Beef meatballs with rice in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make beef meatballs with rice in a frying pan in tomato sauce? Prepare the ingredients. To prepare beef meatballs, we will need: ground beef (without impurities), rice, carrot, parsley, vegetable oil, paprika, ground black pepper and salt.

2. Step 2:

   

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

3. Step 3:

   

   Fry the carrots in 1 tbsp vegetable oil until soft for about 3 minutes with constant stirring.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rinse the rice thoroughly. Put the grits in a saucepan, pour 200 ml of water. Bring to a boil and cook the rice until half cooked for about 10 minutes, not forgetting to stir occasionally. Then discard the rice in a colander and cool.

5. Step 5:

   

   How to make tomato sauce. To prepare the sauce, we will need: tomato paste, water and sugar.

6. Step 6:

   

   Combine tomato paste with sugar and water. Mix thoroughly until smooth. Sugar is needed to soften the acid of tomato paste.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wash, dry and finely chop the parsley.

9. Step 8:

   

   In a deep bowl, combine ground beef, rice, fried carrots, parsley. Add salt, pepper, and paprika.

10. Step 9:

    

    Mix everything thoroughly.

11. Step 10:

    

    Form meatballs of the same size from the minced meat soaked in water with your hands. They should be the size of a walnut or slightly larger.

12. Step 11:

    

    Heat the remaining vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the meatballs on it from all sides until a golden crust appears.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour tomato sauce into the pan. Simmer the meatballs on low heat under the lid for about 10 minutes. Then turn over to the other side and simmer for another 10 minutes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Ready-made meatballs are served with any side dish, except rice, since it is already in the meatballs themselves. I served it with boiled string beans. It turned out very tasty. Enjoy your meal!