Time: 60 min.

Servings: 15

Difficulty: 4 out of 5

Cooking steamed chicken meatballs with cheese crust in a slow cooker

White chicken meat is used to prepare dietary dishes. The most common of them is boiled or steamed chicken fillet. But they get tired of constantly eating very quickly.

If for some reason your diet becomes dietary or medicinal, then you will have to make your imagination work to its fullest.

Because it’s not easy to invent a new, never-tired recipe every time, so that the food is not only healthy, but also tasty. And the fact that dietary food can be not just edible, but also appetizing, even with a limited range of permitted products, has been proven by talented chefs. And even from simple chicken meat you can make dozens of wonderful dishes.

For example, steamed chicken meatballs in a slow cooker will make dinner almost a festive event. These small round cutlets will not only fill you up, but will also delight you with their original taste and ease of preparation. Look how delicious and alluring they are in the photo!

The recipe does not contain expensive or hard-to-find ingredients. To make steamed chicken meatballs in a slow cooker, stock up on the following products.

Step 1

The classic recipe for meatballs always contains boiled rice as an additive. Therefore, it is necessary to cook the cereal until half cooked. You can cook excellent rice in a slow cooker. The rice should be crumbly, approximately as shown in the photo:

Step 2

While the rice is cooking, you can start preparing the minced meat. Chicken meatballs in a slow cooker consist of 80% of it. No one forbids a housewife to use ready-made minced chicken purchased in a store or market.

But homemade will still be much better and more flavorful. The taste of future cutlets, meatballs and other minced meat dishes depends 95% on the quality of the raw materials from which they are prepared. If you make the “wrong” minced meat, then the meatballs or schnitzels will not have a chance to please you.

So, we prepare good, high-quality minced chicken ourselves. To do this, take the pulp or fillet of the bird. Frozen pieces must be completely melted, without ice or water. If your recipe contains chicken rather than cooked fillet, carefully remove all bones and cartilage from it.

Step 3

For minced meat you definitely need onions! Peel and quarter the cooked onions.

Step 4

Now we need to pass the chicken meat through a meat grinder. Whether you have it manual or electric, it doesn’t matter. During the process of twisting the minced meat, do not forget to periodically add onions to the meat grinder.

It is enough to turn the fillet or chicken once, because too finely chopped meat will make the taste of the meatballs inexpressive. Our minced meat should be as appetizing as in the photo:

Step 5

Surely our rice is already cooked. It must be cooled and then added to the twisted meat. Salt the finished minced chicken and add freshly ground pepper to it. We also add an egg there.

Mix the mixture thoroughly. You can add finely chopped herbs to it.

Step 6

Now let's start forming the meatballs. The recipe for steaming them advises not to sculpt too large specimens. Real meatballs should not exceed 5 cm in diameter, as the same classic recipe indicates. When shaping, the minced meat should be handled with hands either greased with vegetable oil or well moistened with water. Then the sculpting process will go without problems.

Step 7

Place the formed meatballs in a container for steaming, which comes in addition to the multicooker. If there are a lot of meatballs, you can pack them tighter than in the photo.

Now I would recommend brushing the top of the meatballs with sour cream. This will add some piquancy to our dish. Even if you adhere to the canons of dietary nutrition, low-fat sour cream will not harm. We place the container for steaming in our miracle oven.

Step 8

In the multicooker, you need to select the “steam cooking” program and activate it. Cooking time – 20 minutes.

Step 9

My recipe for steamed meatballs uses grated cheese to create a crust for our chicken delicacy. Therefore, after finishing the multicooker operation, you need to open the oven lid and sprinkle the meatballs with cheese on top. Start the “baking” mode for 15 minutes. The cooking process will melt the cheese and create a great crust for our chicken meatballs.

Step 10

After the multicooker has finished working, you can remove the appetizing and incredibly delicious-smelling chicken meatballs steamed in the multicooker and serve them to the table. Be sure to sprinkle with herbs! Vegetables, stewed or raw, can serve as a side dish. You can also serve a light vegetable salad.

Watch another version of this dish in the video below:

1 year ago

Steamed meatballs in a slow cooker are an indispensable dish for those who adhere to a diet. They are useful for both adults and children. To prepare meatballs, you can choose any meat to your taste. Turkey and chicken meatballs are especially tender and low in calories. And some housewives prepare them from fish fillets.

You can prepare delicious meatballs without much effort, literally in a hurry. Instead of a slow cooker, of course, you can use a double boiler. Serve steamed chicken meatballs in a slow cooker with assorted vegetables, adding your favorite sauce.

Compound:

• 0.5 kg chicken fillet;
• 100 g rice cereal;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• salt;
• ground pepper;
• 1 tbsp. filtered water;
• 1-2 laurel leaves.

Advice! When preparing meatballs for a baby, do not add ground pepper and other spices to the minced meat. To make the dish aromatic, add a little chopped dill.

Preparation:

Advice! Place the finished minced meat in the refrigerator for ten minutes before making meatballs. Then it will be easier to work with him.

