Minced meat and rice meatballs - a simple but very tasty recipe

Kitchen appliances and utensils:

• stove with oven;
• a small pan for boiling rice;
• deep form for cooking meatballs;
• cutting board;
• knife;
• scapula;
• bowls of different sizes for ingredients;
• a deep bowl for cooking minced meat;
• deep frying pan.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cooking Stuffing

1. Boil half a glass of rice until cooked, without salting. To do this, pour half a glass of washed rice in half a liter of boiling water, let it boil, reduce the heat to very low, cover with a lid and let it cool for 10-15 minutes. Then we turn off the fire under the pan and leave the rice to go in a closed pan.
   
2. Meanwhile, we cut one medium onion into small pieces, which will be conveniently passed through a meat grinder or chopped in a blender. Then we grind them in the specified way.
   
3. In a deep bowl we send 600 g of minced meat, chopped onions, boiled rice and rub one processed cheese there.
   
4. Add salt to taste, add a little black pepper and half a teaspoon of chicken seasoning. Knead the minced meat with your hands until smooth. Interestingly, we do not need an egg in this recipe, its function is successfully performed by processed cheese. And without an egg, meatballs will turn out more tender.
   
5. For the preparation of meatballs, we prepare a deep form. Both heat-resistant ceramic or glass, and ordinary enameled, but not silicone, will do. Lightly grease it with vegetable oil (approximately 1 tablespoon).
   
6. So that the stuffing does not stick to your hands, it is advisable to moisten them with water. For convenience, you can put a small bowl of water next to you and periodically dip your hands in it. With wet hands, we pick up a little stuffing in our hands, form neat balls and send them to the prepared form. The size of the balls should be such that in height they are 3 centimeters below the sides of the form.
   

Cooking Gravy

1. We put a deep frying pan on the stove, warm it up a bit and pour 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
   
2. We put 2 tablespoons of sour cream in the heated oil, mix and consistently send spices to this mixture: a teaspoon with a slide of paprika, 1 teaspoon of basil, half a teaspoon of nutmeg and a little black pepper. All mix well, add salt.
   
3. Add one tablespoon of flour and immediately mix thoroughly until the lumps disappear.
   
4. Then pour about 150-200 grams of water and, stirring, wait until the mixture begins to thicken.
   
5. After this, add another 350-500 g of water, mix, add salt if necessary and let the gravy boil. Pour the finished gravy into a form with meatballs. It should be so much that it completely covers the meatballs, but make sure that there are still 2-3 centimeters from the surface of the liquid to the edge of the sides, since the gravy will boil in the oven.
   

Cooking meatballs

1. Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees and send the form with meatballs and sauce into it. Cook the meatballs in the oven for about 40-45 minutes. In this case, the liquid will evaporate a little, and the tops of the meat balls will brown.
   
2. We take out the finished dish from the oven, allow it to cool slightly and serve it on the table.
   

Video recipe

Watching the heroine of the video, you will understand all the intricacies of cooking delicious chicken meatballs, and at the same time you can immediately appreciate the appetizing look of the resulting dish.

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