There is nothing tastier than deliciously cooked meat. The ability to create a variety of dishes from this product has always been highly valued in cooking. This article will talk about how to cook meatballs.
What are "bits"
Before proceeding to the description of recipes, it should be clarified what is meant by the name "meatballs". In fact, this dish is almost no different from meatballs. However, there is a difference. Firstly, the shape of meat products is different: for cutlets it is oval, and for meatballs it is round. Secondly, the way of preparing the dish is also different. Cutlets are usually fried or baked, while meatballs with gravy are mostly stewed.
The history of the dish
This dish migrated to our country from France. Bitochki - an analogue of the famous medallions, traditional dish french cuisine. They got such a name in Russian because they were originally made exclusively from a chop, which was specially shaped into a regular circle. Later, similar products began to be prepared from minced meat or. Nowadays, meatballs with gravy are only round in shape. This is the main criterion by which this dish differs from cutlets.
cooking secrets
The meatballs are fried, baked, stewed, but most often they are stewed in various sauces (tomato, sour cream and others). You can add a variety of toppings to this appetizing dish. To do this, use any products: cheese, eggs, mushrooms, onions, white cabbage, broccoli. It is better to cook meatballs in a saucepan, the bottom of which is pre-lubricated with sunflower oil. A frying pan is also suitable. Experienced chefs offer some tips for cooking:
- Before cooking, it is better to roll meatballs with gravy in flour or breadcrumbs - this way they will keep their shape better.
- It is preferable to fry meat products in butter rather than vegetable oil.
- To give the meatballs the correct round shape, you need to lightly beat them off with a knife.
- The most delicious are meatballs with sauce. Soaked in gravy from tomatoes or sour cream, they become very juicy.
Meatballs in Ingredients
For cooking we need:
- egg- 1 piece;
- white bread - 2 slices;
- minced beef and pork - 500 grams;
- carrots - 0.5 pieces;
- tomatoes - 1 piece;
- flour - 1 tablespoon;
- milk - 120 milliliters;
- sour cream - 1 tablespoon;
- tomato paste - 1 teaspoon;
- onion - 3 pieces.
Meatballs in tomato sauce. Cooking method
Simply preparing with a photo will help you quickly master the preparation of the dish.
- First of all, you should prepare minced meat for meatballs. To do this, it is necessary to drive white bread, onions (2 pieces) and minced meat through a meat grinder. In the meat mass, you also need to add black pepper, salt and an egg. All ingredients should be mixed thoroughly.
- Then you need to fry onion, carrot, tomato and tomato paste over moderate heat.
- After that, you need to form meatballs from minced meat. Then they should be lightly fried in sunflower oil.
- Now you need to transfer the vegetable fry into a deep saucepan or stewpan, add water, sour cream, flour there and mix everything thoroughly in order to eliminate the appearance of lumps. Next, let the gravy boil. After that, you need to place the fried meatballs in it and simmer them over moderate heat for about fifteen minutes.
Meatballs with gravy are ready! They go with any side dish.
Minced meat balls in sour cream sauce. Ingredients
There is an opinion that the most delicious meatballs are obtained with sour cream sauce. Like it or not, you can find out for yourself. For this you will need the following products:
- minced pork - 200 grams;
- minced beef - 200 grams;
- seasonings - to taste;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- chicken egg - 2 pieces;
- wheat flour - 8 tablespoons;
- fresh parsley - to taste;
- butter - for frying;
- water - 150 milliliters;
- sour cream - 200 milliliters.
Minced meat balls in sour cream sauce. Cooking method
- First of all, you need to clean, wash the onion and cut it into small pieces.
- Then, in a deep container, combine the egg, minced meat and half the onion. Then the meat mass must be seasoned with spices and salt.
- Now you need to heat the pan and grease it with a piece of butter.
- Next, put the formed meatballs on a hot frying pan and fry them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
- After that, you need to make sour cream sauce. First you need to wash and cut the greens. Then you should stir fat sour cream in water and add the rest of the onion and chopped parsley to it.
- Now the fried meatballs must be poured with sauce and simmered under a closed lid until fully cooked. The final cooking time is 8-10 minutes.
