Turkey meatballs with rice

Ingredients

Turkey breast fillet – 800 g

Round rice – 0.5 cups

Chicken egg – 1 pc.

Onions – 1 pc.

Garlic – 3 cloves.

Bay leaf – 3 pcs.

Flavored peppercorns

Tomato paste – 2 tbsp. l.

Khmeli-suneli seasoning – 1 tsp.

Olive oil – 2 tbsp. l.

188 kcal
1 hour
1 hour

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Making meatballs with rice is not tricky and quite common. They are usually prepared from homemade minced meat (beef + pork), but now on our website we have a dietary and low-calorie version of this delicious dish, which is loved by everyone, young and old. The main ingredient of our hedgehogs will be turkey breast fillet; this meat has good gastronomic properties and does not contain fat or veins. So let's get started quickly.

Cut the turkey breast into pieces and pass through a meat grinder. Place it in a deep dish. I always take only a whole piece and cook the minced meat without the help of others, to see if they put enough in it.

Add to the minced meat 1 chicken egg, finely chopped onion (half) and garlic, 1 teaspoon of salt, khmeli-suneli seasoning and round rice boiled until half cooked.

Mix all ingredients thoroughly and set aside. While the minced meat is soaking, let's start frying.

Cut the tomato into cubes, peel the carrots and grate on a large grater. Also, finely chopped half of an onion left over from making minced meat for meatballs will be fried.

Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil (vegetable oil) in a frying pan and add vegetables in the order of onions, carrots, tomatoes. Fry them stirring for 5-7 minutes over medium heat.

Add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste to the frying. Continue cooking, stirring, for another 3-5 minutes.

Using your hands, form the minced meat into large round meatballs and place them on top of the fry. Add bay leaf, dark aromatic pepper and optional herbs, such as basil. Pour hot water (approximately 200 ml) over the meatballs so that it covers them halfway, cover with a lid and simmer for approximately 20 minutes. Then turn each meatball over and simmer covered for another 10 minutes.

Serve ready-made meatballs with turkey rice with ordinary side dishes (pasta, potatoes, buckwheat) and vegetable salads.

Turkey meatballs: very tasty and juicy meatballs made from dietary meat

Turkey meatballs in the oven will turn out indescribably tender and tasty.

Turkey meatballs: ingredients
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Turkey meatballs: recipe
Turkey meatballs are ready!

Turkey meatballs: ingredients

500 (500) g – turkey fillet
300 (three hundred) ml – water
150 (100 50) g – rice (preferably round)
200 (two hundred) gr – carrots
200 (two hundred) gr – onion (onion)
1 (one) piece – chicken egg
1 (one) tbsp. spoon – olive oil
Salt and spices to taste
Greens to taste

For filling:

500 (500) ml – water
6 (6) art. spoon - sour cream
2 (two) tbsp. spoons - tomato

Turkey meatballs: recipe

Wash the rice well and cook until done
Cut the fillet, carrots and onions into medium pieces. Put everything through a meat grinder
Add chopped herbs, eggs, rice, spices, salt to the purchased mass.
Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil, or cover it with paper before baking.
Form meatballs from the purchased minced meat
Mix sour cream, tomato and water. And pour our meatballs into the mold
Place the dish in a previously preheated oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.

Turkey meatballs are ready!

A good dish for a home celebration. Also, you can eat not tomatoes, but pour mayonnaise-cream sauce over the meatballs, with the addition of chopped herbs. You can add a little cheese - for example mozzarella. Mushrooms as a side dish will go well with this option.

How to cook turkey meatballs?

Perfect for people who have calorie restrictions. For example, with obesity. It is also ideal for people who are looking after their figure but cannot give up meat. This is a good candidate for fatty varieties. Turkey is very necessary, because it contains elements such as: iron, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, tin, chromium, molybdenum, nickel, vitamins (a group of low molecular weight organic compounds of relatively simple structure and varied chemical nature) group B, vitamin (low molecular weight organic compound of relatively simple structure, necessary for all living things) A, vitamin (low molecular weight organic compound of relatively simple structure, necessary for all living things) PP, vitamin (low molecular weight organic compound of relatively simple structure, necessary for all living things) E.

Below you will see several good recipes for ground turkey dishes. In total, 100 grams of the product contains about 141 kcal. So, how to cook ground turkey meatballs in sauce.

Turkey meatballs in tomato sauce

A beautiful dinner option is turkey breast meatballs in tomato sauce. This recipe is not difficult to prepare. The dish comes out rich and tasty. This is a traditional Italian recipe. Excellent for serving alongside pasta.

It will take you one hour to make.

turkey 0.3 kg;
onion 3 pcs;
carrots 1 pc.;
flour 0.1 kg;
rice 0.1 kg;
tomato paste 3 tbsp. l.;
vegetable oil;
spices.

