The taste of meatballs is familiar to each of us: juicy and aromatic, accompanied by fluffy mashed potatoes, they created the perfect tandem for a hearty lunch or dinner after a hard day at work.

The gastronomic qualities of a dish directly depend on its base - chicken, pork, beef or fish as minced meat are reflected in the taste characteristics of the meatballs. However, each option should be given attention.

Meatballs in sour cream sauce

Ingredients	Quantity
Ground meat -	1000 g
Chicken eggs -	2 pcs.
Onion -	2 pcs.
Rice groats -	100 g
Salt -	20 g
Pepper, spices -	taste
Carrots -	2 pcs.
Sour cream -	170 g
Cooking time: 90 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 224 Kcal

The traditional guide to cooking meatballs in a frying pan will allow you, using a minimum of kitchen equipment, to prepare a dish worthy of the best restaurants of national cuisine.

Step #1. Add spices to the meat that has been minced in advance.

Step #2. Rinse round rice, pre-boiled until semi-cooked, under water, lightly dry and add to the meat-egg mixture.

Step #3. Finely chop the onion, then place it in a frying pan with boiling vegetable oil. Allow up to 10 minutes to fry. Thoroughly stir the golden onion mass into the minced meat.

Step #4. Make balls from the resulting mass, place some of them on the board and put them in the freezer.

Step #5. Start preparing the second part of the dish. To do this, peel the vegetables. Grate the carrots into strips and chop the onion. Simmer the ingredients in a frying pan with vegetable oil for 15 minutes.

Step #6. Add meatballs and a little water to the steamed vegetables. Cover the dish with a lid for 20 minutes, thereby creating conditions for stewing.

Step #7. While the meat and vegetable part of the dish is getting ready, make the sour cream sauce: mix sour cream with a few tablespoons of water, salt and seasonings.

Step #8. Mix sour cream sauce and meatballs.

The dish will need 5-10 minutes to brew: this will give you just time to set the table and gather everyone at home if they haven’t already come running to the smell.

Meatballs in sour cream sauce, baked in the oven

Meat balls in sour cream sauce cooked in the oven do not differ in taste from the same dish prepared in a frying pan: tender, juicy and tasty. Happy cooking!

Products for meatballs in the oven:

• Meat (pork and beef mix) - 1000 g;
• Onion - 1 pc.;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Rice (peeled) - ¾ cup;
• Large egg - 1 pc.;
• Salt, pepper - to taste.

Don't forget about the ingredients for gravy:

• 0.5 liters of sour cream;
• 1 tbsp. spoon of flour;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• Sunflower oil.

The total time spent cooking the meatballs is about 1 hour. The calorie content of the dish is 218 kcal.

Step-by-step instructions for the recipe for cooking meatballs in the oven in sour cream sauce:

1. Rinse and boil the rice until half cooked. Drain the “broth” from it. Pass semi-cooked rice through running water;
2. Add the meat base, garlic cloves and onion into the meat grinder;
3. Add egg and rice to the meat mixture, add salt and season;
4. Beat the ground meat - this trick will give the minced meat elasticity and uniformity;
5. Form meatball balls with a radius of 10-15 mm;
6. Place meat balls on a pre-oiled baking sheet;
7. Peel, finely chop, and then fry the vegetables for no longer than 5 minutes;
8. After adding flour, fry for a few minutes;
9. Stir sour cream into the fried vegetable mixture, which is then brought to a boil;
10. Pour the resulting sauce into the pan with the meatballs;
11. Allow 40-45 minutes for baking in the oven.

Meatballs in tomato-sour cream sauce

A delicious recipe for meat balls in a variation of tomato paste and sour cream sauce is ideal for the summer. You can invite all your friends for a delicious outdoor dinner: they will, without a doubt, be delighted with the gastronomic component of the meeting.

Before cooking, stock up on the following products:

• Minced pork - ½ kg;
• Bread - 100 g;
• Rice - 50 g;
• Onions - 2 pcs.;
• Salt - 1.5 teaspoon;
• Flour - 4/5 cup;
• Tomato paste - 60 g;
• Butter (not spread) - 50 g;
• Sour cream - ¼ kg;
• Milk - 150 ml;
• Red and black pepper - to your taste.

It will take about 1 hour to prepare the meat dish. The calorie content of meatballs in sour cream sauce with tomatoes is about 190 kcal/100 g of product.

First soak the bread with milk. Give the onion a cube shape and fry in a hot frying pan coated with vegetable oil.

Boil the cereal in a rice to water ratio of 1:6 until half cooked. This takes on average 10-20 minutes. Drain off excess water.

