Meatballs are a simple dish of available ingredients that can be quickly prepared for lunch or dinner and served with a vegetable side dish. Meat semi-finished products are easy to freeze for future use. Balls of meat with rice, onions are prepared, sometimes other products are added to enrich the taste of the dish. Minced chicken meatballs can be steamed, fried, baked and stewed in sauce.
Minced chicken meatballs according to the classic recipe
Wash, dry the chicken, cut 550 grams of pulp from different parts of the carcass. Scroll together with the peeled onion in a meat grinder with a fine grid. Boil half a glass of long grain rice until half cooked, put it in a colander and let the water drain.
Put the minced chicken, cereals in a large saucepan, beat the raw chicken egg there. Peel 2-3 cloves of garlic, crush or finely chop. The meatballs will be especially juicy and tasty if you cut another onion, sauté in vegetable oil, then add to the minced meat.
Mix well the chopped meat, salt and pepper to taste. To make the chicken meatballs soft and fluffy, a simple culinary trick is used: the meat is beaten 10-12 times. To do this, grab it in portions and hit the bottom of the pan.
Balls of the required size are formed from the minced meat. They should be fried over high heat in hot refined sunflower oil, turning them over so that the meatballs are browned on all sides.
After that, place the semi-finished products in a deep cast-iron pan, pour sour cream and simmer under a lid over low heat for 20 minutes. If you need a lighter dish, you do not need to fry the meatballs, but only simmer for 30-40 minutes, pouring boiled water.
Minced chicken meatballs with tomatoes
A pound of chicken meat, freed from bones, rotate the tendons in a meat grinder. Boil 0.5 cups of long-grain rice in boiling water for 20 minutes, then put in a colander and cool. Peel a large head of onion, 3 garlic cloves and finely chop. Mix meat with onion and garlic, add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Drive the egg into the minced meat and mix everything.
Blanch 300 grams of tomatoes, then remove the skin and chop the fruit into cubes. Melt 30 grams of butter in a deep cast-iron pan, fry 3 tablespoons of sifted wheat flour in it. When the resulting mixture acquires a dark yellow color, dip the tomatoes into it, pour in 150 ml of boiling water.
Cook the sauce over low heat, stirring occasionally until it boils. Add spices to taste. Blind the meatballs, dip in the tomato mass and simmer under the lid for 20 minutes.
Minced chicken meatballs with creamy sauce
Prepare 600 grams of chicken fillet, soak 3 pieces of bread crumb in 0.5 cups of milk. Boil 0.5 cups of rice, put in a colander. Squeeze the bread, scroll through a meat grinder together with the meat. Peel the onion, chop with a knife and mix with the minced meat. Season with salt, pepper, add cereals, stir and beat the minced meat. Make meatballs.
Pass a couple of garlic cloves through a press, grind 200 grams of hard cheese on a fine grater. Put meatballs in a cast-iron stewpan, greased with vegetable oil, bake in the oven at 180 ° C.
After 15 minutes, remove the dishes, pour the semi-finished products with salted cream mixed with garlic and cheese. The meatballs should be slightly more than half submerged in the liquid. Cook in the oven for another 20 minutes. Boiled rice as a side dish and meatballs are the best combination. Serve with the sauce in which the dish was baked.
Minced chicken meatballs in a slow cooker
The multicooker makes it easy to cook meatballs at home. You just need to prepare the food, combine them in a multicooker bowl and set the desired program. Then the household appliance will do everything by itself.
First, in a separate bowl, you need to mix 700 grams of minced chicken, a glass of chopped onions, salt and mix everything. Sculpt meatballs and place in a bowl.
Mix a glass of cold water with the same amount of sour cream, add a couple of tablespoons of sifted flour, a little salt and pour the resulting mixture over meat semi-finished products. Set the "Stew" mode and cook meatballs for an hour.