Clean the meat from films and chop. Peel the onion.
Place all this in a food processor. Salt and pepper to taste.
Mix.
Wash the rice. You can choose any kind of rice.
Cook the rice for fifteen minutes, adding 2 parts water and 1 part rice. Drain the water. Refrigerate.
Mix rice with minced meat.
Make balls and coat them with flour on all sides. At the end you will get about 20 meatballs.
Peel and chop the onions and carrots.
Heat a frying pan, pour oil and fry the vegetables. To create the most extravagant taste, stir the minced meat with fried onions.
Place the balls in the pan. Fry for 2 minutes on different sides.
Place the meat balls and vegetables in a large saucepan, add tomato sauce and water.

Cook over medium heat for 20 minutes. If you are making small meatballs, you can simmer them over low heat for about 10 minutes.

Turkey meatballs with rice in tomato sauce

Ingredients needed to make soft meatballs:

turkey (minced meat) 0.5 kg;
onion;
tomatoes 6 pcs.;
rice 1 cup;
sunflower oil;
spices;
greenish basil.

The size of the meatballs depends on your desire. You can create small, medium or huge ones. If you want to cook huge balls, then simmer for 10 minutes. You should not overexpose them, because then they will simply fall apart.

Peel the onion, chop and fry in oil.
Boil the rice and add salt to the water. Be sure to allow excess water to drain. Allow to cool well.
Rinse the tomatoes well and cut into any.
Pour boiling water over. Remove the skins from the tomatoes.
Using a blender, chop the tomatoes and rub through a sieve.
Pour the tomato mixture into a heated frying pan, add onion, salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes.
Wash the basil, chop finely and fry.
Mix minced meat with rice, add spices. Create balls.
Place meat balls in tomato sauce. Close the lid and cook for 10 minutes.

Variant of the dish in sour cream sauce

A very mild taste comes out when using sour cream.

minced turkey 0.5 kg;
sour cream or cream 300 g;
breadcrumbs;
semolina for breading;
oil 1 tbsp. l.;
flour 1 tbsp. l.;
salt;
spices.;
basil.

If you want to get tender meatballs, add potatoes to the minced meat.

Add crackers and semolina to the minced meat.
Chop the greens very finely and add to the minced meat.
Mix the minced meat and make meat balls.
Add the balls to a pan of water for 5 minutes. We take them out onto a plate.
Heat a frying pan, put oil on it, 1 tbsp. l. flour. If the sauce comes out very thick, you need to add the water in which the meatballs were cooked.
Add sour cream and cook for about 6 minutes

Throw in the meatballs and simmer for 10 minutes. Savory turkey meatballs with sour cream are ready.

In creamy sauce

Meatballs will be no less juicy and fragrant if they are stewed with cream. For lovers of an airy, creamy taste, it would be a good idea to add cheese at the end of cooking. This can be processed or hard cheese. If you add hard, you should pay attention to the amount of salt. It needs to be added less.

minced turkey 0.5 kg;
cream glass;
onion;
garlic;
sunflower oil;
salt pepper;
testicle.

Peel the onion and chop finely.
Wash the dill and chop finely.
Add everything to the minced meat and mix.
Add one egg there. Add pepper and salt.
We make small balls.
Heat the frying pan and place it on the meatballs.
Garlic and spices must be added to the cream.
Pour the creamy consistency over the meatballs. Simmer for about 20 minutes over medium heat.

Turkey meatballs in the oven

turkey – 500 gr.;
rice – 100 g;
carrots – 2 pcs.;
salt;
pepper;
bunch of dill;
testicle;
onion;
water – 1 glass;
tomato paste – 1 tbsp. l.;
sour cream – 3 tbsp. l.;
sunflower oil.

You need to cook the rice and let it drain.
Peel the onions and carrots, rinse under water, cut into strips.
Cut the meat into pieces.
Mix the meat and carrots with onions and place in a meat grinder.
Preheat the oven to 100 eighty degrees.
Place the egg, salt and pepper into the minced meat. We also put rice and greens there.
Forming meatballs.
Add sour cream, salt and water to the tomato sauce.
Pour oil onto a baking sheet and place meat balls.
You need to fill the meat balls with sour cream and tomato paste.

Throw in the oven for 30 minutes.

Dietary steamed meatballs

To create a dietary dish in a short time, it is best to use homemade ground turkey. You, of course, can use store-bought minced meat. But it’s still better to cook your own from fillet. Especially if you are cooking for children or people with food restrictions due to illness.

turkey meat 0.4 kg;
onion;
carrot;
butter 1 tbsp. l.;
salt 1 tsp.

Peel the carrots and onions.
Grind the meat finely.
Mix the minced meat, add salt, add oil.
Forming meatballs. Small, medium or larger size.
Place them in a steamer and cook for 20 minutes.
Decorate with Iceberg lettuce and serve.

