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 differing in 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, such as 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 same taste and cook meatballs like 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

Meatballs with rice are not the only thing that is great with tomato sauce. 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 moisten 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 pan 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!

Step 1: prepare the rice.

First, cover the countertop with a kitchen towel, put rice on it and sort it out, removing any kind of debris. Then pour the grains into a colander, rinse them thoroughly under streams of cold running water and place them in a small non-stick, definitely not enameled, saucepan.

Step 2: cook the rice.

Pour the cereal with the required amount of purified water and put it on medium heat, and after boiling, reduce its level to a minimum. Season the bubbling liquid with salt to taste and mix everything with a wooden tablespoon until smooth.

Cook the rice, covered, until fully cooked, if it is long grain – 20 minutes, A other varieties from 15 to 20 minutes.

Step 3: prepare the bread.

Without wasting a minute, we break two slices of white bread into small pieces, place them in a clean bowl, fill them with whole pasteurized milk and leave them in this form until used until they soften.

Step 4: prepare the onions.

After this, using a new sharp kitchen knife, peel the onions, wash them, dry them with paper towels, place them on a cutting board and chop them into small cubes ranging from 5 to 7 millimeters in size.

Step 5: fry the onions.

Then put a deep frying pan on medium heat and pour a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil into it. After a few minutes, dip the chopped onion into the heated fat and fry it until soft for 2–3 minutes, stirring constantly with a wooden kitchen spatula. There is no need to let the vegetable change color; as soon as it becomes tender and transparent, transfer it to a small bowl and cool to room temperature near a slightly open window.

Step 6: Prepare the boiled rice.

When the rice is ready, its grains will become soft, but will retain their integrity, put them in a colander and leave them in the sink for 2–3 minutes to drain excess liquid.

Step 7: prepare minced meat for meatballs.

Next, transfer the boiled cereal into a deep bowl. There we also add fresh minced pork, as well as beef, fried onions, a raw chicken egg without shell and white bread previously squeezed from excess milk. Season everything to taste with salt, ground black pepper and a mixture of spices for meat. Mix these ingredients with clean hands until smooth and proceed to the next step.

Step 8: form the meatballs.

Pour approximately 100 grams of sifted wheat flour into a small dry bowl. Then we wet our hands in running water and place a tablespoon of minced meat in our palms. We form it into a ball the size of a walnut, roll it in flour and place it on a cutting board or a flat, clean plate. Make other meatballs in the same way until the rice-meat mixture is gone.

Step 9: fry the meatballs.

Now put the same frying pan on medium heat and pour 60 milliliters of vegetable oil into it, this is about 3-3.5 tablespoons, although more is possible, it all depends on how fatty your dishes are. As soon as it warms up, put the first batch of meatballs in there and fry them on all sides until lightly golden brown, periodically turning them from side to side using a fork. Then, using a wooden kitchen spatula, transfer the browned meat balls into a clean bowl, add the next portion to the frying pan and cook them the same way until they are all gone.

Step 10: prepare sour cream sauce.

After the meatballs are fried, rinse the pan, dry it with paper towels and return to medium heat. Put a piece of butter there.

When it has melted and warmed up well, add a tablespoon of sifted wheat flour into it.

Sauté it until it turns a light yellowish-beige shade, constantly loosening it with a whisk. Then pour a glass of purified water into the frying pan, add sour cream, salt to taste, ground black pepper and cook the sauce over low heat until thickened, without letting it boil.

Step 11: bring the dish to full readiness.

When the sour cream and butter mixture begins to resemble a semi-thick dough, like for pancakes, transfer the fried meatballs into it. Gently mix them with the sauce, cover with a lid and simmer for 15–20 minutes. Next, turn off the stove and let the aromatic dish brew for some time. 10 minutes, and after that we’ll go tasting!

Step 12: Serve the meatballs in sour cream sauce.

After cooking, the meatballs in sour cream sauce are left to infuse a little. Then they are laid out in portions on plates and served hot as a second main course for lunch or dinner.

As a complement to these delicious rice and meat balls, you can offer some light side dishes, for example, boiled rice, mashed potatoes, jacket potatoes, porridge from your favorite cereals, pasta, fresh vegetable salads, pickles or marinades, although a piece of fresh bread, also a great option. Enjoy!
Bon appetit!

