of frozen meatballs in the same way as described in the article, only the cooking time is significantly reduced.