Step-by-step recipe for meatballs with rice, technology for preparing semi-finished meat products. Video recipe.
Meatballs with rice is a nutritious and delicious dish loved by both adults and children. Most often it appears on the everyday table, but sometimes it also decorates the festive menu. The cooking process takes a lot of time. And if the family is large, then there is nothing better than prepared meat balls in advance.
Now on the shelves of supermarkets there are a lot of various semi-finished meat products sold by weight. This is, of course, convenient when there is no time for daily cooking. However, there are no guarantees of the quality of the product and its durability. Usually meatballs with rice can be stored in the freezer for 1 to 2 months. It depends on the tightness of the package and the temperature in the freezer - ideally, it should be about -18 degrees. At home, when preparing semi-finished meat products, it is easy to follow the timing and, more importantly, the composition of the product.
The list of ingredients for making meatballs with rice can include any meat - chicken, beef, pork, turkey. Some housewives even replace minced meat with fish. It all depends on your taste preferences.
Carrots and onions perfectly complement the taste of ready-made meatballs with rice, so they should definitely be included in the list of ingredients. Remember, onions tend to get sweeter during freezing. Those who do not like this option for changing the taste may not add this product before freezing, but add it to the frying during the direct preparation of a hot dish. Also, fresh vegetables can be replaced with dried ones. According to some culinary experts, from such a replacement, the taste of the finished dish becomes brighter and more saturated.
Having prepared such a product for future use, at the right time we take out the required amount of meatballs with rice and, without defrosting, we begin to cook in our favorite way. They can be placed on a greased baking sheet, covered with sauce and sent to the oven for baking, or put in a saucepan and, sprinkled with tomato or butter broth, put on the stove for stewing. What could be easier ?!
Next, we will describe in detail a step-by-step recipe for meatballs with rice with a photo, which will allow you to prepare tasty, healthy and beautiful koloboks for future use.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 78 kcal.
- Servings - 6
- Cooking time - 30 minutes cooking, 8 hours freezing
Ingredients:
- Pork - 500 g
- Rice - 1 tbsp.
- Water - 2 tbsp.
- Small carrots - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - 1/2 tsp
Step-by-step cooking of semi-finished meat products - meatballs with rice
1. Before preparing meatballs with rice, prepare the ingredients. First of all, we rinse the rice to clean water and put it on the stove. It is not worth boiling until cooked, because during freezing, the grains may lose their structure. Therefore, we cook it half the allotted time and put it in a colander so that all the water is glass, and the cereal itself cools.
2. Cut fresh meat into pieces and grind through a meat grinder. You can also make meat mass using a blender. To do this, put the pieces of the product in the freezer for 15-20 minutes and then grind them. The minced meat should be homogeneous and small enough. For lovers of fatty and juicy meatballs with rice, you can add a little fresh lard to the meat mass.
3. We place the prepared minced meat and rice in a large container, where it will be convenient to mix all the ingredients for preparing semi-finished meat products - home frozen meatballs with rice.
4. Next, three peeled carrots on a fine grater, and chop the onions with a knife. You can grind both vegetables in a blender. We send the resulting mass to the rice-meat mixture.
5. If desired, sprinkle the mass with your favorite seasonings. And then, in accordance with the recipe for meatballs with rice, you can start mixing all the prepared ingredients. By mixing, we achieve an even distribution of each product in the total mass.
6. To get the same koloboks, you can use the scales, dividing the mass into elements weighing 50-70 g. Then we wet our hands in water and start rolling out the balls. If the shape of future meatballs with rice is not important, then they can simply be distributed over the cells of the ice-making mold.
7. Place the resulting balls on a floured flat plate or cutting board so that they do not touch each other. We put them in the freezer for several hours.
8. After 4-8 hours, pour the frozen meatballs with rice into bags for further storage. We mark the date of the workpiece.
9. Frozen semi-finished meat products - meatballs with rice - are ready! Such a blank can be used to prepare a family dinner or to treat unexpected guests. Koloboks are easy to get in the required quantity and cook according to your favorite recipe.
See also the video recipe:
Freezing meatballs and using them