Very often, onions are fried together with carrots and after that the vegetable mixture is sent into minced rice and meat; you can also add a couple of garlic cloves squeezed through a press, finely chopped dill, parsley, basil or cilantro;

Sometimes a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste are added to the sour cream and butter sauce. In this case, the dish acquires some pleasant sourness;

Want to make meatballs that are less fatty? Dip the meat balls in flour, bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 50 minutes and then simmer in the prepared sauce, in this case the vegetable oil consumption is minimal;

An alternative to sour cream is cream, spicy black pepper is allspice, and butter intended for sauce is vegetable oil.

The sauce for the meatballs must be prepared. After all, such a dressing is an integral part of a meat ball dish. It can be prepared in different ways. Some people make the meatball sauce with tomato, some use sour cream, and some even put Greek yogurt in this dish. Today we will look at all the mentioned cooking methods.

Making delicious tomato sauce for meatballs

This dressing is the most popular among those who regularly pamper their family with delicious meat balls and some kind of side dish. To prepare it we may need:

• ketchup not too spicy - 1 glass;
• Tabasco sauce - about 1/2 dessert spoon;
• coarse brown sugar - a large full spoon;
• red wine vinegar - a large spoon;
• soy sauce - a large full spoon.

Process of making tomato sauce

Of course, to make homemade tomato sauce for meatballs, you should prepare aromatic minced meat in advance and roll it into neat meat balls. Next, they need to be placed in a saucepan with boiling water and boiled for about ¼ hour. While the meatballs are being thermally processed, you can begin to prepare the sauce directly. To do this, in a small bowl you need to combine mild ketchup with Tabasco, red wine vinegar, coarse brown sugar and soy sauce, and then mix well.

After the sauce for the meatballs is ready, you need to add it to the meat balls. However, this should be done 7 minutes before they are completely ready. Next, the aromatic broth with hearty products can be safely distributed onto plates along with a side dish and served immediately.

By the way, if you couldn’t buy Tabasco sauce, you can replace it with hot chili ketchup.

Making a delicious sauce for meatballs with sour cream

If you don’t like tomato dressing, you can prepare it using a dairy product such as sour cream. To make a creamy sauce for meatballs, we will need:

• beef broth is not very fatty - a full glass;
• heavy cream - ½ cup;
• high-grade light flour - 1 large spoon (partial);
• natural butter - dessert spoon;
• sour cream 20% fat - 185 g;
• soy sauce - dessert spoon;
• chopped black pepper - dessert spoon;
• rosemary - 1/2 small spoon.

Method for making sour cream sauce

Sour cream sauce for meatballs is prepared as easily and simply as tomato dressing. First you need to fry high-grade flour in butter, obtaining a mass of golden color. Next, you need to pour in the beef broth and cook for about 3 more minutes. After this, you need to add soy sauce, crushed black pepper, dried rosemary, as well as thick cream and 20% sour cream to the products. Mix the ingredients with a large spoon and cook until thickened, about 11 minutes. After this, you can safely pour the finished sauce over the meatballs and side dish, laid out in a deep plate.

By the way, this dressing is suitable not only for meat balls, but also, for example, for cutlets or simply fried, baked or boiled meat. With sour cream sauce, your dish will become even more tasty, aromatic and satisfying.

We prepare a delicious dressing for the whole family

We talked above about how to make sauce for meatballs with sour cream. However, there are many more recipes for preparing such a dressing. One of them involves the use not of tomato paste, ketchup, cream or sour cream, but of Greek yogurt, which can make the sauce so tasty and aromatic that any of your invited guests or household members will be indescribably delighted with it.

So, a simple recipe for meatball sauce requires the following ingredients:

Detailed preparation process

If you don't know which Greek yogurt sauce is suitable for this dish, then we can recommend a product called Tzatziki. It perfectly balances the spicy taste of the meat balls, making them more flavorful.

Before you start preparing such an unusual sauce for meatballs, you should thoroughly process one single vegetable, which is part of the presented dressing.

Thus, you need to wash a fresh and juicy cucumber in warm water and then cut off the ends and skin if necessary. Next, you need to grate the peeled vegetable on a large grater and leave it in the bowl (to the side) for ¼ hour. After the specified time has passed, the cucumber should be thoroughly squeezed out of excess moisture. This is done so that the dressing does not turn out to be too liquid.

After processing the vegetable, you should add Greek yogurt, freshly squeezed lemon juice, as well as pepper, salt and chopped dill.

It is highly not recommended to heat-treat such a dressing. Otherwise, you may not end up with a sauce, but an incomprehensible mass with questionable taste.

It is advisable to serve this dressing cold with hot meatballs. Thus, the sauce will have a brighter and richer taste, which will not leave any of your household members indifferent.

Let's sum it up

Now you know how to make sauce for meatballs. For children and adults, you can use other options for preparing this dressing. Which one to choose is your personal choice. The main thing is to strictly follow all prescription requirements.

