Meatballs in a frying pan with gravy

Meatballs with gravy in a frying pan - juicy and very tasty meat balls. The gravy is usually made from tomatoes or tomato paste, cream or sour cream, and flour or starch, as well as sauteed vegetables: onions and carrots, help to thicken it. Absolutely any minced meat for meatballs is suitable, from poultry, pork, beef or fish. We offer you six delicious recipes for making meatballs step by step.

Meatballs in a frying pan with gravy without rice

It may seem that meatballs without rice are something very simple and simple, but these minced meat balls turn out to be very tasty, aromatic and juicy due to the thick gravy. In this recipe, tomatoes and sour cream are added to the gravy, but you can improve its taste by adding other stewed vegetables, as well as seasoning with any spices at your discretion.

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   How to cook meatballs in a frying pan with gravy according to a classic recipe? Place minced meat, ready-made or homemade (it can be anything, not necessarily the same as indicated in the recipe), in a deep bowl, add two onions, finely chopped, and chopped garlic.
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   Add a chicken egg to the minced meat, as well as salt and seasonings to your taste, knead the minced meat well, you can even beat it on the bottom of the bowl.
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   Form meat balls, bread them in flour and fry in vegetable oil until beautifully browned on all sides.
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   For the gravy, mix sour cream with tomato paste and water, add salt and ground black pepper to taste, pour the gravy over the meatballs and simmer them until tender under the lid in a deep, thick-walled frying pan (a cauldron will do). In 20-25 minutes over low heat, your meatballs should be completely extinguished.
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   Meatballs in a frying pan with gravy are ready! For greater taste, the finished meatballs can be sprinkled with chopped herbs, poured with sour cream and served hot with any side dish.

Bon appetit!

Delicious recipe for meatballs with rice in a pan with gravy

Meatballs with rice are a very satisfying dish, especially if it is served with a side dish of pasta, stewed vegetables or boiled potatoes. For variety, you can add not only rice, but also buckwheat and white bread to meat balls as a filler. In addition, meatballs can not only be fried, but also baked in the oven or steamed.

Ingredients:

For minced meat:

• Minced pork + chicken – 500 gr.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• White bread – 150 gr.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Rice – 0.5 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasoning for minced meat - to taste.
• Fresh dill - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.

For the sauce:

• Sour cream – 300 gr.
• Onions – 1-2 pcs.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Flour – 2-3 tbsp.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Boil the rice until cooked in advance in salted water, and when cooked, drain the excess water, but do not rinse the rice.

Step 2. It is best to make minced meat yourself by mincing pork and chicken.

Step 3. Soak the bread in milk or water, squeeze, add to the minced meat.

Step 4. Add boiled rice, eggs, finely grated carrots, chopped dill, garlic and onion.

Step 5. Season the minced meat to taste with salt and seasonings, knead well.

Step 6. Form the meatballs; if desired, they can be breaded in flour, or you can fry them without flour in hot oil on all sides to create a beautiful crust.

Step 7. For the gravy, you need to chop the onion and grate the carrots. If desired, you can add bell pepper, cut into strips, as well as fresh tomatoes or tomato paste to the gravy.

Step 8. Fry the vegetables, add sour cream, dilute the gravy with hot water so that it is medium thick.

Step 9. Pour the sauce over the meatballs and simmer them under the lid for 15-20 minutes.

Step 10. Dilute the flour in a small amount of cold water, and to prevent it from boiling, stir with a whisk.

Step 11. Pour the diluted flour into the gravy, add seasonings and salt to taste, as well as chopped garlic and simmer everything together for another 5-7 minutes under the lid over low heat.

Step 12. Eat the meatballs with gravy hot; they taste best with mashed potatoes.

Bon appetit!

Fish meatballs in a frying pan with tomato sauce

Now, for a change, let’s prepare fish meatballs with tomato sauce. Of course, meatballs are very tasty, but they turn out just as good from fish fillets, especially since sea fish is an excellent source of healthy protein. Any fish with a small number of bones, such as pollock, cod or hake, is suitable for meatballs.

Ingredients:

• Pollock – 600-700 gr.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Tomato paste – 3 tbsp.
• Oatmeal – 3 tbsp.
• Flour – 50 gr.
• Onion – 2 pcs.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Seasonings for fish - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Fresh dill and parsley - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Pour a small amount of boiling water over the oatmeal flakes to swell them.

Step 2. Rinse the fish, remove fins, heads, gills and bones. To make it easier, you can buy not whole fish, but ready-made fish fillets.

Step 3. Pass the fish fillet through a meat grinder, add butter (softened), egg, spices and swollen oatmeal, season the minced meat with spices, salt and mix well.

Step 4. Form the minced meat into balls and roll them in flour.

Step 5. Cut the onion into half rings and grate the carrots.

Step 6. Fry the onions and carrots in a small amount of vegetable oil.

Step 7. When they soften, add tomato paste, add salt and pepper, add a little hot water and simmer for 5 minutes under the lid.

Step 8. Fry the fish meatballs in a deep frying pan on all sides until nicely browned, then pour the gravy over them and simmer until done.

Step 9. Minced fish meatballs are stewed quickly: after 15-20 minutes, check the dish for readiness.

