Meatballs with rice in sauce. Minced Meatballs with Rice Gravy Recipe

In the culinary world, disputes about the difference between meatballs and meatballs still do not subside. In fact, both dishes are meat balls, and the set of ingredients is almost identical. The major difference is in size. Meatballs are usually made no larger than a walnut. Today we are learning how to cook meatballs in tomato sauce.

Swedish guests at our table

Professional chefs believe that meatballs are among the dishes of Swedish cuisine and it was in this country that they first tried to cook meatballs. In terms of taste, meatballs with rice in tomato sauce are no different from meatballs. But if we serve meatballs to the table as an independent dish, supplementing it with a side dish, then meatballs, as a rule, are added to soups to increase their calorie content and emphasize the taste.

Today we will talk about how to cook meatballs according to traditional recipes that can be served with a vegetable or cereal side dish. By the way, meatballs are prepared not only from minced meat. Seafood lovers can cook them from fish fillet, chopping it first to the consistency of minced meat.

If this is your first time cooking meatballs, then you just need to familiarize yourself with some culinary subtleties:

• As you understand, the basis of meatballs is minced meat. Better to cook it yourself.
• For chopping fish or meat fillets, use a meat grinder with a large attachment. In accordance with your taste preferences, minced meat can be ground in a food processor or blender.
• By itself, minced meat or fish is considered a bit dry. To make meatballs juicy, be sure to add chopped onions.
• Traditionally, ground rice is added to meatballs. It can be pre-cooked to a semi-ready state.
• To prevent the meatballs from falling apart during the heat treatment, use raw rice grits, previously steamed in boiling water.
• You can also add bread crumb soaked in a milk base or water to the meatballs.
• If the minced meatballs are runny, add some high-grade sifted flour or breadcrumbs.
• You can cook meatballs in tomato sauce in a pan. First, lightly fry them, and then simmer until fully cooked.
• Tomato sauce is a culinary classic. It can be prepared from fresh tomatoes, natural juice or pasta.
• To make the tomato sauce fragrant, add seasonings, spices and a little granulated sugar.
• If you want the gravy to be thick, gradually add the sifted flour. Be sure to stir the sauce thoroughly so that no lumps form.
• If you are cooking meatballs in tomato sauce in the oven, be sure to cover the baking sheet with foil to keep the dish juicy.
• Let the prepared meatballs rest for a while, and only then serve.
• You can add greens to minced meat for juiciness. It is customary to decorate the finished dish with chopped greens.
• If you are preparing meatballs to add to first courses, form blanks and send them to storage in the freezer.
• A mixture of pepper, fine-grained salt, paprika perfectly combines with the taste of minced meat and fish.
• Fans of spicy and spicy food can add turmeric, suneli hops, chili, curry, etc. to minced meat.

Surprise guests with culinary skills

Today we are learning culinary skills and getting to know Swedish cuisine. Let's cook meatballs in tomato sauce. A recipe with a photo will help you correctly calculate the proportions and make an exquisite meat dish.

Tomato sauce is a classic gravy that every housewife can make, without exception, even without a recipe. We will tell you how to make sweet and sour tomato sauce. Soy sauce, wine, ginger and other spices will play in an amazing ensemble of taste and aroma.

Composition:

• 0.5 kg of minced meat;
• 1 st. l. soy sauce;
• 1 onion;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 0.5 st. l. wine (preferably red);
• a little chopped ginger;
• 1 st. l. table starch;
• 50 g of vinegar (preferably rice);
• refined sunflower oil to taste;
• 0.1 l of meat broth;
• ¼ st. granulated sugar;
• 2-3 tbsp. l. ketchup or tomato sauce.

Cooking:

1. If you cook the minced meat yourself, then first defrost the meat fillet in a natural way, rinse it, remove the veins and film.
2. On a medium or large nozzle, grind the meat to the consistency of minced meat and put it in a deep bowl.
3. Peel the onion from the husk and chop in a meat grinder, food processor or blender.
   
4. We combine minced meat with onion mass.
5. Add red wine to the mince, beat in the chicken egg.
6. Also add soy sauce.
7. Season the minced meat with table starch and ginger powder.
   
8. Thoroughly knead the minced meat until a mass of a homogeneous consistency is formed.

   

9. Now we need to make meatballs.
10. So that the minced meat does not stick to the palms and fingers, we moisten our hands with water or rub lightly with sunflower vegetable oil.
11. Put the molded balls on a cutting board or dish.
    
