Cutlets, of course, are one of the most common dishes among our people. But they can get bored. In this case, they can easily be replaced with delicious meatballs and make a new culinary note in the life of your family. The recipe for meatballs may be that they are prepared from fish, meat and even minced meat. Unlike cutlets that are breaded in breadcrumbs, meatballs always fall off in wheat or rice flour. Then they are usually fried, and then stewed in a special sauce, which is prepared from tomatoes, meat broth, onions, sour cream and so on. The meatballs recipe will turn out to be the most successful if you take uniform minced meat and mix it with rice or pieces of vegetables (cabbage, tomato, potato). Thanks to such additives, the minced meat becomes more friable and meat balls are easily and simply prepared from it. The meatballs recipe came to us from the Türkic cuisine, first it spread to Austrian and Balkan cuisine, and then it pleased the whole world.
If you do not know how to cook meatballs with rice, then there is nothing easier. You need to take half a kilogram of minced meat, 150 grams of rice, 1 carrot, 2 onions, 1 egg, 300 grams of tomato paste, spices. You can cook the meat yourself by passing meat of any kind through a meat grinder, or buy it ready-made in a store. Add finely chopped onion to the minced meat, and then rice. It is not necessary to boil it, just pour briefly boiling water. This is done so that during the preparation of meatballs they become more firmly bonded. The astringent power of this dish is a raw egg. Following him, spices and salt are sent to the minced meat. Then it must be thoroughly kneaded. Further, the minced meat needs to be cooled in order to increase the guarantee that the meatballs will not fall apart after cooking. While the minced meat is in the refrigerator, make the sauce. To do this, fry the grated carrots and diced onions over a small fire. Tomato paste must be mixed with water and put on gas, after which carrots with onions and spices are added to it. Sour the sauce with a drop of vinegar or lemon juice. Now remove the minced meat from the refrigerator and, with wet hands, form balls of arbitrary size out of it. Roll each ball in flour and spread on a hot skillet with vegetable oil. Fry them until golden brown, then put in a saucepan with sauce. Stew meatballs in half an hour. Serve them with mashed potatoes. You will see, this recipe for meatballs will appeal to your family and friends.
And here’s the recipe for chicken meatballs. You need to prepare 250 grams of chicken, 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil and flour, 50 grams of ham, 1 tablespoon of onions and ground crackers, one and a half glasses of milk and spices. Now fry the onions in a pan with vegetable oil, add the ham, finely chopped, then flour and add milk to it. All this must be constantly stirred to avoid lumps in the sauce. Now finely chop the chicken and put in this sauce. Stew all this mass over low heat with spices. After that, let it cool and make small balls out of it. You need to roll them in a beaten raw egg and breadcrumbs. Fry such meatballs in a deep fat fryer for about 5 minutes at a temperature of 160 degrees.
In general, there are many recipes for meatballs that people around the world love. They can be with vegetables, with herbs, with pineapple, from venison, beef, chicken. Sweet and sour sauce, meat broth, dill sauce, onion sauce, anchovy sauce are used as gravy. A widespread recipe is meatballs with fruits: apple, pineapple, raisins. The main thing is to choose your recipe, which will be to your liking.