Chopped meat products, such as meatballs or meatballs, are well-deserved among fans of a tasty and satisfying meal. Cooked from natural products, steamed or in the oven, meatballs and meatballs in sour cream sauce are considered a dietary, very nutritious and healthy product. For their manufacture, only natural meat is taken: beef, low-fat pork, chicken or rabbit meat. To give the forcemeat airiness and softness, bread soaked in milk is necessarily added to the meat.
In this article I want to teach you how to cook meatballs in sour cream sauce, which will certainly become a favorite dish of all your household. The secret of their preparation was once revealed to me by my mother once upon a time. Since then, this dish has been one of my favorites.
So, we will consider the main stages of cooking meatballs in a sauce based on sour cream.
Cooking Stuffing
To make one kilogram of minced meat for meatballs, we take 900 g of beef or pork meat (you can mix 50:50), about 100 g of wheat bread, 100 g of milk or water, onions, garlic and salt to taste. You can safely use chicken or rabbit meat - this is for your taste. From the meat pulp, stripped from coarse tendons and connective tissue and cut into small cubes, we make minced meat. Combine the chopped meat with bread, salt, garlic and onion presoaked in milk, and mix well. To make the meatballs in sour cream sauce light and airy, we pass the finished mixture through the meat grinder again.
We form meatballs
Add 30 g of butter, 2 eggs to the prepared meat and mix well. The resulting mass is cut into balls the size of a chicken egg and boiled in steam or in slightly salted water until half ready. For one serving, we form about 4-5 meatballs.
Cooking Sour Cream Sauce
Sour cream sauce, which we will use to prepare this dish, is obtained from dried flour and sour cream with the addition of white sauce cooked in meat broth or vegetable broth. If at this point in time you are not losing weight and do not adhere to any diet, then it is better to use meat broth and fat sour cream. For a diet, a vegetable broth is more suitable.
So, we will cook meatballs in sour cream sauce based on classic sauce. It is cooked according to the following recipe:
We take 50 g of sifted wheat flour, heat, stirring with a wooden spatula. We try not to allow burning or changing its color.
Grind the dried flour with 50 g of butter and dilute with one liter of meat broth or vegetable broth, mixing well until a mass with a uniform consistency is formed.
Then cook the sauce over medium heat for 25-30 minutes.
Bring 500 g of sour cream to a boil in a separate bowl, and then add to the boiling sauce.
Add the resulting mixture to taste, cook for another 3-5 minutes, remove from heat and filter.
Meatballs, like meatballs in sour cream sauce, can be cooked with tomatoes. To do this, add 200g of tomato juice or 300g of tomatoes mashed through a sieve to sour cream. Only after that we combine sour cream with meat broth and add the sauce.
Finish cooking
If you want to cook meatballs in the oven, then lightly undercooked meat balls are put in a saucepan, pour in sour cream sauce and put in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for 30 minutes. You can finish cooking this dish on a regular fire with low boiling.
Typically, meatballs in sour cream sauce are served with a side dish. As a side dish, you can use vermicelli or boiled noodles, porridge from hercules, mashed potatoes or carrots, as well as buckwheat, barley and oatmeal. Boiled potatoes, stewed rice or carrots are also good for these purposes.
Enjoy your meal!