Today I want to invite you to cook meatballs in sour cream sauce. It is simple, easy to prepare and very delicious dish, which is relevant all year round.
Juicy meatballs with gravy are a completely independent dish in themselves. Complete them light salad or as a side dish - you will get a nutritious and very appetizing dish that will leave few people indifferent. You can cook meatballs in sour cream sauce in a frying pan or in the oven; today I’ll tell you how to cook both options. Shall we begin?!
Prepare the ingredients according to the list.
Based on the basic minced meat, we will prepare two versions of meatballs - classic meatballs and hedgehog meatballs with rice.
Boil the rice in advance. To do this, rinse a portion of rice, drain the cold water and pour hot water over the rice. Add a pinch of salt, bring the rice to a boil and cook for 10-12 minutes until almost fully cooked.
Combine minced meat, finely chopped onion and garlic in a bowl. chicken egg whisk with 1-2 pinches of salt.
Add beaten egg, mustard, herbs and spices to taste and ground black pepper to the minced meat. Mix everything thoroughly and beat the minced meat for 2-3 minutes until it becomes viscous and dense.
To prepare hedgehog meatballs, add rice to the minced meat and mix everything thoroughly. I divide the minced meat in half and prepare two versions of meatballs at once.
With your hands soaked in water, form the minced meat into small meatballs. If you plan to cook the meatballs in the oven, you can make them larger - they will bake well, and you won’t have to worry that the minced meat inside will not be fully cooked. To cook meatballs in sour cream sauce in a frying pan, it is better to prepare small meatballs - they will cook faster.
Grease your hands with vegetable oil and lightly roll the meatballs in your hands again. The oil will create a thin protective film on the surface of the meatballs - the meatballs will turn out a little more juicy and rosy.
Place the prepared meatballs in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes to cool. At this stage I freeze some of the meatballs.
While the meatballs are cooling, prepare the sauce. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
Add a little vegetable oil to a preheated frying pan, add the onion and, stirring, fry for 2-3 minutes. Then add the carrots and fry everything together for a few more minutes until the vegetables are soft.
Add wheat flour and, stirring, fry the mixture for a few more minutes until the flour changes color.
If desired, also add a little tomato paste and fry everything together for a few more minutes.
Gradually, stirring, pour hot broth or water into the pan. Add sour cream and mix everything thoroughly. Bring the sauce to a boil over low heat.
Add 1-2 bay leaves, herbs and spices to taste. I have ground coriander, cumin, oregano, dried garlic, suneli hops and a mixture of Provençal herbs. Also add a little sugar, ground black pepper and salt to taste. Reduce heat to low and simmer the sauce for another 2-3 minutes.
Heat a small amount of vegetable oil, place the chilled meatballs in a frying pan and fry on both sides until golden brown, about 4-7 minutes (depending on size).
Place the fried meatballs in the sauce. Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer the meatballs for another 25-30 minutes, covering the pan with a lid.
You can also place the fried meatballs in a baking dish, pour over the sauce and bake in the oven until done (my favorite option). Pour the sauce into the pan until it reaches about halfway up the meatballs. Cover the pan with foil and place in an oven preheated to 100-110 degrees for 30 minutes.
To cook raw, not pre-fried meatballs in sour cream sauce in the oven, place the meatballs in a mold, add the sauce so that the meatballs are 2/3 immersed in it. Place the pan in the upper part of an oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 12-15 minutes until the meatballs are golden brown, then cover the pan with foil, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for another 20-25 minutes until done.
Sprinkle the finished meatballs with fresh herbs and serve.
Meatballs in sour cream sauce are ready! Bon appetit!
Meatballs with gravy are delicious balls of minced meat stewed in a thick, flavorful sauce. Don't confuse them with meatballs; there are several significant differences between them. Meatballs are most often prepared in larger sizes because they are a separate, complete meat dish, for example, for lunch. Meatballs are fried or stewed in a frying pan, and can also be baked in the oven with or without sauce. Meatballs are boiled in broth; they usually complement some dish, for example.
There is a wide variety of delicious meatballs, mostly different additional ingredients. You can add onions and carrots to the meatballs, you can put rice, meatballs with mushrooms or stuffed with vegetables that are wrapped in minced meat are delicious. Various sauces for meatballs can also be prepared and they will radically affect the taste. Well, the most important thing is that the meatballs themselves can be made from various types of meat. I don’t want to see meatballs, but meatballs in all the variety of preparations take the main prize.
Of course, I won’t be able to cover all the options, but I will share many delicious ones with you.
