How to cook chicken meatballs with gravy. Chicken meatballs with rice - a recipe with a photo of minced meat with sour cream sauce with the addition of tomato sauce. Minced chicken meatballs

Love meatballs? Fragrant balls are made from minced meat, often combining different types of it, such as beef and pork. But today we will talk about the most tender chicken and chicken meatballs - the most "light" and dietary of all meatballs.

How can you cook minced chicken meatballs? The most popular recipes are chicken meatballs with gravy, in the oven, in sour cream sauce, in cream sauce, in tomato sauce. They cook chicken meatballs with rice, the best part of chicken for minced meat is the breast - experienced housewives know that chicken breast meatballs are especially dietary.

Chicken meatballs with gravy

Some people call this dish “meatballs in sour cream sauce”, but meatballs with sour cream and ketchup (or tomato paste) sauce are more correct.

Ingredients

for meatballs:

Minced chicken fillet 300 g
Rice quarter glass
Shallot 1 piece
Quail egg 1 piece
Salt, pepper, oregano to taste

for gravy:

Sour cream 30% 1 teaspoon
Ketchup 1 teaspoon
Flour 1 teaspoon
Salt, bay leaf

Cooking method

Cooking meatballs from minced chicken in sour cream sauce, let's start with the meatballs themselves.

Meatballs.
Lightly brown the shallots and combine it with minced meat.
Boil rice until half cooked (al dente) and also mix with minced meat.
We fasten the mass with an egg, salt, lightly pepper and season with oregano (if you are making a child, you can skip this step).
Knead. We make small chicken meatballs.
Dip in flour and fry vegetable oil turning over different sides.

Gravy.
Dilute the ketchup with half a glass of water, salt, and then pour the meatballs in the pan with this liquid. Simmer for 5-7 minutes.
In the same amount of water, we dilute sour cream and flour and also pour it into the meatballs.
If the pan is shallow, cover it with a lid and shake well so that the gravy with flour is distributed over all the meatballs, after which we simmer the chicken meatballs with the gravy for some more time.

Chicken meatballs in creamy sauce

One of best recipes minced chicken meatballs that I have ever met. If you add a little ground nutmeg to the ingredients, you will get the taste of meat in bechamel sauce.

Ingredients:

medium fat cream 300 ml
milk 100 ml
chicken meat 300 g
bun city half
onion medium 1 piece
Russian type cheese 150 g
dill small bunch
garlic 1 clove
salt, pepper to taste

Recipe for meatballs with cream

The formation of meatballs.
Let's start by soaking the bun in milk.
Finely chop (even puree) the onion, twist the chicken.
We squeeze the bun from the milk and add it to the minced meat, send the onion there.
Adjust the taste for salt and pepper. Mince for chicken meatballs is ready.
Now you need to form meatballs from minced meat. We form with our hands and start baking.

Baking meatballs in the oven.
To do this, put a greased form with chicken meatballs in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes (it may take a little more or less time for you due to the individual characteristics of the oven).

Sauce.
We're preparing the sauce. Mix chopped dill and garlic, passed through a press. Add grated cheese to it.
Mix, add cream and pour the minced chicken meatballs with the resulting sauce.
Then we return the form with meatballs to the oven for another 10-15 minutes.

Minced chicken meatballs in tomato sauce

And one more recipe - rich, fragrant, satisfying and unusually appetizing.

Recipe Ingredients:

minced chicken 500 g
oatmeal flakes ½ faceted glass
medium tomato 1 piece
carrot 1 piece
bulb onions 1 large onion
garlic 2 small cloves
parsley half a bunch
spices to taste
salt pepper
milk 50 ml
flour 1 tbsp. l. with a slide
wine vinegar 2 tbsp. l.
tomato juice 150 ml
olive oil 10 ml

Cooking chicken meatballs in tomato sauce

How to cook chicken meatballs in tomato sauce?
Ground meat. The peculiarity of this recipe for chicken meatballs is that they include oatmeal.
First, the flakes must be combined with milk so that they swell and give the meatballs density and volume, therefore, having sent them to minced chicken, we leave them alone for a while.

The next step is to prepare the vegetables. Finely chop the parsley, onion and garlic, puree half of the carrots and the pulp of the tomato on a grater.
Add to minced chicken: garlic, parsley, half of the amount of onion and all spices. Mix well and form meatballs.
In a hot frying pan, fry the meatballs in vegetable oil so that they form a crust (but not until cooked), and then remove from the pan.

"Assembly" of the dish. Put the second half of the onion, carrots into the vacated pan, pour the vinegar. Simmer for 4-5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Sprinkle the vegetables in the pan with flour, add the tomato pulp, tomato juice and mix everything. Let the mass boil for a minute or two, then we will adjust it for salt and pepper, pour half a glass of boiling water from the kettle and return the chicken meatballs to the pan.

Stew meatballs in tomato sauce under a lid over low heat for 30-35 minutes.