12. Now we need to fry the meatballs in refined sunflower oil until a light golden crust forms.
    
13. We spread the fried meatballs in a deep heat-resistant dish or stewpan.
14. Pour the meat broth into a clean pan, add vinegar, soy sauce, ketchup or tomatoes, as well as granulated sugar.
15. Mix everything thoroughly and bring to a boil.
    
16. Put the meatballs into the boiling sauce with tongs and simmer them for 15-20 minutes until fully cooked.
    
17. With your favorite side dish, serve the meatballs to the table. Don't forget to season them generously with tomato sauce.
18. If desired, you can sprinkle meatballs with chopped herbs.

Gourmet's Joy

Classic meatballs, of course, will appeal to everyone without exception. And if your household loves unusual, spicy and spicy food, try cooking the usual meat balls in the original sauce. We will need canned tomatoes in their own juice. In the absence of such, you can use fresh tomatoes or natural tomato paste.

Composition:

• 0.6 kg turkey fillet;
• 2 onions;
• 4-5 pcs. garlic cloves;
• capsicum hot pepper - to taste;
• 0.5 kg of tomatoes in their own juice;
• salt and spices to taste.

Cooking:

Description

Today we will cook amazingly delicious meatballs in tomato sauce in a pan. This is a daily dish for the whole family, because both children and adults like it. It is very tasty, and most importantly, it is prepared quickly and easily, especially if the meatballs are prepared in advance. So stay with us, let's cook together)))

Ingredients:

Instruction:

How to cook meatballs in tomato sauce

1. Add rice, salt, pepper and half a finely chopped onion to the minced meat. Stir the mince until smooth.

2. Roll meatballs from minced meat and fry them on both sides until golden brown.

3. While the meatballs are fried, prepare the sauce. To do this, grate the carrot on a fine grater and finely chop the onion, fry until light gold.

4. Add tomato paste, flour, mix quickly. And then start adding a little water and mix thoroughly. You can even add flour to the water first, in general, do as you like.

Meatballs with gravy are the easiest thing to make with minced meat. Because minced meat, except for onions, egg whites and spices, nothing else is added. These are not meatballs for which you need to cook rice separately, and not cutlets with which you need to be smart so that they turn out juicy and do not have time to burn out during frying. With meatballs, everything is easy. They are not fried, but stewed in a thick creamy tomato sauce with the addition of fried vegetables. In fact, the secret to the success of meatballs is 90 percent dependent on delicious gravy, and with us it will turn out amazing, I promise you. Let's start cooking meatballs with gravy as soon as possible, the recipe with a photo was taken step by step for those who are taking their first steps in home cooking. I want to wish you success and a delicious lunch or dinner!

Ingredients for Meatballs with Gravy:

• Minced meat from pork and beef - 350-400 g,
• Large onion - 1 piece (or 2 small ones),
• Carrots - 1 piece,
• The protein of one chicken egg,
• Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons,
• Mayonnaise or fat sour cream - 2 tablespoons,
• Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
• Wheat flour - 1 teaspoon with a slide,
• Salt - to taste
• Seasoning hops-suneli - to taste,
• Green onion - 5-6 feathers

How to cook meatballs with gravy

1. For meatballs, I prefer to take homemade minced meat, which I scroll from pork and beef. And I take meat in equal proportions. Such minced meat is obtained with the desired consistency - non-liquid, moderately dense, but not hard and not rubbery. It will be convenient to work with him, forming meatballs. Of course, you can also use store-bought high-quality minced meat (but keep in mind that it is made from tough meat, which is mercilessly soaked in water, so saving on purchased minced meat is really doubtful). So, put the right amount of mixed minced meat in a bowl. Take an egg and separate the white from the yolk. If you find it difficult to do this in the traditional way, pouring an egg from one shell to another, you can simply gently break the egg into a cup and scoop out the yolk with a tablespoon. If it breaks and a few drops of yolk get into the protein, nothing bad will happen. I have a lot of onions in the recipe, because half goes to minced meat, and half to fry. For minced meat, the onion can be scrolled through a meat grinder, but it is best to grate it, then the minced meat will be especially tender. Do not forget to salt and season the minced meat with spices. Focus on your taste. But remember that an undersalted dish can be salted, but with oversalted everything will be much more difficult.

2. I mix the minced meat well, and then I roll meat balls the size of a walnut out of it. Wet your palms in water, then the minced meat will not stick to your hands. We will not fry the meatballs - we will immediately put them in the gravy.

3. For gravy, I finely cut the remaining onion, wash the carrots, clean and grate them. We spread the vegetables in a pan, add vegetable oil, mix and fry over medium heat for 5-7 minutes. Stir, make sure nothing burns!

