Quenelles with rice – the real lifesaver for busy hostesses. This meat dish is nutritious and quickly is preparing. It is possible to serve up quenelles with rice for lunch or a dinner, garnished and without. Changing sauces and gravies, you will daily please members of household with new taste. Often quenelles use and as a basis for light soup.
It is required to you
- 250 g of rice
- 250 g of beef
- 250 g of pork
- 1 average bulb
- 1 garlic glove
- 1 crude egg
- 1 sweet (Bulgarian) pepper
- 400 g of tomato sauce or paste
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
- salt to taste
- spices to taste
Instruction
1. Take long-grain white rice. This grade has no own bright aroma and will well absorb meat fluids. You shouldn't use steamed and round grain rice. The first can remain tough, the second – will turn into porridge. Several times wash rice with flowing water to its full transparency. Fill in with cold water. Salt a little. Boil until ready. Cast away on a colander that excess liquid flew down.
2. While rice cooks, make forcemeat. Traditionally quenelles do of two grades of meat. Pork will give to forcemeat juiciness, and beef – taste saturation. For dietary and baby food use a chopped meat of a bird – turkeys or chickens. Carefully peel meat from films and a streak, wash out. Scroll separately in the meat grinder or very small chop a knife.
3. Small chop onions and garlic. Garlic can be passed through a press, and to scroll onions together with forcemeat. A paprika cut strips.
4. Connect both types of forcemeat, boiled rice, crude egg, onions, garlic, salt and spices to taste. Carefully vent.
5. From the received weight form balls size about walnut. You shouldn't roll quenelles in flour or crackers. In a frying pan the breading can quickly burn that will give to a dish bitter smack.
6. Warm sunflower oil in a frying pan. Fry quenelles from all directions.
7. On a frying pan add pepper to quenelles. Mix everything and extinguish a baking plate a cover of 5-7 minutes.
8. Add tomato sauce and let's a dish boil 2-3 minutes. Instead of tomato sauce it is possible to use meat or chicken broth. Preparing for children, you stew quenelles in the diluted sour cream or low-fat cream.
9. Serve with boiled rice. It is also possible to extinguish, bake in an oven or to fry vegetables on a grill. For fans of dense food make pasta or mashed potatoes. Water a garnish with the remained sauce. Decorate with a branch of greens or segment of tomato.