Meatballs in sour cream sauce go well with almost any garnish. In this form, any meat is soft, and in combination with rice and other ingredients, it is also very satisfying. Sour cream gravy completely soaks the dish, adding tenderness and juiciness to it.
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Meatballs in sour cream sauce - a classic meat recipe
According to the classic recipe, the meatballs discussed are prepared in the oven. This saves them from excess oil and unnecessary crisp. For such a dish you need to take: 750 g of any meat, 2 pcs. carrots and onions, 3 garlic cloves, 1 egg, 220 g thick fat sour cream, 20 g wheat flour, 1 pc. sweet red pepper, salt, parsley root, ground black pepper, oil, a pinch of sugar, 250 ml of warm boiled water.
- The meat is rolled in a meat grinder along with garlic and onions. After this, the minced meat can be salted, add an egg to it and knead well. To give the product elasticity, you can beat it on a hard surface for a couple of minutes.
- Chopped onions, carrots and red bell peppers chopped in any convenient way are fried in oil until soft. At the end, parsley root, sugar and sour cream are sent to the container with vegetables.
- In a separate container, the flour is diluted with water and mixed well so that even the smallest lumps disappear.
- The resulting liquid is poured into the pan to the rest of the products.
- The sauce is boiled for a couple of minutes.
- Approximately 10 small meatballs are molded from the minced meat, which are laid out in a form covered with foil.
- The meat is poured with sauce, and the container is sent to a very preheated oven for about half an hour.
If you wish, you can sprinkle it with grated hard cheese a couple of minutes before the treat is ready.
Mushroom Recipe
It is best to cook such a dish of minced meat, which combines pork and chicken.In addition to the meat component (450 g), you will need to take: 3 slices of white bread, 1 white medium onion, 20 g flour, 50 g fat sour cream, 170 g champignons, 1 tbsp. tomato paste, a couple of garlic cloves, salt, oil.
- White bread without a crust is soaked in a warm liquid, after which it is wrung out and sent to the minced meat.
- Onions and garlic are minced and sent to the rest of the ingredients.
- Stuffing is salted. You can add any aromatic spices to your taste.
- Mushrooms are cleaned, finely chopped and cooked in a pan with vegetable or butter until all liquid has evaporated from the container.
- Mushrooms are mixed with minced meat.
- Large meatballs are molded with wet hands from the resulting mass.
- To prepare the sauce, put sour cream mixed with flour and tomato paste on the pan.
- The ingredients are poured with a glass of water (you can replace it with meat or vegetable broth). If the paste is acidic, you can slightly sweeten the future sauce.
- Meatballs are laid out in the same pan and stewed on the slowest fire under a closed lid for at least 25 minutes.
It is best to serve a treat with boiled pasta or mashed potatoes.
Chicken meatballs in sour cream
Chicken meatballs are especially liked by the youngest members of the family. Figure will help to make them more satisfying. In addition to cereals (70 g) and minced chicken (550 g), you need to use: 50 g flour and fat milk, 180 g sour cream, 1 pc. onions and carrots, 3-4 cloves of garlic, a pinch of salt and pepper, oil, salt.
- Boiled rice until half cooked, minced onion and garlic, is added to the minced meat. Also, the product is seasoned with salt and pepper to taste. You can add any finely chopped fresh herbs to the dish.
- Milk is also added directly to the minced meat. It will make the mass more tender and juicy. Milk can be replaced with heavy cream.
- Miniature balls are formed from the resulting meat, which are fried in oil until golden brown on all sides.
- In a separate pan, the carrots grated on a coarse grater are fried until soft. Sour cream is added to the vegetable, as well as salt and spices to taste.
- Ready meatballs are laid out in boiling sauce, after which they are stewed over low heat for another 10-12 minutes.
If you increase the amount of rice in the composition, then such a dish can be served to the table as an independent without an additional side dish.
Original recipe with pickles
A very unusual and tasty dish is based on minced fish with the addition of pickles. It is also advisable to season them with dried dill (0.5 tbsp). In addition to pickles (2 pcs.), You need to take: 60 g of rice, 370 g of any minced fish, 1 carrot, 220 ml of low-fat sour cream and the same amount of cream, salt, spices.
- Rice is cooked for about 8 minutes after boiling water.
- Minced fish is mixed with chilled finished cereals, salted, peppered and turned into miniature billets for meatballs.
