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Ingredients
Component | amount |
Chopped meat | 700 g |
Rice | 150 g |
Chicken egg | 1 PC. |
Onion | 2 pcs. large |
Carrot | 1 PC. |
Wheat flour | 3 tsp |
Tomato paste | 200 g |
Ground black pepper | taste |
Frozen chopped greens | 2-3 tbsp. l |
Suneli hops | taste |
Salt | taste |
Sugar | 1/2 tsp |
Vegetable oil | for frying |
Step cooking
At the preliminary stage, you need to rinse and cook about 150 grams of rice. In addition, you need to preheat the oven. Meatballs will be baked at a temperature of 180 ° C. In the future, you should follow this step-by-step procedure:
- Stuffing is laid out in a bowl. One onion is chopped in a blender, after which the processed ingredient is laid out in a bowl of minced meat. If there is no blender, you can chop the onion with a knife or a meat grinder.
- 2 tablespoons of frozen chopped greens are poured into the same bowl to your taste. If desired, you can use fresh or a mixture of packaging. Black pepper, suneli hops and salt to taste are added to the bowl. Then 1 egg is broken.
- There, pre-cooked rice is added. The ingredients in the bowl are thoroughly mixed by hand until smooth.
- Meatballs are formed from ready-made meat. For this, a part of the mass, approximately equal to a tablespoon with a slide, is thoroughly bathed with hands in a tight ball. Blanks of meatballs are laid out on a baking sheet.
- On a coarse grater, carrots are rubbed with straws. The second onion is finely chopped, and after the resulting product is laid out on a heated frying pan, poured with oil. Immediately to the onion, chopped carrots are laid out in the pan. Next, the ingredients are stewed over low heat, while they need to be stirred from time to time.
- About 1/3 tablespoon of salt is added to half a glass of cold water. The mixture is thoroughly mixed. 3 teaspoons of flour are added to the same glass. The mixture is again thoroughly mixed until smooth.
- When the carrots with onions are slightly stewed, about 200 grams of tomato paste or tomatoes ground in a blender are added to them. The ingredients in the pan are thoroughly mixed. Water is poured into the mass in a pan so that its consistency becomes liquid. After the liquid in the pan boils, you need to add 1 teaspoon of salt. You can change the amount of spice to your taste. About half a teaspoon of sugar and black pepper to taste are poured there. The ingredients are mixed again.
- A mixture of water and flour from a glass is slowly poured into a boiling liquid in a pan. You need to pour a little bit, stir all the time so that lumps do not form.
- The mixture in the pan should be stirred, bring to a boil, boil a little, about 3-5 minutes, and remove from heat. At this point, in the gravy, you can add to your taste an additional amount of salt, pepper or other spices and seasonings. Ready gravy is poured into a baking sheet with meatballs.
- The pan moves into the preheated oven. The meatballs will be baked at a temperature of 180 ° C for about 30-35 minutes. If you have options for the operation of the oven, you should prefer the baking mode "top-bottom", the average level.
- After the appointed time, it remains to remove the pan from the oven, and the meatballs with rice and gravy are ready. Enjoy your meal.
Video recipe
A video from the creator of the recipe will clearly demonstrate the whole process of cooking meatballs with rice with gravy in all details. It can be viewed even before the start of self-cooking to familiarize yourself with what remains to be done. This will help to outline an action plan, and will facilitate the task. In addition, the video will always help if the step-by-step guide is not clear or detailed enough at any moment.
Meatballs with rice will delight you with the taste of tender minced meat, baked with vegetables and spices in a gravy with herbs and spices. The dish goes well with almost any side dish, and will be appropriate for both everyday and holiday table. The recipe leaves to personal discretion the quantity and assortment of herbs, herbs and spices used, which ultimately determine the taste of the dish.