Meatballs with side dish

Fast and delicious dish for everyday table! Cooking meatballs for lunch or dinner takes very little time. And they are combined with almost any side dish. Therefore, I can safely call meatballs a universal dish for everyday menu.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 17 % 5 g
Fats 38 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 45 % 13 g
168 kcal
GI: 69 / 31 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 1 h

How to make meatballs with a side dish?

To prepare meatballs, first of all boil the rice until ready. To do this, boil the water and add the washed rice to it. Stir and cook for 5-7 minutes, until the rice becomes soft. Then drain the rice, rinse it with a little cold water so that it cools down faster.

Put the required amount of minced meat in a spacious bowl. Add boiled rice and raw egg to it. Add a little salt and spices to taste. Mix everything well. It is most convenient to do this with your hands.

Then preheat the pan to a hot state and pour a little vegetable oil. Form the meatballs with wet hands and put them in a hot frying pan. Fry them on all sides until browned, turning them over with a fork or knife.

At this time, while the meatballs are frying, peel the onion and chop it finely. Add the chopped onion to the meatballs. Mix it up. Fry everything together for a couple of minutes.

In a separate glass of water, stir a little sour cream and pour into the pan to the meatballs. Cover the pan with a lid and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes.

To prepare a side dish, peel the potatoes and rinse them. Cut the potatoes into pieces, fill with water and put on fire. Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are ready for 15 minutes. Add a little salt to the pan to taste.

When the potatoes become soft, drain the hot water from them. Immediately put the butter on the hot potatoes and start kneading it with a pusher. Gradually add warm milk to it and continue to knead so that the milk is evenly distributed and the potatoes are well soaked in milk.

If you like mashed potatoes to be more liquid, then pour more milk.

Put the finished mashed potatoes on plates. Spread out the meatballs to it and pour over the remains of the sauce in which they were stewed. You can sprinkle a little fresh herbs on top.

Serve the dish to the table and call home.
Bon appetit!

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Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Raw wild rice - 353   kcal/100g
  • Brown raw rice - 360   kcal/100g
  • Boiled brown rice - 119   kcal/100g
  • White fortified raw rice - 363   kcal/100g
  • Fortified boiled white rice - 109   kcal/100g
  • White rice, steamed, with long grains raw - 369   kcal/100g
  • Steamed white rice, boiled with long grains - 106   kcal/100g
  • Instant dry rice - 374   kcal/100g
  • Instant rice, ready to eat - 109   kcal/100g
  • Fig - 344   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g

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