Many people like to eat different meat dishes for dinner. However, if you eat the same dishes all the time, you may get bored. For example, it is recommended to replace cutlets with meatballs. But, how to cook the perfect meatballs at home? To do this, you need to use simple tricks.
Trick #1. For meatballs, minced meat of large or medium grind is used. From such mincemeat it is easier to form large meatballs. But, the disadvantage of large minced meat is considered a loss of juiciness of meat. You can solve this problem by grinding minced meat in a meat grinder to medium. It is better to use a meat grinder, not a blender, so as not to lose juiciness. In addition, for juiciness it is worth adding lard to the minced meat in the ratio of 50 to 600 grams
.Trick #2. Boiling rice. It is known that rice helps to retain moisture in minced meat and makes meatballs more lush. But, not all rice fulfills this function. If the rice is washed and boiled to readiness, the effect will not be. Do not rinse the rice, so as not to get rid of gluten. Boil the rice should be cooked until half-cooked. It is recommended to add up to 40% of rice to the minced meat. Then it will properly fulfill its function for meatballs.
Trick #3. Onions in meatballs should be added depending on the recipe. In addition, onions for both frying and baking the dish should be fried. Then the onion will not stick during cooking.
Trick #4. Use eggs and starch in meatballs should be careful. Otherwise, the stuffing will be either too liquid, or too sticky and starch-flavored.
Trick #5
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We advise you to baste and knead the mince after adding the rice. Otherwise, the mince will be dense and lose its puffiness. After kneading it is necessary to send the minced meat to the refrigerator for a couple of hours. The meatballs are formed from the cooled minced
meat. Bake the meatballs at a liquid level no higher than ½ of the meatballs. Otherwise, the dish will be boiled, not stewed.
Ingredients for meatballs:
- minced meat – 500 g;
- rice – 100 g;
- onion – pcs;
- egg – pcs;
- salt – ½ tsp.
Ingredients for the sauce:
- tomato paste;
- sugar;
- bay leaf;
- sour cream.
Preparation of meatballs:
Boil rice until half-cooked and put it to the minced meat, knead and beat. Cut onions into small cubes and saute in a frying pan with vegetable oil.
Put the fried onions to the minced meat, salt and stir again. Add egg to the minced meat, mix all the ingredients again.
Put the minced meat in the refrigerator under a plastic wrap for 2 hours. Form meatballs, which are then fried in a frying pan.
Combine in a separate container tomato paste with sugar, sour cream and favorite spices. Pour the sauce into the frying pan and stew the meatballs until ready under a lid.
You can additionally add a little water to the meatballs.
It turns out simple tasty meatballs for every day. Adhering to these rules, meatballs will always be puffy.
