Meatballs in the Multicooker - General Cooking Principles
The slow cooker can greatly facilitate the preparation of any dish, including meatballs. No matter what brand your slow cooker, you can cook a wonderful dish. One of the advantages of meatballs in a slow cooker is the preservation of all useful properties and qualities.
Meatballs in the Multicooker - Preparation of Food and Cookware
Once again, you need to repeat that it does not matter what your multi-cooker is, you can cook meatballs in it anyway. Choose the mode “Quenching”, “Multipovar” or “General”, 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.
Do not forget about the sauce, it is the main component of the dish. The sauce is often prepared tomato, but you can experiment, and make a creamy dressing. It is the taste of the sauce that will determine the taste of the prepared meatballs.
When you put out the meatballs in the slow cooker, they need to be completely filled with dressing. If you do not do this, ready-made meatballs will be dryish.
What is the size of scoop meatballs? These are not meatballs, so they should not be very small, but do not make them the size of burgers.
Before spreading meatballs in a slow cooker, grease the container with vegetable oil.
Multicooker recipes for meatballs:
Recipe 1: Meatballs in the Multicooker
Prepare the "ordinary" meatballs in a slow cooker, and you will immediately notice their difference from meatballs prepared in the usual way.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced pork 200 grams
- Minced beef 200 grams
- Carrots 2 pieces
- Onion 2 pieces
- Garlic 2 teeth
- Tomato paste 3 tablespoons
- Sour cream 3 tablespoons
- Sugar
- Salt
- Spices
- Clean water
- Sunflower oil
Preparation Method:
1. Prepare the vegetables. Wash and peel them, finely chop the onion, and grate the carrots. You will use half the vegetables for the meatballs, and the second part for the sauce.
2. Turn on the “Frying” program on the multicooker, lubricate the bottom of the container with oil and fry the onions with carrots. Cool the vegetable mixture.
3. Mix two kinds of minced meat, chilled vegetables, salt and spices. From the resulting mass mold medium sized meatballs.
4. Turn on the "Quenching" mode on the multicooker, set the timer for 40 minutes. Lubricate the bowl with oil, dip the meatballs in the slow cooker 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, spices. Squeeze garlic through the press into the mixture.
5. Pour meatballs in a slow cooker with sauce and cook until the end of the program.
Recipe 2: Meatballs in a slow cooker with buckwheat porridge
If the meatballs with rice are not surprising to anyone, then try cooking the same dish with buckwheat. This is especially appropriate for the mothers of those children who absolutely refuse to eat buckwheat porridge, which is so healthy and rich in vitamins.
Buckwheat croquettes in the slow cooker have a completely unusual taste, and it is simply impossible to recognize the porridge in them.
Ingredients Required:
- Ground beef 300 grams
- Grech 50 grams (raw)
- Carrots 1 piece
- Bow 1 piece
- Bulgarian pepper 1 piece
- Tomato 1 piece
- Tomato paste 2 tablespoons
- Sour cream 3 tablespoons
- The water for the sauce is clean
- Salt
- Spices
Preparation Method:
- I try to sort it out, remove black grains. Wash and boil down. For meatballs, boiled grits should be slightly undercooked, so boil it for 6 minutes after boiling and remove from heat. Cool it down.
- Peel the onion from the husk and finely chop. Fry it in a slow cooker in the “Frying” mode, after having lubricated the bottom of the container with sunflower oil. Cool it down.
- Mix ground beef, onion and buckwheat porridge, add salt and spices. From this mass sculpt balls of medium size. Turn on the “Cooking” mode on the multicooker for 40 minutes, add oil to the bottom of the tank and lower the meatballs into the slow cooker for five minutes.
- Prepare a dressing for meatballs. To do this, wash the vegetables and chop them in a blender. Add sour cream, tomato paste to the vegetable puree, dilute with water, salt. Pour the meatballs in the slow cooker with the resulting sauce and cook the dish until the end of the program.
Recipe 3: Meatballs in a Multicooker in White Sauce
In Slavic cuisine, tomato sauces are traditionally used for dishes, and white sauce has appeared on our table thanks to the efforts of the French. It's not for nothing, white sauce perfectly complements any dish, makes it juicier and more fat. White sauce is based on cream, and you can supplement this component with any vegetables and spices. For this recipe, meatballs will be prepared from a mixture of chicken and pork mince.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced pork 200 grams
- Chicken mince 200 grams
- Rice 50 grams (raw)
- Cream 300 grams (fat content 10-15%)
- Carrots 1 piece
- Bow 1 piece
- Garlic 3 teeth
- Salt
- Spices
Preparation Method:
- Rinse the rice grits under running water and cook it until ready, then cool.
- Mix the pork and chicken mince, rice porridge, add salt and spices. Make medium-sized meatballs from the resulting mass. Put them in a slow cooker, after having smeared the bottom of the bowl with vegetable oil. The program - “Quenching”, a timer for 40 minutes.