Spicy meatballs with carrots in the oven
Ordinary meatballs can be made savory by adding spices to taste. For this recipe, peel the chicken, cut a pound of pulp, remove the tendons. Scroll the meat through a meat grinder with a couple of peeled onions. Add nutmeg, dried ground garlic and Italian herbs to the minced meat.
Boil 0.5 cups of long grain rice in boiling water for 15-18 minutes, then drain and rinse the cereals in a colander. Peel the carrots, grate and sauté in vegetable oil until soft. Cut a couple of cloves of garlic into thin slices, divide them into quarters.
Stir the minced meat, boiled cereals, vegetables, raw egg and beat in a large saucepan. Blind the meatballs, put on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil and sprinkle with oil on top. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 40-45 minutes.
Diet steamed chicken meatballs
Wash, dry, cut a pound of chicken breast. Peel and cut the onion head. Cook until cooked half of the celery tuber, 0.5 each onion and carrot. In 0.5 cups of milk, soak a piece of loaf without a crust, squeeze.
Put prepared food in a blender bowl, salt, beat in a raw egg. Scroll into a homogeneous mass, pour in a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil. Knead the minced meat with your hands, cool and mold the meatballs.
Heat the water in a double boiler, grease the wire rack with vegetable oil and put the semi-finished products in it. Cook diet meatballs for half an hour.
Fried minced chicken meatballs
Boil 0.5 cups of long grain rice, put in a colander and rinse. Prepare a pound of minced chicken by rolling pieces of meat without skin and tendons through a meat grinder. Wash, dry, peel vegetables and herbs if necessary:
- a couple of onions;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 20 grams of parsley;
- 20 grams of dill greens;
- 2 tomatoes.
Finely chop the onion and herbs, divide both into 2 portions. Mix one portion of onion and herbs with minced chicken, rice, garlic, add salt and pepper. Put the resulting mixture in a bowl, cover with cling film and cool.
Form small meatballs from chilled minced meat and fry until golden brown on both sides in hot sunflower oil.
Peel the tomatoes, turn them in a blender in mashed potatoes. Mix a tablespoon of flour with 0.5 cups of cold water. Put the fried meatballs in a saucepan, pour over the tomato paste, salt, add the remaining herbs and onions.
Pour in one and a half cups of boiling water and simmer under a lid over low heat for 10 minutes. Pour flour diluted with water in a thin stream while stirring, put bay leaf and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream. Cook for another 5 minutes, then turn off the stove.
Grilled minced chicken meatballs
Prepare a pound of minced chicken. Peel and chop the onion and a couple of garlic cloves with a knife. Stir all the ingredients, add salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste, mix and beat the minced meat very well. Send to the refrigerator compartment for 4 hours.
Blind meatballs and string on skewers. Keep in a grill preheated to 220 ° C until the meat balls are golden brown. If the device is not rotating, turn the meatballs 1-2 times for even frying.
Fried minced chicken meatballs with herbs
If you add chopped greens to the minced meat, the meatballs will delight you with an interesting taste and juiciness. To do this, you need to scroll a pound of chicken fillet in a blender or in a meat grinder, then chop the peeled onion head. Drive an egg into the minced meat, add the crushed garlic clove.
For 0.5 bunches of fresh parsley and dill, free from tough stems and finely chop. Put in minced meat, knead everything, add a tablespoon of milk, a teaspoon of mustard, salt and pepper.
Stir the minced meat again and beat, then cool. Sculpt small meatballs. Dip in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides until tender in refined vegetable oil.
Chicken meatballs with cheese filling
Take 350 grams of chilled minced chicken. Soak a couple of slices of bread crumb in milk, then squeeze and mix with the meat. Combine with a raw egg, a couple of tablespoons of grated hard cheese. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste.
Form meat balls and make a hole in the top center in each. Put a piece of cheese and mask with minced meat. Beat the egg in a separate bowl, pour the breadcrumbs into another container.
Dip the semi-finished products in the egg mixture, then bread. Place in a cast-iron saucepan and cover halfway with olive oil. Fry on both sides until tender.
