Minced meatballs - general cooking principles
Minced meatballs - a versatile main dish that can be cooked for lunch or for holidays. For cooking use any ground beef: beef, pork, veal or a mixture of different stuffing. Recipes for minced poultry meatballs (chicken or turkey) are very popular. Fans of fish and seafood prepare dishes of cod, pike, pollock, red fish, squid and even shrimp. Vegetarians prepare vegetable meatballs. Cooking options - a great many. Rice, cheese, mushrooms or vegetables can be added to the meat or chicken mince. Often onions, soaked bread, sometimes crackers or some cereals are added to the meatball base. To make the dish piquant and fragrant, in addition to the usual black pepper, various spices and herbs are added to the mince: minced garlic; cumin, cardamom, nutmeg, basil, cilantro, etc.
Small balls are made from the finished mince and fried until cooked in a pan. You can cook meatballs with gravy and stew them in a tomato, sour cream or cream sauce. The finished dish is served with vegetables, potatoes, buckwheat and with other side dishes.
Minced meatballs - preparing food and dishes
What you need from the kitchen equipment: a frying pan, a bowl, a thick-bottomed pot (a cauldron or a saucepan), a grater, a colander, a blender, a meat grinder, knives and a cutting board. Mince meatballs are served on serving plates with lettuce or fresh herbs.
Product preparation consists of the following steps:
- preparation of minced meat (if it was frozen, you need to defrost at room temperature or speed up the process in a microwave oven);
- washing of rice and further cooking until ready or half ready;
- cleaning and grinding vegetables and herbs;
- preparation of necessary spices and spices;
- Preparation of the right amount of sour cream, tomato paste, milk, water, vegetable oil, etc.
Minced meatball recipes:
Recipe 1: Meatballs
One of the most popular minced meatball recipes. In this recipe, minced meat of two types of meat is used: pork and beef, to which egg and spices are also added. Stew meatballs with fragrant tomato sauce.
Ingredients Required:
1. A pound of minced beef and pork;
2. Half a cup of rice;
3. 1 carrot;
4. 2 onions;
5. Salt, black pepper;
6. Vegetable oil;
7. 75 ml of tomato paste;
8. 45 ml sour cream;
9. Water - 300-400 ml.
Cooking method:
Wash rice, cook until half cooked in salted water, cool. Chop the onion, grate the carrot, sauté the vegetables until golden brown. Put the minced meat in a bowl, break an egg and lay out a vegetable roast. Season with a mixture of pepper and salt. Mince meat from meatballs and roll them down in flour. Fry the balls on high heat on both sides until golden brown (1.5-2 minutes on each side). We shift the meatballs in a thick-walled pot. Cooking sauce: mix sour cream, tomato paste and water, add a little salt. Fill the meatballs with sauce and simmer for 15 minutes on low heat.
Recipe 2: Meatballs from minced fish
Fishballs - a very simple and tasty main dish, which is perfect for a lean menu. Such meatballs can be cooked on any other day, especially if family members love fish dishes.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of minced fish;
- 100 grams of white bread;
- 2 pcs. onions;
- 1 medium carrot;
- 50 g vegetable oil;
- 1.5-2 Art. l Sahara;
- Salt;
- Black pepper;
- Tomato paste - a few spoons;
- 400 ml of water;
- 1 bay leaf.
Cooking method:
Peel 1 onion, finely chop and fry until golden. With a roll cut off the crust, soak the crumb for 10 minutes in water. Mince put in a bowl, add pressed bread, onion and salt with pepper. Mince thoroughly knead and repel. Sculpt meatballs and put in preheated vegetable oil. Fry for several minutes on each side. Chop the onion, grate the carrots, fry the vegetables in a frying pan, add tomato paste, mix everything. Season with any spices, add salt and add sugar. Pour 400 ml of boiling water, stew for 1-2 minutes. Meatballs pour sauce. After boiling, reduce the heat and simmer under the lid for 12-15 minutes.
Recipe 3: Meatballs of minced meat with tomato-garlic sauce
Tomato and garlic sauce gives minced meatballs an appetizing aroma and spicy, savory flavor. The dish turns out very tasty and juicy with a pronounced, full-bodied taste.
Ingredients Required:
- A pound of ground beef;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 grams of stale bread (white);
- PL 100 g of milk and cheese;
- Salt;
- Pepper;
- Parsley;
- 2 onions;
- Garlic - 3 teeth;
- 30 ml of tomato paste;
- Vegetable oil;
- Litere of water.
Cooking method:
Bread soaked in milk. Grind greens, grate cheese. Squeeze the bread, combine with minced meat, add the egg, cheese and greens. Season to taste with pepper and salt. Mince knead and form small balls. Chop the onions with garlic and fry in a frying pan. Liter of boiling water diluted with tomato paste, add salt. Pour the diluted pasta to the onions with garlic, after boiling pour sauce with meatballs. Stew meatballs under the lid for about 45-50 minutes.
Recipe 4: Meatballs with liver
Prepare such meatballs from minced meat and liver, also in the recipe used vegetables, seasonings, rice and tomato paste.
Ingredients Required:
- 200 g of minced meat and liver;
- 2 onions;
- 1 carrot;
- Salt;
- Pepper;
- 1 spoon of boiled rice;
- Tomato paste;
- 200 ml of broth;
- A spoonful of flour;
- Vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
Wash the liver, cut into pieces and fry until cooked in vegetable oil. Chop onions, skip with the liver through a meat grinder. Grate carrots. Boil a small amount of rice until cooked. Put in a minced onion with liver, carrots, a spoonful of rice, season with pepper and salt. Pour in 35-45 ml of broth, mix everything, make balls. Roll the meatballs in flour and fry until golden. Dissolve tomato paste in broth, pour a mixture of meatballs and simmer until cooked.
Recipe 5: Meatballs with Spice
This recipe for minced meatballs differs from others due to the skillfully selected composition of seasonings. It is the spices that make the dish surprisingly tasty, fragrant and savory.
Ingredients Required:
- 650-700 grams of minced pork;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 1 tsp ground ginger;
- Quarter tsp. ground garlic;
- On a floor a teaspoon of nutmeg and ground allspice;
- 2 egg yolks;
- Half a cup of ground almonds;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt;
- Pepper;
- Lettuce leaves - to serve.
Cooking method:
Add the yolks, ground almonds, seasonings, chopped garlic to the mince, mix everything well. Season with pepper and salt. Make small meatballs from mincemeat. Heat the butter in a skillet and fry the meatballs until golden brown and cooked. Put hot meatballs on paper napkins to soak up excess oil, cover the serving plates with lettuce leaves, put spicy meatballs from minced pork on top.
Mince meatballs - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- If the defrosted mince has an unpleasant smell, you can add dried dill, garlic and allspice;
- You need to mix the stuffing with your hands and beat a little - the meatballs will turn out lush and juicier;
- So that the meatballs do not get tough, you need to add no more than two eggs.
