Without meat dishes, most families do not representself-sufficient food. And a decent place among them may well take meatballs from ground beef. Unlike cutlets, they are easier to perceive the stomach and are suitable, including for infant feeding. And if you vary the ingredients included in the mince, sauces and gravies, the dish will never get bored and will always have a new tempting taste.
Simply cutlets
Most often housewives cook meatballs from beefminced meat in tomato sauce. However, it is not necessary to simply fill the workpiece with diluted paste. You can do much more elegantly and get a delicious dish on the way out. To do this, a piece of stale white bread is soaked in milk, squeezed and run through a meat grinder with a half-kilogram of beef, onion, mint leaves, herbs (it is taken to your liking and in large enough quantity), a clove of garlic and spicy pepper without seeds.
Half cooked until half readyrice and mixed with meat. Beef minced meatballs are molded, fried until crispy and folded into a saucepan. For gravy in a spoonful of butter, zazharki is made from chopped onions and garlic cloves. Two crushed, skinless tomatoes and selected spices are poured into it. As the water boils, the gravy is salted and sweetened with sugar, after which it is aged on the fire for a couple of minutes. Ready sauce poured meatballs. For ten minutes they stew under a covered lid.
Options for refills
The dish provides a fairly wide springboard forculinary fantasy. For example, you can make meatballs from ground beef with sour cream sauce. 2-3 tablespoons of butter are melted for it, a couple of spoons of flour are fried in it - you need to stir constantly so that there are no lumps left. In a separate skillet, a 400-gram package of sour cream is not heated up to boiling. How to foam - flour is added. Again, vigorous stirring, and the last ingredient is a couple of spoons of tomato paste. Then add salt, pepper, if necessary - water (suddenly the sauce is too thick), and the gravy is poured into meat balls.
Good ground beef meatballs with creamthe sauce. For him, chopped onion and rubbed a medium-sized carrot. In melted butter, vegetables are allowed to soften. Then half a glass of tomato juice is added to them. In extreme cases, you can take the paste: five spoons. After boiling in the sauce stir three tablespoons of flour. A minute later, a liter of warm broth pours in a little bit. A quarter of an hour of soaking gravy on the stove - and you can shoot. Finally, the sauce is flavored with salt, spices and half a glass of the fattest cream. Best of all gravy is suitable when meatballs are baked in the oven.
Hedgehogs with cheese
Favorite food can be made even more tempting.and delicious. For this, meatballs made from ground beef are enough to stuff something. The most piquant is obtained with hard cheeses. Stuffing is prepared traditionally, only the onion does not grind with meat, but is rubbed on a grater. In addition, an egg is driven into the base - one for every pound of beef. Minced pepper and salted, if desired, you can spice up your favorite spices.
Кусочек сыра режется кубиками (с ребром около centimeter). Stuffing is disassembled into balls. From each is a cake, inside which is placed a cheese slice. Now the cake is rolled into a ball again. And the ground beef meatballs with cheese are laid out on a greased sheet. They will bake from 15 to 20 minutes. Time depends on the size of the "hedgehogs". Serve can be just like that, but you can with any of the above sauces.
Ground beef meatballs in Yugoslav oven
The first stage of cooking is not much different fromprevious recipes. The only deviation: not pepper, but sweet pepper is ground in minced meat. You can add fragrant greens. Meatballs do not fry, and immediately put on the baking sheet in the oven. From above they are covered with foil. After a quarter of an hour, it is removed, and the balls are poured with sauce. For its preparation combine a glass of sour milk, melted cube of butter, egg yolk and a spoon of caraway, ground to a powder. Ground beef meatballs are crushed in a small heat. If you don't approve of sour milk too much, you can replace it with yogurt. But kefir for this recipe is not suitable.
