Small balls of meat in a deliciously tasty tomato-sour cream sauce will leave no one indifferent. Since cottage cheese is added to the dough, which gives the product amazing tenderness and airiness. Try it and see for yourself.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Homemade meatballs with gravy in the oven, a step-by-step recipe with a photo, is a fairly simple, yet tasty dish. It is adored by both children and adults, and the last meal often resembles a carefree childhood and brings back the most pleasant memories. I propose to plunge into pleasant warm memories and cook delicious meatballs with love. After all, a store product is unlikely to be able to bring such pleasure and enjoyment, so let's not be lazy and move on to cooking. Moreover, it is not difficult, simple and fast!
The meatballs are prepared in a variety of ways: fried in a pan, stewed on the stove, simmer in the oven. In addition, the basis of minced meat can be not only traditional meat with onions, but also many other additional products. The main thing to observe is the main difference between meatballs and cutlets - it is a round shape. As for the gravy, culinary experimentation is also encouraged. To make it tastier, you need to dilute it not with water, but with broth or vegetable broth. More delicate sauce will be obtained from sour cream or cream, tomato sauce gives a slight sourness. To balance the taste, you can make a combined dressing of several components.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 244 kcal.
- Servings - 15-18
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat - 800 g
- Cottage cheese - 200 g
- Ground crackers - 2 tablespoons
- Sour cream - 300 ml
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Onion - 2 pcs.
- Tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Spices to taste
- Oil - for frying
- Any broth or broth - 150 ml
Step by step cooking meatballs with gravy in the oven:
1. Twist the meat, onion and cottage cheese through the middle wire rack of the meat grinder.
2. Add ground crackers, eggs, tomato paste (1 tablespoon), salt, pepper and spices to the ingredients.
3. Stir the minced meat well.
4. Form into round meatballs and sauté in vegetable oil over medium heat until golden brown.
4. In another skillet, sauté the chopped carrots and onions.
5. Add sour cream with tomato sauce.
6. Pour in broth, season with salt, pepper and boil.
7. Pour the meatballs with sour cream sauce, close the lid and send to simmer in a heated oven to 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Meatballs with gravy are a nutritious lunch or dinner for any person. A variety of side dishes are perfect for them. And in the absence of an oven, they can be cooked on the stove or in a multicooker. However, baking retains more nutrients and the dish turns out to be more dietary.
See also a video recipe on how to cook meatballs in a creamy mushroom sauce in the oven.
