Meatballs in cream sauce

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make meatballs in cream sauce? Prepare the ingredients. Let's start with meatballs. Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop it with a knife.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it up. Fry onions in oil until transparent.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the minced meat in a bowl. You can use ready-made or wind it yourself from any meat. Tastier, of course, will be a dish of mixed meat: pork and beef. In a bowl with minced meat, add fried onions, beat in a chicken egg. Add a couple of tablespoons of breadcrumbs, salt and ground black pepper to taste.

4. Step 4:

   

   Knead the mass thoroughly so that the minced meat turns out to be homogeneous in consistency, and the spices are evenly distributed throughout the mass. Tighten the bowl with minced meat with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour, thanks to this cooling, the minced meat will become more plastic.

5. Step 5:

   

   With your hands moistened with water, form small meatball balls from the minced meat, roll them in flour.

7. Step 6:

   

   Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil into a frying pan and fry the meatballs over medium heat until browned on all sides. Remove the meatballs from the pan.

8. Step 7:

   

   Let's move on to the preparation of cream sauce. Put a piece of butter in a frying pan, melt it.

9. Step 8:

   

   Add a couple of tablespoons of wheat flour, fry it until browned. Pour in the cream, add salt and ground black pepper to taste. If desired, you can add some more seasoning to the meat. Constantly stirring the mixture so that the flour does not gather into lumps, bring the sauce to a boil.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the meatballs in the sauce on the pan. Reduce the heat to a minimum, cover the pan with a lid. Simmer the meatballs in the sauce for about 20 minutes. If it seems that the sauce is very thickened or boiled, you can pour in a little water. Turn off the fire. The meatballs are ready.

11. Step 10:

    

    You can serve them to the table with a side dish if desired, for example, mashed potatoes. Bon appetit!