Homemade sauce has always compared favorably with store-bought sauces both in taste and composition. As they say, “you know for sure what it consists of,” because prepared at home it will definitely be “without preservatives.” The sauce for meatballs can be for any taste: delicate creamy, spicy vegetable or sweet tomato. What sauce to serve with meatballs today is up to each housewife to choose for herself.

Classic tomato sauce for meatballs

Today, on numerous culinary forums you can find a whole range of different variations of tomato sauce, but the classics will never be forgotten. The classic tomato sauce is prepared very quickly, even a beginner can handle the recipe.

Products for cooking:

• 0.5 kg red tomatoes
• 1 onion
• frying oil
• 1 tsp sugar
• ½ tsp fine grain salt.

Making homemade tomato sauce:

1. To begin with, it is important to properly prepare the tomatoes. To avoid dense pieces of skin in the gravy, it must be removed. It is easiest to remove after pouring boiling water over the vegetables.
2. Next, the peeled tomatoes are cut into small pieces. Next, the onion is peeled and finely chopped.
3. Place the onion in the heated oil in a saucepan and fry for five minutes. Then add the tomatoes and simmer for another quarter of an hour, stirring and mashing the vegetables with a wooden spatula. During this time, the tomatoes will become very soft, and some of the excess moisture will evaporate. Turn off the sauce and leave to cool.
4. Add sugar and salt to the dish. Grind the entire mixture thoroughly with a blender, then pour into a storage container.

This sauce is suitable not only for meatballs, but also for many other products: pork and chicken dishes, potatoes, pasta, and much more.

On a note. The dish tastes best from seasonal tomatoes. Therefore, many experienced housewives prepare classic sauce in advance in order to please their family with a natural, tasty sauce during the cold winter season.

Delicious sour cream sauce

Sour cream sauce is always associated with stewed mushrooms and chicken. Therefore, this option will go perfectly with meatballs made from minced chicken and turkey. We suggest preparing a classic sour cream sauce for meatballs.

Products:

• 1 cup sour cream
• 1-2 tsp lemon juice (adjust to taste)
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp sugar
• ¼ tsp black pepper.

Preparing sour cream gravy is extremely simple and takes no more than 5 minutes: combine all the ingredients and beat in a convenient way. It is recommended to select the fat content of sour cream based on your own preferences: if you like a thick sauce, then sour cream with a fat content of 20% is suitable, if it is thinner - 10-15%.

Cooking with creamy gravy

The classic creamy sauce is light, delicate and very tasty. Suitable for almost any dish, including meatballs.

Products for cooking:

• 200 ml cream 20%
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp flour
• ½ tsp each pepper and salt.

Preparing the creamy gravy for the meatballs:

1. Place a dry frying pan over medium heat. Sift the flour through a sieve and fry until golden brown, stirring occasionally to ensure a uniform color. Then add the butter, and when it melts, mix well and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
2. Pour the cream into the mixture and simmer for 3-5 minutes, stirring so that lumps do not form.
3. Add salt and sugar to the dish, mix well and leave to cool.

The gravy can be served separately in gravy boats or poured over the meatballs before serving. Meatballs combined with creamy sauce acquire a soft, velvety taste.

On a note. The classic cream sauce can be used as a base for any other dish. For example, if you add crushed garlic, you will have garlic sauce, and if you add finely grated parmesan, you will have cheese sauce.

Original bechamel for meatballs

Béchamel, or white sauce, takes longer to prepare than other varieties of the dish. But still, it tastes quite interesting and goes perfectly with meatballs.

Products:

• 2 tbsp flour
• 0.6 l milk
• 1 tbsp any oil
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp chopped pepper
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• 0.3 l cream from 25%.

Preparing the white sauce:

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the sifted flour and cook for 2-3 minutes.
2. Pour in the milk and cook, stirring, until it boils. Add salt and cook over low heat for 45 minutes, stirring with a spatula.
3. Pass the resulting mixture through a sieve into an enamel pan and put it back on the fire.
4. Whisk the sauce a little, adding cream little by little. When the sauce begins to thicken, add all the spices, wait a couple of minutes and turn off the heat.

To give it a delicate yellow tint, you can add ⅓ coffee spoon of turmeric at the end of cooking.

Sauce like in kindergarten

This version of tomato-meat sauce is quite often prepared in kindergartens as a gravy for pasta and rice. The preparation is really very fast, and the result is a tasty and satisfying sauce.

