Meatballs are very popular, especially in families where there are children. First, these small meatballs (in English a dish is called: meat balls) are very popular with kids, because they are smaller cutlets , and children usually like everything small. Secondly, you can make portions more or less easily enough. Thirdly, the production of meatballs is a very fascinating process, you can easily attract small helpers. And many adults like meatballs with gravy, the recipe for this dish seems to be pretty simple, but leaves plenty of room for imagination and experimentation. Tell you how to cook meatballs with gravy in a frying pan.
Meatballs with tomato
Most often, meatballs with tomato sauce are prepared. And because tomato sour is perfectly combined to taste with meat, and because tomato is a preservative, and such meat balls can be cooked for several days and reheated as needed.
Ingredients:
- neck pork medium fat content - 0.6 kg;
- onion - 1 pc. + 3 pieces;
- baguette stale - 200 g;
- veal - 0.3 kg;
- carrots - 2 pieces;
- odorless vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- tomato paste without preservatives - 3-4 st. spoons;
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- salt iodized - ½ tsp;
- freshly ground black pepper - pinch.
Preparation
Baguette (in his absence, you can get by with a white loaf) soak in water or milk. When he is soaked, gently squeeze and grind the pork, 1 onion, veal and bread in a meat grinder. In the resulting stuffing we add eggs, salt and pepper. Stir, and then beat off the mass well, so that it becomes viscous. With the help of a teaspoon we measure the same portions and roll the meat balls with wet hands. Heat the oil in a frying pan to a light haze and fry our meatballs to a uniformly golden color. We put them on a plate and prepare the sauce. The remaining onions are finely shredded, and the carrots are ground using a medium grater. On the oil, lightly fry the ray - it should become almost transparent, add carrots and water - about 300 ml. Simmer all together on a slow fire for about 8-12 minutes, then dip into the meatball sauce and continue to cook as much.
Dietary meatballs
Much more tender and more dietary meatballs are obtained from chicken minced meat and gravy. Stuffing should be chosen such, in which grinded and some fat, otherwise the meatballs will turn out to be dry. Most often, chicken meatballs with sour cream are prepared.
Ingredients:
- minced chicken - 1 kg;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- Freshly ground black pepper - 1 pinch;
- iodized salt - 2 pinch;
- baguette - 150 g;
- oil, odorless, sunflower - 30 ml;
- sour cream 15-20% fat content - 200 g;
- broth chicken - 150 ml.
Preparation
The soaked baguette is ground in a blender and mixed with minced meat and eggs. Solim and pepper, we beat off the mass. Roll the meatballs and fry them for 4 minutes on each side in hot oil. We shift the meatballs into a baking dish and pour the sour cream, diluted with broth. We send it to the heated oven for about a quarter of an hour. If there is a desire, you can at the end sprinkle meatballs with grated cheese.