Meatballs in sour cream sauce is a dish that withpleasure cooked and eaten all over the world. Of course, the names of these dishes, as well as the nuances of cooking in different nations, are not similar, however, the fact that meatballs are balls prepared from meat or fish mince with the addition of vegetables, cereals or mushrooms that are cooked in a sauce or broth.
It is believed that the "inventors" of meatballsare the Turkic tribes, but later this incredibly tasty dish began to be cooked all over the world, and every nation made its own changes to the recipe. As a result, today there are a great many recipes for cooking meatballs, and each cook will be able to choose for himself the most suitable option.
In Russian cuisine, the classic version of this popular dish is meatballs in sour cream sauce.
Для приготовления этого блюда необходим мясной minced meat, and it is desirable that it be cooked from different types of meat. For example, meatballs made from pork, beef, and turkey are always successful. You will also need to boil white rice in such quantity that its weight in finished form corresponds to one third of the weight of minced meat. That is, if we have 600 grams of meat, then the finished rice should be 200 grams. You will also need large onions and chicken eggs (for our amount of minced meat, you need to take two pieces). In addition to all of the above, you will need oil for frying, salt, black pepper and other spices to taste.
For the sauce you will need to take two hundred grams of sour cream, a spoonful of butter and a full teaspoon of flour.
Cooking dishes "Meatballs in sour cream sauce"begin with the preparation of minced meat. Onions need to be cut very finely, and even better grind in a blender or grated. To make the stuffing of minced egg whites better beat into the foam. Now we put mince, ready-made rice, eggs, onions in a bowl and mix everything very thoroughly, preferably with a hand. Do not forget to salt and add spices to your taste. Bowl with minced meat covered with cling film and put in the fridge for 20 minutes to infuse.
While the stuffing is in the refrigerator, prepare the sauce. To do this, in a butter or margarine, we pass the flour a little, add sour cream, season with salt and let it boil for about five minutes with a slight heat.
We make meatballs the size ofPing-pong ball To mince not limes to the hands, they need to be moistened with cold water. We serve our “koloboks” in flour and fry in butter. When all the meatballs are roasted, put them in a deep frying pan, pour the ready-made sour cream sauce and let it boil for about ten minutes with low heat.
And if there is little time for cooking, then you canmake a light version of the dish "Meatballs in sour cream sauce." In this case, the operation of roasting the meatballs is eliminated, and the formed balls, in raw form, are folded into a deep form, filled with sauce and baked in a preheated oven.
Serve the meatballs in sour cream sauce is best with mashed potatoes. However, the garnish can be chosen to your taste.
В качестве диетического варианта этого блюда You can cook meatballs in milk sauce. In this case, instead of sour cream, we will use low-fat milk. Stuffing for meatballs is better to cook from turkey or chicken. Instead of rice, you can put finely chopped and pre-stewed white cabbage. Formed meatballs need to pour the sauce and bake in the oven without prior frying.
And if you want to cook something for dinnergourmet, then you should try such an option, like meatballs in white sauce. In this recipe, meatballs are baked under bechamel sauce, which is prepared on the basis of butter, chicken broth and flour. To make the sauce more sophisticated, you can add boiled white mushrooms to it.
As you can see, variants of this dish can come up with a great amount. The main thing is to have imagination and a little culinary skill so that the meatballs turn out to be such that you will lick your fingers!