Ingredients:

• 500 g lean pork or beef mince
• 500 grams of onion
• 1 liter of tomato juice (it is recommended to use homemade, the taste will be richer)
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp spices “for meat”.

Preparation step by step:

1. Peel the onion and grate it on a fine grater or vegetable slicer, fry in oil until golden, stirring from time to time.
2. Add the minced meat to the onion and continue cooking for another quarter of an hour, stirring continuously until the pink tint disappears from the product.
3. Pour in juice and add spices. Simmer over low heat for about half an hour, covering with a lid and stirring occasionally.

It makes an excellent gravy, but some people prefer to use it as tomato soup.

On a note. If desired, tomato soup can be supplemented with grated carrots and bell peppers, lightly fried beforehand.

BBQ: hot sauce

Thrill-seekers will definitely appreciate the “fiery” sauce for meatballs. It will take no more than 10 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients of the dish:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp ground hot pepper
• 300 grams of tomato paste or 400 grams of tomato (or vegetable) juice
• If desired, you can add 1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar 6%.

Preparing the spicy gravy:

1. Heat oil in a saucepan and add finely chopped garlic. If you don’t like pieces of vegetables in the sauce, you can chop the garlic through a press. Sauté for 1-2 minutes.
2. As soon as a bright garlic smell appears, add pepper spice, stir and heat for another minute or two.
3. Add pasta or juice, add vinegar, mix thoroughly and heat for at least 10 minutes. Determine the readiness of a dish by its thickness - if you like it thick, heat until the required amount of liquid has evaporated.

Ingredients for sour cream and mushroom sauce:

• 200 g champignons
• 1 onion
• 150 g sour cream
• 50 g mixture of parsley and dill
• ½ tsp fine salt
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil.

Preparation:

1. Wash the mushrooms and onions well. Peel the onion, finely chop and fry in oil over low heat, stirring occasionally.
2. While the onion is frying, chop the mushrooms as finely as possible and add them to the onion. Simmer for 7-10 minutes.
3. Add sour cream and salt to the pan and continue cooking for another 5-7 minutes. Leave to cool slightly.
4. Finely chop the greens and add to the dish. For a completely homogeneous state, grind in a blender for 1-1.5 minutes.

You can serve in a sauce boat, garnished with chopped herbs. It is recommended not to store in the refrigerator for more than one week.

Meatballs- a widespread dish in many countries, which is nothing more than meat balls with the addition of cereals, eggs, spices or vegetables. The word meatballs "Kifteluce" comes from the Turkic word kyufta, which means meatballs in sauce. They are prepared not only from meat, but from fish, and sometimes seafood. I recently found a recipe for making them from squid, which I was very surprised by.

Meatballs are considered a close relative of meatballs and. Meatballs, like meatballs, are most often cooked in one sauce or gravy. Popular recipes for meatballs in tomato, sour cream, vegetable, cream, tomato and sour cream sauce.

Since meatballs contain significantly less meat compared to cutlets, they are often included in diet food, taking into account that the sauce for them will not be spicy, without a high content of salt and spices. The most common version of the dish is meatballs with the addition of rice.

Ingredients for meatballs:

• Rice - half a glass,
• Minced meat – 400 gr.,
• Onion – 1 pc.,
• Eggs - 1 pc.,
• Salt and spices - to taste

Ingredients for sour cream sauce:

• Eggs – 1 pc.,
• Hard cheese – 50 gr.,
• Sour cream – 1 glass,
• Spices and salt to taste

Meatballs with rice in sour cream sauce - recipe

To prepare meatballs in sour cream sauce, you must first boil the rice. To do this, wash the rice, preferably in 2-3 waters. Place it in a pan of boiling water. Add salt and stir. Boil for 15 minutes. Place the rice in a colander. Rinse under running water. Peel the onion and grate it on a fine grater or puree it using a blender. Place the minced meat in a bowl.

Add rice to the minced meat.

Beat in the egg.

Add spices and a little salt to taste.

Mix the minced meat.

Add onion puree and knead again with your hands. With wet hands, roll the minced meat into balls 4-5 cm in diameter. Place the meatballs and rice in a mold with high sides.

Heat the oven to 180C. While it is heating up, prepare the sour cream sauce. Beat the egg.

Add sour cream to them.

After this, add grated hard cheese.

To make it aromatic, you can add spices to it if desired. Salt it.

Stir. Pour the creamy sauce over the meatballs.

Place the form with the meatballs in the oven. Meatballs with rice in sour cream sauce in the oven must cook for at least 20 minutes.

Serve buckwheat and mashed potatoes as a side dish for meatballs. Enjoy your meal.