Why everybody loves meatballs

Meatballs - rich dish in the form of small balls of meat, fish or vegetable stuffing. They are well known and popular in almost all countries, but all have different names. The most delicious meatballs, perhaps we could try in Sweden, because there they are considered a national dish. And in general - good meatballs can try even the nearest of the regular table. Because this dish is almost impossible to mess up.

Popular dish is easy to explain: the meatballs are delicious, but, at the same time, it is very simple to prepare. Want to cook dinner, which will have absolutely all the family members? Cook meatballs, only to find out what someone loves. Meatballs - not necessarily a meat dish. They can be made from vegetables or cereals. The taste is not spoiled, and will not cease to be meatballs meatballs.

The main difference from the meatballs meatballs: meatballs boned only in the flour (preferably in rice than wheat), but not in breadcrumbs. In yet meatballs made to add various cereals, particularly rice. Do not be afraid to add rice, it makes it so tender meatballs taste.

Meatballs can be prepared in Multivarki, oven, add them to the soup, but it's better not to fry them. In this case, they will lose their dietary value and will usually grilled burgers like meatballs.

Meatballs got on Russian cuisine is not due to Sweden. On them we learned from the kitchen of the Turkic peoples who originally prepared meatballs in a big pot where distributed in portions and always with a sauce of broth.

To prepare delicious meatballs, need, first of all, choose a good meat for stuffing. Better mix of pork and beef, but some prefer to simply beef meatballs. Here it is impossible to give advice, but for an amateur! Choose your proportions.

Meat, of course, it is best to take the pair. But if it is difficult to find, you just try to choose the most fresh and not peremorozhennoe.

The most delicious part of the dish with meatballs - is gravy! Think in advance about the recipe: you can make sour cream, tomato sauce or gravy tasty broth. The sauce can even be sweet - it will only accentuate the taste of meatballs.

No more secrets cooking delicious meatballs not. This dish, which can make any hostess, regardless of its culinary experience. For each there is a lover of meatballs recipe: lazy, with a complex sauce or lean.

Choose your appetite and enjoy you!

Swedish meatballs

You will need: 300 grams of ground beef and 200 grams of pork, 1 egg, 1 onion, 2 handfuls of white bread crumbs (breadcrumbs), 0.5 cups milk, 1 cup low-fat cream 5 tablespoons. tablespoons of melted butter, 1 tbsp. Spoon flour, salt, black and white pepper.
Preparation: Onion cleaned, cut into small cubes and fry with butter over medium heat until softened onions. Pour the stuffing mixture of milk and eggs, add the breadcrumbs, add fried onions, salt and pepper, minced knead. Roll balls the size of your hands with a little walnut, put on a greased flat plate. In good hot oil to break the dish meatballs to the pan and fry them over high heat on all sides until light brown, postpone, keeping warm. On a clean pan with 2 tbsp. l. oil to fry the flour in a couple of minutes over medium heat, stirring, pour a thin stream of cream, bring to a boil over low heat, evaporate until thick, add salt and pepper. In the sauce add the meatballs, warm.

Fish meatballs in tomato sauce

Need: 1 egg, 2 pen green onions, 4 tbsp. l. parsley (finely chopped)
4 tbsp. l. cilantro (finely chopped), 2/3 cup bread crumbs, 1/8 teaspoon ground saffron.
For the tomato sauce: 4 medium tomatoes (or one can of tomatoes in juice, 450 g) 1 onion (finely chopped), 1/4 cup olive oil 2 cloves garlic (finely chopped) 1 teaspoon paprika, 1/2 Harissa (Moroccan spice blend) or 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 teaspoon sugar.

Preparation: Pour the saffron 4 tsp of warm water. Cut the fish into large pieces and place in bowl of food processor with egg, herbs, bread crumbs and saffron water. Add 3/4 tsp salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste. Milling into a thick paste.

Wet hands shape the mixture into balls the size of a walnut. Put on a baking sheet and place in the refrigerator.

For the tomato sauce, first clean the tomatoes. Make a cross-shaped incision on each tomato, dip each for 20 seconds in boiling water, then into ice water. Remove the tomatoes from the water and remove the skin. Cut the tomatoes in half and squeeze out the seeds, then coarsely chop tomatoes.

Over medium heat in a skillet, heat the olive oil and fry the onion for 5 minutes. Then add the garlic and all the spices. Fry a few seconds, then add the tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper and 1 cup of water. Bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.

Carefully place the fish balls in tomato sauce, from time to time potryasyvaya skillet to evenly coat the meatballs sauce. Over medium heat, slowly bring the sauce to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until the little 20 minutes.

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