Meatballs are balls, formed from some minced meat, toasted and stewed with gravy.
For minced meat, any lean meat is suitable: pork, beef, lamb or poultry. You can make meatballs and fish. To do this, fish fillets are thoroughly cleaned from the skin and bones.
The gravy is a must-have supplement to the meatballs. It happens: white, with the addition of milk, cream or sour cream; red, with the addition of tomatoes or red sweet pepper, orange - based on carrots, green, with the addition of finely chopped greens. There can be many options, everything depends on imagination and taste preferences.
First, let's prepare simple meatballs with tomato sauce, the recipe of which is described below.
Recipe for delicious fish meatballs with tomato sauce
Ingredients:
- fish fillet - 400 g;
- wheat bread - 60 g;
- milk - 100 ml;
- onions - 50 g;
- parsley greens - 35 g;
- vegetable oil;
- tomato paste;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
We cut the fish into small slices and pass it through a meat grinder. Bread is soaked in milk. We chop the onion and parsley. We combine all the ingredients, salt, pepper and beat well. From the stuffing we form small balls. The pan is rubbed with oil and piled on it fish meatballs , fry until golden brown. Transfer it into a saucepan, pour a diluted tomato paste and simmer on low heat for about 20 minutes. The table is served with your favorite side dish.
Chicken meatballs with sauce of sour cream
For meatballs from chicken mince, take white breast meat or dark meat from chicken legs. To make minced meat from the legs, the meat is separated from the bones and the skin is removed from it. This stuffing turns out more gentle and soft in consistency than from white chicken meat.
With chicken meatballs, a light and delicious sour cream sauce is very good. Try to cook, do not regret it!
Ingredients:
- chicken breasts - 2 pcs .;
- rice - 150 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- olive oil;
- salt, spices at will.
Preparation
Chicken breasts diligently washed, let drain water, cut into small pieces. We pass meat through a meat grinder. Cook the rice. Mix the minced meat with the cooled rice, eggs, grated on a small grater onion. Mass the mixture, add salt and add your favorite spices. We form meatballs and cook them for a couple. Ready meat balls add to the pan.
On olive oil fry the chopped onions and carrots. When vegetables are lightly browned, add sour cream, salt and stew for 5-7 minutes. The gravy is poured into the pan to the meatballs. We extinguish 15 minutes. Serve with garnish.
Snackballs from herring
Another recipe for cooking meatballs with sauce, which does not fit into the generally accepted framework, is more a snack option. Products for their formation are already taken cooked and they do not undergo further heat treatment.
Ingredients:
- salted herring - 420 g;
- capers - 80 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 70 g;
- hard-boiled eggs - 8 pcs .;
- anchovies - 130 g;
- onion - 100 g;
- green salad - 120 g.
For sauce:
- olive oil - 6 tablespoons;
- vinegar - 2 tablespoons;
- a mixture of dried herbs (savory, marjoram, basil) - 1 tablespoon;
- salt.
Preparation
The herring is soaked, cut into fillets and finely chopped together with capers, anchovies, onions and pickled cucumbers. Stir and form the balls. In the middle of each meatball lay half of the yolk. Served on lettuce leaves and poured with sauce.
Sauce is prepared from olive oil, vinegar and a mixture of herbs. All components are mixed and solyim to taste.