Turn the sliced ​​meat into minced meat, dilute it with a milk-bread mixture, boiled rice, salt and pepper. Stir and beat well.

From the resulting meat mass, roll into balls with a radius of 2-3 cm. Before frying in boiling vegetable oil, they should be rolled in flour - this will give the meatballs a golden crust.

Place the meatballs at the bottom of a deep container, flavor them with tomato-sour cream sauce, prepared by frying melted butter mixed with flour and tomato paste for several minutes, to which add sour cream and a little water, salt and spices and bring to a boil.

Bake the meatballs covered in sauce at 200 degrees for about half an hour.

Recipe for making fish meatballs in sour cream sauce in a slow cooker

Planning to have a fish day at home? Then quickly write down the recipe!

In the required grocery list:

• ½ kg fish fillet;
• 100 ml milk;
• 100 g of bread product;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• Salt, lemon juice - to your taste.

Regarding the amount of products for gravy:

• 30 g butter (not spread) butter;
• 60 g flour;
• 100 ml broth/water (purified);
• 50 g sour cream;
• 1 PC. chicken egg yolk;
• Salt, dill, lemon juice - to your taste.

The number of hours that will be spent on preparing fish meatballs is 1 hour. The calorie content of 100 g of culinary masterpiece is 159 kcal.

1. Place peeled bread into milk;
2. Peel and chop the onion;
3. Wash the fish fillet, dry it and divide it into large pieces;
4. Squeeze the juice from the lemon and drain the excess milk from the bread;
5. To the fish minced through a meat grinder, add all the ingredients from the “meatball” part, that is, eggs, bread, salt, spices;
6. Divide the minced meat into many parts, giving each of them the desired shape;
7. Turning on the “Frying” mode in the bowl of the multicooker, greased with any (preferably vegetable) oil, brown the flour, pour in the liquid, sour cream, egg yolk, lemon juice, salt and chopped dill;
8. Add the formed meat balls to the sour cream sauce. Switch the multi-cooker to extinguishing mode;
9. Wait the next 30-40 minutes for the dish to cook;
10. With the multicooker beeping, you can safely start eating. Bon appetit!

Chicken meatballs in sour cream

“Easy, fast and anti-crisis” - and what more praise is needed for a recipe for a dish of chicken meatballs and sour cream-based gravy.

The dish is prepared from:

• Minced chicken - 1 kg;
• Onions - 2 pcs.;
• Garlic - 3 cloves;
• Rice - 0.2 g;
• Eggs - 1 pc.;
• Sour cream - 0.2 l;
• Water - 0.2 l;
• Flour - 1 tbsp. spoons;
• Carrots - 1 pc.;
• Rast. oils - 4 tbsp. spoon;
• Salt and pepper - to taste.

On average, cooking meatballs from minced chicken takes no more than 1 hour. The calorie content of the finished dish is 182 kcal/100 g.

The first step is to rinse the rice grains. Pour water in a rice to water ratio of 1:2 and simmer over low heat for about 7-12 minutes. Chop the peeled onion and garlic.

Add egg, vegetables and spices, and salt to the minced chicken. Mix the minced meat thoroughly and form into balls of the desired size. Place the meatballs in the Cossack.

Process and cut the carrots and onions into strips and cubes, respectively. Fry vegetables over medium heat for several minutes. Add flour to the carrot-onion tandem. Place sour cream and boiling water mixed in a separate container into a frying pan. Season and add salt.

Pour the sauce brought to a boil over the meat balls and rice. Cover the semi-finished product with a lid and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat.

Wet your hands while forming balls: this will help prevent the mince from sticking.

Make sure that the meatballs are “bathed” in the sauce while cooking, as this will enhance their flavor. If there is not enough sauce, use boiled water or broth.

Bon appetit!

Hello! Today our topic will be a meat dish, or rather, we will learn how to cook meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce. An excellent side dish for a second course. I can think of several reasons why you should cook them. The first is ease of preparation. This dish can be easily prepared both in the oven and in a frying pan. The second reason is that they are combined with pasta, various cereals, vegetables, etc. We will also prepare meatballs with gravy.

In the article you will learn:

Meatballs in the oven: step by step recipe with gravy and rice

The time has come to look at the recipe. A very tasty side dish. Let's start with the most common option. Meatballs are a dish that can be prepared quickly. Especially if you come home from work tired. Plus to all this there is little time. But I want to eat, and in addition, something tasty. Speed ​​does not diminish the taste.