Delicious and incredibly healthy meatballs

Meatballs prepared by steaming have quite a lot of advantages over their fried or baked “counterparts”. Firstly, they do not absorb oil, and secondly, they are low-calorie and dietary. Here's another recipe for you to consider.

Compound:

• 0.5 kg minced beef;
• 150 g rice cereal;
• 2 eggs;
• 3-4 slices of white loaf;
• 150 ml milk;
• salt;
• ground pepper.

Preparation:

Advice! To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, moisten them with cold water.

Cooking for the little ones

For younger members of the household, steam turkey meatballs in a slow cooker. They are so tender that they literally melt in your mouth. Believe me, your baby will enjoy this dish with pleasure.

Compound:

• 0.4 kg turkey fillet;
• 30-40 g bread;
• 0.1 kg hard cheese;
• 100 ml milk;
• 3 quail eggs;
• salt.

Preparation:

Advice! You can supplement meatballs with vitamins and an unsurpassed aroma with the help of herbs. Sprinkle the finished dish with chopped herbs.

Fish balls

Steamed meatballs in a slow cooker for a child can be made from fish fillets. Your adult household members will also enjoy this dish. And cottage cheese will add exquisite notes of taste to meatballs.

Compound:

• 0.4 kg fish fillet;
• 0.3 kg of cottage cheese with a minimum percentage of fat content;
• carrot root vegetable;
• egg;
• 1 tbsp. l. refined vegetable oils;
• salt;
• sprigs of greenery.

Preparation:

Chicken meatballs are small balls made from minced chicken. For taste, rice, vegetables, herbs, spices, onions, garlic and eggs are added to them. The low calorie content of the ingredients makes chicken meatballs a popular dietary dish.

Steaming meatballs is especially beneficial. It is not for nothing that steam food is considered the basis of a healthy diet and is included in weight loss diets and healing systems. It is good for the stomach, is better absorbed by the body, and allows you to maintain health for many years.

Healthy diet

Dieting is the main task for those who want to lose excess weight. After all, the process of losing weight is happening. The body begins to burn fat “reserves” only when there is a lack of energy from food. To measure the energy value of food, a special unit has been introduced - kilocalorie (kcal).

A person who wants to lose weight needs:

1. calculate how many kcal he spends during the day;
2. limit the amount of food, “eating” less calories than you spend;
3. count the calorie content of all dishes in the daily diet, keep a food diary.

Diets are also a remedy for many diseases.

Steamed food

Cooking time - 35 minutes.

Any steamed dish is healthier. Many of them also taste great. All this can be said about meatballs.

This dish is easily steamed in the Redmond multicooker. The recipe involves few steps, taking no more than an hour in total.

It is not necessary to use the most expensive model. The necessary program and steamer container are available in many devices from the budget line. You can make delicious and tender meatballs, for example, using the Redmond RMC-M211.

Ingredients for steaming meatballs in a Redmond multicooker

• Veal - 500 grams.
• Rice - 100 grams.
• Chicken egg - 1 piece.
• Onion - 1 piece.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• White bread.
• Milk.
• Salt, pepper - to taste.

Method for steaming meatballs in a Redmond multicooker

1) Wash the meat, then pass it through a meat grinder. You can even grind the meat twice to make the meatballs more tender.

2) Soak white bread without crust in milk. Then we put it in the minced meat, add the egg and salt. At the end, mix everything well.

3) Rinse the rice until the water is clear, then boil it for 5 minutes until half cooked. This can be done directly in the multicooker using several modes (for example, “Cooking”).

4) Mix the cooled rice with minced meat.

6) Place the meatballs in a steamer container. Then we install it in the multicooker. Pour water into the regular bowl of the device.

A dish that is not only tasty, but also healthy, especially for various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and digestive organs, is steamed meatballs.

They are suitable for children and adults, and thanks to various recipes, you can choose to suit your taste - from meat, chicken or even fish! Meatballs are good either by themselves or with gravy and side dishes. Their preparation does not require special skills, and the main thing is that this is a dietary dish.

An easy recipe

Ingredients	Quantity
a mixture of minced pork and beef -	750 grams
round rice -	1 cup
fine salt -	1.5 teaspoons
ground pepper -	optional
egg -	2 pcs.
small onion -	1 PC.
tomato paste -	1.5 tbsp. spoons
Wheat flour -	2 tbsp. spoons
sunflower oil -	for frying
Cooking time: 60 minutes	Calorie content per 100 grams: 280 Kcal

Here is a very simple way to make steamed meatballs that are eaten with great pleasure.

Rinse the round grain rice well, place it in a saucepan and fill it with half a liter of cold water. Put on gas and when boiling, add half a teaspoon of salt.

After this, it should be cooked for ten minutes until fully cooked, then the gas is turned off, and the rice stands under the lid for another 15 minutes so that the water is completely absorbed into it. Now take out the rice and place it in a deep plate to cool.

Cooked glutinous rice works very well for meatballs. When the temperature reaches room temperature, add two raw chicken eggs to the rice and mix thoroughly.