Meatballs with tomato sauce and sour cream
It seems to me right to start with simple and classic recipes. They are usually the most sought after and popular. We have become so accustomed to meatballs since childhood that we very often look for recipes for their preparation that are very similar to those prepared by our mothers and grandmothers, as well as hardworking cooks in kindergarten. And all this is not just like that. By the way, let me clarify that meatballs can be prepared for children and they really like them, both in taste and in shape, and I don’t need to tell you how many kids love gravy. You can choose any side dish according to your taste, but now let's learn how to cook delicious meatballs with gravy.
For the meatballs you will need:
- minced meat - kg,
- egg - 1 piece,
- onions - 1-2 pcs,
- garlic - 1-2 pcs,
- sour cream - 4 tablespoons,
- flour - 2 tablespoons,
- salt, pepper and spices to taste.
Preparation:
1. For meatballs, you can use either ready-made minced meat or make it yourself from the chosen meat. Choose pork, beef or a mixture of two minced meats to suit your taste. My one piece of advice is not to make the minced meat too lean, that is, completely without fat. A little fat in the minced meat will make the meatballs more juicy, and at the same time it will practically melt during heat treatment.
2. Chop the onion smaller, especially if you are cooking for children. Adjust the quantity yourself; you can add one or two onions. The onion itself also helps make the meatballs softer and juicier. Combine onion and minced meat in a large, comfortable bowl. Grind the garlic on a grater or with a knife, and also add it to the minced meat.
3. Break one raw egg into a bowl with minced meat and stir. The egg will help ensure good stickiness of the minced meat so that future meatballs do not fall apart when finished. Salt and pepper the minced meat to your taste.
4. Form the resulting minced meat into even, medium-sized balls. Roll them in flour so that when frying you get a delicious golden brown crust and all the meat juices are sealed inside. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry the meatballs over medium heat on all sides until lightly browned.
5. Prepare the future gravy. This recipe is the simplest - mix tomato paste with sour cream, dilute with one glass of warm water.
6. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs in the frying pan, cover with a lid and simmer for fifteen minutes.
7. As it simmers, the gravy will take on a deeper red color thanks to the tomato sauce. After fifteen minutes, covered over medium heat, the meatballs will be ready and soaked in a delicious sauce.
Delicious meatballs with gravy are ready. The most universal and simplest recipe. If you put cream instead of sour cream, the taste will be more delicate and less sour. Serve with a hot side dish, e.g. mashed potatoes, sprinkle with fresh herbs. Bon appetit!
Tender meatballs with rice baked in gravy in the oven
Almost all of us have tried meatballs with rice, and many even know them under the name “Hedgehogs”. They can also be cooked in a frying pan in a thick gravy, or you can bake them in the oven, which will only make them more tender, because there will be no drying frying in the frying pan, but only uniform heat on all sides. To flavor the gravy, we will add onions and carrots to it.
You will need:
- mixed minced meat - 600 grams,
- boiled rice - 1 cup,
- egg - 1 piece,
- onions - 2 pcs,
- carrots - 1 piece,
- garlic - 2 cloves,
- tomato paste - 2 tablespoons,
- sour cream - 2 tablespoons,
- flour - 2 tablespoons,
- salt and black pepper to taste.
Preparation:
1. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder or take ready-made minced meat. Place it in a bowl and add finely chopped onion and garlic. We will need the second onion for gravy. Also break an egg into the minced meat. Add some salt and pepper. Stir the minced meat first with a spoon and then with your hands, this is how it mixes best.
2. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.
3. Mix sour cream and tomato paste in a separate bowl. Add two tablespoons of flour to them and stir to a smooth paste.
4. Pour cold boiled water into a glass and gradually pour it into the future sauce in a bowl. Pour a little and stir, then add more water and stir, and so on until all the water is gone.
Flour is needed in this sauce to add thickness. It also gives off that same characteristic taste that we remember from childhood in the gravy that was served in the canteen of kindergartens and schools.
5. Heat a frying pan with oil. Cut the second onion into small cubes. Fry the onion in oil until translucent, then add the grated carrots to the pan and fry over medium heat until the carrots soften.
6. Now pour the prepared tomato-sour cream sauce into the frying pan with onions and carrots. Stir, add a little salt and let simmer over low heat for 2-3 minutes. Salt and pepper the future gravy to your taste. This is how salty it will be when finished.
7. Turn on the oven to preheat at 180 degrees. Take a baking dish and start forming the meatballs. To do this, lightly moisten your hands with water and roll the minced meat into fairly large balls. Place the finished meatballs in the mold. When everything is assembled, take a frying pan with gravy and pour the meatballs on top. If there is not enough sauce, add a little water; it will mix with the sauce while boiling in the oven.