Products:

• Any minced meat (can be 50/50 beef and pork) - 1 kilogram
• Rice - half a glass of pre-cooked rice
• Onion and carrot - 2 each
• Garlic cloves - 3-4 pieces
• Sugar and tomato paste - 1 tablespoon each
• Butter - 70 grams
• Salt, black pepper, suneli hops to taste
• Boiling water - 1 glass

Preparation:

1. Let's start by chopping the onion. We clean it and chop it finely.

2. Finely chop the garlic. And grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

Add a little oil

Throw in onions and garlic. Lightly fry them.

4. Then add the carrots to the frying pan. If you think there are a lot of carrots, don't be alarmed. Some of the carrots will go into the gravy, and some into the meatballs themselves. We salt the onions, carrots and garlic so that they are not bland. And mix. Simmer over low heat.

And when the carrots become soft, place 1/3 of the vegetables on a separate plate. Spread in a thin layer so that it can cool quickly.

5. Set the plate aside. Add a tablespoon of tomato paste and a glass of boiling water to the vegetables in the frying pan. Mix thoroughly. In other words, we are now preparing tomato sauce in which our meatballs will be stewed.

You can add more tomato and boiling water to taste. This is at your request!

Don't forget to add black pepper and sugar. Wait for the sauce to boil and leave on low heat for 5 minutes. At this time we will deal with the minced meat itself..

6. Mix the minced meat and pre-cooked rice. Add the cooled vegetables that we put on the plate. And throw in slightly melted butter. Salt and pepper. Add khmeli-suneli seasoning. Mix the minced meat.

The main thing here is to maintain proportions. If you add a lot of rice, you will end up with a non-meat dish. If you add too little of it, nothing good will come of it either.

Then beat the minced meat thoroughly in a bowl. Simply lift it over the bowl and with a little effort throw it back into the bowl. Repeat this several times. Due to such actions, we will not add an egg.

Heat the oven to 180 degrees. And we send it for 40 minutes

7. Now take the finished dish out of the oven. The meatballs turned out very flavorful and beautiful to look at. And the taste is simply amazing. Eat with pleasure.

Delicious meatballs with rice in sour cream sauce: a simple recipe for cooking in a frying pan

Let's now try to cook meatballs in sour cream sauce. This makes them very tender and tasty. Meatballs in this sauce acquire a unique piquant taste. We will prepare a small portion as an example, but you can double it if you have a large family. I think that family and friends will be delighted with this dish. This is an easy way to surprise them.

We will need:

• Minced meat and boiled rice - 300 grams each
• Onion and egg - 1 each
• Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
• Bay leaf - 1 piece
• Sour cream - 1 glass
• Ketchup - 1 tablespoon
• Vegetable oil
• Khmeli-suneli seasoning

Cooking:

1. Break one egg into a plate. We will use it to bind the ingredients together. Chop the onion. Cut it lightly with a knife. Place it on the same plate with the egg.

2. Pour in the khmeli-suneli seasoning. Spread the minced meat and salt. And add more rice.

Let's prepare a container in advance where we will put the rolled meatballs. Now knead the minced meat with rice. Mix thoroughly.

3. And so, we kneaded the minced meat.

It is advisable to taste it for salt. So that it is salty enough.

Now we wet our hands with warm water so that the minced meat does not stick to our hands. Take a small amount of minced meat and roll into a medium-sized ball. Place in a separate container.

4. Take a frying pan. Pour in a small amount of vegetable oil, turn on the heat and lay out our meatballs. Fry until crusty on both sides. After this, put it on a plate to prepare the sauce.

5. If you want to prepare a thick sauce, then you need to add 1 teaspoon of flour. Pour into the frying pan where the meatballs were. Next, spread the sour cream. Add a tablespoon of ketchup, hop-suneli seasoning and bay leaf. Add about 1 teaspoon of salt.

You can replace ketchup with tomato paste. It’s just that ketchup already contains all sorts of spices.

Place the frying pan on the fire and bring to a boil. Then we pour water. Pour enough to cover all the meatballs, but not more than 300 milliliters

6. As soon as the sour cream sauce boils, add our meat balls. And you will need to boil them on both sides. We kept them on one side for 5 minutes, then we turned them over right in the sauce and kept them the same way for 5 minutes. Ready. Bon appetit.

A simple and delicious recipe for meatballs in a frying pan in tomato sauce

Catch another recipe just for you. Based on the previous descriptions, we were convinced that meatballs are indeed easy to prepare. And what could be better than a hearty side dish? And the smell is so fragrant, it makes my mouth water. Moreover, detailed instructions are included. Let's get started.

