Preparation of meatballs and not only in silicone ice molds

[A small addition to the topic - minced meat recipes and methods of cooking some dishes]

A small addition to the topic - minced meat recipes and methods of cooking some dishes

Recipes

Minced chicken breast with cottage cheese Creamy
Minivareniki Creamy
Ground turkey meatballs with beef and rice Elena Tim
Dumplings dough without kneading in 21 seconds! (dough for dumplings with knives in a food processor) + video Doxy
Frozen minced meat mini pies in Princess pizza maker Irsha
Recipes from Chuchelka:

Cutlets / meatballs (recipe for catering establishments, 1955) Scarecrow
Meatballs (recipe for catering establishments, 1955) Scarecrow

Recipes from Admin:

Meat is an ancient product! (How to cut and what will we cook?) Admin
Various cutlets and soufflés Admin

Dough for dumplings and dumplings that does not crack in the freezer Svetlenki
Choux pastry for dumplings, dumplings and pasties Olga VB
Two types of meatballs - for children and adults Guzel 62
Jellied meat in the Steba pressure cooker Creamy
Freeze the pea puree for the soup "for later" Nata333
Coho salmon cutlets with bacon and cheese, and "Salmon in Norwegian" Elena Tim

Useful Notes

A brief overview of the forms for freezing and their correspondence to different types of dumplings Creamy
Using the dumplings and the "Hemisphere" form Creamy
Using a sour cream cup in the preparation of fat Creamy
Dough: method of cutting with a "flagellum" and flattening with a lid Creamy
Minced meat preparation method Creamy
Making pork shank jellied in a silicone mold Creamy
Technology for stuffing and extracting minced meat from a silicone mold Creamy
Packaging and storage of frozen semi-finished products in "tetrapack" bags Creamy
Filling silicone molds with minced meat using a cooking syringe Tomusik)))
Other forms for freezing food and ready-made meals (jellied meat, mushrooms, mashed potatoes, etc.) Creamy
MK for the manufacture of double dumplings for dough sheeters Creamy
Protection of dumplings and dumplings from freezing cracking Elena Tim

So what is a silicone mold? One of many. A trifle, just a trifle! So, I bought a silicone mold, which was called an ice mold, at a catering base in the bartenders department. In the amount of one piece. 37 hexagonal cells. There she is.



On the same day, I stuffed it with minced meat in order to check how the size would suit me (there was an idea to use it for meatballs) and how easily the cells will be freed from freezing.
Surprisingly, the tests were successful. I ran back to the base and bought out all the available forms. Now I have 5 such molds, for 185 meatballs, for 1 kg 850 grams of minced meat.

Here is the size of the meatball. And its weight is 10.2 grams.

The meatballs leave the mold very easily


For ease of use, "Dobry" placed a plastic bag in a 2-liter juice bag, poured frozen meatballs into it, tapping and shaking so that more would enter. Packed.


I tried to make dumplings, or mini-vareniki, based on these frozen meatballs. Here dumplings in this case are made very quickly. On a metal (it is on metal that they defrost faster), I place the Kolchuginsky tray for defrosting meatballs. Immediately, in a small bowl of a blender, I make dumplings in 10 seconds. The dough is resting, the meatballs are defrosting, at this time I pour water into a saucepan, throw a bay leaf and a finely chopped onion into the water. She rolled out the dough into a thin sausage and cut it.

I rolled out each lump of dough, put it on a mold, and a half-thawed meatball in the mold. The dumplings are ready. Salted boiled water in a saucepan and threw in dumplings. It took 30 minutes from the start of making to the steaming already cooked dumplings! All!
That's how I solved the problem of making dumplings quickly. Now there is no need to be upset that most often frozen dumplings crack. And frozen meatballs take up much less space than ready-made dumplings. I also cooked soups with meatballs, boiling down, the hexagonal shape turns into a round one. Loved making fish meatballs. the shape is good, just right for sweets or for preparing all sorts of portioned berry mixes for adding to tea or for vegetable-spicy cubes in various dishes. Since the form has 37 cells, and 10 grams of minced meat is placed in the cell, 370 grams of minced meat is placed in one form. My 5 molds hold 1.85 kg. I always cook so much minced meat.
I bought forms for 150 rubles. The forms are Chinese. On Ali, they are sold by typing the magic words "mold silicone honeycomb mold". you will see many offers, the price is about the same as you bought. As a lazy person, I strongly advise lazy people.
Helen, moderator, do not be angry that you have placed this in kitchen trivia, because it is suitable for silicone molds, for dumplings and for sweets, and for freezing berry or spice-vegetable cubes. Well, a trifle in one word!

Alenka, and when they stand in a pile, is the upper one a full-fledged lid for the lower ones? And then on Ali there are such molds with lids, so maybe it makes sense to take at least one (for the topmost one) with a lid?

