Meat meatballs with rice with gravy

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make meat meatballs with rice with gravy? Very simple! First, prepare the ingredients according to the list. You can take any minced meat: pork, beef or a mixture of pork and beef, like mine. In addition to salt and pepper, you can add your own spices to taste.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rinse the rice thoroughly. Boil in boiling salted water until half-cooked for about 10 minutes, not forgetting to stir occasionally. Then discard the rice on a sieve and cool.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the onion and cut into small cubes. If you or your children do not like onions in dishes, you can not add them at all.

4. Step 4:

   

   In a bowl, combine the minced meat, onion, egg, salt and pepper. Knead the minced meat thoroughly with your hands until smooth. If desired, you can add a garlic clove passed through the press to the minced meat.

5. Step 5:

   

   Shape the minced meat into smooth round meatballs slightly larger than a walnut.

6. Step 6:

   

   Now prepare the ingredients for the gravy. You can replace the broth with ordinary water. In addition to meat, vegetable or chicken broth is suitable. Tomato sauce can be replaced with ketchup, tomato paste or chopped fresh tomatoes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wash, peel and grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

8. Step 8:

   

   Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Heat vegetable oil in a deep frying pan over medium heat.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put the onion and carrot and fry, stirring, for 2-3 minutes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Add flour and fry, stirring, for another 1 minute. If you want the gravy to be more liquid, add less flour or more broth.

13. Step 12:

    

    Add the tomato sauce and stir. Fry for another 1 minute.

14. Step 13:

    

    With constant stirring, pour in the hot meat broth.

15. Step 14:

    

    Season the gravy with salt and pepper, add the bay leaves and bring to a boil.

16. Step 15:

    

    Put the prepared meatballs in the gravy. Bring everything to a boil again and reduce the heat to minimum.

17. Step 16:

    

    Simmer the meatballs under the lid for 20-25 minutes until tender. Bon appetit!