Ingredients:

• Rice boiled until half cooked - 250 grams
• Minced meat - 500 grams (pork, beef, chicken)
• Egg - 1 piece
• Onions - 1 piece
• Ground red pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
• Ground paprika - 1 teaspoon
• Seasoning for meat - 1 tablespoon
• Vegetable oil for frying

For tomato sauce we need:

• Regular cold water - 500 milliliters
• Tomato paste - 150 grams
• Sugar - 1 tablespoon
• Flour - 1 teaspoon
• Bay leaf - 3 pieces
• Onions and carrots - 1 piece each
• Salt, ground black pepper - to taste

Preparation:

1. Take one onion and finely chop it. We send it to a frying pan to fry in vegetable oil until light golden brown. While the onions are fried, put the minced meat in a deep bowl and add to it the already cooled rice, cooked until half cooked.

We cook rice in a simple way, i.e. Just boil it in salted water.

Then throw the egg into the bowl. We also add salt, ground black pepper and seasonings to taste. Mix everything well.

2. Add fried onions to the total mass. And mix well again. Next we form meat balls. We put it in a frying pan in which we will simmer.

3. Next, chop the onion, cutting it into 4 parts. Place it in a second frying pan and fry until translucent. While it is fried, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Add carrots to onions. Fry everything until the carrots become soft.

4. Let's start with the tomato sauce. To do this, put tomato paste, sugar, flour, salt and ground black pepper to taste in a separate bowl. Pour out the water. And mix everything thoroughly.

5. Add fried onions and carrots to tomato sauce. Mix everything again. And pour it into our meat balls. Then add bay leaves.

6. Close the lid. We send them to simmer over medium heat. After boiling, simmer for 30 minutes.

Now the delicious meatballs are ready.

We try to cook meatballs in sour cream sauce, baked in the oven: an easy and tasty recipe

Ingredients:

• Minced meat (pork + beef) - 700 grams
• Onions - 2 pieces
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Egg - 1 piece
• Carrots - 1 piece
• Pepper - 1 piece
• Sour cream - 5 tablespoons
• Flour - 1 tablespoon
• Cheese - 100 grams
• Salt, pepper, spices - to taste.

Step-by-step recipe for meatballs in a slow cooker: photos attached

This recipe can be adapted for any brand of slow cooker. Also for stove and oven. Therefore, you will not be able to prepare such a tasty dish.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat - 500 grams
• Onion and egg - 1 each
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Short grain rice - 80 grams
• Dried dill and dried parsley - 1/2 teaspoon each
• Red pepper - 1/3 teaspoon
• Salt - 1 teaspoon

For the gravy:

• Tomato paste and sour cream - 2 tablespoons each
• Black peppercorns
• Thyme - 1/1 teaspoon
• Sweet paprika - 1.5 teaspoon
• Salt - 1 heaped teaspoon

Let's start cooking:

1. Finely chop the onion. We will add it to the meatballs raw. Place the minced meat in a deep bowl. Add chopped onion, dill and parsley, red pepper, and egg to it. Using a press, chop the garlic. It's also for minced meat. Add salt and mix everything well.

2. Add rice to the meat mixture and stir again with your hands.

The rice should be evenly distributed over the minced meat.

Now we take the minced meat in our hands and toss it. Drop quickly into a bowl. Repeat this several times.

3. Prepare the gravy. Add tomato paste to the sour cream. All this needs to be stirred. Add paprika and thyme. Stir. Add a heaping teaspoon of salt. And again stir well.

4. With wet hands, form small balls from the meat mixture. And put it in the multicooker bowl. Try to keep them the same size. Place the meatballs tightly next to each other in one layer. Then put the sauce on top. And fill everything with water so that it completely covers the meat balls. Add a few black peppercorns.

5. Close the multicooker with a lid. Select the simmer mode for 50 minutes. After the time has passed, we take out our meatballs. You can serve them beautifully with any cereal. In our case, this is buckwheat. It will also go great with pasta and potatoes.

So the article on the topic of meatballs has come to its end. From what was described above, we learned how to cook meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce. And now we know how they turn out in the oven and in a frying pan. They even sorted out the option with a multicooker. You have seen for yourself that they are very easy and simple to prepare. And most importantly, they turn out very tasty and aromatic.

This dish is universal. It goes well with any second dish. Whether it's boiled cereal or pasta. Potatoes in any form go well with meatballs. So cook with pleasure. Surprise your loved ones and family.

If you liked the recipes, rate and like. Leave your comments. Your opinion is very important to me. Good luck and happiness to you!

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.

