Ground meat dishes are “guests” on our table regularly. Unless, of course, non-vegetarians sit behind him. However, usually made pork or chicken meatballs and meatballs, fish are much less common. Unfortunately! After all, fish, as scientists have long established, is a guarantee of longevity and the absence of many unpleasant diseases. We will correct errors in our diet.
Meatballs in Tomato Gravy
Immediately stipulate that for meatballs you do not need to buy very expensive fish. Pollock, hake or cod are quite suitable. And you can even take frozen fish. If you got fresh and unbroken carcasses, you have to gut them, remove the skin and remove the bones. Caught a filet - much less work: only take out the bones. Most often, fish meatballs are cooked in tomato sauce. A chopped fish is taken, cut into pieces and passed through a meat grinder together with onion and soaked and squeezed bread. The meat of the fish is quite soft, so a small slice of the loaf is enough for a pound of fillet. Parsley or dill is chopped finely and added to the minced meat with the egg, which is then seasoned with pepper, cumin and salt. Small balls are formed from a well-mixed mass and placed in the refrigerator. While they are standing, the chopped onion is fried in vegetable oil, then pour the tomato paste (3 large spoons), diluted in half a glass of water, and a spoonful of lemon juice. Salt, sugar - as you like. When the sauce boils, the meatballs are immersed in it and stewed for five minutes. Then they turn over and cook for another ten minutes. It turns out juicy and fragrant.
Thai Fish Meatballs
Such meatballs are slightly different from others already at the stage of preparation of minced meat. A pound of fish without skin and bones is placed in a blender along with a bunch of cilantro, a tablespoon of ginger, half cayenne pepper and a couple of cloves of garlic. An egg is poured into the minced meat, but not whole, but only protein, plus a tablespoon of starch or flour and salt. In a saucepan, salted water is heated (not to a boil), a little coconut milk is poured into it and put together fish meatballs with another bunch of cilantro. After boiling over the quietest fire, meatballs languish for about seven minutes. And you can eat them with a fragrant broth in which they were cooked, and with a side dish - rice or pasta.
Meatballs in a vegetable marinade
The beginning is standard: minced meat is being prepared, from which fish meatballs are made. The recipe, however, also includes a piece of butter, which is laid in a meat grinder along with all other components. The balls breaded in flour are quickly quickly fried and stacked in a saucepan. The main highlight of the recipe is in the marinade. For him, carrots, root parsley, celery and onions in the quantities you approve are chopped, sautéed in a frying pan where the meatballs are fried, poured with tomato juice, salted and sweetened. Stew for about five minutes. The resulting sauce is added to meatballs, which after boiling are stewed in it the same time. Ready balls are sprinkled with herbs - and you can serve them to the table.
Baby Meatballs
They are so called because they are suitable for feeding even the smallest (but already able to chew) children. Stuffing is prepared according to one of the recipes described above. But be careful: more carefully than usual, remove the bones, if you are going to treat the baby. The second nuance: for baby food, cook meatballs before stewing, it takes longer, up to 15 minutes. If the dish is intended for adults, you can not cook it for so long.
At the same time, milk sauce is made - it is he who is important in this recipe. A spoonful of flour is dried in a dry metal or ceramic container. Butter (a teaspoon), ahead of time taken out of the refrigerator for softening, is kneaded with a fork and mixed with flour. Half a glass of milk is boiling over low heat; oil with flour is immersed in it and mixed until dissolved. It is necessary to ensure that no lumps form! At the end - add salt, pepper and sauce to the meatballs laid out in the form in which they will be baked. The baking sheet is put in the oven for about ten minutes. Then the balls are sprinkled with grated cheese - and again in the oven for the same time.
The meatballs made according to this recipe in the sauce turn out to be juicy and tasty, and the gravy willingly eats up even when they are over.