5. Pour boiling water into the pan (it took me 1.5 cups). I mix. Waiting for the gravy to boil.

6. I transfer the meat balls-meatballs to the boiling gravy. Be careful not to pour out all the meatballs at once, spread them out in small batches, distributing them evenly in the gravy. I cover the pan with a lid. I turn the heat down to medium. Simmer meatballs with gravy for about 25 minutes. During this time, you can prepare a side dish for a meat dish. This time I decided to boil the pasta.

7. At the end of cooking, sprinkle the meatballs with finely chopped green onions. Other fresh or dried herbs can also be used.

Delicious, juicy and mouth-watering meatballs are ready, enjoy your meal!

This dish is tasty, but it may not be to everyone's taste due to dryness. Products that are ideal for all side dishes can be made well moist: you need to mix meatballs with tomato paste (or tomato-cream mixture) - meat or fish balls will turn out more tender thanks to the sauce.

How to cook meatballs in sauce

Small balls can not only be added to the soup, but also used as a separate dish. To cook meatballs in sauce, you must first buy minced meat, but it is better to twist fresh meat yourself, for juiciness add onion, boiled rice, cheese, stale white bread soaked with milk or breadcrumbs intended for breading. After that, you need to roll small balls with your hands and bake them or stew them, combining them with the sauce.

in a frying pan

Having made the dish once, you can be sure that it will become a frequent guest during family dinners. Meatballs in tomato sauce in a pan are quickly made: you need to roll balls from meat or fish mass, put them in breading, fry on each side, pour over the prepared sauce. Meatballs in tomato paste must first be stewed for 20 minutes, and after stirring for another 15 minutes, the heating will be uniform.

In the oven

Baked meatballs in tomato are even more tender than those fried in a pan, but the cooking process takes longer. Making meatballs in tomato sauce in the oven means that you first need to roll balls from the minced meat, carefully coat them in flour or breadcrumbs, and fry. Only after this product can be poured with tomato or tomato-sour cream sauce and set to bake.

In a slow cooker

Thanks to relatively recent technology, the preparation of many dishes has become much easier. So, meatballs in tomato sauce in a slow cooker can be made in different ways: with or without pre-frying. In any case, the meat balls are then stewed, poured into a sauce, the basis for which can be mushrooms, tomato paste, cream or fresh tomatoes.

Sauce

The basis for the gravy is tomato puree, juice or pulp of fresh tomatoes. In tomato sauce for meatballs, some housewives add nuts, mushroom plates, or finely chopped greens, which are still ground to a state of flour - so the gravy becomes more aromatic and has an excellent taste. It is recommended to season the sauce separately, like the meatballs themselves.

Recipe for meatballs in tomato sauce

Meat or fish balls go well with mashed potatoes, porridge, vegetable stew. Meatballs with tomato sauce deserve special attention, because, compared to cutlets, they always turn out juicy, because they are stewed in gravy and served filled with it. Recipes for meatballs in tomato sauce will help you understand how to cook and serve delicious meat or fish balls.

With spaghetti

• Servings: 2 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 159 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.

The dish prepared according to this recipe is very similar to the dish of Italian cuisine. Young wine is ideal for spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce. The delicacy has a special taste and excellent aroma thanks to the gravy used, which is based on tomato sauce with the addition of olive oil and fresh basil leaves.

Ingredients:

• tomato sauce - 300 ml;
• olive oil - 40 ml;
• basil - 1 bunch;
• minced meat - 300 g;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• spaghetti - 200 g;
• allspice - 2 pinches.

Cooking method:

1. Add a head of onion and leaves of fresh fragrant grass, cut as small as possible, to ready-made or hand-made minced meat from meat. Salt the mass, sprinkle with pepper, form balls.
2. Send the meatballs to the pan, fry them on all sides.
3. Pour the sauce into the pan to the golden products, simmer the dish for 10 minutes, turning the heat to a minimum.
4. Boil spaghetti in the classic way, dropping them into salted boiled water. Drizzle with oil, arrange on plates.
5. Pour spaghetti with tomato sauce, arrange meatballs on top.

with rice

• Cooking time: 45 minutes.
• Servings: 5 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 250 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

If you are tired of cutlets or meatballs, then it's time to make meatballs, which can also become your favorite dish if cooked correctly. Juicy, appetizing, satisfying and fragrant walnut-sized balls are formed from pork, and rice will help to make them less fat. The best and fastest meatballs with rice in tomato sauce are cooked in a double boiler.