This is how meatballs are cooked in sour cream sauce. A recipe with a photo will help you master the cooking process faster.
Meatballs stuffed with mushrooms. Ingredients
As mentioned above, meatballs are made with the addition of a variety of fillings. Consider the recipe for preparing such a dish. For this we need:
- pork or beef - 300 grams;
- chicken egg - 1 piece;
- water - 1/4 cup;
- pepper and salt - to taste.
- dried mushrooms - 100 grams;
- onions - 1-2 pieces;
- butter - 1 tablespoon;
- vegetable oil (for frying).
Meatballs stuffed with mushrooms. Cooking method
- First you need to rinse the meat, cut it into pieces medium size and pass through a meat grinder.
- Then the resulting minced meat must be seasoned with spices and salt. After that, you need to drive an egg into it, mix the mass properly and divide it into palm-sized cakes.
- Then you should prepare the filling. To do this, boil pre-soaked mushrooms, drain the broth from them, chop and fry together with onions.
- Next, the filling must be salted, put on meat cakes and form meatballs out of them.
- Now you should fry the meat products in a hot frying pan with sunflower oil until a delicious crust.
- Then you need to bring the meatballs to readiness in the oven at medium temperature. This will take approximately fifteen minutes.
Bon Appetit!
Step 1: fry the onion.
Peel the onion, rinse with cold water, cut into small cubes and fry in a pan with vegetable oil until transparent and crispy brown.Step 2: prepare minced meat for cutlets.
Rinse beef and pork under cold running water and pat dry with disposable paper towels. Cut the prepared meat into small pieces and scroll in a meat grinder. After him, pass fried onions and white bread soaked in milk through a meat grinder. Mix everything together, and then pass through the meat grinder again.
Add chopped greens, chicken eggs, spices and grain mustard to the minced meat. Mix well and then refrigerate for 20-30 minutes.
Step 3: Prepare the tomato sauce.
In a blender, chop the peeled tomatoes along with the peeled garlic cloves and washed basil leaves. Then add vinegar, granulated sugar, salt and a little hot pepper to this mixture. Mix the sauce thoroughly and pour it into the pan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then simmer 1-2 minutes stirring all the time. Remove the finished tomato sauce from the heat, cover with a lid and leave aside for now.
Important: if the sauce is already very thick, dilute it with a little boiled water.
Step 4: form cutlets.
While the sauce is cooling, use wet hands to make small patties from the minced meat. Then roll each in breadcrumbs.
Step 5: Fry the meatballs.
Take a free frying pan and heat vegetable oil in it. Fry the meatballs over medium-high heat until golden brown on both sides. Fry in batches, so it will be convenient to turn them from side to side and they will definitely not fall apart.
Step 6: Cook the cutlets in tomato sauce.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Put the fried cutlets into a mold tightly to each other, you can even crush them a little so that everything fits. Top with tomato sauce so that it covers the cutlets. Send this beauty to bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes. During this time, the meat cutlets will fully reach readiness, and the tomato sauce will become even tastier and more aromatic.
Step 7: serve cutlets in tomato sauce.
Serve cutlets in tomato sauce as hot for lunch or dinner. As a side dish, everything is the same for them as for ordinary cutlets. Don't forget to generously baste each serving with the sauce that's left in the mold, and then start eating right away while these delicious patties have had time to cool.
Bon Appetit!
Instead of hot peppers, you can add a little Tabasco to the tomato sauce.
To make it easier to peel tomatoes, dip them briefly in boiling water, and then cool them quickly.
Instead of fresh tomatoes, you can use canned, also peeled.
Any meat goes well with vegetables, and tomatoes are no exception. Fats, which are inevitably found in meat, are more easily absorbed by the body thanks to the acids contained in tomatoes. In this sense, cutlets in tomato sauce are a well-chosen tandem. In addition, tomato sauce diversifies the dish and gives it a new shade of taste. Let's try and cook delicious meatballs with tomato sauce. So, the recipe.
