Meatballs and rice with tomato paste: a delicious dinner recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The combination of rice with meat has long been used in cooking. For many people, this taste is reminiscent of kindergarten. This dish can be eaten even by small children, provided there is no allergy to the products included in the composition.

Meatballs with rice and tomato paste

Required products:

• any meat - 500 gr;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• water - 1 cup;
• onion - 1 pc.;
• rice - half a glass;
• s alt - 1 pinch;
• flour - 5 tbsp. l.;
• black pepper - 1 pinch;
• oil for frying;
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l.;
• laurel - 1 pc.

Minced meat can be made from any type of meat: beef, pork, chicken, or a mixture of some of these ingredients. S alt, add pepper or any other seasonings as desired. When scrolling through a meat grinder, you can add an onion to the minced meat for juiciness. Break the egg into the meat and mix.

Rinse the rice and add to the minced meat. Mix thoroughly. Form small balls. Roll them in flour. In a deep frying pan, heat the vegetable oil, put the meatballs there. It is not necessary to cover with a lid during frying. Remove the finished balls on paper towels to remove excess oil. Then put them in a saucepan, pour water into it, add s alt, tomato paste and bay leaf. If desired, you can add other spices: basil, thyme, peppercorns, etc. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer for about twenty minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes, vegetables, buckwheat or pea porridge.

Meatballs in a slow cooker

Cooking on the stove is not the only way to prepare food these days. This dish can also be cooked in a slow cooker with the “Stew” mode. It takes about the same time as if the dish was cooked on the stove. You can pre-fry the balls both in a pan on the stove and in a multicooker bowl.

Rice with tomato paste

This dish is very simple. It can be used both as a side dish and as a main dish. You can add vegetables there (at the frying stage).

Ingredients:

• long grain rice - 200g;
• water;
• garlic - 1 clove;
• vegetable oil;
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• paprika - 1 pinch;
• s alt to taste.

Pour a couple of drops of oil into a deep frying pan, heat it up and put finely chopped garlic into it. Lightly fry, then add tomato paste, sweat for a couple of minutes. At this time, you can do rice. It must be washed, dried and only then added to the tomato paste. S alt, add paprika or any other spices. Fry for a couple of minutes. Pour water into the pan: its volume should be twice the amount of rice. Stir, cover. Simmer over low heat for about half an hour. As a rule, rice is not stirred at the time of cooking. All water must be absorbed. Rice with tomato paste is ready. Bon appetit!