- Prepare the sauce for the meatballs. To do this, peel the vegetables and chop them finely. Carrots can be chopped or grated. Remove the husks from the garlic. Mix the cream, vegetables, push the garlic through the press, salt and add the spices to the sauce. Pour sauce meatballs in a slow cooker and cook them until the end of the program.
Recipe 4: Meatballs in a Multicooker in Mushroom Sauce
One of the most successful variations of meatballs in white sauce can be considered chicken meatballs in mushroom gravy. You probably know how to successfully combine mushrooms and chicken, but because what else to expect from this dish, in addition to the crazy flavor and great taste? For the sauce, you can use mushrooms of any kind and in any form, raw, dried, frozen.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken stuffing 300 grams
- Rice 50 grams
- Carrots 1 piece
- Cream 200 ml (10-15% fat)
- Fresh mushrooms 200 grams
- Onion 1 piece
- Salt
- Spices
Preparation Method:
- Wash the rice under running water and boil until ready (about 10 minutes after the water boils). Cool the rice cereal.
- 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. From the resulting meat mass dazzle balls of medium size. Dip the meatballs in the multicooker bowl for five minutes, greased with vegetable oil. Set the timer to 40 minutes and select the “Quenching” program.
- Cook the cream sauce. Mushrooms should be thoroughly washed from the ground and finely chopped. Peel and shred the onion. Mix the cream, mushrooms and onions, salt. Pour sauce meatballs in a slow cooker, close the lid and cook until the end of the program.
Recipe 5: Meatballs in a multicooker with potatoes
Along with cereals, you can use potatoes to make delicious meatballs. Besides the fact that this product will give the meatballs an unusual taste, it is also a very strong “bonding” substance. If you are cooking meatballs with potatoes, then use minced pork or beef. But with minced chicken meatballs get dryish. Pay attention to the use of pickle in the sauce - it must be added at the very end to give the dish a savory flavor. You can use capers instead of cucumber. Ingredients Required:
- Minced pork 400 grams
- Potatoes 2 pieces of medium size
- Bow 1 piece
- Tomatoes 2 pieces
- Pickled cucumber 1 piece
- Tomato paste 2 tablespoons
- Sour cream 2 tablespoons
- Clean water
- Salt
- Spices
Preparation Method:
- Peel the potatoes off and rub them on a fine grater. Salt it.
- Peel onion and shred.
- Mix minced meat, grated potatoes and onions, add a little salt and spices. Blind round meatballs of medium size. Place them in the multicooker bowl for 5 minutes, pre-oiled. Set the program “Quenching”, set the timer to 40 minutes.
- Prepare gravy. Boil the tomatoes, remove the skin from them. Crush the tomatoes in a blender in a mashed potatoes, add to them sour cream and tomato paste, salt, sugar. Pour water into the mixture. The resulting sauce, pour the meatballs in a slow cooker. Cut the pickled cucumber as small as possible and add it to the slow cooker 5 minutes before the end of the program.
Recipe 6: Meatballs in a Multicooker with Cheese Sauce
Meatballs cooked in cheese sauce, get very tasty and juicy, but at the same time and quite high-calorie. For meatballs themselves, you can use any stuffing.
Ingredients Required:
- Minced pork 200 grams
- Minced beef 200 grams
- Rice 50 grams
- Low-fat cream 100 ml (fat content 10-15%)
- Druzhba processed cheese 2 pieces (200 grams) or pasty Viola
- Bulb 2 pieces of medium size
- Water 150 ml
- Hard cheese of any grade 100 grams
Preparation Method:
- Wash rice and boil until ready in salted water. Cool it down.
- Mix the minced meat with rice porridge, salt and spices. Blind out medium-sized balls from the resulting meat mass. Place them in the multicooker bowl for 5 minutes, after having been lubricated with vegetable oil. Set the program "Quenching" for 40 minutes.
- Prepare a dressing for meatballs. Peel the onion, chop finely. Mix the cream, water and onion, salt. Fill the sauce with the croquettes.
- After 15 minutes, add melted cheese to the multicooker bowl. Stir.
- Grind hard cheese on a fine grater. Add it to the meatballs five minutes before the end of the program.
Meatballs in the Multicooker - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- What oil is best to lubricate the bowl of the multicooker? Perfectly fit a piece of butter or a spoon of sunflower oil. But do not use olive oil, in the process of cooking it will give the dish an unpleasant aroma.
- If you make a white sauce, then add garlic pressed through a press to it. If tomato dressing, then five minutes before the meatballs are ready, put chopped parsley into the slow cooker.
- Pork and ground beef meatballs are succulent, you can cook them in any sauce. But if you make meatballs with minced chicken or fish, then the dish will be more dry. To avoid this, add melted cheese, cream or butter to the dressing.