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, here is a clever girl, here is an entertainer !!! I never stop admiring your creativity

[Olga VB]

Olga VB, I bought without lids, just stack on top of each other. I take out the frozen conglomerate from the freezer. It takes 5 minutes to stay on the kitchen table and the forms are separated. Why pay extra money? You can just lay it with pieces of polyethylene, the girls over there cut the packaging from the puff pastry and use it as a separating pad.

[Creamy]

Creamy, Alevtina, just cooked meatballs today. And here is such a cool idea! Thank you! Please tell me the dimensions of your form. I urgently need this mold!

I went and measured the very shape and cell. The length of the mold is 21.5 cm, width is 12 cm. The dimensions of the cell: the length of each of the 6 ribs is 1.4 cm, the length between opposite corners is 2.6 cm, the depth of the cell is exactly 2 cm.



And look, next to the form there is a minifaner. I place all my silicone molds on it, for carrying the filled molds into the freezer, and on this plywood I put a stack of molds so that the bottom is even when frozen, not skewed, otherwise the forms are very flexible. This is a 3mm plywood cut from the side of a fruit crate taken from the market. After trimming, the edges are smoothed and seamed with a file and sandpaper, additionally impregnated twice with Finnish ASA topcoat for waterproofing. I have two of these plywood pieces measuring 17.5 cm x 10.5 cm. They fit all my different silicone molds.

Forms are awesome.

I tried to make dumplings, or mini-vareniki, based on these frozen meatballs. Here dumplings in this case are made very quickly. On a metal (it is on metal that they defrost faster), I place the Kolchuginsky tray to defrost the meatballs.

It is really extremely convenient to have frozen minced meat in stock.
For several years, I have also been freezing minced meat in silicones of various sizes - from ice molds and candy for dumplings to cutlet-sized molds.
Only I do not pour frozen minced meat, they are stored in molds in the freezer.
And I don't defrost the minced meat for dumplings - I roll the strips on a dough roller, cut them into squares or rectangles, and wrap the frozen minced meat with an overlap or put the minced meat in the plastic of the dough and mold the edges.
It's very fast.For me, on the contrary - the more frozen the mince, the more convenient it is to work with it.

[Irsha]

Irsha, I liked semi-thawed dumplings more for dumplings, since you can give an already round shape. And so for manti, it is really convenient to roll up, wrap up frozen cubes with dough. Here is a mold for 37 meatballs with a mesh size suitable for a large dumpling or minivar, for manti, in my opinion, the size is too small. And for meatballs, this size is slightly less than average. For a serving, for each plate, I cook 5-6 of these meatballs. This size is still very convenient for small children, the meatball is immediately placed in the baby's mouth.

I saw such forms today in Galamart, but did not buy ...
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[Creamy]

Sent a case Creamy homemade duck, fat and fat. I decided to collect and heat the duck fat. And here is a convenient kettle with a spout for separating fat, like Admin I do not have. I'll show you how to get out. After heating in a water bath, I pour the entire cooled mass into a 400 gram plastic cup from sour cream. The glass is very convenient in that the freezing liquids in it in the freezer do not break the glass. I had a glass in the freezer overnight. I take out the glass, keep it on the kitchen table for about five minutes, then turn it over and slap the contents out. The photo clearly shows that the contents were divided into two fractions - the upper one from duck fat and the lower one from water and collagen. We separate the lower water-collagen layer and we are left with pure duck fat. In the same way, I get pork lard after a water bath.







Everything is very simple and fast!

Lenochka, moderator, don't be angry that you put this in kitchen details

Yes, God be with you, Alyona! I myself sit here and hold my jaw with both hands so that I don't fall off from such a cool idea.
I love meatballs, but I hate making them. And here is such an easy way out. Bravo, Alyona!

and I have a plastic mold, and the bottoms are silicone, green, very little, you get Krikadelechki, cute ...
she's at home ... and I'm mulberry



in, I found in my gallery (while I was looking for a stupid person, I ate too much from the photos)




about the size of candies you know Assorted, those with round stumps

Oh, I just saw such a mold, I thought - take it, don't take it ...
Katyun, I don't know what kind of sweets we are talking about, but could you indicate the diameter in centimeters? And then the internet store is not specified.

I bought at the Carousel for ridiculous money ...
I'll get home with what I want to measure and show you with a tape measure and on paltz

[Elena Tim]

Elena TimThank you for your attention and work on creating a separate topic! Hold the flower

such as



and this mold was also with orange silicone

chic shape and a great idea, I just freeze without a meatball shape, but with a shape it's more convenient, of course! and in muffin tins I lay out tomato paste, freeze it, it is more convenient for me to use it, and does not disappear in the jar ..

I am very interested in the question - what if these same meatballs are in the soup? Without defrosting directly? Well, of course, do you want to eat them right away with rice?

