Kitchen appliances and utensils:
- knife;
- cutting board;
- food plates;
- pan;
- a saucepan with a wide bottom for the sauce or another pan with a lid;
- meat grinder or blender;
- a deep bowl or plate for mixing minced meat;
- large spoon;
- grater.
Ingredients
Product | amount |
Fish fillet (hake, pollock, cod) | 0.5 - 0.6 kg |
Onion | 3 heads |
Large carrots | 2 pcs. |
Sweet bell pepper red | 1 PC. |
Canned Tomato Puree | 0.5 kg |
Egg | 1 PC. |
Sugar | 1-2 tsp |
Salt, ground black pepper | taste |
Cooking Oil | 1 cup |
Fresh dill for serving | Small bunch |
Step cooking
- We clean 3 large onion heads. Two of them are cut into quarters of rings, and one is chopped into large squares.
- Pour 4 - 5 tbsp into a heated pan. l vegetable oil and send to fry the onion cubes. Fry everything until a light golden hue. For now, put the quarters of the onion rings on a separate plate.
- Cut the fish fillet into small pieces and make minced meat using a meat grinder or blender.
- Stuffing is transferred to a separate container. We break one egg into the same container, sprinkle with ground pepper and salt. In principle, these spices are enough. But if you like some special seasonings for fish, then you can add them.
- Add the onion cubes fried until golden. But the oil in which the onions were fried, you do not need to add. Mix well all the components of the stuffing and temporarily set it aside.
- Prepare the sauce: in a pan where the onions were fried, add another 2 - 3 tbsp. l butter and remaining raw onion slices.
- While the onion is fried, peel 2 large carrots and grate it on a coarse grater.
- Wash one red bell pepper, take out the core and tail and finely chop the thin slices 1 - 1.5 cm long.
- We load the grated carrots and sweet peppers into the pan, reduce the heat by a little less than average and fry everything until the carrots soften.
- Now we need 0.5 kg of tomato puree. To do this, grind canned tomatoes in a blender in their own juice or fry with vegetables 2 to 3 fresh tomatoes and pour a glass of water with 1 tbsp. l tomato paste.
- To make the mashed potatoes not turn out acidic, add 1 tsp. sugar and 1 tsp. salt without a hill. Season with a pinch of ground black pepper or a mixture of peppers. You can try mashed potatoes and add salt or sugar if necessary. The main thing is that you like the taste. Pour the tomato mixture into a pan with vegetables and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes on low heat. Then again take a sample for the amount of salt and pepper.
- Set the sauce aside or pour it into the pan. We heat a clean pan, pour vegetable oil into it. From the minced meat we form small round meatballs and fry over medium heat in a pan. The task of this stage is to fry until golden brown on all sides.
- Put the baked meatballs in one layer in a container with tomato and vegetable sauce. Gently drown the fish balls in the sauce and pour them on top.
- Cover and simmer for 7 - 10 minutes. Turn off the fire and wait a while until the liquid ceases to boil. The dish is ready to serve. They are served with gravy as a separate dish or with mashed potatoes. To decorate, cut a bunch of fresh dill and sprinkle meatballs in a plate.
Did you know? If you want to make the recipe even more dietary, then do not fry the minced onions. Raw meatballs also do not fry in a pan, but bake on a sheet in the oven.
Video recipe
After watching the video recipe, it is very difficult to resist the immediate preparation of this dish. Look how delicious meatballs turn out on video.