- The carrots are rubbed on a fine grater, after which it is poured with cream, sour cream and salted to taste. The future sauce is brought to a boil.
- Then you can send meat balls to the creamy mass and simmer them for 25 minutes.
- About 10 minutes before the dish is cooked, dried dill and chopped pickles are added to the bowl with meatballs.
A treat is served with vegetable salad and homemade bread.
Fish meatballs in sour cream sauce
You can also cook fish meatballs in the oven in sour cream sauce. In this case, you do not have to ensure that the balls are not burnt. For the recipe you need to use the following ingredients: 450 g of minced fish, 70 g of white bread, 1 egg, 1 small white onion, 220 g of low-fat sour cream, 1 tbsp. wheat flour, 30 g butter, water, salt, spices, butter.
- Onions are minced with white bread. The resulting slurry is mixed with egg and minced fish. If the mass is too liquid, then you can add a little breadcrumbs to it.
- Mini meatballs are formed from minced meat and sent to the refrigerator for about 15-17 minutes.
- For the sauce, the flour is fried in butter until golden, about 2/3 cup of hot water is poured. The ingredients must be constantly stirred so that no lumps form in the pan.
- It remains to add sour cream, salt, selected seasonings, mix the mixture until smooth, bring to a boil and boil for a couple of minutes.
- The baking dish is generously greased with vegetable oil. The balls are laid out in the bowl, which are poured with the resulting sauce.
- The treat is prepared in a well-heated oven for about 25 minutes.
To prevent the balls from falling apart in the form, you can pre-fry them in a pan with a small amount of oil or hold for 10 minutes in the oven without adding sauce.
In a slow cooker
It is very simple to cook meatballs using a slow cooker. For example, chicken with rice and sour cream sauce. In addition to minced meat (450 g), you will need to use: 70 g of rice, 1 egg, 3 each. onions and carrots, 270 ml of water, 120 g of fat sour cream, 1 tbsp. wheat flour, salt, oil, spices.
- Rice is boiled until half cooked in salted water and reclines in a colander.
- Carrots and onions are chopped in any convenient way, and then fried until the latter is transparent in the bowl of the device on the "Frying" program.
- In the minced meat is added an egg, salt, spices and some ready-made vegetables. Small meatballs are molded from the resulting mass.
- Sour cream is mixed with water, salted and peppered.
- Meatballs are laid out over the remaining fry, sprinkled with flour and poured with sauce.
- The treat is prepared for 35 minutes in the "Extinguishing" mode.
The dish is served hot with fresh herbs and vegetables.
In tomato and sour cream sauce
Tomato-sour cream sauce goes well with any minced meat. For example, you can take pork and beef in equal proportions (250 g each). Also need to use: 1 pc. onions and carrots, 90 g of rice, a couple of cloves of garlic, a small bunch of fresh parsley, 350 ml of water, 2 tbsp. l potato starch, 90 g of sour cream and tomato sauce without additives, 1 tsp. salt and sugar, any spices.
- Rice is boiled until al dente.
- Carrots, onions and garlic are ground in a blender to a homogeneous state of gruel.
- Vegetables and rice are mixed with a meat product. Finely chopped greens, salt and spices are added to the ingredients.
- Miniature balls roll out of the resulting mass and fit into a heat-resistant form.
- For the sauce, starch is diluted in 130 ml of water. The remaining liquid is mixed with sour cream, tomato paste, salt, sugar and selected spices. Water and starch are poured into the sauce.
- The filling is sent to the meatballs in the form, after which they are covered with foil.
- The dish is cooked for about 50 minutes at 180 degrees.
At the very end, you can remove the foil and lightly brown the treat on top.
Garlic meatballs
Garlic will make the sour cream sauce for meatballs even more delicious and fragrant. The main thing is not to overdo it with its quantity. In addition to garlic (4 teeth), you need to take: 260 g of pork and ground beef, 1 egg, 2 white onions, 180 ml of low-fat sour cream and similar cream, 40 g of flour, salt, spices.
- Onions finely chopped and cooked in butter until golden brown.
- The fried vegetable is added to the minced meat along with the egg, salt and seasonings. Miniature meatballs are molded from the resulting mass.
- Flour should be baked in a frying pan until golden brown. Sour cream, cream, crushed garlic, salt to taste are sent to it.
- Meatballs are laid out in a greased form, poured with sauce and sent to a well-heated oven for 35 minutes.
The treat is served hot with mashed potatoes, rice or boiled broccoli.