Meatballs in Tomato Sauce (Skillet)
A tasty, quick, and easy hot meat dish! Meatballs in tomato sauce will shake up your menu. The dish comes out delicious, fragrant, and filling. Meatballs with sauce pair beautifully with almost any side — mashed potatoes, pasta, or grains all work well. It's simple and fast to make, which busy cooks will appreciate. The ingredients are easy to find, and you can use whatever ground meat you like or have on hand.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Let's gather the ingredients for meatballs in tomato sauce. A mixed pork-and-beef blend in equal parts is best — meatballs from this come out juicy and delicious. For a lighter dish, you can use ground poultry. Grind your own fresh meat or use store-bought.
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Step 2:
Peel the onions and dice them. Use one onion for the meat mixture and the other for the sauce.
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Step 3:
Wash, peel, and grate the carrot.
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Step 4:
Add the finely chopped onion to the bowl of ground meat, along with salt and ground black pepper to taste. If you like, add more spices or a meat seasoning. For a spicier, more piquant dish, add some dry adjika (a spicy pepper-garlic seasoning). Mix everything thoroughly until the meat mixture is uniform.
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Step 5:
With hands dampened in water, roll the meat into small balls. Roll them in wheat flour spread in a bowl. Pour vegetable oil into a skillet and heat it. Fry the meatballs in the hot oil over medium heat, turning them with a spatula, until browned on all sides.
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Step 6:
Fry the meatballs for about 15 minutes, then remove them from the skillet.
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Step 7:
Add a little vegetable oil to the skillet. Fry the onion and carrot over medium heat, stirring, until lightly golden.
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Step 8:
Add the tomato paste to the sautéed vegetables and pour in half a cup of water. Stir the mixture and bring it to a boil.
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Step 9:
Add the fried meatballs to the simmering sauce. Simmer the meatballs in the tomato sauce over medium heat, covered, for about 30 minutes. Then take off the lid; if the sauce seems thin, let it reduce a little. Turn off the heat.
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Step 10:
Serve the dish with or without a side, along with fresh vegetables and herbs. Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Mixed minced meat - 351 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Tomato paste - 28 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