Add a teaspoon of salt, ground pepper, and boiled rice to the minced meat. Stir and beat the resulting mixture, so the minced meat will become dense and the meatballs will stick together well. To do this, you need to pick it up and throw it back into the bowl hard, after five or six times it will be ready to mold.

Now the cutlets will be dense and will hold their shape. For steaming, you can use a special pan insert. Grease its surface with sunflower oil, and pour water into the pan until it boils.

At this time, form the meatballs and place them in a steamer container. When the water boils, place everything in the pan and cook for 30 minutes. In the meantime, you can make the gravy.

To fill, chop the onion and fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Add tomato pata and sifted flour to the onion. Stirring well, sauté for another three minutes and add cold water. When the sauce boils, salt it and add spices. Ready.

Remove the meatballs from the pan and pour the sauce over them. The finished dish is delicious served with mashed potatoes and sprinkled with fresh herbs.

Dietary steamed chicken meatballs

Cooking in a slow cooker is simple and pleasant. You can make diet meatballs with rice by steaming them using a special insert in the bowl. If there is no such device and mode, then the meatballs are cooked using the stewing mode. Chicken meat itself is a dietary product, namely the breasts contain a minimal amount of cholesterol. That's why we use them for the dish.

For preparation you need the following ingredients:

• minced chicken breasts - 800 gr.;
• long grain rice - 100 gr.;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• ground pepper to taste;
• table salt - 2 teaspoons.

Cooking time: 55 minutes.

Calorie content: 240 kcal.

Mix the washed rice, minced meat, egg in a deep bowl, salt and pepper the resulting mass.

Now we form the meatballs, there will be about 16 of them from this amount of products. Pour one and a half liters of water into the multicooker bowl, and place the raw products on a special insert for steaming.

Place the bowl and insert in the multicooker, select the “steam” mode and set the timer for 45 minutes. At the end of cooking, a beep will sound and the dietary dish is ready.

Serve with fresh or stewed vegetables. Meatballs made in this way will turn out juicy and especially tasty.

Fish meatballs recipe for baby

Children do not really like to eat fish, despite all its usefulness. After all, there are bones in the slices, which kids really don’t like. An excellent alternative to stewed fish are meatballs made from low-fat white fish. For minced meat, fillets of cod, pollock, and hake are suitable. Ingredients:

• fish fillet - 250 gr.;
• loaf - 20 gr.;
• milk - 50 ml;
• yolk - 2 pcs.;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.

Cooking time: 45 minutes.

Calorie content: 230 kcal.

To cook steamed fish meatballs in a slow cooker for a child, you must first prepare the minced meat. Remove the crust from the loaf and soak the pulp in milk. Pass it through a meat grinder along with the fish fillet.

Add a couple of yolks, salt and stir well. Make small meatballs from this mass and place them in a special insert for steaming food. Pour a liter of water into the bowl and place everything in the multicooker.

Select the “steam” mode and set the timer for half an hour. When finished, take it out onto a plate and treat your baby to meatballs with rice or pasta.

How to cook meatballs with potatoes in a slow cooker

The good thing about a slow cooker is that you can immediately make the meatballs themselves and a side dish for them. Here is a simple recipe for meatballs with potatoes:

Ingredients:

• minced meat - 400 gr.;
• potatoes - 5-6 pcs.;
• onion head - 1 pc.;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Cooking time: 60 minutes.

Calorie content: 250 kcal.

First, finely chop the onion, and then mix it with the egg and minced meat. Add spices and salt to the resulting mass to taste. Peel the potatoes and cut into medium-sized cubes. Salt the cubes and brush with vegetable oil.

Place everything in the multicooker bowl so that the potatoes are at the bottom, and form the minced meat into meatballs and place on top in a special insert for steaming. After this, add 200 ml of water to the bowl and set the “steam” mode for 45 minutes.

At the end of cooking, all the water usually evaporates, and the potatoes acquire a golden crust, soaked in the juice from the meatballs. Tasty and simple, you can have a complete dinner or lunch in just an hour.

Steamed meatballs in a steamer

Dishes in a steamer are always dietary and healthy. They are prepared without adding oil and are suitable for both children and people with digestive problems. It is better to choose lean meat for this recipe for steamed meatballs: chicken breast or veal.

Ingredients:

Cooking time: 65 minutes.

Calorie content: 225 kcal.

Pour boiled water over the washed rice and let it stand for about 15 minutes. Then drain the water and let cool slightly. Mix the mixture with minced meat, rice and salt. Add carrots, grated on a coarse grater. Form small meatballs and place them in a steamer pan. They are cooked in a double boiler for 45 minutes and served to the child with pasta or buckwheat.

1. If you are preparing meatballs for a child, then it is not recommended to add spices and pepper; it is better to take a little dill and crumble it into the minced meat;
2. Before forming the cutlets, place the meat mixture in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, this will make it easier to form them;
3. When making minced meat balls, wet your palms with cold water and the meat will not stick to your hands;
4. Serve the balls lightly sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs. It stimulates the appetite and contains many vitamins.

Steamed meatballs are a healthy and appetizing dish, try making them for your family. Both adults and kids will love them. Eat with or without a side dish.