8. Place the meatballs with gravy in the oven and bake them for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees.
After half an hour, the meatballs are ready. The far cooks very quickly, and we already had the rice ready. You will get very tender and tasty meatballs with a fragrant thick gravy with onions and carrots. This is a very nutritious and satisfying lunch or dinner. Choose a side dish at your discretion. Eat for your health!
How to cook meatballs with gravy like in kindergarten
For those who are inexorably drawn by nostalgia to remember that very taste and cook meatballs as in kindergarten, I offer this good and detailed video. It describes the process of making meatballs and all the ingredients needed for this. There is nothing complicated in such a recipe and the cooks did not keep a military secret with it. Now it will be available to you too. Prepare the meatballs and don’t forget the tender pasta.
Meatballs in cream sauce, baked with cheese
Not tomato sauce Meatballs with rice are just wonderful. The creamy sauce is no less wonderful, and if you add cheese to it, then you won’t be able to pull it off by the ears. I can say this for myself and my family, but I’m almost sure that many will agree with me.
Cream is a delicate matter, so we will also bake meatballs in this sauce.
You will need:
- minced meat - 600 grams,
- rice - 100 grams,
- cream 10% - 330 ml,
- cheese - 100 grams,
- garlic - 2 cloves,
- potato starch - 1 teaspoon,
- salt and spices to taste.
Preparation:
1. Prepare minced meat, place it in a container convenient for stirring. Add garlic to the minced meat, passed through a press or grated on a fine grater. Add salt (about 0.5 teaspoon).
2. Boil the rice until half cooked. Add it to the minced meat. Add 0.5-1 teaspoon of your favorite mild spices. For example, Provençal or Italian herbs work very well.
3. Stir the minced meat with your hands, it turns out more evenly than with a spoon or spatula due to the fact that the minced meat is quite thick and lumpy.
4. Lightly wet your hands with water and roll into large round meatballs. Take a comfortable deep baking dish and place future meatballs on the bottom. It is not necessary to spread butter, because we will cook them in sauce.
5. Stir the sauce in a separate bowl. To do this, pour cream into a bowl. Grate the cheese on a fine or coarse grater. Add cheese to the cream, as well as spices and salt to taste. Add a teaspoon of potato starch there, this is necessary to make the creamy sauce a little thicker. Starch will not affect the taste at all. Mix everything well.
6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Place the meatballs in the oven and bake for 20 minutes, during which time the meatballs will be half cooked.
7. Pour the gravy we prepared over the meatballs. Place the remaining cheese at the bottom (it will settle) on top of each meatball so that it bakes with a beautiful golden brown crust.
8. Place the meatballs and gravy back in the oven and bake for another 20-25 minutes. The sauce will reduce and the cheese will bake into a beautiful crust. The meatballs will be completely ready.
Serve hot meatballs in creamy sauce with side dishes and vegetable salads. Bon appetit!
Original meatballs with buckwheat - grechaniky. Step-by-step video recipe
If you've tried meatballs with rice, but are already a little tired of them, then it's time to bring something new to this wonderful dish. Add buckwheat instead of rice and you will get a new type of delicious meatballs. Such delicious meatballs are also prepared with a thick rich gravy in which they are baked.
The ingredients are quite familiar: minced meat, onion, egg, flour and tomato paste. Instead of rice, boiled buckwheat. Add spices to your taste to make these meatballs spicy or spicy and delight your household with a new product.
Make meatballs with gravy more often and don't forget to add variety to them by changing sauces and additives. Don't forget delicious side dishes and salads, lunch should be nutritious and healthy. I wish you health and good mood!
Ingredients for preparing delicious meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce:
- Minced pork – 1 kilogram;
- Boiled rice – 100 grams;
- Salt and black pepper - to taste;
- Egg – 1 piece;
- Onions – 3 onions;
- Carrots – 2 root vegetables;
- Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoons;
- Sour cream – 1 glass;
- Tomato paste – 2 tablespoons;
- Water or broth - 1 glass;
- Flour – 2 tablespoons.
Cuisine: Russian Ukrainian. Cooking time: 60 min. Number of servings: 6
Meatballs have another unconventional name - “hedgehogs”. I wonder why “hedgehogs”? Possibly due to its round shape and slightly uneven surface. Typically, meatballs are made from minced meat, to which boiled rice is added, and stewed in tomato or sour cream-tomato sauce.
This dish is prepared by many Ukrainians and I am sure that every family has its own unique recipe for meatballs.
