Meatballs without rice with gravy in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make meatballs without rice with gravy? Prepare the necessary ingredients. If the meat is frozen, defrost it by transferring it to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator in advance. Wash and dry the egg.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash pork, dry with paper towels, remove streaks, cut into arbitrary pieces. Peel and wash one medium-sized potato, cut it into 4 pieces. Peel the garlic cloves and onion.

3. Step 3:

   

   Pass the meat through a meat grinder, adding potatoes, onions and garlic.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rinse the carrot well with a brush under running water. Peel it and grate it on a fine grater.

5. Step 5:

   

   Send the grated carrot to the minced meat.

6. Step 6:

   

   Thoroughly wash the chicken egg, as even the seemingly clean shell may contain harmful bacteria. Use food detergents and a brush. Beat one egg into the minced meat.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add salt and pepper to taste.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add breadcrumbs.

9. Step 9:

   

   Add spices to taste – I have a pinch of nutmeg.

10. Step 10:

    

    Mix well.

11. Step 11:

    

    With wet hands, form round meatballs from minced meat.

12. Step 12:

    

    Roll each meatball in flour and put it on a cutting board.

14. Step 13:

    

    Pour vegetable oil with a high smoking temperature into the pan. Warm it up well. It is possible to understand that the oil has warmed up enough in a simple way. Lower a wooden spatula into it, if bubbles have gathered around it, then you can start the frying process. Lay out the meatballs and fry them until light golden brown.

15. Step 14:

    

    Carefully turn the meatballs over with a spatula so that they are fried on all sides.

16. Step 15:

    

    Take a heat-resistant mold. Transfer the fried meatballs there.

17. Step 16:

    

    Prepare the gravy. Peel and chop the garlic cloves with a knife.

18. Step 17:

    

    Peel and finely chop the onion. To prevent onion juice from irritating the mucous membrane of the eyes so much, rinse it and the knife with cold water. If the cutting board is greased with a piece of lemon, it will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell.

19. Step 18:

    

    Put the onion and garlic in a frying pan and fry in the oil that remains from roasting meatballs.

20. Step 19:

    

    Peel tomatoes in their own juice, send them to the fried onion and mash them with a fork, adding the juice from the tomato. Instead of tomatoes in their own juice, you can take homemade tomato juice or 2 tablespoons of tomato paste diluted in 500 ml of water.

21. Step 20:

    

    Add your favorite spices, I have Provencal herbs. The dish will immediately acquire a completely different taste. If you use ready-made spices for meat dishes, be sure to read the composition before use. If there is already salt in the mixture, take this into account when you salt the sauce, otherwise you risk over-salting.

22. Step 21:

    

    Add a little hot red ground pepper, it will add piquancy to the sauce.

23. Step 22:

    

    Simmer the gravy for about 5-7 minutes, try if there is enough. If you think it's necessary, add a little salt and sugar.

24. Step 23:

    

    Pour the tomato sauce over the meatballs and put them in the oven. Bake for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees. In order for the oven to have time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on 10-20 minutes before cooking. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven.

25. Step 24:

    

    Serve the meatballs hot. The side dish can be any, for example, stewed rice, buckwheat, mashed potatoes or pasta. Or just make a vegetable salad. Enjoy your meal!