Meatballs are both soup, and hot, and salad. There are many variations of application. It is worth trying to experiment. Meatballs are simmered, steamed, fried, baked in the oven, seasoned and served with various sauces: creamy, milk, sour cream, tomato, vegetable, fruit, berry. They are also served with a side dish. Charge your fridge freezer with such meat balls, and you will always have a universal base for tidbits.
A bit of history
Meatballs recipe originally from Italy. Italian frittatella translates as "fried". Appetizing balls are made from chicken, meat, fish mince with the addition of chopped onions, herbs and seasonings. This dish is very convenient, as meat preparations are frozen and used as needed. The process of making meatballs from any mincemeat is simple. Minced meat, add salt, seasonings and other ingredients according to the recipe, mix everything well. For better consistency, soaked loaf or bread is put in minced meat. Stuffing is divided into pieces of 15-20 grams, form balls. Then they are thermally processed or frozen.
Classic Meatballs
Consider the recipe for minced meat from pork and beef.
Components:
- beef - 800 grams;
- pork - 150 grams;
- bread crumbs - one glass;
- 1/2 red onion;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- Worcester sauce - two teaspoons;
- hard cheese - 200 grams;
- olive oil - two tablespoons;
- pepper;
- salt.
Classic cooking technique
Consider a step-by-step recipe for meatballs.
- Beef and pork are chopped with a knife until a mass of homogeneous consistency is obtained.
- Add all ingredients according to the recipe.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Make balls the size of three centimeters.
- Heat a large pan well.
- Lubricate the bottom with oil and lay the meat blanks on the bottom.
- Fry the minced balls until a crispy golden crust forms for two minutes. Constantly turn over so that they are fried on all sides.
- Spread the meatballs on a plate. Appetizing meat juice was formed in the pan - it is also used.
- Pour into a pan a handful of chopped carrots and onions and fry for 7-8 minutes until golden.
- Throw a lavrushka, after a couple of minutes - 2 garlic cloves, 400 grams of pulp of peeled tomatoes, salt, pepper.
- Stirring, cook on medium flame. The sauce thickens a little and absorbs the aroma of vegetables and seasonings.
- After 10 minutes, make more flame and allow the mass to boil.
- Then reduce the flame, spread the fried meatballs in the sauce, cover the pan with a lid and simmer for 20 minutes.
Meatballs with Gravy
Consider cooking a meal with the least effort and delicious home-style - this is a recipe for meatballs with gravy. Gravy is a home-made sauce. It is very easy to prepare. Applying a little imagination, it can be done in different ways and surprise the diversity of their loved ones.
Required Products:
- a pound of minced meat;
- one small onion;
- two garlic cloves;
- 50 grams of stale loaf;
- 30 ml of milk;
- salt;
- pepper;
- one pinch of dry parsley;
- 100 grams of breadcrumbs;
- four tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- two tbsp. l butter;
- two tbsp. l flour;
- 400 ml of broth;
- 200 ml of tomato sauce;
- 150 ml cream;
- fresh parsley.
The process of making meatballs with tomato sauce
Consider the meatball recipe step by step.
- Baton is poured with milk and kept until soft.
- Peel the onion and garlic, chop.
- Pepper, salt, a swollen loaf are added to the minced meat, and a little dry parsley is added. All mix well.
- Then make the size of a walnut balls. Meatballs are formed with wet hands and bread in breadcrumbs or flour.
- Then, according to the recipe, the meatballs are fried in heated vegetable oil until the crust is browned.
- Following this, in a deep saucepan melt butter and pour flour into it. Continuously stir the mass and fry until brown.
- Then pour the hot broth in small portions, stirring well to avoid the formation of lumps.
- Tomato sauce is added, and for homogeneity - cream or sour cream. Gravy comes out very tender and light.
- Then put the fried meatballs into the gravy. Set on fire and stew for a quarter of an hour, sometimes interfering so that the meatballs do not "stick" to the bottom of the pan.
- Served to the table with any side dish: pasta, mashed potatoes or porridge from any cereal. Serve sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Turkish Fried Meatballs
These are small beef balls. They are so delicious that the most difficult thing is not to eat all at once. Having tried to cook meatballs with a prescription once, they are made again and again. Such meatballs are very convenient to take on the road and on a picnic.
Required Products:
- a pound of ground beef;
- one onion;
- two cloves of garlic;
- one chicken egg;
- three tablespoons of breadcrumbs;
- 50 ml of milk or water;
- pepper;
- salt;
- cumin;
- vegetable oil.
Turkish meatballs
Consider a meatball recipe with a photo.
- In minced beef put chopped garlic and onions, mix everything thoroughly.
- Add breadcrumbs, chicken eggs, pour water or milk for juiciness. Salt and pepper. Put (optionally) a pinch of cumin (zira).
- All are thoroughly mixed. Leave to brew.
- After half an hour, small balls the size of a quail egg are formed from minced meat.
- Then fried preforms in deep fat in small parts, as they should be completely immersed in oil. Fry for 2 minutes: as soon as the crust is browned - take out.
Housewives make meatballs from any kind of meat: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey - or from fish. Very delicious meatballs from mixed minced meat. Usually cook more meatballs and freeze them. Such a semi-finished product is stored for 3-4 months. A lot of dishes are prepared with its help - meatballs with vegetables or sauce, soup, baked meatballs with mushrooms, etc.