Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make meatballs in the oven in tomato sauce? Prepare the products. For this dish, you can take any minced meat: pork, beef, chicken, turkey, rabbit, mixed. If you use frozen minced meat, defrost it in advance using the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Wash the carrots with a brush, peel it. Remove the husk from the onion.
Step 2:
Fill the pot with two glasses of water. Put it on the fire. Lower the washed rice into the pan, half a cup. And cook it after boiling until half-cooked, about 10 minutes.
Step 3:
While the rice is cooking, cut the onion into small cubes. Grate the peeled carrots on a coarse or fine grater. I rubbed on a shallow one - I like it that way.
Step 4:
Discard the undercooked rice in a colander and rinse under running water.
Step 5:
Preheat the pan on the stove. Pour in the vegetable oil and put the onion. Fry the onion, stirring, for 3-4 minutes until transparent.
Step 6:
Add grated carrots to the onion and continue to fry the vegetables for another 5 minutes, stirring as well. Remove the pan from the stove.
Step 7:
Mix the washed boiled rice into the minced meat.
Step 8:
Add half of the onions and carrots fried in oil to the minced meat and mix.
Step 9:
Leave the second half of the frying in the pan.
Step 10:
Pour tomato juice (or tomato paste diluted with water) to the roast remaining in the pan. Put the pan back on the stove, turn the heat below medium and let the sauce evaporate a little. Let the mixture boil a little without a lid.
Step 11:
While the stove is busy, go back to the stuffing. Beat an egg into it.
Step 12:
Add salt.
Step 13:
Add ground pepper.
Step 14:
Add some dried basil (or other spices to taste).
Step 15:
Mix the minced meat well.
Step 16:
While you were mincing, the roast had already boiled a little. Add sour cream to it.
Step 17:
Stir and leave to simmer for about 5 minutes, evaporating to the desired consistency, but note that after baking, the sauce will thicken even without adding flour!
Step 18:
Turn on the oven, let it heat up to 180°C. With wet hands, form round meatballs from minced meat and put them in a fireproof mold at a small distance from each other.
Step 19:
Pour tomato sauce on top of the meatballs.
Step 20:
Bake the meatballs in the oven for about 40 minutes, making sure that the sauce does not burn. If suddenly this does start to happen, cover the mold with foil.
Step 21:
Any side dish for meatballs in tomato sauce will do. The dish can also be served by itself. Bon appetit!
So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.
Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Sour cream with 30 % fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 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
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Fresh basil - 27 kcal/100g
- Dried basil - 251 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Mixed minced meat - 351 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Table salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Tomato juice - 21 kcal/100g
- Round rice - 330 kcal/100g
