Meatballs with rice in a slow cooker with gravy

Meatballs are small balls of minced meat. The meatballs may contain rice, bread or breadcrumbs. There are several ways to prepare meatballs. Meatballs in the Polaris multicooker are steamed, baked and stewed. An excellent household appliance for such cooking methods is a multicooker.

This recipe suggests stewing the meatballs in a slow cooker, pouring a delicious sauce over them. This dish will appeal to both children and adults, so all your family members will remain full and satisfied.

It takes 70 minutes to cook meatballs in a slow cooker. The following ingredients make 11 meatballs.

Ingredients:

Minced meat – 500 g;
Onion – 1 piece;
Rice – ½ multi-cup;
Eggs – 1 pc.;
Sour cream – 100 g;
Ketchup – 2 tbsp. l;
Water – ½ multi-glass;
Salt and pepper to taste.

By the way, if you don’t want to fuss for a long time, you can cook rice with minced meat from the same products in a slow cooker. It will take less time and it will also turn out very tasty.

Meatballs in a slow cooker - preparing food and utensils

Once again, it needs to be repeated that it doesn’t matter what kind of slow cooker you have, you can cook meatballs in it anyway. Choose the “Stew”, “Multi-cook” or “General” mode, set the temperature to 100 degrees, and set the timer for 40 minutes.

To cook meatballs in a slow cooker, you will need minced meat, cereals (rice or buckwheat), vegetables and spices.

Don't forget about the sauce, this is the main component of the dish. The sauce is most often prepared with tomato, but you can experiment and make a creamy dressing. The taste of the finished meatballs will depend on the taste of the sauce.

When you stew meatballs in a slow cooker, you need to completely fill them with dressing. If you do not do this, the finished meatballs will turn out a little dry.

What size should I make the meatballs? These are not meatballs, so they shouldn't be too small, but don't make them the size of cutlets either.

Before putting the meatballs into the multicooker, grease the container with vegetable oil.

Recipes for meatballs in a slow cooker:

Recipe 1: Meatballs in a slow cooker

Cook “regular” meatballs in a slow cooker, and you will immediately notice their difference from meatballs prepared in the usual way.

Required ingredients:

Minced pork 200 grams
Minced beef 200 grams
Carrots 2 pieces
Onion 2 pieces
Garlic 2 cloves
Tomato paste 3 tablespoons
Sour cream 3 tablespoons
Sugar
Salt
Spices
The water is clean
Sunflower oil

Cooking method:

1.Prepare the vegetables. Wash and peel them, finely chop the onion, and grate the carrots. You will use half of the vegetables for the meatballs and the other half for the sauce.

2. Turn on the “Frying” program on the multicooker, grease the bottom of the container with oil and fry the onions and carrots. Cool the vegetable mixture.

3. Mix two types of minced meat, chilled vegetables, salt and spices. Form medium-sized meatballs from the resulting mass.

4. Turn on the “Stew” mode on the multicooker and set the timer for 40 minutes. Grease the bowl with oil, place the meatballs in the multicooker for 5 minutes, and close the lid.

4. Mix the sauce. To do this, combine the remaining vegetables, water, 3 tablespoons of tomato paste, 3 tablespoons of sour cream, sugar, salt, and spices. Squeeze the garlic into the mixture through a press.

5. Pour the sauce over the meatballs in the slow cooker and cook until the end of the program.

Meatballs with an unforgettable taste

Minced meatballs with rice in a slow cooker are usually cooked in sauce. A good choice would be a sauce based on meat broth with flour or sour cream. You can complement its taste with vegetables - fried onions, tomatoes, leeks, celery root and garlic. Or you can prepare meatballs using a simplified recipe. Shall we try?

Compound:

0.5 kg minced meat;
½ tbsp. rice;
onion;
70 ml sour cream;
2 tbsp. l. tomato sauce;
2 tbsp. l. flour;
salt;
egg;
black pepper.

On a note! Rice can be cooked in advance or added raw to the minced meat.

Preparation:

Peel and finely chop the onion.
Mash the minced meat mixture lightly with a fork, add rice cereal, egg, and onion.
Add salt and black pepper.
Knead the mixture thoroughly until it has a homogeneous structure.
Form medium-sized meatballs.
Dissolve the sifted flour in boiled warm water. Stir the mixture until smooth.
Add sour cream and tomato sauce and stir.
Place the meatballs in a multi-cooker bowl.
Pour in the sauce. It should coat the meatballs.
Turn on the “Extinguishing” mode.
Simmer the meatballs for 60 minutes. Ready!

Recipe 2: Meatballs in a slow cooker with buckwheat porridge

If meatballs with rice no longer surprise anyone, then try cooking the same dish with buckwheat. This will be especially appropriate for mothers of those children who flatly refuse to eat buckwheat porridge, which is so healthy and rich in vitamins.

Buckwheat meatballs in a slow cooker have a completely unusual taste, and it is simply impossible to “recognize” porridge in them.

