Meatballs with tomatoes are a tasty and satisfying dish. Tomato is an amazingly juicy vegetable that will add extra juiciness and piquant sourness to the minced meat. The result is an unusually delicious and delicious dish.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
When it comes to meatballs, an image of mouth-watering meatballs arises in your head. And this is not accidental, since gravy well emphasizes the taste of meat, saturates the meatballs with aroma and juiciness. This dish came to us from German cuisine. Previously, first courses were cooked from them, so a delicious meat gravy was obtained, and later meatballs were specially prepared with sauce. There are a huge number of options for their preparation. Minced meat can be made in a variety of ways, from all types of meat, with additional vegetables, spices, spices, etc. Today we'll talk about the recipe for meatballs with tomatoes.
Tomatoes make meatballs much softer. And for a golden brown crust, you can pre-fry them, and then send them to stew together with the sauce. In addition, such meatballs can be pre-prepared and placed in the freezer. And when there is no time to cook dinner, you can get them, defrost and cook them. For cooking, you can use not only the stove, but also a multicooker or oven. Serve them well with pasta, porridge or potatoes. Many side dishes are combined with gravy.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 208 kcal.
- Servings - 15-18
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat (any sort) - 500 g
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Sour cream - 250 ml
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Rice - 100 g
- Dried basil - 1 tsp
Step by step cooking meatballs with tomatoes:
1. Wash the meat, cut off the film with excess fat and cut into pieces for a meat grinder. Peel the onions and also cut them to the appropriate size. Rinse the tomatoes and cut into suitable wedges.
2. Twist the meat, onions and tomatoes through the middle wire rack of the meat grinder. You can use tomato paste instead of tomatoes. If you don't have a meat grinder, use a blender or food processor.
3. Add eggs, basil, salt, ground pepper and pre-cooked rice to the minced meat.
4. Mix the minced meat well until smooth. It is most convenient to do this with your hands.
5. Form medium-sized round meatballs. To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, moisten them with cold water.
6. For the sauce, add salt, ground pepper and any spices to the sour cream. For example, ground nutmeg, ginger powder, coriander, etc. Stir.
7. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and add meatballs.
8. Fry them over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.
9. Pour the meatballs with sour cream sauce. It should cover the meatballs by at least half.
10. Place the dish on the stove, cover and boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30-40 minutes. Serve hot meatballs immediately after cooking.
See also a video recipe on how to cook veal meatballs with tomato sauce. Julia Vysotskaya's recipe.
