Chicken Balls Baked in Tomato Puree Recipe
The dish is more for those who eat healthy, dietary food and, of course, for children. I often think, what would I cook myself for a festive table? I have been eating baked or boiled dishes for a long time, in general, I eat healthy food! I offer you just a wonderful, delicious and beautiful dish – chicken meatballs baked in a puree of fresh tomatoes and bell peppers with onions and parsley.
Servings
3
Cook Time
60minutes
Servings
3
Cook Time
60minutes
Ingredients
For stuffing:
For vegetable puree:
For filing:
Instructions
  1. The breast I have on the bones is 600 grams, I will make a fillet out of it and somewhere I got ~ 350 grams. I’ll add onion and garlic to the minced meat.
  2. I’ll cook minced meat in a food processor. Sliced chicken fillet, onion – into quarters, garlic – into 2 parts, broken egg, salt and pepper I put in the bowl of the combine. Minced meat is cooked in a minute. Very pleased.
  3. This is the structure of the meat. I was very pleased with the smooth and uniform consistency of minced meat.
  4. I added rice circles to the minced meat and mixed it. I always use round rice in minced meat, it is starchy.
  5. Form balls of rather large size from 9 pieces, roll each in flour. I made them of such quantity and size that they fit in my 20X20 cm shape and that there was no filling. If desired, you can form smaller ones.
  6. Grease the mold with 1 tablespoon of oil and lay out the balls. Put in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes, I took the mold out of the oven, turned the balls to the other side and put it back on for 10 minutes. Thus, my balls were slightly browned and took a “clear” shape.
  7. During this time, while the balls were baking in the oven, I cooked tomato and vegetable live puree and crushed it again in a food processor. Cut the vegetables into quarters, chop the parsley coarsely and send it to a bowl. Whipped until a homogeneous mass was obtained for 1 minute, pulse mode was used inclusive for 30 seconds.
  8. I got mashed potatoes. It would be red with the addition of red bell pepper. I didn’t have it, but it was green. Already in the broken mashed potatoes, I added half a cup of hot water, made it more liquid. Then add salt and pepper to taste.
  9. Pour out the mold with balls, pour 1 tbsp olive oil on top and put it in the oven to bake for 30 minutes at t-180 C.
  10. The finished dish!
  11. To serve. I served it without a side dish, just watering the baked balls with tomato puree and sprinkling with dill greens.
  12. Mashed potatoes will also serve as a festive side dish. It’s going to be amazing.” In everyday life – rice, pasta, buckwheat… everything you love! Eat these delicious, fragrant, juicy and tender balls!
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