It is customary to serve any meat second course in the form of two components - the main part (cutlets, goulash, boiled pieces, etc.) and a side dish. In addition, to give juiciness on top, dishes are usually watered with some kind of sauce. Some housewives, conducting kitchen experiments with dishes, use interesting technologies. Minced meat sauce is one of such original improvements, which allows combining sauce and meat dish. Consider several options that differ from each other both in taste and in composition.
Sour cream sauce
The taste is especially tender if gravy is prepared from minced meat using a dairy component (sour cream, cream). Thanks to this, the proposed dish can be included in the diet menu. If you wish, to get a richer taste, you can make a spicy sauce by adding hot pepper and aromatic spices.
Composition :
- 500 g low-fat minced meat (pork, beef or chicken);
- 2 onions;
- 200-300 g of fresh sour cream or cream;
- 2 tbsp. l (with a hill) sifted flour;
- 500 ml of raw cold water;
- salt and various spices to taste.
Cooking steps
Dilute minced meat with water until smooth. Put on moderate heat and, stirring occasionally (after several minutes), bring to a boil. After reducing the heat, simmer for 30-40 minutes. Then pour finely chopped onions, sour cream, salt and aromatic spices into the mass. Bring the dish to readiness for another 25-30 minutes. Shortly before the end of the stew period, put the flour in the gravy slightly diluted with water. Serve hot with potatoes or pasta.
Tomato Gravy
Very often, such meat sauce is also called "lazy" meatballs. After all, the taste of both dishes is very similar. Consider how to prepare gravy for minced pasta using tomato paste and fresh tomatoes.
Composition :
- 500 g of pork and ground beef;
- 1 head of ordinary onion;
- 2 medium tomatoes;
- 1 full tsp sweet tomato paste;
- 2 small cloves of garlic;
- 1 faceted glass of raw water;
- greens;
- ground pepper;
- a little vegetable (odorless) oil;
- salt.
Cooking
In a frying pan in oil, fry the minced meat, stirring and kneading with a fork. Add diced onions and tomatoes, from which, after scalding, you must first remove the skin. Then add water and cover. Simmer the mixture over moderate heat for 25-30 minutes. At the end of cooking, enter the paste, garlic, chopped fresh herbs, freshly ground pepper and salt. After a short boil (5-7 minutes), you can serve the gravy on the table, generously flavoring pasta with it.
Making buckwheat meat sauce
There are many different ways to prepare minced meat gravy. The most suitable sauce for buckwheat is containing both meat and vegetable ingredients. It is not necessary to use ground minced meat. In the proposed recipe, the dish includes finely chopped chicken.
Composition :
- 600-700 g of chicken breast;
- 2 onions;
- 2 small carrots;
- 2 full dess. l hot ketchup;
- 3 tbsp. l with a hill of sifted flour;
- a bunch of fresh dill;
- 0.5 l of raw water;
- 2 tbsp. l unsalted butter;
- salt, seasonings, bay leaf;
- some vegetable oil.
Cooking technology
Finely chop the fillet with a sharp knife. Put it in a pan and fry for 15-20 minutes, adding vegetable oil. Add chopped onions (half rings) and carrots (on a grater) to the mass. After adding ketchup and some water, simmer another 15-20 minutes. In another bowl, melt the pieces of butter and combine with flour, then add water to the sauce and boil until thickened. Transfer the dressing to the meat mass, season with salt, seasonings and herbs to taste. After boiling, the dish is ready.
Assorted minced gravy
To obtain a different and unusual taste, you can use new ingredients in the composition, for example, mushrooms and pickles. This sauce with a slightly spicy taste goes well with boiled potatoes and any cereals.
Composition :
- 300 g of beef (without veins) or minced pork;
- 6 pcs medium-sized champignons;
- 1 large onion;
- 2-3 salted (preferably barrel) cucumbers;
- 1 tbsp. l with a hill of sifted flour;
- 2 tbsp. refined (odorless) vegetable oil;
- 200-300 ml of ordinary cold water;
- seasonings;
- greens (parsley, onion feathers, dill);
- salt.
Cooking
Minced meat, onions and sliced mushrooms, fry until half-cooked (20-25 min). Dilute the flour in a bowl with water and mix the resulting mixture with salt and spices (to taste). Pour the gravy into the meat and mushroom mass and fill in the diced pickles. Cover the pan almost completely, simmer over low heat. Before turning off, add chopped greens.
How to cook gravy for minced baby?
The menu of children under 1.5 years of age usually includes dietary dishes from crushed and carefully processed foods. Minced meat sauce perfectly meets these requirements. It can replace stewed meatballs or meatballs . Usually, meat is passed through a simple or electric meat grinder twice previously, or a nozzle with the finest mesh is used for these purposes.
Composition :
- 200 g of young veal;
- 1 small onion;
- 300-400 ml of potato broth or boiled water;
- 2 tbsp. l cream
- some salt;
- Bay leaf.
How to cook
Thoroughly clean the meat of veins, films and coarse fibers. Grind it in a meat grinder to a mushy state. Chop the onion with a blender and put in the minced meat. Pour into a mass of water or stock left over from mashed potatoes. Simmer over low heat with the lid closed for 1 hour. Watch for the presence of liquid in the gravy (if necessary, top it up). Enter the cream, salt, put a bay leaf (it must be removed before serving). After boiling for another 20-25 minutes, the gravy is ready.
All the recipes described above can be modified by adding new ingredients to taste. The taste of dishes from this will only improve!