Meatballs with rice in tomato sauce is a recipe for a delicious dinner, in which a side dish, meat dish and thick gravy are combined in one dish. One big chicken meatballs with rice is enough for one serving. If you serve it with a thick sauce of vegetables and a piece of fresh bread, you get a hearty dish that you can feed an adult.
Traditional recipes can always be cooked in a new way, showing a little imagination. For example, add a small pinch of dried thyme to the mincemeat, you get incredibly fragrant burgers. And when preparing the sauce, do not forget about winter preparations, the usual squash caviar will be a good basis for a thick vegetable sauce, stew.
- Cooking time: 45 minutes
- Servings: 5
Ingredients for cooking meatballs with rice in tomato sauce:
- 450 g of minced chicken;
- 50 grams of rice;
- 15 g butter;
- egg;
- 4 stalks of young garlic;
- 1 \ 2 tsp. ground sweet paprika;
- 1 \ 2 tsp. dried thyme;
- salt to taste.
For tomato sauce:
- 50g green onions;
- 100 g onion caviar or tomato ketchup;
- 200 g tomatoes;
- vegetable oil, salt.
A method of cooking meatballs with rice in tomato sauce.
Any chicken mincemeat is suitable for meatballs, but it is better to cook it yourself, especially since it is very simple: separate the meat from the bones of the chicken breast, remove the skin, cut into small cubes or grind in a meat grinder. Agree, it's nice to know that the stuffing is cooked from a whole piece of meat, without any extra impurities.
We wash the rice several times in cold water, pour water into a small saucepan (one part of the rice to one part of the water), put the butter, add the washed rice, cook under the lid until ready for 10-12 minutes, cool, add to the mince .
Finely chop the stems of young garlic, put it in a bowl. Instead of the stems, you can use the arrows of garlic, while they are young and tender, it will turn out very tasty.
Smash a raw chicken egg in a bowl.
Seasoning of the cutlet mass - pouring ground sweet paprika, about one teaspoon of coarse salt and dried thyme, which successfully replaces the familiar culinary herb, thyme.
Mince well, knead, form large meatballs. Cook for a couple of 12 minutes. We use a regular saucepan, a colander and a lid, if there are no special devices, or prepare it in any convenient way: in a slow cooker, double boiler, microwave oven.
Making gravy. Heat the vegetable oil (about 10 ml) in a saucepan or frying pan, put the finely chopped green onions, any vegetable puree - suitable onion caviar, vegetable caviar or thick tomato ketchup. Chop fresh tomatoes finely, send them to the saucepan. Stew on medium heat for about 15 minutes, salt to taste, when the tomatoes turn into a homogeneous mass, you can consider the sauce ready.
Put the prepared meatballs in tomato sauce, warm it all together for 2-3 minutes over medium heat, so that the meat and vegetables are soaked with each other's juices.
Sprinkle the dish with green onions, immediately serve hot. It remains to cut the fresh bread, you can eat right from the pan, so delicious.
Meatballs with rice in tomato sauce are ready. Enjoy your meal!
