Meatballs in a pan with gravy - 6 delicious recipes

In a frying pan, you can cook very appetizing food - meat balls - meatballs with gravy. The gravy is usually made from tomatoes or tomato paste, cream or sour cream, and flour or starch, as well as sauteed vegetables, such as onions and carrots, help thicken it. Minced meat for meatballs is suitable for absolutely any, both from poultry and from pork, beef or fish. We offer you six delicious recipes for making meatballs step by step.

Meatballs in a pan with gravy without rice

It may seem that meatballs without rice are something very ingenuous and simple, however, such balls of minced meat 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 you like.

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  Put the minced meat, ready-made or homemade (it can be anything, not necessarily the one indicated in the recipe) put in a deep bowl, add two finely chopped onions to it, as well as chopped garlic.
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  Add a fresh 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 off the bottom of the bowl.
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  Blind meat balls, bread them in flour and fry in vegetable oil until a beautiful blush on all sides.
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  For gravy, mix sour cream with tomato paste and water, add salt and ground black pepper to taste, add the gravy to the meatballs and simmer them until tender under the lid in a deep thick-walled frying pan (a cauldron is also suitable). For 20-25 minutes on low heat, your meatballs should be completely extinguished.
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  For greater taste, ready-made 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

Rice meatballs are a very satisfying dish, especially when served with a side dish of pasta, stewed vegetables, or boiled potatoes. For a change, not only rice, but also buckwheat and white bread can be added 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.
• Bulb 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.

For the sauce:

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

Cooking process:

1. Boil the rice until cooked in salted water in advance, and when it is cooked, drain the excess water, but do not rinse the rice.
2. Minced meat is best done by yourself by mincing pork and chicken.
3. Soak the bread in milk or water, squeeze, add to the minced meat.
4. Add boiled rice, finely grated carrots, chopped dill, garlic and onions.
5. Season the minced meat to taste with salt and seasoning, mix well.
6. Form the meatballs, if desired, they can be breaded in flour, or you can fry without flour in hot oil on all sides, so that a beautiful crust appears.
7. For the gravy, chop the onion and grate the carrots. If desired, you can add bell peppers, cut into strips, as well as fresh tomatoes or tomato paste to the gravy.
8. Fry vegetables, add sour cream, dilute the gravy with hot water so that it is medium thick.
9. Pour the gravy meatballs and simmer them under the lid for 15-20 minutes.
10. Dissolve the flour in a small amount of cold water, and so that it does not brew, stir with a whisk.
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 a lid over low heat.
12. Eat meatballs with hot gravy, best of all with mashed potatoes.

Bon Appetit!

Fish meatballs in a pan with tomato sauce

Now let's prepare fish meatballs with tomato gravy for a change. Of course, meatballs are very tasty, but they are no worse from fish fillets, especially since sea fish is an excellent source of healthy protein. Any fish with a small amount of bones is suitable for meatballs, for example, pollock, cod or hake.

Ingredients:

• Pollock - 600-700 gr.
• Carrots - 2 pcs.
• Tomato paste - 3 tablespoons
• Oatmeal - 3 tablespoons
• Flour - 50 gr.
• Onions - 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:

1. Pour a small amount of boiling water over the oatmeal flakes so that they swell.
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.
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.
4. Blind balls from minced meat, roll them in flour.
5. Cut the onion into half rings and grate the carrots.
6. Fry the onions and carrots in a little vegetable oil.
7. When they are soft, add tomato paste, salt and pepper, add a little hot water and simmer for 5 minutes, covered.
8. Fry the fish meatballs in a deep frying pan on all sides until a beautiful blush, then pour the gravy over them and simmer until tender.
9. Minced fish meatballs stew quickly: after 15-20 minutes, check the dish for readiness.
10. Eat fish meatballs with tomato gravy and garnished with mashed potatoes, fresh vegetables, or cooked 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 gravy are nothing more than culinary classics of European cuisine. And making them is very easy. Any mince is suitable for such meat balls, but it is better if you make it yourself by scrolling whole pieces of fresh meat through a meat grinder: this way the meatballs will turn out to be the most delicious!

Ingredients:

For meatballs:

• Minced pork and beef - 500 gr.
• Minced meat spices - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Bulb onions - 2 pcs.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Raw rice - 100 gr.
• Flour - 2 tablespoons
• Salt to taste.
• Parsley, dill - a bunch.

For gravy:

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

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the rice and boil until tender in salted water. You do not need to rinse the cooked cereals.
2. Put the minced meat rolled into a meat grinder in a bowl, salt and season it, add onion and finely chopped greens.
3. Finally, add a chicken egg to the minced meat, stir until smooth.
4. Stir the rice that has cooled completely to the minced meat.
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.
6. Pour the tomato paste, stirred in a glass of boiling water, to the fried meatballs.
7. Simmer the dish covered for a quarter of an hour.
8. Stir the flour well with sour cream and half a glass of hot water, add to the pan, simmer until cooked for about 10 minutes over low heat. Season with salt and pepper as needed.
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 meatballs with rice for future use and freeze them in the freezer raw in a food container, and when necessary, defrost, add the gravy and simmer until tender.

Chicken meatballs like in a garden with gravy

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

Ingredients:

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

Cooking process:

1. First, rinse and boil the rice until cooked in salted water (for 1 part of rice, take 2 parts of water).
2. It is better to make minced meat yourself from chicken breast and pulp from the legs: in a meat grinder, scroll the meat with onions and a small amount of a white roll (loaf).
3. Salt the minced meat, season to taste, but put a little spices, add a raw egg and mix well.
4. Add rice to the minced meat, when it cools a little, stir.
5. Form small round meatballs, roll them in flour and lightly fry until a beautiful crust on all sides in vegetable oil.
6. Add tomato paste diluted with water to a frying pan to the fried meatballs.
7. Simmer meatballs covered for 10 minutes over low heat.
8. Then dilute the sour cream and flour in 150-200 ml of warm water until smooth, add to the pan to the meatballs and bring the dish to readiness, stewing for another 5-7 minutes under the lid.
9. Eat chicken meatballs "from the garden" with gravy hot with a side dish of mashed potatoes, so that it will be just like in childhood!

Bon Appetit!

Turkey meatballs - a delicious recipe in a pan

Turkey meatballs with gravy is a very tasty, delicate and dietary dish popular in baby food, which is also recommended for all adult adherents of proper nutrition. We offer you a delicious recipe for meatballs in a pan. And to make a lot of gravy, add a little more flour and cream.

Ingredients:

• Minced turkey - 500 gr.
• Boiled rice - 1 tbsp.
• Bulb onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
• Cream - 200 ml.
• Flour - 2 tablespoons
• 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:

1. Stir the minced turkey meat in a bowl with the cooked rice until tender.
2. Add salt to taste, dry poultry (or chicken) seasoning, ground black pepper, dried basil, etc.
3. Chop one or two onions very finely, add to the minced meat, mix.
4. Form round meatballs, bread each meatball in flour (you can make a denser breading: flour, then a beaten egg, then ground crackers).
5. Fry meatballs in vegetable oil until a beautiful, tender crust on all sides.
6. For gravy, grate the carrots, cut another onion or two into half rings.
7. Fry vegetables, stirring occasionally, in vegetable oil.
8. Add flour to vegetables, stir, then add cream and butter, stir.
9. Season with salt and pepper to taste, stir.
10. Pour the gravy into the pan for the meatballs, simmer everything under the lid until tender for 15-20 minutes over low heat.
11. As the gravy begins to boil, you can dilute it with a little hot water and stir, being careful not to burn.
12. Serve hot turkey meatballs with any side dish.

Bon Appetit!