Minced meat balls in the oven

Useful, fast, simple, for dinner for the whole family! Meat balls cooked in the oven are a very tasty and satisfying dish that both adults and children like. They are prepared very simply, even a novice cook can cope. Baking makes the balls not only appetizing, but also more useful.

Julia M.

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Minced meat

500

Onion

Eggs

Semolina

Spices dry

to taste

Salt

to taste

For the sauce:

Sour cream

100

Water

150

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 24 % 8 g

Fats 64 % 21 g

Carbohydrates 12 % 4 g

238 kcal

GI: 33 / 67 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min

Step 1:
How to make meat balls in the oven? Prepare the products. For this dish, minced meat from any meat is suitable — pork, beef, chicken, turkey, veal. Take sour cream of any fat content, the main thing is that it is of good quality, without milk fat substitutes. Put the required amount of minced meat in a spacious bowl.
Step 2:
Peel the onion, rinse in cold water and finely chop. Add the chopped onion to the bowl to the minced meat. Onions can be crushed in other ways — grate, pass through a meat grinder, punch in a chopper.
Step 3:
Add the egg to the bowl. Sprinkle the minced meat with salt and spices to taste. You can use any spices you like as spices. Mix the whole mass well.
Step 4:
After mixing, it will seem that the minced meat is too thin in order to make balls out of it. You can cope with this if you add a little semolina to the minced meat. It will absorb excess moisture. Instead of semolina, breadcrumbs are also suitable. Knead the minced meat well. Let him stand for a while so that the semolina swells.
Step 5:
Prepare the sauce in which the balls will be baked. How to make sauce? Combine sour cream with water. Stir so that the sour cream spreads evenly in the water.
Step 6:
Pour a little sour cream sauce into the prepared baking dish. Then roll the minced meat balls and put them in a mold. To prevent the minced meat from sticking to your hands, wet your hands in cold water before each ball.
Step 7:
Pour all the meat balls on top with sour cream sauce. Place the mold in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, for 40 minutes. Make sure that there is a sufficient amount of sauce. If it boils all over, then add some hot water. The balls should become ruddy, with an appetizing ruddy crust.
Step 8:
Put the finished meat balls on plates and serve hot to the table. As a side dish, you can cook boiled rice or mashed potatoes. But as an independent dish, they will be very tasty! Bon appetit!

Minced meat can be supplemented with mushrooms or cheese.
You can bake them in various sauces — sour cream, tomato, mustard. Each time you will get a new dish with a unique flavor.
You can also wind up meat balls for the future and freeze them. When cooking, it will only be necessary to put the balls in a baking dish or in a frying pan.
A salad of fresh vegetables will be an excellent addition to such a dish.

So that during the stewing process the sour cream does not curdle and does not delaminate, pre-mix it with a spoonful of flour in a separate bowl, and then add to the pan. You can replace sour cream with cream of any fat content. But remember, the calorie content of the dish depends on the percentage of fat content of the sour cream or cream you use.

Be sure to wash the eggs before use, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. It is best to use food detergents and a brush.

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 the useful information about the features of ovens !