With gravy is a favorite dish of our grandmothers. Indeed, in those days when only minced meat and poultry were on the shelves, such meat products were very frequent "guests" on the tables of Soviet families.

Although such products are popular to this day. Do you know why? Because minced chicken meatballs with rice and gravy are 150 calories in 100 grams of such a dish. Note that these products are made simply and easily.

Balls of gravy

To cook minced chicken meatballs with tomato paste sauce, you will need:

rice - 250 grams;
chicken fillet - 500 grams;
salt;
egg - 1 piece;
parsley;
carrots - 130 grams;
pepper;
onion - 100 grams;
sour cream and tomato paste, one tablespoon each;
water - one glass.

If you want your meatballs to be low-calorie, then use a Teflon pan. If this is not in the house, then you will still need additional oil for frying.

Cooking a meat dish

The first stage - we cook minced chicken meatballs with gravy

First, rinse the chicken fillet under running water and chop finely (you can scroll through a meat grinder).
Take half an onion and a carrot. Finely chop the first vegetable, and grate the second. Then send the onions and carrots to a deep container. In it, we will mix all the products.
Next, add parsley (chopped) there.
After minced fillet with chicken egg, send rice to a bowl with vegetables. Salt and pepper the mixture in a bowl, then stir. Here we have minced meat ready. Leave it aside for now.
Take the remaining onions and carrots, chop, fry for five minutes. Now set the mixture aside. After such frying, add to the gravy.
Now back to the minced meat, with wet hands, start sculpting meatballs the size of a quail egg.
Next, send the meatballs to the pan, fry on both sides for a minute and a half.
Then put the products in a saucepan (thick-walled).

The second stage - cooking gravy

Now start preparing the gravy. In the roast, which we made from carrots and onions, add tomato paste, the same amount of sour cream, as well as water (one glass).
Then stir the mixture, pour it into a pan with meat balls.
Put on fire, simmer minced chicken meatballs with gravy over medium heat for twenty minutes. That's all, the products are ready. They can be served with both mashed potatoes and buckwheat porridge.

Meatballs with minced chicken rice. Recipe with sour cream sauce

Such meat products are obtained no worse than in the first version.

To prepare meatballs you will need:

fillet or minced meat (chicken) - 1 kilogram;
egg - one piece;
flour - half a glass (required for breading);
rice - half a glass;
ground pepper - half a teaspoon.

To prepare the sauce you need:

sour cream - one tablespoon and the same amount of tomato paste;
onion - two heads;
vegetable oil - half a cup;
sugar - one and a half teaspoons;
salt;
Bay leaf;
greenery.

How to cook a dish of chicken fillet?

The first stage - cooking meatballs

If you took a fillet, then pass it through a meat grinder, then add rice, egg, salt and pepper. Mix the mass well, make balls from it, four centimeters in diameter.
Roll each meatball in flour, fry in a preheated pan on both sides. Then put the balls in a wide saucepan.

The second stage - we make sour cream sauce for meat balls

Finely chop the onion, fry in a pan until softened.
Add sour cream (diluted in ½ cup water), tomato paste, salt, sugar, and boil this mixture for two minutes. That's it, the sauce is ready.
Now fill the meatballs with the resulting sauce. It must completely cover all products. Stew these meatballs on low heat for half an hour. Sprinkle the finished balls with chopped dill.

A small conclusion

Now you know how to cook meatballs with gravy. We have presented you step-by-step recipes for preparing these meat products. We hope that you can make such balls at home. Good luck!

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And today I'm cooking meatballs. They are rightfully one of the most beloved minced meat dishes. Both adults and children love them! Looking to treat your family to these delicious meat balls in gravy?

Then you will definitely need my selection, in which as many as eight dissimilar, but very delicious recipes.

Here you will find both simple and easy, and more exotic options.

Choose your family recipe and with step-by-step photos you will succeed!

Meatballs with rice in tomato sauce classic recipe

Let's start with the classic recipe, which is often present on the menu of kindergartens, and simply in home cooking.

Ingredients:

minced meat - 500 gr
rice - 150 gr
chicken egg - 1 pc.
medium onion - 1 pc.
salt, pepper - to taste
flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
carrot - 1 pc.
tomato paste - 4-5 tbsp
sugar - 1 tbsp. spoon
paprika - 1 tbsp. spoon

The difference between meatballs with rice from the same ones is that they require pre-frying to maintain their shape and density. And hedgehogs don't need that, they should look fluffy with well-visible rice, sort of disheveled, and in my opinion, they are much easier to prepare. But meatballs are a little tastier.

So, to cook them, finely chop the onion. I take half of a medium onion to add to the minced meat, and leave the other half for the sauce. My husband is not a big fan of onions, so I put on a minimum. If you like onions, you can take more.

I have minced pork + beef. I mix it with chopped onion, rice and egg. Don't forget to salt and pepper.

