How to learn how to cook delicious meatballs as in a kindergarten with gravy according to a simple recipe 🍲

Kitchen appliances and utensils: knife, spoon, cutting board, deep bowl, frying pan with a lid, hob.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Preparatory stage

• Boil rice in advance. To do this, put a glass of water on the fire, let it boil. During this time, we wash 0.5 cups of rice under running water. Salt boiling water, send rice. When it boils, reduce the heat and cook until half cooked, it is about 5 minutes. We fold the finished rice into a colander, rinse with water and leave it so that the water flows.
• Now prepare the stuffing. For our recipe, 500 g of ground beef is enough. It is best to do it yourself by twisting in a meat grinder 250 g of beef and pork pulp. If there is no desire or opportunity to do this, buy ready-made stuffing. The main thing is that it was fresh, had a pleasant smell and you liked.
  

Cooking meatballs

1. Send the minced meat to a deep bowl, add the rice and mix well. We clean one onion, rinse. It can be passed through a meat grinder with minced meat, chopped with a blender, grated with a coarse grater or very finely chopped. We send the onion to the minced meat, mix.
   
2. Add salt and pepper to taste. Lightly salted minced meat is allowed, because during cooking the rice will absorb part of the salt. Drive the egg into the minced meat, mix everything well again. Now we collect all the minced meat in one lump, take it in hand, raise it by 15 centimeters above the bowl and throw it into the bowl. This is called beat off the stuffing. Repeat this procedure 15 times. Thus, the meat will release protein, the mass will become sticky and the meatballs will retain their shape during frying.
   
3. Now we are forming meatballs. So that the stuffing does not stick to the hands, moisten them with water or vegetable oil. Pour flour into a separate plate. Hands shape meatballs. Their size should be half the size of a large chicken egg. We roll the billets in flour. We perform this procedure with all the minced meat.
   
4. We send the pan to the fire, pour 50 g of odorless vegetable oil, heat it. We spread the meatball blanks, fry on both sides until golden.
   
5. Then put all the meatballs in the pan in which they were fried. In a glass of hot water we put one tablespoon of tomato paste, mix. Add 0.5 tsp. salt, mix well so that the tomato paste dissolves. Pour into meatballs, add three bay leaves and simmer for 10 minutes under the lid over low heat.
   
6. While stewing meatballs, prepare a sour cream sauce. In half a glass of warm water, dissolve 2 tablespoons of sour cream and one tablespoon of flour. pour sour cream into meatballs, gently mix tomato and sour cream sauce. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes over low heat. Ready-made meatballs can be served right away. They can offer any side dish and salad.
   

Video recipe

To learn more about each step of creating meatballs, watch this video. You will learn how the prepared stuffing turns out, how to beat it off. You will see ready-made meatballs, hear the opinion of the author of the video about their aroma and taste.

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