Fried meatballs: minced meat recipes and cooking methods

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

The word "meatball" comes from the Italian frittadella - a ball fried in a pan. The dish has become widespread in Europe since the beginning of the 19th century - since the invention of the hand mill, the progenitor of the modern meat grinder. Swedish meatballs have spread and become famous all over the world, thanks to one Swede who lives on the roof, as well as fast food restaurants of a well-known Swedish chain of stores.

This dish is small meat or fish balls fried in a pan. This is a paramount food for young children, whose teeth are difficult to cope with meat fibers. They put such balls in the first dish for babies: in soups and broths.

Meatball Mince

Although various ingredients can be included in meatballs, they should not be confused with meatballs. Minced meat for the dish to which this article is devoted consists only of meat and onions. If rice, buckwheat, potatoes are added to it, then meatballs are obtained.

So, we offer you a fewminced meat compositions for fried meatballs.

Meat "Homemade"

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kg beef;
• 0.5kg lean pork;
• 2-3 onions;
• chicken egg;
• s alt, pepper to taste.

Pass the beef pulp twice through a meat grinder and add pre-rolled onions and pork. S alt, pepper, beat in an egg. You can mix minced meat with your hands. But a lighter and more airy consistency will come out if you use a food processor.

Meat "Gentle"

Needed:

• 500 g each of minced beef and pork;
• 200-300g chicken fillet;
• 300g onion;
• s alt, ground pepper.

Chop the chicken fillet using a chopper or a blender. Combine with the rest of the minced meat and scroll again in a meat grinder along with onions. Add s alt and ground black pepper to taste, mix until smooth.

Fish "Classic"

Prepare for cooking:

• 1 kg fish fillet;
• 1 cup premium semolina;
• chicken egg;
• two onions;
• s alt and pepper to taste.

Check the fish for bones and mince with onions. Squeeze out the resulting mass slightly. Do not pour out the juice, but use it in the gravy. Combine fish-onion mixture with egg and semolina.

S alt, pepper and leave everything for 20-30 minutes so that the cereal swells, absorbing excess liquid. Instead of semolina, you can use flour.

How to roll meatballs beautifully?

The shape of the meat balls for our dish should resemble apples-ranetki no larger than 3-4 centimeters in diameter. This is a painstaking business, especially if a large number of guests are expected. To make the process successful, you can use the secrets.

First of all, take care of the following:

• make more space on your kitchen counter;
• fill a bowl with cold water;
• prepare a teaspoon.

Slightly moisten the surface of the table - you will lay your products on it. Begin to form lumps of minced meat and lay out on the table. To make them the same size, you can use a teaspoon.

Periodically wetting your hands in cold water, roll each ball into balls, returning them to the countertop. After rolling them in flour, spread them on trays thinly greased with vegetable oil. Some housewives replace it with flour. This method is good if you immediately send the finished product for quick freezing. Otherwise, the flour will soak into the meat juice and "stick" your meatballs to the tray.

How to fry meatballs correctly?

The appearance of the finished dish will be affected by how you fry your meatballs. Here's a convenient and easy way to cook pan fried meatballs.

Take a deep frying pan or a wide-bottomed saucepan - the size of the heating element of the stove should correspond to the diameterdevice. Pour in vegetable oil in such a layer that your meatballs are drowned in it "to the tops".

Quickly drop the meatballs into the hot oil. To make the crust even, shake the pan slightly by holding it by the handle. Remove the fried meatballs with a slotted spoon.

How to make meatballs with gravy?

Recipe for fried meatballs with gravy is simple.

1. In the pan where they were fried, add half a cup of flour and bring it to a caramel color.
2. Add a spoonful of tomato paste, half a glass of cream and, stirring, dilute the mixture with hot boiled water.
3. When the gravy begins to bubble, turn off the stove and dip the fried meatballs into the resulting sauce.

Serve with herbs and garnish with vegetables or pasta.