This is an excellent dish that does not require special cooking skills from the cook, so even a beginner can cope with it. The result is a tasty and satisfying dish that goes well with any side dish and sauce. It is the sauce that will help turn an everyday dish into a festive one. It is enough to prepare a creamy mushroom sauce, add spices, seasonings and herbs, serve beautifully and the dish for the festive table will be ready.

Traditionally, meatballs are prepared from mixed forcemeat. Beef and pork are taken in equal proportions. So the dish turns out the most juicy and delicious. But you can cook a more budget option, taking as a basis chicken meat. In combination with the sauce, the taste will not be inferior to the traditional recipe. Consider the most popular recipes for cooking meatballs in the oven.

Oven meatballs - a classic recipe

  • half a kilogram of minced pork;
  • a pair of medium-sized carrots;
  • a pair of medium-sized onions;
  • a couple of small tomatoes;
  • 100 gr. tomato paste;
  • half a glass of sour cream;
  • glass of water;
  • a couple of tablespoons of oil.

Cooking

  1. Cut the onions into small cubes, rub the carrots on a medium grater.
  2. Remove the skin from the tomato and cut into small pieces.
  3. Fry vegetables in a pan for five minutes.
  4. Add the cooled vegetables to the minced meat, add salt and your favorite spices.
  5. From the resulting mass we make small balls. Advice! So that the stuffing does not stick to your hands, moisten your hands. Then the balls dazzle easier and get more even.
  6. To prepare the sauce, take water, pasta and sour cream. Mix it all and add a little salt.
  7. We lubricate the container with oil, put meatballs there and put in a preheated oven for five minutes.
  8. Pour all the sauce and cook for 20 minutes.

Hedgehogs with rice in sour cream - a step by step recipe

  • half a kilogram of minced meat;
  • 125 gr. rice;
  • 500 ml water;
  • a pair of raw eggs;
  • a couple of spoons of vegetable oil;
  • 200 gr. sour cream.

Cooking

  1. Boil rice in slightly salted water until half-cooked.
  2. Mix it with minced meat.
  3. Add eggs to the resulting mixture.
  4. We form balls of medium size.
  5. Fry them in a pan with the addition of oil for several minutes on each side.
  6. We shift it into a container and fill it with sauce, which is prepared from sour cream with the addition of 100 ml. water.
  7. Cook in the oven for 15 minutes.

Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

  • a pound of minced meat;
  • 1/3 cup tomato paste;
  • a pair of medium-sized onions;
  • couple of art. tablespoons of flour;
  • two medium-sized eggs;
  • 100 gr. rice;
  • medium sized carrots.

Cooking

  1. Rice must be pre-cooked and rinsed under a stream of cold water.
  2. Chop the onion into small cubes and fry with the carrots grated on a fine grater.
  3. Introduce the flour and mix thoroughly.
  4. Tomato paste is mixed with water and added to the pan to all the ingredients.
  5. Add finely chopped or mashed onions and minced eggs to the minced meat. We mix everything.
  6. Mix the meat with rice and make small balls.
  7. We spread them in a container and pour in the prepared sauce.
  8. Bake for at least half an hour.

Oven baked meatballs with potatoes in the oven

  • a pound of minced meat;
  • a pound of potatoes;
  • a pair of medium-sized onions;
  • 125 gr. rice;
  • a pair of eggs;
  • a glass of sour cream;
  • a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste;
  • a pair of garlic cloves;
  • 150 gr. hard cheese.

Cooking

  1. Boil the rice, then rinse it and let it drain.
  2. Cut the onion into a small cube and send to the minced meat.
  3. Add the eggs. Mix everything thoroughly.
  4. We send rice to the resulting mass, salt and add seasonings to choose from.
  5. We make small balls and send them to the container for cooking.
  6. Cut the potatoes into large pieces and spread them to the meatballs.
  7. Mix sour cream, pasta and pour

Oven meatballs in sour cream sauce

  • a pound of minced meat;
  • a pair of eggs;
  • 200 gr. carrots;
  • 200 gr. Luke;
  • 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
  • a glass of sour cream of medium fat content;
  • a couple of tablespoons of oil;
  • 150 ml. water.

Cooking

  1. Cut the onion into a small cube.
  2. Rub carrots on a coarse grater.
  3. We take half the vegetables and fry until half ready.
  4. Into the minced meat we introduce eggs and vegetables. Mix everything thoroughly.
  5. We make small balls and put them in a container greased with oil.
  6. Add water and remaining vegetables to sour cream.
  7. Pour the meatballs with the resulting sauce. Do not forget to add salt and your favorite spices.
  8. Cook in the oven for half an hour.

Meatballs in the oven with gravy

Gravy can be absolutely any. But best of all, meatballs are obtained in tomato, sour cream or cream sauce. Consider the recipe for cooking meatballs in sour cream gravy with the addition of mushrooms.

  • half a kilogram of minced meat;
  • 100 gr. rice;
  • a pair of eggs;
  • 200 gr. Luke;
  • a glass of sour cream;
  • 200 gr. fresh or canned champignons;
  • a couple of tablespoons of flour;
  • a couple of tablespoons of oil;
  • one and a half glasses of water.

Cooking

  1. Boil rice until cooked. We rinse under a stream of cold water and drain.
  2. Add the rice and eggs to the minced meat. Mix everything thoroughly.
  3. Sculpt medium sized balls.
  4. We spread them in a special container.
  5. Cut the onion into small cubes and fry with the mushrooms.
  6. Add onion, half a glass of water, mushrooms and flour to sour cream. Mix everything thoroughly.
  7. Pour meatballs with sauce.
  8. Cook for half an hour.

Chicken meatballs in creamy onion sauce

  • half a kilogram of minced chicken;
  • 250 gr Luke;
  • a pair of eggs;
  • a glass of cream of medium fat content;
  • a couple of tablespoons of flour;
  • half a glass of rice;
  • glass of water.

Cooking

  1. Boil the rice, rinse and drain.
  2. Break the eggs into the minced meat, send rice, salt and seasonings.
  3. We make small balls and put them in a baking container, previously greased with oil.
  4. Cut the onion into medium-sized cubes.
  5. Add onion, flour and a little salt to the cream.
  6. Pour the meatballs with the resulting sauce.
  7. Cook them for thirty minutes.
  8. Before serving, you can decorate with any greens. Dill or parsley is good.