How to learn how to cook delicious meatballs with rice in tomato sauce 🍚

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• a bowl for minced meat;
• bowl for sauce;
• whisk;
• knife;
• two pans;
• a board for cutting vegetables;
• stirring paddle;
• tablespoon;
• water tank;
• grater;
• kitchen stove.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. To begin, take one head of onion and chop it into small cubes.
   
2. Send chopped onions to a pan and fry in vegetable oil until light golden brown.
   
3. While the onion is fried, take the minced meat, pour it into a separate bowl.
   
4. Boil the rice until half cooked. Add cooled rice to the minced meat.
   
5. Add one egg, salt, black pepper to taste and seasonings (half a teaspoon of red pepper, a teaspoon of ground paprika, seasoning for meat).
   
6. Mix everything well. When the onion is fried, it's time to add it to the mass.
   
7. Mix well with a spoon first, and then mix with your hands.
   
8. Form the hedgehogs yourself. To make them easier to shape, moisten a little hand in water. Nip off some minced meat and make a small ball. Place the hedgehogs in a separate pan for subsequent stewing. Set aside the meat hedgehogs aside.
   
9. Take one head of onion and cut it into four parts. Chop.
   
10. Fry the chopped onion in a frying pan in vegetable oil until a translucent soft state. Strongly fry it is not necessary.
    
11. While the onion is in the process of frying, take the carrots and grate it on a coarse grater. Without turning off the pan, add carrots to the onion. Continue frying until the carrots are soft.
    
12. While carrots and onions are fried, prepare tomato sauce. Pour the tomato paste into a separate bowl.
    
13. Add sugar, flour, salt and black pepper to taste.
    
14. Pour water and mix well with a whisk.
    
15. Add the carrots and onions to the tomato sauce. Mix well.
    
16. Pour the meat hedgehogs with tomato sauce.
    
17. Add bay leaf. Cover the pan and send the meat hedgehogs to simmer over medium heat.
    
18. After boiling, simmer for half an hour. Enjoy your meal!
    

Ways to serve and decorate dishes

Meat balls can be served as a main course, and also serve as an excellent complement to other dishes. Usually they are used with various side dishes: rice, buckwheat porridge, noodles, spaghetti, mashed potatoes. Similarly, meat balls go well with fresh vegetables. Balls can also be added to chicken stock, which will only increase the nutritional value, taste and usefulness of the dish.

Video recipe

We offer you a demonstration of the whole process of cooking delicious meat balls in video format. Enjoy watching!

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