Kindergarten-style meatballs with gravy

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 50 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make kindergarten-style meatballs with gravy? Prepare the necessary ingredients. If you wish, you can use ready-made minced meat instead of turning it yourself, as I do. I have pork tenderloin with a little fat. Take round or long rice, choose for yourself. Rinse it well. Peel and wash the onions.

2. STEP 2

   

   Fill the pan with water. Place the rice in a saucepan and place it on the stove. Cook the rice until cooked, adding salt to the water. I added two glasses of water to half a glass of rice.

3. STEP 3

   

   Place the cooked rice in a colander and let the water drain completely.

4. STEP 4

   

   Grind the pork through a meat grinder along with onions. To make it easier, cut the onion into 4 parts (don't forget to remove the “butts”).

5. STEP 5

   

   Add boiled rice to the minced pork.

6. STEP 6

   

   Beat a raw chicken egg into the minced meat.

7. STEP 7

   

   Add some salt.

8. STEP 8

   

   Pepper it. And mix the minced meat well with a spoon and then with your hands.

9. STEP 9

   

   Using wet hands, form the minced meat into round meatballs. Place 2-3 tablespoons of wheat flour into a flat plate. Dredge each meatball in flour on all sides.

10. STEP 10

    

    Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil on the stove. Fry the meatballs, carefully turning them on different sides. They need a golden brown crust to appear on them.

11. STEP 11

    

    This is how I get them during the frying process. Please note that the meatballs must all fit in the pan.

12. STEP 12

    

    For the sauce, mix tomato paste with water in a deep plate. For me this is one glass of water.

13. STEP 13

    

    Pour tomato sauce over the meatballs in a frying pan and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes. Determine the exact time based on your stove.

14. STEP 14

    

    In a separate bowl, mix sour cream with a spoonful of flour. Pour in half a glass of water and stir until smooth. To make the sauce taste more pleasant, you can pre-fry the flour in a dry frying pan until the color changes slightly.

15. STEP 15

    

    Pour the mixture of sour cream and flour into the meatballs and simmer the dish for another 10-15 minutes under the lid over low heat. At this stage you need to achieve the desired thickness of the gravy. My family likes it thinner, so I added another 0.5 cup of water.

16. STEP 16

    

    Then add bay leaf to the dish, simmer for another 2 minutes and turn off the heat.

17. STEP 17

    

    Invite the kids to the table quickly and try it yourself! Our meatballs are ready like in kindergarten!

18. STEP 18

    

    Any side dish goes with them: potatoes, porridge, or, as in my case, pasta) Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Teacher

12.10.2023

5

Good recipe! I also liked this option for preparing meatballs.

Alya Zhemchuzhinka

12.10.2023

4.7

These really are the “same” meatballs! The dish is bright and harmonious. The gravy is soft, velvety and very tasty. I made a few changes, added finely chopped garlic to the pan in step 13, and sprinkled the dish with allspice when serving. Adults were served meatballs with vegetable salad, and children with small pasta. Thanks to the Author for the wonderful recipe! Special thanks from my baby, he ate a whole portion

ALEKSANDR

12.10.2023

4.9

I don’t know how the meatballs taste, but your photos turned out great! You don't often see this kind of quality here. And the texture of your table, on which the ingredients are, reminded me of the table from my Soviet childhood. Nostalgia...

New cook

12.10.2023

4.7

Today I cooked it very tasty. My husband said it was just like in kindergarten.

Angry!!

12.10.2023

4.6

Good evening!! I specially registered to write a comment here, I wanted to cook dinner for my child, I spent a long time choosing and finally my eyes fell on your recipe. Everything would be fine, but why such a huge amount of flour?? (I trusted you, cooked it exactly according to the recipe, in the end, instead of meatballs, PORridge FROM FLOUR! I always cook according to recipes from the Internet, this is the first time! Greetings from a hungry child!