For cooking you will need:
- 800 g minced meat (pork and beef mix)
- 1 small potato
- 7 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 bulb
- 3 art. l. oils
- 2 cups tomato juice
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 bell pepper
- 100 ml water
Cooking:
In minced meat, add finely chopped (or grated) onion, garlic, pepper and salt to taste. So that the cutlets do not fall apart, three potatoes on the smallest grater and add to the minced meat. Stir the minced meat, beat off a little, form cutlets and put them in a deep baking sheet. The bottom of the baking sheet must be greased with oil. Put in the oven (200 degrees) and bake for 15 minutes.
At this time, prepare the sauce: fry chopped bell pepper in hot oil, add garlic. Tomatoes need to be freed from the skin, finely chopped and also sent to fry. Then pour in tomato juice, water, add pepper, salt and simmer for a couple of minutes over low heat. If the sauce turns out to be liquid, it can be slightly evaporated.
After 15 minutes, pour the cutlets with tomato sauce and put them back in the oven for 20 minutes. at the same temperature. We decorate the finished dish with greens and serve to the table.
Juicy cutlets with the aroma and taste of garlic in sweet and sour tomato sauce. There is one peculiarity in the preparation of this dish. Chopped meat with onion and garlic you need to beat with a blender. The mixture will be homogeneous and smooth.
If these ingredients are ground in a meat grinder, then this effect will not work, the cutlets will remain tough and even the presence of rice will not help them. Therefore, if you do not have a blender, be sure to add a soaked white bun.
To prepare cutlets with rice and garlic in tomato sauce, we take the following ingredients: minced pork, onion, garlic, rice, tomato paste, salt, sugar, ground black pepper, egg, sunflower oil and flour.
Put the pork mince in a bowl. Chop the onion in any way.
Boil rice until tender. Add to bowl with pork and onions.
We beat with a blender. Then add chicken egg. Squeeze the garlic with a press and put in minced meat.
Season the mince with salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.
We heat the pan, pour in the sunflower oil and put the cutlets.
Thus, fry all the cutlets.
We're preparing the sauce. In a bowl, combine tomato paste with flour. Mix so that there are no lumps.
Pour water into a frying pan or saucepan and add tomato paste with flour. We put sugar and salt. We mix. We send cutlets to the sauce.
Stew cutlets under the lid for 40 minutes over low heat.
Cutlets with rice and garlic in tomato sauce are ready.
Serve cutlets with porridge, boiled potatoes, vegetables, pickles.
Tired of plain fried meatballs? Do you want to try something interesting and tasty? Cutlets in tomato sauce with mushrooms in a pan (a recipe with a step-by-step photo of which is presented below) is a great option to diversify your usual meal.
Usually, I cook such a dish with fresh tomatoes, but since it's not the season, I use tomato paste. Also, I prefer to make minced meat for cutlets from two types of meat: pork and beef, so they turn out to be moderately fatty. I add more different vegetables and mushrooms, for a pleasant taste.
Cutlets in tomato sauce with mushrooms is a very hearty meat dish with a spicy touch, which is perfect for dinner or for a festive table!
Ingredients:
- pork b / c - 250 g
- b / c beef - 150 g
- onion - 2 pcs.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- champignons - 100 g
- white bread - 3 pcs.
- milk - 50 g
- egg - 1 pc.
- breadcrumbs - 100 g
- tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
- fresh parsley - 30 g
- garlic - 1 tooth.
- salt - ½ tsp
- pepper - to taste
- vegetable oil - for frying
Cooking method:
Make minced meat for cutlets. Cut pork and beef meat into pieces. One large head onion peel and cut into quarters. Twist everything into a meat grinder.
Add spices to the prepared minced meat. Mix.
Soak 3 slices of bread in a bowl of milk and water. Leave for 5 minutes to soften.
Squeeze the bread from the liquid in which it was and add it to the minced meat along with the egg. It's good to mix everything.
Wind the meat cutlets and roll each on all sides, in a plate with breadcrumbs. Lay out on the board.
Then, add peeled and sliced \u200b\u200bmushrooms to them. Stir, season with spices and simmer for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a glass with 150 grams of boiled water, dilute the tomato paste. Put greens and crushed through a press, a clove of garlic.
Now add diluted pasta to vegetables with mushrooms. Stir and continue to cook over low heat for 5-7 minutes until the sauce thickens.
In a hot frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the cutlets on both sides for several minutes, until golden brown.