As for rice. Some prefer to pre-boil the rice for 10 minutes until half cooked. But I don't do it, because rice will be cooked in those half an hour, while the dish will be stewed.

Therefore, you can safely add unboiled, the only thing this leads to is that the meatballs will turn out a little drier inside. For example, this does not bother me, because it will still be unrealistically tasty.

But, decide for yourself how it is more convenient for you, and do it, just look so that the rice does not boil at all and remains dense.

We mix everything into a homogeneous mass. You should get a beautiful, fragrant stuffing.

We begin to form meatballs.

We collect minced meat with a spoon and roll a ball from it between the palms. They should be about the same size so that it does not happen that some of them will already be ready, and too large ones will remain raw.

If you moisten your hands with water or oil before sculpting, the stuffing won't stick to your hands.

Then roll each ball in flour and place on a cutting board. Roll lightly, without fanaticism.

So my delicious landing is almost ready for further preparation. Meatballs will need to be fried with no big amount oil so that they "grab" and retain their rounded shape. If this is not done, you will end up with hedgehogs. 😊

We put our meatballs in the pan. Fry over low heat, turning over to another barrel.

We do not have a goal to fry them until cooked. Just a little brown. Turn it off and leave it like that.

It's time to prepare the tomato sauce. I don't really like to get a lot of dishes dirty while cooking, but the recipe calls for making the sauce in a separate container.

To do this, put the chopped onion and grated carrots on a fine grater in a pan, fry until soft and light golden brown.

When this happens, add the tomato paste. Since tomato paste itself is neutral and has just a tomato flavor, we immediately add sugar and salt to it.

You can pepper to taste. And here we add paprika. It will give the sauce an even richer red color, so don't be stingy. You can put a tablespoon with a slide.

Pour about 2-3 cups of boiling water into the frying pan. Once you've zeroed in on the recipe, you'll know exactly how much water to add to your dishes.

Next, be sure to try it (!) And add salt and pepper to taste. You can also add aromatic spices. For example, I like to add some suneli hops or dried basil and garlic. You can add fresh crushed garlic, but the smell of it is not for everybody.

And pour our fried meat balls with gravy.

The gravy should completely or almost completely cover them. At first it may seem like a lot, but I assure you that after 30 minutes of stewing, even with the lid closed, it will decrease by at least half.

So, cover the meatballs filled with gravy with a lid, set the smallest fire and simmer until tender. This process takes about 25-30 minutes, the minced meat is cooked very quickly and the rice that we put inside just has time to cook.

If the rice was previously boiled until half cooked, then the cooking time can be reduced to 20 minutes. This should be enough.

After half an hour, the meatballs are ready. The sauce thickened up and didn't make much of it. More could have been done.

For a side dish, you can take crushed or whole-boiled potatoes, as well as buckwheat, pasta, pea mash. How fragrant and beautiful they are!

I will break one ball to show you. The rice is completely cooked inside. Meatballs keep their shape, they are plump and delicious! Both adults and children will be delighted.

Take note of the recipe, it is very light and easy to prepare. And you can quickly feed the whole family! 😉

Minced meatballs in sour cream sauce

Whoever has never tried meat balls in sour cream sauce has lost a lot! It's fantastically delicious, and if you're positive about sour cream, then this dish is for you. They are so tender, they just melt in your mouth. 👍

Ingredients:

Homemade minced meat - 500 gr.
Dry rice - 50 gr.
Egg - 1 pc.
Onion - 1 piece small.
Carrot - 1 pc.
Sour cream 15% - 300 gr.
Flour for boning - 2 tbsp. l.
Salt, pepper - to taste.
Khmeli-suneli (or other seasoning for meat) - 1 tsp. with a hill.

In the previous recipe, I did not boil the rice until half cooked. But this time I decided to boil it to get a very tender and juicy dish.

We boil the rice as follows - we wash it through a sieve with running water and then place it in a saucepan.

Pour water, preferably boiling water, so that it is completely covered. Salt a little and put on a small fire. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, rice tends not only to “run away” from the dishes, but also stick to it from below and to the walls. Therefore, stir actively, do not let him misbehave.

After boiling, cook for 7-10 minutes.

Once the rice has absorbed all the water, turn it off. Let stand for 10-15 minutes, let it cool down to at least a very warm state.

We mix minced meat (I have pork + chicken), half-boiled rice in one bowl, break one egg, salt, pepper and I add a spoonful of suneli hops. It will be very fragrant!

Mix everything together until smooth. Next, we collect minced meat with a spoon and, rolling between the palms, we form balls.

They must be small. Approximately 4-4.5 cm in diameter. And I immediately put them in a frying pan with high boots, with a little oil. And start frying on moderate heat. It is necessary that they "grab", so I additionally close them with a lid.

Fry until a little golden and turn over to another barrel. I do it with these silicone kitchen tongs, very handy.

It is not necessary to fry until cooked, just brown.