Ingredients:

• pork - 0.5 kg;
• round rice - 100 g;
• tomato sauce - 400 ml;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• wheat bread - 1 slice;
• soda - 0.25 tsp;
• salt - 0.5 tsp;
• bay leaf - 1 pc.;
• ginger - 1/2 tsp;
• green onion - a bunch;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Boil the rice until half cooked, salting the water before laying the cereal. Drain the liquid, and cool the grits.
2. Pour a piece of bread with water, but it is advisable to use only the soft part of the baking, and cut off the crust.
3. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder. Pour cooled rice, bread soaked in water, egg and soda to the mass. Stir the stuffing thoroughly, beat off.
4. Grind the green onion feathers, add to the bread and meat mixture.
5. Moisten the palms with water or oil and you can begin to form meat balls, the size of which will not be larger than a nut.
6. Put the meatballs on the grate in a double boiler and stand there for 15 minutes.
7. Move the almost ready meat balls into a saucepan, then pour onion half rings, crush with ginger, pour over the sauce and simmer for 10 minutes, turning the heat down.

Chicken

• Cooking time: 1 hour 16 minutes.
• Number of servings: 6 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 232 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

If you make minced chicken yourself, then in the end the dish will turn out to be more juicy. You can verify your judgment by cooking chicken meatballs in tomato sauce - delicious products differ from this kind of dishes in their tenderness, which is achieved through the addition of cream. Below is a simple recipe for how to make meatballs with gravy in the oven.

Ingredients:

• chicken fillet - 3 pcs.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• wheat crackers - 150 g;
• cream - 150 ml;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• spices - to taste;
• tomato - 2 pcs.;
• parsley - 0.5 bunch;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.;
• vegetable broth - 2 tbsp.;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the chicken fillet and pat dry with a clean towel. Pour the crackers with cream and leave for 15 minutes. Peel the vegetables, remove the skin from the tomatoes, after steaming them with boiling water.
2. Chop the onion heads and fry them in olive oil for 10 minutes. Grind the chicken fillet with a blender or in a meat grinder.
3. Place crackers, garlic and seasonings that have become creamy and tender in the workpiece. Stir until the stuffing becomes homogeneous, leave it completely alone for 5-7 minutes. Form balls.
4. Preheat oven to 180°C. Put the prepared chicken meatballs close to the empty roaster, pour over the tomato paste, well mixed with the vegetable broth.
5. Bake for 45 minutes, and sprinkle the finished dish with parsley.

Fish

• Cooking time: 55 minutes.
• Number of servings: 8 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 106 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Meatballs are tasty not only from pork, chicken and beef, but also from fish, the main thing here is to choose a low-fat variety. Some housewives prefer to make such a dish from canned food, but it is better to take a fresh or frozen carcass, for example, hake, pollock or cod. Fish meatballs in tomato sauce in a frying pan will ideally complement a side dish in the form of buckwheat or rice.

Ingredients:

• pollock - 1 kg;
• tomato juice - 450 ml;
• wheat loaf - 2 pieces;
• fresh lard - 2 tbsp. l.;
• breadcrumbs - 4 tbsp. l.;
• flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
• black pepper - 0.5 tsp;
• water - 1.5 cups;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• dried thyme, marjoram - a pinch each;
• vegetable oil - 50 ml;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
• carrots - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

1. Clean and profile the fish, cut into pieces. Salo also cut into smaller pieces. Send all components to a bowl.
2. Soak bread slices in water.
3. Form minced meat from bacon and fish, twisting the mass a couple of times in a meat grinder. Place the egg, softened loaf, salt, seasonings into the soft fish mixture, stir everything well.
4. With wet hands, make small fish meatballs, using half a tablespoon of minced meat for one ball. Roll products in breading. Fry in a pan until crispy and golden brown.
5. In another brazier, saute grated carrots with flour and tomato juice, and finally pour sour cream into the sauce.
6. Pour the fried fish balls with the resulting tomato-sour cream liquid, simmer on the stove for 5 minutes, but do not cover the dishes with a lid.

With pasta

• Cooking time: 65 minutes.
• Servings: 3 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 205 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

The described version of the dish is an excellent choice for a family dinner feast, and both kids and adults can eat it. Pasta with meatballs in tomato sauce will appeal to everyone who is not indifferent to meat, but you better make minced meat for the dish yourself by mixing pork and beef in approximately equal proportions. Each housewife will appreciate the ease and speed of preparing such food.

