Meat meatballs with rice with gravy

A simple, delicious and satisfying dish for every day! Meat meatballs with rice and gravy are a very fast and budget way to feed a family. Fresh vegetables and herbs are suitable for garnish. After all, there is already rice in the meatballs. But they go great with mashed potatoes, too.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 23 % 6 g
Fats 42 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 35 % 9 g
167 kcal
GI: 11 / 67 / 22

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make meat meatballs with rice with gravy? Very simple! First, prepare the ingredients according to the list. You can take any minced meat: pork, beef or a mixture of pork and beef, like mine. In addition to salt and pepper, you can add your own spices to taste.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Rinse the rice thoroughly. Boil in boiling salted water until half-cooked for about 10 minutes, not forgetting to stir occasionally. Then discard the rice on a sieve and cool.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. If you or your children do not like onions in dishes, you can not add them at all.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    In a bowl, combine the minced meat, onion, egg, salt and pepper. Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands until smooth. If desired, you can add a garlic clove passed through the press to the minced meat.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Shape the minced meat into smooth round meatballs slightly larger than a walnut.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Now prepare the ingredients for the gravy. You can replace the broth with ordinary water. In addition to meat, vegetable or chicken broth is suitable. Tomato sauce can be replaced with ketchup, tomato paste or chopped fresh tomatoes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan over medium heat.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Put the onion and carrot and fry, stirring, for 2-3 minutes.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Add flour and fry, stirring, for another 1 minute. If you want the gravy to be more liquid, add less flour or more broth.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Add the tomato sauce and stir. Fry for another 1 minute.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    With constant stirring, pour in the hot meat broth.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Season the gravy with salt and pepper, add the bay leaves and bring to a boil.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Put the prepared meatballs in the gravy. Bring everything to a boil again and reduce the heat to minimum.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Simmer the meatballs under the lid for 20-25 minutes until tender. Bon appetit!

Important! To make rice dishes invariably delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choosing rice and the secrets of its preparation .

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. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which one is better not to use at all, read here .

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

  • Onion - 41   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
  • White fortified boiled 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
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Hot tomato sauce - 99   kcal/100g
  • Meat broth - 34   kcal/100g

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