Put the finished balls in a separate bowl. Or you can take a separate pan for gravy, as I did in the first recipe.

I rub the carrot finely, chop the onion.

I send them to the pan, add a little oil again. By the way, instead of vegetable, you can add creamy, it will be even tastier.

Fry until light golden, not allowing the vegetables to fry too much. You need to stir. And spread the sour cream.

I have seen recipes where only 3 tablespoons of sour cream are added. In my opinion, this is not enough, it turns out water-vodka, not sauce. Add more, there will not be much, but the sauce will turn out rich and incredibly tasty.

Mix sour cream with vegetables.

And add cold water, I added 2 cups, but I have a large pan. Add enough water to cover the meatballs almost completely. The sauce must be salted, peppered as desired and tasted to adjust the taste.

Awesome sauce, in it the meatballs will turn out great and very juicy!

We put them in the sauce and put them on the stove, under the closed lid. After boiling, simmer on the slowest fire for 20 minutes.

During this time, the gravy will thicken a little, soak our minced meat balls.

It remains only to submit. I have pasta as a side dish, which I pour over with sour cream sauce, and spread the meatballs on top. A little fresh cucumber and a great dinner is ready!

Look how juicy, soft, fragrant! Eat while hot, it will be an unearthly pleasure.

Be sure to take it in your piggy bank, this is a classic recipe that has been proven by more than one generation. Guaranteed taste and tenderness!

Meatballs with mushrooms in the oven with potato garnish

An interesting recipe for cooking meat balls in the oven immediately with a side dish of potato slices. Delicious and practical! I recommend.

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 500 gr.
Mushrooms - 150 gr.
Potatoes - 6-7 large pieces.
Cheese - 150-200 gr.
Salt, pepper - to taste.
Nutmeg - 1/2 tsp
Vegetable oil - 1-2 tbsp. l.
Seasoning for potatoes - optional.

Take minced meat, season it with salt, pepper and nutmeg. And also I always have frozen, already chopped champignons in the refrigerator, just on hastily. I don't even defrost them, they will melt during cooking.

I make meatballs from this mixture. This recipe is rice-free, which makes it much easier to prepare.

I cut the potatoes into slices, add a little olive oil to it (you can take sunflower oil), salt and add a little seasoning for potatoes. Mix and spread it in a foil-lined baking dish with high sides.

Meatballs with mushrooms go on top. In this form, we send them to the oven at 200 degrees, to the lowest level for 40-50 minutes. We put them in them so that the rounds do not brown before the potatoes are baked.

And when they are browned, we take out and sprinkle with grated cheese on a fine grater. By the way, if you add a mayonnaise net under the cheese, then it will turn out to be unrealistically delicious! But this time I didn’t do it, it’s a pity for the figure. It's not easy to be a food blogger, you're constantly rushing in breadth because you have to eat all your high-calorie "masterpieces". 😄

By this time, the potatoes should already be ready, its readiness is checked as follows: try to break the slice with a fork, if it turns out without difficulty, then the potatoes are ready.

We send the dish to the oven for another 10 minutes, so that the cheese melts and browns.

Ready-made mushroom balls with cheese, with potatoes, spread on a plate with lettuce and cherry tomatoes.

They have a beautiful ruddy crust and a tender crumb with pieces of mushrooms. Yummy!

Try to cook a dish both in a feast and in the world, as they say! Bon appetit.

Recipe for meatballs with rice in a creamy sauce

Soft and tender meatballs in a creamy sauce are always a win-win. Suitable for any side dish. I have today with buckwheat.

Ingredients:

Minced meat - 500 gr.
Rice semi-boiled - 50 gr.
Cream 20% - 500 ml.
Butter - 40 gr.
Cream cheese - 120 gr.
Salt, pepper to taste.
Onion - 1 piece small.
Carrots - 1 piece small.
Suneli hops or other seasonings - 1 tsp.

How I make the meatballs themselves can be seen in recipes number 1 and 2. I will not repeat myself.

Here, after the last preparation, I had extra ones that did not fit into the pan, and I froze them until the next time. It is very convenient to stick, freeze, and then use in haste.

Frozen also keep their shape well.

I fry chopped onions with grated carrots in a pan until light gold. I put the meat balls in there.

I need them to melt a little and grab. It will take about two minutes, I will not fry until black.

So, I roll them from side to side until a slight blush. I fry in butter for a creamy taste.

Now I'm making the sauce. I pour all 500 ml of cream into a pan. The sauce needs to be salted, pepper, add your favorite seasonings to it. I take some suneli hops.

Be sure to try the gravy. It should have a creamy, pleasant taste and not be bland. I will not dilute the gravy with water, I like it. when she's full.

You can take cream of lower fat content, it will also turn out well, although not so thick.

On low heat, stirring regularly, bring our gravy to a boil. It is necessary to stir, the cream loves to stick to the walls and to the bottom of the dishes and will try to fry to it.