Ingredients:

• minced pork and beef - 300 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• parsley - 0.5 bunch;
• water - 2 tbsp.;
• leek - 10 cm;
• fresh tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
• pasta - 400 g;
• salt - 2 tsp;
• olive oil - 2 tbsp. l.;
• pepper, spices - to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Using a meat grinder or combine, turn the meat into minced meat.
2. Remove seeds from large bell peppers, chop into cubes, making them very small.
3. Mix the minced meat with pepper, add finely chopped parsley, egg, spices.
4. Cut the leeks into small cubes, like peppers, but it is recommended to take the white part for the dish. If you do not have leeks, then you can replace it with ordinary onions.
5. Cut each tomato, remove the seeds, leaving them in a glass for now, rub the pulp, while the peel should remain in your hands.
6. Pour 1 tablespoon of oil on a frying surface, fry the onion. Send another tomato mass to the golden cubes. Drain the juice from the seeds there, which is in a glass. Pour water into the mixture, leave to stew for 5 minutes.
7. For now, make balls from the minced meat, the size of a quail egg. Lay the resulting products in tomato sauce, wait for everything to boil. Simmer until the meatballs are cooked through and the sauce thickens. Add seasonings as needed.
8. Boil the pasta in a saucepan, laying them in a salty boiling liquid. Throw finished products in a colander, rinse them, return them back, grease with a spoonful of oil.
9. Pour warm pasta with prepared sauce, put meatballs on top.

In tomato-garlic sauce

• Cooking time: 1 hour 35 minutes.
• Number of servings: 6 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 137 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Italian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

Fans of spicy food, distinguished by its excellent taste, will really like the dish prepared according to the recipe described below. In addition to the fact that meatballs in tomato-garlic sauce are uniquely delicious, they are also very easy to prepare. If you want to diversify your diet with new dishes, then be sure to try these juicy, cheese-soaked meat products that literally melt immediately after getting into your mouth.

Ingredients:

• milk - 100 ml;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• white stale bread - 100 g;
• minced meat - 500 g;
• salt - 0.5 tsp;
• greens - to taste;
• ground pepper - 0.5 tsp;
• cheese - 100 g;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• water - 1 l;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.;
• onions - 2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. l.

Cooking method:

1. Rinse the selected green leaves, dry thoroughly, cut into small pieces.
2. Cheese, belonging to hard varieties, pass through large grater knives.
3. Pour white, but yesterday's (and preferably the day before yesterday's) bread with milk.
4. Mix the minced meat in one bowl with squeezed bread, eggs, cheese, herbs. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Form round meat balls, constantly wetting your hands with water.
6. Wash and peel the onion and garlic, cut them, put them in a deep wide frying pan, pouring oil on the surface.
7. Saute vegetables for 5 minutes.
8. Fill a saucepan with a liter of water, boil it, add tomato paste, salt.
9. It remains to combine all the components of the dish and cook them: pour the tomato liquid into the vegetables, let it boil. Immediately after the start of bubbling, lay the meatballs. Cover the dishes, leave to languish for 50 minutes - the sauce should thicken.
10. Serve meat balls with your favorite side dish.

In tomato cream sauce

• Cooking time: 1 hour 20 minutes.
• Number of servings: 6 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 178 kcal.
• Destination: for lunch / dinner.
• Cuisine: Swedish.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

The dish became known to Slavic housewives thanks to experienced Swedish chefs, who created its recipe. Meatballs in tomato cream sauce should be cooked in the oven, but if you want to save time, you can throw food in a slow cooker. Be sure to try to reproduce the dish, as in the photo - a hearty meal, to which you can even not make a side dish.

Ingredients:

• ground beef - 1 kg;
• sour cream - 250 ml;
• allspice - a pinch;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• onion heads - 2 pcs.;
• tomato paste - 500 g;
• seasoning for meat - 0.5 tsp.

Cooking method:

1. Peel the onion heads, rinse under water, chop.
2. Mix minced meat with chopped onion in a dry bowl, beat in a chicken egg, pour spices, salt the mass. It is worth noting that it is better to take minced meat not purchased, but to make it yourself, grinding a piece of beef with thin streaks of fat.
3. Knead the combined components until a homogeneous consistency.
4. Moisten your hands with water, form balls, picking up a small amount of the workpiece.
5. Put the future meatballs on a baking sheet. Lubricate heat-resistant dishes before placing food on them.
6. Put semi-finished products to bake for 30 minutes.
7. Separately from the minced meat, fry the flour so that it acquires a pinkish-golden hue. Immediately after adding the tomato paste there, simmer for a couple of minutes, without stopping vigorous stirring.
8. Pour sour cream into the thickened sauce, season the mixture, mix with herbs.
9. Pour meat products with tomato-sour cream thick liquid, return the baking sheet back to the hot oven. Cook small balls with sauce for another 20 minutes. Serve the dish warm or hot.

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