Meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce

Today we will prepare delicious meatballs in tomato and sour cream sauce in the oven and in a pan. The basis of this stunning home dish can be any rice and meat of any sort, whether it's pork or poultry. About the details of cooking meatballs we tell in our recipes.

Meatballs with rice in tomato-sour cream sauce in the oven

Ingredients:

• rice cereal - 100 g;
• meat for minced meat - 650 g;
• onion - 220 g;
• carrots - 85 g;
• garlic - 1-2 teeth;
• broth or water - 245 ml;
• tomato paste - 85 g;
• sour cream - 85 g;
• mayonnaise - 85 g;
• flour - 30 g;
• refined vegetable oil;
• spice;
• peas of sweet pepper;
• laurel leaf;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

Preparation

First we put rice croup in salted water, and when the rice is almost ready, we pour the mass into a colander, rinse it and give it a good drain.

While the rice is boiled, prepare the remaining ingredients for the meatballs. For this, washed and dried meat is cut into slices and passed through a meat grinder, alternating with pre-peeled and sliced ​​large onion (half of the total) and garlic. The washed carrots are cleaned and let through the medium grater, and the remaining onions are shredded with small cubes.

Mix slightly cooled rice with minced meat, add mayonnaise, taste salt, ground black pepper and mix. We beat off the mass a little in a bowl for better binding of components among ourselves and form round round meatballs from it. We put them in one layer in the baking dish and proceed to create the sauce. To do this, we pass on the vegetable oil onion cubes to transparency, and then add the carrots and fry, stirring, until it softens. Now pour in the flour, fry all together for a minute, add tomato paste, sour cream and pour in hot broth or water. We season the mass with salt, pepper, spices, throw the laurel leaf and peas of sweet pepper, warm, stirring, to a boil and pour them meatballs in the form. We close the form with a lid or tighten it with foil and place it in a heated up to 195 degree oven for fifty minutes.

Chicken meatballs in a tomato-sour cream sauce in a frying pan

Ingredients:

• Chicken ground meat - 575 g;
• cereal rice - 100 g;
• onion - 160 g;
• carrots - 100 g;
• egg - 1 piece;
• sour cream - 120 g;
• tomato paste - 120 g;
• ketchup - 40 g;
• broth - 350 ml;
• sugar - to taste;
• bay leaves - 2 pcs .;
• fragrant pepper peas - 3 pcs .;
• butter - 50 g;
• vegetable refined oil;
• flour;
• ground black pepper;
• salt.

Preparation

Boiled rice until ready to mix with chicken ground meat, add egg, salt, pepper, and finely chopped onion (half of the total). All the good mix, beat off and form the resulting mass of meatballs. We put them in a frying pan and prepare the sauce for pouring. Pass the sliced ​​melnicko remaining onions and grated carrots until soft, then add the tomato paste, sour cream, ketchup and broth, throw salt, sugar, all the spices and bring the mixture flour to the desired density. Warm it to a boil, pour it to the meatballs, cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer after boiling on a quiet fire for thirty minutes.

For a more saturated taste, the meatballs can be pre-fried in butter on all sides, then braised in sauce.