At the same time, we fall asleep finely grated cheese, it will harmoniously complement the taste of the sauce. Cover with a lid and cook on the lowest heat for 20-25 minutes.

Continue stirring occasionally while cooking. The finished gravy will slightly decrease in volume and thicken - that's what you need.

Serve the meatballs hot, with plenty of tender creamy gravy.

It just melts in your mouth, incredibly tasty and very creamy! 😊

Variant of meatballs without rice in tomato sauce in a pan

Are there meatballs without rice? It's over. In principle, any of the recipes that I showed above can be used without adding rice to the minced meat. And it will turn out awesome!

It's all about the gravy, it is she who allows you to diversify this dish so that it will never get bored.

See what other recipe I have. I usually always cook it without rice and in haste. Yummy!

Ingredients:

Any minced meat with onions.
Tomatoes in own juice - 650 ml. (1 bank).
Bulb - 1 piece small.
Dried basil - 2 pinches.
Ground coriander - 1/2 tsp
Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
Salt, pepper - to taste.
Dried garlic - 1 tsp

So, we take minced meat, any homemade. I have pork + chicken + onions. Everything is twisted together. Minced meat is unsalted.

Before cooking meatballs, I salt it, pepper it, I can add nutmeg or seasoning for meat to taste, directly into the minced meat. Mix well. I don't add rice.

I roll the koloboks and finely chop the onion and start frying. Meatballs come first, I roll them and fry them in a little oil until lightly browned.

And immediately I spread a beam to them. I fry them together for another minute and a half, the onion also becomes golden.

Stir, bring to a boil and taste. Having tried it, I'm already looking at how to adjust the taste - maybe you need to add a little salt or, on the contrary, add sugar. Don't be afraid to use it for flavor correction.

And be sure to have all sorts of aromatic herbs - basil (I grind dry between my fingers), a bit of ground coriander, a couple of peas of allspice, ground black pepper and dried garlic. This is my standard set for this recipe. You can add or remove something at your discretion, only basil should be here. And, of course, Lavrushka.

I stir and try again. If all is well, then my meatballs boil quietly for 20 minutes under a closed lid over low heat. The aroma of them spreads throughout the apartment!

After the specified time, the gravy will boil away slightly and thicken, but the tomatoes in it remained intact.

These are such beautiful, with rich tomato sauce, fabulously tasty meatballs turned out! With any side dish, you'll just eat your mind.

For those who love canned tomatoes (and I just love them), this recipe will be a godsend. Let me remind you that I showed the classic version of tomato sauce in the first recipe.

Cook with pleasure and enjoy your meal!

Meatballs with cabbage in sour cream sauce baked in the oven

A wonderful recipe that allows you to cook a dish right away with a side dish.

Baked in the oven with sour cream sauce, they will lie on a delicious cabbage pillow.

This is a recipe without rice. But if desired, it can be added to minced meat.

Ingredients:

any meat - 300 gr
white loaf - 1 slice
white cabbage - 600 gr
onion - 2 pcs
salt, pepper - to taste.

For sour cream sauce:

sour cream - 5 full tablespoons
milk - 1.5 cups
flour - 3 tbsp. spoons
butter - 3 tbsp. spoons
salt, pepper - to taste

For sprinkling:

cheese - 50 gr

Cooking:

Cooking minced meat: we pass meat with a loaf soaked in milk, onions through a meat grinder. Salt, pepper.

We roll small buns.

We cut the cabbage into slices like this. The sheets should be held on the stalk so that they do not fall apart during cooking.

Pour the cabbage with water, add salt and cook until almost cooked. Then it will still reach us in the oven.

When the cabbage reaches the desired condition, it is soft enough, turn off the heat, and drain the water from the pan.

Grease a baking dish with oil.

We spread our cabbage on the bottom, meatballs on top of it.

Put the flour in a dry frying pan, butter to it.

The flour will be toasted in the oil until light golden, be careful not to start burning or the sauce will be ruined. You need to stir vigorously so that lumps do not form.

If you want the sauce to take on a more piquant taste, add ground nutmeg.

Add sour cream to the pan and heat until high temperature milk and spices. The mixture must be constantly stirred.

Slowly bring the mixture to a boil (stirring constantly), let it gurgle not much for 5 minutes, then turn it off. The sauce will thicken a little.

Pour it into a baking dish, it should completely hide the cabbage and meatballs.

Sprinkle breadcrumbs and grated cheese on top.

We heat the oven to 180 degrees, put all this beauty there for 30 minutes. Cooking time may vary depending on the oven.

The surface of the dish should be nicely browned.

The dish is ready. We lay it out for serving along with cabbage.

It turns out amazing!

Minced chicken meatballs in the oven in milk sauce

Chicken or turkey meatballs - healthy and diet dish.

