Minced beef meatballs with rice and tomato paste

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 50 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Let's prepare the ingredients for the dish. You can make minced meat yourself from fresh meat, beef tenderloin. You can also use ready-made minced meat, prepared in advance or purchased at the store.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the rice, changing the water several times. Boil the rice in salted water until half cooked, drain the water, and rinse the rice in clean cold water. Place the rice in a colander and let the water drain completely.

3. STEP 3

   

   Peel the onions and finely chop them with a knife.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash the carrots, peel and grate.

5. STEP 5

   

   In a bowl with minced meat, add rice, half of the chopped onion, spices: salt and ground black pepper, beat in a chicken egg. Mix the mass thoroughly until the minced meat is homogeneous in consistency.

6. STEP 6

   

   Take the minced meat with a spoon, put it in a plate with flour (you can use breadcrumbs), and form small balls. Pour vegetable oil into the frying pan. You should use a deep frying pan with a thick bottom or a saucepan. Let's warm it up.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fry the meatballs until golden brown on both sides, turning them over with a spatula. Remove them from the pan.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add the remaining chopped onions and grated carrots to the remaining oil in the pan. Fry the vegetables until the onions are transparent and the carrots are soft.

9. STEP 9

   

   Add tomato paste or crushed or pureed fresh tomatoes to a frying pan with vegetables. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. Mix the ingredients and simmer over medium heat for about 10 minutes.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place the meatballs in the frying pan with the gravy, mix and simmer for about 20 minutes over low heat with the lid ajar. Turn off the fire.

11. STEP 11

    

    The meatballs are ready. Serve the dish with a side dish to taste. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

☺Modnica

25.12.2023

4.7

As an option, try meatballs without rice in tomato sauce in the oven.

Maria

25.12.2023

4.8

Good day everyone! I made beef meatballs for dinner today. This recipe shows a very good proportion of rice: minced meat (for 350 g of minced meat: 50 g of rice). The taste turned out just perfect. I boiled the rice for the meatballs until half cooked (10 minutes) for 50 g of rice and 50 ml of boiling water. I did not rinse the rice after cooking, because... Due to the rice starch, the meatballs keep their shape perfectly. I cut the onion into small cubes and sautéed in vegetable oil to add to the minced meat, so that the taste of the onion became much softer and the bitterness disappeared. I additionally added 1 tablespoon of corn starch to the minced meat, so as not to bread the meatballs, but to immediately fry the meatballs in a small amount of oil. We really love the flavor of bell pepper in gravy, so I added a couple of cloves of diced bell pepper to the carrots and tomatoes. The end result was very tasty, tender and flavorful meatballs. Previously, I always added rice to meatballs “by eye,” but having prepared this recipe, now I know the ideal proportion. Thank you very much to the author for the recipe!