Classic meatballs in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make classic meatballs in a frying pan? Prepare the necessary ingredients for this. Choose pork with a small amount of fat. This will give the finished meatballs juiciness. If the onion is large, then one large onion will be enough. Take long-grain rice.

2. Step 2:

   

   Scroll the pork through a meat grinder and turn it into minced meat. Boil the rice in boiling water until it is half cooked. Do not add raw rice to meatballs. When cooking, it will increase in size and the rice will protrude from the meatballs, turning them into "hedgehogs".

3. Step 3:

   

   Combine minced meat and boiled rice in a large bowl. Peel the onion from the husk, rinse and chop. It can be crushed in a chopper, passed along with minced meat through a meat grinder or finely chopped with a knife. Add the onion to the bowl with the minced meat.

4. Step 4:

   

   Break one egg. Peel the garlic and pass it through a press. Add salt and spices to taste. As a spice, I take a little paprika and dried basil. The choice of spices is exclusively to your taste. Mix all the ingredients until smooth and beat the minced meat on the bottom of the bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   Pour a little vegetable oil into a hot frying pan. With wet hands, blind the meatballs and put them in a frying pan.

7. Step 6:

   

   Fry the meatballs on all sides over high heat until golden brown.

8. Step 7:

   

   In a separate glass, mix the tomato paste with water.

9. Step 8:

   

   Pour the meatballs with tomato sauce and bring to a boil. Then cover with a lid, make less heat and simmer under the lid for 40 minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    During the stewing, turn the meatballs 1-2 times so that they cook most evenly. About 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add the bay leaf to the pan.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bon appetit!