Required ingredients:

Minced beef 300 grams
Buckwheat 50 grams (raw)
Carrot 1 piece
Onion 1 piece
Bell pepper 1 piece
1 tomato
Tomato paste 2 tablespoons
Sour cream 3 tablespoon
The water for the sauce is clean
Salt
Spices

Cooking method:

Sort through the buckwheat and sift out the black grains. Rinse and set to boil. For meatballs, the boiled cereal should be slightly undercooked, so cook it for 6 minutes after boiling and remove from heat. Cool.
Peel the onion and finely chop it. Fry it in a multicooker in the “Frying” mode, after greasing the bottom of the container with sunflower oil. Cool.
Mix ground beef, onion and buckwheat porridge, add salt and spices. Form medium sized balls from this mixture. Turn on the “Stew” mode on the multicooker for 40 minutes, add oil to the bottom of the container and lower the meatballs into the multicooker for five minutes.
Let's prepare the dressing for the meatballs. To do this, wash the vegetables and grind them in a blender. Add sour cream, tomato paste to the vegetable puree, dilute with water, and add salt. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs in the slow cooker and cook the dish until the end of the program.

Delicious meatballs with rice in a slow cooker in tomato sauce

Photo No. 1. Recipe for delicious meatballs with rice in a slow cooker

If you have never cooked meatballs before and do not have the knack, cook meat hedgehogs in tomato sauce. You don't have to boil the rice and fry the balls, but this will not affect the taste in any way. The dish is not so fatty, contains fewer calories, and children really like it.

Recipe ingredients:

minced meat 500 g.
rice 1/2 cup
onion 3 pcs.
carrots 1 pc.
tomato paste 2 tbsp. spoons
vegetable oil 30 ml.
flour 1 tbsp. spoon
cream 1 cup
seasoning for minced meat products 1 teaspoon
salt 1 teaspoon

How to cook meatballs with rice in tomato sauce in a slow cooker:

Peel the onions and carrots. Grate the carrots and chop the onion finely.
Mix the minced meat, part of the onion, rice and half of the minced meat seasoning. Knead the minced meat thoroughly. Form small balls the size of a walnut.
Set the multicooker to the “Frying” program, time 15 minutes . Pour vegetable oil into the bowl and let it warm up. Fry, stirring the onions and carrots until soft. Add tomato paste, salt and flour. Stir. Fry for 2-3 minutes .
Place the meatballs in the roasting pan. Pour boiling water until the water completely covers the meat balls. There should be at least 2 glasses of liquid. Set the “Extinguishing” mode for 40 minutes . Close the lid. Simmer for 30 minutes .
Open the lid, add cream and seasoning. Add salt to taste if necessary. Simmer for another 10 minutes until the signal .

Tip:
Serve the meatballs warm with mashed potatoes or pasta.

Recipe 3: Meatballs in a slow cooker in white sauce

In Slavic cuisine, tomato sauces are traditionally used for dishes, and white sauce appeared on our tables thanks to the efforts of the French. It’s not in vain that white sauce perfectly complements any dish, making it more juicy and fatty. The white sauce is based on cream, and you can supplement this component with any vegetables and spices. For this recipe, we will prepare meatballs from a mixture of minced chicken and pork.

Required ingredients:

Minced pork 200 grams
Minced chicken 200 grams
Rice 50 grams (raw)
Cream 300 grams (fat content 10-15%)
Carrot 1 piece
Onion 1 piece
Garlic 3 cloves
Salt
Spices

Cooking method:

Rinse the rice cereal under running water and cook it until tender, then cool.
Mix minced pork and chicken, rice porridge, add salt and spices. Make medium-sized meatballs from the resulting mass. Place them in a multicooker, after greasing the bottom of the bowl with vegetable oil. Program – “Stewing”, timer for 40 minutes.
Let's prepare the sauce for the meatballs. To do this, peel the vegetables and chop them finely. You can chop the carrots, or you can grate them. Remove the peel from the garlic. Mix cream, vegetables, press garlic through a press, add salt and add spices to the sauce. Pour the sauce over the meatballs in the slow cooker and cook them until the end of the program.

Unusual meatballs

Classic meatballs with rice and gravy in a slow cooker can be varied by adding green peas. This dish deserves a place on the holiday table.

Compound:

1 kg of beef pulp;
2 pcs. Luke;
3 tbsp. l. breadcrumbs;
200 g green peas;
1 tbsp. rice cereal;
3 tbsp. filtered water;
egg;
carrot;
salt;
blend of spices;
black pepper;
1 tsp. granulated sugar;
1 tbsp. tomato sauce (you can use ketchup).

Attention! Similarly, you can cook chicken meatballs with rice in a slow cooker.

Preparation:

Wash the rice cereal and boil it. You can use a slow cooker for this.
We wash the meat pulp, dry it and twist it through a meat grinder.
Peel and grind 1 onion through a meat grinder. By the way, you can add a little garlic.
Combine all ingredients, add crackers.
Add the egg, salt and seasonings.
Let's add peas.
Mix the minced meat thoroughly until it has a homogeneous structure.
Lightly moisten the handles with water. We make small, neat meatballs.
Peel the remaining onion and carrot root.
Finely chop the onion and chop the carrots into thin slices.
Place the prepared vegetables in a multicooker bowl.
Add tomato sauce or ketchup.
Add salt, pepper, stir.
Let's lay out the meatballs.
Let's turn on the "Extinguishing" mode.
Cook the meatballs for 40-45 minutes.