We know how to cook them deliciously! Write down the recipe:

Ingredients:

chicken or turkey fillet - 500 gr
cabbage - 200 gr (you can without it)
small onion - 1 pc.
garlic - 2 cloves
milk - 100 ml
chicken egg - 2 pcs
breadcrumbs - 1 cup
salt, pepper - to taste

For the gravy (sauce):

chicken broth - 400 ml
butter - 70 -80 gr
flour - 2 tbsp. spoons
milk - 180 ml
salt - to taste

Cooking:

Cooking minced meat. To do this, pass meat, onions and cabbage through a meat grinder. Add spices to taste.

Beat eggs, milk, breadcrumbs in a separate bowl.

Then add to minced meat. Thoroughly mix everything together.

We form small balls and put them on a baking sheet, on a sheet of foil, greased with oil.

Bake at 210 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.

This recipe has a very tasty milk sauce. While the meatballs are baking, we will prepare it.

Melt the butter in a saucepan or pan, add flour to it. Lightly fry it for 2-3 minutes, not letting it darken, over medium heat.

Once they are ready, take them out of the oven and place them in the gravy.

Simmer everything together for another 5-7 minutes over low heat. Then we serve it to the table!

A very tender and tasty dish.

Children's meatballs "Octopussy"

Recipe #4 Classic recipe preparation (see above) is also suitable for baby food.

And the last recipe at the request of moms. A simple and delicious recipe for funny "octopuses" from the chef. It will help feed the unwilling!

Ingredients:

Minced chicken - 150 g (for 1 serving)
Rice boiled
Onion - half
Spaghetti
Greenery

Cooking:

How to cook these charming meatballs, see the video tutorial:

They turn out very tasty, light and dietary. Kids from such "octopuses" are delighted, it's checked!

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Chicken meatball recipes are especially useful for mothers who strive to properly feed their children and for all those who adhere to healthy eating. Chicken - dietary, useful product, and it is very important to prepare a dish from it so that it retains all the valuable substances and trace elements.

Classic recipe

Minced chicken meatballs are easy to cook, even a novice cook can handle this task. First you need to choose quality ingredients. Chicken meat is sold everywhere, but not every housewife can buy a really good product.

When choosing a fillet, pay attention to its color - it should be even, light pink, without spots and bruises. The surface of the meat cannot be sticky - this is a sign of a spoiled product.

In addition, high-quality meat has a pleasant, characteristic smell.

A good hostess makes minced meat on her own, but if there is no time, opportunity, then you can buy a semi-finished product (in proven places). If you cook minced meat at home, then use different parts of the chicken carcass: thighs, fillets, drumsticks - such minced meat will be rich, tasty.

Minced chicken meatballs with tomato sauce

The dish comes from childhood - it was cooked so often before in kindergartens and at home by our grandmothers and mothers. Simple ingredients, quick preparation make this dish one of our favorites on our menu. Serve meatballs with mashed potatoes, buckwheat or boiled rice, vegetables and herbs.

Required Ingredients:

1 medium onion;
1 egg;
550 grams of chicken pulp or minced meat;
30 grams butter;
50 ml vegetable oil;
3 cloves of garlic;
half a cup of long rice;
300 grams of tomatoes.

Calorie content: 156 kcal / 100 grams.

Meatballs are often cooked in various sauces: tomato, creamy, mustard, sweet and sour and many others. To prepare a delicious sauce, you need to fry the flour in butter or vegetable oil, pour hot broth or tomato, season and let it boil. If desired, you can add chopped herbs and spices.

Grind chicken meat in a meat grinder or using a blender;
In a saucepan, boil the rice until cooked for 15-20 minutes, cool;
Peel the onion, chop the garlic into slices or pass through a press;
In a deep bowl, mix the minced meat, onion, garlic, rice, add the egg and mix well;
Prepare tomato sauce. To do this, dissolve the butter in a pan, fry the flour until dark yellow;
Stirring constantly, add chopped tomatoes or tomato paste, add 150 milliliters hot water. Cook with constant stirring until boiling. Salt, season the sauce to taste;
Place meatballs formed from minced meat in a deep saucepan, pour over with tomato sauce and simmer for 20 minutes until tender.

Meatballs with rice and minced chicken with cream sauce

Boiled rice can be called an ideal side dish for meatballs - its neutral taste perfectly complements chicken balls. To prepare a delicious rice side dish, you need to boil the rice correctly: rinse it under running water, pour salted boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook over medium heat until tender.

Required Ingredients:

Cooking time: 50-60 minutes.

Calorie content: 164 kcal / 100 grams.

When cooking meatballs, an egg is often used, but it can be replaced with white bread soaked in milk. This will allow the minced meat to be softer, juicier and will positively affect the taste of the dish.

Cream sauce successfully complement the taste of meatballs, make it more tender. Serve chicken meatballs with mashed potatoes, rice or boiled pasta - your family will be delighted.