In a slow cooker

To create soft and fragrant meatballs in a slow cooker, you need to take the following ingredients:

minced turkey 0.5 kg;
rice 1 cup;
testicle;
onion;
flour – 1 tbsp. l.;
sour cream – 3 tbsp. l.;
salt;
pepper;
water – 1 glass.

First, peel the onion, chop it with a blender and add the minced meat.
Add the egg, salt and pepper.
Cook the rice until half cooked. Add minced meat and mix.
Forming balls.
We put them in the slow cooker.
Mix sour cream with flour and broth.
Add the sauce to the balls and simmer for exactly an hour.
We serve the dish and serve it to the table. Salads with new vegetables will be a good addition.

It doesn’t matter what sauce you choose, dishes with meatballs will be very healthy and fragrant. Whether it's tomatoes, creamy or sour cream sauce. It would be appropriate to add pasta, rice or potatoes as a side dish.

Salads can be very different. If you serve the meatballs separately, do not forget to add herbs and new vegetables to the plate. You will literally delight your loved ones with this light and fragrant dish.

How to make turkey meatballs with gravy?

General manufacturing principles
Step-by-step recipe for making it in a slow cooker
Turkey meatballs with gravy without rice in a frying pan
Useful tips
What to serve with?

Turkey meatballs with gravy are a simple and savory dish that can be prepared in the slow cooker, in the oven, or even in a skillet on the stove. Depending on the ingredients used and the cooking technique itself, such a dish is perfectly suitable for daily, baby or even diet food.

General manufacturing principles

Meatballs – always have a spherical shape. Their size can be any size, but most often they are formed into chopped minced meat products, about 3-6 cm in diameter.

To improve the taste, you should add a little grain to the minced meat; you can prepare meatballs without rice, or, for example, with the addition of semolina.

Be sure to add an egg, otherwise the meatballs will fall apart.

Just before stewing, the already shaped semi-finished products are carefully rolled in flour, then placed in a mold. Light frying of products in vegetable oil is allowed beforehand.

Usually meatballs are stewed in tomato sauce, but if desired and able, it can be replaced with watery sour cream sauce or even just hot water.

Step-by-step recipe for making it in a slow cooker

This kitchen unit greatly simplifies the life of a modern housewife - all you need to do is put the food in a bowl and select the cooking program, and the smart saucepan will do everything else itself.

Turkey meatballs with gravy without rice in a frying pan

For this you will need:

minced meat – 500 g;
semolina – 3 tbsp. l.;
testicle – 1 pc.;
flour – 100 g;
salt and spices - to taste;
onions – 2 pcs.;
carrots – 1 pc.;
tomato paste – 3 tbsp. l.;
water – 250 ml;
vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.

If meatballs are prepared for children, then the gravy for them can be made only from tomato sauce, without adding vegetables.

If desired, tomato paste is combined with the same amount of sour cream - the taste of the finished dish comes out creamy and tender.

Prepare like this:

combine minced meat, spices, semolina and egg;
put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes;
at this time, cut the vegetables into strips and fry in oil until soft;
then add tomato paste and water, bring the sauce to a boil;
the minced meat is removed from the refrigerator;
moisten hands with water and form meatballs with a diameter of no more than 5 cm;
any semi-finished product is rolled moderately in flour and placed in a frying pan, greased with oil in one layer;
top the meatballs with bubbling sauce and cover with a lid;
simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes.

The dish prepared according to this recipe comes out very tender, but it is important not to increase the proportions of semolina, otherwise the meatballs will turn out hard.

Useful tips

Experienced chefs give a huge amount of advice on how to improve the appearance of the finished dish and its taste. The following culinary subtleties can help with this:

It’s best not to use ready-made minced meat, but to create it yourself;
for children's and dietary menus, meatballs should be made only from turkey fillet;
if onions should be added to the minced meat, then it is better to fry it in advance in the least amount of oil - this will make the meatballs tastier;
You can add a little greenish dill or parsley to the turkey - this will make their taste more intense and their appearance pleasant;

for the sauce you can use heavy cream, broth and even just water;
simmer the dish at the lowest boil and for no more than 40 minutes;
for breading semi-finished products, only wheat flour is used;
If the meatballs are served as an independent dish, then the sauce in which they are stewed should be very thick.

You can prepare minced meat from any part of the bird carcass. But the most delicious is the one for which the meat was cut from the thighs and breast of the turkey.

What to serve with?

This meat dish {in itself} is quite tasty. The combination of minced meat and cereal makes it filling. Therefore, meatballs with gravy do not need a special additional side dish. But they combine amazingly with virtually all types of side dishes:

pasta and spaghetti;
rice;
buckwheat;
mashed potatoes;
vegetable salad;
baked and boiled potatoes;
grilled vegetables;
breaded vegetables.

The great advantage of this dish is its versatility, because you can combine turkey meatballs prepared according to any recipe with any other products at your own discretion.

The video presents another fascinating recipe for meatballs. Bon appetit!