Son loves meatball soup, but I'm rolling them

DeUshki, well, this is ... I just HATE! And Where should I look for such molds now, so that once ... and buy, eh? I'm asking you! I only have a Chinese thing that many people know here - a double scoop with a spatula with different calibers. And why should I go crazy with this thing, if there are such molds ... somewhere

[Ilmira]

And Where should I look for such molds now

Ilmira, Ali to help you

[Nataliya]

Nataliya, so it's raining with Ali ...

[Ilmirushka]

so it's raining with Ali ...

Ilmirushka, and sho do have to wait.

[Ilmirushka]

Ilmirushkato find on Ali, type the magic words "mold silicone ice mold honeycomb bee". For some reason, the Chinese call silicone our" mold "

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, amazing! And with duck fat and meatballs! Such IDEAS !!!!!!!!

Ali to help you

Well? Who found the thread?
Share, pl

so they gave a reference

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Or are you about the round ones?

[Lelka]

Well? Who found the thread?
Share, pl

Lelka, here

Yes, in Galamart it is also cheaper.

[Anna]

in Galamart it is also cheaper.

Anna, and if there is no Galamart, then only on Ali you can order or see more in FixPrice.

[Olga]

Olga, this is already suitable for meatballs along the way:

[Ilmirushka]

Ilmirushka, I have one for mini-cupcakes. But about meatballs, this is a very good idea.
Look here

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[Alevtina]

Well, now I also want such honeycomb molds))))))))) We don't have them in Rybatsky, but it's a long way to go to Fuchik .... But Ali is expensive ...

AlevtinaThank you very much for sharing with us your so much needed finds.

[Marfusha5]

Well, now I also want such honeycomb molds

Marfusha5, Irina, here is

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[Natalia K.]

Natalia K., Natasha, thank you very much. I'll probably order a couple here.

in Galamart it also comes out cheaper

Well yes, this is for those who have it. They have no delivery to other cities.
Remains Ali or Fix.

And Ali is expensive ...

even more expensive in Yagodka

And on Ali in the reviews they write that silicone smells strongly. I don't want to buy one. Vetta I trust the company more, even though it's also China.

There is another option 🔗

Girls, Ali is full of them!
Search for "honeycomb ice mold" without any mold

For example

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girls like this uniform for the wildberries ...
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I also found a shape for Viennese waffles - I wanted this for a long time, though the quality is not known ..)))
can anyone need
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[on eBay]

Who is more convenient, here is on eBay , but delivery is also DOOOOO

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I will first look in the local stores, it seems there was something like that



In these molds with honeycombs, the rational use of space also attracts, there are no large unnecessary voids. I have already prepared my old takeaway freezer maaaaaascarlet, honeycomb molds will be more practical

In these molds with honeycombs, the rational use of space also attracts, there are no large unnecessary voids. I have already prepared my old ones to take out. The freezer is very small, honeycomb molds will be more practical

This is the whole point, that there are no unnecessary voids, and you can freeze a lot of minced meat at once in the form of meatballs. And I tried to cook square meatballs from other ice molds, but my personal court cockroaches forbade me to do this, because it doesn't look like meatballs, but hexagonal meatballs are more or less like round ones when cooking, these cockroaches of mine allowed me.

[Alevtina]

Alevtina, oh thank you for such a cool idea! Already ordered from Ali. The same as everyone else. I hate to roll them.

[Irina]

Irina,

I am very interested in the question - what if these same meatballs are in the soup? Without defrosting directly

that's the only thing I do, only without a form))) into boiling water.

Girls, there is such a "honeycomb" ice mold in Galamart. Nadys twisted it, whether I thought about it or not, finally put it on the shelf. And it wonders how you can adapt. They are white, crimson and green there. Exactly as in the photo.

[notglass]

notglass, Anya, where exactly? On the store's website it shows that there is no (((

[Alevtina]

Well, now I also want such honeycomb molds))))))))) We don't have them in Rybatsky, but it's a long way to go to Fuchik .... But Ali is expensive ...

AlevtinaThank you very much for sharing with us your so much needed finds.

They are not in Rybatsky, because the store opens officially only tomorrow. I'll wait )

[Irisha]

Irisha, I saw them in Noginsk. There's a big shopping building right at the bus station.

They are not in Rybatsky

Is the store far from the metro?

They are not in Rybatsky, since the store opens officially only tomorrow. I'll wait )

Oh, thanks, I didn't know.

Is the store far from the metro?

Anyut, next to you.

Recently I cooked an ordinary summer quick-soup with meatballs (green is three minutes before the end of cooking, an abandoned cyclic salad, previously artistically picked by hand)



what does it look like on a plate

Is the store far from the metro?

Right very close, until today I did not know about such a store, but today my uncle handed out leaflets there, I did not know that we had such a useful store)