Free the white bread from the crust, leaving only the crumb. Fill it with milk and let it soften;
Grind chicken flesh with a meat grinder, add finely chopped onion, mix;
Boil rice in salted water until tender for 15-18 minutes, cool;
Squeeze the bun - send it to the minced meat, add boiled rice, spices, salt, knead the minced meat well;
Form small meatballs from minced meat;
Prepare the sauce: finely chop the garlic, grate the cheese with small holes;
Pour cream into a deep container, add cheese and garlic, mix, salt;
Put the meat balls in a mold, sprinkle with oil, bake the meatballs for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 180C;
Pour the finished meatballs with creamy sauce and bake for another 20 minutes at the same temperature.

Recipe for chicken meatballs in sour cream sauce in a slow cooker

The slow cooker has become a real helper to the hostess these days. With it, you can cook almost any dish. Meatballs cooked in this gadget are very juicy and tasty. But for this you need to follow all the stages of preparation and properly prepare the components.

Required Ingredients:

100 grams of long rice;
200 grams of onion;
700 grams of chicken pulp or minced meat;
1 cup sour cream (20% fat);
100 milliliters of water;
50 grams of flour;
spices, herbs, salt - to taste.

Cooking time: 50-60 minutes.

Calorie content: 168 kcal / 100 grams.

The advantage of this recipe is the maximum time savings for the hostess - even the sauce does not need to be pre-cooked: just mix all the ingredients and pour the meatballs. Sour cream can be successfully replaced with heavy cream or unsweetened yogurt. The white sauce colors the meatballs nicely. light color and makes them very appetizing.

Put raw rice, minced chicken, fried onions in a deep container, add seasonings, salt, mix;
Peel the onion, chop it finely and sauté in vegetable oil.
Form meatballs from minced meat, put them on the bottom of the multicooker;
Pour water into a glass, add flour, sour cream, salt - mix well, as the sauce should be homogeneous;
Cover the meatballs with the sauce, turn on the slow cooker to the “Stew” mode, set the timer for 1 hour and check the readiness of the dish from time to time.

Hedgehog meatballs in the oven

Appetizing, satisfying "hedgehogs" will not leave anyone indifferent, especially children who are not very fond of meat dishes. Prepare a dish with your favorite side dish and sauce, vegetables, and any fussy eater will enjoy it with pleasure. Minced meat can be purchased ready-made or you can make your own and use any type of meat.

Required Ingredients:

1 egg;
120 grams (half a cup) long rice;
half a kilogram of minced chicken or fillet;
2 onions;
1 medium carrot;
2 cloves of garlic;
spices, salt.

Cooking time: 50-60 minutes.

Calorie content: 162 kcal / 100 grams.

Start cooking "hedgehogs" by making minced meat. To do this, clean the chicken flesh or other parts of the carcass from the skin, tendons, pass through a meat grinder. At this stage, you can add onions and spices. Nutmeg, Italian herbs, ground garlic are ideal for minced chicken.

First, boil rice until half cooked. Rinse it, pour boiling water over it, salt it and cook for 10-15 minutes. Throw in a colander, rinse;
Peel the onion, chop finely. Peel the carrots, rub on a grater with large cells;
Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil until they are soft;
Mix minced meat, vegetables, egg, sliced garlic in a deep bowl, salt and pepper. Mix the minced meat well;
Form meatballs from the meat mass, put on a baking sheet, lightly oiled;
Bake the "hedgehogs" for 25-30 minutes.

Meatballs made from minced chicken do not require special culinary skills and abilities, but it will be useful for every novice housewife to know some tips from experienced chefs:

it is better to cook any minced meat on your own - this really affects the taste of the dish;
in minced meat for meatballs, you can add an egg or white bread soaked in milk or water;
if you need to cook a dietary dish, then do not fry the meatballs, but immediately pour the sauce and simmer until tender.

Bon appetit!

For some reason, an opinion has formed that a diet is a monotonous type of food, where everything that is more nutritious than a leaf of lettuce and a glass of water is rejected. It is this stereotype that stops many on the way to proper nutrition. - stress will force the body not to use up reserves, but take care of them, as the "rainy day" has come.

How do you like diet table, where there is a place for soups, and nutritious meat dishes, and side dishes, ? If the dishes have a balanced composition and are prepared in accordance with the key requirements, they will not harm the figure.

Main Rules

Almost any diet menu has a place for dishes and poultry. You won't be able to do without them. They are a source of essential amino acids necessary for health and full activity.

Chicken, or rather, its breast, enjoys special respect. Tender, light and tasty meat will brighten up any meal. But sooner or later, the usual boiled “no one” fillet gets bored. Soul and stomach require variety, frills and spectacles. One of the best ways is diet meatballs in sauce.

What is good about this group of recipes:

chicken meatballs can be prepared for the future, they are perfectly stored in the freezer;
they will never get bored - it is enough to change sauces and side dishes to get a new treat every time;
they fit into an ordinary dinner in the family circle as well as into a festive meal;
meatballs are suitable for cooking open fire, and in the oven;
the dish is suitable for the whole family, including children.

