Russian meat balls (bitochki)
6 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1 | pounds | Ground beef |
1 | pounds | Ground veal |
½ | cup | Chopped onion |
¼ | cup | Rendered kidney fat |
2 | slices | Break, soaked in milk, squeezed dry |
2 | teaspoons | Salt |
Ground pepper | ||
Fine bread crumbs | ||
Butter or beef fat | ||
2 | cups | Sour cream |
½ | pounds | Sliced mushrooms, sauted |
Directions
Cook onion in rendered kidney fat until wilted. Mix beef, veal, onion, bread, salt and little pepper. Knead well and chill. Wet hands and form mixture into balls the size of gold balls. Roll in crumbs and fry in butter or beef fat until brown all over. Remove and keep warm.
Add sour cream and mushrooms to pan. Heat. Pour sauce over meat.
Related recipes
- Bitokes a la russe - russian hamburgers
- Meat-filled potato balls
- Nut balls (russian tea cakes)
- Potato balls
- Russian chicken
- Russian cookery
- Russian dressing
- Russian dressing #1
- Russian dressing #2
- Russian kolachi (nut rolls)
- Russian mustard
- Russian nut buns (quick version)
- Russian potato & mushroom croquettes
- Russian potato and mushroom croquettes
- Russian ravioli
- Russian tea
- Russian tea balls
- Russian tea cakes (snowballs)
- Russian tea recipe
- Ukrainian country meatballs \"bitki\"