Chicken and pumpkin meatballs

Category: Meat dishes
Chicken and pumpkin meatballs

Ingredients

For meatballs:
Minced chicken or turkey 600-800 gr.
Peeled pumpkin 250 gr.
Onion 1 PC.
Oat flakes 15-20 gr. (~ 2 tbsp. L.)
Hard cheese 30 gr.
Salt, ground black pepper, paprika
Provencal herbs 1 tbsp. l.
For the sauce:
Onion 1 PC.
Peeled pumpkin 250 gr.
Tomatoes 500-700 gr.
Any broth or dry white wine 250-300 ml.
Sugar 1 tbsp. l.
Salt
Vegetable oil for frying

Cooking method

  • Chicken and pumpkin meatballsChop one onion finely and add to the minced meat (I have chicken breasts).
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsAdd pumpkin grated on a coarse grater there.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsOat flakes.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsFinely grated cheese.
  • Chicken and pumpkin meatballsSalt, pepper, Provencal herbs. Instead of Provencal herbs, you can add fresh or dry cilantro, or tarragon.
  • Knead the minced meat well and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsMeanwhile, prepare the sauce.
  • To do this, cut an onion and fry it in vegetable oil.
  • Add pumpkin grated on a coarse grater and fry for another 10 minutes.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsPour in the liquid, I have beef broth, slightly evaporate it.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsFurther, tomatoes grated on a coarse grater without a skin or tomatoes canned in their own juice, in my case frozen tomato puree. Navigate by weight, i.e. 500-700 g
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsSalt. and add sugar. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The sauce should not be too thick.
  • While the sauce is being prepared, with wet hands, form meatballs from the minced meat in the form of balls, the size of your choice, from 3 cm in diameter to larger ones. Accordingly, the output is from 40 to 10 pieces, I have 20 pieces. 50 gr.
  • Chicken and pumpkin meatballsPour the sauce into a heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring to a boil and put the meatballs there. Cook, covered with a lid, over low heat, 25-30 minutes.
    Chicken and pumpkin meatballsMeatballs can be eaten both hot and cold with any side dish and no side dish at all, sprinkled with herbs or cheese, they are delicious in any form.
  • Chicken and pumpkin meatballs
  • Delicious dish with sour cream.

Note

If you have the proper size of a saucepan, you can do without shifting, and cook the sauce directly in it, and then add the meatballs. If you are not an ardent pumpkin lover, then you can safely replace it with zucchini, just squeeze it out before adding it to the minced meat.
For children, tomato sauce can be replaced with creamy one.

Gala
Very appetizing meatballs, I will like these
Tatyana, take
Tatyana1103
Galina, take it to your health, meatballs are easy to adjust for every taste
Sweetheart
Tell me, what kind of creamy one? Although I'm not a child, but tomatoes are not yet possible (((
Tatyana1103
Tanechka, replace the broth with some water, and the tomatoes for sour cream or cream, the cooking process is the same.
Taramara
Tatyana, thanks for the meatballs. What kind of oatmeal did you use: quick or regular?
Tatyana1103
Quote: Taramara
Which oatmeal did you use: quick or regular?
Tamara, cook on health cereals used ordinary.
Rituslya
Oh, what meatballs!
Throughout my life I do not even breathe for all kinds of meatballs, coclets, meatballs ... I really love everything so soft and juicy!
Tanya, thanks for the recipe!
I will definitely try to cook it.
Tatyana1103
Ritochka cook for health, meatballs are delicious and very easy to eat, I just love them without any side dish
alba et atra
Tatyana, amazing meatballs!
Must be cooked!
I just have a pumpkin!
Tatyana1103
Quote: alba et atra
Must be cooked!
I just have a pumpkin!
Elena, of course it is necessary, especially since there is a pumpkin and I have the last little one left, the rest of the pumpkin is frozen in the freezer in the form of mashed potatoes for baking
Elya_lug
Tatyana1103, Tanya, delicious meatballs and sauce! My colleague and I made different options and treated each other. Variations were with chicken, turkey and chicken-pork mince, with cereal, semolina and even rice. All options are good, the recipe will be in constant use. Thank you!
Tatyana1103
Elya, I'm glad that you liked the meatballs, cook for your health

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