However, not all meatball recipes are diet-friendly. For this hot dish to fall into the low-calorie category, a number of requirements must be met.

Fatty ingredients - to a minimum. If possible, you need to replace them with low-calorie counterparts. For example, instead of butter, it is preferable to use vegetable oil, especially olive oil.
Use exclusively the breast, as the most defatted part of the carcass. Be sure to remove the high-calorie skin.
The less salt the better. It retains water in the body and inhibits weight loss.
Mayonnaise, non-natural seasonings with glutamate, other enhancers and synthetic dyes - refuse.

Important! Only meatballs from poultry or farm poultry are useful for dietary nutrition. All beneficial features meat, if it is bought in a store, is crossed out by hormones, antibiotics, additives that were given to chicken at a poultry farm. Such a product is more dangerous than useful.

In principle, there are no restrictions for including chicken meatballs in any diet menu. But they are most relevant in context. Meat is a protein food necessary for high-quality saturation,.

Recipes

There are many delicious recipes for minced chicken with gravy. At any meal, regardless of its purpose, the dishes will become the "highlight of the program." For any eater, even the most fastidious, there is an option worthy of becoming loved.

In the oven

You will need:

1 kg chicken fillet;
a cup of rice (dry);
1 carrot;
2 onions;
2 cloves of garlic;
0.5 l tomato juice(preferably fresh homemade);
dried herbs, pepper, salt.

How to cook:

Important! So that minced chicken meatballs in the oven are guaranteed to be baked and not raw inside, they are made a little more than a good walnut.

In a slow cooker

You will need:

1 chicken breast;
300 ml low-fat cream;
1 st. skimmed milk;
a handful of rye crackers;
1 carrot;
1 onion;
a bunch of fresh herbs;
a few cloves of garlic;
spices, pepper and salt to taste.

How to cook:

The breast is processed into minced meat, chopped fresh vegetables and crackers soaked in milk are added. Seasonings and salt are added to taste.
Next, small meat balls are formed. They will cook in sauce. To prepare it, you need to mix cream with herbs, pepper, salt.
Meatballs are laid out in a multicooker bowl, then pour them with gravy.
The second hour is being prepared in the "extinguishing" mode.

Attention! Creamy sauce can be colored with turmeric or curry powder for a delicious yellow-orange hue.

under the mustard

You will need:

1 chicken breast;
1 onion;
crackers;
1 st. low-fat milk;
1 egg;
a cup of cream;
2 tbsp mustard (preferably homemade);
spices and salt.

This option will especially please with juiciness. To begin with, the usual cutlet mixture is prepared: the minced meat is combined with chopped onions, softened bread and an egg (for stickiness). A dish made according to the recipe will look something like the one in the photo above.

How to cook:

Small balls are formed, which are fried on all sides in a small amount of oil until golden brown. Enough 3 minutes.
Then the meatballs are transferred to a deep saucepan, poured with a sauce of cream, mustard and spices.
The dish will be stewed under a lid over low heat for at least an hour.

The crust “seals” the natural juices inside each meatball, preventing them from leaking out during cooking.

under a fur coat

You will need:

2 medium breasts;
1 onion;
1 carrot;
garlic to taste;
low-fat cottage cheese;
300 g fresh champignons;
3 tbsp tomato puree;
3 tbsp 10% sour cream;
spices, salt.

These meatballs will be cooked in the oven.

How to cook:

Minced meat is made from the breasts, mixed with chopped vegetables, salted and peppered to taste, rolled into small balls, laid out on the bottom of a deep mold.
On top of each piece put a few slices of mushrooms and a proportionate thin piece of cheese.
Gravy is made from sour cream, mashed potatoes and chopped garlic.
The sauce is poured over the meat, after which the dish is sent to the oven for 50 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
The cheese melts and wraps each piece. It turns out very unusual and tasty.

Important! Cheese can be chopped or grated and added to the middle of each piece. Then you get balls with melted cheese inside, elastic and tender.

How to cook better

Chicken meatballs in gravy is a simple and varied dish that does not require any special refined skills from the hostess, nor grandiose time and material costs. Simple and tasty, what else do you need on a diet? If you put into practice some secrets, the dish will become even better.

so that the balls turn out to be even, and the minced meat is not sticky to the hands, the palms must first be moistened in cold water;
in diet meatballs for juiciness, you need to add crackers not from ordinary bread, but from whole grains;
in addition to crackers for juiciness and splendor, you can add a little semolina to the meat;
meatballs with buckwheat garnish and fresh vegetable salad are especially successful - this is a full meal, where proteins, fats and carbohydrates are balanced.

conclusions

Chicken meatballs are another proof that diet recipes can be sophisticated and unusual. Everyone can come up with their own version of gravy according to personal preferences, from which the meat will not become worse. But you can not neglect one of the basic rules on the diet - the rule of measure: you can eat everything, but in small quantities.

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