How to cook meatballs

The most difficult thing with meatballs is to ensure that they are juicy, but at the same time dense, not too dry, but also not falling apart. In this regard, IKEA meatballs are ideal. Many consider them the standard. Fragrant meat balls coated in thick creamy sauce. At the same time, the composition of the product is very simple: beef, pork, breadcrumbs, onions, lard, spices, sugar, and egg melange (in other words, powdered eggs). There is nothing unusual, which means you and I can do this too.

I don’t like pork and haven’t bought it for many years. Therefore, I cook meatballs in sour cream sauce exclusively from beef. If you take a piece of beef brisket for minced meat, you can get the required amount of meat and fat, so there is no need for pork. If you wish, you can take a combination of two types of meat in a 50/50 ratio. I just recommend that you always cook the minced meat yourself, the result largely depends on this.

Recipe for meatballs with gravy

For tasty meatballs, the minced meat should be like a thick dough; grainy stuff will not work. Therefore, the meat is turned at least twice through a fine grinder. You can immediately turn the onions together with the meat. Or chop it very finely so that it doesn’t stand out too much, but gives juice and taste. Garlic and fresh finely chopped herbs will not be superfluous. For spices, you can take black pepper, a little dried basil and oregano.

Important information! To ensure that the meatballs turn out juicy and have the required density, you should never put eggs in them. The egg white will make the meat tough. Don't worry, your meat balls will hold their shape well without them.

Now let's talk about how to cook our meatballs in sour cream sauce (gravy). When you have thoroughly mixed minced meat of the desired consistency, it’s time to form balls. It's easier to do this with your hands. Form a boat into your palm and roll a piece of minced meat until you have a smooth meat ball the size of a walnut. The finished balls must be fried very quickly on all sides over high heat to lock all the juice inside. Pour the prepared meatballs with hot sour cream sauce and simmer for about an hour. The ideal side dish would be white short grain rice.

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By 08/07/2018

Meatballs in sour cream sauce: Ingredients

• - 1 kg
• - 1 PC
• - 2 cloves
• - 3-4 branches

Prepare minced meat. The most delicious minced meat is obtained by combining several types of meat, one half of which is fatty and the other half is lean. Recommended tasty combinations: pork and beef, pork and chicken, domestic pork and wild boar meat, domestic pork and elk meat, etc.

Dietary versions of meatballs in sour cream sauce can be made from veal, rabbit or turkey.

If you use only fatty meat, the meatballs may fall apart during stewing; in this case, the solution is to bake them in a mold with sauce in the oven.

Rice should be cooked fluffy until cooked or half cooked. If the rice packaging does not indicate cooking recommendations, then use the following cooking time until done: polished varieties - about 15 minutes, steamed varieties - about 20 minutes, unpolished - 30-40 minutes. This time refers to the cooking time of the rice after boiling over low heat under the lid. Half the specified time is enough until half-ready.

Before cooking, rice is thoroughly washed, and the amount of water is usually taken in the following ratio: one part rice to two parts water by volume.

To prepare sour cream sauce, combine sour cream with water and add spices. Sour cream can be of any fat content, but natural good quality is desirable, and not a sour cream product.

Spices can either be any to your taste, or those that suit the chosen side dish, or different each time to get a new taste for this simple dish. Choose a composition from aromatic herbs and/or peppers or use a ready-made mixture of “Provencal herbs”, “Italian herbs”, “Suneli hops”, “curry”, “adjika”.

Here a portion of curry is added and as a result the meatballs will turn out in a spicy yellowish sour cream sauce.

Combine minced meat and cooled cooked rice, lightly salt. Additionally, various chopped or chopped vegetables can be added to the minced meat: onions, garlic, carrots, spinach, etc. Mix all the ingredients so that you get a uniform or, more precisely, homogeneous meatball mass.

From the resulting mass, form balls of the desired size; the optimal size for meatballs that will be stewed in the sauce is approximately the size of a walnut.
Roll the meatballs in flour or starch, this will make it easier to fry them, and then the flour breading will add thickness to the sour cream sauce.

Take a saucepan or frying pan with high sides. Fry the meatballs in a frying pan over medium heat in butter (or vegetable) oil on all sides, stirring constantly for about five minutes.

Then pour in the sour cream sauce. If you wish, you can prepare a larger amount of sauce if sour cream sauce is suitable for the chosen side dish. As soon as the sauce begins to boil, reduce the heat to low, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the dish until cooked. The stewing time depends on the size of the meatballs, but on average it is about twenty minutes.

The most suitable side dishes for meatballs in sour cream are mashed potatoes, stewed potatoes or buckwheat. As an option, for variety, you can serve meatballs in sour cream sauce with a side dish of pasta. Sprinkle the finished meatballs in sour cream with grated cheese and fresh chopped herbs if desired and to taste.