Recipe 4: Meatballs in a slow cooker in mushroom sauce

One of the very successful variations of meatballs in white sauce can be considered chicken meatballs in mushroom sauce. You probably know how well mushrooms and chicken go together, so what else can you expect from this dish other than a crazy aroma and great taste? For the sauce, you can use mushrooms of any variety and in any form, raw, dried, frozen.

Required ingredients:

Minced chicken 300 grams
Rice 50 grams
Carrot 1 piece
Cream 200 ml (fat content 10-15%)
Fresh mushrooms 200 grams
Onion 1 piece
Salt
Spices

Cooking method:

Wash the rice under running water and boil until tender (about 10 minutes after the water has boiled). Refrigerate the rice grains.
Wash and peel the carrots, and then grate them on a fine grater.
Mix the minced meat with cooked rice, carrots, add salt and pepper. Make medium-sized balls from the resulting meat mass. Place the meatballs in a multicooker bowl greased with vegetable oil for five minutes. Set the timer for 40 minutes and select the “Stew” program.
Prepare the cream sauce. Mushrooms need to be thoroughly washed from the soil and finely chopped. Peel and chop the onion. Mix cream, mushrooms and onions, add salt. Pour the sauce over the meatballs in the slow cooker, close the lid and cook until the end of the program.

Recipe 5: Meatballs in a slow cooker with potatoes

Along with cereals, you can use potatoes to make delicious meatballs. In addition to the fact that this product will give the meatballs an unusual taste, it is also a very strong “adhesive” substance. If you are preparing meatballs with potatoes, then use minced pork or beef. But with minced chicken, the meatballs will turn out a little dry. Pay attention to the use of pickled cucumber in the sauce - it should be added at the very end to give the dish a piquant aroma. You can use capers instead of cucumber.

Required ingredients:

Minced pork 400 grams
Potatoes 2 medium size
Onion 1 piece
2 tomatoes
Pickled cucumber 1 piece
Tomato paste 2 tablespoons
Sour cream 2 tablespoons
The water is clean
Salt
Spices

Cooking method:

Peel the potatoes and grate them on a fine grater. Add some salt.
Peel the onion and chop it.
Mix the minced meat, grated potatoes and onions, add a little salt and spices. Make medium-sized round meatballs. Place them in a multicooker bowl for 5 minutes, previously greased with oil. Set the “Extinguishing” program, set the timer for 40 minutes.
Prepare the gravy. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes and remove the skins. Grind the tomatoes in a blender into puree, add sour cream and tomato paste, salt, and sugar. Pour water into the mixture. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs in the slow cooker. Cut the pickled cucumber as finely as possible and add it to the slow cooker 5 minutes before the end of the program.

Recipe 6: Meatballs in a slow cooker with cheese sauce

Meatballs cooked in cheese sauce turn out very tasty and juicy, but at the same time quite high in calories. For the meatballs themselves, you can use any minced meat.

Required ingredients:

Minced pork 200 grams
Minced beef 200 grams
Rice 50 grams
Low-fat cream 100 ml (fat content 10-15%)
Processed cheese “Druzhba” 2 pieces (200 grams) or spreadable “Viola”
2 medium sized onions
Water 150 ml
Hard cheese of any kind 100 grams

Cooking method:

Rinse the rice and boil until tender in salted water. Cool.
Mix the minced meat with rice porridge, salt and spices. Form the resulting meat mass into medium-sized balls. Place them in the multicooker bowl for 5 minutes, after greasing it with vegetable oil. Set the “Extinguishing” program for 40 minutes.
Let's prepare the dressing for the meatballs. Peel the onion and chop finely. Mix cream, water and onion, add salt. Pour the resulting sauce over the meatballs.
After 15 minutes, add processed cheese to the multicooker bowl. Stir.
Grate the hard cheese on a fine grater. Add it to the meatballs five minutes before the end of the program.

Meatballs in a slow cooker - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs

What oil is best to lubricate the multicooker bowl? A piece of butter or a spoonful of sunflower oil is perfect. But don’t use olive oil; it will give the dish an unpleasant aroma during cooking.
If you are making white sauce, then add garlic pressed through a press. If the dressing is tomato, then five minutes before the meatballs are ready, add chopped parsley to the slow cooker.
Meatballs made from minced pork and beef turn out juicy, you can cook them in any sauce. But if you make meatballs using minced chicken or fish, the dish will turn out drier. To avoid this, add processed cheese, cream or butter to the dressing.

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Cooking method

First, cook the rice until half cooked in a slow cooker. While the rice is cooking, you should prepare the minced meat. To do this, take two types of meat and grind them in a meat grinder. You can also use purchased minced meat.