Cooking meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce
Place the minced pork in a deep enamel bowl, add a finely chopped onion (or grind through a meat grinder along with the minced meat), salt, pepper, add one egg (optional),
boiled rice
Meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce recipe with step-by-step photos
and knead with your hands until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
To prepare meatballs, it is better to use short-grain rice, as it is more sticky than long-grain rice.
Place some flour on a flat plate. Using a tablespoon, scoop up the minced meat, form a ball with your hands, and roll in flour.
and fry in refined sunflower oil.
Place the fried meatballs in a deep frying pan or saucepan.
Cut the remaining two onions into cubes, chop the carrots on a coarse grater and sauté in refined sunflower oil.
Meanwhile, prepare the sour cream and tomato sauce. Mix a glass of sour cream with two tablespoons of tomato paste and dilute with one glass of broth (or water).
Pour the sauce into the sautéed vegetables, mix and pour the resulting mixture over the meatballs.
The dish will be more flavorful if you add a bay leaf and a pea of allspice to the sauce. Simmer over low heat for 30 minutes.
Meatballs are good as an independent dish,
as well as with a light vegetable salad, rice or mashed potatoes.
Before describing my meatball recipe, I did a little googling and looked at the existing options for preparing this dish. It turns out that some people prefer to cook meatballs without rice, while others add garlic, red pepper, parsley and dill to the minced meat.
Perhaps you will create your own unique meatball recipe. I wish you creative success and see you again on the pages of our website.
In my family, meatballs have been especially popular since the times when the children were in school. I remember that I was preparing a large duck roast so that there would be enough meatballs for several days. Now times have changed and I hardly cook anything for future use. I save a few meatballs for my daughter’s breakfast before work, since she doesn’t have time to cook in the morning. Here are these meatballs from ground beef They turned out so tasty that I wanted more right away.
To prepare meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce in the oven, prepare the necessary ingredients from the list. The rice must first be cooked until half cooked and allowed to cool.
Place the minced meat in a deep bowl, add a little pepper and salt, add half of the herbs. You can use any herbs you like.
Finely chop onions and add it to the minced meat.
With wet hands, form meatballs from the minced meat and place them in a mold greased with vegetable oil.
In a bowl, mix sour cream, tomato paste, vegetable oil and flour. Add salt and pepper.
Stir the sauce well until smooth and add the rest of the herbs.
Pour the sauce over the meatballs so that each meatball is coated in the sauce. I spooned the sauce onto each meatball by the tablespoonful. Add a bay leaf to the mold, you can also throw in a few peppercorns.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the meatballs in sour cream and tomato sauce for about 30-35 minutes. At the end, you can turn on the grill, if your oven has one, to help the meatballs brown better.
Ready-made meatballs can be served as an independent dish or with any side dishes or vegetables.
Bon appetit!
Meatballs are everyone’s favorite culinary masterpiece, with a taste reminiscent of childhood. They are small meat balls in a delicious sauce. They do not take long to cook, and the gravy gives them unique juiciness and tenderness.
They differ from traditional cutlets in the way the minced meat is prepared. The recipe must contain bread, onions and eggs soaked in water. The main difference is that the minced meat must be beaten, otherwise the meatballs may lose their shape during cooking.
The most best recipes based on mixture various types minced meat. You can add minced turkey or chicken, the taste will only get better. It is much more pleasant to sculpt from this type of minced meat - it is juicy and plastic.
Little children love hedgehog meatballs. They are obtained by adding rice to minced meat. For kids, it is best to prepare the sauce from sour cream and other dairy products without adding pepper.
Meatballs can be cooked in the oven, in a frying pan or in a slow cooker. To cook meatballs in the oven, pre-frying is not required - this will help reduce calorie content. Before cooking, you usually put the meatballs in the refrigerator for 20–30 minutes to help them hold tight.
There are two main ways to prepare this dish: meatballs with tomato sauce or with sour cream sauce. Traditionally, with the latter option, they are sculpted in a rather large shape, the size of a tangerine.
The smell of the sauce for meatballs with sour cream leaves no one indifferent, the meat taste becomes pronounced, the sour cream highlights the aroma and gives the dish a slight sourness. This culinary masterpiece can hardly be called dietary, so the recipe is best based on low-fat sour cream. This will help make the dish less calorie and prevent heaviness in the stomach.
The cooking time is 15 minutes, the calorie content of the dish is 156.7 calories per 100 grams.
How to make sour cream sauce for meatballs? You will need the following ingredients:
Recipe preparations:
Ready! You can pour the main dish. Sour cream sauce Perfect for vegetables too.
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