A recipe for meatballs for all tastes

What is a meatball? Balls the size of a walnut, sometimes slightly larger than a cherry. As you like! Regular meatballs - meatballs - are familiar to most soups. But not only in soup these meat balls are good.

How to cook meatballs? There is no particular complication in this process: minced meat with onions (or without) and spices, plus an egg. For the stuffing with equal success, beef, pork (individually and mixed) and chicken are suitable. The balls (with walnut or less) are filed and are prepared further. The whole meaning is in the word "next".

A recipe for meatballs in the soup.

Soup is made according to a simple recipe with variations: potatoes, water or broth, roots, fried onions and carrots. When the potatoes are almost cooked, carefully send them into the boiling meatball soup. Here there is a subtlety: in the meatballs for soup is not worth laying a raw egg. It will make the broth cloudy, and meatballs and without eggs will not spread, being sent to boiling liquid. Soup can be made with a lot of vegetables, adding pumpkin, sweet Bulgarian pepper, green peas and so on. After boiling the meatballs are cooked for no more than 10 minutes on low heat.

Meatballs in a soup cooked for a child can look like amusing octopuses, which will greatly facilitate eating such a dish. It is only necessary to pre-poke a raw meatball with straws of spaghetti, broken into 3 parts, and funny creatures-centipedes will float in the broth.

A recipe for meatballs baked.

In minced meat for such meat balls it is good to add a slice of white bread soaked in milk, and a little softened butter, if the meatballs are prepared from chicken meat. Bow is placed, according to personal preferences, without onions - also good. Meatballs are molded, laid on a baking tray and baked for 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 190 °. Then the meatballs should be placed in a roasting dish. The main thing in this dish is the sauce. It can be dairy (save the flour until golden, pour hot milk, add salt, pepper and spices and bring to a boil), tomato (fry to a golden color, add tomato, fry again, add a tablespoon of flour, dilute with water, bring To boil, spices - salt, sugar, pepper and others - to taste) or any other.

Fill the meatballs in the sauce for baking, sprinkle with grated cheese and send again in the oven for 10 minutes. Very tender are the balls under the crispy cheese crust!

Meatballs Recipe with fruit sauce

A very unusual recipe for meatballs, which is not often used by the hostesses, and in vain! In summer and autumn, when all counters are bursting with fruit abundance, such a recipe perfectly diversifies the daily cuisine and becomes a surprise for the whole family.

Meat balls for cooking such a dish can be baked, but you can cook or fry. The whole of the zimes is in the fruit sauce. Consider the winter set of fruits (for 600 g minced): 2 oranges, a can of canned pineapple, 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce, honey - also 2 tablespoons, 2 tablespoons of starch.

From one orange squeeze juice, the pulp of the second - cut, as it happens, we send it to a saucepan, we pour in about the same amount of pineapple syrup as it turned out to be orange. Add the tomato sauce and up to 1 liter of water, in which meatballs were brewed. In the same saucepan we send honey and pieces of pineapple (large - cut). We try, if necessary, add spicy (pepper), sweets (sugar), etc. In a separate dish, dissolve the starch in 0.5 cups of water and pour it into the total mass in a thin trickle, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil. The sauce is ready.

Next - 2 options: pour the meatballs with sauce and boil for 3 minutes or send to the oven and bake (you can again with cheese) - 5-7 minutes at 190 °.

The sauce is made from different fruits, with and without pulp. Excellent plums, apricots, peach, grapes, apples with lemon and honey are also great.

Meatballs - a universal product, diversify which will not cost much work for any mistress. The main thing is that as a result of using the same stuffing, absolutely dissimilar, non-standard dishes will turn out.