1.Eat fish meatballs with tomato sauce and a side dish of mashed potatoes, fresh vegetables or boiled pasta. For beauty and taste, sprinkle the meatballs with fresh chopped parsley and dill.

Bon appetit!

Step-by-step recipe for meatballs with sour cream and tomato paste

Meatballs with sour cream and tomato paste sauce are nothing other than a culinary classic of European cuisine. And they are very easy to prepare. Any minced meat for such meat balls is suitable, but it’s better if you make it yourself by running whole pieces of meat through a meat grinder: this way the meatballs will turn out the most delicious!

Ingredients:

For the meatballs:

• Minced pork and beef – 500 gr.
• Seasonings for minced meat - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Raw rice – 100 gr.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Parsley, dill - a bunch.

For the gravy:

• Tomato paste – 1-2 tbsp.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Sour cream – 1-2 tbsp.
• Flour – 1-2 tbsp.
• Water – 300 ml.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Rinse the rice and boil until tender in salted water. There is no need to rinse the cooked cereal.

Step 2. Place the minced meat into a bowl, add salt and season, add onion and finely chopped herbs.

Step 3. Finally, add the chicken egg to the minced meat, stir until smooth.

Step 4. Mix the completely cooled rice into the minced meat.

Step 5. Make small meatballs, roll them in flour and fry in hot vegetable oil so that they are fried on each side to a beautiful crust.

Step 6. Pour tomato paste mixed in a glass of boiling water into the fried meatballs.

Step 7. Simmer the dish under the lid for a quarter of an hour.

Step 8Mix the flour well with sour cream and half a glass of hot water, add to the pan, simmer until tender for about 10 minutes over low heat. If necessary, add salt and pepper to the gravy to your liking.

Step 9. Serve the finished meatballs hot with any side dish, sprinkle them with chopped herbs.

Bon appetit!

Advice: To speed up the preparation of meatballs, make more meat balls with rice for future use and freeze them in the freezer raw in a food container, and when necessary, defrost them, add gravy and simmer the dish until ready.

Chicken meatballs like in kindergarten with gravy

Juicy, tender, dietary chicken meatballs, which we often cooked in kindergarten with a thick sauce, were probably liked by everyone. If you want to repeat this dish at home, then use our recipe and please yourself and your loved ones!

Ingredients:

• Minced chicken – 500 gr.
• White bun (loaf) – 150 gr.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Tomato paste – 1 tbsp + 150 ml. water.
• Rice – 100 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 2 tbsp.
• Flour – 2-3 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Seasonings for poultry - to taste.

Cooking process:

Step 1. First, rinse and boil the rice until tender in salted water (use 2 parts water for 1 part rice).

Step 2. It’s better to make the minced meat yourself from chicken breast and leg pulp: grind the meat with onions and a small amount of white bread (loaf) in a meat grinder.

Step 3. Salt the minced meat, season to taste, but add little spices, add a raw egg and mix well.

Step 4. Add rice to the minced meat, when it cools a little, stir.

Step 5.Form small round meatballs, roll them in flour and lightly fry until nicely browned on all sides in vegetable oil.

Step 6. Add tomato paste diluted with water to the fried meatballs in a frying pan.

Step 7. Simmer the meatballs covered for 10 minutes over low heat.

Step 8. Then dilute sour cream and flour in 150-200 ml of warm water until smooth, add to the frying pan with the meatballs and bring the dish to readiness by simmering for another 5-7 minutes under the lid.

Step 9. Eat the chicken meatballs “from kindergarten” with gravy hot with a side dish of mashed potatoes so that it’s just like in childhood!

Bon appetit!

Turkey meatballs - a delicious frying pan recipe

Turkey meatballs with gravy are a very tasty, tender and dietary dish, popular in children's food, which is also recommended for all adult adherents of proper nutrition. We offer you a delicious recipe for meatballs in a frying pan. To make a lot of gravy, add a little more flour and cream.

Ingredients:

• Minced turkey – 500 gr.
• Boiled rice – 1 tbsp.
• Onions – 3-4 pcs.
• Carrots – 1-2 pcs.
• Cream – 200 ml.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Seasonings for poultry - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Sunflower oil - for frying.
• Hot water - as needed.

Cooking process:

Step 1. Mix minced turkey meat in a bowl with boiled rice until tender.

Step 2. Add salt to taste, dry seasonings for poultry (or chicken), you can add ground black pepper, dried basil, etc.

Step 3. Chop one or two onions very finely, add to the minced meat, stir.

Step 4.Form round meatballs, bread each meatball in flour (you can make a thicker breading: flour, then a beaten egg, then ground crackers).

Step 5. Fry the meatballs in vegetable oil until beautiful, tender crust on all sides.

Step 6. For the gravy, grate the carrots and cut one or two more onions into half rings.

Step 7. Fry the vegetables, stirring, in vegetable oil.

Step 8. Add flour to vegetables, stir, then add cream and butter, stir.

Step 9. Add salt and pepper to the gravy and stir.

Step 10. Pour the gravy into the frying pan with the meatballs, simmer everything under the lid until cooked for 15-20 minutes over low heat.

Step 11. As the gravy boils away, you can dilute it with a small amount of hot water and stir, making sure that it does not burn.

Step 12. Serve the turkey meatballs hot with any side dish.

Bon appetit!