Buckwheat with minced meat balls in the oven - simple, satisfying and very tasty 🥣

Kitchen appliances and utensils: kitchen scales and other measuring accessories, an oven, a rectangular baking dish, a coarse grater, a cutting board, a sharp knife, several bowls of different capacities, a frying pan with high sides, a garlic squeezer, a wooden or silicone spatula.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Prepare the ingredients

1. Thoroughly rinse 300 g of buckwheat with running cold water, then throw it in a colander and allow excess moisture to drain. Pour clean cereal with boiling water and set aside to swell.
   
2. We clean one medium-sized onion, wash it, and then finely chop it with a knife.
   
3. Cut the peel from one carrot, then wash the vegetable and rub on a coarse grater. We clean the medium-sized tomato from the skin, and then rub it on a coarse grater.
   

Preparing the fill

1. We heat the pan and pour 20-30 ml of vegetable oil into it.
   
2. On a well-heated oil, spread the chopped onion and fry it until translucent.
   
3. We send carrots there, and then fry the components for 2-3 minutes, periodically stirring the vegetable mass.
   
4. After this time, add grated tomato or 1 tablespoon of tomato paste.
   
5. Stir everything well, and then send 300 ml of water and 150 g of sour cream to the pan.
   
6. Literally in a minute we bring 2 bay leaves, 1 teaspoon of salt, as well as the desired amount of ground black pepper and dried herbs. Two cloves of garlic are passed through a press and added to the fill. Stir the mixture well and immediately remove from heat.
   

We form meat balls

1. In a deep bowl, spread 500 g of minced meat. It turns out a very tasty dish, if you use minced meat from a mixture of beef and chicken.
   
2. Grind two onions and two cloves of garlic in a blender until gruel.
   
3. The resulting mixture is sent to the minced meat and add there 1 teaspoon of salt without a slide and black pepper to taste. In order to make the meat balls juicy and tender, add 10 g of sour cream to the minced meat.
   
4. We thoroughly alter the ingredients until we get a homogeneous forcemeat. We form medium-sized balls from the prepared mass.
   

We collect and bake the product

1. The baking dish is carefully lubricated with vegetable oil. During this time, buckwheat should already swell well. Drain the remaining water, and then put the porridge in a mold.
   
2. On top of the cereal, fill half the fill and mix the components.
   
3. Evenly distribute buckwheat over the entire surface of the mold, and then spread the meat balls. Fill the remaining fill and send the dish into the oven heated to 190-200 ° С.
   
4. Bake the product for 30-40 minutes. Serve the dish exclusively hot.
   

Video recipe

This video shows step-by-step cooking of buckwheat with minced meat in the oven according to the recipe described above.